Wu Chao: Take the whole family to escape the famine

Chapter 14 An Empty City

Xiao Wang looked at Jiang Yulai who was beaten and screamed, and pulled him aside in a funny way.

This person has multiple eyes, even if it has something to do with it, what can I say!
"The child kicked me yesterday, and Zhiyue said there were two of them." Xiao Wang talked about what happened last night, intending to distract everyone.

Sure enough, they were distracted and asked in surprise, "Two! Really?"

Mrs. Jiang and others also surrounded her, staring at Xiao Wang's belly in surprise.

But only for a moment, she worried again: "This woman is going to go to hell to give birth to a child. The second child's family suffered a big crime when she was pregnant with Saburo Shiro, not to mention that we are still running around all day now..."

Everyone understood Mrs. Jiang's unfinished words, and Jiang Yulai looked at Mrs. Wang nervously.

It was Xiao Wang who comforted them with a smile: "Don't worry, although we will be traveling outside for a while, you will take good care of me and I will be fine."

Mrs. Zhang also quickly added: "What can Zhiyue see? There may not necessarily be two siblings in the belly. No matter what you say, it is right for us to take care of them carefully."

"Yes, what the elders said is correct. Let's take care of it carefully. Even if there are two of us, we won't be afraid. Fortunately, Zhiyue bought anti-fetal medicine in advance." Mrs. Jiang said.

Then he arranged for Xiao Wang to say: "In the future when the sun is not so sunny, you should also come out and walk around, otherwise you will have no energy when you give birth."

……

The people who went to look for Jiang Popi came back intermittently, and they all said they couldn't find anyone.

Jiang Poppi has no family members in the village, and also has a bad relationship with everyone in the village. Few of the people who went out really looked for them.

But he just walked a few hundred meters and came back.

"Yesterday, Popi Jiang didn't want to leave. If he disappeared, he might just run back." Someone said.

"Yeah, let's go quickly, or it will be hot again when the sun comes up."

Hengrong listened to everyone's opinions and shouted: "Let's go!"

Jiang Zhiyue walked behind, remembering that when she got up in the morning, her mother complained about too many mosquitoes, and when she looked at them, there were several small bags bitten by mosquitoes.

With some thought, she found the mosquito repellent ointment from the space.

She distributed the ointment to her mother and her grandmother, each with a jar.

She said mysteriously: "This is the ointment my grandfather gave me. It is used to repel mosquitoes. You can apply it on your body and use it for other people."

Mrs. Jiang took the smooth little jar, and when she opened it, there was emerald green ointment inside.

"Oh, it smells so good, it must be a lot of money." Mrs. Jiang lowered her head and sniffed it, and immediately she was reluctant to use it.

She said: "Everyone is rough-skinned and thick-skinned. How can this be used? How can anyone not be bitten by bugs in summer?"

"Put it away quickly. When we find a place to live, this thing might sell for a lot of money."

After finishing speaking, he was about to stuff it into the burden she was carrying.

Jiang Zhiyue quickly stopped him and said, "Grandpa might give me something sometime. Since he gave it, let us use it now."

"If we don't use it, what if the old man gets angry and thinks that we don't accept his kindness, and won't give it to us in the future."

Mrs. Jiang was startled, and said in surprise, "So serious?"

Jiang Zhiyue continued to fool around: "That's not true, why didn't you give this thing before, and you can't say such things in the future."

She remembered that Mrs. Jiang believed in gods and Buddhas the most, so she would never dare to say such things again in the future.

If they are reluctant to use every time something is brought out, it will be troublesome to explain and explain, so they put an end to it once and break through the old lady Jiang's line first.

Mrs. Jiang held the small jar Jiang Zhiyue gave her in her hand. She felt distressed and tangled, and finally made up her mind and said, "Use it, everyone will use it."

Then he quietly smeared the ointment on his body and passed it on to others.

The Jiang family knew exactly where it came from, and if the old man liked it and gave it to her from Zhiyue, they all happily used it.

Mrs. Zhang handed the jar to Huang Huaihua, pulled her arm and said, "If you apply this ointment on your body, you won't be afraid of insect bites."

Huang Huaihua opened it and pushed it back: "I don't need this good thing, take it back quickly."

Zhang shi gave way to her for a while, and then carefully took the yellow locust flower and wiped it on her body.

