Traveling through famine: The space peasant girl

The world of capital is really terrifying. She believes that she does not have the ability to clean it up, but she hopes to pry open a corner so that the country can get a better start.

Especially for someone like me who has already died, the orphanage has already registered with the higher authorities, so nothing will happen to him.

Then it would be fine to use her own life in exchange for the capture of some people. Although she didn't know when she would travel through time, it would not prevent her from plotting against these people.

I just hope that after I am gone, Mother Li can live well with the children in the orphanage, and that there will be promising children who can help support the orphanage.

As for her own life experience, she was not curious at all, and even felt that if she admitted it, she might die.

It is undeniable that her intuition was so accurate that even before her death, she had a strong premonition, so after packing up her things, she also gave up the house.

After coming to this world, she truly felt what an ordinary life was like. She was loved by her parents, spoiled by her grandparents, and even her second uncle and second aunt liked her very much.

There are few people in the family and there is no competition, so the family is naturally harmonious.

How nice it would be if there weren't this abominable natural disaster. I could find a like-minded man, get married, have children, and slowly spend the rest of my life without any calculations. Unlike in my previous life, I had to constantly calculate against everyone just for a chance to survive.

I don’t know how she managed to get enough food before leaving abroad, but looking at the things in her space warehouse, they are enough for her to eat for several lifetimes.

The family slept until almost noon. By then, grandma had already drawn a bucket of water from the well. There was no way to make a fire in the cellar, so everyone could only wash with cold water, and then continue to eat cold steamed buns with pickles.

Now every household has nothing to eat, and they can't be too abrupt, so they can only deal with one bite and think about it later.

The county magistrate also knew that the stoves in every household had been crushed, so he had to gather everyone in an open space in the western suburbs, set up a big pot, and invite several women to cook porridge for everyone to get through the next few days.

They sat on the ground under the tent, each holding a bowl and receiving a bowl of porridge. This was two meals a day, which was considered good.

The county magistrate managed more than one town. After settling down here, he rushed to another town.

The Wang family members did not join in the fun, nor did they receive relief porridge. The family still had food for the time being, and they were all busy rebuilding their home.

The abnormal weather has not yet manifested itself, so everyone is busy cooling down the stones that have fallen at home and then transporting them out.

Otherwise, there would be no way to build the wall and the beams, so the rich families in the town directly hired people to start the work. If the stones were too hot, they poured water on them to cool them down, and then five or six people worked together to transport the stones out.

Grandpa took his two sons to help. He didn't pack up any of the things in the house and still lived in the cellar. He had no intention of rebuilding at all.

When people ask him about it, he just says he has no money because all his money was destroyed by the fireball, so he needs to earn money to build a house.

We have been working hard for more than twenty days. It is still spring, April or May, but the temperature of the weather has already caught up with that of the autumn heat.

Several helpers have suffered from heatstroke. The abnormal weather has made everyone afraid to continue building the house at noon, and they all rush to work in the morning and evening.

At noon, the old man took his son and daughter-in-law to turn all the food in the house into dry food, and the rest were coarse grains, cornmeal and sorghum rice.

Two of the porcelain pots at home were broken, leaving only one iron pot and one porcelain pot. The iron pot was used to steam some steamed buns and pancakes, while the porcelain pot was used to cook some wild vegetable porridge.

Looking at the weather, he didn't buy a donkey, but directly bought a cart. Then he asked the old woman to stay at home and help his daughter-in-law make a few more short-sleeved clothes, and then make some more shoes with thousand-layer soles.

Shoes for walking must be made to fit your feet and have thick soles, otherwise you will walk on the road without a pair of shoes to change into.

At night, the family gathered around the campfire in the yard, looking at the stars in the sky and drinking wild vegetable porridge in bowls.

Wang Yixian drank his porridge and looked at the dilapidated surroundings and the half-built house in the distance.

"Dad, aren't we going to build a house?"

Wang Yizu didn't say anything either, but followed his elder brother to look at the old man who was drinking porridge. They had also noticed these days that the old man didn't want to leave the house at all, but was waiting for something.

Hearing this, the old man paused while drinking the porridge, the grandmother was speechless and continued to feed her grandson, and the two daughters-in-law rolled their eyes at the men in the family.

It took them such a long time to react. Their two sisters-in-law had already discovered it long ago. Moreover, the weather was abnormal and extremely hot. They were also people who made a living in the fields, so how could they not understand the harm of this weather?

There hasn't been any chaos yet because everyone still has stored food. All the seedlings that have just sprouted from the fields have died, and the seeds that are being added have not yet sprouted.

Just wait and see. In another month or two, there will definitely be chaos here. Every household has no food stored, and the crops in the fields are not growing at all. No one knows what the hungry people will do.

