Plane Supermarket

After all, Ye Zhou and the others stayed at Changxiong Pass for two days even though they were in a hurry.

Changxiong Pass is located at the intersection of two mountains. Its geographical location is very superior. It is a good place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. There is also a reason why countries did not eat the fat of Chen Guo.

I don't know how much troops it will cost to fight, but you can get food with your hands, so why bother to fight again?

Instead of attacking Chen Guo, it is better to attack cities that are easier to capture.

But once there is a country that is so strong that no one can match it, then the country of Chen will be the first piece of meat to be targeted.

Chen Hou has not been idle for the past few days, he has finally shed that layer of benevolent gentleman's disguise, revealing the real inside, and he looks more like a king than before.

Just in case, of the original more than 2000 soldiers, Chen Hou left more than 200 at Changxiong Pass.

After all, it was not a wartime, and changing generals at this time would not shake the morale of the army. Han Ran, as the left general, was temporarily left here by Chen Hou to replace Zhang Rong.

As for Zhang Rong, he will be taken back to Linzi, the royal capital.

Chen Hou also told Ye Zhou that Zhang Rong must die, but not now, he would only attack Zhang Rong after weakening the influence of the aristocratic family.

Hearing what Chen Hou said a lot, Ye Zhou also felt that being a king here is not an easy task.

If you are just waiting to die, being a foolish monarch is probably not bad. After all, no matter what, the treatment and enjoyment of the monarch are always better than that of ordinary people.

But if you want to be a Mingjun, it will be even more difficult, with foreign enemies around, and there are still a bunch of noble families that are holding back in the country.

At this time, the courtier can really bump into death in front of the monarch in order to achieve his own reputation-as long as he thinks the monarch's decision is wrong.

If one dies, the monarch will not be able to carry out the decree.

Because the loyal minister is dead, he must be right and the monarch must be wrong.

Of course, this is based on the fact that the monarch's choice is correct. If the monarch is fatuous and has the heart to govern the country but has no power to govern the country, then these courtiers and aristocratic families can hold him back when the monarch acts recklessly.

There are advantages and disadvantages, but in the world of great contention, generally speaking, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages.

If a country cannot make concerted efforts and start to divide into left and right factions before things are done, it will be very difficult for this country to become strong.

After the repair, they set foot on the road to Linzi again.

Ye Zhou finally didn't bother himself this time, he also prepared a carriage for himself.

"At that time, you can come up and sit if you are tired." Ye Zhou looked at the carriage parked in front of the general's mansion, and finally breathed a sigh of relief. He whispered to Zou Ming, "I really can't get up. After the skin was worn out, it finally healed, and it was worn out again, over and over again.”

Ye Zhou: "Can you drive? A carriage?"

Zou Ming, who was "omnipotent" in Ye Zhou's heart, shook his head slightly: "No."

He can drive and ride a horse, but not a carriage.

Ye Zhou asked around, none of his employees knew how to do it, even Wu Yan could only drive an ox cart instead of a horse cart.

Although Ye Zhou felt that ox carts and horse carts should have the same purpose, but Wu Yan was not sure and dared not go into battle.

Ye Zhou could only ask Chen Hou.

Fortunately, Chen Hou has some people who can drive a carriage.

What's more, driving a car is easier than riding a horse. After all, no one is made of iron, they are all made of meat.

Chen Hou ordered a young general to come over. The young general's skin was rough, but his lips were red and his teeth were white. He looked young, he should be around 17 years old, he was not tall, and he stood upright just up to Ye Zhou's shoulders.

The young general probably didn't expect that he would be hit. Although he couldn't make an expression, his eyes were burning like two balls of fire.

Chen Hou said to Ye Zhou: "This kid doesn't seem to have much strength, but he is a good driver, even a two-horse carriage will do."

The young general puffed out his chest.

Ye Zhou smiled at him: "Then entrust it to you."

The young general shouted: "I will live up to my trust!"

