At this time, the sun was setting, and the golden sunlight shone on the green weeds on both sides of the road.
There are dense forests on both sides of the official road ahead, but there is a rustling sound among the branches and leaves, and the branches and leaves are shaking violently among the weeds.
Xie Miaoxuan took a closer look.
There were some ragged refugees resting and cooling down in the shade on both sides. When they saw them, they all looked over, their eyes empty and numb.
"U--"
Xie Miaoxuan was riding a horse at this time, raising his hand to signal the team to stop.
After walking another ten miles, they were about to set up camp and prepare to rest and have dinner, but the sudden appearance of small groups of refugees on both sides of the road made people nervous for no reason.
Xie Miaoxuan looked far into the distance and found that wherever he could see at the end of the dense forest, there were refugees squatting or leaning on them with their families in tow.
All of these refugees were turning blue. They were obviously hungry. She sighed in her heart, knowing that the situation of the refugees she would encounter in the future would only be worse than these. The situation of these refugees could be considered the best now. of.
But they were scattered on both sides of the official road. They couldn't advance rashly like this.
Someone was sent to check the news. Xie Miaoxuan dismounted and walked to the roadside and hugged a group of refugees who looked like a family.
The family members saw that there were long knives hanging on both sides of her waist, and a long whip in her hand, followed by a handsome and fairy-like man beside her, but they shrank and did not dare to look at her.
Xie Miaoxuan saw her panic and stopped before she was ten feet away.
He asked softly to a woman holding a child, "Madam, where do you come from?"
The woman was timid and did not speak, but an old woman next to her answered the question for her.
"This is the old woman and her daughter-in-law. Our family fled from Wanzhou..."
Listening to the woman's rambling explanation, Xie Miaoxuan finally figured out that this group of people were from several nearby villages and towns, and everyone basically had this roundabout relationship with each other.
Among the four states affected by severe drought, Wanzhou is the closest to Kyoto.
Therefore, everyone was organized by the village chief Li Zheng to escape together. Because of the large team, the population loss has been relatively small so far.
When a family is really struggling, neighbors will help each other.
These refugees brought their children with them, and they were dressed in rags. The children were held in the arms of their mothers and nibbling a piece of black steamed buns. Although they were a little thin and disfigured, their eyes were clear and clear.
She knelt down, handed a piece of meat to the child, and then stood up.
Because they are the first wave of people to escape from the disaster area, their mental state is pretty good in all aspects.
She took out the meat strips and watched as no one showed signs of hunger. The most they did was swallow their saliva and turn their heads to the side.
Fleeing from famine in the south and hiding from war in the north, this is just the beginning, and it will get worse and worse in the future.
Xie Miaoxuan felt heavy in his heart.
She can't take these people away, not to mention that this is just the first wave of refugees she encounters when she goes south. There are hundreds of them. The situation she encounters in the future will only get worse and worse, and there will be more and more people.
The number of people in her team is already the limit that Buqu can protect. Any more people will only bring disaster to her team.
Before leaving, she summoned the village chief and village chief among the team, informed them of the situation in Kyoto, pointed out a way to survive, and secretly gave each of them a piece of gold cake as a way to make ends meet when necessary.
If there is a chance to meet again in the future, she still respects the village elders who can bring the clan members together.
Other than that, she really couldn't help.
In troubled times, we cannot have a Holy Mother's heart, as it will only harm others and ourselves.
She only has so much power now. She can only hope that people in high positions can have a little conscience and give these refugees a way to survive.
"Let's go."
Xie Miaoxuan took the lead, and the team slowly passed through the bright-eyed refugees and walked forward along the official road.
Both parties were a little nervous.
In this tense atmosphere, everyone quietly clenched their weapons, and Xie Miaoxuan always maintained a kind smile.
Fortunately, with the clan elder's advice, there was no conflict between the two parties.
After breaking out of the jungle, everyone set up camp in silence and then ate and rested.
Two or three more days passed like this, and the sun grew brighter as we went south.
It was obviously the beginning of winter, and the air was inexplicably dry. Especially at noon, the sun was so hot that it hurt my skin.
The night is getting darker.
A bright moon hangs in the sky, and its silver brilliance shines on the earth.
Under such moonlight, such a night, after boiling a bucket of hot water and taking a bath, even the fatigue on my body seemed to have been washed away.
If you walk south for a few days, bathing will become a luxury.
So today, almost everyone in the team who had free time was forced to take a bath by her, while all the men ran to wash themselves in the stream.
When He Ya came out after washing up, she saw Xie Miaoxuan holding a weed from nowhere in his mouth, lying on the side of the car with his legs crossed, looking sideways at the villagers who were cooking around the fire.
In the darkness, her eyes were half-closed, like a silent cheetah, emitting a bright and mysterious light.
His eyes brightened even more when he saw himself.
"Yaniang, you look so beautiful like this."
