9. Chapter 9 In order to kill
General Mo just patted her on the shoulder and took her, father and daughter, out of the military camp alone.
For two whole days, General Mo took him on horseback through all the nearby villages and all the nearby towns.
The people in the village were hungry and cold, and the child in the dead of winter wore only a single suit of clothes. She gave her cloak to the child and kept the money she had on her.
But his father said, "You can save them for a while, but the money is gone."
At that time, she was seven or eight years old and had a small body, and she had not yet seen clearly what life in this world was like.
In the past, she only lived with her mother in a big house in Kyoto, living a life without worries about food and clothing. Her childish voice said softly: "They can work and earn money to support themselves."
She uses the consciousness of her previous life to measure what she sees now.
General Mo led her through the fertile fields on horseback. When the weather was cold and freezing, there was nothing on the fertile fields, except for the endless white snow.
General Mo said: "It's still the twelfth lunar month, and there are still several months before spring. Ordinary people's homes have long been out of food to survive the winter due to years of war. If they can survive until spring, they can't afford food seeds. Even if
If you get grain on credit, half of it may be snatched away by passing troops before the harvest is harvested, and the rest will be taxed but you will have to suffer through the winter again.”
In the previous life, Mo Yizhi once had a time when she was penniless and didn't know where to go. She knew how unbearable the feeling of helplessness and despair was.
Looking at those hungry, sallow-looking children, looking at the rickety old women in the town leaning on the corners begging, looking at the couples standing in the city trying to sell their children just to get a mouthful of food.
Even a heart as hard as stone has softened.
General Mo said: "My son, do you think that my father is willing to live the life of fighting on the battlefield for many years? Why don't he want to go back to his old house in Kyoto with you to live a leisurely life? But if we retreat, the enemy will occupy our territory, and
Our people will then become their slaves, and they will be beaten, scolded, and bullied by others. By then, how can we survive under the whole family? How can we live in peace? Some people have to do some things."
If Mo Yizhi hadn't seen everything in front of her, she would have resolutely chosen to live only for herself. But she had already suffered a lot in her previous life, and now that she sees such a miserable situation, she can empathize with it even more, so it is no longer difficult for her to choose to live selfishly.
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Besides, as General Mo said, how can there be a complete egg in a crowded nest?
Maybe her joining could not prevent the world from stopping the war, but God sent her here to give her a new life. She should always do something for this instead of living a life of mediocrity and chaos.
"Dad Yu'er, I only have one child in my life. I wish you were a man and could fight for the country, fight for the people of the country, and fight for peace for future generations like my father."
At that time, Mo Yizhi looked at the endless white snow in front of him, and his young voice was calm and sharp that was not suitable for his age: "What's the harm in being a daughter?"
From that day on, Mo Yizhi gradually accepted this kind of life. Perhaps as those veteran military generals said, her life was born for this battlefield.
Chapter completed!