Ning Jun took Xiushan without bloodshed, which turned the dangerous place that was most threatening to Ning Jun before Hubi Pass into a smooth road.

If the fight really starts, it is inevitable for Ning Jun to win this terrain, but it is hard to say how terrible the losses are.

When the team passed by Xiushan, there were still Shuzhou troops standing there who had not had time to walk on the roadside, watching them.

His eyes were very complicated, as if he was a little unwilling to accept it, and as if he was a little relieved.

Anyway, this should have been an extremely tragic battle to avoid, and it is a good thing for both sides.

Watching teams of Ningjun driving over, a Shuzhou soldier lowered his voice and said, "Actually... the general doesn't want to fight, right?"

Another soldier nodded: "Yes...who is willing to fight again? Everyone may have seen it."

The Shuzhou soldier who was talking before looked up the mountain and sighed softly.

"I heard that the day after we arrived in Xiushan, someone came from the general's hometown and found this."

"I seem to have heard that it is the general's cousin or cousin. I also heard that the general's hometown is in a village in Qingmian County."

"Yes, it's just there, not far... But the general has passed by the house several times but hasn't returned because of this damn war."

"Maybe the general's family members heard that he was here, so they found him."

The two of them chatted softly, and then saw the cavalry team behind Ning Army coming up.

They may have been oppressed by that momentum and chose to leave farther.

About a few miles away from Xiushan, General Yao Zhiyuan saw the person waiting for him on the roadside, and immediately accelerated his pace and ran over.

"elder brother."

Yao Zhi was still far away and shouted.

Sitting on the side of the road was a man who looked about fifty years old. His back looked a little hunched, perhaps because he was under the burden of life, or perhaps because he had some physical problems.

The man saw Yao Zhiyuan coming, and quickly got up with a smile on his face.

He shouted to Yao Zhiyuan: "Run slowly, run slowly, don't fall."

Yao Zhiyuan ran to him and said with a smile: "I'm not a child anymore. You thought it was when you carried me across the river when you were a child."

He asked the old man: "Is there anything you eat, but I'm so hungry."

The old man looked puzzled: "I have not finished the dry food I brought when I came, but it's hard. How can you eat this kind of thing now?"

Yao Zhiyuan asked: "What cakes did my mother make?"

The old man asked: "How did you know?"

Yao Zhiyuan hurriedly said, "Get me some food."

The old man opened the package he was carrying and took out the rough cornmeal cake from it.

It has been several days, but fortunately the weather is not hot now, otherwise it should have been broken.

Yao Zhiyuan didn't care about that much, so he took a corn cake and opened his mouth and bit it.

"Slow down."

Seeing his voracious look, the old man quickly opened the kettle he carried with him.

Yao Zhiyuan ate this dry and hard cornmeal cake, but he felt like he had delicacies from the sea.

"It's still the same taste."

Yao Zhiyuan said while eating, and he started to smile as he smirked, and for some reason he cried again.

"My mother..."

"Auntie is fine, but her legs are a little uneven."

The old man said: "This time my aunt asked me to come to you. She just wanted you to know one thing..."

The old man pointed to the piece of cake that Yao Zhiyuan was gnawing: "We have no food at home. The people from the Jiedushi come to collect grain every year. When it is too small, it comes twice a year, and when it is too small, it comes four or five times a year. How can there be no food at home?"

Yao Zhiyuan was stunned and looked down at the corn pancake: "Is this?"

"It was sent by King Ning."

The old man looked at Yao Zhiyuan, as if he was afraid of being unhappy for Yao Zhiyuan, and he spoke carefully.

He wanted to say it when he was on the mountain before, but before he could do it, Yao Zhiyuan asked him to go down the mountain.

"The people of King Ning sent people to the villages and towns in our county, and distributed grain and seeds according to household statistics."

"The people of King Ning said that grain is food, and seeds are seeds. There is no other requirement. Just the same thing. If there is not enough food, I will go to the county government office to talk about it, but I cannot eat the seeds."

Yao Zhiyuan's expression changed significantly.

When his cousin arrived in Xiushan before, he was shocked.

