"Have we reached the border of Runing Prefecture?"
Someone looked at the scene in front of him and asked something, but no one knew who he was asking.
"Yes, that's the river."
An escort officer heard it and replied.
Looking around, the entire wide riverbed was dry and cracked.
Not only was there no human habitation anywhere within sight, but the area was also barren and endless, without even a dry blade of grass or tree to be seen.
I don’t know how long this place has been like this. Even if there are people here, they can’t survive.
[No wonder they fled from the famine.]
Meng Shuyan truly understood the state of being forced to flee famine because one could no longer survive.
"We have to hurry up, otherwise we won't be able to find a place to stay before dark."
The escorting officers did not let everyone stay here for long.
Staying in such a scene for a long time will make people feel hopeless, fearful, irritable, etc.
No one in the army really likes this kind of scene, it's too depressing.
There was no need for the others to urge him, and he walked twice as fast as usual, just wanting to leave this place quickly.
Because the riverbed was dry, they didn't have to cross the bridge.
Find a relatively flat gap between the river bank and the riverbed, and go directly down to cross the riverbed.
All the adults who were originally sitting in the carriage came down to help push the ox cart.
Because there are no green plants, at most you will come across the occasional collapsed rotten wooden pile.
“It is said that this was the area most severely affected by the drought three years ago.”
As we walked, someone broke the silence.
"It's only been three years, and the wood is already rotten. We need to work harder!"
Meng Shichang happened to pass by a wooden house and kicked it.
The wooden stake that was originally standing fell to the ground with a snap.
"This is completely dry. It will catch fire with just a spark. It makes a great fire."
"Brother Meng is really smart. He really did a good job of igniting the fire."
Doctor Zhou's son saw some wooden stakes nearby and wanted to pick up a few. He kicked the stakes, but the stakes didn't fall down. Instead, he hurt his legs and feet.
But he didn't even have time to feel the pain, he was so embarrassed that he just wanted to hide away immediately.
It's so embarrassing!
"Hahaha……"
"You think you're the eldest nephew of the Meng family, but don't you see how thin your arms and legs are compared to them?"
Only Dr. Zhou, as his biological father, dared to say this.
Who else dares to say it?
I want to laugh but I don't dare to, I'm trying hard to hold it back.
With the interruption of these two families, the atmosphere became much better than at the beginning.
Gradually, more and more people started chatting.
Seeing that there was nothing interesting to see, Meng Shuyan continued to pick her wild vegetables.
No matter whether your family can dig up wild vegetables now, pull them out first.
If you don't pull it out, it will be wasted.
It’s not really a waste of space.
Wild vegetables will grow rapidly, bloom and produce seeds, fall to the ground and sprout again to start a new round of growth.
Now the original small piece of wild vegetable field in the space has expanded tenfold.
Meng Shuyan thought that she could bring some other crops into the space.
Rice, wheat, rapeseed, etc.
With these three main crops, grain, oil and vegetables, we have everything we need, and it is difficult to starve to death.
She remembered that her father seemed to have bought some seeds, but her grandfather treasured them and put them away.
"ah--"
Just after pulling out five and stopping to rest, I heard a scream from outside the space.
Meng Shuyan didn't even have time to be surprised that the space seemed to have been upgraded.
At first, I couldn’t hear the outside sounds in the space, but now I can hear them.
This seems to have something to do with her recent hard work picking wild vegetables.
Consciousness exits space.
The scream did not come from their family.
"Bones! There are bones!"
It was a girl who screamed.
This large group of people walked in a queue, basically one family per row.
Six hundred and eighty-one people, dozens of families.
There will be many people's footprints in the same place.
This area had the most people fleeing famine back then, and naturally some of them died along the way.
The bones that had been sealed for three years were kicked out.
And the girl who kicked the bone out was really unlucky.
Not only did she kick the bone out, but she also fell and hit the bone with her face, which made her scream with fear.
With this first bone kicked out, someone discovered that this piece of ground did not seem as flat as other places, and was a little bumpy.
Some people are so mean as to kick the bulging little bump.
One kick and a skull was kicked out six times.
"Ouch, you're courting death!"
The old woman blindly slapped the man who had kicked out the bone.
After the beating, he bowed to the skull and muttered something.
"Don't blame me, my son didn't mean it, please be magnanimous!"
But no one laughed at them.
This is a respect for the deceased and also a respect for nature.
This incident disrupted the formation.
Now everyone just wants to escape from this damn place as soon as possible.
It’s really scary!
Fortunately, there are many of them. If there were only one or two people, you can’t imagine how scared they would be.
Next, the whole team fell into silence again, but their pace became much faster.
When we encountered potholes on the road, we would deliberately avoid them.
Finally, before it got completely dark, they saw a place with some people living in it.
"There should be a village ahead. We'll camp nearby tonight."
This was the first village they came across after walking all day.
After the large army stopped outside the village, they sent two officers into the village to investigate the situation.
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