The strongest investment emperor

Chapter 181 Troubled Times, National War

Liu Cheng bid farewell to the Liu family and the Chu family, and took Xiaoyue and Laifu to embark on the road of finding a husband.

Originally, Xiaodie wanted to come with Liu Cheng, but Chu Huan's parents needed someone to take care of them, so Liu Cheng didn't allow it.

The three of them headed north, and at first they were safe and stable, but as they got closer to the front line, there were more and more refugees, and the streets were full of ragged, skinny refugees.

They cling to each other, follow the flow of people, go to the south, go to the warm hope.

At this time, Liu Cheng was sitting in the carriage, opened the curtain, and saw these refugees, she couldn't bear it, especially when she saw the child standing among the refugees, looking around at a loss, as if looking for his parents .

But, looking around, there are his parents there!
Some are just a group of hungry and thirsty refugees. The children follow them in confusion, crying and shouting, but no one pays attention to him. Everyone seems to be used to his existence. No one helps him, even He was accidentally pushed behind, and no one helped him.

The child fell to the ground, cried for a while, and then slowly got up. Maybe he also knew that he could only rely on himself now.

"Xiaoyue, go and bring that child up, and we will take him along."

Xiaoyue couldn't bear to see such a five or six-year-old child wandering around like this, so she nodded, opened the curtain and said to Laifu: "Brother Laifu, stop the carriage first, the lady wants to take that child with you." Walk!"

Laifu was taken aback, but stopped the carriage, and then followed Xiaoyue's direction to look at the child. Seeing the child's yellow and unhealthy face, Laifu also felt distressed, thinking that he was like this when he was young , if the master hadn't saved him in the heavy snow, maybe he would have already become a frozen bone!
Xiaoyue got out of the car and walked towards the child, Laifu also followed her. After all, these refugees were at the end of their rope and might be able to do anything.

Besides, this is not the first time they have encountered refugees. The first lady kindly distributed some money and food to them, but they did not appreciate it. Instead, they surrounded their carriage and did not allow them to leave. Come here, it is estimated that they will have been robbed by then.

The refugees watched the two people get out of the car in silence, wanting to see what they were going to do.

The two came in front of the child. The child seemed to see that the two of them were looking for him. He was a little scared and took a few steps back.

Xiaoyue saw the fear in the child's eyes, and quickly comforted her: "Little friend, don't be afraid! My sister won't hurt you, but she will give you delicious food instead. You can go with my sister, okay?"

As Xiaoyue said, she took out a big pancake wrapped in oil paper and waved it in front of the child's eyes.

The child looked at the pancakes, smelled the fragrance of the pancakes, and salivated. He unconsciously approached Xiaoyue, snatched the pancakes, and devoured them hungrily.

The refugees next to them watched Xiaoyue take out a pancake casually. Some of them knelt down on the ground and shouted, "Good-hearted people, please do me a favor! Give me a stutter." With malicious intentions.

There is no way, this is human nature, who will care about right and wrong when one's own life is threatened?Who can tell right from wrong?What they want most at this time is to survive!
Laifu had been prepared for a long time, and directly pulled out a broad knife. This was given to them by the soldiers of the government after the last incident, saying that it was for them to protect themselves. After all, the journey northward is full of dangers!

Sure enough, everyone looked at the shining broadsword and all died down. Even those who were kneeling on the ground got up one after another and ran away.

The child blinked his eyes after eating the pancakes, "Sister, do you have any more?"

"Yes, as long as you follow us, that's all! Are you willing to follow us?" Xiaoyue looked at the child's bright eyes, touched his head very naturally, and said with a smile.

The boy nodded fiercely, "I do!"

The three got into the carriage, Xiaoyue first asked the child to sit outside with Laifu, and then went in to get him pancakes.

Liu Cheng watched Xiaoyue come in, glared at her, and said dissatisfied: "Your lady is so precious? Are you afraid of being dirty?"

Xiaoyue smiled embarrassingly, indeed, the child is too dirty after all, she can accept it, but the lady may not be able to accept it!So let the kids stay outside.

"Well, I don't blame you, you let him in! Let me see him."

Xiaoyue nodded, and then called the child in.

Curious, the child walked into the large carriage, and the first thing that caught his eyes was the beauty who was as beautiful as a fairy. It was hard for her to make people feel bad, so the child was not as scared as he was when he saw Xiaoyue at first sight.

But the child just glanced at Liu Cheng, and then his eyes started to look around.

Seeing his appearance like this, Liu Cheng burst into a smile, guessing that he was only worth mentioning in front of children, not as tempting as a pancake.

So, Liu Cheng waved to Xiaoyue, Xiaoyue understood what she meant, opened the box next to her, took out a pancake, and handed it to the child.

When the child saw the fried cakes, his eyes widened. His eyes, which had been dimmed because he didn't see the fried cakes immediately after coming in, regained their luster.

Seeing the child gobbling it up, Liu Cheng felt a little distressed.

