Chapter 67 Encountering Refugees
Only those longing eyes showed that they were still alive.
This was similar to the refugees at the end of the world, and Su Yue was moved by it.
"Yuer."
The old lady nudged Su Yue.
Su Yue turned around and patted the old lady's hand, asking her to calm down.
The old lady, old lady Yun, and the eldest lady and other female relatives had already burst into tears. They had never seen such a tragic scene.
Old Madam Yun had never seen such a scene before on the battlefield. She immediately asked General Yun to get their food, but was restrained by General Yun.
General Yun is a soldier and has seen scenes more cruel than this. He can be as hard-hearted as stone. Their food will be enough to last for three months at most. After three months, what they will face will be no different from what these refugees will face.
He looked at Su Yue and Murong Li.
And Su Yue called Qin to take the lead.
Leader Qin understood Su Yue's intention and advised, "Miss, we can't intervene. If we intervene, there will be endless troubles. This little food is not enough to fill their teeth. If we give it to them, we will have nothing to eat."
If food could be purchased, there wouldn't be so many people fleeing. As long as there is a glimmer of hope to survive, they will not leave their homes.
"No problem, move all the food out of our carriage and start a fire and cook right here."
Su Yue raised her hand to stop Leader Qin from continuing.
"Thank you, Miss. Thank you, Miss... wuwuwu..."
When the woman heard this, she immediately started cooking and kowtowed to Su Yue in excitement. Her child was saved.
Su Yue squatted down and helped the mother and child up. Looking at the child in her arms, she was breathing less than she was breathing in.
She turned around and glanced at Su Yan: "Give the child some of our water first."
Su Yan was stunned by this scene, and only nodded repeatedly when she heard Su Yue calling her.
"Go with her." Su Yue said to the woman again.
"Thank you, Miss. You are a very kind person, a living Bodhisattva..."
As the woman spoke, she carried the child and followed Su Yan.
When the fleeing team saw that the woman's child was saved, several people holding children rushed out, and Su Yue asked them to follow.
Leader Qin had already carried the food to the old leader.
The old man just raised his hand, and the refugees who wanted to rush up to grab food immediately stopped.
"Everyone, kowtow to our benefactors." The old man shouted to the team.
The refugees immediately knelt down and kowtowed in unison: "Thank you, benefactors."
No one on Su Yue's side spoke, but everyone was in a heavy mood.
After the refugees kowtowed, the old man distributed the food. Su Yue saw that each family received a small amount of food, and thought to herself that the old man was smart and would not distribute it all at once.
After dividing the food, the old man asked them to cook quickly.
Fortunately, the terrain here is wide, which does not affect the camping of more than 300 people.
Zhu Yue asked Leader Qin to deliver some water to them before returning to their camp.
Except for those who were busy cooking, everyone sat together with heavy hearts.
"I, Liu Dazhu, kowtow to all the benefactors."
At this time, the old man came over and knelt in front of them and kowtowed.
The other end was banging so loudly that it gave me a headache just looking at it.
The old marquis helped him up and said, "Brother, get up quickly. This is all we can do."
The old man burst into tears and was so choked up that he couldn't speak.
After a long while, the old man sighed and said, "If we hadn't met you, everyone in our village would have starved to death."
"Sit down and have a drink of water." The old marquis didn't know what to say. He helped the old man sit down and asked the servant to bring a water bag and hand it to the old man.
The old man was not polite. He was really thirsty. He pursed his dry lips, opened the cork, drank two sips, then closed the bottle and returned the water bag to the old marquis.
The old man waved his hand and said, "You can take it. We still have a few."
Yes, there are many more, he can't tell the truth.
The old man hesitated for a moment, then did not refuse, "Thank you very much."
"Brother, are you going to the northwest city?" the old man asked in confusion.
"Yes." The old marquis nodded.
The old man looked towards the capital and said solemnly, "Northwest City won't be safe for much longer. If the imperial court doesn't intervene, even the dignitaries will struggle to survive, and we ordinary people will have no chance of survival. Why are you still heading in?"
How to survive without food and water?
The old marquis just smiled and didn't answer.
"Where are you going?" Murong Li, who had been silent all the time, asked at this time.
The old man looked at him and said: "Let's go to the capital. It's better to stay at the emperor's feet than anywhere else. Once you get there, the emperor will not ignore you, right?"
The old marquis disagreed and said, "The situation in the capital is not very good right now. I advise you to go south."
The old marquis did not tell the old man directly that if the current emperor did nothing, it would be useless in front of him even if he went to the Golden Luan Palace.
In his eyes, the lives of ordinary people are worthless.
As long as it doesn't threaten the throne under his butt, the person will die.
Death relieved him of some of the burdens.
The current emperor is not like the late emperor. The late emperor loved his people like his own children. During his 10 to 20 years in power, there was basically no trouble in Xifeng Kingdom, and the country was peaceful and prosperous.
The old man glanced at the exile group and asked, "Brother, are you from the capital?"
The old marquis nodded and said, "Our roots are here. We can't make it any further, so we want to return to our roots."
The old marquis did not say that they were all exiled prisoners. It would not be a good idea to say it out loud.
After hearing what the old man said, he remained silent for a long time, as if he was thinking about something.
After half a cup of tea, the old man stood up and bowed to everyone: "Thank you for telling me."
Then he returned to the refugee group, probably to discuss things with someone.
"Oh, what a sin." The old lady couldn't help but sigh.
The old marquis patted her and said, "Don't feel sorry for them. Our situation is not much better than theirs."
The old lady frowned, nodded and sighed.
"How long will our food last?" the old marquis asked Su Yue.
Su Yue said, "Don't worry, Grandfather. We have enough food."
The old marquis understood Su Yue's meaning, "Then Grandfather is relieved."
"Let's move somewhere else tonight." Su Yue said after thinking about it.
"What does Yue girl mean?"
Su Yue nodded: "That's exactly what Grandfather meant. The refugees saw what happened just now, and there's no telling what they'll do at night."
In order to have something to eat, the refugees will definitely come here and will get food by any means.
There was no food, but they had so many horses, and that was food.
Also, she had another plan. She would wait until dark at night to deliver the food and water in the space to the refugees.
In the past, every night when I had free time, I would dig a pond in the space, and then collect water from the river when I saw it into the pond. Now the pond is five acres in size and is full of water.
After being nourished by spiritual energy, it can be drunk directly.
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