"Hiss!" An obsidian horse roared to the sky in the stuttering, shaking a long iron horse railing, shaking hard, it struggled to break free from the obstacles that bound it, and wanted to proudly tell the world that it was still a thousand-mile horse, and it was still the black stone galloping like the wind on the battlefield. However, its struggling erection posture only lasted for a few breaths and then came to an abrupt end. It fell heavily to the ground, stubbornly trying to get up, but found that it had no strength.

A dark blue figure slowly walked out at the corner of the bright yellow. He walked towards the Black Stone in silence. In his eyes, the Black Stone never weakened and would not grow old.

"Black (Obsai) Stone! I'm back!" Lu Bu spread his hands, and the hugging action came naturally.

"Shit!" The eyes of the black stone lantern lit up. It screamed happily in anger, and suddenly poked its head out, penetrated into Lu Bu's arms intimately, narrowed its eyes and rubbed it with pleasure.

Lu Bu stroked its hair and looked at its belly that was shriveled due to hunger strike, and was speechless for a long time.

"Hiss!" After a while, Heishi suddenly raised his head, bit the reins on his neck fiercely with his huge horse's mouth, and swung anxiously.

"You are going out? No, your body is still weak and you need to take good care of it!" Lu Bu patted Heishi's face lightly, trying to soothe it.

Black Stone didn't listen, and the horse's mouth bit more vigorously, and he bit out deep teeth marks of the strong reins.

Lu Bu had no choice but to release the reins of obsidian and untied his bondage.

Hei Shiliu suddenly jumped out of the manger, ran around for a few laps, and then quietly stopped beside Lu Bu. It rubbed against Lu Bu's clothes and whimpered.

"You let me go up?" Lu Bu understood what it meant.

It nodded happily, and its four hooves were stomping up.

"Okay, as you wish, man!" Lu Bu laughed, jumped up, and landed on the horse's back safely.

"Hiss!" Black Stone rode his horse wildly.

Black Stone's familiarity with Yunzhongcheng made people wonder if it was a horse. It was fast and slow, and never passed through any downtown. Instead, it was walking eastward in the quiet alley with few people, as if it wanted to take Lu Bu to some places.

The quiet alleys and the traffic is everywhere. It looks dilapidated and sad, and it is the most barren place in the slums.

"Ahem, mom, will I die of illness?" Hong Yi, an eight-year-old girl with three braids on her head, asked naively, looking at a mother with a clean and tidy clothes, who was covered in torn clothes.

"Yi'er, no! You will live well, you will grow up healthily, grow up into a beautiful girl, find a good husband to get married and have children, and accompany him to grow old slowly, and have a lot of children and grandchildren. When you close your eyes and leave the world, you will definitely be happy without regrets." Hongyi's mother hugged her pretty daughter, looked at her pale and sick face, and comforted her with a smile.

"Mom, is this going on? You didn't lie to me, are you?" Hongyi raised her head, with a hint of surprise and desire in her tender eyes.

"Well, my mother didn't lie to you, I made you turn me into a puppy!" The young woman endured her sobbing and secretly wiped out a tear from the corners of her eyes with her calloused hands. Her tears should not be seen by simple children, because she just wanted to make her believe in her heart: she, the mother, is omnipotent.

"Ahem, mom, do you still have money to treat me?" Hongyi asked with a small face hesitation.

"Not yet, but don't worry, my mother will make money soon!" A trace of struggle flashed in the young woman's eyes. She imagined her hands, which were called out due to malnutrition, and her face that was supposed to be white and smooth, was turned into a face that looked old due to wind and sun.

"I sold myself. Will there be a woman who is willing to ask me for a ugly appearance like me? Maybe there will be the lowest-level and low-key steward who is willing to take over. At least I am still a woman, a woman of a young age!" The young woman thought in her heart. She was so inferior that she was at a loss even to sell herself to see her daughter.

"Shit!" A loud hissing sound interrupted the young woman's thoughts.

She looked over and saw a young man in blue robe riding a black shining horse slowly stepping into the unreasonable courtyard of his home. The young man in blue robe looked surprised, and the young woman looked surprised.

"You are, are you Xiao Hei?" Hong Yi raised her head weakly, looked at Hei Horse carefully, and hesitated.

"Hiss!" The dark horse seemed very happy about being recognized, and wanted to rub Hongyi's face intimately.

Lu Bu was surprised that he did not take the reins and let Black Stone run by himself. He thought Black Stone would take him wherever he was, but he didn't expect that he would come here.

"Xiao Hei?" Hongyi's mother was a little nervous. She saw that she was the noble prince's horse in front of her. How could Hongyi call her such a vulgar name?

"Yes, Xiao Hei! Cough, mom, you don't know, Xiao Hei is so naughty. Once he accidentally sprained his foot outside the city. I saw it because he was trying to dig wild vegetables. I was still bandaged by the wounds I helped him bandage it!" Hong Yi's little face was rosy with excitement.

"Come on, Xiao Hei, I'll introduce you to me, this is my mother!"

"Mom, come on, let me introduce you, this is Xiao Hei!"

Hongyi climbed up, solemnly stretched her face, introduced each other, and then laughed at herself.

"This young man, I'm sorry, maybe my Yi'er admitted the wrong horse!" The young woman was at a loss. Didn't this child see anyone on the horse's back?

