Song Dynasty

Chapter 6 Captive
Confused in his heart, Wang Shenzheng turned his head abruptly, only to see that An Yingxiang was in a coma, but there was a tricky smile on the corner of his mouth.

Wang Shen laughed in his heart: childish.

However, Ying Xiang does seem to be getting better, and he is also happy. Now get him something to eat when it is most important. The pancakes that An Niang found from the dead body yesterday have eaten all three of them. off cooking.

Even if it wasn't for him, I would still be very hungry.

However, this area is all wilderness, nothing but grass, and after walking for a long time, I can't see a single person, so where can I find food?

After eating countless thatch roots, not only could he not stop the hunger in his stomach, but it made his hunger escalate.

When a person is hungry, his anger rises.Ying Xiang on his back is also annoying, and his body is getting heavier and heavier.This kid is only twelve or thirteen years old, how can he grow so tall, he is as thin as a skeleton, and he is very serious.

No, this kid deliberately gathered his energy and pressed his body weight down.I, Wang Shen, don't know what provoked him, but I gave him medicine anyway, as for it?

Wang Shen was annoyed, and sat down on the ground: "Miss An, take a break."

At this moment, there was a "thumping" sound beside him, and dense black spots flew up, which startled him.

"It turned out to be locusts. After a long drought, there will be locust plagues. The ancients never deceived me. Locusts, protein, a lot of protein!" Wang Shen's eyes lit up, and he shouted: "Catch it quickly, Miss An, catch it, you can eat it."

"Ah, there is something to eat." An Niang was overjoyed, probably because she was really hungry, she threw herself forward and fell to the ground.

Wang Shen was taken aback, and quickly helped her up from the ground: "Miss An, it's okay."

"I'm fine, it's just...just..."

"What is it?" Wang Shen hurriedly asked.

An Niang raised her hand that had been dyed green, with a dejected expression on her face: "I had caught two bugs just now, but I squeezed them too hard, and they broke."

Wang Shen breathed a sigh of relief: "I wonder what's wrong with you, so it's like this. There are a lot of locusts here, just crush them and then catch them. Miss you, Jiao Didi, a beautiful girl, with such strength in your hands?"

An Niang was ashamed and angry: "Who do you say is too strong, I hate it." As she spoke, she accidentally wiped the juice in her hand on Wang Shen's face.

Wang Shenha said, "Miss An, are you taking revenge on me for wiping your face this morning?"

A Niang wiped again: "Brother Wang has shown great kindness to my sister and brother, how dare I retaliate? My eldest brother was born with sparse eyebrows and bright eyes, and he was carefully captured by the queen to be a husband of the village. No way, I have to paint my face... "Before she finished speaking, she giggled, then blushed and buried her head down again, only secretly looking ahead with her eyes.For some reason, she felt an indescribable joy in her heart after being with this big brother Wang all the way.

Wang Shen: "I want to wipe everyone together, and wipe it into a blue-faced fangs and a face like an indigo." Then he crushed another locust, wanting to stretch out its claws again.

At this moment, someone over there snorted coldly: "It's not proper."

The two turned their heads to look at the same time, but saw that An Yingxiang had sat up at some point, looking at Wang Shen with angry eyes.If eyes could kill, Wang Shen would have died thousands of times already.

"Ah, Ying Xiang, you're awake, how are you feeling today?" An Niang cried out in surprise, and hurried over to help her younger brother, touching his forehead and looking at his tongue.

"Let go of me, don't touch me." Ying Xiang was very weak, and his voice was also low: "Also, stay away from Wang. You are not a good person, I can only deceive you."

"Ah...Ying Xiang." Hearing her younger brother scolding herself, remembering that he had watched the scene of playing with Wang Shen just now, An Niang trembled, and peach blossoms appeared on her face again.

This little girl is really too thin-skinned, and she loves to blush too much, which makes people like it very much.

Wang Shen smiled and said, "Mother An, brother An is already well."

"Ah, it's done." An Niang exclaimed as usual, grabbed her younger brother's hand and shook it: "Yes, yes, yes, if it was in the past, after walking for half a day, brother, you might pull it twice again. Alright, alright, woo woo... Brother, you are finally alive, sister is so happy."

"Why cry? I can't die." Ying Xiang said impatiently, "Let go of me, man, if you die, you will die. What's the big deal? Tell that Wang to get out."

Seeing that An Yingxiang had the strength to swear and didn't lose weight all morning, Wang Shen said, "Aha, my medicine really worked, and that's right. This ancient virus hasn't developed resistance yet. Any kind of antibiotics can't be used. He is full of elixirs and miraculous medicines. Great, Brother An, the medicine cannot be stopped." As he spoke, he took the water bag that was untied from the thief who was shot dead yesterday, and handed it over: "Ms. An, hello Brother An. Take a medicine."

"Well... ah!"

"What are you calling again?" Wang Shen was puzzled and was wondering.

At this moment, he felt a sharp object on his waist, and then someone yelled in his ear: "Don't move, or I will kill you!"

The bushes behind An Niang and An Yingxiang surged, and five or six men in leather armor with dangling blades jumped out and put the knife on the necks of the siblings.

In an instant, Wang Shen broke out in cold sweat, and hurriedly said: "Don't mess around, we won't move, we won't move. I have a jade pendant on my waist, and I can exchange it for a meal of wine. You take it, but please forgive us." A family of three lives."

An Yingxiang spat weakly: "Who and you are a family of three."

An Niang hurriedly covered his mouth, shaking her head.

