Chapter 329 Honey Candy
As soon as the Lion Army left Guying City, the Black Scale Cavalry rushed in.
It is said that after just one night, the cries of children could no longer be heard in Guying City, and only the aroma of meat could be smelled.
The news quickly spread throughout the southeast.
All towns knew that they would soon become another Gu Ying City.
Because there is no one to protect them anymore.
After marching for ten days, no matter which city or village they passed through, the Lion Army would receive the hateful and angry stares of the people.
The soldiers lowered their heads, kept silent, and hurried on their way.
Sometimes when they encountered people on the side of the road calling them "cowards" or "ungrateful scum", or someone spitting at them, the soldiers would remain silent and not refute.
When they passed a village and were approaching the defense line where the rebels and the righteous army were fighting, Rong Yi, who was riding at the front of the team, was suddenly hit on the head by a rotten egg.
Rong Yi angrily slapped the fishy and smelly egg liquid on his head, glaring at the culprit, but was met with a cold and contemptuous little face.
A boy of about eleven or twelve stood on the side of the road, glaring at Rong Yi hatefully.
His body was in tatters, with the cotton wool sticking out of his clothes. His clothes were so dirty that their original color couldn't be seen. On his back was a large word "助" (aid) written in lime.
When the Lion Army ran out of ammunition and food and was trapped in Guying City, the Rebel Army and the Night Wings came to rescue them. Many packages were delivered incorrectly and landed in the cities and villages around Guying City.
The people who picked up the packages not only did not take the supplies for themselves, but instead spontaneously formed a "support team" to transport the food, and painted a simple but proud "aid" character on their bodies.
Men, women, young and old carried food and supplies together, braved the ice and snow, and walked step by step towards Guying City to bring hope to the Lion Army.
All of a sudden, his anger turned into a deep feeling of powerlessness and guilt, and Rong Yi was instantly discouraged.
He fumbled around his waist for a while and threw the last half piece of dry food to the boy.
The boy didn't take it. He kicked the dry food hard, spat, and then ran away quickly.
Rong Yi froze in place, not knowing what to do.
Seeing this, Yun Chen sighed softly, walked forward to pick up the half piece of dry food, dusted it off, and wanted to return it to Rong Yi.
After all, we haven't escaped the rebels' encirclement yet, and food is too precious.
She walked towards the team with dry food, but her eyes caught a group of people on the side of the road, waving shovels, as if digging something.
Seeing that one of the families consisted of only four people, a grandparent and grandchildren, the old grandfather was digging with great effort with a half-broken shovel and was almost falling down. The old grandmother and two children next to him were digging the soil with their bare hands. Yun Chen hurried forward to help.
"Old man, let me help you!" Yun Chen waved the shovel vigorously. "How big and deep do you want to dig? You tell me, and I'll dig."
"The burial pit is just big enough to bury the four of us in the family." The old man answered calmly, holding the old grandmother who also had silver hair and two ignorant children.
Yun Chen's hand shook, and the shovel swung off course, hitting a stone hard, making a harsh friction sound.
She froze and looked at the old man in shock. The old man looked straight at her and said:
"Being buried is better than being eaten, and the body will be intact. In my next life, I hope to be reborn in a place without war."
Yun Chen's voice was dry. He touched the heads of the two children who were not even as tall as her knees and asked, "Where are your children?"
"They died a long time ago. When the righteous army was fighting the rebels, they were pushing a cart to deliver steamed buns to you. They were shot to death by stray arrows on the way."
The old man said this very calmly, without any resentment at all.
Yun Chen half opened his mouth, unable to recover for a long time. After a long time, he lowered his head, sniffed, and whispered:
"Then... old man, do you want to join our team? Evacuate the southeast together?"
"No, you're going north to fight too, right? We'll just die in a different place if we follow you."
Yun Chen couldn't answer.
She couldn't promise to keep them alive, nor could she guarantee that if she lost the southeast today, she wouldn't lose the northeast or southwest tomorrow...
She didn't even know what the outcome would be or how long she could live.
Whether Nan Lijun is still alive, will the Nan Kingdom soon face the end of its country?
After standing stiffly for a long time, Yun Chen swung the shovel again and dug a deep pit that was deep enough to bury the whole family.
