My whole family has crossed with Goldfinger

Chapter 39 No.30 Chapter Nine: Dumbfounded
When he stopped to rest at noon, old man Xu rarely sighed with everyone. He fled the famine when he was a child, and he walked for two months at that time, and it was not so tragic.

There are people who don’t have to eat human flesh, but that’s what they eat, and they steal their children and eat them behind their backs. It’s not like today, when refugees become bandits, blatantly stealing their children to eat, and they can’t even die halfway. If a whole body is left, it will be eaten by wild dogs, and after eating, the wild dogs will be eaten by people.

Everyone is concerned.

Along the way, there are many refugees with red eyes and dull faces. Therefore, no matter how hard the road is, they will not eat or drink during the day, and they will stay until night.

Sitting and resting now is just resting.

Suddenly, there was a commotion under the tree not far ahead. A man was taking a machete to kill a teenage girl, and a woman was struggling to stop her.

The girl cried and asked her father not to let her go, and the woman cried and begged the man to let her daughter go.

The man lost his mind, kicked the woman away with one kick, and swung the knife with his backhand to chop the girl down to the ground. It took only an instant.

The woman was kicked out and lay on the ground with a pale face. She crawled back with no strength left. She saw the man grabbing her daughter's flesh and began to eat it. She couldn't help crying, "Beast, beast..."

Seeing the fresh meat, a dozen or so refugees who were close could not sit still and jumped on it.

The man grabbed the meat with one hand and waved a hatchet with the other to stop people from approaching.

But when the refugees turned around, they were all holding hatchets and stones. When they threatened the man, the man gave up, so he handed over the food and shared it.

Then, a bunch of people gobbled it up around.

When everyone saw this, they couldn't help shaking their heads secretly.

Old lady Shi was sitting cross-legged, shaking her head and muttering some curse.

She is a witch, and she often does this along the way, and everyone has long seen the strangeness, thinking that she is begging the gods for rain soon or for the gods to bless them to Qingzhou safely.

But at this moment, everyone heard her muttering about ghosts, snakes, ghosts and so on.

Her children and grandchildren watched her quietly and curiously. After a while, she slowly stopped muttering and opened her eyes.

The second daughter-in-law Zhong asked her, "Mother, what are you reading?"

The old lady Shi said with a secretive face: "There are gods three feet above the head, people are doing it, and the sky is watching."

Old man Zhou looked up to the sky, "Where are the gods? We people in Yunzhou are suffering so much, why doesn't he look at it?"

Granny Shi quickly stopped him, "Oh dear, don't be disrespectful to the gods."

"You god, he is asleep, can't hear, can't see." Old man Zhou replied to her, "Dear family, you begged him to rain more last year, and the result is good. This year, you just don't give a drop. Please don't ask him Use it!"

Granny Shi choked, and simply ignored him, closing her eyes and continuing to mutter.

Mrs. Xu looked at Old Man Zhou and said, "What are you talking about to the gods? The old emperor in Beijing should take care of us! We are paying taxes and being expropriated for food, and there is no shortage of them. In terms of life and death, he will No matter! Brother, if you want to scold him, scold him!" Scolding the gods in case the gods blame him, scolding the old emperor, he would not listen.

Which of the refugees on this road doesn't scold him for the court?

Old man Xu silently glanced at Mrs. Xu, this old woman, who is cursing secretly by herself, is happy, and now she is pulling others to scold along with her.

When old man Zhou heard that the girl was right, he immediately started cursing.

This is a loud voice, with a violent temper, this swearing, come on, all of a sudden everyone started swearing after you.

Especially Mrs. Shi scolded the most, as long as she didn't scold the gods, she could scold anyone badly.

Zhang Xiulan was sandwiched between Mrs. Ma and Mrs. Zhou, and she was watched secretly and scolded a few times.

Seeing the refugees looking around frequently, old man Xu hurriedly stopped all this, that's all, let's go!

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After another two days of driving, the water of the several families was gone, and the bamboo tubes were all empty. The Xu family had the most dry food, and the corn bread they ate had bottomed out.

Everyone's physical strength was gradually exhausted, and their walking became difficult.

At this time, I feel that these guys are really cumbersome, especially the scooters, but they are already here, and it would be really painful to give up, so I have to take them all.

The old man Xu moved forward with difficulty on crutches, and asked Guan Shan, "Xiao Guan, how long do we have to go?"

Guan Shan's mouth was cracked with blood blisters, and his dark face was so rough that he couldn't tell he was a young man. He said, "Hurry up, when you see the stone tablet of Baoguan Village, you will pass the boundary stone after walking [-] miles. gone."

Baoguan Village?
where?
Old man Xu looked and looked ahead, but what he saw was still desolation, he didn't see the village at all, and he had to go forward.

Xu Chunshan wanted to explore further, to see how long Baoguan Village was left, and to see what was going on in Qingzhou beyond the boundary stone, but he had no energy left, so he had no choice but to give up.

A group of people walked forward with difficulty, lying down to rest for a while.

There were still some refugees on the road who couldn't walk at all, and were crawling on the ground with hands and feet, trying to crawl into the posture of Qingzhou.

After walking forward for a long time, the old man Xu saw a big stone standing on the side of the road, and hurriedly called his grandson to ask, "Liulang, take a look, is this the stone monument of Baoguan Village?"

Xu Dajun glanced, "Master, this is it."

Old man Xu took a breath, "I still have to walk thirty miles." It was too much, his eyes were dark, and he was so hungry that he scraped his intestines.

"Take a break, take a break."

Everyone stopped to rest again, right next to the big rock.

Xu Yinyin dragged her nearly useless leg, and sat down on the ground. Looking up, she saw three words on the stone. She heard that it was called Baoguan Village, but she probably understood one of these three words. Village character.

Illiterate, illiterate.

Sad.

People couldn't do anything, and there was no bamboo tube to hide at this meeting. Everyone turned the bamboo tube upside down and shook it again and again, wishing to shake even a drop of water out of it.

I was so hungry that I couldn't help it, I took the half piece of steamed corn bread I kept in my hand and licked it twice in my mouth, and put it away again as a treasure.

Several children were so hungry that their faces were pale, and they lay motionless in the arms of the adults.

Mrs. Xu poured the gourd hanging around her neck over and over again, licked her pale mouth, then turned her head and asked Xu Dajun beside her, "Liulang, are you thirsty?"

thirsty.

Xu Dajun glanced at Xu Yinyin.

Xu Yinyin: She is thirsty too, but she can't take out the few bamboo tubes of water in her space.

In the past few days, old man Xu didn't let everyone stay too far away. She tried to rub some iodophor but couldn't find a chance, so she had to use both feet.

Old man Xu glanced at the strenuous guy, he had almost rested, and stood up on crutches again, let's continue walking, after walking for thirty miles, there will be a way to survive.

A group of people dragged their families and children on their backs and continued to move forward with burdens on their backs.

It is said to be a village, but there is no one in Baoguan Village, which is extended by a village road under the stone tablet.

Old man Xu didn't expect that this is so close to Qingzhou, and it's the same drought.

When it was getting dark, a group of people finally reached the boundary stone.

On the boundary stone side, which belongs to Yunzhou, there is a severe drought, locusts, crops are not harvested, and there is not a single tree that has not been stripped.

On the other side of the boundary stone, which belongs to Qingzhou, starvation is everywhere, the land is dry and cracked, and there is no trace of green.

"Xiaoguan, have you really arrived in Qingzhou? Are you going the right way?"

Old man Xu was dumbfounded, and so were the others.

(End of this chapter)