Jiang Weiwei and his party arrived in the town. It was just light up now, but there were already pedestrians in the street.

The door of the pharmacy has just opened.

Jiang Weiwei deliberately stopped at the door of the pharmacy. She sent the 372 silver notes she owed yesterday to shopkeeper Ren. Shopkeeper Ren tore the IOU in front of her. From then on, the money and goods were cleared.

Shopkeeper Ren sent her out and said with a smile, "have a nice trip!"

Two donkey carts staggered towards the entrance of the town.

Under the old locust tree at the entrance of the town, there was a carriage with the sign of the county government, and four constables riding ponies were followed by the carriage.

The constable with Chinese character face is still an old acquaintance.

Jiang Weiwei rolled up the bamboo curtain and greeted him: "good morning, detective Lei."

Lei Jing sat on the horse and gave her a boxing salute: "Dr. Jiang."

In fact, as Jiang Weiwei is now, it would be appropriate to call her Mrs. Gu or Mrs. Zhenfu envoy, but people who know her in Jiuqu county are more used to calling her Dr. Jiang.

The reason is that her status as a doctor is more respected than that of an official woman.

Sitting in the carriage, Zhong suddenly heard the movement and immediately raised the curtain.

Jiang Weiwei jumped out of the car and saluted him. The four people who followed Jiang Weiwei also saluted the county magistrate.

Zhong Shu ran said, "if you go out, you don't have to pay attention to those red tape. While it's still early, let's start quickly. It's at least four hours from daoliangshan pass here. If you walk slowly, we'll have to sleep out in the wild tonight."

Jiang Weiwei and others returned to the car.

The carriage is at the front, followed by the donkey cart where Jiang Weiwei is located, and then the donkey cart carrying goods. Two constables open the road in front, and the other two constables break their tails in the rear.

The party left the town and went in the direction of Liangshan pass.

They take the official road, and the road speed is fairly flat.

Thinking of four more hours to go, Jiang Weiwei only felt that if her eyelids weighed a thousand kilograms, she couldn't help yawning. Green sleeve quickly took a soft pillow and put it behind her. He said in a warm voice, "young lady, there's still a long way to go. Take a break first."

Jiang Weiwei was really sleepy. He closed his eyes and went to sleep.

In addition to her and green sleeve, there is a Shi Jinshui in the car.

The goods are full of excitement about coming to the barracks. Even after staying up all night, they are still full of energy.

He wanted to talk to Jiang Weiwei and green sleeve, but Jiang Weiwei fell asleep. Green sleeve didn't want to talk. He had to shut up and turn around to look out of the window.

Before long, Shi Jinshui heard a low cry: "look ahead, there are many people!"

Jiang Weiwei was suddenly awakened.

She opened her eyes, still a little sleepy on her face, frowned and asked, "what's the matter?"

Shi Jinshui looked back at her and said, "there are a lot of people in front, including officers and soldiers."

At this time, the speed of the donkey cart slowed down.

Jiang Weiwei poked his head out of the window and looked out. He saw a lot of people in front. At a glance, it was almost full of people, at least seven or eight thousand. Most of them were people wearing ragged clothes and carrying large bags. In addition, there were a small number of officers and soldiers riding horses and carrying knives.

The officers and soldiers are urging the people to go faster with whips, but the advance speed of the team is extremely slow because there are too many people.

Such a large group of people have blocked up the not so spacious official road.

The pedestrians and vehicles behind can't pass at all.

So Jiang Weiwei and his party were blocked behind.

Zhong shuran also saw this scene. He asked Lei Jing to ask the situation in front.

Lei Jing urged his pony to trot a few steps and ran to the officers and soldiers to inquire about the situation.

Seeing that he was a constable and hearing that there was a county magistrate behind him, the officer and soldier put away his cruelty when facing the people and simply told the situation again.

Lei Jing thanked the other party, rode back to the carriage and informed the county magistrate of the information.

It turned out that the people in front were all civilian men recruited from all over the country. They were to be sent to liangshanguan to help the soldiers of liangshanguan camp escort grain, grass and baggage and build fortifications.

This time, the imperial court collected 500000 civilian men, of which 100000 have been sent to Liangshan pass, and 400000 are on the way to Liangshan pass. These people in front are one of them.

The folk men have been on their way for more than half a month. Twelve hours a day, they spend at least ten hours on their way, and only two hours are left for them to rest.

Seeing that Liangshan pass is approaching, the civilian men are exhausted, and many of them are tired and ill.

But the officers and soldiers could not stop them, and even beat them with whips, forcing them to walk faster. Anyone who dared to stop one step would be torn apart.

Seeing this step, Zhong Shu couldn't make the men walk faster. He could only make the coachman slow down. They followed the men slowly.

Anyway, everyone is going to Liangshan pass. There are so many people here. Even if they sleep in the wilderness at night, they don't have to worry about meeting robbers.

Zhong Shu ran asked someone to tell Jiang Weiwei in the donkey cart behind her about these situations, and asked her to prepare for sleeping in the field at night.

Jiang Weiwei had gone camping with her college classmates in her last life. Sleeping in the wild at night was nothing to her at all. It was just that there were many mosquitoes in the mountains. She had to prepare Arnebia mint cream in advance.

The men in front walked a little, and the motorcade behind followed a little. The speed was so slow that people wanted to doze off.

Just then, a cry came from the front.

"Sir, please don't kill my brother! He's still breathing. He's still alive. Please spare his life! "

Jiang looked forward slightly. He saw a man lying on the ground motionless. It seemed that he was ill. Another short and thin man knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing to the officers and soldiers.

"Please, don't kill him. I can carry him. I promise we won't fall behind. Please let my brother go!"

A middle-aged officer and soldier with narrow eyes took out a knife around his waist and said impatiently, "get away quickly. Your brother is so sick. Even if you take him to liangshanguan camp, you can't do anything. You might as well kill him here to save delaying our trip!"

Seeing this scene, Jiang Wei was surprised: "aren't these all civilian men? They are also the people of Southern Chu. They neither kill nor break the law. How can they say to kill? "

Growing up in a peaceful age, she really can't understand this behavior of not taking human life seriously.

When Gu de heard her words, he gestured to her and green sleeve helped translate.

"My father said that this is a habit in the army. If civilian men are ill or injured, they will be given two days to recover. If they can't recover within two days, they can only be killed, because keeping them will not only fail to work, but also spread the disease to others."