Chapter 23

Mrs. Wu, who had just washed the dishes after the war, casually wiped her wet hands on the hem of her clothes. When she walked over, she heard her youngest son's words. She stepped forward angrily and grabbed his ears and scolded him: "You bastard You little bastard, you even gave up your parents for food, so I'm hurting you for nothing."

  "Oh, it hurts," Xiao Sanlang cleverly asked for help from Mrs. Xiao: "My grandma, help me, my mother hit me again." . "

  Not to mention, the atmosphere became much better after Xiao Sanlang made such a fuss.

  After a while, Xiao Youfu and the others trotted back and greeted them solemnly: "The weather is not good, hurry up as soon as possible!"

  After saying that, they didn't even have time to eat the lunch specially left for them, so they packed up and drove the mules. The car started driving again.

  Xiao Xiao noticed that he did not take the official route this time, but took another trail.

  Although the official road is also a loess road, it is well compacted and not as bumpy as a trail.

  Xiao Xiao simply opened the rough gray curtain, stuck his head out and asked Xiao Youfu who was sitting on the shaft of the car driving: "Dad, what happened?"

  Xiao Youfu wiped the cold sweat from his face, hesitated for a while, and then He said with difficulty: "Fortunately we didn't go in directly..."

  When he was approaching the town, he felt sick to his stomach, so he asked them to wait aside and found a secluded place to squat.

  Unexpectedly, I accidentally saw a few people arguing. One of them said that Huining County was now taken over by the generals and troops of King Cheng. If they went in, they would never return.

  Now not only King Annan is recruiting troops from everywhere, but also King Cheng of Sanxiang secretly crosses the border and asks his subordinates to come here to recruit troops and buy horses, and also search for money and food.

  Knowing that the people are now fleeing at home, they simply let people ambush them on the official road.

  People who are fleeing at home must have brought all their belongings with them. If they are caught, it will be regarded as a loss of both human and financial resources.

  If Xiao Youfu didn't have a tired family, then maybe he would really like to be a soldier so that he could make ends meet. Maybe with his own skills, he could still be a member of a hundred households?

  But now that there are seniors and juniors, he doesn't want to be captured and become a soldier.

  What's more, in order to reward the soldiers, there are red tents in the camp.

  He glanced at his little daughter. Even though she was wearing a faded gray shirt that Da Lang had patched before, she still had a fair complexion and delicate features: "Don't be lazy, ask your sisters to get out of the car and run for a while." ."

  He was very happy when he saw that his wife and daughter couldn't even tan.

  Now he would rather they were all tanned and not outstanding in appearance, so that he could feel at ease.

  Xiao Xiao silently looked at the big sun hanging in the middle, then retracted his head and lowered the car curtain, pretending that he didn't hear what he said.

  It was the hottest time of the day, it had to be at least 30 degrees Celsius. How worried did she have to be to get out of the car and run?

  Besides, it was inconvenient to take a bath now that she was out, and it was even more inconvenient to wash her hair. She really didn't want to be covered in sweat.

  It is more appropriate to exercise in the morning and evening.

  Inside, Ms. Liu and her two daughters kept their ears open to listen to what they were saying. When Xiao Xiao shrank back, Xiao Lian couldn't help but find fault: "Didn't you hear what dad said? Why don't you get down quickly?"

  Xiao Xiao was not afraid of her, but instead Taking advantage of the situation, he took her hand without showing any signs of weakness: "Dad also said that I want you, second sister, to run with me?"

  "Okay, let's take a good rest now. When it gets cooler, let's go for a walk." , and you can pick some wild vegetables by the way." Xiao Xiu is used to the two younger sisters arguing with each other dozens of times every day.

  She went from nervous at the beginning to indifferent now.

  No, it should be said that now I can watch the excitement calmly.

  Xiao Xiao came close to Mrs. Liu and asked in a low voice: "Mom, will dad get lost?"

  Mrs. Liu was also worried: "Your dad has never traveled far. He has a long mouth under his nose, so we can only ask along the way."

  Nowadays, apart from official roads, there are not many major roads, but small roads intersect with each other.

  However, since they had horse-drawn and mule-drawn carriages, they could only take the main road.

  This time, Xiao Youfu didn't even care about feeling sorry for the mule. He even whipped the mule a few times and forced the mule to run away for more than two hours. He still couldn't get to the village or the store. He finally saw a small river and finally got there. Stopped for dinner and spent the night.     This was also the first time that he was leading the way. When they took a break, the three cars behind them were still a long way away from them?

  Xiao Youfu first unloaded the mule cart and took the mule to the river to drink water and eat grass.

  Mrs. Liu took the opportunity and found a secluded place with her daughters to solve the three urgent needs. Then she carried a bamboo basket and started looking for wild vegetables. By the way, she checked to see if there was any danger in the place where she was going to stay for the night.

  Fortunately, the sun sets late in the summer.

  Even though it was approaching the end of the Youshi period, the sun still stubbornly left behind its afterglow.

  Cars and horses from behind also arrived one after another. Some were cutting grass and chopping firewood, some were lighting fires and cooking pots, and some were chatting together.

  Xiao Xiao also took the opportunity to go over and listen to what his father and Mr. Wu were talking about.

  "I'm not familiar with the roads here either!" Xiao Youfu said, "We can't leave the official road now, so we can only go wherever we go."

  Mr. Wu, who was born with a three-pointed smile, was also in trouble at this moment. Hiding his sorrow: "I have been to Jiangsu and Zhejiang more than ten years ago, but I took the official route."

  "Now we can only go all the way and inquire along the way."

  Mr. Xiao asked him: "Normally we have been gone for six months." We should be arriving in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas soon, right?"

  Mr. Wu was panicking. He said that he had only gone there more than ten years ago. Now he was not sure about the distance, but he could only touch his chin and pretend to be calm. : "We must have walked half way, right?"

  Xiao Yougui, who had been silent, finally spoke: "If we have only walked half way, if there is no place to buy rice, then our family may not have enough food, and there are still mules. There is no more food to eat."

  Even Mr. Wu was worried now.

  He originally thought that he had brought five to six hundred kilograms of grain, six hams, and some bacon, which would be enough to chew along the way.

  Therefore, I was very willing at first. I not only gave some to the Xiao family, but also gave some to the fake officials at the inn.

  Of course, the food and bacon became cheaper for the Xiao family later on.

  In addition, there is food for the nine members of their own family, and the mules and horses are also well fed, so they also consume twenty or thirty kilograms of food every day.

  So now they only have about two hundred kilograms of grain.

  The road ahead is long now, and he is panicking.

  But no matter what, he didn't dare to offend the Xiao family at this moment, fearing that if he wasn't generous, they would simply rob him.

  Moreover, this desolate and uninhabited place saved them from worrying about how to destroy the corpses and eliminate traces.

  Therefore, Mr. Wu immediately said with a serious face: "Thanks to your protection along the way, we can be safe. If you don't have enough food, just come to us to get it."

  "Even if they are all eaten, let's find a way."

  "Say. Why don't you pass by a normal town next time? "

  "If you are polite to me, you don't treat me as a brother."