On the way to escape from natural disasters: She went crazy with space

The two walked for a distance, and Lu Yuanzheng was about to ask Lu Qingqing why she didn't buy rice from the shop owner?

But when he lowered his head, he found that he was still holding the soup given by the shop owner in his hand.

Lu Yuanzheng said quickly: "Qingqing, wait here for me, I will return the hot water bottle to the boss."

"Brother, don't go."

Lu Qingqing held him back and said thoughtfully, "Brother, do you think the store owner is too enthusiastic?"

Lu Yuanzheng thought about it and immediately found many problems.

They were wearing tattered clothes, but the shop owner didn't mind at all and treated them as warmly as if they were his ancestors. It was outrageous.

What's even more outrageous is that he kept inviting them in for tea and snacks, as if the snacks and tea were free.

Such abnormal behavior in a year of famine is too outrageous and too wrong.

Lu Yuanzheng thought that the shop owner must not be a good person. Maybe he had poisoned the tea and snacks, hoping to knock them out and kill them secretly, and then use them to make human meat, barbecue and steamed buns.

He heard from his uncle that in some remote areas, passers-by would often be captured, killed, and made into barbecued pork buns to sell.

Uncle San also said that he was almost slaughtered like a pig once, but fortunately he had the skills to escape.

Thinking of this, Lu Yuanzheng shuddered and almost threw the hot water bottle in his hand away:

"Qingqing, what should we do about this?"

Lu Qingqing carefully examined the hot water bottle and confirmed that there was no problem, then said:

"When we go back later, we'll secretly leave it at his door."

There's something wrong with the store owner, so naturally they won't want his stuff!

"Okay." In today's world, we must be on guard against others, so it's better to be cautious.

"Use this to warm your hands." Lu Yuanzheng handed the hot water bottle to Lu Qingqing.

Lu Qingqing took it, and the two of them quickly moved forward and came to a shop selling flour.

The boss is a woman in her thirties, and there are two male assistants helping her in the store.

The proprietress can still afford to hire employees to work during years of famine, it seems that she is very financially strong.

Just as Lu Qingqing was thinking this, the proprietress Li Suya came out wearing a floral cotton jacket.

She stood there, raised her eyebrows and looked at Lu Qingqing and Lu Yuanzheng in ragged clothes, and threw a sentence over:

“Are you disaster victims?”

"Yes."

"It's so cold in this damn weather, how did you get here?"

"Come on foot."

Li Suya glanced at Lu Qingqing and stopped asking questions.

"Flour is 100 coins per pound. How much do you want?"

As she spoke, Li Suya took out the bag and waited for Lu Qingqing to tell her the number so that she could fill it with flour.

One hundred coins per catty, this price was two hundred coins cheaper than what she bought in Muyang Village.

Perhaps there aren't many reasons for the famine in Lan City, so the price increase isn't that severe!

The famine in Phoenix was such that the entire city fell!

That’s why the prices in Phoenix are so expensive!

Lu Qingqing picked up the flour, looked at it, and smelled it, confirming that it was excellent, and then said to the proprietress:

"Madam boss, I want twenty kilograms."

Li Suya paused as she was about to pack the flour, suspecting that she had heard it wrong.

There are always many disaster victims coming to her to buy rice recently, but most of them only buy half a pound, or at most a pound.

It was the first time that Li Suya encountered disaster victims buying 20 kilograms of goods. She even doubted whether they were disaster victims at all.

Li Suya looked at her and reminded her, "Twenty kilograms will cost one or two taels of silver." She must be careful not to have no money to pay her when she has packed the flour, otherwise her efforts would be wasted.

Lu Qingqing had just extorted ten taels of silver from Song Anming a few days ago, so she could still afford one tael of silver for flour.

Lu Qingqing directly handed over one or two taels of silver, "Thank you for your trouble, twenty kilograms."

When Li Suya saw the silver, she stopped doing it herself. She immediately called the waiter and said, "Weigh out 20 kilograms of flour."

The clerk responded and started working with the bag. Seeing this, Lu Qingqing hurriedly said:

"Please separate them into two bags!"

The waiter did not move, but looked up at Li Suya, who immediately frowned and scolded:

"Do I look like someone who is missing a bag? Listen to the customer."

The guy immediately brought another bag and continued working.

Li Suya saw that Lu Qingqing looked about the same age as her daughter, and couldn't help but chat with her again.

"Where are you from?"

“Phoenix.”

"The whole city was affected?"

"Yes."

"So everyone must leave Phoenix and go north?"

"Yes."

"This is too tragic. Fortunately, only a small part of Lancheng was affected. The victims can stay in their ancestral home and do not have to go north."

As she spoke, Li Suya glanced outside, then changed the subject and said in a somewhat annoyed tone:

"But who is better than who? You are fleeing famine, and we are paying exorbitant taxes. Life is becoming increasingly unbearable."

Lu Qingqing grasped the key words in this sentence and asked quickly:

"The court wants to increase your taxes?"

Li Suya cursed: "Yes, it has more than doubled compared to before!"

"Did they give any reason for increasing your taxes?"

"They say the Huns are coming, and we need to increase taxes to support the army to fight them!"

Hun invaders?

The Huns were distributed in the northwest direction north of the Yan Dynasty. Most of their country was plains and had already shown a trend of desertification.

Therefore, they set their sights on the precious land of Yan Dynasty, and often sent troops to lurk in the border every now and then, capturing lone civilians, cutting off their heads and hanging them in the city to show their achievements.

The general Lei Tingjun stationed on the border was furious. He immediately sent troops to defeat the Huns and killed their general Tuo Muyan.

With the loss of their great general Tuo Muyan, the morale of the Xiongnu soldiers was immediately lost. They retreated like stray dogs and dared not to easily send troops to the border again.

Lu Qingqing heard all of this from the storyteller.

I didn’t expect that just one year later, they would make a comeback!

Damn those Huns, they’re like cockroaches that can’t be killed, and they become more stubborn the more we fight them!

Lu Qingqing quickly searched the screen for the trajectory of the Huns' invasion of the Yan Dynasty, but the next second her eyes widened.

That's not right. She saw the time when the Huns invaded the Yan Dynasty in the picture.

It is when all the victims have settled down, not during this time period!

Why did the Huns attack the disaster victims while they were fleeing from the famine?

Isn’t Lei Tingjun very awesome, is he a god of war?

He was defeated and failed to resist the Huns?

These days, she found that many things had changed slightly compared to her previous life, but not very big, and were still following the original trajectory.

I just didn't expect that the invasion of the Huns would bring about such a big change.

Lu Qingqing suddenly looked at Li Suya and asked:

"Does it say which city the Huns attacked?"

"Did not say."

Li Suya shook her head: "I don't even know if this is true. I think they are just looking for an excuse to increase taxes."