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Chapter 48 Liu An

One month after Lin Xinshu sent the letter, Shanghai has undergone earth-shaking changes. Those ordinary people who had seen on the streets are now burning, killing and looting because of food.

The gate of the courtyard where Lin Xinshu lived was closed, and there were people led by Lieutenant Li guarding the door outside. The people inside the house were a little startled when they heard the voices and cries of people outside.

The famine at this time made people lose all their sanity. It was already so difficult to survive in this era, but it made things worse. The torrential rains in the past few days flooded all the crops that were originally planted in the ground. It extinguished the last flame that ignited in people's hearts.

Lin Xinshu looked through the glass at the people outside who were constantly scrambling and plundering, and couldn't help but blushed. Some of the people in the crowd were his students, and there was hope in their originally burning eyes. , Talking about his lofty ideals and aspirations all disappeared, like a hungry wolf rushing for food, scrambling for the only steamed bun on the ground.

Lin Xinshu bit his lip, tried hard to swallow the soreness, and said to the servant beside him, "Are there any steamed buns left at home today?"

The servant replied: "Master, there is still a basket of steamed buns at home."

"Give them all." Lin Xinshu pointed to the group of children outside.

Lieutenant Li took the buns and walked towards the group of children. When the children saw the buns, their gray eyes gleamed, and they ate a bun in less than a few mouthfuls. When they were about to leave, Lieutenant Li knelt down Knowing what he said to them, tears were shed on those immature faces, and he bowed deeply to the house in front of him, and shouted: "Thank you! Teacher Lin!"

Lin Xinshu stood in the house with his head bowed and said nothing. He didn't know how he should protect them under such natural and man-made disasters. Even if he gave them buns to fill their stomachs today, what about tomorrow and the day after tomorrow?

Thinking of this, he thought back to Zhong Chengyi's appearance before he left, and remembered that he was fighting on the battlefield at this moment just to protect them, but now they are all killing each other, but he has nothing to do. The sense of powerlessness crushed Lin Xinshu.

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"Hurry up, the child will go with Dad." A thin-faced man said while picking up the little girl beside him.

The little girl opened her eyes weakly, her lips were dry and cracked due to lack of water, and her voice was very weak: "Daddy, I'm so hungry."

The man looked at the child's sallow and thin face, feeling guilty and sad in his heart, he patted the girl's back lightly with the palm of his hand, and said softly: "Xi Er, Daddy will take you to eat now, just hold on a little longer." .”

"Come, come, line up one by one!" A woman shouted over there.

"I have money! I want to buy ten bags!" A man shouted, raising his hand desperately, waving the banknotes in his hand.

"Me too! I want to buy five bags!"

"I want three bags!"

"All right, all of them." The woman couldn't even close her mouth with a smile as she looked at the white money.

After the man who kept collecting money handed over to the people on the side to do the work, he said to the woman with a smile: "Madam, it's better that you are thoughtful, so that you can sell all the old rice in our family. Make a lot of money."

The woman stuffed the coins into her pocket with a smile, and said, "That's right! Money is what these people need the most at this time, and what they need most now is rice! This is something that money can't buy, you know Is it?" After speaking, the woman lay down on the chair, rubbed her sore shoulders, and looked at the people in front of her willingly buying grain that was more than ten times more expensive than usual, and felt very happy.

When the man saw the color, he immediately stepped forward to squeeze the woman's shoulders, and said: "Yes, yes, everything the lady says is right. The lady has worked hard these days. When this war is over, let's go buy a big house, and then Go out and have fun."

The woman cast a sideways glance at the man who was acting as a low-profile man, curled her lips and said, "From now on, I will take care of all the money. If you dare to go out and spend time in the future, I will definitely break your legs."

"Yes, yes, definitely not."

"Hey! What are you guys doing here!" Zhang San angrily shouted after he got out of the car with a group of patrolmen.

The woman stood up from the chair, and said with some disdain: "What can you do with business? This master is too lenient, right?"

Zhang San frowned, and was about to tell them to get rid of this unscrupulous business, when he heard the crowd shouting at the women to buy rice.

Zhang San couldn't help frowning as he watched the group of wolf-like people buying food that was more than ten times more expensive with the hard-earned money they had accumulated in their hands.

A little patrolman on the side said to Zhang San: "Brother San, what should we do now? Do we just let them do this?"

Zhang San glanced around, stood on a higher stone, and shouted to the crowd: "Everyone! Everyone! Be quiet first! Listen to me." The noisy crowd stopped and turned to look at Zhang San .

Seeing this, Zhang San continued: "I know this is a special period. Everyone has no food at home and is starving! But please trust us, we will help you get food! So please don't buy food at a high price!"

Everyone reprimanded after listening.

"Trust you? Why do we trust you? Do you have food?"

"Yeah, why should we trust you!"

Zhang San was a little stunned after being reprimanded by the crowd, not knowing how to answer, after all, in this period, it is good enough to get a bag of rice.

