The game starts with fleeing from famine, the boss of the end times is in trouble
Chapter 14 Encountering Refugees Driving a Horse-drawn Carriage
If it was a good year, with Yun Yiyi's skills, she would not be short of meat even if she went hunting in the mountains. However, now it is dry everywhere, and many trees and grasses in the mountains have died. The wild animals in the mountains have either starved to death or migrated away. It is too difficult to hunt wild animals. The snake is probably a fish that slipped through the net. Now I can only hope to buy meat in the city after I get to the capital.
Home-raised pork is still fragrant and delicious. The villagers usually feed pig grass and a small amount of grain to pigs. Pigs grow very slowly, but pork is fragrant and delicious. Before the end of the world, pigs were mostly fed pig feed. After eating it, pigs grew fast, but pork was not as delicious as it is now. I can't think about it anymore. The more I think about it, the more greedy I am. Yun Yiyi thought while touching her belly.
Before setting off, the village chief asked each family to send one person to attend the meeting. Yun the butcher went and returned soon.
"Boss, what did the village chief say at the meeting?"
"The village chief said that if we walk fast today, we can reach the city in the evening. If we are slow on the road, we may arrive in the middle of the night. We can't get any news on the road, so the village chief asked everyone to move forward as soon as possible. We can find out what the situation is outside when we arrive in the city early. Yun the butcher said, and called everyone to line up.
It was still dark, and the village chief and his family, who were leading the way, held up a big torch to lead the way. A family in the middle also held up a torch so that everyone could see the road clearly. Some children were still asleep, and were either put on carts and pushed or carried by their parents. Yun Yiyi and Zhang walked together and followed the long team of Yunjia Village. It was still dark, but there were also advantages to starting at this time. There was no sun, and it was the coolest time of the day. Everyone walked faster.
When we got on the official road, there were not many refugees on the road, only a few scattered people. A small group of about ten people just passed by. Among them were old people, young people and women. They pushed a lot of things on the carts, and there were a few children following them.
Yun Yiyi guessed that it should be a large family. The people passing by now were probably a family of three, a couple with a child. The child didn't look very old and was carried on the mother's back. They were not walking fast, and the people from Yunjia Village soon surpassed them.
After walking about five miles, the sky gradually brightened. The temperature rose suddenly, and I soon began to sweat. At this time, a group of refugees in front of me caught Yun Yiyi's attention. The group drove two horse-drawn carriages, and the two drivers had thick faces and looked fierce.
The interior of the carriage was blocked by the curtain, so it was unclear whether there were people sitting there or what was being pulled. However, the ruts left by the carriage in front were deep and heavy, which meant that the carriage was pulling something heavy. The ruts left by the carriage behind were light. The horse pulling the carriage was not panting like the horse pulling the carriage in front. The carriage behind should not be pulling much, Yun Yiyi guessed.
When the people of Yunjia Village saw the two horse-drawn carriages, they all moved to the side and walked a little faster. The two people pulling the carriages looked at the people from Yunjia Village. The elderly, children, and women were inside, and the young and strong were pushing the carts and driving the donkeys. Everyone looked good, unlike the other refugees who were skinny and bony. It was estimated that the people from the same village came out to escape famine.
They looked at each other, whipped their horses, and sped forward. After a while, no one could see the shadow of the carriage. At this time, the people in Yunjia Village dared to discuss in a low voice, and at the same time slowed down. They walked too fast just now, and many people didn't react to what happened. It was completely because the people in front walked fast, and the people behind followed. The people who followed behind were very confused.
"Okay, everyone, let's speed up. Let's walk about another 8 miles and then find a place to rest. The temperature is getting higher and higher now. If we walk slowly, the children will easily get heatstroke." The village chief shouted loudly.
"Okay, village chief." The villagers answered in a low voice. When the village chief saw that everyone had heard him, he returned to the front of the team to lead the way. Now everyone was still circling the mountain we saw yesterday. The mountain was very high, and there were many trees and weeds on it, all withered and decaying. In previous years when there was a lot of rain, the mountain should have produced a lot of crops. I wonder how many years it will take for the mountain to recover from this drought.
Occasionally, we could see roofs between the gaps in the trees. It should be a small village. The village chief would definitely not stop to rest until we had finished the 20 miles this morning. I wonder if we can find a village when we rest? Everyone thought with pity.
The weeds under the official road gradually became less and less, and the bare fields became more and more. From last year to this year, there was too little rain. The villagers had planted in the spring, but it didn't rain and the seeds didn't germinate. Later, the villagers didn't dare to plant, and thought they would wait for rain before planting. Who would have thought that they would end up leaving their homes to escape famine. Farmers who depend on the weather for their livelihood are so miserable.
There are many mountains here, but little water. Even if there are rivers, they are small rivers, not wide and not deep. In the summer, when the water level is high, the rivers are full of water. In the winter, there is not much water in the rivers. In the spring, the rivers dry up. Everyone is used to this situation.
However, in drought years, it is very difficult to endure. This time, we are going to settle down in a place where we heard that there is water everywhere. People there can grow rice and produce rice. And we heard that the rice fields are full of water. People in the north said that they have never seen crops growing in water.
Yunjia Village usually grows wheat, corn, peanuts, and sweet potatoes. Usually, people eat more noodles. As for rice, the grain store in the town sells it, and Zhang has also bought it. After eating it, everyone said that it tasted good, but it was not as filling as noodles. They got hungry quickly after eating it, and the price was more expensive than flour, so Zhang felt it was not worth it.
Zhang tried to cook rice porridge with it, and cooked it until the rice bloomed. The result was that it tasted fragrant and delicious, and everyone thought it was delicious. Later, when Zhang bought rice, he used it to cook porridge instead of steaming rice.
If there were no drought, no one would be willing to leave their hometown and live in a completely unfamiliar place. Not only is the climate different, the crops are different, and the customs are different. Moreover, the villages nowadays are generally composed of families with the same surname, and they are very united. Naturally, they are very repulsive to outsiders. When outsiders go to a new place, they are not only excluded, but also bullied.
Fortunately, everyone in Yunjia Village fled together this time. When they arrived at the local area, they could think of a way to be grouped together, so that if there was anything, everyone could take care of each other. As long as they were not bullied, the others could slowly adapt. Moreover, everyone brought wheat seeds, thinking that if there were mountains, they could also try to grow wheat.
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