"Old man, hand over all the food and valuables you have on you!" Two beggars who looked like teenagers held a sharpened branch and pointed it at a thin old man who was wearing shabby clothes and had a scholarly air.
The old man was carrying a bag on his back. He looked at the young man who suddenly rushed out of the woods with sympathy on his face, and took off the bag on his back.
"Old man, don't play any tricks, otherwise I can't guarantee that nothing will happen to you." One of the young men had a vicious expression on his face and pressed the sharp wooden stick against the old man's abdomen.
The old man paused while untying the bundle and asked, "Child, where are your families?"
"Family? They must have starved to death! Do you think everyone has no worries about food and drink like you?" The young man who was holding a wooden stick against him mocked him and pushed the stick forward.
"Come, eat. Here is some silver, which should be enough for you..." But the old man's outstretched hand froze. His abdomen was in unbearable pain for a moment, and saline solution overflowed from his already cloudy eyes. He still couldn't help but cover the wound with his hand, because one-third of the sharpened wooden stick was now pierced into his old body.
"What are you doing? Didn't he give us food? And money too!" The other boy panicked. The boy who had done it was extremely cold and said with disgust: "If we don't kill him, do you think he will let us go? How can there be any kind people in the world?!"
"Children, I can... help you grow crops..." Unfortunately, the old man was interrupted by the young man before he could finish his words. "Grow crops, and then let corrupt officials take them away? Haha, you really deserve to die!"
After saying that, he kicked the old man out of anger, then snatched the bag from the old man's hand and left.
The other boy looked at the fallen old man helplessly, and finally followed him after hearing the warning from the boy who was walking away.
But they didn't expect that they would encounter the army just after they walked a mile.
"General, there are two young men with suspicious expressions. They have been detained by our men. This is the bag we snatched from them."
Pei Yongjun glanced at it sharply and quickly found something incredible inside. "Quickly bring them over!"
"Boy, let me ask you, where is the owner of this bundle?" The deputy general asked the two teenagers in a kind voice, but was spat on by the vicious teenager.
"Bah, I don't know!"
"Hey!" The adjutant was so angry that he wanted to take action, but Pei Yongjun pushed him away. "Go, bring the torture instruments."
When they heard the word "torture instruments", both teenagers couldn't help but change their expressions, especially the other teenager, who was so scared that he couldn't stop shaking.
"I know where he is." After all, he was just a grown-up boy. The moment he saw the torture instrument, the timid boy immediately said it.
When Pei Yongjun arrived on horseback, he almost couldn't help but kill someone. The thin old man only had one piece of clothing on his body, and he was surrounded by refugees who kept fighting for his clothes. Some even wanted to strip him of the last piece of clothing.
"How dare you!" Pei Yongjun appeared in armor, and the refugees immediately fled in panic. Pei Yongjun took off his armor without thinking and wrapped the old man on the ground with the clothes inside.
"Damn it! Damn it!" The deputy general rushed over and saw that it was his own general, bare-chested in the heavy snow, kneeling in the snow excitedly, hugging an old man and cursing crazily.
"General?" But when the deputy general came closer and saw the old man's appearance clearly, he also shouted in fear, "Military doctor! Quick! Call the military doctor over!"
He didn't even care that his general was still freezing! He crawled back to the team and carried the only old doctor in the army.
The old doctor was still protesting on the way, not knowing what was going on. It wasn't until he saw the dying old man that his expression suddenly changed. His hand, which was stretched out to feel the old man's pulse, was shaking. "Grand Minister of Agriculture, Grand Minister of Agriculture..."
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