Their family has no stored food and no money, and they rely on the men in the family to work to earn some food. This is the news that the Wang family has leaked to others in recent times. Didn't you see that their family only has wild vegetable porridge and steamed corn bread?

Anyway, the Wang family's food was apparently terrible, so no one had any opinions about them. The old man and his son worked for another five days.

Only then did he go to the county and get a pass. The fields at home did not grow crops, the house was destroyed, and the water in the well could no longer be pumped. Now they could only flee to the south to seek a glimmer of hope.

The county magistrate did not make things difficult for them and directly issued a pass to all the members of the Wang family. That night, the old man took his men to load the cart and left Yunshan Town under the cover of darkness, heading south.

My father and my second uncle took turns pulling the cart. My younger brother Xiaoyi was young and couldn't walk, so they had to reserve a place for him on the cart.

As for the shortage of food and provisions at home, no one in the family asked, but the old lady knew best how well prepared the family was.

She didn't ask how the old man hid or where he hid. Instead, she helped to cover it up. People in the family were not talkative people. They had listened to the old man all their lives and would not resist at this time.

The group walked slowly. There were not many things in the cart, just a quilt, two wooden barrels filled with water, two remaining pots, and some cornmeal and broken rice.

What was left were some very dry biscuits and steamed buns. When the old man came back from the county town, he specially bought two cans of salt. He could survive on the journey without anything else, but not salt.

I had bought some before, all at Wang Shiyu's place, but I still had to have one that was in plain sight. I planned to eat the one from my granddaughter slowly, and I didn't know what would happen later.

After some inquiries in the county town, I found out that the entire Xuzhou was in disaster. The fireball attacked indiscriminately, and the entire state was riddled with holes.

They are basically being rebuilt, and we can still issue road passes now. If the drought continues for a long time, it will be difficult to issue road passes again.

After leaving Yunshan Town, it was daybreak. I looked at the empty farmland around me. There was not even a weed in it. The old man was silent, carrying a basket on his back. Nothing grew in the fields. Wasn't this God's will to kill me?

There were no other refugees on the road. Everyone was busy rebuilding their homes and had not noticed anything unusual in the fields. They thought that the high temperature had killed the previous seedlings, and the seeds that had just been planted had not yet grown.

We walked very quietly until noon. The hot sun at noon melted people. We finally walked into a dry dense forest and unloaded the cart. We were exhausted and sweating. The sunlight was blocked by dry branches and leaves. Although it was not cool, at least we were not exposed to the sun directly.

The family took a short nap in the dense forest, then took out the sugar cakes they had prepared before setting out and ate them with water.

I didn't notice anything unusual on this road in the town, but now that I'm outside, I see endless yellow land, dry branches, and rarely seen green. I can dig up wild vegetables around the town.

It is because there is a century-old well at the entrance of the town, and people would fetch water from it to irrigate their crops when they have nothing to do, so there are wild vegetables on the roadside.

Watching the sun set, I pulled the cart and continued to move forward. The sun was so hot at noon that it was killing me. I had wanted to set out directly after lunch, but the sun burned my arms and I began to feel intense pain.

Soon a large area turned red. Even with clothes on, it was very painful. Wang Shiyu and the old man looked at the sunburned arms and face.

I searched the space for a long time and found a lot of sunscreen and medical burn ointment, put them in porcelain bottles, and gave them to the old man.

"Grandpa, this is a burn cream. If you get sunburned, apply this. Apply this white one to the unburned areas. This is sunscreen. Don't use it on sunburned areas."

The old man calmly put the thing into his arms. After a while, he took out the burn ointment and handed it to the old lady.

"Old lady, this is burn cream. Apply it to the children's sunburned areas. This is sunscreen. Apply it to the uninjured areas. Don't be reluctant to use it. If it's not enough, I'll find a way."

Everyone watched the old man take out two large jars from his arms like watching a magic trick. How did the old man (dad) carry these things in his arms all the way?

Everyone started helping each other apply sunscreen on the exposed but unburned areas. After applying the sunscreen, it seemed less painful when they were exposed to the sun again.

The family was not in a hurry to leave. They waited until the sun was about to set before they started to get ready. They planned to walk at night and find a place to rest away from the sun during the day, which was better than getting sunburned.

Because we had to avoid the sun, the journey was delayed, but that was acceptable. We didn't join in the fun when we encountered a county town on the way. Just by looking at the conditions in the fields on the road, we could tell that life was not going well in these county towns.

Because on this road, there were also people who came one after another with their belongings and families and walked slowly on the official road. They took the official road because there were too many bandits taking the small roads. After walking on the official road for a while, they could see a post station, and there were always some pavilions next to the post station for them to rest.