"It's okay!" Lu Bu turned over and got off the horse, thinking that since he had the fate to come here, he might as well see if the government orders set up in the clouds before leaving were running well and what the living conditions of the people were.

"This child looks sick?" Lu Bu said.

"Well, I'm laughing at you. A minor illness is just a constant cough, it's not a problem!" Hong Yini covered up.

"Does the family have money to treat diseases?" Lu Bu said again.

"Not yet, but there will be something soon! The young master also knows that in this era, the war is in chaos, and it is very good to be able to fill your stomach. Fortunately, it was introduced by relatives. We could come to the clouds, otherwise we might have starved to death long ago!" Hongyi said.

"The clouds are just a wasteland in the border areas. How can you be happy to settle in the clouds when you listen to your tone? Aren't those big cities and giant cities better?" Lu Bu asked deliberately.

"Young Master doesn't know that the prefect of Yunzhong County will give porridge to residents in Yunzhong every other period of time. As long as the residents registered in Yunzhong Civil Registration are basically not starved to death. Even outsiders can stay in Yunzhong for two years, help the prefect of Yunzhong County to carry out various infrastructure construction, either help the people sow seeds, harvest autumn grain, report crimes, or promote simple folk customs... they will have a bite of food." Hong Yinniang said in a leisurely manner.

"Is this the only one? Don't you still look down on your illness? You can't afford to see the illness when you are sick. I'm just like this, the prefect of Yunzhong!" Lu Bu said with some self-deprecation.

"Don't say that, the prefect is good enough to the people, how can we expect more? Besides, the prefect has long had a strict government order that the people of Yunzhong County can go to the county government to borrow money for interest-free loans to the county government, but the concubine and the little daughter have only arrived in Yunzhong for a year and do not have Yunzhong household registration. How can we cause trouble for the prefect! We dare not go, nor do we want to go, just want to survive these two years and enjoy the welfare of the people of Yunzhong County. Otherwise, the prefect would dislike us for not understanding the rules and not abide by the law. If he gets upset, he will revoke the government order in anger. Our orphans and widows will cry and have nowhere to look for them, which will harm everyone!" The young woman said hurriedly.

"Are many families who say so because of this reason even look down on illness and are unwilling to go to Yunzhong County Government to borrow money? Haha, it seems that Yunzhong County Government is still an untrustworthy place in the eyes of many foreign people!" Lu Bu said with a wry smile.

"Don't say that! You are the noble son, you don't understand. For us poor people at the bottom, you are satisfied if you can't starve to death." Hong Yi's mother exhaled a long breath and sighed.

"Yes, it's better to die of illness than to starve to death! If Yi'er had a choice, I would rather die of illness than to wait for death on my stomach hungry!" Hongyi couldn't help but interrupt.

People say that children's words are the simplest, the most real, and the least panic. At this moment, Lu Bu, the ruler in the cloud, understood a sentence that he might remember for the rest of his life: dying of illness is actually happier than starving death.

The world is in chaos, and heroes are competing for the times, and thousands of people are reduced to ants. No one cares about their thoughts, their life and death, and their inner world, because in the eyes of the heroes, the most worthy of care is always the lofty golden dragon throne.

Death from illness is better than starvation. No one will know what kind of impact this ordinary child’s words gave Lu Bu, allowing him to not give up the last good thought in his heart even in the difficult pursuits and sacrifices of the future...

Lu Bu stood for a long time, trying hard to squeeze out a smile and said: Others died of illness and starved to death, maybe I can't do anything about it, but little girl, you will definitely live well! Then you see that day: dying sick is not happiness, starving to death is not the norm, and dying old age is happiness!

Lu Bu took off the Zilong jade pendant from his waist and forced it into the young woman's hand: I came out in a hurry and did not bring the money. This is my jade pendant. You hold this object in your hand and go to the prefect's house and ask them to send the best doctor in Yunzhongcheng, the little girl, to treat her illness.

"I, I dare not go, the prefect, they will drive me away!" Hongyi's mother said uneasy.

"Just go. If someone stops you from entering, you will take this jade pendant to the pawnshop. Anyway, I still have a lot of this jade pendant!" Lu Bu said solemnly.

"Okay!" Hong Yi's mother hurriedly answered when she saw Lu Bu's solemn statement.

"By the way, what's this little girl's name?" Lu Bu suddenly asked.

Hongyi's mother smiled: Her name is Liang Hongyi, the beautiful Hong, the happy Yi, I gave her this name, just wishing her to spend her life carefree like Hongsang.

"Hongyi, a good name!"

"The breeze blooms in the void. The bright moon is chatting and laughing. The Qinglian Palace is happy. I will always wander around and look around." Lu Bu remembered Li Bai's poem and thought to himself. Similar wishes are different destinies.

Lu Bu looked at Hongyi deeply, took the reluctant Black Stone and walked away.

"Is the words of the young master true? Will there be such a day?" Hongyi raised her head, full of expectations, and asked about her mother who was staring blankly with her jade pendant.

"Well, it's true. One day, old age is happiness! We meet kind-hearted people!" Hongyi's mother said.

"Well, brother, I believe in you!" Hongyi suddenly shouted at the empty street in the distance.
Chapter completed!