life in ancient gods

Chapter 58
A few days later, the third year of Yongtai, February [-]rd, early spring.

In the early morning, outside Jinling City, it had been drizzling all night last night. The tender grass on both sides of the road had just sprouted, and dewdrops hung on the tender yellow grass leaves.

Standing or sitting by the majestic and quaint city walls outside the city, hundreds of refugees dressed in rags.

The previous wave of refugees fled to other towns because the gates of Jinling had been closed, but that was probably the case.

These hundreds of refugees had traveled from the south for more than ten days this morning. They arrived at Jinling last night in the rainy and drizzling rain. They thought that the gate of Jinling would open this morning, but they waited outside the city for more than an hour. , the city gate is still tightly closed.

In desperation, hundreds of refugees outside the city knelt on the muddy road outside the city, begging the soldiers inside to open the city gate and let them enter Jinling City.

Even sleeping on the street begging for food is better than starving to death in the wilderness and being eaten by wild wolves and dogs.

"Mr. Jun, please do me a favor. Please take pity on us poor people. Open the city gate."

"Hello... woo woo woo..." A woman in a ragged padded jacket with a baby in her arms knelt on the ground and begged, crying.

Most of these hundreds of refugees were old and weak women and children, dressed in shabby clothes, with mud in their fingernails, kneeling on the muddy road outside the city leaning on crooked branches.

They really had no other choice, the county towns they passed along the way were all closed gates like Jinling, no matter how much they begged, the cold gates still wouldn't close.

Along the way, countless refugees starved to death and froze to death.

The soldiers guarding the city gate in Jinling City looked down at the kneeling refugees outside the city from the top of the city tower, their eyes were cold and unmoved.

In fact, they were already numb. There were too many refugees outside Jinling City in the past few days, and they came again as soon as they left. The soldiers guarding the city gate had long been used to it.

On the top of the tower was a burly, eight-foot-tall guard who was wearing a brass armor, a brass helmet on his head, and a long knife on his waist. He stood on the edge of the tower with a perplexed look on his face, facing the kneeling man below the tower. The refugee shouted: "The prefect has an order, and we will obey the order. You should take refuge in other cities and counties."

This person was Zuo Qiuliang who was defeated by Feiyun Mountain and served as the lieutenant by Ye Chenli's side.

Although he is Ye Chenli's deputy general, the prefect of Jinling has the final say on the city defense affairs of Jinling City.

Although Ye Chenli couldn't bear it, he had to obey. He is a soldier, and it is his bounden duty to obey the orders of his superiors.

He couldn't bear to see the miserable images of the refugees outside the city, so he assigned his lieutenants Zuo Qiuliang and Chun Yukang to be in charge of guarding the city for the past few days.

The refugees kneeling on the muddy road outside the city saw that there was no hope of entering the city, so they leaned on the branches and stood up with difficulty.

They hadn't eaten for two days, they were hungry and cold, and couldn't walk, so they could only lean against the city wall, wipe their tears and resign themselves to fate.

On the tower, Zuo Qiuliang and Chun Yukang looked helpless. Because Chun Yukang was too fat, he could only wear tailor-made chain mail, a round copper helmet on his head, and a big copper hammer in his hand.

The morning sun shone down on the armor of the two men, reflecting a dazzling light.

Chunyu Kang was behind Zuo Qiuliang, sighed and said: "...Hey, this bird prefect, how could he order that no refugees can enter the city? I really want to open the city gates and let all the refugees from outside the city come in."

Zuo Qiuliang hurriedly said in a low voice: "Hey, brother Chunyu, don't speak nonsense, if someone else hears it, it will be very troublesome to pass it to the eunuch."

Chunyu Kang patted the shining chain mail on his body, "I'm so scared, at worst, the eunuch will chop off my fat head, and I will be a good man again after 18 years, which is better than staying on the tower and watching the refugees." Suffering is stronger."

Zuo Qiuliang glanced around the city tower, a thoughtful expression appeared in his eyes, he sighed, and whispered: "Hey, why does Zuo want to open this Jinling City and let the refugees in, Zuo seems like a few days ago I heard that there is a place called Liangshanbo in the north, where a group of heroes gathered, I heard that all the heroes on the mountain are good men, if not for General Ye, Zuo really wanted to go to Liangshanbo."

Chunyu Kang nodded, pondered for a while, and said in a low voice: "I've heard that too, but I heard that the head of Liang Shanbo is a talented scholar. I don't think it's reliable. Besides, General Ye is good to our brothers. We have an oath." Yes, you cannot betray General Ye."

Zuo Qiuliang quickly put it on the table and whispered: "This is natural. Zuo is not a capricious villain. Since he has followed General Ye, he has no second thoughts. Zuo just thinks that the hero from Liangshanbo will... We were also wiped out by the imperial court like we at Feiyun Mountain, and then we surrendered to the imperial court?"

Chunyu Kang supported the shining round copper helmet on his head, looked up at the orange sun in the blue sky, with a thoughtful look in his eyes, he lowered his head and murmured: "Who knows, I heard that Liangshan Po is surrounded by Surrounded by water, the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there are many heroes in the cottage, I am afraid that even if the imperial court wants to wipe it out, it will not be so easy."

At this time, two people came up from the tower, one was wearing a golden helmet, a silver sword was hung on his waist, and his eyes were cold. It was Ye Chenli.

The other was Su Ping'an, who was wearing a black brocade suit, a silver crown, and riding boots.

Su Ping'an wanted to go to the pawnshop early in the morning, but the business of the pawnshop was so good that he saw that Li Shishi and Su Jin'er were too busy yesterday.

He was alone, so in the morning he wanted to run to the Pingyue pawn shop in Jinling East City, so that he could also exercise by the way.

But on the way, he ran into Ye Chenli.
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Ye Chenli had always looked lost and depressed these past two days, so the two of them stood on the roadside and talked for a while.

Ye Chenli vomited his displeasure to Su Pingan, and Su Pingan knew about it, so he advised Ye Chenli not to do so.

Ye Chenli has a cold personality, usually he doesn't talk much, and he doesn't like to laugh.

But he and Su Ping'an were able to talk, the two of them strolled in the market, and said something in their hearts, and Ye Chen felt much more comfortable in his heart.

At this time, the two of them happened to come here and wanted to go up to the tower to have a look.

Zuo Qiuliang and Chun Yukang, who were talking on the tower, heard footsteps behind them, turned around and saw that it was Ye Chenli and Su Ping'an, and hurriedly stepped forward and cupped their hands.

"General Ye, Mr. Su."

"What were you talking about just now?" Ye Chen glanced at the two of them with cold eyes.

Zuoqiuliang and Chunyukang's hearts trembled, thinking that Ye Chenli had heard their conversation just now, and they looked at each other for fear of misunderstanding.

Zuo Qiuliang clasped his hands and said, "General, please allow your subordinates to open the city gate. If the eunuch punishes me, I, Zuo Qiuliang, will bear it all and will not implicate General Ye."

Chunyukang echoed: "Exactly, there are also subordinates who also implore the general to give the people outside the city a way to survive."

(End of this chapter)