It is said that spring rain is as precious as oil. In several counties under the jurisdiction of Xinyang Prefecture, it either does not rain after the beginning of spring, or it rains as if it did not rain at all.
The people had been waiting for the rain for a long time, but it was gone without even getting the ground wet.
As time enters mid-to-late April, the weather gets hotter and hotter, and the well water level also drops a lot.
The people living near the Dayun River were fine, as they could pick up food and drink from the river.
The rice in the fields can also be irrigated with river water.
However, life for those people far away from Dayunhe was not so easy.
The stream, which usually had a decent amount of water, has now turned into a shallow ditch.
There is not enough water to drink, let alone for irrigation.
Coupled with last year's snowstorm and cold wave, life became increasingly difficult, and they had no choice but to find another way out.
People in the city who don't have wells at home have to line up early to fetch water.
It was difficult for the people to drink water, but they could still survive.
After all, I had heard that someone had written a script a long time ago, saying that this year's weather would be bad and there might be a drought or something.
They didn't want to believe it themselves, but as they heard about it again and again, the person who wrote the storybook gave it to the disaster victims, and they gradually became interested.
When they have nothing to do, they will subconsciously stock up on water and food.
In addition to the water for home use every day, I also pick some extra water, boil it and let it stand, then put it in a large vat or can and save it.
As the weather gets hotter, the number of merchants and people doing business gradually decreases.
In this way, fewer people are needed for outside work, and more people are free.
With the departure of those rich merchants and rich peasants, the situation became more and more serious.
After taking office, local officials are not allowed to leave their jurisdiction without permission.
And because the weather is special right now, if they want to scrape another layer of oil from the people, they have to consider whether they will push them too hard.
Since they could not make money from the people within the territory under their jurisdiction, they turned their attention to those who passed by the territory.
No, Wang Can and Ling came back all the way, and "tolls" began to rise.
If they do not pay the toll, they will directly say that there is a problem with the road guide and detain the person.
Without knowing it, Wang Can didn't want to cause trouble, so she gave it to someone who asked for one or two.
But who would have expected that on her way back, she found that not only the county towns she passed by were like this, but also some of the villages on both sides of the official road.
Those who stopped them to ask for tolls were not just government officials, but also some people in rags who appeared out of nowhere.
There are many of them, usually more than ten or twenty of them, holding wooden sticks, chopping knives and the like.
The amount of silver required ranges from fifty to one hundred cents, and some require one or two cents.
Wang Can and Ling were weak women, and the coachman was hired by a car dealer, so they themselves had no business. Faced with this situation, they could only pinch their noses and admit it.
It's just that they haven't walked halfway through the journey and haven't reached the inn. The two of them have spent very little money.
Wang Can regretted a little. To be on the safe side, she didn't have much money with her. She either kept it with Li Yuan or gave it to Li Jun.
And Mrs. Ling didn't think much about it. Except for the traveling expenses, she left all her money in Fucheng for her two daughters-in-law.
If the journey went smoothly, he would be able to reach Liuyun County in less than two days if he traveled overnight.
As a result, it took them five days and they didn't get even halfway.
When Su Mingshan met them, they were only fifty kilometers away from the inn and had been stopped for a day.
Everything was taken away, and only the underwear was stripped.
If they hadn't known each other, and Su Mingshan had brought many nursing homes and carriages for the watermelon this time, and it was at this time.
No one knows what will happen to Wang Can and Ling in the end, and when they will be able to go back.
Because Su Mingshan was here, the two came back smoothly this time.
Even Wang Can, who had been on the run from famine in his previous life, couldn't help but hold her and cry when he saw Li Yuan when he returned to Lijia'ao, let alone the Ling family.
Li Yuan didn't know what they had gone through, so she could only pat her back and whisper comfort.
"What's wrong, Can Niang? Be good and stop crying. It's okay."
Wang Can kept crying. When she fled with everyone in her previous life, someone led the way and made the decision no matter what.
It was only April now, and she still hired a carriage to come back.
I never expected that it would be like this along the way.
She almost, almost confessed that she was outside and couldn't come back...
