Chapter 970: This world shouldn't be like this
For the sake of the overall situation, it is impossible to make the people suffer a little!
The same thing, Wei Xin had heard before, that was what his commander told him when they withdrew from the front line of Taizhou's anti-Mongolia. The commander later died in an infight.
Today, he heard this again.
It was almost midnight when we left Quan Mansion. Wei Xin only brought two guards, and he didn't even ride a horse. He walked slowly on the streets of Binzhou. The wine dissipated little by little in the cold wind, and the people became more and more awake.
Binzhou now imposes a curfew, but this ban is now in a formality, because too many refugees are simply homeless and can only sleep on the streets, at the corners and under the eaves, people trembling with broken cotton wool can be seen everywhere.
Wei Xin suddenly stopped and turned his eyes to the side of the road. There was a mother and son, and the daughter was only in her early thirties at most. She was holding a little boy tightly in her arms. Looking at her appearance, she was only seven or eight years old. The mother and son were still wearing single clothes. Although they hugged each other tightly, they could still clearly hear the sound of the cold-blooded princess fighting. Around them, there were more than a dozen refugees, all of whom looked at Wei Xin with their eyes blank and no focus.
Wei Xin suddenly felt a pain in his heart. Suddenly, the mother and son seemed to have become his wife and son Hutou who were far away in the north. Did they look like this back then? No, no, they will only be even worse, because around them, there are people like wolves and tigers.
Although Wei Xin was not wearing official uniforms, he was dressed in luxury, and there were two fully armed guards following him. He looked like he was not an ordinary person. Seeing Wei Xin standing in front of him and not leaving, the woman's body shook even more violently, and her body was curled up. However, the little boy in her arms, although she was so hungry that she was still bright and staring at Wei Xin.
Wei Xin turned around and looked at the guards, "Is there anything to eat?"
The two personal soldiers showed a look of embarrassment on their faces. Previously, Wei Xin was having dinner with Quan Changbin in the inner hall, while they were drinking and rock-scissors in the outer hall with the personal soldiers of the other three generals. They were eating full, but where did they think of bringing food on their bodies?
Seeing their appearance, Wei Xin nodded, reached out to his arms and touched them, trying to find some silver to help the mother and daughter. It was also a little comfort to him, but his hand reached into his arms and froze again, without taking a penny. The personal soldiers behind him reacted this time. A personal soldiers quickly came over, took out a small piece of silver from his arms and handed it to Wei Xin, "General, give it to you!"
After taking the silver, Wei Xin squatted down, looked at the child, and handed over the silver, "Little brother, take it, it's dawn, go buy some food."
The little boy put a finger in his mouth and looked at Wei Xin, but did not reach out to take the silver. The still bright eyes made Wei Xin's heart ached again.
The woman raised her head and looked at Wei Xin, her face full of suspicion.
"Sister-in-law, you meet a noble man, take it!" A personal soldier behind him shouted, "Look at how hungry you are?"
The woman still didn't reach out, and Wei Xin suddenly understood what came over, nodded, gently placed the silver in front of the woman, and whispered: "Don't worry, I have suffered hardships and suffered sins before. Take it and buy some food for my child tomorrow!" He stood up, took off the cloak on his body, threw it in front of the woman, and then turned around and strode away.
The two personal soldiers also hurriedly followed.
Behind him, the sound of a woman kowtowed, "Thank you, the master, you will live a long life, have many children and grandchildren, and wait for generations!"
The two personal soldiers couldn't help laughing, "This woman can speak!" Little did Wei Xin reach out and wipe away the tears at the corner of his eyes at this time. How did his woman and son run for thousands of miles before fleeing to Yizhou? Is there a noble person to help?
It seemed that the general was in a bad mood. The two personal soldiers also calmed down and bowed their heads silently. In the night, they could only hear the sound of footsteps.
In the night sky, a shrill scream of a woman and a child crying. Wei Xin's feet suddenly pierced on the ground like nails. The two personal soldiers behind him were caught off guard and almost hit Wei Xin.
Wei Xin turned around and looked at them with a pale face. "It seemed like the voice of the woman just now, and the child, was there a woman calling with the child just now?"
The personal soldiers nodded.
Wei Xin's face changed drastically, turned around suddenly, ran back, and the two personal soldiers hurriedly chased after him, shouting, "General, General!"
