After the Mid-Autumn Festival, a group of refugees came from outside. No one knew where they came from. They came with hoes on their shoulders and started digging holes in the walls.
It is not difficult to deal with this kind of people. After finding them, just throw some stones at them and shoot a few arrows, and they can basically be driven away.
It's easy to drive them away, but the trouble is that these people are like rats, digging here today and there tomorrow, which is very annoying.
The village added several more high towers for this purpose, and two shifts were working all night, not daring to relax for even a quarter of an hour.
After Zong Yi knew about this, he thought of a way. Instead of throwing stones or shooting arrows, he threw roasted potatoes into the distance.
The refugees were almost starving to death. When they saw food, they became like hungry wolves, tearing it apart to grab the food.
After just a few days, this group of people was not as united as before.
Several months passed like this, until December, almost two years had passed, and still not a drop of rain fell from the sky.
There are fewer and fewer refugees coming to poach people.
Ji Ming and Jin Shaoyang went out once, but they still could not enter the county town, and people were still leaving. The nearby villages were desolate with people dying or fleeing.
When the two men came across corpses on the roadside, they buried those that could be buried, but if the bodies had been dead for too long, they would simply burn them.
Now, what is more serious than the food problem is that there is no water.
Taoyuan Village can still barely survive relying on two deep wells. The water in the Song family's deep well has long become turbid. If it doesn't rain, everyone will die of thirst.
Song Yuehua didn't want to sit and wait for death, so she went to the Bugui Mountain with Duan Yidao, thinking that maybe they could find some hope of survival.
After agreeing with their family, the two of them took food and water bottles and went into the mountains together.
Song Yuehua felt unwell since entering the mountain. All she saw was dead grass and cracked soil. There was a faint stench of decay in the air, and the corpses of small animals could be seen everywhere along the way.
"Do you remember the pond where we caught fish before?" Song Yuehua said, "Let's go there first."
Duan Yidao nodded and said, "Be careful, if there is water, it will definitely be occupied by wild animals."
The two walked to a nearby place, and Duan Yidao asked Song Yuehua to wait while he went to take a look first. Bie Shui didn't find anything but got into trouble instead.
Song Yuehua waited there and looked around. She had seen on the news before that there was a kind of tree that could store water. It was round and big, like a big water jar. Unfortunately, she had never seen such a tree in Mount Bugui.
From the time the drought occurred until now, merchants have been hoarding rice and grain, and officials have sealed off cities and expelled residents. They have really not done a single good thing.
It is not uncommon for people to eat their own children outside. However, after such a long time, there are fewer and fewer refugees who come to the village to cause trouble. I don’t know whether they died of starvation, thirst, or were beaten to death.
After a long while, Duan Yidao jumped down from a high place and said, "Girl, let's not look for that pond. There's not much water in it, and there are a group of hyenas surrounding it."
After hearing this, Song Yuehua said helplessly, "Okay, let's go to the snake cave and take a look."
There is also a small pool of water at the deepest part of the snake cave, and I don’t know what is going on there now.
"The food hidden here won't have been dug up," Duan Yidao said worriedly.
"No," Song Yuehua said, "I found another place to bury it."
After Duan Yidao and Song Yuehua carried the grain over, they simply covered it with rubble in the cave. Later, Song Yuehua thought that this was not appropriate enough, so in the middle of the night she took a hoe and dug a big hole outside the cave, covered it with several large pieces of oilcloth, and buried all the grain.
"Girl..." Duan Yidao was silent for a moment, his eyes sparkling, "Why didn't you call me..."
Song Yuehua, "..."
"Have you forgotten? You went back home holding your waist that night," Song Yuehua said helplessly, "With your body, if I dare to call you, would you dare to go?"
Duan Yidao, "..."
When the two arrived at the snake cave, Duan Yidao was exploring the way in front. This place was different from the pond. Song Yuehua pulled the bowstring and walked carefully behind. The rustling sound of Song Yuehua's footsteps echoed in the snake cave.
"Master Duan, I'll wait for you here." Song Yuehua said in a low voice.
As a person, you still have to know yourself.
Duan Yidao nodded and quickly disappeared around the bend of the cave.
Song Yuehua, "..."
It was pitch black in front, with only the humming sound of wind blowing through the cracks.
Song Yuehua slowly retreated out, almost to the entrance of the cave. There was a partition layer on top, which looked just big enough to hide a person. As soon as Song Yuehua climbed up, she found a large snake skin here.
Is this from Bai Daxian?
Just as Song Yuehua was about to reach out to take it, she stopped. This thing looked thin. Would it break if she pinched it?
This should be the relic of Bai Daxian, so it must not be damaged.
At this time, Duan Yidao's voice came from the depths.
It seemed that there was no danger inside. Song Yuehua took a look at the snake skin and climbed down again. Holding a torch, she went to the deepest part. Unexpectedly, there was still a full pool of water in the pool.
"Where does this water come from?" Song Yuehua asked.
Duan Yidao looked around and said, "It must have seeped out from underground."
"It's dry now, where can we get water to seep in?" Song Yuehua said, "Our well is so deep, but it's almost dry. How can water seep in here?"
Duan Yidao shrugged and said, "Then I don't know."
"There is so much water here, why don't any animals come in? And will the water be gone once it runs out?" Song Yuehua said.
Duan Yidao laughed and said, "I'm afraid that the magical power of Bai Daxian is left here."
Duan Yidao originally just wanted to make a joke, but Song Yuehua nodded seriously after hearing it, "Yes, it must be like this."
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