Jiang Yue waited for the locusts to stop before leaving the city.
Passing by the broken house in the outer city, Jiang Yue saw the two brothers, who seemed to be more energetic than when they first met. The two of them had caught a lot of locusts before to thank her, but Jiang Nian rejected them directly.
"Yueyue, those two children are following the car."
Jiang Yue turned around. She didn't want to say hello, but they found her.
After parking the car, Jiang Yue didn't get out. She just sat on top and talked to them.
"Sister, where are you going?"
"We were just passing by, and now we have to leave."
Zhang Wu and Zhang Wen were surprised and reluctant to leave. He wanted to ask if he could take them with him, but he still had a mother.
Jiang Yue waved her hands, as if she were facing the country, and said, "Let's go. You two go catch locusts. Don't let others snatch you away. You still have to take care of your mother."
For Jiang Yue, there seems to be nothing she can't bear to part with except Jiang Nian, who depends on each other for life. We are just strangers who met by chance, so we can just lend a hand.
Jiang Nian drove off again.
When leaving the city, you can still see many people and refugees looking for locusts intently.
It's good, not only can I live a little longer, but I can also have more hope when farming next year.
Jiang Yue smelled the smell on her body. In order not to attract people, they didn't use soap in the shower. Their clothes hadn't been washed for two days, and their hair hadn't been washed for three days.
Despite this, there is still a big difference from real refugees.
This is enough. With a mule cart and a saber, you still want to pretend to be an ordinary refugee?
Jiang Nian's expression was wrinkled: If Yueyue wants me to die, just say so and don't torture me in this way. If it smells any worse, I'll be suffocated to death.
There are also many refugees on the road to the east from Yuncheng, and they all have the same look on their faces. They look like they are half-dead, and they are completely dejected if they can survive for a few days.
With the carriage as a shield, the two of them could hide and eat, only the mule had to work hard.
After traveling for a day, they discovered a long fleeing team. It seemed like the entire village or the entire clan was fleeing together.
Jiang Yue couldn't help but think of the village chief and didn't know how their family was doing now.
Jiang Dashu and Yan Gu's family lived in unusual harmony in the mountains. They cleaned the cave and ate and slept together. I also learned to use leaves to catch dew.
In the deep mountains, you can also find a little bit of mountain spring water.
They were lucky enough not to encounter wild beasts, and were even able to occasionally take prey out of traps.
The rabbits raised by Jiang Dashu's family before were not sold. They went into the mountains and it became easier to feed them. Now there are more than 20 large and small animals in total, and they are all meat!
Aunt Yan's family was envious and became more active in hunting.
All this harmonious picture was broken by locusts.
Locusts cannot find food at the foot of the mountain, so naturally more locusts fly up the mountain.
These two families were in bad luck.
It was Jiang Dashu's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Gao, who was upset and said that instead of letting them torture her back and forth, it would be better to block her in a cave and set her on fire.
At this time, the food is gone, so why don’t you care whether the locust master is to blame or not.
Several people burned down a large pile.
The little tiger head was greedy and naughty. He thought of the cicadas his father roasted for him. It felt similar to this. He reached out, grabbed one, and stuffed it into his mouth so quickly that no one saw it.
He happily told his family that locusts were delicious, but his mother even scolded him. If his father hadn't also eaten it and said it was delicious, his little butt would have been spanked again.
Gao felt that if the dried meat could be preserved, so could the locusts. Just bake half and half dry, the dried ones will last longer.
This sudden locust aroused Jiang Dashu's concern, so Jiang Shan and Yan Gu's eldest son were ordered to go down the mountain to find out the news.
When they got down to the foot of the mountain, they found it unusually quiet.
The two looked at each other with nervous expressions and an ominous premonition.
They wanted to hide their figures at first, but they were already halfway there and still couldn't see a single person or hear a sound.
Several doors were open. When Jiang Shan glanced inside, he collapsed to the ground and almost peed his pants.
Aunt Yan's son was frightened by him and wanted to help him up, but he grabbed him tightly. As he looked around, his calves began to swell.
Three corpses lay in the yard, already decomposed. Because of the hot weather, a lot of flies were attracted.
Jiang Shan quickly covered his mouth and nose and ran towards his home. Along the way, I saw a lot of corpses, and I couldn't tell who their faces were. The blood stains on the ground have also dried and turned black.
He gingerly pushed open the ajar door. There was no body inside, but the cellar door was opened.
He walked down, and since he didn't hide any food, nothing was lost inside.
These refugees may be from the village and understand the habits of the villagers.
Jiang Shan and Yan Gu's son grabbed some things that they didn't take away last time. They didn't dare to go to other people's houses to get them, so they went up the mountain in a mess.
Jiang Dashu panicked when he saw the two of them panicking, "What's going on? You're so scared?"
A grown man in Jiangshan burst into tears and cried loudly, "Dad, our village, our village was massacred by the refugees! The village is full of dead bodies!"
Jiang Dashu sat paralyzed on the ground, massacring the village, how dare they massacre the village? Aren't they just refugees?
...
Jiang Yue and the two saw the fleeing team parked on the roadside, and seemed to have found a source of water.
They also stopped, not approaching, just behind.
The fleeing team was hostile to them and very wary.
Jiang Yue didn't care, and just took the mule over to look for water.
When the team saw people grabbing water, they hurriedly arranged for people to fetch water.
Jiang Yue didn't want to grab resources, she just moistened the mule's throat and left. When they ran to the front of the team, two to three hundred people looked at them and "sent off" them.
From those eyes, Jiang Yue could roughly tell that the meaning should be, do two people dare to escape alone? Don't want to die?
After surpassing the fleeing team, Jiang Yue felt that the air was much fresher. Both of them adhere to the principle of "sharing blessings and suffering together". One person is driving, and the other person is sitting aside, occasionally talking to relieve the depression.
Jiang Yue opened her clothes slightly and showed him, "Zai, look at the color of my neck. It's a lot darker."
There are probably mask marks on his face as well.
Jiang Nian has been studying with her and is very familiar with modern terms. He took a glance and saw that the dividing line was indeed obvious. He used his left hand to pull up the skirt of her clothes, and then put her straw hat in place. "It's a bit dark so it won't be conspicuous."
Alas, she also knows this truth, but it still takes some time to adapt from cold white skin to dark skinned hottie...
Jiang Nian narrowed his eyes slightly and slowed down the mule cart.
"There are quite a few people in front."
Jiang Yue lowered her expression and tightened her grip on the knife, "Are they refugees?"
Jiang Nian's expression was indifferent, "There are refugees, and there are also some disgusting people."
"Um?"
"Those who ate human flesh in the woods last time."