Turning around the corner of the street, Wei Xin's hand couldn't help but tremble. Under the faint roadside light, the woman he had just met was lying on the street, not knowing whether he was alive or dead. A man was squatting beside her, trying to touch something, while the little boy was lying on the other side of the road, motionless. The rest of the refugees were fighting for the cloak they gave to the woman.
Wei Xin gritted his teeth and walked over step by step. Seeing this situation, the two personal soldiers behind him also understood. The general wanted to save the mother and son, but they were snatched by these people. With a choke, the two were unsheathed and walked over with Wei Xin.
Seeing Wei Xin suddenly return, the group of refugees stood up with some malicious intentions. When they saw the two personal soldiers' waist knives with cold light in their hands, they suddenly shouted and ran away.
The refugee squatting on the ground saw the rest of the people running away, so he saved it from being in trouble. When he turned around, Wei Xin had already walked in front of him and kicked him hard, and immediately kicked him to the ground and hit him a few bones. He struggled to get up and wanted to escape. There was a big knife full of cold light on his neck. He screamed, and his shit and urine flowed in the flow, and collapsed on the ground.
Wei Xin squatted down and helped the woman up. After a glance, his heart sank. There was a deep depression on the woman's forehead, which was like a stick and something like that was smashed down. With a glance, he saw a stick as thick as a wrist where the man was squatting before.
There was no bleeding on the head, but the woman was constantly flowing out of her mouth and nose. This woman was probably helpless.
"Sister-in-law, wake up!" Wei Xin shouted, his heart full of self-blame. He was the one who harmed them. If he didn't give them money or cloak, even though the weather was cold, they might not be frozen to death. If he had no food, he might not be starved to death. His kindness became their life-destroying talisman.
The woman slowly opened her eyes and looked at Wei Xin. There seemed to be some smile in her eyes. Her head tilted, her breath was gone. One hand drooped weakly. With a tingling sound, the small silver fell on the bluestone street, making a crisp sound.
Putting the woman flat on the ground, Wei Xin slowly picked up the small piece of bloody silver, suddenly raised his head to the sky, and let out a wolf-like long howl. Both personal soldiers were shocked and looked at Wei Xin who looked up at the sky and looked at each other at a loss.
Wei Xin strode to the homeless man who collapsed on the ground, and then picked him up, "That woman is dead!" He said coldly, "That piece of silver is just this piece!"
"General, let the villain slash his head with one knife!" the personal soldier said angrily.
Wei Xin ignored his personal soldiers and only lifted the bloody silver in front of the homeless man, "Don't you want it? Well, I'll give it to you!" He pinched his big hand hard, and squeezed the homeless man's mouth wide open. He slapped the other hand, and the bloody silver had been stuffed into the other person's mouth, and his hands were stroking him. As the homeless man struggled desperately, the silver was still swallowed with a gurgle. When his hand relaxed, the homeless man pressed his stomach, curled up on the ground like shrimps, screaming.
Wei Xin ignored it and walked straight to the other end of the street. The little boy was dying but still alive. This surprised Wei Xin, "Take this child with you!"
A personal soldier walked over, picked up the child, and the three of them strode away.
"General, that quick money is not big. If that man pulls it quickly, he might not be dead! Why don't I turn back and cut his head with a knife!" said a personal soldier.
Wei Xin shook his head, "He deserves to die, but he is also a poor person. Maybe not long ago he was an honest villager and a dedicated person. If he can live, it is his life. If he dies, it is his duty. If he does not care about him, let's go! Today's incident made me understand a truth!"
"What does the general understand?" asked the personal soldier.
"Sometimes good intentions can do bad things. It seemed to be the right thing at the time, but after a while you turned around and looked at it, you found that you had done something so bad!" Wei Xin said word by word, "Today, that's it!"
"General, don't blame yourself. This is because their mother and son have a bad life. Besides, the world is now messy. There will not be many such things that day! I have heard from people in the old age that there were still people who eat people in the past. It is not without changing their children to eat!" The personal soldiers comforted.
Wei Xin fought a cold war, "No, no, such a thing must not happen, absolutely not happen." He murmured to himself.
From Quan Mansion to Wei Xin's home in Binzhou, Wei Xin walked for more than an hour before he arrived. However, it took him more than an hour to figure out many things and may also make him decide many things.
This world should not be like this! When entering the house, Wei Xin told himself in his heart what he could do to change all this, even if it was not decisive, as long as he took a step forward, he might have fewer such things.
Chapter completed!