He thought something was wrong at home. Over the years, his family had never looked for him. He suddenly came to him, and he was even afraid that his mother had left.

Later I found out that the family knew that he was going to guard Xiushan with his troops. His mother was afraid that this would be a farewell forever, so she asked her nephew to come and take a look.

She has poor legs and feet. If she can walk by herself, she will probably come and see it in person no matter how far or tired she is.

The old lady always told her family that her son had a promising future and became a general, so she could not drag him down.

Yao Zhiyuan would not have thought that those who collected grain would dare to come to his house to be presumptuous.

Later, I thought about it, the people who collected grain were all assigned by Muying, so how could those guys take care of so many?

Before, his cousin said that the old lady really missed her son. If Yao Zhiyuan had time, she would go back and take a look.

But Yao Zhiyuan couldn't leave. He knew that Ning Jun was about to arrive, so he wanted to send someone to send his cousin home.

My cousin didn't dare to say anything to him. Before leaving, he turned around and said to him... Ning Jun sent a medical officer to treat the people in the village. The old lady's legs were also seen by the medical officer, saying that she was from Shen Yitang, but she was amazing and might be cured.

Because of this sentence, Yao Zhiyuan's heart seemed to be stabbed.

He suddenly chased after him and told his cousin to wait for him in a place a few miles away.

If it weren't for his real shaking heart, he really wouldn't have the thunder way to stop his soldiers from escaping?

He said on Xiushan that he killed a few soldiers who fled, but in fact, he just looked for someone to act like this.

The actors who killed people and those who were killed were all his personal soldiers, and he did not want to use a butcher knife to his subordinates.

Especially when his heart began to sway, he felt that he was not qualified to use death to restrain his subordinates.

If he had been determined not to be shaken at all, he might have been strict with military rules, but he had not done it himself.

Most of the time, he himself was very conflicted. Those soldiers went down the mountain at night, and he turned a blind eye to the conflict and pretended not to see it.

At this moment, Yao Zhiyuan looked at the corn cake in his hand and was stunned for a moment.

"Let's go quickly."

The old man said to Yao Zhiyuan: "I know you are busy with military affairs. Go home and take a look at your mother, and come back..."

"I won't go back..."

Yao Zhiyuan let out a heavy breath: "I don't plan to go out again when I get home, and I'll be with my mother."

My cousin was stunned and asked in surprise after a while: "Are you saying true?"

"real."

Yao Zhiyuan pulled his cousin and said, "Let's go... Are there any cakes left? Give me one more."

At the same time, the foot of the mountain.

The team is still moving forward, and the army of hundreds of thousands of people will not be a matter of time.

Yu Jiuling sat on the high slope and watched the team move forward, and suddenly grinned and smirked.

Peng Shiqi, who was sitting next to him, asked him: "Why are you laughing at?"

Yu Jiuling smiled and said, "Who could have thought that you would be really scared by you."

Xiao Zhang shook his head: "Shut it or not, only they know..."

Yu Jiuling asked: "What do you mean?"

Xiao Zhang Zhenren said: "When the head of the family was talking to General Xiahou and the others just now, did you hear a word... The head of the family said that he searched around the mountain and did not see a body."

He let out a heavy breath and said, "There is no corpse, which means that the general has not killed a single person because of the deserter."

Yu Jiuling understood.

"Maybe the general from Shuzhou doesn't want to see all his subordinates die here..."

Zhenren Xiao Zhang looked at Yu Jiuling: "If there is really cause and effect in this world, if he planted this cause, he would have a good result in the future."

Xiao Zhang and the others didn't know that Yao Zhiyuan was not the one who planted the cause. The one who sent Ning Jun to appease the people was the one who planted the cause, and Yao Zhiyuan was the one who planted the cause.

"Let's go, too."

Xiao Zhang got up and patted the dirt on his clothes.

Yu Jiuling said: "No, when he asked someone to shoot arrows at you, the arrow is really there are many holes in your clothes."

Xiao Zhang was silent for a moment, smiled and said, "Let tens of thousands of people be spared from death... I won't bother with him, and I pardoned him on behalf of Longhu Mountain."
To be continued...