After staying in the village, they rested here for one night. In order to relax from the fatigue of the past few days, they even went to the village in a good mood to inquire about the village's information.
This is actually not a village, only four or five families. This is a place composed of mountain people. Because the mountain residents do not have household registration, they cannot go to the city to buy things, and they do not want to work hard every year and pay taxes and not have enough to eat in the end.
Originally, there was only one family of mountain residents here, living in the westernmost house. Later, others chose to go into the mountains because they could not accept the squeeze of such heavy taxes.
The wives of these mountain people are all bought from Ren Yazi, because the nearby villages know that they are mountain people, so no one is willing to marry their daughters to their families. Even the special and poor families will only sell their daughters. Go out and work as a maid for a wealthy family in the county, or sell her to those who are responsible for buying and selling people.
Of course, there are those extremely poor families who really don’t have enough rice to cook, and if the mountain people give enough, they will marry the people to the mountain people. Those people don’t care about the life or death of other daughters at all. In their eyes, their daughters are all It's a loser, and only men can carry on the family line.
The old man inquired and found out that from here, to go to Quanzhou, you have to walk down the village and take the official road. In their state, if they go out and take the official road, they will easily be eaten by the victims.
Not to mention the things they have, they even have more food than others. Although they have been walking in the mountains for more than a month, there are no major wounds on their bodies. And because there are more wild vegetables on the road than people, they look better than ordinary people.
The victims had been fleeing for 40 to 50 days and had almost used up all their food. Even if there was any food, it would have been robbed.
Coupled with the fleeing people who joined along the way, it would be very dangerous to go down this pipeline. After much thought, the old man took two taels of brown sugar and went to the people living in the far west to ask if there was any other way.
Feeling that two taels of brown sugar were not enough, he took another one tael of salt in his right hand.
The old man took Wang Yiyi directly to the west end of the village.
"Is there anyone at home? We are people who fled elsewhere and came to live in your village. We would like to ask you for directions." The old man was carrying things outside and knocked on the door lightly, and asked a little embarrassedly.
At this time, a hearty laughter came from the house: "Come in, come in. Everyone here is a guest. Come in and have a glass of water before you leave. My old man is chopping firewood in the backyard." The woman said and poured some water for them. With a glass of water, he turned around and headed to the backyard.
After a while, I saw a tall, honest-looking, middle-aged man with a scar on his eyebrows walking out from behind the house, holding an ax in his hand.
"Lao Zhan is going to Qianzhou, why don't he take the official route and come to us mountain people to ask for directions?" The burly man was a little confused.
"To tell you the truth, little brother, there are countless big men in the north, and they are fleeing south. We also escaped in advance to be the first batch to reach you. The ones walking in front of us now are those behind who got the news and went south or to the south. Little by little, the real victims of the disaster in the north are still behind." When the old man said this, he still looked a little lonely.
Then he spoke again: "We were separated from the people in the village when we were escaping. Only our family chose to go to the southwest. The others all went to the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River. I had no choice but to come here. Brother, please ask for information."
As soon as the man heard that the large army of victims from the north was still behind, and that the people coming now were from the south, he knew that the impact of the drought this time was at least serious, and people came to ask for salt and sugar, which was considered a great gift. .
"I'm dissatisfied with you. There is indeed a mountain road, but it is rugged and difficult to walk. If you take the mountain road, you have to pass through a canyon. The canyon is several hundred meters deep. You can go down the slope and then exit from the canyon. , there is a dark wind in the canyon, and few people usually dare to walk there. Moreover, there is a hole behind the canyon, and no one knows what is behind it." The burly man did not hide anything and said directly.
Wang Yiyi was a little excited when she heard this. She heard from the hunter that the canyon was hundreds of meters deep and difficult to get up and down. Moreover, if the entrance to the canyon was blocked, at least it would not be easily discovered.
The cold wave was coming and she had no time.
So the old man used two taels of silver and a pound of brown sugar in exchange for the man's conditions for them to go down the canyon.
So early in the morning of the second day, the family packed up and prepared to go to the canyon. Just on the way to the canyon, they needed someone to cut down the dead branches and miscellaneous trees in front of them, and they also had to find someone to pick up the car next to them. Hit the grass.
The journey slowed down, and we arrived at a remote entrance to the canyon around noon. If you go down to the canyon from here, you must be tied down with a rope, otherwise you will accidentally miss someone and fall down and die.
Because of the shape of the mountain road, few people usually walk here. This place is still very barren, and even the herb collectors in the mountains are not willing to walk here. So this road is very steep.
In order to ensure the food and other safety of the family, the old man asked the young man and the donkey to go, and finally asked the old hunting tiger to send the two elders to go.
When he went back last night, his little granddaughter had told him that he planned to find a place to stop first and wait for a large number of victims to move forward before they left.
The weather has been bad in the past two days. He suspected that there might be other disasters in the future. Natural disasters are ruthless. If they take it seriously, what kind of natural disasters will they encounter on Peach Blossom Road? Because they are incompetent and their horses are not strong enough to use horses. He may be killed by others to seize treasures, kill people and eat horses.
So on the second day, the old man took the people down the canyon without notifying the others at all. After that, he took them up the slope along the creek in the canyon. This road cannot be said to be a road, it can only be said to be naked. The rocks are quite slippery, so be extremely careful and pull the vegetation or branches next to you.
After walking like this for about two hours, they walked out of Xia Valley and walked to the entrance of the cave mentioned by the old hunter.
As soon as he heard the sound at the entrance of the cave, the old man started to laugh: "Haha, that's great, that's great. Now you don't have to worry about water." Then he lit a fire and led the family into the cave entrance.
Then everyone discovered that this place was like a long corridor. Wang Yiyi walked completely behind her. When they came, she directly chose a boulder that was bigger than the entrance of the cave and placed it in the space. Now she walked to the end quietly. Place the boulder here to block the entrance to the cave.
After walking for almost half an hour, they discovered that there was light coming in from outside, and then they discovered that there was a waterfall outside. There was a small road beside the waterfall that could be used for walking, but this road had been covered with moss and other creatures. occupy.
Everyone left the cave directly along the path. It can't be said to be a path, it can only be said to be connected by protruding rocks.
Then I discovered that the temperature here is very comfortable, and there are all kinds of wild flowers and grasses around.
