Her alarm bells immediately rang: Rats have been carrying germs since ancient times. What would she do if she got bit by one?
He waved his hand: "Children, come here!"
He opened the bag, took out the grilled fish and shared it with the children. He waited for another quarter of an hour before everyone came up and sat on the rocks to rest.
"Alas! The road is gone, how can we go?"
Tang Youyou didn't care: "If there is no road, then make one."
He grabbed a big tree with his bare hands and swept it left and right, and soon a ten-meter road was cleared.
"What are you still standing there for? Hurry up!"
Until she was exhausted, she sat on the ground motionless, staring at the city gate in the distance in a daze.
Tang's mother handed over a water bag and asked, "Why are you so stupid?"
"Gudong gulp" he drank the water bag in one breath.
"Mom, have you ever heard a word?"
Tang's mother asked in confusion: "What did you say?"
“After a great disaster there will be a great epidemic!”
Tang's mother was incredulous: "Youyou...you mean..."
She looked at Tang's mother with burning eyes: "Mom, just now, I saw a lot of rats gnawing on the bodies of the victims. Let's eat less of these wild vegetables in the future. Besides, the earth dragon has just passed, and we don't know what the situation is like in the mountains."
"For now, we have no choice but to enter the city. Perhaps there is still a glimmer of hope."
Tang's mother clenched her hands, her mouth trembled, and she was at a loss.
Tang Youyou held her hand tightly: "Mom, don't be afraid, we have come through all the hardships along the way, the days ahead won't be too difficult, believe me!"
Tang's mother burst into tears and nodded.
"What's wrong? Why are you crying again?" Old Man Tang looked at the two of them.
Everyone came over panting.
Tang Youyou announced directly: "We are going into the city. Are your household registrations still there?"
Everyone took out their household registration books and looked at the city wall in the distance, their eyes full of longing.
She waved her hand: "Let's go!"
Five miles away from the Wencheng city gate, groups of disaster victims collapsed on the ground and sighed.
"What should we do? The entrance fee to the city is five taels of silver per person!"
"Isn't this asking us to die?"
"We are all fleeing famine, who has so much silver?"
"Wow, wow, wow... The imperial court wants us to starve to death!"
"You're still talking about the common people, the people of the world, but that's bullshit, they're forcing us to die..."
"Hush! Are you crazy? How dare you talk nonsense like that? Are you trying to kill yourself?"
"Am I wrong? Since Emperor Wen ascended the throne, first Lingnan suffered floods, then Xuzhou, Tuzhou, and other places suffered droughts, and now we are facing the disaster of the earth dragon. In my opinion, he can hardly be called a wise ruler. This is a warning from heaven!"
"Bang!" "I think you've lost your mind. You only studied for two years, haven't you? You're just a poor scholar, and you dare to talk about the emperor? If you want to die, don't drag us into this!"
"That's right, Mr. Hong, you don't even think before you speak!"
Everyone was talking about it.
Tang Youyou heard their words clearly.
Everyone was sitting on the ground, with only a group of them standing, feeling quite like a crane standing out among chickens.
"Hey! Here comes another group of troublemakers!"
"I think they don't want to live anymore."
"Look, there are so many children."
"Are they planning to enter the city? They're really overestimating their capabilities."
A soldier in the distance naturally saw the situation here, frowned slightly, and was about to step forward when a man dragged his wife forward and pushed her.
"Sir, this is my new wife who married into the family this year. She's still young. How much steamed bread can she get in exchange?"
The officer sneered: "This guy has no flesh on his body and his skin is dark. Do you think I look bad?"
The woman knelt on the ground, trembling and not daring to speak.
Seeing this, the man kicked her and bowed: "She is a good cook. At worst, she can be a laundry woman. After all, she is young, hehe!"
The officer took a look and whispered something to the person behind him.
The subordinates threw two steamed buns to him.
The man was stunned: "Sir, give me two more. Didn't we change four yesterday?"
"You want it or not!"
Seeing this, the man had no choice but to swallow his loss.
The soldier grabbed the woman and said, "You are lucky. My mother just needs someone to take care of her."
Tang Youyou was walking in front, so she naturally heard everything they said clearly. She held her hands tightly, never expecting that a life would be worth two steamed buns.
I sighed inwardly: In this era without human rights, women are inherently lowly and have no say. In the future, I will become someone superior to others, someone no one dares to offend.
"Stop? What are you doing?" The soldiers' angry roar brought her back to her senses.
She calmed herself down, walked forward with a smile, and whispered, "Of course it's to give money to the official!"
Then he looked around, the meaning was self-evident.
The officers and soldiers looked at the woman. Although her hair was disheveled and her clothes were tattered, her lips were not chapped and she seemed to be in good spirits. They looked at the people behind them and found the same thing.
He raised his eyebrows and waved his hand: "Follow me!"
Tang Youyou was delighted and said that money can make the devil work. He kept thinking in his mind how to bribe this person.
"You want to enter the city?" the officers and soldiers said bluntly.
"Your Excellency is truly extremely clever!"
"Five taels of silver per person! And a travel permit is required!"
Everyone frowned when they heard this. The gold that the python had given was one tael, which was equivalent to ten taels of silver. It was enough to enter the city, but it was too expensive.
At this time, someone hurried over and said, "Boss, the county magistrate said you should be on the lookout for a man named Bai from Xuzhou."
Tang Youyou's eyes lit up, and he had a slight guess in his mind: "Sir, our carriages and ox carts were robbed by bandits along the way, and we don't have that much silver on us."
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