When she was wearing women's clothing, her beautiful appearance and watery amorous feelings were all put away, and her hair was neatly combed on the top of her head and tied with a jade crown.
The waist is strong and thin, the proportions are perfect, and the grace is natural when walking.
"No, I can't call you Ya Niang anymore. How do you want others to call you?"
He Ya took a look at her face, which was as bright as the autumn moon, and said, "Please give me a name from the girl."
Xie Miaoxuan had a headache. What name should she give to such a beautiful young man?
"In the future, we will spend more time pretending to be men. I hope you will become a very important person, and everything will be clear and clear again, and you will be called Qing Che?"
He Ya, oh no, He Qingche seemed to be overjoyed and took Xie Miaoxuan's hand, held her hand in his palm and rubbed it, "Okay, from now on I will call you Qingche."
Xie Miaoxuan stared at her too-flat chest, pulled her aside, and whispered, "Qingche, don't restrain yourself too much. When we are still growing, if we tie too many layers, it will easily deform. "
"Huh?" He Qingche's big almond-shaped eyes were full of questions.
Xie Miaoxuan had no choice but to break it and mash it into pieces and said to her, "I also wear a corset, but look at me, it's not as exaggerated as yours. The little buns are all gone."
It would be too harsh on myself.
Xie Miaoxuan felt hurt for her.
"Actually, it doesn't matter. Don't be afraid of people seeing that you are a woman. We wear men's clothes just for convenience."
He Qingche's eyes fell on Xie Miaoxuan's collar. Her height had increased dramatically recently, and the fair skin on her face shuddered when she was so close, and he suddenly withdrew the hands that the two of them were still holding.
"Eh.."
Xie Miaoxuan looked at her face as red as a pancake, and thought to herself, that's not the case. We are all girls, so why is it like this?
Xie Miaoxuan thought to herself that the ancients were generally very restrained. Until many ladies got married, they thought that the husband had hidden the baby under the soles of his shoes. Maybe she was too Meng Lang?
But the tips of her ears turned red from embarrassment, and she looked like smoke was coming from her head.
The big twinkling eyes are really cute.
Holding back her hand that wanted to reach out to touch her ears, she whispered a few more words into her ear,
It wasn't until He Qingche muttered that he knew and nodded lightly that Xie Miaoxuan let her go.
It's really not easy for her as a girl, and she has too many things to worry about.
Xie Miaoxuan continued to cross her legs and look at the moon with the grass root in her mouth, slowly rocking herself into sleep.
When the surroundings fell silent, the only sound in the entire camp was the chirping of insects and birds.
Only the night watchmen were left walking around holding torches.
Some black figures stood high up in the distance and looked over here. They squatted on top and blended in with the night and the woods.
A thick voice muttered in a low voice, "The boss is a fat sheep, of course, but it's a bit hard to chew. There are three hundred people guarding this group of people, both young and old. The total number of people here is only 200." Moreover, all of them are tall and strong, if we can’t defeat them, why don’t we just forget about it.”
The leader who was pulled by him pulled back his sleeves with a hiss, "Who told you that we have to fight her hard? Haven't you read a book, haven't you heard the saying 'it's easy to hide from an open gun, but hard to guard against a hidden arrow'?" "
Meng Pu's mouth twitched, no matter how difficult it was to guard against hidden arrows, it could not overcome the disparity in strength.
He could see that each of these people were good players, not fat-minded merchants. Each of those tribes was powerful and their footing was very stable.
He was born with the ability to predict good and bad luck. For some reason, he always felt that if they really ambushed this pair, something terrible would happen to them.
Meng Pu tried his best to admonish, "Masters, it's better not to provoke this pair of people. If you wait a little longer, there will definitely be more bones to gnaw on."
"Go on, go on, you are such a coward, why did I recruit you as my master in the first place?"
Meng Pu was pushed and knocked aside by the bandit leader. The bandit leader's eyes flashed with the burning desire to win. Soon other brothers came up to block his sight and occupied his position.
Looking at the situation, knowing that he could no longer persuade him, Meng Pu simply backed away slowly towards the back of the crowd, turned around and left.
How could he not see that the boss was not unaware of the danger, but that he was just a lustful addict again. The man pretending to be a young man at the front of the team was a beautiful girl, and there was also a beautiful girl in the carriage. of great beauty.
Any of these two people he pulled out were stunningly beautiful that he had never seen before.
He was dazzled by beauty.
He didn't want his life, but Meng Pu felt that his life was still very precious.
Anyway, he was escaping all the way, and he knew how to assess the situation best. He was not afraid that there would be no way to survive. If this family couldn't survive, he would just change to the next family.
Fortunately, he ran fast, just two hours after he left.
The leader took advantage of the change of defense in the middle of the night and sneaked closer to Xie Miaoxuan's camp while hiding in the dark.