Each shovelful was deeper than the last, each shovelful was heavier than the last.
She felt like a cruel executioner and an accomplice of the Black Scale Cavalry.
In the team, Luo Dongdong and several others who were close to Yun Chen also ran over to help the remaining people dig the "corpse pit".
The entire team stopped spontaneously, and the soldiers looked at the pits of corpses with eyes full of guilt and helplessness.
After the few people dug the corpse pit, Yun Chen was inexplicably tired and sweating profusely, as if he had fought a losing battle with his whole body weak and was so tired that he wanted to collapse.
"Thank you, girl." The old lady next to her walked forward and used her sleeve to wipe the sweat off Yun Chen's forehead.
The old man raised his hand and brushed across Yun Chen's armor, which was full of knife marks and holes, and removed the two fragments left by the knife on her shoulder, then took out a slightly mottled honey candy from his arms.
He broke the candy into pieces, picked out two small pieces to feed the child, and put the largest piece to Yun Chen's mouth.
Finally, there was a little powdered sugar left. He gently gathered it in his palm and fed it into the old lady's mouth.
Looking at Yun Chen's pale face with a pair of stubborn and tearful eyes, the old man said with pity:
"What a pitiful world! All the girls go to the battlefield. Eat now! From now on, you won't have to eat bitter things anymore. Only sweet things will do."
Yun Chen swallowed the honey candy with tears in his eyes, put down the dry food that Rong Yi threw out, and then turned around shakily, almost climbing onto the water dragon.
She didn't dare look back at the four grandparents and grandchildren, but she clearly heard the two children say in baby voices:
"Grandpa, it's so hard."
Grandpa sighed and coaxed, "It won't be so bitter in a while."
Yun Chen swallowed hard. Is honey candy bitter?
She couldn't taste anything, only the bitterness that pierced her heart.
The team set off again. Yun Chen sat on the horse and walked in a daze until Huo Gannian spoke to her. She woke up as if from a dream. She remembered that she had not returned the gift yet, and hurriedly felt around her body, trying to find something to repay the precious honey candy.
Huo Gannian tried to grab her wrist, "Chen'er, calm down!"
She couldn't hear anything at all, and asked Huo Gannian with wide eyes:
"Do you have anything valuable? Something that can be exchanged for your life when the Black Scale Cavalry attacks? Do you have any?"
After searching her body, he found nothing but scars and blood scabs, and all her food had been given away along the way.
Seeing that she was about to cry with anxiety, Huo Gannian took off the Nanzhu sword tassel from the Yinyue Sword and handed it to her.
She was so happy as if she had found a life-saving straw, and quickly turned her horse around and galloped towards the four generations of grandparents and grandchildren.
When she returned to the corpse pit, the four generations of grandparents and grandchildren were nowhere to be seen, and most of the people who had originally dug the pit were also gone.
Only a few men were left, shoveling the dirt from the ground and throwing it into the corpse pit nearby.
She hurriedly grabbed the man who was shoveling the soil and asked:
"Where are those four people? Where are Grandpa and the others?"
The man looked at her uniform with a cold gaze, pointed at the seven or eight filled-in graves around her, and said numbly:
"I don't know which pit it is in, so you can look for it."
Yun Chen was stunned, and he grabbed the man by the collar, shouting and questioning:
"Are you crazy?! How can you bury someone alive?!"
The man remained motionless, offering no resistance, and even had a hint of contempt on his face:
"If we don't bury it now, when will we? Will it be too late when the Black Scale Cavalry arrives?"
After a pause, the man said in a toneless voice:
"They just ate the heartbreak grass and are already dead. You've eaten all the food around here, leaving only the poisonous grass and no one to eat it. Heartbreak grass is good, it kills quickly, but it's too bitter. Even sugar can't suppress the bitterness."
After hearing this, Yun Chen felt as if he had fallen into an icy cave, and a chill ran through his body.
She staggered and slowly turned around, then suddenly looked up—
In the sky above his head, he saw a ferocious beast called Qiongqi with a tiger's body and bird's wings biting the sun.
It took a huge bite, shook its head and tail, tilted its neck back and swallowed it, and the whole world immediately went dark.
She pointed to the sky in horror, wanting others to look, but she felt dizzy, and then her eyes went black, and she fell straight into an empty corpse pit.
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