In the next few days, the situation became more and more difficult.
More and more people fell down in the crowd.
Qin Zheng and Fang Lu relied on a few grain-free cakes in their arms and their ability to occasionally go out to hunt for wild food.
Survived.
Occasionally, they would look unconsciously in the crowd, but never saw the little girl again.
The two followed the crowd for several days and finally arrived at Anjia Town, a small town a hundred miles away from Phoenix City.
This place has not suffered from famines and wars, and people live a relatively prosperous life.
They looked at Qin Zheng and others with surprised eyes, their expressions were full of defenses, and occasionally they cast pity on them.
They discussed the affairs of Dayan Kingdom, saying that Dayan Kingdom was afraid that it would be completely destroyed.
Lu Pengfei, the only general with great appeal, has been executed for embezzling military pay and conspiracy.
It is said that the crime of embezzling military pay was framed by the treacherous minister Yan Hao.
It is also said that the military pay was actually embezzled by Yan Hao. .
Now General Lu's family died tragically, Hanyang City was breached, and the Lu family army was completely dispersed.
After the Lu family's army dispersed, the country's military morale was completely shaken.
Almost all other regular armies were defeated.
Now there are only a few stragglers fighting against the southern barbarians, which is of no use.
It is said that the emperor of Dayan Kingdom has fled with his gold, silver and jewels, his most beloved concubine and his supposedly beloved sister Princess Jingyun.
Some of the ministers surrendered, some fled for their lives, and some were loyal and unyielding for the country.
Totally loyal.
As for the evil and treacherous minister Yan Hao, he has disappeared since then.
I hope he is dead because of his evil retribution.
Qin Zheng and others listened to the discussions of these people and learned that Anjia Town was located on the border between Phoenix City and Dayan Kingdom.
It is said that the people in charge of Anjia Town are still people from Phoenix City.
The people here do not have the consciousness of being citizens of the Great Yan Kingdom, so they do not have the shame of subjugating the country.
The people who were fleeing with Qin Zheng sighed when they heard these discussions.
They didn't know what their future would be like.
Everything seemed so slim.
Even if they escape with their lives and reach Phoenix City, so what?
Whether they will be taken into custody and what they will do for a living there are all questions.
Of course, there are some in the crowd who are not worried.
They have a lot of soft banknotes in their pockets.
The banknotes are the banknotes of the Four Seas Bank that are common in several countries.
It turns out that although Phoenix City also occupies a large area, it is not like other countries such as the Great Yan Dynasty, Nanman and Xiye who established countries and emperors.
Instead, it is only managed by the city lord surnamed He.
It is said that the ancestors of this city lord made an alliance with the other three countries, stipulating that Phoenix City would not establish a country or an emperor, but would only engage in business to earn money.
The Three Kingdoms can be fought and fought, but swords and guns must not come against Phoenix City.
This is the bank account opened by Phoenix City in the other three countries.
Whenever their century-old Phoenix flag is hung, the opponent must avoid it.
Because Phoenix City is rich, although it does not have a country, it has raised countless private soldiers and hidden masters in it.
In addition, all the Phoenix City owners in the past generations have been good at management.
Therefore, over the years, no country has dared to control the country.
Swords and guns are coming to Phoenix.
The current city lord is the seventeenth generation descendant of the He family.
His surname is He Xiao.
He has extremely good business skills and is quite skillful in doing things.
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He can navigate between the two competing countries without offending each other.
It is also because of this that it is said that the He family is now Not only was the business not affected by the war, but it also made huge profits from the iron weapons.
This Sihai Bank is the bank under the command of City Lord He.
It has branches all over the world, and the generals will never dare to offend wherever they go.
Therefore, those who hold the banknotes of the Four Seas Bank have no worries.
As long as there is no war, no matter where they go, there is great hope for a comeback.
Qin Zheng had nothing to eat anymore, so she tried to find something in the fields.
Who knew that the refugees who came with her had already set their eyes on the land that had not experienced the famine, and searched the fields clean, even the vegetable roots.
Not one left.
At this time, many people had chosen to beg.
After all, there were so many well-fed people in the city.
Seeing this scene, Qin Zheng made a decisive decision to start begging, the sooner the better.
She and Fang Lu acted separately, one attacking the south city and the other the north city.
Wearing tattered clothes, she knocked on the door of each house, enduring the curiosity or contempt of the other party, and asked for charity.
At the end of the day, she had a bowl of wheatgrass rice and two tattered cotton-padded jackets.
It was a rich harvest.
She returned to the abandoned house where she had temporarily settled, walked in, and lit a fire to make soup and warm her hands at the same time.
Just as he was warming his hands, Fang Lu came back.
Fang Lu still looked thin, but his eyes were no longer as indifferent as before.
When Qin Zheng saw him coming back empty-handed, he knew that he must have gained nothing.
