A Husband Who Traveled Through the Famine and Developed a Chronicle

"Li Xiuyuan"

Seeing the horse but not the person, Bai Xia called out, but there was no movement.

She couldn't help frowning, and shouted again: "Li Xiuyuan"

"Li Xiuyuan"

After shouting three times in a row, Li Xiuyuan slowly slid down from a tree in the distance, staggered to the ground, and replied in a weak voice: "Bai Xia, I'm here."

Following the sound, Bai Xia saw him, under a tree [-] meters away from here, covered by the shade of the tree, it's hard to tell unless you look carefully.

Bai Xia tied up all the horses, including the one Li Xiuyuan was riding, and then sat on the ground, picking up the small stones in the soles of his feet.

She didn't feel it when dealing with officials, but now that she has dealt with them, she realizes that the stones on her feet are like thorns in her palms, and the pain makes it difficult for her to walk.

After picking out the bigger ones, she took out the water bag she had collected from the officials, put an earthen pot on her feet, poured water and rinsed it, and washed away all the mud and sand embedded in the flesh and blood.

After washing, squeeze out the pus, and take a piece of cloth to bandage.

She took out another pair of straw sandals and wrapped them in cloth layer by layer until she could no longer wear them, then she put them on again.

Li Xiuyuan came over a long time ago, and when he saw the wound on Bai Xia's foot, he stopped at the spot at a loss, with his eyelids drooping, he didn't dare to look at it, and rubbed his cuffs with his fingers cramped.

After finishing bandaging, Bai Xia waved to him: "Come here"

He obediently walked forward, Bai Xia had already wrapped up the wound on his foot, and put on the newly prepared straw sandals, although it still hurts when walking, but it didn't have the feeling of being pricked by needles. A little pain is bearable.

Li Xiuyuan stepped forward obediently, stepping on the hot ground with his bare feet, maybe because of guilt, maybe because of other things, he never looked up.

"Sit down"

He sat down as promised, Bai Xia stretched out his hand to grab his ankle, he flinched subconsciously, his eyes met Bai Xia's cold eyes, finally gave up resisting, and she still lifted his feet up, and the blisters started to pop up. It has already burst, and the pebbles and sand are trapped in the broken blisters, which look very miserable.

This appearance is not much better than Bai Xia's feet.

Bai Xia didn't speak, and stretched out his hand to pick a bigger stone. Li Xiuyuan's foot trembled, but he pursed his lips and made no sound. He squeezed his cuffs tightly with both hands. There were big drops of sweat streaming down his forehead. He didn't know it was the heat. Yes, it still hurts.

Maybe both.

Taking out the bigger stones, Bai Xia took out another water bag, and used the water to wash the wound on his foot.

The child was tender, and after walking such a long distance, he was chased and fled by the officials, and the soles of his feet were so broken that he could barely see.

Li Xiuyuan was pampered by Lin's again, the blisters on the soles of his feet were much more serious than Bai Xia's, it was hard for him to walk like this without crying out for pain.

It's a pity that when I bought medicine in Wuzhen, I still didn't think about it. I didn't buy some medicine for sores. As a result, I don't even have any anti-inflammatory medicine now. I don't know if the wounds of the two will be inflamed.

Wrapped up the cleaned wound with cloth strips, and made another pair of straw sandals for Li Xiuyuan to put on his feet according to the pair of straw sandals she was wearing. Only then did Bai Xia get up and filter the water in the crock. Boil it in another earthen pot and store it in a bamboo tube.

Draw three horizontal lines with a dagger on the upper edge of the bamboo tube to mark it, so as not to drink it as drinking water.

In the world of severe drought, every penny of water is precious. After filtration, it is boiled, sterilized and stored, and it can also be used for washing feet, so as not to live dirty all the time.

After treating the wound on his foot, Bai Xia took out old clothes to make curtains, hung them around a few big trees as a shelter, and made another one a little farther away, and took out two earthen jars to separate the curtains. After pouring out a bag of water, I poured the remaining water for myself and Li Xiuyuan into two earthen jars, and put them into two enclosed simple shower sheds.

"Go scrub and change clothes." She took out two clothes to change, gave one to Li Xiuyuan, and kept the other for herself.

Li Xiuyuan didn't talk nonsense, and went inside the curtain with his clothes in his arms.

There were a lot of bloodstains on both of them, especially Bai Xia's face and clothes were covered with bloodstains, which were sticky and had a foul smell.

The cloth for wiping the body is only the size of a palm. Although it is too small to wipe a large area when used, it can save water to the greatest extent.

Bai Xia wrung out the cloth, first wiped off the blood on her face, then changed her clothes, and wiped off the dirt on her body.

She put the dirty clothes directly into the transformation pool, the blood on them had dried up, and the word learning appeared in the transformation pool, and the name of the clothes was also displayed as blood-stained dirty clothes, which meant that when she took out the clothes, the clothes It will also be dirty.

After putting on clean clothes, Bai Xia felt alive again.

On the other side, Li Xiuyuan hadn't finished her work. She took out a comb and combed her hair into a ponytail, wrung out the cloth strips, filtered the water in the earthen pot she had used, and lit it to boil.

When Li Xiuyuan came out of scrubbing, he saw that she was boiling water, so he imitated her, mixed cotton cloth with mud and sand, filtered the water he used, then asked her for a clean earthen pot, and boiled the water for filling , and marked.

After treating the water, Bai Xia took out two steamed buns, took a bamboo tube of water from the transformation pool, handed the steamed buns to Li Xiuyuan, poured half of the water from the empty bamboo tube to him, and ate the steamed buns.

"Bai Xia, how many officials are chasing after you?"

Li Xiuyuan held the steamed bun, but didn't eat it, frowning with concern.

Bai Xia chewed on the steamed buns, took a sip of water and replied, "Two."

"Then what happened to them?"

"died"

Li Xiuyuan took a deep breath, even though he was already hungry, he didn't have the slightest appetite, so he couldn't help but said: "There are about ten people in this batch of officials, and four of them have died now, I'm afraid the remaining ones , and will not let it go"

Their lives are in danger.

"I know"

Bai Xia killed one steamed bun, then took out the second one, her stomach was so hungry that she could only work when she was full.

Seeing that she was devoting herself to eating, as if she seemed to have a plan, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but feel relieved, picked up the steamed buns and started eating, while eating, thinking about how to deal with the remaining officials.

"The county magistrate of Wu County must be planning a big conspiracy. It is likely to be a rebellion. These officials are just a small team, and they have not seen their return journey for a long time. Presumably they have received the order of the county magistrate and guarded the refugees to leave the country."

"Refugees have to travel sixty miles a day, and most of them will leave Wu County today"

"Refugees become refugees, and it is today"

"We killed the officials. If the government is alarmed, more people will be sent to deal with us. Therefore, we must not let the government know. Then the remaining people cannot be allowed to go back."

Li Xiuyuan was talking while eating steamed buns.

Bai Xia ate steamed buns and drank water, without even giving him a look.

His complexion changed, and he couldn't help asking: "Bai Xia, what are you planning?"