Murong Qingli quickly wiped his eyes and then asked in a calm voice.
"What's going on?"
"The road ahead seems to be blocked by the caravan."
Si Muqiao, who heard the voice, quickly got rid of that complicated emotion.
She wiped her eyes with a handkerchief and looked at Murong Qingli to explain.
"I had a dream just now, and I couldn't help but have tears in my eyes."
"Master Rong, what's going on outside? Why don't you go over and take a look?"
"Well, let's go." Murong Qingli nodded without asking any more questions.
After all, even he, who was usually cold-blooded and ruthless, was moved by the movie, let alone Si Meiren, a woman.
After An Yi and Guo Fu drove the carriage to a place where it could no longer move forward and stopped, Murong Qingli and Simuqiao got off the carriage.
It turned out that there was more than one group of people blocking their way at this moment.
In addition to those people who were disguised as caravans and escorting large quantities of goods, there were also many civilians in ragged clothes.
The common people stood aside, covered in dust and dirt, and said nothing.
But that expectant look was always fixed on the goods escorted by the caravan.
What is more obvious is that the people in the caravan have started an internal conflict and are quarreling at the moment.
The one who made the most noise was Murong Qingli and Si Muqiao who walked over, but they didn't notice them.
Si Muqiao stood there and listened for a while, still confused.
Mainly, those people were arguing in the local language, and she could only understand about 50% to 60%.
It seemed that the reason for their quarrel was related to the people nearby and the goods they were escorting.
"Master Rong, can you understand what they are saying?"
"It's quite complicated, but it's all for the goods we're escorting."
"Those goods are...food?" Si Muqiao asked tentatively.
What else could interest a group of people fleeing famine, besides food?
"Yes, that should be correct. And those people are not ordinary caravans, they should be officials from nearby states and counties."
After hearing what Murong Qingli said, Si Muqiao also began to observe carefully.
"If you are an official, why do you want to disguise yourself as a merchant caravan?"
"Also, where was this grain sent to? Guozhou?" Si Muqiao asked puzzledly.
"Are you afraid?" Murong Qingli looked sudden.
Just at this moment, a child among the people standing nearby suddenly fell down.
A woman quickly squatted down and picked up the child, patting his face and shouting in a hoarse and painful voice.
"Ya Zai, Ya Zai, what's wrong with you?"
"Wake up and look at your mother!"
"Zhu Er's wife, is your Yazai fainted from hunger? I...I still have some quick biscuits here, you can give them to him first."
Beside her, an older woman gritted her teeth and took out a black, hard cake.
After taking a reluctant look at it, he handed it over.
"Thank you, Aunt Huang!"
"When Yazai wakes up, I'll ask him to kowtow to you."
The woman hesitated for a moment, looked at the unconscious child in her arms, and finally took the black, hard cake.
I saw the woman pinching the boy's philtrum several times and then trying to force the black cake into his mouth.
Si Muqiao immediately spoke out to stop him.
“Wait!”
When she spoke, almost everyone's eyes fell on her.
However, Si Muqiao didn't care about those at all.
She glanced at Guo Fu and said, "Please, housekeeper Guo, go get my medicine box from the carriage."
"yes."
Guo Fu subconsciously glanced at Murong Qingli, saw him nodded calmly, and quickly turned around and ran to get the things.
"Madam, I'm a doctor. Your child has fainted. You can't feed him anything now."
"How about I help him first?"
"You...are you really a doctor?" The woman looked at Si Muqiao, somewhat unbelieving.
The woman in front of me is so beautiful that she doesn't look like an ordinary person. She is like a fairy from heaven.
The man standing next to her was even more handsome and had a compelling temperament.
It’s obvious that such a person is out of reach for poor people like them.
And now, such a beautiful woman actually took the initiative to tell him that she was a doctor and wanted to treat her baby's illness?
"Yes." Si Muqiao nodded.
"Then I'll trouble you, sir."
The woman nodded and looked at Si Muqiao with anticipation in her eyes.
Just then, Eunuch Guo came over with Simuqiao's small medicine box and handed it to her.
Si Muqiao squatted in front of the woman with a small medicine box in his hand, and first reached out to touch the child's femoral artery.
Then he pretended to feel his pulse and checked his pupils.
Then she took out a stethoscope from the medicine box and placed it on the child's heart, abdomen and other parts for a careful examination.
Murong Qingli was very curious about the strange-shaped stethoscope that Si Muqiao took out.
However, at this moment, he was more concerned about the situation in front of him.
"What has your child eaten recently?" Si Muqiao frowned slightly.
The child in front of me had a very hard abdomen.
After ruling out the possibilities of tumors and ascites, she actually already had some guesses in her heart.
"There was nothing to eat, so I ate some Guanyin soil."
The woman couldn't continue talking, and she covered her face with her ragged sleeves and cried bitterly.
If she had had something to eat, she wouldn't have to watch her child eat dirt.
Before, she had secretly bitten her finger and let the tooth baby suck it.
As a result, the child saw her like that and cried and made a fuss, refusing to let her do it, and even said that he would kill her if she did that again.
"Zhu Er's wife, you can't eat too much Guanyin soil!"
"If you eat too much of that, the kid will die of overeating."
Hearing the sighs from the crowd, the woman cried even harder.
"I know, but what can I do?"
"I am just a peasant woman. I don't know how to do anything except farming."
"This year there is a severe drought and the fields have no harvest, yet the people above are coming to collect taxes. Isn't this going to drive people to death?"
"We finally managed to escape, but his father got lost along the way. We..."
"There's nothing we can do!"
The woman's words silenced the people standing there.
Yes, who has an easy life among them?
Eat enough? Forget it.
Nowadays, they are very happy if they can have one meal a day.
Since they started fleeing from famine, even the grass and leaves on the road have been almost picked up.
But they were still dizzy with hunger.
They don’t even know if they will faint from hunger the next moment?
"To be honest, your child's condition is not very good."
"He ate too much Guanyin soil. Unless he can excrete all of it in his stomach, otherwise..."
When Si Muqiao said this, everyone present understood immediately.
Otherwise, you will be starved to death.
What else can I do?
In years of famine, human life is as cheap as grass.
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