After the refugee group had gone about twenty miles, two four-wheeled vehicles stopped.
Qin Feng shouted to the refugee team behind him: "Everyone will stay here to rest for now. We will continue on the road in half an hour."
Although hundreds of refugees made it all the way to Datong on two legs, they suffered from hunger all the way, and no matter how good their bodies were, they couldn't stand it.
If it were soldiers wearing the Tiger Flag, he would bring them back directly and cover the thirty-odd miles in one breath. Normally, the team would conduct field marching training every now and then, so thirty-odd miles would be nothing.
The refugee queue stopped, and many refugees sat directly on the ground.
There were not many accommodations for the refugees. Along the way, they slept in the wilderness most of the time. No one took them seriously when they were sitting on the dirt.
A small group of soldiers who came along separated the ordinary people to keep alert. The remaining soldiers picked up their water bottles and drank water, and sat together on the ground to rest.
After a quarter of an hour, another group of soldiers were on guard.
Half an hour passed and the team was on the road again.
This time the refugee team walked the remaining ten miles and arrived at an open space bordering Lingqiu and Guangling.
Qin Feng led the refugee team to stop in this open space.
"We're here, we're already in Lingqiu territory." Qin Feng said to the refugees behind him.
The refugees all looked to the front now.
Just a few dozen steps ahead, there were several large tents. People came out of the tents from time to time, and some refugees also walked into the tents.
Many people outside the tent were dressed in rags. Zhou Youshun only took one look and knew that those people, like him, were refugees who had fled to Lingqiu.
There were many refugees in front of him. Just by scanning with his eyes, he felt that there were at least one or two thousand people.
"Brother, there are many people here, and their accents sound like they are from my hometown." The third child stared curiously at the refugees outside the tent.
Although they were a little far away, the voices of the refugees outside the tent could still be heard.
Daniel said: "How come there are so many people here, and they are all from our hometown? Can Lingqiu accommodate so many people?"
Refugees have always been a source of instability in various places. Many refugees go to a certain place to beg, and if their number is smaller, they will be driven away by the local government and large households, and they will not be allowed to stay in the local area.
Lingqiu was just a county town, and suddenly there were thousands of refugees. Daniel began to worry that he would be driven away by Lingqiu's big families and the government.
On the way here, he saw the waterwheels, the large brick and tiled houses in the village, the lush green wheat seedlings, and the strong and wide official roads. Everything was much better than that in his hometown.
He could tell that the further he went towards Lingqiu, the richer he became.
Now that he has come to Lingqiu, in such a wealthy place, there are more ways to survive than in other places. Naturally, he does not want to be driven away from here.
"It should be possible!" Lao San said uncertainly.
He had the same worries as Daniel.
Zhou Youshun on the side said: "Don't think so much, just make peace with yourself now that you're here. Third brother, go and see what's going on over there. I saw some refugees went in and it took them a long time to come out."
"I'll go over and take a look." Lao San said, and then walked towards where the tent was. Wenbi Book Bar
However, he didn't go far when he heard Qin Feng say: "What are you doing? When you come back, you will be in line soon. You can't wander around."
The third child, who wanted to go over to see what was going on, had no choice but to retreat.
Qin Feng said to the refugees he brought at this time: "Now line up, line up into two teams, men and women in one team, the same goes for children, hurry up and line up."
The accompanying soldiers began to help these refugees line up.
Zhou Youshun, Lao San and others have been at the front of the queue, and several people were also in front of the queue. Zhou Youshun's two children followed Zhou Youshun, while Zhou Youshun's mother-in-law was in another queue.
With the assistance of dozens of soldiers, they were quickly divided into two teams, one on the left and one on the right.
Qin Feng looked at the group of refugees in front of him and said, "Have you seen the two tents in front? A group will enter a tent in a while. Don't get distracted. There are people lining up outside those two tents. Just follow them. .”
"Master Jun, we are all one family, can we line up in a line?" Zhou Youshun asked Xiang Qin Feng.
Qin Feng shook his head and said: "No, men and women cannot be on the same team, but don't worry, your family will not be separated when you come out of the tent soon."
Zhou Youshun breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the assurance.
"Okay, you follow our soldiers forward, line up outside the tent and wait to enter the tent." Qin Feng said to the refugees in front of him.
Several soldiers came up and led two teams towards the tent.
There were more than two tents in front of them, but the two tents they, a man and a woman, were heading to were the closest, and the people lining up outside these two tents were also two men and one woman.
Zhou Youshun was walking at the front of the team with a stick in his hand, but there was already a team outside the tent. Under the command of the tiger-character flag soldiers, he lined up at the back of the other team.
"Fellow, I hear your accent, are you from Shaanxi too?" Zhou Youshun asked a strange man standing in front of him.
The man standing in front of him turned around, looked at Zhou Youshun and said, "Yes, I'm from Pingliang, where are you from, fellow?"
"We are also from Pingliang." Lao San, who was standing behind Zhou Youshun, answered first.
The man standing in front heard that he was also from Pingliang, and immediately said: "I am from Wa Village, west of Pingliang County, how about you?"
"We are from Huangjiazhuang in the north of the county." The third child said the name of his village.
He was extremely excited to see fellow villagers from Pingliang in Lingqiu.
Zhou Youshun asked, "fellow fellows, why are you here at Lingqiu?"
Although they are all fellow villagers from Pingliang, it is too far from Pingliang to Lingqiu. After coming out of Pingliang and begging all the way, there is rarely such a coincidence that they all meet in Lingqiu.
"We heard people say that Lingqiu is rich and there is a way to survive when we get to Lingqiu, so we begged all the way to Lingqiu. By the way, my name is Ma Datou." The man named Ma Datou told the reason why he came to Lingqiu.
Zhou Youshun understood why Ma Datou also came to Lingqiu. Like them, he came to Lingqiu under the guidance of others.
He had read the book, and after a little thought, he understood that this was someone secretly deliberately luring refugees like them to Lingqiu.
Although he understood what was going on, he didn't intend to say it.
Since someone secretly deliberately led disaster-stricken people like them to Lingqiu, he was worried that if he spoke about it, there would be no guarantee that he would not be silenced.
For the sake of his mother-in-law and two children who were fleeing with him, he had to pretend not to know about the matter and remain silent.