"Little friend, what's your name? How old are you this year? Where do you live? Where are your parents? Do you remember these?"

He wolfed down the pancakes, and quickly finished the pancakes, wiped the corners of his mouth, as if he still had more to say, Xiaoyue opened the box again, but was stopped by Liu Cheng, it is not good to overeat after being hungry for too long, it is very harmful to the body.

Seeing that Liu Cheng didn't allow Xiaoyue to get pancakes for him, the child's eyes showed a bit of disappointment.

Seeing the child's disappointed expression, Liu Cheng smiled slightly: "You answered my question, I'll feed you again, how about it?"

"Okay!" The child nodded.

"My name is Jixiang. I am eight years old this year. Both my parents died and my house was burned down."

When Xiao Jixiang said this, there was neither sadness nor joy on his face, maybe he still didn't understand the true meaning of these words!
Although Liu Cheng had already guessed such a result in his heart, but now that he heard it with his own ears, his body still couldn't help but tremble.

This troubled world!How many joys and sorrows?How many families were destroyed?How many wives are separated?

Liu Cheng was silent for a while, and finally forced a smile and said, "Auspicious, you will follow my sister from now on, are you willing?"

Little Jixiang stared at Liu Cheng, "Is there pancake?"

Liu Cheng and Xiao Yue were stunned by Ji Xiang's intrusive question, they didn't know how to answer for a while, and then they both laughed.

Xiao Jixiang thought they were unwilling, and added, "I eat very little, one pancake is enough for a meal, today is an exception, I haven't eaten for two days, I'm really hungry!"

As soon as Ji Xiang said this, not only the two of them laughed, even Lai Fu, who was driving the carriage outside, couldn't help laughing.

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In the following journey, because of Xiao Jixiang's joining, there were more laughter and laughter, but even so, it couldn't drown out the smog in the hearts of the three of them.

There were more and more refugees on the road, and some refugees even saw their carriages and came up to rob them, just like bandits. If it wasn't for Laifu's desperate fight, they might have been robbed.

A few people gave up the carriage in order not to attract the attention of others, and Liu Cheng and Xiaoyue also changed into coarse and tattered clothes, just to ensure that the road ahead would be smoother.

It is precisely because of their clever actions that they have avoided disasters again and again, but there will always be times when they are so secretive.

When a few people walked through the general battle line and arrived in Jinzhou, they met the biggest clothes bandit they had ever seen. Among the refugees, they were surrounded by nearly a hundred bandits.

The bandit didn't ask them to hand over any food, because he knew that these people were poorer than these bandits, where would there be food?

"Let me tell you, we have food and clothing in our cottage. If you don't want to die, as long as you want, we welcome you at any time! Of course, it's only for women." The leader of the scarred bandit, riding on a black horse, carried it on his shoulders. Holding a big knife, looking at the more than 100 refugees, he grinned.

They are not short of food, but women.

They can cut off food for officials, but they have no choice but to look for it among the refugees at the foot of the mountain.

"By the way, bigger buttocks and bigger breasts are the priority. If you are late, you will have no chance. This determines your status on the mountain. There are also those who took the initiative and those who were caught by us. Their status is also different. "

When the brothers around heard what the boss said, they all laughed hahaha.

They naturally understand what the boss means. This is the difference between being played by others or being played by many people!
As soon as Scarface finished speaking, several women walked out, no matter what their husbands or family members tried to persuade them, they didn't look back.

Yes, this is a glimmer of life for them. If they go there, they will, even if they become someone else’s plaything, but at least they can survive; if they don’t go, they are doomed to die. There is no life to speak of.

Under the leadership of these few women, more and more people have stepped forward, and the choice is often just one step away.

Scarface saw more and more people coming out, and laughed: "Very good! Is there any more? Don't the others come out? This is your only chance! Don't blame me for not telling you, go south from here Go, 300 taels and so on will no longer be habitable, and then you will starve to death!"

As soon as this remark came out, many people's faces changed, and they became more and more impatient, but there were still many people who remained in place.

"Okay, that's all! Others don't want to, then kill them!"

Sure enough, a gangster is a gangster, take the useful ones, and leave the others alone.

Most of the rest were men. When they heard this, their expressions changed, and they started to back away in panic.

At this time, Laifu stood up, took out the broad knife that he had been hiding all the time, and shouted: "Brothers, we are all dead anyway, why don't we die boldly? They robbed our women , and now they want to kill us in front of our women, do we just let them kill us like this? Where is our masculinity?"

Laifu's words, like enlightenment, awakened the group, and then looked at the gangsters, his eyes were full of anger, even if he had no weapons, but he had to bite a piece of meat off his body, otherwise how could he be right? Own?
Scarface looked at the refugee who was already suffering from liver and gallbladder. He was very angry at the man's words that inspired him to fight. He didn't care what he was doing. He gave the order directly, then he went up with the knife and wanted to kill Laifu himself.

During the scuffle, the three of them ran away in a panic, crying.

This is Laifu's plan - life for life!
(End of this chapter)