"A mere jade pendant wants to send us away. Think our brothers are beggars?" The man behind sneered repeatedly, but still stretched out a hand to tear off the horizontal knife and jade pendant from Wang Shen's body: "It's tied up."

All the soldiers rushed forward and tied Wang Shen into rice dumplings.

Wang Shen groaned in his heart, not to mention that he hadn't eaten for a day and a night, and his body was weak due to the lack of food in his stomach.Even if they are strong, they have no way to fight against so many heavily armed enemies, plus the fact that Anniang and her brother are held up with knives, and they throw themselves at the rat.

When he was tied up, Wang Shen came back to his senses, saw that everyone was dressed in bright armor, different from yesterday's six rogues, and hurriedly said: "But officers and soldiers, we are all good citizens, we are not thieves who fled here. , Misunderstanding, misunderstanding."

"That's right, we are officers and soldiers with sharp eyes. However, you are tall and strong, with a sword on your waist, so you are not a good person at first sight. It must be the work of thieves. Let's go back with Grandpa first." The leader looked like an officer. The man looked at Wang Shen with a sneer.

Hearing that it was Song Bing, Wang Shen heaved a sigh of relief, and comforted An Niang, who was already pale: "An Niang, she is one of my own, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, just go back to the camp with them later, just make it clear."

"Who said they would take them away together." The officer pulled out the horizontal knife that Wang Shen had seized, and was immediately shocked by the three-foot green blade: "Good knife."

Then he walked up to An Yingxiang, made a few gestures on his neck, and said coldly: "This kid is a tuberculosis ghost, he can't walk at all. We still have dozens of miles to go, whoever is patient with him, cut it first Let's talk."

"Don't, don't!" An Niang screamed and threw herself on her younger brother, tears gushed out like a spring, leaving two marks on her smeared face.

Seeing that An Niang was so dirty, the officer felt annoyed: "I'll kill you too."

Wang Shen felt cold: Oops, I forgot that Song Jun is not a teacher of benevolence and righteousness.

Yes, in feudal society, although officers and soldiers represent the imperial court, they are not good at war, and they will not tell you about the fish and water situation between the army and the people.Sometimes robbing people and harming places is more serious than rogue bandits.As the saying goes: bandits pass like a comb, soldiers pass like a grate.

Take the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty as an example, when Zhong Xiang and Yang Yao made chaos, and the small dynasty of the Southern Song Dynasty sent a large army to quell the bandits, the people of the two lakes and lakes committed a terrible crime.

When the bandit army came, it was slaughtered once, and when the Song army came, it was slaughtered once.There is no way. In ancient times, there was a shortage of supplies, and it was inconvenient to transport food and fodder. When an army went out to fight, it would always eat with the army.The so-called "Israeli army eats food", to put it bluntly, it is robbery.

The Song army and the bandit army repeatedly saw Dongting Lake, killing it into a deserted place for thousands of miles, and it took more than 20 years for it to recover.

Yue Fei's "do not demolish houses to death from freezing, and do not plunder to death from starvation" was a special existence in ancient times, and because of this, the Yue family army was supported by the people, maintaining strict discipline and high fighting spirit.

In this era, bandit armies such as Cao Cheng, Kong Yanzhou, Li Yu, Zhang Yong, etc. are wild beasts, and officers and soldiers everywhere, whether it is Zhang Jun or Liu Guangshi's soldiers, are also wild beasts, and they all have to live on human flesh.

Just when Wang Shen's heart was cold, when he thought of the name Liu Guangshi and the three-year history of Jianyan that he had seen in historical materials, his heart suddenly brightened.

Not caring about anything else, he shouted loudly: "You are the Huaixi Army of Uncle Liu Ping and Liu Shuai. We are here from Suqian. We have an urgent military report. Please take me to see your superior as soon as possible."

"Grandpas are the Huaixi Army. Puchi, you are a thug, you have some urgent military situation. It's just that there are a few thieves who took advantage of the fire to rob you. It's no big deal." The officer-looking man sneered, but The knife in hand stopped.

Wang Shen was not afraid, and laughed loudly: "Haha, haha, you wait until you die and don't know it, it's ridiculous, it's ridiculous."

"Yi Dutou, this little thief is so annoying, cut him off!" All the soldiers shouted angrily at the same time.

The man named Yi Dutou's face turned livid: "What are you laughing at? If I don't make it clear today, I won't bother to take you back, so I'll just cut Shuangli."

Wang Shen glanced at him sarcastically, and sneered: "Is it really just a few thieves? Hehe, if Li Yu is also a thieves, this world will be peaceful?"

"What, Li Yu!" The officer was taken aback, his face changed drastically: "You know Li Yu too?"

"Why don't you know, Jinan thief Li Yu." Wang Shen nodded: "I met him once in Suqian. A while ago, Marshal Liu went to suppress the bandits, and the two armies faced each other in Chuzhou... I think I have a lot of Huaixi troops. Dare to fight the elite, how can the thieves resist... Now, the main force of Li's thief is going south at night, intending to bypass Hongze Lake and copy the food road behind our army... If my rear is robbed by him, this battle may have another change , why don’t you take me to meet your boss quickly, if it’s late, can you afford it? Please spare my brother’s life so that I can go to see your boss, otherwise, I would rather die than obey.”

"Dang!" The horizontal knife fell to the ground, and the face of the surnamed Yi changed drastically, and he murmured: "Li Yu is here, Li Yu is here!"

(End of this chapter)