My whole family eavesdropped on my thoughts, and I won money on the road to exile.

Chapter 198 Trapped in the Forest

Things are worse than everyone imagined.

Not only did the rain not stop, it got heavier and heavier. It rained for three days in a row.

There are dangers everywhere in the mountains and forests that can kill people. Zhou Fuan and Ji Tai were impatient and wanted to leave. But everything in front was flooded and it was impossible to pass.

I wanted to retreat, but the back collapsed and there was no way out.

Hundreds of people were trapped in this mountain forest.

Zhou Fu'an and Ji Tai couldn't be more impatient. You can't take everyone to die. What's more, among their official posts, many people got sick because they were caught in the rain.

So many people could only watch the heavy rain outside the cave, and they all stayed in the cave.

In the past three days, Gu Yueyan and Bai Suzi found some herbs in the mountains and forests and made some alternative antidotes for Lu Zan. It can only temporarily control the poison in the prisoners' bodies. But after all, the prisoners were poisoned, injured, and exposed to the rain. Within a few days, more than 20 prisoners died of illness, and another 30 to 40 were sick with fever and unable to walk.

Mrs. Ji curses people in the cave every day. He has a bad temper.

In the past few days, several criminals have been killed in the cave every day. Although the remaining prisoners are afraid of the poison pill. But he is also ready to move.

Lu Zan was more anxious than Mrs. Ji.

Ji Tai cursed because she had no salt. After eating salt-free food for three days, a bird appeared in her mouth.

Lu Zan and the Zhaowei not only had no salt to eat, but what was even more frightening was that they were not as good as the Forbidden Army to eat alive. Others still had dried meat to eat, but their brothers could only eat dry food.

Now, if they stay in the cave for a few days, the dry food they eat can last them a few days. But the prisoners' food was gone.

Originally, the Zhao prison prisoners they escorted, unlike the exiled prisoners, did not have family members to send them anything, so they relied on Zhao Wei to have a black-faced nest every morning and evening. Now that three days have passed, the remaining black noodles can only last two more days at most. When I think about it, after the food is cut off, those criminal prisoners will definitely rebel.

Lu Zan felt cold sweat break out on his back.

It's not that he didn't have Zhou Fuan's idea.

However, the food in Zhou Fuan's hands was about to run out. At most, we can only last three or two days longer than them. But Zhou Fu'an was better than him. After all, those exiles had families and would not rebel easily.

"We simply poisoned all these prisoners."

Behind the scenes, Mrs. Ji said to Lu Zan more than once,
"Kill all the Su and Wang families directly, and then kill the criminals as well. It will be more convenient for us to cut off the bridge joints ourselves."

Ji Tai was furious, thinking that if the emperor hadn't ordered it, he would have followed the Su family to Xiangjun, waited until they met, got the Su family order, and found the Longwei order to kill the Su family. He thought every minute about killing the Su family right now. It's really frustrating to throw away these criminal prisoners.

"Do you want to resist the decree?"

Lu Zan looked at Ji Tai expressionlessly.

"The capital city has been shaken, and the palace may have collapsed. Don't you want to go back and see your family? I miss my brother, and I'm worried that something will happen to him. It's already like this. In extraordinary times, we should handle it flexibly. What's wrong with that? Woolen cloth?"

After hearing what Ji Tai said, Lu Zan shook his head.
"No matter when the time comes, I will never disobey the imperial edict. That would be a grave crime of beheading the nine clans."

Ji Tai was so angry that his liver ached. Why was this person so stubborn? The two of them were doing things together, and as long as he didn't say anything, how could the emperor know about it. As for the Imperial Guard Zhaowei around him, Ji Tai believed that no one would dare to go against him on such a major matter.

"If you want to kill Zhou Fu'an's people, Zhou Fu'an won't watch you kill them."

Lu Zan was worried. He was really afraid that Mrs. Ji, a reckless man, would be in trouble if he killed the Su family regardless of the situation. "Zhou Fu'an is also a member of the Right Prime Minister. You have to know that Chu Mingyang is the deputy team leader on this mission. The exiled prisoner they brought was killed by you on the way. Do you think your brother was in the court and was taken over by the Right Prime Minister? One copy, what will happen?”

As soon as his brother was involved, Mrs. Ji became frightened.

Finally, on the afternoon of the fourth day, the rain stopped.
The official who was sent out to explore the road came back and said that the water was flowing down ahead. The road is exposed and you can try to move forward.

Without thinking too much, everyone set off quickly.

As usual, Zhou Fu'an was at the front carrying the exiled prisoners, followed by more than a hundred criminal prisoners.

"Don't run too far, don't leave the team too far."

Along the way, the officers waved their whips and shouted.

Because of the lack of food, the officials only gave the prisoners one black-faced nest every day, and all the prisoners were starved to the point of starvation. When we came out, there were some fresh wild vegetables, young leaves, and some unknown wild fruits in the mountain forest after the rain.

Especially the exiled prisoners here in Zhou Fu'an all had their families, including young ones. Picking as you go, stuffing it into your mouth after picking.

Before setting off today, we also considered that the prisoners would be digging wild vegetables in the woods for food. Zhou Fu'an still did not put shackles on the male exiled prisoners, nor did he tie the female exiled prisoners.

So the exiled prisoners picked while walking.

Zhou Fu'an thought that when he set up camp at night, he could put together the wild vegetables picked by the prisoners and cook three large pots of wild vegetable paste, which would save some food.

You wouldn’t know if you didn’t walk, but as you walked, you discovered that there were landslides everywhere and the roads collapsed.

Based on the situation here, I don't know how many days it will take to walk in the mountains and forests before I can get to the official road.

If the official road dragon turns over and breaks, if the town dragon where they go to buy food turns over, these people will have to continue to stay in the mountains and forests.

Thinking of these possibilities, Zhou Fu'an felt a chill down his back.

At this time, he led a dozen official servants to follow the exile team. He watched the women and children dig wild vegetables everywhere, and he did not stop them too much.

"Mom, let's dig some wild vegetables too?"

Song Jinhe looked around and saw that everyone ran to dig wild vegetables from time to time. They and the Wang family were the only ones who had not made any move yet.

"Dig, Nanny Su, you take the children to dig some."

Mrs. Su nodded. These days, they have been relying on food brought out by Mi Baobao in the cave. Not only did they not suffer, but everyone recovered from their injuries and the children gained some weight.

So as soon as they were on the road today, people started looking at their family members with wrong eyes. Only then did the Su family notice that they had overlooked this detail.

There were prisoners everywhere with yellow faces and dangling feet from hunger. Only her family was cleanly dressed and there was no trace of yellowness or thinness on their faces.

"I took the children to dig. There are a lot of herbs here, and they are all good."

Gu Yueyan had already seen many fresh and tender herbs exposed on the roadside in the forest after the rain.

These days, Gu Yueyan followed Bai Suzi to treat the injuries of the Forbidden Army and Zhaowei. He also looked familiar.

The official was still very kind to Gu Yueyan. Zhou Fuan also agreed to Gu Yueyan's conditions and went on the road later. On the way to exile later, the men in the second room of the Su family would no longer need to wear shackles, and the women would not need to be tied.