Female supporting roles rely on food to save themselves

The situation in Shouling County is getting worse day by day.

In the first few days when the bandits besieged the city, some people in the county fled to the countryside with their old and young.But in the following days, everyone dared not even run away.

Few of the people who fled at the beginning ended up with a good end. They either died tragically under the butcher's knife of the bandits, or disappeared.

It's even worse to be missing, not even a body is left behind, which makes people feel sad when they think about it.

The people in the county are not fools. If they stay here, there are city walls, a county government, and soldiers, but if they leave Shouling County, once they encounter bandits, they will die.

The crisis of bandits breaking the city is always threatening the county seat, but what is more fatal than bandits is food.

The grain in the granary has bottomed out.

Grain merchants all over the country have no stocks.

Wang Zhixian looked at County Captain Zhou, and smiled wryly: "I really want to eat 'Gu Ji' distiller's lees fish, and I also want to eat soup cakes made by the princess herself."

County Captain Zhou: "... I don't know if we are dead, the princess will remember to give us a soup cake on the grave."

The fog is getting heavier.

The streets of the county town looked empty, but the wind and rain were about to come, the doors of every house were closed, and the city was in a state of depression.

"Sister Atu, here, here you are."

Xiaodouzi poked his head out from the wall, and handed over a hard, black bean cake in his pocket, "Hide it quickly, don't let my mother see it."

A Tu was startled, his eyes were slightly red, but he held back his tears and reached out to take it: "...Thank you, Xiaodouzi."

She knew that this was Xiaodouzi's ration for the day.

It's not easy for Xiaodouzi, his mother's only focus is on having a child with the man behind her, and she treats him worse every day. Xiaodouzi has to carry water, chop firewood, cook fire and cook, but his mother still keeps forgetting him and makes him hungry. A full meal.

Recently, he was not even allowed to sit at the dinner table, and every day he just thought of giving him some messy food.

Now there are bandits in the county town, and there is a shortage of food, and the prices of food shops in various places have increased for several days in a row.Starting a few days ago, the price of rice has reached 180 cents a bucket, and brown rice costs [-] cents a bucket. The moldy grains may be slightly cheaper, but the price per day has reached [-] or [-] cents a bucket.

This was just a few days ago, Ah Tu hadn’t dared to go to the streets to buy food for two days, and the family only had a few dozen pennies left, but the family business couldn’t be done, and the man was sick, so she went out every day to find work, what was dirty? I am happy to work hard, as long as I give money, the little I earn back is not enough for the man to drink medicine, and I really can't afford it.

The yamen wants all grain merchants to sell cheap grain, but how can the cheap grain be enough?As soon as she came out, she was snatched away. A-Tu was not a cowardly woman, but she was a weak woman, so she definitely couldn't rob those people.

If this continues, I'm afraid they will only have a dead end.

Not only Atu, Xiaodouzi, but the entire Shouling County is in a state of oppressive despair, and the common people are almost counting the hours.

The county town is not in such a mess now, it is also because the magistrate is still there, and the government servants are still patrolling the streets. Once they see someone who takes the opportunity to make trouble, they will use thunderous means, but the pressure on the county government is also great, and it gradually cannot be suppressed. .

People can only live by eating, and the common people can't even live without food. Who cares about those proprieties, righteousness and shame?
A Tu sighed, grabbed the bean cake in his hand and went to the kitchen.

The kitchen was empty, and there was nothing in the rice jar. She took out a handful of dried wild vegetables from the basket behind the door, chopped them up, and mixed them with half of a bean cake. Slow steamed.

After steaming the dishes, Ah Tu put them into a bowl and brought them into the room. He saw his man was standing up with his body upright, and he was startled: "Why did Ah Lang wake up? Don't move, the fever hasn't subsided in the morning. "

"Don't worry, Tu."

Zhao Qiu pressed Ah Tu's hand and patted it lightly, "It's okay, I'm fine."

He is a big man, how can he rely on his wife to handle the current situation?

Looking at the bowl of steamed vegetables with bean cakes, Zhao Qiu sighed deeply and pushed it to his wife, "A Tu, you eat. I usually move less and have a small appetite. I can't eat too much. It only matters if you are full."

The young couple was pushing back, when suddenly there was a bang, Zhao Qiu was startled, grabbed his wife and pushed her back, standing in front and looking out.

In just the blink of an eye, a man broke in from outside, stepped forward and snatched the bean cakes, and ate them big mouthfuls, his eyes were still on A Tu and Zhao Qiu, his eyes were flickering.

The man was extremely tall. Although he was devouring his food and looked extremely hungry, his face was full of flesh and his arms were almost as thick as his legs. Zhao Qiu's heart sank and he firmly protected his wife, saying loudly: "This Hero, there are dozens of coins in my money basket, there is nothing more, you can go after eating."

The man swallowed the food in two mouthfuls, followed Zhao Qiu's line of sight, and pulled the money basket, but his eyes were still fixed on the two of them, flickering.

In the human market, someone with delicate skin and tender flesh like Zhao Qiu and A Tu's young couple may now be replaced by a bag of rations alone.

"Ah, the bandits have broken the city, everyone run away, the bandits have broken the city!"

While they were in a stalemate, a sharp roar suddenly came from outside.

Immediately there were countless stumbling sounds, crying, and cursing.

The expression of the man who broke into Zhao's house changed, he let out a yell, his expression changed, he snorted and said angrily: "At worst, I will throw myself into the bandits."

After thinking about it, he really felt that this idea, which he had been thinking about for several days, was indeed a good idea.

For a moment, his eyes fell on Zhao Qiu.

He would come to this house, he didn't choose it at random, it was deliberate at all, the three kings Sun Zhen on Heifengling outside were Zhao Qiu's enemy.

The ancestors of the two families had feuded since the beginning, and it was Zhao Qiu who exposed Sun Zhen's murder of his brother in order to seek wealth and death, which made Sun Zhen have to run away, and finally turned into a bandit.

"Just use your head as a vote."

The man suddenly picked up a butcher's knife from behind, swung it up and slashed at Zhao Qiu. Zhao Qiu's legs were so frightened that he closed his eyes and waited to die.

A Tu was also frightened and threw herself on her husband, exclaiming loudly, and I could faintly hear Xiaodouzi's sharp roar, and then, a thunderous shout came from outside the door—"Princess Yongkang is here! All the people are closed The door, from now on, you are not allowed to go out, and those who take the opportunity to cause trouble will be killed without mercy!"

The sound was like thunder, and the man with the butcher's knife was stunned. During this moment, Xiaodouzi came over with a broom and said loudly: "Come here, I've killed someone. Your Highness, help me!"

With a whoosh sound, a crossbow arrow flew towards the thief's chest. Although the arrow was a lotus head, it was extremely heavy. With one blow, the thief fell to the ground and passed out.