Traveling through famine: The space peasant girl

Logically speaking, Xiaoyi has never taken modern medicine, so she should recover quickly since there are no antibodies in her body.

In the afternoon, Second Aunt stayed beside the cart, keeping a close eye on Xiaoyi's condition, fearing that if she didn't find out in time, her son would become stupid due to the fever. You know, if a person has a high fever at this time, it is very easy to make him stupid.

Sure enough, in the afternoon, Xiaoyi's fever subsided and she regained consciousness, no longer feeling dazed like in the morning.

Although she was still a little sleepy, she had become a little more alert. Only then did Second Aunt feel relieved.

Wang Shiyu really doesn't know how to give Chinese medicine to children? And how much? She doesn't understand it at all, so she just uses Western medicine.

That night, I gave my aunt another packet of cold medicine, but I didn't give it to him anymore, letting him recover slowly on his own. My second aunt also watched him at night to prevent him from taking cold medicine any more.

The road was getting hotter and hotter. I looked at the time in the morning and it was about three or four o'clock when the sun had already come out. The weather was really hot, it was unbearable, like a huge steamer, and people were walking in it.

"Xiaoyu, you and grandpa come out for a moment"

When they stopped to rest at night, the old man asked Wang Shiyu to go out for a while. He originally planned to get some other things for the Zhang family today, because several people in the Zhang family had suffered from heatstroke due to the high fever.

He had bought many Chinese patent medicines and a lot of easy-to-carry pills at the pharmacy before, which could be used to provide some support to the Zhang family.

"Xiao Yu, get some pills for heatstroke for grandpa. I'll send some to Zhang Jia, and then put them out in the open for prevention."

"Okay, Grandpa, I got it. I'll get it right away."

"Xiao Yu, you said we should leave this road and take another route, pretending to be refugees."

Wang Shiyu was silent for a while and did not respond.

"Grandpa, if that happens, what will Xiaoyi do?"

There are too many people who attack children on the road. Eating children is no longer a legend, but a real thing. She herself is also in danger, especially a girl, who is a sitting duck on the road.

"We six adults and you two children can always find a way out. To be honest, I don't plan to meet those refugees again. We will go directly through the mountain road. It will be more difficult on the road, but it will be safer than now."

In the past two days, he noticed that the way the people behind him looked at them had changed, especially Xiaoyi in the car. There was a red glow in those people's eyes, and their eyes had become a little dull. Even their faces had changed and they had become a little fatter. He suspected that these people had eaten humans.

"Then I'll listen to Grandpa."

Wang Shiyu began to put all the medicines that the old man had taken out of the old space into a big box. He then took the big box out and placed it in the woods, opened the lid, and let the old man see what was in it.

To be honest, Wang Shiyu has become illiterate since coming here.

Who made people here write in traditional Chinese characters, and she had never seen some of the characters before, which was completely different from her previous life. She had only learned simplified Chinese characters before, so how could she know traditional Chinese characters? Naturally, she didn’t recognize what the characters written on these Chinese medicines were (┯_┯).

The old man opened the box and picked and chose, picked out a few porcelain bottles, and then took out several packets of Chinese medicine, and then asked Xiaoyu to put away the rest.

The old man took the things and went directly to the Zhang family's team, while Wang Shiyu quietly returned to where the Wang family was and sat down to continue resting.

The old man left most of the anti-heatstroke medicines to the Zhang family, because he really didn't have any medicinal materials at his place, and only had a little bit of the golden wound medicine he had prepared before, and that golden wound medicine couldn't prevent heatstroke either.

When the old man came back, he took a bottle of heat-relieving pills and put them in front of the old lady, and told everyone that if they had any problems or felt dizzy or uncomfortable, they should take a pill immediately.

The medicines nowadays are different from those in later generations. The efficacy of the medicines nowadays is very good. Basically, if you have heatstroke, you can get through it by taking a few pills. But you can't delay, as the longer you delay, the worse the condition will be.

Wang Shiyu also thought that it would be best not to take out the current medicine. If it is not a serious illness, modern medicine is best used on the cutting edge.

