Traveling through famine: The space peasant girl

It is still unknown how many people will die due to this polar night phenomenon. In the dark, there is no way to go out to get food. Only those who are well prepared can survive. For those who are still walking on the road, this is definitely terrible news, which is basically equivalent to a disaster of extinction.

When night falls, who can know whether the person next to you is a human or a ghost? No one dares to be sure.

No one could do anything about this situation, unless the cities they passed by could open their gates and let them in, they would have a glimmer of hope. Anyway, even if the cities in the north opened their gates, there would be nothing left to eat, so they could only rely on food from the south. But the south also had little food, so it was unknown how the emperor would make the decision.

In fact, the refugees on the road were just as Wang Shiyu had expected. Those on the road continued to move forward holding torches, striving to reach the city to be accepted, while those who were originally under the city had already started rioting, demanding that their city lord open the door directly and accept them into the city.

"We are all citizens of the dynasty, why don't you let us in? Move aside, let us in. It is dark now, you can't ignore human lives."

A thoughtful city lord would open the city gates directly and let these refugees enter the city to rest on the streets, so that they would not be attacked by wild beasts outside the city. As for their food and drink, there was no problem with drinking water now, because all the wells in the city were full of water, enough to supply these people so that they would not die of thirst for the time being.

The only thing they couldn't get was food. They could only save money and eat less. They could only barely survive for a while. The people in the city didn't recommend that the city lord let these refugees in. They didn't have enough food to eat, so how could they share it with others? But the city lord was kind-hearted and let these people in.

And now some people who were still on the road, walking unconsciously, were attacked by wild beasts coming down from the mountain. These people were already resentful because of the sudden darkness, and they couldn't see clearly under their feet when they walked, so they lit a few more torches. While they were walking on the road, they didn't stop muttering.

They angrily cursed God for being unfair. They were originally low-class civilians, and now they had become refugees fleeing everywhere because of this innocent natural disaster. How could they be happy?

Originally they were cursing on the road to vent their emotions, but they had no idea that the panic noises they caused had already made the wild beasts on the mountain ready to attack. The night was the time when it was easiest to trigger one's inner demons, and these people did not restrain themselves at all, so they were directly attacked by the nearby wild beasts.

Suddenly, the cries of children and women and the cries for help filled the sky and the earth. When the beasts left, there was not a single intact corpse on the ground. Even those beasts that did not feed on humans came up to take a few bites. It might be because the darkness made them more sensitive, and they were naturally unhappy to hear these sounds, and even more violent, causing them to attack humans indiscriminately.

The Zhang family had also arrived in Wucheng at this time. They were faster than Wang Shiyu and his group. After arriving in Wucheng, Zhang Tao invited the officials and prisoners who were exiled with them to come into the mansion in Wucheng to rest before leaving, because they had noticed the abnormality of the weather and the decreasing number of bright days, which even made Old Man Zhang a little panicked. He had been on horseback all his life, and even if he died, he couldn't die so miserably.

Although the black-faced official was reluctant to agree, he knew that the current situation was different from before, so he agreed to the old man's request and entered the five-courtyard mansion in Wucheng where the old man lived. The mansion was easily managed by several masters, and the more than 300 people could arrive easily. There were no other people in the mansion, only An Er and An Qi to arrange things, so when they arrived, they had to arrange everything by themselves. The mistress of each family was also good at managing the inner courtyard, so naturally everything could be arranged.

The black-faced official took the list of prisoners to the City Lord's Mansion and reported first. How could the City Lord of Wucheng not know that so many prisoners had entered the city? However, he basically ignored the fact that they chose to live in his own house. Now the cells in Wucheng were already full of prisoners, and there was no room for them to be locked up. Now that he could solve the problem himself, he was happy to pretend not to see it. The black-faced official had to apply, and he approved it directly.

When submitting the memorial to the court, he carefully considered his wording and did not elaborate on the treatment of the Zhang family. When the memorial reached the prince, he simply suppressed it. The emperor had no idea what was going on. No one knew the Zhang family's situation better than the prince. He was even very aware of the Zhang family's grievances. It was just that he did not have the ability to reverse the case for the Zhang family now.

There did not seem to be a serious drought in Wucheng. Although crops could not be grown and the weather was still hot, they could harvest crops twice a year and every household had accumulated a lot of food.