After walking for more than half a day, when they were about to reach the border of the county, everyone in Jiangjia Village finally encountered another group of teams.

It is a team of less than a hundred people, each of them is disheartened.

The leader was an old man who was over half a century old. He looked more vicissitudes than Jiang Hengrong, but he looked kind.

Their eyes lit up when they looked at the people from Jiangjia Village who appeared in their field of vision and the large and small bags they brought.

The luggage looked bulging, so there must be a lot of food.

A few middle-aged men standing behind the old man approached the old man and said, "Uncle, they see that they have a lot of food. When they come, let's... ask for some."

The middle-aged man said it was extremely difficult, and obviously felt that this idea was not feasible.

Finally, he clenched his fist and said cruelly: "Maybe we can grab a little bit over here, at least let's get on with the current life first."

"The grandson of the old aunt's family has not eaten for two days, and I am afraid that he will not last long without food."

The others looked at the old man expectantly, as if as long as he opened his mouth, they would have to wait until the people from the Jiang family village came over to muster their strength.

The old man shook his head when he saw that there were three times as many people in Jiangjia Village as they did.

"Stand back and let people pass by."

Those people looked unwilling, but no one refuted the old man's decision, so they had to move back.

But when everyone in Jiangjia Village approached, an old woman with her grandson in her arms rushed to the front of the team.

"Give me some food, please give me some food, my grandson has not eaten for two days, please kind people give some food."

The old woman fell to her knees and cried in front of the Hengrong family who were walking in the front.

Jiang Hengrong's mother-in-law glared and said angrily, "We don't have any food to eat. How can there be any extra food for you? Get out of the way."

After finishing speaking, he stepped forward and pushed the old woman who was kneeling on the ground aside.

The people in the team supported the old woman who almost fell.

The daughters-in-law of Jiang Hengrong's family tightly guarded the grain bags on the ox cart, and stared at the old woman warily.

Everyone behind him also looked at this and that, but they didn't look at the old woman crying on the ground.

Even those few who couldn't bear it were suppressed by the rest of the family.

In the current situation, I can't even eat enough for myself, so how can I show such kindness to help others.

The refugees behind the old woman stared at the team in Jiangjia Village. They could only speed up their pace, trying to distance themselves from these refugees.

Walking to the end of the line, Jiang Zhiyue saw the old woman who was still kneeling on the ground crying and the refugees with yellow and emaciated faces behind her.

The old woman held a little boy who was only five or six years old in her arms.

The little boy's lips were chapped and pale, and he was held in the arms of the old woman with his eyes closed.

The people in Jiangjia Village were pretty good. Some families had collected their food ahead of time, and some had bought some food from her house. Although they couldn't fill their stomachs all at once, it wasn't so bad that they couldn't eat.

The team of less than a hundred people in front of them looked like they hadn't eaten for many days, and their cheeks were sunken.

There were also some men with wounds on their bodies and looked listless.

The members of the Jiang family couldn't bear it, so they could only force themselves not to see them.

When he was about to pass by the group of refugees, Jiang Zhiyue suddenly said: "Mother, we have to take a good look at the county seat later, although the refugees have already been swept away, there may be some food missing."

Jiang Zhiyue's voice was not low, and the refugees next to her and the families walking in front of Jiang's house could hear her words clearly.

If there is real food in the city, others can't find it first.

Those families quickened their pace and passed the people in front after a while.

"Why are you in a hurry, I don't know how to save some effort." The squeezed person muttered.

Jiang Zhiyue turned her head and looked back, and sure enough, she saw the group of people following at a distance.

"Is there really food in that city?" Zhang asked in a low voice beside Jiang Zhiyue.

Jiang Zhiyue said, "I don't know either, but maybe I'm lucky enough to find food that hasn't been robbed."

Walking for a day can be regarded as reaching the gate of Shaoxian County.

Looking at the scene, it was desolate, the city gate was wide open, and there were still corpses outside who had been dead for a few days.

There were no people in the city. The refugees came in a threatening manner that day, and a large group of people gathered outside the city. What everyone in Jiangjia Village saw on the mountain that night was just the surface.

After those refugees entered the city, they burned, killed and looted, venting their pent-up resentment here.

All the people in the city could run away long ago, and now Shao County is an empty city.

Everyone covered their mouths and noses carefully to avoid the corpse, planning to settle down in the city tonight.