Now even when walking at night, the air is dry and hot, which is very uncomfortable. After walking for so long, we haven't found any water source. It is said that the situation behind the team has started to get chaotic, and some people are openly drinking human blood and eating human flesh.

The old man felt that if they continued walking with these people, their family would definitely become their target, because there were only a few people in their family. Even if they had established a relationship with the prisoners in front, these extremely hungry people would probably not let them go.

The old man went directly to Zhang Tao the next night and told him his decision. Zhang Tao said that he understood and respected his choice and hoped that their two families could meet in Qiongdao.

That night, when they were walking, the old man asked Wang Shiyu to put away all the things under the sticky cloth, leaving only a few wooden sticks to support the felt cloth, making it look like there was someone under the felt cloth.

It was impossible to walk late at night, so the old man left the cart in batches while everyone was asleep. Xiaoyi was tied tightly to his body behind his back by his father with a cloth rope.

The family left the team lightly traveled. Before leaving the team, the old man specially left some supplies for Zhang Tao and the others, because they might not meet again. There was not only water on the cart, but also a lot of food. Zhang Tao did not ask where these things came from. After all, the Wang family had been there these days, and they had never seen these things under their noses.

Originally Zhang Tao thought that these things were just those things in the car that were inconvenient to take away. However, when he opened it during the day, he was shocked to find that there were actually some green vegetables.

After everyone fell asleep, Wang Shiyu and the old man discussed what to leave for Zhang Tao. The two of them discussed for a while.

Five buckets of water, three bundles of steamed buns and a measuring cylinder of dry cakes were left for Zhang Tao, as well as three bundles of steamed corn bread and dry biscuits, and two baskets of lush green vegetables. They did not seem to have any signs of water shortage, as if they had just been picked from the ground. These things might not be worth the attention of anyone under normal circumstances, but now they are something that many people are jealous of.

Even a lot of medicine was left behind. Wang Shiyu specially left some pills and asked the old man to mark them. He then sent them to Zhang Tao and asked him to keep close watch on them. This could be considered their retreat.

Zhang Tao quickly asked his son and grandsons to cover the things tightly. At night, the old man took out half a basket of vegetables and gave it to the officers who escorted them.

Their lives are in the hands of these people, and they can only consider other things after they reach Qiong Island.

When the Wang family left, Zhang Tao gave them a small box containing 12,000 taels of silver and some gold and jade jewelry. It looked very gorgeous and valuable, and was kept by Wang Shiyu.

In recent days, the imperial court has been in turmoil, with people being constantly demoted and exile teams marching to various remote areas.

The current Emperor refuses to admit that he has any moral flaws. Instead of being tyrannical when warned of a disaster by God, he would confiscate the property of anyone and exile him if he finds anyone saying anything bad. Now all the officials in the court are trying to protect themselves and don't want to get involved.

After all, this is a feudal dynasty and the emperor's words are the imperial edict. Even if the emperor is wrong, these people will not change their minds even if the emperor is a bastard. Why bother with their own lives?

This natural disaster lasted only about half a month, and ministers in the court died one after another. Now there are not many familiar faces standing in the court, and they are all the confidants who were just promoted by the emperor.

The princes have been replaced one after another. The emperor is now getting older and older, and he has begun to suspect whether his sons are planning to usurp the throne.

The princes had to lie dormant, waiting for an opportunity to strike hard in the future. During this turbulent time, the current Emperor began to select concubines to enter the palace on a large scale.

The daughters of these newly promoted court officials all began to look for each other. In order to avoid entering the palace to serve the old emperor, any family with a little bit of ability would not send their daughters to the palace to curry favor with the powerful.

The actions of these court officials made the emperor even more tyrannical. He felt that these court officials each had their own thoughts and were no longer loyal to him. Regardless of whether they were his confidants or not, he had already begun to openly order these people to send his daughters into the palace.

Therefore, the means of punishing people became more and more severe, which also caused the current Zhou Dynasty to be in a precarious stage. Even though the prince has tried his best to control the situation, it is of no avail.