On the small road, they were left to fate, as they had no way of finding a place to hide from the sun in time.

Walking on the official road, you can see pavilions and sheds built by people around you, and occasionally you can even see people escorting prisoners. The team follows behind them, so your safety will be guaranteed.

However, they had just left Yunshan Town and had not yet encountered the team escorting prisoners. The prisoners had to go to Yazhou to work and were not allowed to return to Beijing for the rest of their lives.

Because of frequent natural disasters during this period, many princes have begun to rebel, saying that the current emperor is not a wise ruler. In addition, several princes have frequently rebelled under the pretext of clearing the emperor's side.

In times of chaos, severe punishments must be imposed, so many people in the capital were exiled, including some important officials.

These people all have some relationship with those who rebelled, including but not limited to various nepotisms. Now collective punishment is popular, and all nine clans are implicated at once.

Soon they met a group of ragged prisoners. The whole team looked lifeless. The old man watched for a while and told everyone not to act rashly. He did not follow the team.

It can be seen that there are quite a few people in this team who have been punished. They are basically supporting each other. Even after leaving the capital for such a long time, they still haven't got the money to buy a horse-drawn carriage or donkey cart, and they don't even have a cart. This shows that the people in this team are definitely not welcome.

Looking at the officers escorting the prisoners, they are not easy to deal with. Each of them has a ferocious look. This team shows that they will not reach the end, which is also the meaning of the above.

The family was waiting for these people to pass by, and someone nearby was gossiping.

[Oh my, what a sin! This is the Zhenbei King's family, right? Not only have they not been on the battlefield for years, but they have also been holding back military supplies and not distributing them to the battlefield. I heard that many soldiers have starved to death.]

[Alas, they dared to participate in the rebellion with the third prince born to that maidservant. When His Majesty found out, he directly stripped them of their titles and exiled them to Qiong Island. These people are useless. The King of Zhenbei was a great general with great military achievements, but he was investigated and punished in just a few years.]

[Who made them join the rebellion when they couldn't live a good life? It's all their own fault. Looking at their current state, I guess they don't have any money at all, and I don't know where they can go.]

After hearing this, the old man's pupils shrank violently. He looked at the ragged man in front of him, rubbing his fingers non-stop, with no expression on his face. No one knew what he was thinking.

The old lady looked at the old man's expression, and silently stood up to block his view so that others could not see the old man's expression. The old lady knew something about her husband's life experience, and was worried that he would be seen, so she stood up to block him.

Watching the line of prisoners slowly move past and stop in front, the old man winked at his wife, then quietly walked around to the front with his granddaughter.

Wang Shiyu was not stupid. She could sense how excited her grandfather was just now. She glanced at the line of prisoners in front of her, closed her eyes, and sorted out a bundle of very dry cakes from the kang, as well as a lot of wound medicine that her grandfather had gotten, five silver notes of one hundred taels, and some silver coins to send off the officials.

Just as she was ready, her grandfather came to pull her and started to take a detour. The direction she was taking seemed to be the place where a prisoner had just gone to the toilet. Because the other party was a man, Wang Shiyu stepped back.

She walked behind her grandfather to avoid seeing things she shouldn't see. She was already a grown-up girl and had to avoid some things.

The bag that was smuggled out was a bit heavy, so I pulled my grandfather's hand and stuffed it into the old man's hand.

The old man looked down at the bundle in his hand, smiled, touched Wang Shiyu's little greasy head, continued walking forward, and saw two old men beside the tree.

Looking at that familiar face, the old man burst into tears. He had not been in contact with people in the capital for so many years, but he did not become a stranger with the passage of time.

"Uncle, aunt."

The old man who had just finished relieving himself and was leaning against a tree with his eyes closed heard these words and looked towards the source of the voice.

Looking at this somewhat unfamiliar face.

"Did you recognize the wrong person? I don't seem to be your uncle."

The old man didn't remember whether he knew this person or not, but in order not to implicate him, he refused to say that he knew him. When their entire family left the capital, not only did no one come to see them off, even the families of his daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law sent documents to sever ties with them.

Who would dare to get close to them now? In order not to implicate others, he refused all the gifts given to them by ordinary people along the way, for fear that the man above would harm others.

The old lady over there also accompanied her husband quietly. When she was young, she accompanied her husband to the battlefield. When she was old and was suspected by her superiors, she accompanied her husband to Qiong Island to start a new life without any regrets.

It's really hard for my daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law. They were the legitimate daughters of a wealthy family and should have been able to call the shots in the backyard of the mansion, but now they have to suffer with them.