Okay, We Won't Go

The sensible An An carefully helped his mother and slowly walked out of the ruined temple. It was not too long before dusk.

The mother and son walked very slowly around the ruined temple.

While walking, they did not forget to pick up some dead branches to use in the ruined temple at night, which could not only illuminate but also keep warm. It was early autumn now. It was okay during the day, but the temperature was still a little cold at night.

Although there were a lot of dead grass left by the previous wave of refugees in the ruined temple, grass was very difficult to burn, and tree branches could last longer.

After walking around like this, the little bun, like a hardworking little hamster, carried the firewood he and his mother picked up little by little to the place where they slept in the ruined temple.

Then, the mother and son walked a little further away. Looking around, except for the ruined temple, there was only bare woods.

There was really no green at all. Even the bark of the trees was stripped clean. Don't even think about wild vegetables. There were no wild vegetable roots.

After walking for a while, the mother and son stopped. First, their bodies had not recovered yet and they were not strong enough. Second, Gu Lan did not dare to go any further in their current state. It was better to be honest now. If something happened, it would be dangerous for them, who were so weak. After picking up some dry firewood and watching the sunset, Gu Lan felt a little tired, so she took the little bun back to the ruined temple.

Not long after returning to the ruined temple, it was completely dark. Gu Lan had lit a fire in the ruined temple, and the food that had not been eaten at noon was placed on the fire.

Gu Lan only poured a little water into it, which made the little bun feel distressed and kept asking his mother to pour less.

"Mom... Okay... Pour less." The little bun's pale eyebrows instantly wrinkled into caterpillars.

"I know! Little housekeeper." Gu Lan scratched An An's nose lightly with a smile.

In fact, she really only poured a little, because she was afraid that the bottom of the rice would be burnt when it was heated, and the rice would taste different when eaten.

The aroma of rice soon spread, and both mother and son could not help themselves. Fortunately, it was only cooked at noon, so they did not have to wait until the food started to boil. In this way, Gu Lan and Little bun ate the remaining rice cleanly.

Even the rice residue in the pottery pot was poured with some water by Gu Lan in accordance with the principle of not wasting it, and she drank it all up in one gulp.

After drinking the water in the broken pottery pot, Gu Lan carefully wrapped it with clean clothes. Before finding a good replacement, the broken pottery pot must not be damaged, otherwise they really have nothing to eat.

After eating and drinking, they were most sleepy. Not long after, Little bun fell asleep in his mother's arms while the mother and son were talking to each other.

Carefully helping her son change to a comfortable position, Gu Lan added some water to the small pottery pot and slept with Little bun.

In this way, the mother and son stayed in the dilapidated temple for a few days, and Gu Lan's fever completely subsided, and her sore and weak body slowly recovered.

Feeling that there was no big problem, Gu Lan prepared to leave the dilapidated temple with Little bun.

This temple is so dilapidated that it can't keep out the cold wind at all. If I hadn't hugged the little bun and secretly took out a thin quilt from the space to cover her these two nights, I'm afraid that even if she took the medicine, her illness wouldn't have healed so quickly.

This place is too desolate and not a suitable place to stay.

Gu Lan packed up the bag in the early morning before the little bun woke up. Actually there was nothing to pack, just some tattered things and food hidden inside.

Then she added some water to the small pottery jar, just enough for the mother and son to drink for a day.

In the past two days, although the little bun was also very curious about why the water could not be finished, he also asked his mother, but seeing the confused look on his mother's face, the little bun closed his mouth and did not dare to ask any more questions. He was mainly afraid that if he asked any more questions, the water would be gone.

So the mother and son ate something in the morning and prepared to set off with bags on their backs.

Before setting off, Gu Lan made some changes, put on the clothes of the little bun's father, and dressed up as a man. She made some changes to her hair, and she was tall, so except for being too thin, there was really no sense of disobedience, and she looked like a man.

Before leaving, Gu Lan repeatedly told the little bun not to call her "mother" anymore and to call her "father". The little bun nodded very sensibly, saying that he remembered it and would not call it wrong.

In this way, the mother and son began their escape.

Their home is in Linzhou, which is located in the eastern part of Jin State. If they want to survive, they can only go in other directions.

Before leaving, Gu Lan carefully searched the memory of her original body.

Although she had tried her best to search, her original body was just a little woman. Every day, she was either took care of children and stoves. The farthest place she went was their county town, so her knowledge was really limited.

However, we still found out that the Ji family was An An's grandparents. They fled to the south, to Liangzhou.

It was already early autumn. If they wanted to have a better life, they would naturally flee to the south where the temperature was more suitable. The most important thing was that there was enough rain there.

Since they were going south, Gu Lan naturally not go in the same direction with them.

As far as Gu Lan's memories known, the Ji family did not treat them as human beings at all. When Ji Shui was still there, it was a little better. At least the child could eat until he was three-quarters full.

Ever since Ji Shui was killed by bandits disguised as disaster victims in order to protect his family, the Ji family was too lazy to even cover up. Not only did the original body have to work hard to find food every day, but the food found was hard for the original body and even the child to eat.

If it were not for fatigue and excessive hunger and dehydration, the original body would not have fallen ill and abandoned the child, causing the child suffered so much in the future, and finally did not have a good end.

Therefore, Gu Lan naturally could not go to the direction where the Ji family fled, no matter how good it was. In fact, in Gu Lan's opinion, they were all the same.

The country she lives in seems peaceful on the surface, but it is actually corrupt from the root.

The emperor of today only know how to enjoy themselves, and most officials only know how to flatter and deceive their superiors and subordinates. The whole officialdom is full of corruption.

Even in places where the emperor is far away, some officials will plunder like robbers, not to mention the exploiting the common people, making lives are not easy at all.

Not only that, from the memory of the original body, some small countries on the border are not at peace, and they will launch several wars of aggression almost every few years to snatch survival resources.

Life is already bitter and misfortunes come one after another. A drought has come out of nowhere, and it has lasted for more than a year. The court has completely ignored it. I don't know if it was embezzled or the emperor didn't know that they were deceived, but it just made the people suffer.

There is no way to live, so they can only run away, so it's even more chaotic. As a result there are countless refugees and robbers for this reason. It can be said that there are starving people everywhere. It seems that this era is not easy everywhere. Gu Lan really has no idea what was going on.