After cleaning up the "crime scene", Qingyan followed a dozen local villagers and walked in the direction they came from.
They had just discussed it again. Even if they wanted to flee south, they couldn't leave empty-handed. They had to go back and pack some luggage for use on the road.
As far as they said, there was no one in their village and the two villages next door. This small group of Khitan soldiers were also passing by and happened to catch them secretly harvesting grain in the fields, so they caught them together.
A large number of Khitan soldiers are mostly stationed near some towns, where the space is larger and there are more supplies to grab.
For a small mountain village like Yangjiaping built in the mountains, they will only go into the village to raid if they come across it. If they don't come across it, they will basically ignore it and won't look for it specifically.
It was also their misfortune that the village's fields were not far from this road.
Normally, few people walk this road. Most of them are merchants who are familiar with the terrain. People who are not familiar with it go to the official road, which is wide and flat and can be used by horse-drawn carriages.
Not only is it a long way from taking the official road, you also have to enter the city. You have to pay taxes and fees when entering the city, especially businessmen, so people who do business all year round will avoid it.
These Khitan soldiers must have caught a trader, and the mountain road they found out caused disaster to all the villages along the road.
Although most of the villagers ran away in advance, the manpower was limited and they left in a hurry. They all brought ready-made food, pots and pans, and some bedding and clothing.
I have kept a lot of things at home and hidden them in the cellar, thinking that I might come back and use them if I have a chance in the future.
It's not like they were going to steal things from other people's homes. They already had clothes, bedding, and other things at home.
Moreover, a lot of grain is still in the fields and has not been harvested. If it is not harvested this year, it will be wasted. They go and collect the grain, which will be enough for the road.
When Qingyan heard that there were clothes at home and food in the fields, she felt good about it. She was worried that there was something wrong with her clothes.
It’s best to dress like them, it won’t be so eye-catching, and you can use dark foundation on your face. She has it in her bag, she got it from her parents, hehehe...
As for the backpack on my body, it should be fine if I find a piece of rag to tie it to the outside.
She actually doesn't have to worry about food. There is a lot of food in the Chou Chou space. Even if she has so much gold, she can just buy some and take it into the space.
However, she had heard that the surrounding areas were controlled by the Khitans, and she was still a little worried about how to enter the city. Now that she knew that there was confiscated food in the fields, she felt relieved.
They can harvest the grain first and take away the grains.
She heard from her parents that June and July are the seasons for harvesting wheat. The harvest starts early on Children's Day and is finished in June.
The maturity time in ancient times may be different from that in modern times. After all, in modern times, there are irrigation wells, chemical fertilizers and pesticides. In ancient times, people generally relied on the sky for food.
Fortunately, this is a military disaster and not a natural disaster. If there is a natural disaster, it will be troublesome. Hungry is the second best. Many people will starve to death. If the corpses are not disposed of properly, there will be plague!
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Even though they knew that this place was remote, they didn't dare to be careless. They just walked around and hid along the way.
They didn't dare to walk in the middle of the road, for fear that if there were Khitan soldiers passing by, they would walk opposite to them, so they moved very slowly.
Qingyan estimated that it would take nearly three hours of walking before she reached the village about ten miles away.
Looking at the village in front of them, Qingyan and Chou Chou were both dumbfounded.
That house...how to say? It is built of stone and mud, with a round shape. The roof is very similar to a yurt, but it is made of mud and grass. The windows are very small, only forty or fifty centimeters.
The houses are all low and low, like the houses in Africa seen on TV.
The yard was quite tidy, surrounded by fences, and there were some vegetables growing in it. Qingyan had never seen it before, so she didn't know what they were.
Yang Dashan, the man from before, said: "Fortunately, we were caught in the fields outside, and the village was not ruined. If those Khitan dogs entered the village and set fire to it, there would be nothing." ."
Lanhua pulled Qingyan and pointed to the third yard and said, "Sister, that's my house. You come home with me first and sit down to rest. We'll leave after we've packed up."
They were frightened and did not dare to stay in the village longer. They were ready to pack their bags and leave immediately.
There are now fourteen people in this group including Qingyan. Except for Lanhua, who is a ten-year-old child, there are five men and seven women, all old people who have no heirs at home.
The man Qingyan thought was in his fifties or sixties was actually just forty years old, and he was already considered an old man now.
The rest of the people are not very old, just over forty. Even though the average life span in ancient times was much lower than in modern times, they are all classified as elderly.
Their life span is short, so they get married and have children very early. They can get married at the age of fifteen. A woman who has no husband after seventeen is an old girl.
Like Lanhua's grandma, she is just forty-two years old this year, almost the same as her mother, but she already has a ten-year-old granddaughter. Here, sixty is considered a longevity.
Qingyan didn't know the other party's age before, but the other party did look a bit older, almost like her grandma, so she followed Lan Hua and called her grandma naturally. After knowing the age, she felt a little embarrassed.
Following Orchid, I walked into their yard. The yard was not big, much smaller than the two houses next door. There were also a few ridges of green vegetables planted and they were kept very clean.
The only two people left in their family were their grandfather and grandson, who depended on each other. Lanhua's father died of illness, and her mother went back to her parents' home and remarried out of town.
Other elderly people also had children who died young or did not have children at all.
When other people in the village left, it was all with a large family. They didn't want to bother others and become a drag, so they stayed because they had no worries.
After entering the house, it was as low and dark as she imagined. It only smelled of earth, but there was no peculiar smell.
It took a while for my eyes to adjust before I could clearly see the furnishings inside. There was an earthen kang that took up half of the room, a wooden table with low legs on top, and two benches and a shelf on the ground below.
Next to the kang is an earthen stove. She knows this. She saw it when her parents took her back to her hometown. She can use it to burn the kang while cooking.
There was only one set of bedding on the kang, which didn't look very thick. In the corner of the earthen kang was a wooden box, which should be used to store clothes.
There was a clay pot on the shelf, and three clay bowls with some corners missing. There were several clay pots underneath, which seemed to be used to store oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.
