After being reborn as a widow, the mistress of the Hou family remarried a powerful official

Chapter 64 Tragedy outside the city
"Are you going out of the city now?" Li Wei disagreed, "Madam, this is too risky."

There are more and more refugees outside the city, and what he said is absolutely true.

Ke Yiqing said firmly: "There is a problem with the supply of the charcoal fire business. As the owner, I can't justify not going to take a look."

"It's all because of my incompetence."

She shook her head. She didn't think carefully about this matter. She was greedy for the profits of the charcoal business, but she didn't think about it carefully. She threw it all to Li Wei. It was normal for something to go wrong.

The land that was bought before has been harvested by the land reclamation workers. Now those people have settled there, but unexpectedly they encountered a landslide.

All the supplies that were intended to be used for the charcoal business were on the mountain.

If it rains again, the wood will probably rot in my hands, making it difficult to make charcoal.

"You don't have to worry. I'm just going out for a look. If you bring a few more people with you, nothing will happen."

Seeing that the persuasion was fruitless, Li Wei had no choice but to nod in agreement.

The two negotiated for a while, and because Ke Yiqing's current identity was not suitable to be exposed, Li Wei placed the person in the carriage and lied to the public that she was his wife.

"Hey, isn't this Brother Li?"

The city gate guards greeted people as soon as they saw him. This Li Wei was the shop owner of Deji Hall, and everyone on duty hoped to meet him.

Not only is there a lot of oil and water, but if you are lucky, Li Wei will also give you one or two boxes of Zhuangyuan cakes.

"Is it your turn today?" Li Wei smiled and stepped forward to be warm, but secretly handed over a bulging purse.

The guard shook his head and smiled with satisfaction.

The groom was about to drive, but was stopped again.

"Hey, hey! Do you understand the rules? I haven't checked yet, sir. Why are you leaving?"

Li Wei winked at the groom and cursed a few words himself, "Master, this is my humble wife, this..."

The guard was confused, "Brother Li always went out by himself before, why did he bring his wife with him this time?"

Fortunately, he had been prepared and acted out at that moment. He lowered his head in shame and whispered: "My yaksha always says that I am raising an outsider outside the city and wants to watch over me!"

"Hahahaha, I didn't expect Brother Li to be henpecked too!" The guard waved his hand and didn't take it seriously, "I just took a look and won't disturb her. The management is strict now, and there's nothing we can do about it."

As he said that, he vaguely lifted the curtain and looked inside, only to see a beautiful girl in plain brocade sitting inside. Her porcelain-white face was covered with gauze. He saw there was movement here, and it looked like autumn water. His eyes also looked over gently, sucking away most of his soul at once.

He lowered the curtain with a look of confusion on his face and said enviously: "Where is the Yaksha? It's clear..."

When he thought of Ke Yiqing's face, the guard slapped Li Wei hard, "Brother Li, you are really lucky!"

Li Wei wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said, "The officer is right, if it's nothing, then we'll set off now."

"let's go!"

The group was about to leave, but was stopped by guards.

"This is……"

The guard stepped forward and whispered: "There is a lot of chaos outside the city now. You should take good care of your wife. Don't blame me for not warning you."

Li Wei's expression condensed and he stuffed another ingot of silver: "My lord, please elaborate."

"We can't hide the Jingnan thing anymore." The guard sneered coldly: "A large number of people are fleeing the famine on the road. I heard that there are some infectious diseases among the people here. You have to be more careful. If you are infected, you may be infected. It means there is no return.”

"He really said that?" "It's true."

Ke Yiqing lowered his eyes. The cold epidemic was now beginning to show its signs. Even a small guard knew about it. Why was the official notification so late in the previous life?

Is it true that no one noticed?Or does the superior think that if the refugees are dead, the hidden dangers will disappear?

She didn't want to think about it deeply, she just felt that there was infinite malice in it.

It’s not that the cold epidemic is difficult to treat, it just requires keeping warm and recuperating. However, when faced with the problem of lack of food and carbon, every one of them is fatal. This year is also a rare severe cold.

Is this kind of disease a disease of wealth or something else?
She swallowed the sigh in her heart, lifted the curtain and looked outside. For the first time in her life, she doubted herself. Was it good or bad to tell Yan Ming about the riot?

If he had not been told, refugees would not have flocked to Shengjing, and there would not have been so many people suffering from hunger.

Li Wei was very surprised after hearing this, "How could Madam say that? If Master Yan hadn't suppressed the bandits, the surrounding people would have been cut off from information, and they would have been killed by the traitors long ago."

Ke Yiqing was stunned, and immediately adjusted her mentality. It was a done deal, and there was only so much she could do. As long as she tried her best, she would have no regrets.

But the situation outside the city was far worse than she thought. Not only did the refugees look sallow and thin, many of them were half-clothed. As far as the eye could see, all the bark and grass roots had been eaten away.

She lifted the curtain to look, and saw a man so thin that he was only a skeleton, looking at the child on the ground with salivating eyes.

The child was also skinny and skinny. He might have contracted the cold epidemic. He was curled up on the ground breathing with his mouth wide open. He was about to die when he looked at people. However, he still crawled out shivering, trying to get away from the naked-eyed man behind him. man.

"This is……"

Li Wei had been to the outskirts of the city many times and had already understood the situation here. Even so, he couldn't bear it. Just as he was about to step forward, he saw the man impatiently lifting the stone.

"Pfft" sound.

Red and white things flowed out of the child's head, and the air was filled with the nauseating aroma of flesh and blood. The refugees hiding around also rushed to get in.

Their dirty and thin faces were spattered with blood and minced meat, but they were quickly swept into their mouths by greedy tongues, and they let out satisfied breathing sounds.

Ke Yiqing couldn't help it, grabbed the carriage and vomited out, bile mixed with tears flowing out.

As the carriage passed by, a large number of refugees came to the place where the vomit was, and they rushed to get there, as if they were tasting the delicacies of the world.

She didn't dare to look back and was trembling all over. This was not the outskirts of the city. This was clearly purgatory on earth.

Li Wei sighed and handed over a water bag, "Madam, this is why I don't want you to come over."

"Since when?"

"It was also a while ago. There were villages around that could survive for a while, but as the number of refugees increased, the bark of the trees was eaten away, and the villages..."

Li Wei didn't need to say the following words, she also understood that the village was gone.

How can a hungry and anxious person care about so much?
Fortunately, Li Wei brought twenty or thirty strong men, and the journey went smoothly. However, there were too many similar scenes. When we got to the end, Ke Yiqing was no longer willing to open his eyes.

"Xiaoyu and the others are all settled?"

"The old lady who saved her didn't want to leave, so I placed them on the mountain. Now they are trapped by the landslide together with the other villagers."

Her heart skipped a beat, "Is that person okay?"

Li Wei frowned. Among the trapped people were his brothers, and he felt bad now. "The mountain roads are impassable, and there are so many refugees. It's difficult to deliver food and water. I don't know what their condition is like inside."

(End of this chapter)