Chapter 537

Bai Lang said goodbye. He went to Huainan, but Bai Lang did not lose the true color of a wandering knight. He traveled south and north, but only to enjoy the scenery of the world... It was just that Huainan was in a great famine and people ate each other. Bai Lang actually walked for a hundred miles without seeing any people, only withered bones scattered on the grass road. Bai Lang also sighed endlessly. He remembered that this was not only the fault of the lords fighting, but this weather falling into a small ice age was also one of the reasons.

This round of small ice age was very long, from the end of the Western Han Dynasty until the twentieth year of Emperor Wen of Sui, when the world was unified, it ended. In this long time, it was drought and cold disasters taking turns, and there was no good year. Henan would no longer have elephants and rhinoceroses of the Spring and Autumn period. These animals had already been forced to retreat to the land of Liangguang, and in the future, they would continue to retreat southward...

Food production was originally tight, plus the lords fighting. Huainan originally had a million households, but now it was probably hundreds of thousands of households at the top, among which many were hidden by large families and powerful families. Bai Lang didn't see any people until he approached Qiao County. Bai Lang didn't enter Qiao, but found a place outside the city to set up a camp, and at the same time recruited refugees to start farming.

He still had some seeds and enough food in his hands. Now reclaiming wasteland for farming was not disturbing the people and even saved countless lives. Of course, with Bai Lang's kind, he would never have the patience to farm, "The Xiongnu still use slaughter as farming. We men of the Han family, how can we be inferior to the Xiongnu?" Bai Lang misinterpreted the meaning of this future poem. He used hunting wild animals that were everywhere now to serve as meat.

Now that there were few people, it was naturally occupied by wild animals again. After the fertile fields originally farmed by humans were abandoned, there were deer and wild boars running in the wasteland everywhere. With deer and wild boars, tigers and leopards naturally increased. This fierce tiger could appear on the road in the daytime to eat people, and the ordinary people suffered deeply.

Bai Lang was not afraid of tigers, even if the South China tiger he saw in this era was simply exaggeratedly large. This South China tiger was almost as large as a Northeast tiger. How big would the Northeast tiger and the Bengal tiger be? Bai Lang remembered his ability to transform into a tiger, but this had been useless since he left that magical world.

When he was in seclusion in Qiao, he also had many troubles. Yuan Shu, Yuan Gonglu, naturally heard of Bai Lang's arrival. More than a hundred cavalry occupied one side and recruited refugees to reclaim wasteland. If he didn't know this, the Qiao County Magistrate didn't need to be a magistrate. The Qiao County Magistrate naturally reported Bai Lang's situation in Qiao County to Yuan Shu, and Yuan Gonglu also wanted to recruit Bai Lang.

Bai Lang's reputation for courage was spread throughout the world, and his style of loyalty and not admiring wealth was also well-received. Wasn't this the type of person that the big bosses above liked? The wandering knight's habits were just doing what he liked and what he was willing to do. Other fame and wealth could not interfere with him at all. Now it was the Han Dynasty, and there were many more wandering knights like this than in later generations, and they were much purer.

Yuan Gonglu was also a wandering knight when he was young. He had a share in the trouble in Luoyang city, and he was also called the "Evil Ghost in the Road", which was his nickname when he was young. This person was far worse than his brother Yuan Shao. He did all kinds of evil in Huainan, but he had quite a lot of strength under his command, and there were many civil and military officials. He just lacked a fierce general with peerless courage like Bai Lang.

Bai Lang felt that Yuan Shu and his kind were not worth contacting, so even in Qiao County, he didn't enter the city and naturally wouldn't go to Shouchun to see Yuan Shu. However, Yuan Shu's subordinates visited many times, especially the recent Qiao County Magistrate. "General of the Left, Governor of Yang Province, Yuan Gong has long admired Bai Gong's martial arts and wants to invite you to Shouchun. Yuan Gong will definitely sweep the bed to welcome you." Bai Lang expressed that Yuan Gonglu was not worth his time, "Yuan Shu occupies Huainan, fish and meat the people, people eat each other. This kind of person should be dragged to be beheaded. Now he is actually the Governor of Yang Province?"

Bai Lang directly mocked Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu was furious, but in the end, he was helpless. Bai Lang only had a hundred cavalry. If he mobilized a large army to attack, this person would run away, and then turn around to attack the tail of the large army. With Lang's martial courage, maybe Yuan Shu would be a big defeat. Why bother?

CaoCao had already served the Emperor and was now commanding the lords. However, the situation of the Han Emperor was much better than when he fell into the hands of Li Jue and Guo Si. After moving to Xudu, there was finally the atmosphere of the imperial court. It was just that Yang Feng, who had restored the Han Dynasty with Bai Lang, was attacked and killed by CaoCao, and his subordinate Xu Huang also joined CaoCao. Although he knew that Yang Feng was looking for his own death, Bai Lang still felt that this fellow was truly a bit of a pity.

CaoCao's large army was now tilting toward Yuan Shu and LiuBei, because after attacking and killing Yang Feng and firmly grasping the Emperor in his hands, CaoCao also began to annex the lords in all directions. Bai Lang knew that LiuBei's military strength was also tilting toward CaoCao and Yuan Shu, because Yuan Shu was now peeping at Liu Xuande's Xuzhou.

It seemed that Yuan Shu, this kind of person, would never know the importance. Looking down on people was his nature. Unless it was a fierce general with amazing martial courage like Bai Lang and Lu Bu, Yuan Shu would treat them seriously because he feared their terrifying power to break the formation. For example, even if Bai Lang expressed his contempt for Yuan Shu, he still sent various things from the Qiao County Magistrate from time to time.

Bai Lang would not refuse. After receiving it, he directly distributed it to his subordinates, or distributed it to those refugees he recruited. He himself was very indifferent to these things, except that the women sent were hard to handle and could not be distributed. Bai Lang let these women help him maintain the fish-scale armor with animal fat such as sheep oil.

These hundreds of armor pieces had to be wiped with sheep oil from time to time, otherwise they might rust. His long spear was also the same. From time to time, he had to wipe it clean with a cloth and apply animal fat to maintain it, so as not to rust. Bai Lang himself had to do the maintenance, which was to grind the sharp edge, because after using this thing to stab and cut people, the sharp edge would be somewhat damaged, even if it was covered with Qi.

The news that Bai Lang lived in Qiao County was also clear to CaoCao. So although this fellow was "in seclusion", his life was unexpectedly "luxurious". Bai Lang never hesitated to take money. He felt that what he did was absolutely worth it. As for Yuan Shu, he just treated it as him paying for the fish and meat of the people.

Bai Lang stayed in Qiao County for a few months, and the news that came made him sigh. Sure enough, Lu Bu raided Xuzhou when LiuBei was attacking Yuan Shu according to the Emperor's edict, directly defeating ZhangFei and occupying Xuzhou city. And Yuan Shu defeated LiuBei, who had no will to fight, forcing LiuBei to prepare to flee to Qing Province. However, Lu Bu and Yuan Shu did not divide the spoils evenly, and Lu Bu welcomed back LiuBei and let him station in Xiaopei to be his wing.

"Lu Bu, this kind of person, deserves to die." Bai Lang just said this. If the three battles with Lu Bu made him feel that Lu Bu did not lose his heroic spirit, this profit-seeking, light, cunning, and repetitive behavior had already made Bai Lang completely lose confidence in whether Lu Bu could survive in the future. This kind of person, even the kind LiuBei could not tolerate him. His own actions were absolutely the first place.