……

The Jiang family found a slightly cleaner yard to live in. There were a lot of them, and the yard they found was also big, so a room was specially vacated for Jiang Zhiyue.

Jiang Zhiyue's last two words before entering the city were heard only by the houses in front of them and the group of refugees next to them.

The few families in Jiangjia Village who heard this said nothing. If there is food, they definitely don't want to share it with more people.

When it was late at night, they went out to look for any food that had been pulled down.

However, after searching several houses, there was not a single grain of grain, presumably it had been snatched away by those refugees long ago.

They returned to their dwellings dejectedly.

People in Jiangjia Village also knew that these people had followed, but they lived in the east of the city and they lived in the west of the city, so they didn't interfere with each other.

Jiang Zhiyue had dived out after nightfall, so it was expected that they hadn't found any food.

Not to mention food, gold and silver were probably scraped clean, how could they find anything.

"Dong Dong Dong~"

There was a faint knock on the door, and the person inside opened the door.

"...Hengrong" opened the door was the old woman who was blocking the way to beg for food.

Standing outside was the old man from another group of people. According to her, the one outside was the Heng Rong of their village.

Hengrong sighed and said: "Hey, this is half a pancake given by my mother-in-law. Let the child eat it first, and our family is out of food. After that... there is no way to help."

The old woman was moved to tears, and sobbed in a low voice: "Thank you Hengrong, thank you Hengrong, when Gouwa grows up, I will make him remember your family's kindness."

"It's hard to say whether I can survive, go back quickly." Na Heng Rong waved her to go back to feed the child.

The old woman closed the door gratefully, and Hengrong also walked back.

The food at home is almost bottomed out. If I want to go to other places, it's hard to say whether I can last.

When he came to a corner, he suddenly heard a male and female voice behind him.

"stop."

Hengrong turned his head abruptly, but did not see anyone, and the voice came from another direction.

"If you want to save the lives of people in your village, just stand there and listen to me honestly."

A gust of wind blew past, and Hengrong shuddered, but he still said honestly, "Say it."

"You go to the Liangji Grain Shop in the west of the city at noon tomorrow. There is grain there to save your villagers."

That Hengrong had already recognized the voice as an old god, he lowered his head and said respectfully: "The little old man just went to see it with the villagers, and there is nothing in Liangji's shop."

They also deliberately went to several grain stores, but the inside was a mess, and there was nothing wrong with it.

"When you go again at noon tomorrow, it will be there." The voice said again: "It is because you are in such a predicament that you are willing to extend a helping hand to the fellow villagers, so I want to save your life. Do you know what to do after getting the food?" How to do?"

Old Hengrong hurriedly promised: "The little old man will definitely distribute this food to the villagers, and will never eat it alone."

"Remember what you said, don't forget to go at noon, otherwise the consequences..."

Old Hengrong hurriedly said: "Don't worry, you will definitely not go early."

Just when old Hengrong thought the voice had disappeared, suddenly another voice came: "...the imperial city is not a good place to go"

Old Hengrong reacted for a long time, but there was no more sound. He called out twice tentatively, and found that there was really no one there.

Thinking of what the voice said just now, old Hengrong couldn't help but feel excited, and wished he could go to Liangji grain store again now.

But thinking of the old fairy saying that he had to go again at noon tomorrow, he worried that going now would anger the old fairy, so he endured it and went back.

They still brought some food when they came out, but they were robbed on the way. If what the old fairy said was true, then they would be saved.

Jiang Zhiyue didn't know that she was already regarded as an old fairy by that old Heng Rong.

After finishing her work, she went back to Jiang's residence.

She thought about it, God gave her a golden finger as big as infinite space, and sent her to this place, giving her a second life.

Then she will reciprocate and help the people of this world.

Although it is impossible for everyone to help, let her do her best to help her without affecting her safety.

She originally wanted to use the city's cover to help the people of Jiangjia Village and those people, but the scene she saw just now made her change her mind.

The people in Jiangjia Village haven't run out of water or food yet, so let's help those people first.

In order to prevent the people of the Jiang family village from staying behind to search door to door if they found out that there was food in the city, she decided to wait until tomorrow when they left, and then secretly put the food in the grain price shop.

As for the people of Jiangjia Village, she will go with them for a while, and she can think of other ways.

(End of this chapter)