They said they were men following them, but Xia Zhaoyi and Su Yumei walked slowly along the river bank. Zhan Ning and Li Man always kept a distance of ten steps and followed behind them.
Xia Zhaoyi thought of the phrase "be good" and still felt uncomfortable. She said calmly: "Human beings need to be domesticated, so it's not surprising that adults tell children to be good. Every child needs to be given civilization, otherwise he will be too wild.
.But adults say nice things to adults..."
Xia Zhaoyi didn't say any more and shook his head.
"Maybe it's because of my brother's care." Su Yumei said.
"I didn't expect you to stand up," Xia Zhaoyi looked at her, "but you did save them."
"If I don't come out, what will Miss Ah Li do with them?"
"Leave it to Zhang Ji," Xia Zhaoyi smiled, "but I am sure that the 'masters' led by Jiang Junping will inevitably die. Your suggestion at least gives them atonement."
"It's hateful to say," Su Yumei sighed, "Although we are refugees, all living beings seem to be suffering, but the 'women' who are stepped on by these men will only suffer even more. Look at their hands, although they are not pretty.
, but a woman's 'hands' are even more ugly and old. If you haven't seen it with your own eyes, it would be unbelievable that in such a poor state, you can still be 'pampered'."
"It's quite simple," Xia Zhaoyi said calmly, "The clan system is by nature, it is the domestication of adults."
Su Yumei seemed to understand, but she seemed to be vaguely able to figure it out: "Just like what those girls said was voluntary, it is actually just... domestication."
"It's definitely not voluntary, it's definitely requested by those 'masters', and the reason they stood up and made excuses was just to plead for those masters. You don't know, I heard Uncle Xia say that they were naked,
I was really angry when they were blocking each other on the road, so I immediately asked Uncle Xia to catch all these refugees. At that moment, many terrible thoughts flashed through my mind."
"...If you say so, I have it too," Su Yumei said softly, "Is it cannibalism?"
"Um."
"Yes, during the famine five years ago, how many people exchanged their sons for food and their wives for food. In the past few years, the world has been divided, and there have been many cases of dividing people for food and dissecting their bodies for cooking. I also heard that there are people outside the Great Wall.
Many barbarians never bring food or grass when they go to war, they only bring women, who can wash clothes and cook, but [words that are not allowed to appear], they can also... be eaten," Su Yumei said.
Cruel, frightening, and gloomy, it is the most real world today.
Xia Zhaoyi lowered his head and looked at the road ahead with clear and gentle eyes: "After Uncle Xia brought them back, I wanted to ask Zhang Ji if there was such a move and then let Zhang Ji punish him. But after you stood up, I suddenly
And I thought, so what if I asked...that’s all, it’s okay not to ask.”
"Well, don't ask, are there any lunch boxes? Anyway, if they enter the hard labor camp and Zhang Ji is here, they won't have anything to eat." Su Yumei said and suddenly smiled.
Because of her words, Xia Zhaoyi thought of Zhang Ji's selfless face, and for some reason, she felt a little funny.
"Or, they will be worse off than dead." Su Yumei added.
Xia Zhaoyi raised her hand slightly and couldn't help but smile again: "Why do I feel that we are a little..."
abnormal.
Su Yumei coughed lightly and said with a smile: "But Miss Ali, I'm worried about something."
"What's the matter?"
"It's those girls. I wonder if they will come out to find these refugees again after they went to Yixing. Tonight, they came out to intercede for those 'masters' because you were willing to stand up for them. I... hate them a little.
Indisputable."
"This," Xia Zhaoyi laughed casually, looking towards the long road ahead. Between the sky and the water, the cold wind hit the branches. The moonlight on the treetops on the bank became quiet again after being broken and white. Xia Zhaoyi's voice was
Geng Ninghe said, "I think it's better not to annoy them. While they are still being persecuted and oppressed and have no intention of harming us, it's better not to annoy them. We can't release people from cages that have been locked up for hundreds of years.
We hope they can say what we want. Unless...they still choose to go back to the cage after knowing everything, then we can only let them."
"Then will they?" Su Yumei was worried, "Will they come out of Yixing and look for these gentlemen again?"
Xia Zhaoyi thought for a while and asked: "Miss Su, why do you propose to send them to Yixing? Are you not afraid that they will be bullied by the men of Yixing?"
Su Yumei paused for a moment, then laughed at herself: "The question I asked just now seemed a bit stupid... With the bleak situation of Yixing, no matter Qian Xianmin or other forces, they will never think more about it. A huge building that is in ruins and waiting to be renovated.
If they are capable in the city, they will definitely not be bullied there. Instead, they will be able to live a more secure life with their hands. Now that they have a more secure life, who is willing to give up a good life and go back to eating hair and drinking blood. My question is really stupid.
After all, it’s me who doesn’t trust them and doesn’t feel at ease.”
"After all, you are too worried and distressed about them." Xia Zhaoyi said.
The two girls walked slowly along the river bank, chatting lightly as they walked. When they became more and more sleepy, they went back to sleep.
Early the next morning, two small teams left the main army, one heading northwest to Yi Xing, and the other heading southeast to Zui Lu.
The Yi Xing was close to here, and the army waited for half an hour before seeing them return.
Xia Zhaoyi didn't have much to say to these girls. He only said that they should answer whatever the officers and soldiers of Yixing asked, and just tell the truth.
After that, the army began to disperse in the Jingkengfu and Daqiu Lake areas.
Today I will go to Jianchungang, tomorrow I will go to Niutouling, and occasionally I will go for a walk around Wuqu, frightening the few generals who defended Wuqu to death.
At the same time, Nie Huimo divided his troops into two groups, one to attack Panzhou and the other to Huazhou.
It was useless for Qian Xianmin to go to the battlefield in person. The morale of the army had long been broken by the Xia army.
For ten consecutive days, Qian Xianmin lost 19 counties in a row, and one-third of Huazhou's territory disappeared without a trace on his march map.
When his subordinates came to report that the Chen family's soldiers and horses had also been wiped out by Ah Li, Qian Xianmin was not at all happy.
He sat blankly on the stool, and suddenly recalled that many years ago, he chopped off the head of the grain collector in Ci De with one knife, raised his head high and shouted loudly: "I, Qian Xianmin, have rebelled!"
The Cide clan has a huge foundation. As he roared, his relatives with the same clan and surname, and his friends who grew up wearing a pair of pants, all shouted with him: "Rebellion! Rebel!"
In just five days, thousands of people from his hometown within a radius of thirty miles came to seek refuge with him. Ten days later, the number reached 30,000!
They fought all the way from Cide in northwest Huazhou and attacked the entire Huazhou.
