In this way, the group walked for two days, during which they also passed several villages.
But they couldn't enter the village when they encountered it, and they tried to avoid the large numbers of refugees they encountered. Their journey was relatively smooth in the past two days.
But they were almost out of water and could last for a day at most. Uncle Yongchang said they would find a water source early in the morning.
Ye Yutong planned to dig a hole nearby at night and put some water out from the spatial creek, so as not to waste time looking for it.
There are more refugees on the road these two days than the previous two days. They must hurry up and get to the northwest as soon as possible!
Porridge was cooking in a clay pot, and Ye Yutong sat there lighting a fire.
The resting place today is on a hillside. Some wild vegetables grew in the shade below the slope.
Children from several families ran over to dig it out as if they had seen a treasure.
The refugees who were resting nearby also saw this field of wild vegetables and asked their children to dig for it with tools.
With the addition of a few more children, the field of wild vegetables was dug up in no time.
Ye Mingzhe and Mantang were a little unhappy. They discovered this patch of wild vegetables first, but these people came to share the pie.
But then I thought about it, they were all fleeing, and the wild vegetables were not grown by my family, so how could I stop others from digging them?
After thinking about this, several people happily went to look elsewhere.
After everyone had dinner and was about to take a rest, the parents of the children who had just been digging wild vegetables came over.
Their attitude was very friendly. The leading man introduced himself first: "We came from Anyang County in the north. Our hometown was hit by a disaster and we couldn't survive. We had no choice but to escape here."
After finishing speaking, he asked with a smile: "I wonder where these brothers are from? Where are you going? If you are on the way, can we go together?"
Yongchang cupped his hands and said with a smile: "We escaped from Yunzhou. As for where to go, we don't have a destination yet. We will stop when we reach a place where there is no disaster."
Wencai sat cross-legged next to Yongchang and asked, "These brothers, where are you going?"
The leading man sighed: "My third uncle went to the west and got familiar with it.
I am going to take our whole family to the northwest to see if we can find a living there.
But two days ago, I heard that it had not rained in the west for a long time. If I had known it, I would have gone to the capital. The emperor might still have a way to survive. "
Li Yunze asked: "Uncle, is there also a drought in Anyang County?"
Mentioning this, the man sighed heavily and said helplessly:
"Although it hasn't rained for a long time, at least we can still guarantee food and water, but our Anyang County is close to the barbarians in the north. In the past, Dingbei Hou was in control, and the barbarians did not dare to cross the border.
But after the new emperor ascended the throne, he recalled the Marquis of Dingbei to the capital. Without the Marquis to keep him in check, the barbarians would come to burn, kill and loot every now and then, and the people would not be able to survive! "
Li Yunze remained silent. When he was being hunted, he knew that the eldest prince had threatened the lives of Dingbei Marquis and his entire family, so he had taken back Dingbei Marquis's military power and put people under house arrest in the Marquis's mansion.
Now the eldest prince's cousin has taken over the military power of Dingbei Hou.
But Dingbei Hou has been operating in Anyang County for so many years, how could he be allowed to take over so easily?
Li Yunze thought to himself, there will be more trouble in the future.
Yongchang and Wencai both fell silent when they heard this man mentioning royal matters.
The man also knew that he had made a mistake, so he quickly changed the topic. After chatting here for a while, they went back and made an appointment to go west together tomorrow.
In the first half of the night today, it was Ye Mingxuan and Mantang's turn to keep vigil. Ye Yutong said in his elder brother's ear: "Brother, my mother and I are going to go to the gods later. You can help us cover it."
"I understand. I will pull the cart over to block you later."
After everyone fell asleep, Ye Yutong covered the two of them with quilts and took Li Wenxiu into the space.
Li Wenxiu has not been here since he fled the famine, and now the fruits and vegetables in the fields are ripe.
She didn't even bother to say anything. She took her basket and backpack and went to work in the fields.
Ye Yutong went to the mountain to pick up eggs with a basket on his arm. When he passed the pig pen, he saw the sow lying there and humming. He felt different from usual.
I thought to myself, are you going to give birth to piglets?
She hurriedly called Li Wenxiu, "Mom, come here and see if this pig is about to give birth?"
Li Wenxiu was picking cucumbers when he heard his daughter's voice, put down the basket and ran up the hillside.
A few days ago, Tongtong said that the pig's belly was getting bigger and bigger.
During the day, she was still thinking about finding an opportunity to come in and take a look, but she didn't expect it to be such a coincidence that she caught up just as she came in.
Thinking that my daughter was still young, I said to her: "Tongtong, you go pick up eggs, I'll watch from here."
"Okay, mother, if something happens, just shout."
"I understand, go ahead!" Li Wenxiu waved to her and entered the pig pen.
Ye Yutong finished picking up the eggs and picked a few baskets of ripe fruits. Seeing that his mother was still in the pig pen, he walked over to take a look.
There were several lively little piglets in the pigpen, snorting.
She counted ten in total, but the pig hadn't finished giving birth yet.
She opened her mouth wide in surprise, isn't this too fertile? There are only so many in one litter.
It seems that pigs can give birth twice a year, so they will not have to worry about meat in the future.
Looking at those little pigs, Ye Yutong seemed to see big elbows, Dongpo pork, braised pork, braised pork ribs, big bone soup, fried shredded pork, and then waved to her.
She laughed twice, thinking that when she found an uninhabited mountain top, she would be the king of the mountain there and cook delicious food every day. Thinking about that day made people yearn for it.
"Tongtong, go get some food for the pig."
"Oh, I'll go right away." Ye Yutong had forgotten about this matter. He used to pour half a pot of corn kernels and throw in some vegetables and forget about it.
But now that this pig has just given birth to so many piglets, we still need to cook something warm for it.
The two of them stayed in the space for more than an hour and still didn't come out.
Ye Mingxuan knew that he was helping the gods to work inside, so he was not in a hurry and just glanced at the cart from time to time.
But Li Yunze didn't know that this time the auras of Tongtong and his mother-in-law disappeared.
This was the first time since fleeing that the two of them disappeared together. And it’s been so long.
In the past, Tongtong would come back in more than half an hour. Did something happen today?
The two people who were worried about them had just packed up the pigsty. The old sow was very fertile and gave birth to a total of twelve piglets, all of them alive and kicking.
Ye Yutong was tired and sat in the courtyard eating. Li Wenxiu was busy picking vegetables in the field.
She thought that since she was here, she would stay here a little longer and help the gods with some work.
During this period, she ate a lot of magical things and gave them away to others. She was very embarrassed.
Ye Yutong understood her thoughts, she was afraid that the gods would be unhappy.
But there was nothing she could do. The origin of this space could never be told.
In order to make her feel at ease, we have to let her work! Let her drink some space well water later, and then take some good tonic.
