Troubled Times Survival Raiders

Zan Yuan slept a lot during the day, so he was not so sleepy at night, not to mention he was still holding his throat and retching.Others were snoring again, and he couldn't sleep because of the re-emergence of the bad situation he had neglected the day before.Shen Yu was used to traveling at night, and the two snuggled up on the bed, neither feeling sleepy.

"Fortunately, you are not sick. I don't know if there are any herbs nearby." Shen Yu broke the silence first.Herbs are easier to find than wild vegetables and prey. After all, not everyone knows them, but if you need a certain kind in particular, you have to try your luck.

Zan Yuan moved his body uncomfortably.Shen Yu has been considerate and did not ask him how he was separated from his family, but he still felt a little embarrassed when he brought up this topic, and of course he was not guilty.If it was before, he might not have cared what Shen Yu thought.But after Shen Yu brought him back—whether it was giving him his own food, or giving him his own clothes, and protecting him everywhere, Zan Yuan felt that he didn't care much about Shen Yu, but felt that he was being abused. Being forced to hide your identity is uncomfortable.

As soon as Zan Yuan moved, the hair crown that was barely tied up also shook.Shen Yu glanced at his hair and said with a smile: "Isn't it uncomfortable if you don't untie it when you sleep?"

Zan Yuan's face flushed red all of a sudden.Shen Yu didn't know what she said wrong, her lips moved, and before she had time to apologize, Zan Yuan angrily muttered to him: "I don't know what to do with you if you untie your hair!"

The others in the room were still sound asleep, Zan Yuan was concerned about them, so he lowered his voice anyway.

The anger was inexplicable, and Shen Yu, who was always good-tempered, couldn't help but frown. After all, Zan Yuan was still young and separated from his family. It was not easy to hold back, but he couldn't find anything to perfuse this topic for a while.

"Are you missing your brother?" Shen Yu blurted out after glancing at the white strip of hair.

Brother... was suddenly asked, Zan Yuan's nose was sore, and he was speechless for a moment.

Sad, he actually forgot to be sad, from the moment he learned that the rebels were coming, he panicked, packed his things, and even finished the crowning ceremony hastily.The elder brother's death was just a hasty notice from the guards on the way to flee for his life, and a white cloth tied on his head by the maid.No one asked him what he was thinking, whether he was hurt or not, and he didn't even have time to react. The elder brother who loved him, taught him the truth, covered up his mistakes in front of his father, and satisfied all his rude demands was gone.

Shen Yu saw that the circles of his eyes were red, and his big eyes were already full of water, and she sighed inwardly, the little grudge just now had disappeared.He put his arms on Zan Yuan's shoulders, and wrapped Zan Yuan in his arms.Zan Yuan's body was slightly stiff, but he didn't resist.

He didn't cry after all.

"My second brother is also very good. He is four years younger than me. He has just learned to read. He likes to cling to me and call him brother." When Shen Yu spoke again, her voice was very gentle, as if talking to his second brother, with her finger on Zan Yuan's shoulder Caress lightly.

"Third Aunt is also a gentle person. She can also read and write. She has endless conversations with Third Uncle, and her smile is as gentle as a spring breeze. She also looks good at handwriting. Grandpa... Grandfather often praises her." Shen Yu originally wanted to say, " Grandfather often said that she is better than mother", but after all, as a child, one cannot blame parents, so he swallowed this sentence back to his stomach.

Silently, the clothes on Shen Yu's shoulders were soaked.Zan Yuan stumbled and said: "I, my brother is also a very good person. He is good-looking, and the maids in the palace... all secretly look at him, and the guard said that the most handsome man in Beijing can't compare to him. He , he can read books better than me, and he can also ride horses and shoot arrows. I envy him very much...but he is also very good to me..."

Zan Yuan recalled many days with his elder brother, and was speechless.Shen Yu ended the topic: "There's nothing you can do about it, they've already left, so I have to live on."

His handkerchief was used to pack food, so he could only use his sleeve to wipe Zan Yuan's tears.

Zan Yuan finally stopped sobbing, wiped away the tears by himself, tore off the white cloth strip from his head, and pulled out the wooden hairpin, letting down his soft black hair, just reaching his shoulders.His hair was soft and smooth, Shen Yu gave a short yuck, and was rarely curious, wanting to reach out and touch it.Among the people he has met, there is no one with darker and smoother hair than Zan Yuan.

Perhaps the emotion in Shen Yu's eyes was too revealing, Zan Yuan tilted his head, and let his hair hang in front of him generously. "You touch it." A condescending look.

Shen Yu felt itchy in her heart, and touched it hesitantly, and it was as soft as imagined, like fine brocade silk.

"How is it?" Zan Yuan showed a smug expression.

It was childish.Shen Yu laughed in her heart, and twirled her fingertips around the ends of her hair a few times before letting go reluctantly.

"Go to sleep."

When she woke up the next day, Shen Yu knew why Zan Yuan was angry last night - he couldn't curl his hair.

Children only need to tie two small braids and shave the rest of their hair.But Zan Yuan has already been crowned.His hair is short, so it's not easy to comb, let alone him, Shen Yu and Shen Yu's mother are a little helpless when they see it.In the end, the hair was tied together in a so-so manner, tied with cloth strips and inserted with hairpins, which could barely be regarded as a "knot".

After staying in Yanggan Temple for two days, they headed south again.

After several days passed, Zan Yuan also quickly adapted to this kind of life.Although he still has shadows on raw meat, in front of Shen Yu, he has learned to keep his pickiness in his heart.