She poured the soup with some picked vegetable roots into two broken bowls, and divided the wheatgrass stem rice that she had begged for into two halves, with Fang Lu and she taking half.
Fang Lu glanced at her and uttered three words in a low voice: "I'm not hungry."
Qin Zheng pointed to the soup next to him: "Then you drink the soup first."
Fang Lu shook his head: "I'm not thirsty."
Qin Zheng didn't say anything anymore and just drank the soup.
It was sweet and sweet.
After drinking half of the soup, she felt warm in her stomach.
She soaked the half bowl of vegetarian rice and finished it with great care.
After eating, he licked the rice grains on his fingers.
After eating, she packed up the casserole again, put it in a sack and put it next to her.
Then she threw a torn cotton jacket to Fang Lu: "This is for you, it's cold."
After saying this, she used her He wrapped himself up in a torn cotton jacket and fell asleep.
After a while, I fell into a sweet dream.
But Fang Lu couldn't fall asleep.
He sat there in silence, facing the bonfire that was about to burn out, with his head lowered and silent.
The firelight illuminated his knife-like face, making him look like a piece of jagged pig iron, hard and fragile.
I don't know how long it took, but his eyes slowly moved to the side.
Qin Zheng, who was sleeping soundly, was still sleeping soundly, and he chirped in his sleep.
He looked at the things around him, a bowl of vegetable root soup that had lost its heat, and a half bowl of rough wheatgrass stem rice.
He moved his dry lips, stretched out his hand, took it, and slowly began to eat.
He was actually very hungry, but he didn't gobble it up.
Instead, he ate slowly, chewing every bite carefully, as if he were a mountain scholar enjoying the most delicious refreshments after a meal.
After he drank the soup and finished all the vegetarian rice, he stretched out his fingers and followed Qin Zheng's example and licked the scraps on his fingers.
Dry, cold and hard crumbs, with a bitter taste on your fingers, spread on the tip of Fang Lu's tongue.
He swallowed silently, then took the tattered cotton-padded jacket, followed Qin Zheng's example and wrapped it tightly around himself, lay down and fell asleep.
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The next day, Fang Lu got up very early and probably didn't fall asleep at all.
He was wrapped in the tattered cotton-padded jacket that Qin Zheng gave him.
His hair was messy and his face was dirty, like a bandit from the countryside entering the city.
Qin Zheng stretched himself out, leaned against the door and looked in the direction Fang Lu was leaving.
He saw him taking a broken porcelain bowl and placing it in front of the bustling restaurant not far away.
When someone passed by, he would say in his hoarse voice: "Uncle, please give me some food."
But probably because his eyes were too cold, people passing by just looked at him in surprise, then quickened their pace and ran away.
Qin Zheng casually picked up a bamboo pole and his broken porcelain bowl, and began his begging career today.
It was still a long way from Phoenix City.
If she didn't save more food in this relatively prosperous town, she was really afraid that she would starve to death on the road.
It's a pity that on this day, perhaps too many deserters joined the begging ranks.
The compassion of the people in this small town had been evaporated by giving alms again and again, so that Qin Zheng got almost nothing.
Seeing that it was getting late, she prepared to go back in despair, but she heard the fleeers on the side talking about the death of a little girl among the group fleeing to the east.
Qin Zheng frowned for a while, then finally lifted up his heavy feet and walked towards Dongcheng.
When he got there, the little girl was not there.
She stood there for a moment, watching the sun go down and its afterglow filling the street.
Then she turned and walked home.
Unexpectedly, halfway through, she saw a group of people talking about something.
When I got closer, I heard an old man with a goatee talking about three-legged sheep.
People around him listened with interest, and he became more and more interested.
He said loudly: "Three-legged sheep are divided into three types.
"Zuanbaozi" and "bones rotten" are not envious of sheep.
"Zuanbaozi" is naturally old and skinny, while "zhuangbaozi" refers specifically to those under seven years old.
As for "not envious of sheep", he chuckled.
Below, gaping yellow teeth leak out.
The people around seemed to understand, and they nodded in understanding.
Qin Zheng felt a chill from the soles of her feet, which quickly spread to the pit of her heart, her throat, and every corner of her body.
She felt as if her whole body was in the cold, and she couldn't help but shudder.
When he turned around, he saw Fang Lu right in front of him.
His eyes were almost lifeless, and in his hand, he was holding an almost invisible red headband.
The blood-red sunset swayed over this small town, dyeing the people and streets here a rich red.
A dull, bloody red.
There was a breeze blowing by, and Qin Zheng seemed to smell the vague smell of meat.
She tried hard to open her eyes, and saw the red headband in Fang Lu's hand trembling slightly in the breeze.
She didn't know how long it took, but she tried to find her voice: "Go back." tgtgd1806102: