Chapter 4: Escape from the Troubled Times 2
Let’s put the original owner’s memories aside for now. The most urgent thing is to find a place to rest in the shade and plan the next itinerary.
In any case, Lin Xia would never go after the original owner's village. It would be fine if there was nothing wrong with that village normally, but if there was something wrong, it would be the biggest source of danger.
Lin Xia squinted her eyes and looked at the sun. It was probably noon. She knew that it was not a smart decision to rush on the road, but sitting here was a dead end. Apart from anything else, her ability to endure pain was top-notch.
Although this body was very weak, it was still better than the one in the previous life. It was younger and had stronger recovery ability. After drinking a sip of water and eating a piece of biscuit, I felt much more relaxed. However, the high fever in my body had not completely subsided and my head was dizzy.
Lin Xia stood up with the help of the tree, and using both hands, he broke off a stick of suitable thickness and pounded it on the ground.
"Well, it's pretty strong." Lin Xia muttered to himself.
In this way, Lin Xia staggered and walked south with firm belief.
I took a rest every ten steps. If I was really thirsty, I would take a sip of water to moisten my lips. After walking for about two hours, I finally saw a yellow mud house in the distance.
Lin Xia's condition at this time was not very good. His face was pale, his lips were purple, cracked and bleeding, beads of sweat were dripping from his forehead, his eyes were blacking, and the house in the distance seemed to be moving and twisting its body constantly.
Lin Xia urgently needed to rest, so she stopped to catch her breath, took a deep breath, and continued walking towards the dilapidated house.
When I got closer, I found that it was a small dilapidated temple. There was only half a wooden door on the outside that was about to fall down. The roof had half collapsed, and there were some colorful paintings on the walls that had not completely faded.
There were a few rotten wood and a pile of straw in the house, and there were signs of life on the ground. It was obvious that someone had rested here recently. She guessed that it must be a refugee passing by here to escape famine.
Lin Xia walked into the dilapidated temple, patted the straw with a stick, and found nothing unusual, so he sat down. He lay there in a daze for more than ten minutes before he came to his senses.
He propped himself up and leaned against the wall before he had the energy to think about what to do next. The original owner had no idea about state affairs and didn't even know the current emperor's last name.
All we know is that the country is called Dajing and this year is the 39th year of Qing'an, which means that this emperor has been in power for 39 years and is quite old.
Lin Xia dug out from the depths of his memory that the beheading of the Zhou family had happened three years ago. Because General Zhou had great prestige and was hailed as the God of War and Protector by the people of Dajing, the beheading of the general's family for treason caused a great sensation, and many people even knelt down and begged for mercy, but it still failed to stop the Zhou family from declining.
Lin Xia thought to herself, no wonder, people only know General Zhou but don't know which family the emperor is from. The Zhou family is popular and has great military power. No matter how loyal such a person is, the superiors will be wary and want to eliminate him.
Since the fall of the Zhou Dynasty, the Hu people in the north began to invade frequently, but no large-scale war broke out.
Lin Xia guessed that because the climate had been good in the past few years, the Hu people were not short of food for the time being, and they had been testing the strength of the new defenders in recent years.
Lin Xia remembered that the background story introduced by System Jiujiu said that natural disasters occurred frequently.
It is reasonable to guess that this drought and locust plague started and will not end so soon.
It also said that the Hu people invaded the south and the world was in chaos.
At present, the Hu people have not yet reached the point of invading the south. There must be more than one factor causing the chaos in the world. Maybe the old emperor is about to die, and once he dies, the people above will start fighting for power and recruiting soldiers.
War and natural disasters forced the lower-class people to suffer from a lack of survival, which gave the male and female protagonists a reasonable chance to revolt.
The more Lin Xia analyzed, the more anxious he became. He didn't know what would happen next. This place was still too close to the north. Once the north was breached, he would only be cannon fodder.
She must rush to Lingzhou as soon as possible and stay at the heroine's base camp, which is safe and not affected by the drought.
I thought so, but I am still weak. I will rest here for one night and start my journey tomorrow.
I was so hungry that I couldn't help but eat half of the pancake.
The taste of the pancake is hard to describe. It is rough and has a sour smell. It is the most unpalatable thing Lin Xia has eaten in the past ten years, even worse than medicine.
That's it. You have to keep it well and not eat it all at once.
Lin Xia looked at his thin body. He didn't even have a weapon. How could he do it with just a stick? It was too dangerous.
After she recovered, she walked out of the ruined temple and wandered around. There were a lot of rubble all around, and her target was these stones.
She needed a sharper stone to make a stone knife. No matter how effective it was, as a weak woman alone, having a weapon would always make her feel more at ease.
After searching for a long time without finding a suitable one, Lin Xia found a stone and broke off a stone blade, then sharpened it on other stones.
Still sharp.
Lin Xia went back satisfied.
She put the stone knife and stick aside, lay down and fell asleep. She was so tired.
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In the middle of the night, a thin figure huddled in the corner.
At this moment, her brows were slightly furrowed with some uneasiness, and she felt as if danger was approaching, so she suddenly opened her eyes.
There was a figure standing in front of him, with greedy eyes flashing in the darkness. At this moment, he was about to stretch out his hands to Lin Xia, but he seemed to have not expected Lin Xia to wake up, and was dazed for a moment.
Plop... plop...
Lin Xia's heart was beating wildly, and the only sound she could hear in her eardrums was the sound of her own heartbeat.
But he still reacted very quickly, stretched out his leg and kicked, then picked up the stick at hand and swung it up.
Unfortunately, the killing power was really limited and it didn't cause any harm to the opponent, so he could only run sideways.
The other party was hit by a stick and rushed forward with a curse. Without waiting for Lin Xia to run away, he grabbed Lin Xia and threw her heavily to the ground.
Lin Xia's tailbone hurt from the fall and she couldn't help but groan. The physical difference between men and women was fully reflected at this moment.
Hearing Lin Xia's voice, the other party immediately became excited.
"I didn't expect it was a young woman!" the man said with a lewd laugh. As he said this, he was about to come up and pull Lin Xia's clothes.
Lin Xia calmed down at this time and remembered that he had placed a stone knife nearby.
She stared at the man, retreating towards the straw pile while calmly groping for the stone knife.
Seeing Lin Xia's weak appearance, the man let down his guard and walked forward in a wretched manner.
The time is now!
With his left hand, he picked up a handful of ashes from the ground and sprinkled them into the man's eyes.
"Ah~ you bitch! I'm going to kill you!" The man covered his eyes and screamed in pain.
Before the man could react, Lin Xia immediately got up and slashed the man's neck hard with her right hand.
puff!
Blood splattered and Lin Xia felt a warm and wet feeling on her face. Although she couldn't see clearly, it seemed as if everything in front of her was blood red.
Huh, Huh...
The man covered his neck tightly and made a loud noise. His eyes widened and he slowly fell backwards, his body still twitching.
Lin Xia's hand holding the stone knife trembled slightly, and his fingers exerted force. His fingertips turned white in the moonlight, without a trace of blood.
She gasped for breath, her grip loosened, and the blood-stained stone knife fell to the ground before she reacted.
She killed someone...
A feeling of nausea rose in his throat, and Lin Xia immediately ran out of the dilapidated temple gate, leaning against the wall and retching. There was no food in his stomach, only some sour water that came out.
She kept telling herself in her heart to stay calm, that she was not wrong, that he was the first to attack, and that he deserved to die.
After repeating this several times, Lin Xia calmed down and wanted to escape immediately. She had not yet developed the ability to stay in the same room with a corpse, and she didn't even dare to check to see if he was dead.
Thinking of this, he stumbled forward, but after running ten meters, Lin Xia stopped and suddenly looked back at the dark ruined temple that looked like a man-eating monster.
There was confusion in his eyes, and then he became determined.
She turned around, went back to the ruined temple and walked in.
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