The two of them walked for a day, and the mule's wound healed. Jiang Yue took out a frame car that he found in the inn. It should have belonged to a previous guest. Fortunately, there was no smell of blood.
They had just installed the frame of the carriage when several tall horses came running towards them.
He was a government official wearing official uniform and carrying an official sword at his waist.
They seemed to be very surprised when they saw Jiang Yue. Then he quickly adjusted his expression and said, "Where did you two escape from the disaster?"
"Yuncheng."
His expression seemed even stranger. He looked at the two people and the car, and then said with a smile, "In front is our Zhaoyang City. Now we are recruiting refugees. As long as you work for the government, you can get food and houses. If you work for a long time, you can still Divide the fields and change to new registrations. Many refugees have gone there now. If they go too late, they won’t be able to get in."
Jiang Yue knew that in ancient times there had been many work-for-relief methods to relieve disaster victims, but her intuition was that there was something wrong with these official posts. She hasn't figured out where the specific problem lies.
Just listen to this man say again, "I will take you back and choose a good house for you."
If he were an ordinary refugee, he would have knelt down gratefully to say thank you.
Jiang Yue shook her head, "Thank you for your kindness, sir. We are not going to Zhaoyang City."
Several government officials around him glared angrily, "Why don't you know what is good and what is evil? I am saving your lives!"
Jiang Nian stood in front of Jiang Yue and looked at the person in the middle, "We don't need it."
The officer was obviously sitting on a horse, looking down at the two of them, but the man's eyes seemed to be looking down at him.
He waved his hands to both sides, "Since you two don't want to go, then we won't force you."
After saying that, he led a few people back.
Jiang Yue saw that the direction they were going was Yuncheng, which meant they would pass by the inn.
Jiang Nian said, "They have the same smell as the people in the inn."
"I know something is wrong. When everyone is in danger, the officials are guarding the city, but they sent so many people out at once, which shows that they have enough manpower. So they are recruiting refugees, are they really providing work in exchange for relief? But natural disasters are all over the place. It’s been going on for a year, where did the food come from?”
Jiang Yue's face looked ugly, but don't call it human flesh.
She didn't want to get involved in this kind of thing anymore, so she walked straight to the east.
She suspected that these people were colluding with officials and bandits.
Several government servants rushed to the hotel and when they passed by the inn, they realized something was wrong.
The leader got off his horse, "Bang bang bang——"
I knocked on the door three times, but no one came out.
He squinted his eyes, walked around the backyard, and opened the door with a slight push.
"Here, there's a lot of blood on the ground! Did Lao Hei and the others do it? Didn't they say that we are short of people now, and if we find people, we will send them to them?"
The leader turned around and found no trace of the men. The lock on the well had been cut off.
wrong! This is a hard time!
At this time, Lao Wu came back.
The person he sent passed the customs, got the money, and came back happily. Pulling the car to the backyard, I saw several government officials, who were obviously familiar with them.
"Why do you guys have time to come here?"
The leader stepped forward with a serious expression, "Where are Shitou and Lao Hei?"
Lao Wu frowned, "I sent people there in the morning, and they were guarding the guests in the inn. Why, are you not here now?"
"Is there a guest in the inn?"
"Yes! Shitou said he thought they were rich people with bad tempers, so he thought of killing them today."
"Boss, the blood stains here went into the cellar!"
Several people opened the cellar door, and a burst of hot air rushed up. Shitou and Lao Hei fell into a pool of dried blood, dead with their eyes open.
Several people cursed.
The leader grabbed Lao Wu and stared at him, "What kind of guest is this?"
"A boy and a girl, tall and quite young!"
"With a mule cart?"
"We broke up the mule carriage, but there are mules." Lao Wu looked towards the corner of the yard, "No! One of our carriages is missing!"
The leader gritted his teeth and rushed back with his brothers.
Here Jiang Yue is still complaining to Jiang Nian, "Doesn't that person even suspect us when he sees us?"
She was talking about Lao Wu. When the two cars met, Jiang Yue glanced at him. But he was grinning, and he didn't know what he was grinning about.
Jiang Nian also laughed, "He's just a brainless fool who just keeps doing things."
When the two of them drove to a fork in the road, they wanted to curse again. She was also surprised that those people clearly wanted to force them into the city, but why they let go so readily.
It turned out that they had blocked the intersection of the other road, and the long stretch of road was full of rocks.
Jiang Yue was almost laughed out of anger. She didn't believe in evil when her temper got worse. I suppressed her once, can I suppress her again?
She put the mule and the car into the space, and then they walked hand in hand through the cracked fields...
The officials rushed back to Zhaoyang City and asked the guard at the gate, "Have a man and a woman driven a mule cart into the city today?"
The guard shook his head, "Not a single mule cart entered the city today."
The guard next to him also shook his head.
Several officers were sweating profusely, their bodies were red from the scorching sun, and their anger was welling up.
Damn it, I really saw a ghost! I just ran all the way back and saw no stopped cars or refugees. And the other road has been blocked, there is no way they can get through!
Jiang Yue: I just saw a ghost.
After they had gone a long way, they took out the mule cart and continued on their way.
The next city to Zhaoyang City is called Fengtian City.
There are many refugees scattered at the gate of Fengtian City. Perhaps contrary to them, they came from the east.
Some officials ordered their men to move the corpses of refugees who had not moved for a long time, pile them in one place, and then burn them.
This will at least reduce the probability of disease.
Jiang Yue and the others got out of the car and stepped forward to ask the government official, "Excuse me, can you enter the city now?"
The man may have been wilted from the sun, his lips were peeling, and his voice was weak, "Okay. Do you have a household registration? Take it out and take a look."
Jiang Yue handed it over and the man glanced at it, "Shuntian Fucheng? You guys have really gone far enough!"
He looked up and down at the two men and the mule behind him, and nodded, "It's ten taels of silver per person, and the doctor can take a pulse and enter."
Jiang Yue gave him the money and took his pulse, and entered the city smoothly.
After entering the city, she found that the city was very dead.
