Quick travel to save a miserable life

Chapter 428 A woman on the run 3

The team from Niujia Village walked along the road out of the village. When they encountered a fork in the road, they headed south. In less than an hour, they met several waves of people from other villages fleeing the famine on the road.

It seems that everyone has received the news that the fleeing team from the north will be passing through here in the past two days, and they all have the same idea, trying to sneak into the team to avoid punishment from the government.

After all, I heard that life in the north was even more difficult. It had been almost a month since the escape team set out to the south. They had already traveled thousands of miles and there was no news that the imperial court would send anyone to control the situation. It seemed that the imperial court could not take care of this issue for the time being.

According to the latest news, I heard that the Di people in the northern grasslands are having a hard time this year, and they have begun to invade the border on a large scale. The border troops are not supported, so they can only mobilize troops from other places to provide assistance.

Moreover, many small groups of rebels have emerged in the north and west. The imperial court has limited troops and cannot handle them at all. For these unarmed poor civilians who have not caused a big trouble for the time being, they can only let them go temporarily.

The sun is gradually rising, and the temperature is also rising. Even if the team's journey is not fast because they have to take care of the elderly and the weak, it is still too much to bear because they have been driving under the sun.

Lin Hui had enjoyed decades of blessings in the previous world. When she first came to such a barren place and had to hike for such a long time, she felt a little uncomfortable.

In addition, the original person has not had enough to eat for some days. Due to the food shortage at home, the meals allocated to each person are limited and gradually reduced according to the family status.

The order is like this, first the three adult men who are the mainstay, they can be assigned two wild vegetable nests, then the two grandsons of the eldest family, then the aunt and nephew of the eldest and the eldest Shen family, and finally the original mother and daughter.

The steamed bun in the original hand was only about half the size of a fist, and it could be eaten in just a few strokes with just boiling water.

Even these, sometimes they can't all go into the mouth of the original body. Cui Ya was given only half of the steamed bun. The little girl often complained that she was hungry, so the original body would take some of her own steamed bun out from between her teeth and find opportunities to secretly give it to her. My daughter eats, even if she is not full and grinds her teeth.

Although the road was bumpy and the sun was shining brightly, Cui Ya was still a little drowsy while sitting in the car.

Lin Hui felt sad and funny when she saw the little girl's eyelids were constantly fighting and her whole body was swaying.

She first put Cui Ya's body down gently, then found some of her own clothes from the baggage and covered the child's head.

Soon, Cui Ya fell asleep lying in Luo Ren's car.

After the teams from Niujia Village and several other villages merged, it was estimated that there were hundreds or even thousands of people, many of whom were wealthy families, and they also had ox carts or donkey carts.

Niujia Village originally had cattle raising families, but due to the drought, the weeds on the roadside were withered and yellow, and there was not enough fodder for the cattle to eat. They were starving and thinning day by day. Later, they had no choice but to sell them and take Exchange money for food.

Last summer, a bushel of wheat cost seventy-five cents, and one stone cost seven hundred and fifty cents. But at the beginning of spring this year, the price of wheat rose to one hundred and twenty cents per bushel, not to mention rice, the most common brown rice. It also costs [-] coins per bucket, which prohibits many people who are short of food.

Even if you buy all your belongings into food, how many buckets of food can you buy with that small amount of money? What will you do after you eat them all?

By then, the fields will be barren and unable to cope with the government's grain requisitions. Even autumn seeds may not be affordable, and the land may have to be sold.

But as a farmer, even the land he relies on for survival is gone, and he can only be reduced to a tenant who is exploited by others. What else can he do? He simply leaves this disaster-stricken land and goes to seek life elsewhere until life gets better. , come back again, the land is still yours.

After suffering such a severe drought, the government will not ignore it forever. It just can't spare any money at the moment. There will always be news about tax reductions and exemptions. By then, there should not be some relief food.

It is not just one person who thinks this way, but the thoughts of many people fleeing the desert. As for whether there will be an accident on the way to escape, and whether there will be a chance to come back in the future, they may have thought about these, but even if it is the worst outcome, they can only think about it. Can do this.

After all, even if you stay at home without food or water, there is still no way to survive. Since you are all going to die, it is better to look for opportunities elsewhere, maybe you can encounter a turning point!

Three men took turns pushing the Zhang family's cart, first Zhang Shitou, Zhang's father, then Zhang Dazhu, and then Zhang Erzhu.

However, when one person is pushing the cart, the others will not just watch. The other two men will use their strength to reduce the burden on the person pushing the cart.

On such a day, even if a person stands still under the sun, he will be sweating soon, let alone pushing a cart of things.

In addition to the family's luggage, there were three children in the car, which was a heavy weight.

Zhang Dazhu started to sweat profusely after pushing for a while. His wife Shen Xiuhua felt distressed and wiped the sweat from his forehead every so often to prevent the sweat from flowing into his eyes and stinging him.

Zhang Shen felt a little displeased when she saw that Zhang Erzhu next to her had a lot of sweat on her head, but Lin next to her seemed not to notice and was just walking slowly on her own.

The second daughter-in-law just found out that she was pregnant, and she started to act arrogantly. Even her own man didn't know how to feel sorry for her. It was really outrageous.

If this had happened at home, Zhang Shen would have scolded her a long time ago, but now she is on the road, with people on both sides. Even if she is dissatisfied, it is not good for her to scold her daughter-in-law at this time, let outsiders laugh, and look like she is Mother-in-law is unkind.

So she just gave Lin Hui a hard look with her eyes and continued on her way with her head down.

In fact, Lin Hui was aware of Zhang Shen's gaze. After all, what she did was not very covert. She also knew the reason for Zhang Shen's behavior. She just wanted her to be as considerate to Zhang Erzhu as Shen Xiuhua was to Zhang Dazhu, but she Not willing.

Even if she was pretending, she didn't want to pretend.

It was enough to pretend to be as docile as the original person, but he also wanted her to be considerate, especially since the person being considerate was Zhang Erzhu, which was difficult for her to do.

In fact, when the original person first got married, Zhang Erzhu was pretty good to her, and the two of them were considered in love.

But when the original body gave birth to Cui Ya, Zhang Erzhu felt somewhat unhappy when he saw that it was a girl. This was reflected in his usual words and deeds.

The original wife also became a little cautious because she was unable to get a man to make her husband happy, and because she had to be busy with work, housework, and taking care of the children every day. Under such a busy life, the love that the two had when they first got married was gone. Cease to exist.

During her second pregnancy, she accidentally miscarried, leaving behind the root of the disease, which made Zhang Erzhu even more unhappy.

And because she also suffered from unspeakable maternal diseases, she was even more disliked by her husband, and together with her daughter, her status in this family became more and more humble.