Chapter 22: Hand cart
Gu Yundong returned to the place where Mother Yang and the others were hiding, and picked up the basket on the ground, "Let's go, there will be more people in a while."
There was a fight at the gate of the city, and some people who don't want to get involved would definitely leave.
Gu Yunke had also woken up, the little girl rubbed her eyes, and the milky voice whispered, "Big sister, I'm hungry."
"..." Gu Yundong placed her hand on her forehead, and then pulled out small rice balls of the size of meatballs from the cloth bag. After giving her one, she gave some to Gu Yunshu and Mother Yang, and ate two herself.
This small rice ball was made before they set off this morning, and they were stuffed with a little bit of pickles. There was oil, water, and salt in the pickle, which made the rice balls taste delicious.
It was the most suitable food to fill the stomach on the road to escape.
There was so many people at the city gate before, so it was hard to take it out, but now, it was the right time to eat them and calm their hunger.
After eating, Gu Yundong set off with the three of them.
The road to Xuanhe City was indeed much calmer that the previous one. There were still people fleeing famine, but their mental state was obviously different.
Most of the people had ox carts, donkeys carts, and horses carts, and they hardly meet fellow travelers on the road.
Naturally, no one would come to bother for Gu Yundong and the others who seemed desperate, with no money or food.
After walking like this for a few days, Gu Yundong finally pulled out a hand cart from the space.
She had found it when she passed by a small village to collect supplies these last days. At that time, there were several bags of corn kernels piled up on the cart, and she even took the corn kernels into the space with the cart.
Afterwards, the corn kernels were unloaded, the hand cart was parked in a corner of her space all that time. Now, it was time to use it. Fortunately, the two wheels of the car where made of wood, so they wouldn't be too noticeable on the road.
Gu Yundong found an opportunity and said to Mother Yang, "You guys rest here for a while, I'll be right back."
She ran into the half a person high grass, and when she came out, she was pulling the hand cart behind her.
Gu Yunshu was stunned, "Big sister, where did this come from?"
"I found it in the grass over there. Maybe someone didn't want it and threw it there." Gu Yundong said. Gu Yunke and Yang Shi were equally curious, "You guys come up. Let me see if I can pull all of you."
The hand cart was relatively long, and if a person sits a little futher back, the person pulling the cart would feel that the cart was much lighter. And now they were taking the official road, and the road was smooth and easy to walk on.
Mother Yang hugged both Gu Yunshu and Gu Yunke, hesitating again and again, and then she went up cautiously.
Gu Yundong was quite strong now, she pushed the front of the cart down, grabbed the two handles and walked forwards.
It was a bit difficult at first, but slowly, the wheels were rolling forwards according to the law of inertia without much effort.
Gu Yunshu twisted his body happily, "That's great, with this cart, my mother and Big sister don't have to carry me and my little sister so hard."
"You can lie down." Although Gu Yunke was small, she was always shrunk in the back basket, unable to stretch her hands and feet, which was very uncomfortable.
Mother Yang touched the guardrails on both sides of the cart, the rear of the cart was also clocked by a baffle to prevent them from falling off.
Gu Yundong turned her head to look at the three of them, the corners of her mouth unconsciously rose.
With the hand cart, their speed was indeed much faster.
Gu Yundong and Mother Yang would switch to pull the cart. After Gu Yundong kept vigil at night, she would sleep in the cart the next day, which saved a lot of time.
Therefore, when they arrived at the gate of Xuanhe City, it had been less than a month, which greatly exceeded Gu Yundong's expectations.