The young general didn't dare to look into Ye Zhou's eyes, he only focused on Ye Zhou's legs, and said cautiously: "Little, little man Zheng Shaoyu."

Ye Zhou: "Good name."

He just boasted so politely, and saw the young general lower his head and giggle.

Although he didn't have much dealings with the soldiers, the soldiers were all in awe of him as an "immortal", maybe too much, even though he traveled such a long distance, Ye Zhou never spoke to the soldiers.

There is a lot of space in the carriage, but unlike the children's carriage, there is no blanket in the carriage made by Ye Zhou, only a few pillows, and a low table welded into the carriage. Although it is not as big as a caravan, it is comfortable. The speed is not much worse than the RV.

Ye Zhou really didn't want to stay in the same space with Chen Hou for a long time. To be precise, he needed his own personal space.

So even if Chen Hou looked at him with secret longing eyes, he turned a blind eye and pretended that he didn't see it.

As soon as Ye Zhou got into the car, Sarah got in through the window.

She was holding a bag of fruit in her arms, and she even remembered to take off her shoes before getting into the car.

"Don't want to ride a horse anymore?" Ye Zhou watched as Sarah sat across from him.

Sarah nodded: "Too tired."

Ye Zhou was a little surprised: "I thought you wouldn't feel tired."

Sarah said solemnly: "Boss, although a vampire is not a human being, it is not a machine either. It will still get tired."

When Sarah is serious, she looks more like a child than when she pretends to be lively. There is a feeling of a child pretending to be an adult.

With a pillow on his back, Ye Zhou leaned back, and the carriage started to move forward.

Because of the shock absorbing device, even if the ground outside is uneven, it doesn't feel too much inside the car, but it's more shaking than sitting in a car.

Ye Zhou didn't dare to open the curtains during the journey, otherwise he would eat a mouthful of yellow sand.

He didn't eat less when riding a horse before.

Sarah looked at Ye Zhou, who was sleeping with her eyes closed. She blinked and asked in a low voice, "Boss, do you think I'm more useful, or Zou Ming?"

Ye Zhou, who was not asleep: "..."

He declined to answer the question.

So he began to pretend to be asleep.

Sarah: "Boss?"

Sarah asked again: "Boss, are you asleep? Are you sleeping so fast?"

Ye Zhou's eyes were tightly closed. No matter what, Sarah couldn't wake up a person who was pretending to be asleep.

Sarah whispered: "Anyway, boss, when you see me in the future, remember that I came first."

Ye Zhou was a little confused, what does it mean to see you later?

Sarah stopped talking, and she also hugged the pillow to rest and doze off.

Neither of the two people in the carriage was asleep, but both of them were pretending to be asleep.

They stopped three times throughout the day.

Although Chen Guo is small, the population is sparser. Every time they stop, they see wasteland.

Occasionally passing through the village, although you can see a large area of ​​farmland, there are not many farmers working in it.

The peasants are skinny, and they will also look up at the soldiers and convoys passing by the road, and immediately find a place to hide when they see them.

Either get down on the spot, or run behind a tree.

Cao'er was riding on a horse. Her riding skills were not very good, but because of the saddle and stirrups, she didn't think it was difficult to ride a horse.

——Although when I was studying, I still got a black nose and a swollen face.

"Mother." Cao'er rode up to Aunt Li's side, she looked at the farmers lying on the fields, she was full of emotion for a moment, she whispered, "We used to be like this too, right?"

They used to be like this too, working day after day, their waists could hardly straighten up, but their stomachs were still not full.

Seeing people in bright clothes, they backed down, wishing to get into the cracks in the ground, go to the town market, and dared not go into larger shops.

Lives like a mouse, always cautious, lest when a hand will reach into his hole and take away what is not too much.

Li Gu shook her head: "Better than them, if there is no natural disaster, your father and I will definitely be able to raise you both!"

Her eyes diverged a little, as if she really saw that scene: "When the time comes, you will marry a good family, and then marry your brother a wife. I told your father before that if it is possible, your sisters will not be able to marry far away. Otherwise, what if you are bullied by your in-laws?"

