Because it was too late, everyone did not choose any place. They unloaded the donkey cart and rested directly on a wasteland with no stones or grass beside the road.
Because there was a river nearby, I took some water to cleanse myself before going to bed.
That is to say, wash your hands, face, and feet, so that you can feel more comfortable when sleeping.
The water in the river has been exposed to the sun for a day, and even now the water is still warm, not cold.
Although they had already eaten in the afternoon, they had walked for such a long time, seven or eight hours had passed, and they were actually hungry again.
It's just that everyone was very tired and too lazy to make food again, so they simply fell asleep hungry.
Qingyan was also very tired, so she drank some water and lay down.
Early the next morning, just after dawn, Qingyan was awakened by the chirping of birds.
She sat up in a daze, rubbed her hungry stomach, and looked to the right.
I saw many birds jumping around in the open space on the right.
Qingyan rubbed her eyes vigorously and looked over again. It was really a group of sparrows jumping around on the ground!
He reached out to pick up the little leopard crawling on his lap, held it in his arms, and said with some confusion: "Why did these sparrows get to the ground? There are so many people sleeping here, aren't we afraid of being caught and put into pot?"
Others were also woken up and stood up to take a closer look. The sparrows seemed to be pecking at the ground to eat.
Everyone suddenly became more energetic, and the Yang Dashan family said: "Oh! You are not eating our food, are you? Did you not pay attention when unloading the donkey cart yesterday and scattered the food on the ground?"
Apparently she was not the only one who had this idea, others also got up and walked over there.
The two siblings, Lanhua and Daya, ran directly over and frightened a group of small sparrows. However, those small sparrows did not fly away, but just changed positions and continued to peck on the ground.
When I got closer, I saw that there were many locusts on the ground!
"It's locusts!" Several people exclaimed.
"Why are there locusts? Isn't there a lack of rain this year?"
In previous years, when there was a slight drought, locusts would come. It would not be a locust plague, but there would be a lot more than usual.
Looking at the sparrows pecking happily on the ground, it is obvious that there are not many locusts. Before the sun rises in the morning, because there is dew on the ground, the locusts will stand motionless on the grass leaves or crop leaves, which also corresponds to that sentence. The proverb that the early bird catches the worm.
At noon, when the dew on the ground has dried up, locusts are most active. At that time, you will see them jumping around on the ground, and they are also very difficult to catch.
Qingyan raised her eyes and looked into the distance, because the sky had just dawned, the sky over there had just turned red, and the sun had not yet risen from the east, so it was not very dazzling.
However, we can also see that there are mostly wild grasslands on the roadside, and there are some faint villages in the distance, and there are wisps of smoke rising from some houses.
This shows that there are people in those villages, and it is not like the several villages on Da Ya's side that were massacred.
Could it be that they had thought wrong before? Those people were not slaughtering villages to grab food along the way, nor were they going there to grab food.
If that's the case, wouldn't it be the same to rob these villages on the roadside? You can see the villages directly, so you can leave on the main road.
Although there is a road going through Da Ya and the others, who knows how many villages there are? Is there any food in the village?
However, those people found them accurately and even slaughtered several nearby villages, as if they had no intention of leaving anyone alive in the first place.
They might not have thought of this before, but now they all wear some jewelry and rusty weapons, and these things have to make them think of it together.
Could those people be there just for these buried things? Could it be a descendant of the person who buried the thing?
I went specifically to look for these things, but I didn't find them, or I thought they were dug out by the villagers there.
If they found these things, it was possible that they were discovered and killed, but the things were clearly not taken away, so this possibility was not established.
It can only be that they didn't find it at all. When they went to inquire, they didn't find out anything. Then they were afraid that others would find out the problem, so they just robbed the food without stopping.
It also happened that the villagers had just finished harvesting food and there was a surplus of food.