He migrated with the Shen family, and the first time he wanted to peek at the corpses stopped by Shen Yu, he saw enough: corpses could be seen everywhere along the way, including civilians who died of starvation, disease, and soldiers who died in battle.Occasionally, the corpse of Xianbei Nu can be seen.However, the former two are not so clear-cut.But one thing remained the same: the bodies had been stripped clean.Some will lose a few pieces of meat, leaving traces of gnawing.Zan Yuan didn't dare to imagine whether it was a beast or something else.

And what he still can't get used to is the taste of hunger.

The burning sensation gradually ignited from the abdomen, and then began to spread the feeling of powerlessness throughout the limbs, listlessness, and lack of energy, it was nothing.In severe cases, it may even cause dizziness.At first, Zan Yuan would suffer from abdominal pain after starving for a long time, but Shen Yu said that it was because he had never been hungry since he was a child.And it is true.After a few times, Zan Yuan no longer had abdominal pain, but the burning fire in his abdomen could never be extinguished.

They went all the way south, avoiding the soldiers far away, but occasionally bumped into others.One night when I finally found a place to stay, I heard a noise outside.Everyone was nervous, and the Orion's bow and arrow had already been fully loaded, only to see four or five children in ragged clothes, fighting fiercely for half a piece of meat pie.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and then went about their own business. Orion cursed and drove them to fight elsewhere.

"Why don't you ignore them?" Zan Yuan watched them go away, feeling a little bit unbearable in his heart.Originally, he who had never experienced hunger would never say these words.

"Let them continue to fight, maybe they will attract other people. Adults will take away what they eat. Instead, they will be beaten. It is better to hunt less and dig wild vegetables and grass roots nearby." Shen Yu said this When speaking, his expression was different from usual, more serious and intolerable.He then slowly said: "Our food is not enough for everyone, and besides...they can't do anything serious, it's better than a knife wound. If you want to save more people, you can only hope that the court will quickly put down the rebellion and regain the lost ground .”

Zan Yuan stared at him for a while and asked, "Then why did you save me?"

Shen Yu's eyes flickered, and it took a long time before he replied, "Of course it's because you are alone, so you can still be saved."

It was later proved that what Shen Yu said was true. When they approached the junction of Henan Road, they encountered more refugees. Once, they saw a few big men with farm tools violently breaking into the house to snatch food.

Among the companions, some were so angry that they wanted to rush out to do their best, while some snorted coldly and turned a blind eye.The three brothers of the Shen family looked at Shen Mu worriedly, Shen Mu sighed for a long time and shook his head.Shen Yu's nails dug deep into the flesh.

The soldiers who came after that hurriedly took away those people, and also took away the young and strong of the family.This was the first time Zan Yuan saw the rebels, and his eyes almost burst into flames, but the group of them dared not say a word for fear of revealing their positions.Shen He said in a low voice: "They were taken to the north to go to the battlefield...or maybe they beat their own people. I'm afraid they might as well die at home."

That night they hurried to leave, and before they left, they heard cries piercing the night sky. Orion hurried out to find out the news, and when he came back, he sighed and said that the family's wife and children had thrown themselves into the well together.

It was the first time for Zan Yuan to see such an expression on Shen Yu's face. The anger made his facial features come alive, and the freshness was contagious. He also had a fire in his heart, which was blazing.

The anger on Shen Yu's face only lasted for a moment, then gradually faded away, and he returned to that gentle and kind little adult. However, he knew in his heart that what he had witnessed, the complaints from the third uncle and the farmer, and the sage taught by his grandfather The same words are engraved in the heart, and will not be forgotten for a moment.

Shen Yu and the others don't have much food left, they mainly leave it for the adults who go out to hunt and work, and there is not much food left for the children and the elderly, not to mention that Zan Yuan's head is counted in the Shen family, Shen, who has long thought that he is not pleasing to the eye Jiasanlang, Shen Tai, and other Zhuang Han Orion refused to look him straight.After understanding the meaning of that line of sight, Zan Yuan consciously took two bites less.

The most unbearable thing is when people are resting in the dead of night, only I can hear the moaning of my stomach.

Zan Yuan turned over, still too hungry to fall asleep, but he moved lightly, afraid of waking Shen Yu up.Suddenly, a soft voice came from beside him: "Are you hungry?"

"hungry."

Zan Yuan no longer cares about losing face or not, hunger can make people mature more than anything.

"I don't have anything to eat anymore." Shen Yu thought for a while before he came up with a solution, "There is spring water near this house, let me go with you, if you fill your stomach with water, you won't be hungry."

It was the first time for Zan Yuan to hear such a truth, but he couldn't fault it.So the two of them put on their clothes together, tiptoed, and walked cautiously out of the house.

The moon has moved to the western sky, and the earth is shrouded in silver light, adding a bit more cruel romance.A spring flows from the mountain, passes in front of the house, and flows into the distance.Shiny silver, very eye-catching.

"Hurry up, let's go back quickly." Shen Yu was very vigilant, standing on the sidelines.

Zan Yuan rushed to the edge of the mountain stream in two or three steps, half of his head was immersed in the cool mountain spring, and he drank heartily.

"Zan Yuan, are you ready?" Shen Yu called him from afar, but Zan Yuan didn't move.Shen Yu panicked, looked left and right again, made sure there was no one, and rushed over, "Zan Yuan?"

Then Zan Yuan suddenly raised his body, and poured a handful of water on Shen Yu's face.