"If your in-law's family bullies you, your father and I will call you at the door. How can a girl I raise well go to another house to be wronged?"

She smiled with difficulty: "I've thought it all over, I've thought it all over..."

But Li Gu quickly said: "Don't talk about it, it's useless to talk about it."

Li Gu looked at Cao'er: "You are luckier than them."

Now they can fill their stomachs as long as they work. Not only can they fill their stomachs, but they can also wear good clothes. The immortal said that this is called earning something for hard work. Aunt Li didn't understand it before, but now she understands it.

She can get paid as much as she does, and she will no longer be like the same, working day and night, but she doesn't know where her next meal is.

During the Liang Dynasty, it was not always possible to eat a meal of meat even during festivals.

For the present day, they are content, too content.

"Stop!" Chen Yan tightened his reins. It was getting dark, and they happened to pass by a village. They planned to spend the night here, and they could go to the villagers to ask for some water. There is no river nearby, so they can only Get water from wells.

After Chen Yan stopped his horse, he ordered a few soldiers, told them to fetch water, and said: "Don't take it for nothing, give some money, and don't tamper with the little girl and the daughter-in-law. If I find out, I will deal with it by military law!"

Several soldiers nodded repeatedly: "I know, don't worry, general, our brothers are not that kind of people."

Chen Yan sneered: "Go."

Soldiers are actually no different from bandits. Bandits burn, kill and loot, and soldiers are the same.

If the general can be managed well, then the soldiers are soldiers. If the general is not managed well, the soldiers are more terrifying than bandits.

Chen Yan dealt with a lot of soldiers who broke into the people's homes to eat and drink, and raped the women of the people during the break time, but this kind of thing was repeatedly prohibited. Why did the soldiers become soldiers?Make contributions?They were not from rich families, and they could not reach high positions even after making military exploits.

For them, being a soldier is to find a legitimate reason to bully men and women.

Chen Guo, a small country without war for a long time, is like this, and the soldiers of a big country will only be more unscrupulous.

When a country captures another country's city, there are no fewer slaughtered cities. When soldiers attack a city, most generals will not stop them from breaking into the homes of the people, burning, killing, and looting.

Chen Yan looked down on this practice, thinking it was against the style of a gentleman, but he thought so, and the soldiers didn't think much of it.

Risking their lives on the battlefield to slash and kill, aren't they allowed to enjoy themselves after winning?

So Chen Yan could only keep a close eye on them, lest they do anything that would hurt Chen Hou's face.

"Wait a minute." Chen Shu came on horseback. She stopped in front of several soldiers who were about to go there, then dismounted and said to them, "I'll go with you."

The soldiers had never dealt with Chen Shu, but they also knew that the woman in front of them was not easy to mess with.

After Chen Dan came back, he told them a lot about how he was caught by this woman and how he was strangled by the neck.

Probably in order not to make himself appear so weak, he described Chen Shu extremely exaggeratedly.

In short, in the eyes of the soldiers, Chen Shu is now a walking hag, killing people is as easy as killing chickens.

Chen Shu was carrying a bag, which contained corn cakes from the supermarket.

Every time Ye Zhou went to a plane, he always left some souvenirs, and the ones left at the Luoyang base were corn cakes.

Since I kept a lot, I took out some specially this time to exchange things with the common people.

One tortilla is enough for a mature man to eat for a whole day, and these tortillas are made by the residents of Luoyang base, and sugar is added, which not only tastes like corn, but also has a very obvious sweetness, which is very well done. Thick, but not too dry.

Ye Zhou sometimes takes tortillas as his staple food.

Chen Shu: "Let's go."

Several soldiers responded obediently, and then followed Chen Shu to the village.

After walking for a while, Chen Shu found that these soldiers were keeping a long distance from her. She felt a little strange, so she stopped, and when she turned her head, those soldiers also stopped.