Instead, it made His Majesty even more suspicious that the Crown Prince was plotting to usurp the throne. The Emperor became more and more suspicious and had begun to support the Second Prince and started competing with the Crown Prince.

There were even many things that should have been done by the crown prince but were given to the second prince, which made the court officials think that His Majesty was considering changing the crown prince.

The prince's mentality became more and more relaxed, and he no longer opposed the current emperor, because he felt that he was already half a prince of a fallen country. He began to slowly gather his property and transport his gold, silver and jewelry out of the Jinling Imperial City.

He hid the tasks in a place no one knew, and arranged all his trusted aides to do them. However, the whereabouts of these aides were unknown after they had done the tasks.

The emperor seemed to have noticed his son's actions, but he had no evidence. All the people he had arranged to be his son's confidants had been dealt with, and he could not find them anymore.

In the past two days, the prince has actually started to agree with His Majesty. No matter what His Majesty says, he nods in acceptance and sings praises of his father.

The court officials knew clearly that this was wrong, but they were unable to stop it. In the past, the crown prince had been the vanguard, dealing with His Majesty, but now the crown prince has given up reasoning with His Majesty and talking about the people's livelihood. Without the crown prince charging in the front, the rest of the people naturally became turtles.

What else could the subordinates do? They could only go with the flow, and they didn't know what happened to the silver and grain they sent out for disaster relief.

The truly loyal and brave ones were either killed or disabled, or exiled, and the rest were all cunning and deceitful people who were good at talking but not at flattering, and were not worthy of standing beside the emperor.

At this time, the prince wanted to arrange for his children to leave the Jinling Imperial City, but was stopped by His Majesty, who directly asked the Queen to summon the prince's legitimate children into the palace.

The prince sat in his own East Palace, looking at the deserted East Palace. The Crown Princess cried bitterly, wanting to live in front of her.

"Your Highness, you have to save our children. They have been taken to the palace and are in the hands of the Queen. I am really worried. The Queen is the biological mother of the Second Prince."

The current crown prince was born to Empress Yuan, and after she fell ill and died, the emperor made the second prince's biological mother the empress. Over the years, the second prince has been at loggerheads with the crown prince and did not want the crown prince to succeed to the throne.

Who made the Second Prince a legitimate son now? As long as one has the status of a legitimate son, who wouldn't want to fight for that position, second only to the emperor and above everyone else?

The Crown Prince calmly watched the Crown Princess finish crying, then called the servants to help her down to rest. He himself knelt coldly in front of the table, watching the sunlight outside go down little by little and gradually fall into darkness.

"It's not that I don't want to save my children. It's that I have no other choice. Now I can only pray that my father will let the three children go."

The prince stared for a whole afternoon, and slowly closed his sore and swollen eyes, which told the prince that he was not in a dream, so he had to deal with this matter calmly.

He and the Crown Princess loved each other very much and had two sons and a daughter. Now that they had been brought into the harem, he had no way of interfering at all.

If the children fall into the hands of the people in the harem, there is basically no chance of survival. Even if the queen will not harm the children for the sake of face, the emperor is now going crazy. Who can guarantee that his three children can live healthily?

Sure enough, on the night when the three children entered the palace, the queen dealt severely to the three children. On the next day, the prince learned that his three children were unfortunately bitten by poisonous snakes while playing in the imperial garden in the harem.

Because the disease was discovered late, the Imperial Medical Bureau was helpless. Doctor Chen, the most capable head of the hospital, was demoted and expelled from the capital because he said, when taking the emperor's pulse, that the worst thing about being an emperor is being too impetuous. Naturally, people close to Doctor Chen were also expelled from the Imperial Medical Bureau.

And the rest of the people are just trying to get by. How could they have any real abilities?

"Your Highness, Your Highness, why don't you save our children? We can even bring a doctor to the palace ourselves! Please, save our children!"

At this time, the Crown Princess came to the Crown Prince's bedroom again, knelt on the ground and begged bitterly, asking the Crown Prince to save her child. She knelt down and came to the side of the Crown Prince, tightly grasping his long sleeves.