Escape: I rely on the food exchange system to survive to the extreme

Chapter 52 More and more lively
As the sun sets, when the sun completely sinks into the horizon,
Li Baizhou carried Mei Qian's baggage secretly stuffed with dry food on his back, and holding a sword wrapped in cloth in his hand, he ran into the woods on the shore under the watchful eyes of everyone on the boat, and disappeared without a trace.

Looking at the direction Li Baizhou was leaving, Lao Mei's family parked the boat on the shore and waited for a long time. It was not until the sky was completely dark that Mrs. Mei opened her mouth and said, "Let's go too~"

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After a few days,
The moon sets over the starry river, and the oars are rowing.

Mei Qian couldn't help but sigh softly as he looked at the night scene on the river that was different from the previous few days.

"what happened?"

Tonight is a rare occasion, Mrs. Mei is on duty.

Under normal circumstances, people would not let Mrs. Mei stay vigil at night and come to row a boat.

Mei Qian sat on the bow of the boat, looked up at Mrs. Mei, opened her mouth, then shook her head and said:
"Nothing, just after passing Qianxian County, I felt that there were more and more boats on the canal.

A few days ago, when it got dark, there were only stars on this canal except for the moon.

But now, looking at the dotted lights on the river, I am afraid that our boat will go too fast if we are not careful, and it will be bad if we accidentally bump into other people's boats. "

After passing Qian County, Lao Mei's family discovered that there were more and more boats on the canal.

Fortunately, on the night Li Baizhou left, in the middle of the night, Mrs. Mei, Mei Qian, and the others stopped at a shore to dig wild vegetables, cut firewood, and replenish themselves with a lot of supplies.

Mei Qian took the opportunity to take out the wild fruits and vegetables from the orc plane that she had previously exchanged for pancakes and taro paste.

Later, as more and more people were on the canal, fewer and fewer things could be seen on the shore, and the possibility of going to the shore to "supply" became lower and lower.

The middle and lower sections of the canal are filled with various ships.

Large and small, there are fishing boats, cargo ships, and even more outrageous boats. These past few days have once again opened Mei Qian's eyes.

The previous remarks about small fishing boats being easily capsized in strong water, and about small fishing boats being prone to water bandits, were all overturned after passing Qianxian County.

Even during the day these days, there are small fishing boats shuttling between some big boats selling vegetables, cloth, silk, lamp oil and the like.

Mrs. Mei also bought a small pot of rapeseed oil to make lamp oil.

How does this scene look like it is on a canal?
Mei Qian even suspected that her boat had entered a small river in some Jiangnan water town.

During the day, her father would buy things and chat with the people on the small boats selling goods.

There is really a lot of information available for this question.

For example, Xirong's cavalry did go south. After leaving Xing'an Prefecture, many Xirong soldiers dispersed and headed toward the capital in a siege.

Therefore, the people around the capital have long been frightened and run away from home.

"A lot of people have run away. People like us running on the river are much safer than running on the ground~"

The people on the small fishing boat were also talkative, and Mei Qian heard a lot during the day.

However, because everyone is awake during the day and there are many people chatting, I don’t have much chance to “think wildly”, but now——

"Nai, I'm a little scared. People are running around the capital. The closer the boats on the canal get to the Yuan River, the more boats there are... Is there really no hope for the capital?"

Mei Qian subconsciously thought of Li Baizhou returning home.

He shouldn't have gone back at this time, right?

I don’t know if the other party saw everything along the way.

After Mei Qian finished speaking, she didn't hear Mrs. Mei speak. She couldn't help turning her head, but she saw her grandmother sitting on the other side, gently rocking the oar, and then she slowly spoke:
"Is there any hope? Let's wait until after Yuanjiang.

Back then...when Xirong went south, our Anguo lost so much land. In the end, wasn't it that the late emperor reorganized his team and took it back again?
It's a pity that the late emperor was seriously exhausted due to the war, and An Guo was finally reunited, but..." Mrs. Mei said he was the late emperor, which means that the current emperor is not the hero who led the people of An Guo to reorganize the old mountains and rivers. Lord.

Mei Qian couldn't help but lower her head and sigh.

"what happened?"

The grandfather and grandson were talking at the bow of the boat while talking, and a burst of noise came from elsewhere in the canal.

After stopping rowing, the grandfather and grandson both put their heads down and lay on the bow of the boat. Only then did they hear clearly that the noise was actually yelling and cursing.

"Why are you quarreling this late at night?"

Mei Qian smacked her lips, maybe it was because the family had been "alone" on a boat for too long, and it had been a long time since she heard such a down-to-earth scene that looked like a quarrel between neighbors, and she couldn't help but listen.

For a moment, Mei Qian even saw a few fish lanterns lighting up on the canal.

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“Oops, it turned out that one family was casting a fishing net, but another family got too close and used their oars to stir it up into a mess.

The one who spread the fishing net said that there were already many fish in the net, but in the end nothing was disturbed by the oars of the other party, and they wanted compensation from the other party!

How could that person be willing to pay compensation? They just said that there was nothing in the network and that the other party was deliberately blackmailing their family! "

It turned out that the grandfather and grandson were lying on the bow of the boat, and they soon became mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Mei Qian's original position was given to her aunt.

For this kind of back-and-forth, with each other's ancestors as the center and all relatives as the radius, Mei Qian only felt that it was really a pain in the ears.

Apart from hearing these dirty words, she really didn't hear any of the content of the argument!
Therefore, Mei Qian finally decided to rely on her eldest uncle, who had been listening to gossip all year round and never failed to criticize others, to relay it.

The Han family also lived up to expectations. Mei Qian and Cui'er sat together and listened to what Balabala said.

"Then what?"

"Then? Just scold like this and don't let anyone."

After listening for a long time, Han felt that just hurling insults at each other was boring, so he told Mei Qian and others about the cause of the matter.

After finishing speaking, Mr. Han sighed with a sense of regret: "I thought they were going to talk about some scandalous things, but in the end, they ended up with a broken fishing net~"

"Auntie, what else do you want to hear?"

Mei Qian didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but seeing the regret on Han's face, she also wanted to ask her aunt what she wanted to hear.

"Of course it's the kind that makes people feel like -" Han didn't understand the words "bloody" and "three views exploded". Finally, she held back, "The kind that makes people call out to God." ."

"This kind of thing is usually quite hidden." At this time, Cui'er said, "But I heard my father said that when he treated some rich men before..."

After Cui'er said this, Mei Qian no longer felt sleepy, and Han also came closer and asked curiously: "What?"

Soon, amid the "oh oh" exclamations from Mei Qian and Han, Mrs. Mei no longer paid attention to the fight on the boat over there.

When she turned around, she saw her granddaughter and daughter-in-law surrounding Cui'er with their eyes full of eyes, as well as her son and grandson standing stupidly at the hatch of the ship.

Mei Erhu and Mei Shitou looked embarrassed at this moment. They stood there for a while and didn't know whether to return or enter.

When Mrs. Mei saw this, she knew there was something wrong. Just when she was about to speak, she heard Mr. Han say, "Oh my God~ It turns out that there is really a problem with men if you can't have children?!"

Mrs. Mei:? ? ?
　Mrs. Mei: Oh my God, what are these people talking about?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)