Whether she was slow or fast, walking or stopping, these soldiers kept the same distance from her.

Chen Shu didn't know whether to feel angry or funny, was she some kind of scourge?She didn't do anything to them, did she?

So she stopped where she was and shouted at them, "Hurry up! I won't eat you again!"

The soldiers looked at her in a panic, and after a while, a bold one walked towards Chen Shu.

These soldiers are not valued so much in the army. After they are in good health, it can be seen that they are very young, and they may not even be fifteen. Chen Shu has experienced a lot, although it is not enough to treat these soldiers Treat them like kids really, but treat them differently than you would treat grown men.

When they finally walked up to her, she asked, "Why are you so afraid of me? I don't know how to eat people."

The most courageous one whispered, "The scouts told me that you can break people's necks with bare hands."

Chen Shu: "...Although what he said is correct, I don't want to kill just anyone. Killing also consumes energy. I don't do free work. Like you, if you don't pay you, you still go to the battlefield to fight ?”

The soldiers looked at each other and shook their heads obediently.

Joining the army is to make a living, and they are not military households, so they can't make military achievements. They enter the military camp to avoid burdening the family. The military salary is paid every year and can be sent back to the family. It would be even better if they can save a little. , After leaving the barracks, you can marry a daughter-in-law.

Chen Shu: "That's the truth, why are you afraid of me?"

But what she said didn't help. These soldiers were still afraid of her, but they didn't walk a thousand miles away from her.

This village is not big, no matter how many there are only a dozen families, the houses are all mud houses, and many roofs are covered with tiles instead of straw. There are no chickens, ducks or poultry in the village. Locked in the fence, it is a prized possession at first sight.

Chen Shu knocked on the door of the house with a well in the courtyard. She raised her volume, but deliberately squeezed her voice to make her voice sound less fierce: "Is there anyone?! Is there anyone? I want to ask for a bowl of water .”

It took a while to hear a human voice from inside the door. It was a woman who was not young. She said through the door tremblingly: "Master Bing... the family is poor, and there is really nothing. My man is working outside, wait, wait He's back..."

In addition to the woman's voice, there was the cry of a child inside the door.

Chen Shu took a deep breath: "Auntie, we really just came here to ask for a bowl of water. Why don't we just let me in alone? Ask them to wait outside? Don't worry, we won't take your water for nothing."

After a while, the door was finally slowly opened.

An old woman's face appeared in Chen Shu's line of sight.

It was a weather-beaten face, the skin was chapped, and it was full of gullies like a dry field. Her lips and eyebrows were drooping. Just looking at her face, one could tell that she was a poor person, and her face was full of bitterness. .

Chen Shu put on a smiling face: "Ma'am, I'll go in with you."

The old woman lowered her head in fear, she turned sideways, and said cautiously: "Your honor, please, the humble house is simple, and the hospitality is not good..."

Chen Shu turned his head and glanced at the soldiers, told them to wait where they were, and entered the room with the old woman.

After entering this room, Chen Shu immediately smelled a musty smell, it was hard to tell what it was.

It smelled like rotten and moldy wood, mixed with other smells, it was really not a pleasant smell.

On the "bed" covered with only one layer of straw, there were three children sitting. The oldest looked seven or eight years old, and the youngest was probably just born. All of them had a big head and a strange big belly.

The children were still crying, Chen Shu asked the old woman: "Ma'am, what's wrong with the children? Did you eat your stomach?"

The old woman shook her head: "They are hungry, and their stomachs are for drinking water."

The old woman smiled with difficulty, "I'm going to get the bucket, my lord, wait a moment, I'll fetch water for you."

Chen Shu: "I see that the food grown in your fields is pretty good. How can you be so hungry? Didn't you store any food after the autumn harvest last year?"

The old woman shook her head embarrassingly: "The grain officer came to collect the grain twice, and there is no grain left at home."

Chen Shu was taken aback: "There is no food in storage? Then how will you spend this year?"

