Being fooled by fierce beasts to travel through the beginning is fleeing famine

Chapter 9

After tidying up the "crime scene", Qingyan followed a dozen or so local villagers towards the direction they came from.

They discussed it again just now, even if they want to flee south, they can't go empty-handed, they have to go back and pack some luggage for the road.

As far as they said, their village and the two neighboring villages are deserted now, and this small group of Khitan soldiers also passed by here, and happened to catch them secretly harvesting grain in the field, so they caught them together.

A large number of Khitan soldiers are mostly stationed near some towns, where the places are large and there are more supplies that can be robbed.

Small mountain villages built in the mountains like their Yangjiaping, will only enter the village to sweep if they come across them.

This is also their bad luck, the fields of the village are not far from this road.

Usually, this road is seldom used by people. It is only some merchants who are familiar with the terrain passing by. Those who are not familiar with it go to the official road. It is wide and flat enough to take a horse-drawn carriage.

It’s just that it’s far from the official road, and you have to go to the city. You have to pay taxes and fees when you go to the city, especially businessmen, so most people who do business all the year round will avoid it.

These Khitan soldiers should have captured some merchants and found out this mountain path, which caused disasters for the villages along the road.

Although most of the villagers ran away ahead of time, they were limited in manpower and left in a hurry. They all brought ready-made food, pots and pans, and some bedding and clothing.

Many things are kept at home, hidden in the cellar, thinking that there will be a chance to come back in the future, and they can still be used.

They didn't mean to go to other people's houses to steal things, and they had clothes and bedding in their own homes.

Moreover, a lot of grain is still in the field and has not been harvested. If it is not harvested this year, it will be a waste. They went to harvest the grain, which is enough for the road.

When Qingyan heard that there were clothes at home and food in the field, she felt good, but she was worried that there was something wrong with her clothes.

It's better to dress like them, it won't be so eye-catching, you can use dark foundation on your face, she has it in her bag, she got it from her parents, hehehe...

As for the backpack on his body, it should be no problem to find a piece of rag to tie it outside.

In fact, she doesn't worry about food, there is a lot of food in the Chou Chou space, no matter how much gold there is, it's the same to buy some and put it into the space.

However, when she heard that the surrounding area was controlled by the Khitan people, she was still a little apprehensive about how to enter the city. Now that she knew that there was confiscated grain in the fields, she felt relieved at once.

They can harvest the grain first, and take the grain away after threshing.

She heard from her parents that June and July are the seasons for harvesting wheat, and the early ones start from Children's Day, and they are all harvested in June.

This ancient time may not be the same as the modern time of maturity. After all, modern times have irrigation wells, chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and this ancient time generally relied on the sky for food.

Fortunately, it is a military disaster, not a natural disaster. If there is a natural disaster, it will be troublesome, and starvation is the next best thing. If there are too many people who starve to death, if the corpses are not properly disposed of, there will be plagues!
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Even though they knew the remoteness of this place, they didn't dare to be careless, they just slipped and hid all the way.

I dare not walk in the middle of the road, because I am afraid that if there are Khitan soldiers passing by here, I will walk across from them, so the speed of walking is very slow.

Qingyan reckoned that she had to walk for nearly three hours before reaching the village about ten miles away.

Looking at the village in front of them, Qingyan and Chouchou were a little dumbfounded.

The house...how should I say it?It is built of stone and mud, and the shape is round. The roof is very similar to a yurt, but it is made of mud and grass. The windows are very small, only forty to fifty centimeters.

The houses are all low and low, like the African houses you see on TV.

The yard is quite tidy, surrounded by a fence, and there are some vegetables planted inside, Qingyan has never seen it before, so she doesn't know what kind of vegetables they are.

Yang Dashan, who was the man before, said: "Fortunately, we were caught in the field outside, and the village was not ruined. If those Khitan dogs entered the village, they might set fire to it, and then nothing would be left. .”

Lanhua pulled Qingyan, pointed to the third courtyard and said: "Sister, that's my home, you come home with me to sit and rest, and we'll leave when we clean up."

They were frightened and did not dare to stay in the village any longer, and they were about to pack their bags and leave immediately.

Now there are fourteen people in this line including Qingyan, except for Lan Hua, who is a ten-year-old child, there are five men and seven women, all of whom are old people without children.

The man Qingyan thought was 60 years old was actually just 40 years old, and he is considered an old man now.

The rest of the people are not very old, just in their 40s, but the average life expectancy in ancient times was much lower than that in modern times, and they are all classified as the elderly.

They have a short lifespan, so they get married and have children very early. They can get married at the age of 15, and a woman who has no husband's family after [-] is an old girl.

Grandma like Lanhua, just 42 years old this year, is similar to her mother, but she already has a ten-year-old granddaughter. Sixty years old is considered a long life here.

Qingyan didn't know the age of the other party before, and the other party looked a bit old, similar to her grandma, so she followed Lan Hua and called her grandma naturally, and it was a little embarrassing for a while after knowing the age.

Followed Lan Hua into the yard of their house. The yard was not big, much smaller than the two neighbors. There were also several ridges of vegetables, and it was kept very clean.

In their family, only their grandparents and grandchildren were left to depend on each other. Lanhua's father died of illness, and her mother went back to her natal family and remarried to another place.

Other old people also had children who died young, or had no children at all.

When other people in the village left, they were all on the road as a whole family. They didn't want to trouble others to become a drag, and they stayed without any worries.

After entering the house, it was as low and dark as she imagined, with only the smell of mud, but no peculiar smell.

It took a while for the eyes to adjust before they could see the furnishings clearly. There was an earthen kang that took up half of the room, a wooden table with low legs on it, and two benches and a shelf on the floor below.

Next to the kang is an earthen stove. She knows this. Her parents saw it when they brought her back to her hometown. She can burn the kang while cooking.

There is only one set of quilts on the kang, which doesn't look very thick. There is a wooden box in one corner of the kang, which should be used to store clothes.

There is a clay pot on the shelf, and three pottery bowls with missing corners. There are several pottery pots underneath, which seem to be used to put oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.

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