Things are worse than anyone imagined.

The rain not only did not stop, but it got heavier and heavier. It rained for three whole days.

There were life-threatening dangers everywhere in the forest. Zhou Fuan and Ji Tai were anxious and wanted to leave, but the road ahead was flooded and they couldn't get through.

I wanted to retreat, but there was a landslide behind me and there was no way to retreat.

Hundreds of people were trapped in this forest.

Even if Zhou Fuan and Ji Tai were anxious, they couldn't take everyone to die. Besides, many of their officers were sick because of the rain.

So many people could only watch the heavy rain outside the cave while staying in the cave.

During these three days, Gu Yueyan and Bai Suzi went to the forest to find some herbs and made some alternative antidotes for Lu Zan. They could only temporarily control the poison in the prisoners' bodies. But after all, the prisoners were poisoned, injured, and rained on. Within a few days, more than 20 prisoners died of illness, and 30 or 40 others were sick with fever and could not walk.

Ji Tai cursed people in the cave every day. He had a bad temper.

Several prisoners died in the cave every day these days. Although the remaining prisoners were afraid of the poison pills, they were also ready to take action.

Lu Zan was more anxious than Ji Tai.

Ji Tai was cursing because there was no salt. After eating salt-free meals for three days, his mouth was so tasteless that he could feel a bird's mouth.

Not only did Lu Zan and his fellow Zhaowei not have salt to eat, but what was even more terrifying was that they did not have as much live food as the imperial guards. They had dried meat to chew, but they could only chew dry food.

Now, they could stay in the cave for a few days with the dry food they ate, but the prisoners were out of food.

The prisoners they were escorting from Zhaoyu Prison were not like exiled prisoners, and they had no family members to send them things. They were all dependent on the Zhaowei to keep them alive with a black-faced nest every morning and evening. Now that three days had passed, the remaining black-faced nests could only hold out for two more days at most. It was thought that after the food supply was cut off, the prisoners would definitely rebel.

Lu Zan broke out in a cold sweat on his back.

It’s not like he didn’t have his eyes on Zhou Fuan.

However, Zhou Fuan's food supply was running out. He could only last three or two days longer than them. But Zhou Fuan was better off than him. After all, those exiles had families and would not easily rebel.

"We might as well poison all these criminals to death."

Behind the scenes, Ji Tai said to Lu Zan more than once, "Just kill all the families of Su and Wang, and then kill the prisoners. We will go to the broken bridge to connect the joints ourselves, this way it will be more convenient."

Ji Tai was furious, thinking that if the emperor hadn't ordered it, he would have followed the Su family to Xiangjun, waited for them to meet, got the Su family order, and found the Dragon Guard Order, so that he could kill the Su family. He wanted to kill the Su family right now. Throwing away these prisoners was really frustrating.

"Are you going to disobey?"

Lu Zan looked at Ji Tai expressionlessly.

"The capital has been shaken up, and the palace may have collapsed. Don't you want to go back and see your family? I miss my brother, and I'm worried that something has happened to him. It's already like this, it's an emergency, and we should handle it flexibly. What's wrong with that?"

After hearing what Ji Tai said, Lu Zan shook his head, "No matter what time it is, I will never disobey the imperial decree. That is a capital crime punishable by death and extermination of all nine generations of the clan."

Ji Tai was so angry that his liver hurt. How could this man be so stubborn? The two of them worked together, as long as he didn't say anything, how could the emperor know. As for the imperial guards around him, Ji Tai believed that no one dared to go against him on such a big matter.

"If you want to kill Zhou Fuan's people, Zhou Fuan won't watch you do it."

Lu Zan was anxious and was really afraid of Ji Tai, this reckless man. If he didn't care about anything and just killed the Su family, he would be in trouble.

As soon as the matter involved his brother, Ji Tai became timid.

Finally, on the afternoon of the fourth day, the rain stopped and the official sent out to explore the road came back and said that the water ahead had receded, revealing the road and that we could try to move forward.

Without thinking too much, everyone set off quickly.

As usual, Zhou Fuan led the exiled prisoners in the front, followed by more than a hundred other prisoners.

"Don't run too far, don't stray too far from the team."

Along the way, the officers waved their whips and shouted.

Because of the lack of food, the officials only gave the prisoners a black nest every day, and the prisoners were all starving. When they came out, there were some fresh wild vegetables, tender leaves, and some unknown wild fruits in the forest after the rain.

Especially the exiled prisoners on Zhou Fuan's side, all of them brought their families with them, young and old. They picked fruits as they walked, and stuffed them into their mouths after picking them.

When leaving today, Zhou Fuan still did not put shackles on the male prisoners or ropes on the female prisoners, considering that the prisoners would dig wild vegetables in the forest to find food.

So the exiled prisoners picked the fruits as they walked.

Zhou Fuan thought that when he set up camp at night, he would put the wild vegetables picked by the prisoners together and cook three big pots of wild vegetable porridge, which could save some food.

You don't know until you walk away. Once you walk away, you will find that there are landslides and road collapses everywhere.

Given the current situation, I don’t know how many days it will take to walk in the mountains and forests before we can get to the official road.

If the dragon on the official road was broken, or if the dragon in the town where they went to buy food was broken, they would have to continue staying in the mountains and forests.

When Zhou Fuan thought of these possibilities, he felt a chill down his spine.

At this time, he followed the exile team with a dozen officials. Seeing the women and children digging wild vegetables everywhere, he did not stop them too much.

"Mom, can we also dig some wild vegetables?"

Song Jinhe looked around and saw that everyone was digging wild vegetables from time to time. Only they and the Wang family were still not moving.

"Dig, Madam Su, take the children and dig some."

Madam Su nodded. These days, they had been living in the cave relying on the food brought out by Mi Baobao. Not only did they not suffer, but everyone's injuries were healed, and the children even gained some weight.

So as soon as they set out on the road today, people started looking at their family members with strange eyes, and the Su family noticed that they had overlooked this detail.

Everywhere there were prisoners with yellow faces and weak feet from hunger, but they were the only family that was dressed neatly and didn't have a trace of yellowness or thinness on their faces.

"I took the children to dig. There are many herbs here. They are all good things."

Gu Yueyan had already seen many fresh and tender herbs on the roadside and in the forest after the rain.

These days, Gu Yueyan followed Bai Suzi to treat the injuries of the imperial guards and Zhaowei, and became a familiar face.

The officials were very kind to Gu Yueyan, and Zhou Fuan also agreed to the conditions proposed by Gu Yueyan. In the future, during the exile, the men of the second branch of the Su family would not wear shackles, and the women would not be tied up with ropes.