The old woman was also a little confused: "Dig some grass roots and deal with it day by day."

Chen Shu sighed, the old woman didn't seem to think how strange or bitter it was, they have been like this every year, if they survived last year, they should be able to survive this year too, right?

The few children didn't react when they saw strangers. They were like chicks in a bird's nest, only knowing to stretch their necks to beg for food.

As if already hungry.

The old woman took out two buckets from the stove. The wooden boards were of different lengths, and some places had holes. Walk.

"Let me do it." Chen Shu snatched the pole from the old woman's hand. She always thought that she was a hard-hearted person, but seeing this situation, she still couldn't help but soften her heart.

The old woman quickly said: "My lord, my lord, give me the shoulder pole, I will carry it! I can carry it!"

She knew from Chen Shu's appearance that he was definitely not a commoner. The soldiers outside might have come to escort her. What if they saw Chen Shu carrying a pole and beat her up?

She will never survive the beatings of the soldiers!

She panicked and wanted to grab the shoulder pole in Chen Shu's hand, but she didn't dare to use too much force, she just cried with red eyes: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please take pity on me, how many children do I have..."

Chen Shu was not in a good mood, she handed the bag of cornbread to the old woman: "I'm going out, you don't have to follow me out, I'll bring you back the pole wooden bucket after fetching water, these will be your water reward."

"Don't worry, no one will trouble you." Chen Shu didn't look at her, and walked out of the house while the old woman was holding the bag in confusion.

Seeing Chen Shu coming out, the soldiers quickly walked to the well with Chen Shu.

Chen Shu handed the barrel to them, watched them draw water, and finally couldn't help asking: "What kind of outrageous things did you soldiers do? Why do the common people look like a mouse seeing a cat when they see you? "

Fearing that Chen Shu would get angry, several soldiers hurriedly said: "This has nothing to do with us. We have just joined the army and followed the king to fight. We have never harmed the common people. We were also common people before!"

Chen Shu: "Then when you were ordinary people, were you afraid of being a soldier?"

The soldiers looked at each other and said while fetching water, "I'm afraid, why not be afraid."

"It's okay for Master Bing to kill someone." The soldiers showed fearful expressions on their faces, "It's okay if the family has money, but if they don't have money and they have a lovely lady, then it's hard to say."

Chen Shu: "Then nobody cares?!"

The soldiers heard the anger in her voice and whispered, "Someone is probably in charge."

"But everyone is dead. If the soldiers are killed, it will be of no use. There will be one less who can go to the battlefield."

Chen Shu rolled his eyes: "I am also a soldier."

The soldiers were taken aback. They thought about what Chen Shu did, but they never thought that she was a soldier.

Chen Shu said angrily: "I entered the military camp when I was 14 years old. I don't fight much there, but soldiers are no different from ordinary people. Don't talk about bullying men and women. Whoever dares to take ordinary people with needles and stitches will be fine." They must be dealt with by military law, not only must they be kicked out of the barracks, but they will be stained for the rest of their lives."

Chen Shu: "You can't do this!"

"I want to have a good chat with your lord about this matter! How can you sweep the world if you don't sweep a house?! You can't manage your own people well, and you still want to strengthen the country?"

"Strong ass!"

The soldiers swallowed.

She is so fierce, but she is so fierce that people yearn for it.

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In the earthen house, the old woman carefully opened the bag. She didn't know how the bag was made, but it felt different from all the fabrics she had ever seen—although she had never seen several kinds of fabrics.

But compared to the bag, it was the contents of the bag that caused her to be in a hurry.

As soon as she opened the bag, she smelled a fragrance, which was grain and fragrance and sweetness.

The old woman took out the things in the bag and looked at the dim light coming in from the window.

More than a dozen heavy, golden pancakes.

Each piece was bigger than her face.

The old woman froze there. Instead of eating, she stretched out her hand and pulled her cheek.

The pain convinced her that what she was seeing was real and not her daydreaming.

She opened her mouth and let out a low whimper.