"Huan'er, you have to take care of your own family first, then take care of us. Don't give all the good things to your uncle. It doesn't matter if your uncle's family doesn't eat well. We will be able to reach Mocheng in three or four days. When we get there, there will be someone to pick us up at your uncle's house, so it won't be so difficult. Then you can bring your family to join our team."
When Wang Shiyu heard this, she silently looked up at her great uncle. It seemed that her great uncle was quite useful. You know, they were about to arrive in Mo City. After leaving Mo City, there would be more bandits and thieves on the road, especially some robbers.
Originally, the family was still wondering, what if they encountered bandits or robbers on the way, what would they do?
Now with people like Uncle Zhang, they should be able to travel safely on the road, but I don’t know if they will encounter any other disasters later.
The weather was so dry that after just one day and night, the fields that were once still usable were now covered with cracks from the sun.
It looks horrible. Even though I knew the weather was extremely hot, I didn't expect the fields to be baked like this.
Doesn't this completely cut off the farmers' escape route? Furthermore, the number of people fleeing famine has been growing larger and larger these days, with no end in sight.
The Wang family members followed closely behind the prisoners, never falling behind or being overtaken by anyone, and they firmly occupied the tail of the prisoners.
There are more and more people on the road, which also means that there are all kinds of people in the team. Some ruthless and dishonest people are here. They dare not stay too far away from the prisoner team, nor do they dare to contact the people behind them.
Now there are several people from the entire village joining the group fleeing famine. It can be seen that they have enough food, but not enough drinking water.
Sometimes Wang Shiyu looked back and saw the children behind her in tattered clothes. They could afford to eat but not drink water, and their lips were cracked and bleeding. After looking at those children for a while, she felt a little sorry for them.
They had no water to cook, so they must have eaten raw dry food, which they swallowed directly, or peeled tree bark and grass roots. But if Wang Shiyu felt sorry for these people, the rest of the people would rush over and eat them until there was nothing left but bones.
So she could only turn a blind eye and pretend not to see it.
With the subsidies from the Wang family over the past two days, Zhang Tao and the others' injuries have gotten better and better, and they even have more strength to walk than when they just came out of Jinling.
And they seemed to have a hope of survival. You know, when I first met them, I thought these people would not live for more than a few days, especially those officers who looked ferocious.
If they hadn't seen these people taking great care of the Zhang family's feelings these days, they would have been deceived by their appearance.
In fact, if you think about it, it's almost the same. If Grandpa Wang hadn't recognized that the person in the team ahead was his uncle, these people would probably be close to death. They had no medicine for their wounds and no food to replenish their energy. Even with the help of these officers, or the secret care, they would still be close to death.
Second Aunt has been a little distracted these past two days, with visible anxiety. She's probably thinking of her parents' home again. Although she has given up hope on them, she doesn't want them to die just like that. Now, looking at the situation on the roadside and the dried-up river, she has basically concluded that Yunshan Town will definitely not be in a good state, even though there is a big well at the entrance of the town.
It can't hold on for long. Now even the land is dry like this, with dense weeds, as if centipedes are crawling on it. How many days can the deep water well last?
In fact, Zhou Guichun was right. Yunshan Town was in chaos. If one wanted to leave Yunshan Town properly, one had to go to Anshan County to get a pass. Otherwise, even if one fled to other places without a pass, there would be no way to settle down there, unless one became a refugee. But becoming a refugee was the worst option after all.
You must know that when refugees arrive in a new place, without a pass, they will not be arranged to live in a rich place, but instead in the deep mountains or remote areas.
For those who have a pass, things will be much better. With a pass, they can directly settle down in the town under the county town, and even the government office will provide subsidies. However, the county magistrate of Anshan Town no longer issues pass to others. Those who want to leave with the pass are making trouble in front of the county government office all day long.
There was no way to issue a pass because the county government had received an order from above not to allow these people to move freely and to wait for the imperial court's disaster relief team to arrive.
Once everyone migrates south, there will be no one in the north. How will these lands be cultivated? Once the drought is over, this place will become a deserted city.
Xuzhou is the territory of Prince Cheng, and Prince Cheng naturally does not want these people to leave at will. In this era, population is the main labor force.
Moreover, the imperial court has said that it has sent troops to escort disaster relief supplies and silver, so Prince Cheng has banned all counties from providing passes to the villagers below.
The second reason is that because some crops cannot grow in the fields, the food at home is getting less and less, and those who sell food in the city have raised the price to an outrageous level, and they can no longer afford to eat.
Naturally, they wanted to leave this place, especially the hardest-hit area where the fireball landed. The houses they had just built could not withstand the torment after it landed again a month later. Naturally, they wanted to leave here and seek a way to survive.
They heard that the south was rich in water and that even rice and wheat could be grown two or three times a year, so they wanted to go south to seek a way to make a living.
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