Fleeing from famine! A rough hunter has a fox husband

As it was getting dark, someone came to pick up boys and girls in the open space in front.

Of course, "collect" means to buy.

How ridiculous it is that you can buy off a person with ten kilograms of rice or a pot of water.

But someone wants to do this deal.

Even here, there are many people who sell their children.

They lied to the children and told them to enjoy a good life, but they pushed them into another abyss just to get a little food.

When Shen Nuo woke up, he saw a boy about his age being dragged into a shabby carriage.

His family thus obtained ten kilograms of food. Shen Nuo watched the man open the bag and saw that the food inside was also yellow stale rice.

However, even this kind of old rice is worth a boy or a girl.

The guy struggled hard, but his frail body was no match for those men.

Soon he was pushed directly onto the carriage, followed by the sound of clothes being torn, the obscene laughter of the men, and the guy's screams of pain.

Shen Nuo's eyes were instantly replaced by panic.

A big hand gently covered his eyes, and a low and gentle voice came to his ears:

"Nono, sleep a little longer. We can stop when we get to the front."

Qin Yan held the person in his arms and quickly walked through the noisy crowd.

Not only Shen Nuo saw this scene, but also other people from Yunzhu Village.

The boys and girls were so scared that they hid behind their mothers or grandmothers, they were extremely frightened.

From time to time they would see some skinny people lying on the side of the road, and they didn't know whether they were alive or dead.

Qin Yan found a place to stay far away from the official road, surrounded by weeds and cracked land.

Everyone was silently looking for a place to camp, and some just rested next to the cart.

Qin Yan gently smoothed Shen Nuo's frown and comforted him in a gentle voice:

"Don't be afraid, I will protect you."

Shen Nuo buried his head in Qin Yan's arms again, feeling extremely uncomfortable.

Even though he knew that natural disasters were cruel and ruthless, and even though he couldn't change anything, he still couldn't stand such a scene.

There was no longer the laughter that used to be heard from Yunzhu Village. Everyone ate in silence and then rested.

It was Qin Yan's turn to keep watch tonight, and Shen Nuo went with him.

The temperature has now dropped to twenty degrees and the weather is starting to get colder.

Especially at night, Qin Yan asked Shen Nuo to wear an extra piece of clothing before allowing him to keep watch together.

There were other people not far from them, and Qin Yan and the others were mainly on guard against those people.

Some people do look very pitiful, but their pity is not caused by the people of Yunzhu Village, and it is impossible for the people of Yunzhu Village to just do whatever they want.

Just like what happened with human trafficking just now, it is true that they feel uncomfortable and it is also true that they don’t want to care about it.

Seeing that Shen Nuo was always depressed, Qin Yan pointed to the moon in the sky and told him a story.

The moon hung coldly in the sky, with no stars around it.

Qin Yan's low voice came and instantly caught Shen Nuo's attention.

"It is said that there is an immortal living on the moon in the sky. He weaves colorful clouds every day, and he keeps a snow-white moon rabbit in his moon palace..."

Shen Nuo was listening in his arms.

He heard that the Moon Rabbit escaped to the mortal world when the immortal was not paying attention. Later, the Moon Rabbit was deceived by the mortal and one day it revealed its true form.

Afterwards, he was mistaken for a monster and nearly burned to death by the ignorant people in the village. In the end, he was rescued by an immortal who came along...

This was different from the story of Chang'e he had heard before, and Shen Nuo looked up curiously.

"Did Moon Rabbit finally take revenge on those stupid villagers?"

"No, he just blames himself for meeting the wrong person."

"I see, Moon Rabbit is really stupid. I think all the villagers should be burned to death."

Shen Nuo clenched his fists, looking disappointed.

"Haha, Nono, guess what happened to those fools in the end?"

"how's it going?"

Shen Nuo became even more curious and looked at Qin Yan for an answer.

"Later, the immortal secretly asked other gods to bring down divine punishment, and these fools struggled in misery every day."

"Then this immortal did the right thing."

"Yeah, I also think Nuonuo is right."

Qin Yan scratched his nose and finally felt relieved.

His Nono has a clear distinction between love and hate, and is not a blindly kind person.

It was not until the second half of the night when the man who replaced the night watch came that Qin Yan carried the sleeping Shen Nuo back to his tent.

After two more days of traveling, they saw more and more disaster victims.

Compared with the disaster victims on the road, even the people of Chenjia Village did not seem so destitute.

Yes, the people from Chenjia Village also followed them.

Not long after, we saw a village ahead.

The village was right on the side of the road, and what surprised them was that there were still a few households here who had not left.

As usual, Qin Liang and his companions were going to ask if there was any water in the well.

But now the drought has lasted for so long, even if there is water, it should have been discovered.

So, he just walked towards the houses where there were still people.

Shen Nuo saw from afar that these people were grinding something with a stone mill. There were other people sifting beside them, and on the other side was the sifted powder.

After looking carefully, I saw a man in front of me, holding a piece of dry bark and chopping it up with a hatchet.

"Are they going to use the bark as rice or flour to eat?"

Someone asked this question.

The men in that family acted as if they didn't hear anything. They didn't even look at anyone else and just sat on the ground and continued doing what they were doing.

And it wasn't just this family that did this. Shen Nuo saw other villagers next door doing the same.

"The crops are gone. The locust plague has just passed. There is no food left. We can only eat tree bark."

A thin man looked up and smiled bitterly.

After saying that, he tightened the belt around his waist.

The sound of a child crying could be heard from the half-collapsed house.

Many houses in this village have collapsed.

They seemed too hungry to have the energy to rebuild their houses, and could only let them become dilapidated.

Seeing them looking at the half-collapsed house with the roof still on, the man said:

"Well, it's not raining anyway, so it doesn't matter whether the house is repaired or not."

"Then why do you still live here? Everyone is fleeing to the south, why don't you flee?"

Qin Yue couldn't help but ask them.

"Look, there are seven or eight men here, with these five children.

I don’t know if I can make it to the south alive, but it’s okay to stay here, at least I’m closer to my wife.”

As he spoke, he pointed to a dozen or so graves nearby, and Shen Nuo could clearly see the words on them.

These people should have died in the earthquake. He looked at the man with a bitter smile, said nothing, and just tugged at Qin Yan's sleeve.

"If not for yourself, you should also think about the children. Are they willing to die here with you?"

Qin Yan asked the most direct question, and the man silently raised his hand and wiped away his tears.