"Go away!" Suddenly a man in the crowd was kicked out, "Damn it! You want to eat without money, get out!"

The man wiped his face, hurriedly ran to the side to help the little girl who was pushed to the ground, and said, "Xi'er, did you get hurt? Let Dad see, Xi'er, I'm sorry, Dad is useless, Ah! Daddy can't let you eat, it's Daddy who is useless." The man shed tears of self-blame as he spoke.

The little girl stretched out her dirty hands, her pale face, forced a smile, and said, "Daddy, don't cry, Daddy, I'm not hungry, let's go home, mother is still waiting for us at home." , we can eat the wild vegetables in front of the house when we go home, although it is not particularly delicious, it can also fill our stomachs."

Hearing what the little girl said, the man hugged her and cried even louder.

Seeing this, Zhang San jumped down from the rock, took out the only half steamed bun from his pocket, handed it to the little girl, and said, "Uncle, can you eat this?"

The little girl looked at the police uniform on Zhang San and smiled, and said, "Thank you uncle." After speaking, she put half a steamed bun in her pocket.

Zhang San was stunned and asked: "Why don't you eat it? Don't you like it?"

The little girl shook her head and said, "No uncle, I want to leave this half of the steamed bun for my mother and younger brother to eat, they are still hungry."

Zhang San looked at the little girl's thin face and glistening eyes with red eyes, took a deep breath, knelt down and said to the little girl: "Believe in uncle, uncle will definitely find a way to make you all eat !"

"Well! I believe in uncle!" The light in the little girl's eyes became brighter and brighter because of her smile. It was a light full of hope.

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"Master! Master! A letter has arrived!" The servant ran and handed the letter to Lin Xinshu.

Lin Xinshu took it with a smile and asked, "Is it a letter from the general?"

"I don't know, there is no signature on it."

Lin Xinshu opened the envelope, and took out a piece of rice and a letter from the inside. The handwriting on it was crooked, and it was vaguely recognizable. This letter was a letter written by Liang Hao's wife to Lin Xinshu.

"Mr. Lin, hello! I'm sorry to bother you, but after thinking about it for a few days, I think I need to discuss this matter with you. We have a folk prescription about rice in our family. My mother gave it to me a few days ago. In my hand, it is said that this folk remedy may save the current suffering environment, but because it is a folk remedy, we have never planted it, and we don’t know if it will be successful, but I still want to try it.”

"My man is willing to take the risk to go to the battlefield for the sake of loyalty and the common people. Although I am just a country woman who can't read a few characters and don't understand any major principles, I think if he sees these common people he desperately wants to protect, now Suffering from the pain of hunger, he will definitely feel uneasy, so if this is his expectation, then as his woman, I am willing to help him accomplish it, no matter how difficult it is."

Lin Xinshu looked at these handwritings, his eyes were red, and there seemed to be a raging flame surging in his heart. He felt that this was the dawn of hope.

In these chaotic and turbulent times, someone will always stand up and light up those gray eyes.

One day, I will put on armor for this world to fight off these hazes. I want to see the sun rise again, and I want to see the light of hope that cannot be extinguished in your eyes.

Brother Ayi, maybe I can really do it. You used to protect me, but now I can protect you.

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"General! General! It's not good! A group of our soldiers were attacked by bandits from the east, and all of them were killed. No one survived."

"General! The defense line in front of us is about to be breached by the bandits!"

"General! We are almost running out of food."

A sentence of bad news entered Zhong Chengyi's mind.

All die!No survivors!

Zhong Chengyi frowned, his eyes were red, this was his own order, he let them break out from the east, and he killed these brothers.

He felt extremely powerless for a moment, and this long-lost feeling of powerlessness came back again. Sure enough, no matter how strong he was, he could not protect everyone after all.

Qi Mingyang looked at Zhong Chengyi with his head down, sitting there, stepped forward, pulled Zhong Chengyi up, punched him in the face, and said angrily: "Look at what you are now!" Look! You are the chief general! Their backbone! You are broken, how can you let them fight this battle!"

Cannonballs from outside rang in Zhong Chengyi's ears inaudibly, and there was a ringing in his ears for a moment, and the surrounding sounds seemed to be inaudible, only Qi Mingyang's angry look could be seen.

"Wake up! Xinshu is still waiting for you to go back! Do you want to die here?"

letter book!

"Brother Ayi, what do you want to do when you grow up?" Zhong Xiaoshu said, looking at Zhong Chengyi with an immature face.

"I want to be a general! I want to protect all of you!"

"Then I will be a husband, and I will always be with Brother Ayi!"

"Okay, it's a deal."

"A word is settled!"

The author has something to say: I think of Yuan Lao’s words, my life’s wish is to free mankind from famine and feed everyone in the world!

Xinshu has to work hard!Your brother Ayi is still waiting for your food on the battlefield!