The people of Hanjia Village, both adults and children, were on edge. The child hid in his mother's arms, not saying a word, only staring at the person lying on the ground with his black eyes in fear.

They saw a child the same age as themselves, crying like a hungry kitten in the arms of their mother. Seeing the child who was even more pitiful than themselves, their eyes were filled with tears, so pitiful!

The one walking first was Xue Lao Hu, driving his family's donkey cart. On the donkey cart were Xue Ni Zi's two sons, who were covered by Wu with a blue cloth, leaving only their eyes exposed.

Xue Bao led the young men of the guard team, carrying swords or clubs, and walked on both sides of the team.

In the middle were the women, old people and children from Hanjia Village. The last ones to come back were the butcher Han Dazhong and his family and the three members of the escort team.

Zhang Yu Niang sat in the big blue mule cart of Li Lanzhen's family. She was holding Miao Miao and Ling Long in her arms, while Han Yinan and Su Chen helped Goudan push a small cart.

There are more baskets piled on Goudan's cart than when they first fled the famine. All of these are in the mountains. The two generations of grandparents and grandchildren are more diligent than other families. They dig up wild vegetables, dry them, bake wild vegetable cakes, and of course, dried meat. Goudan's grandmother even boiled chicken bones and rabbit bones, dried them in the sun, and put them in a cloth bag.

The people in Hanjia Village were in a state of high tension and quickly passed through this official road that was full of terrifying disaster victims.

Li Lanzhen was afraid that among the victims lying down, someone would suddenly stand up and rush over to kneel down and beg for food. If there was one, there would be two. If there were two, there would be ten...

The phenomenon that Li Lanzhen feared did not happen.

She felt even more upset, as this showed that these victims had no strength left. Perhaps by the time they passed, one or two or more people would have died.

They were far away from this area, but the people of Hanjia Village might never forget those dazed and longing eyes.

When they were about two miles away from this area, it was not yet dark, so Han Shunde and his companions decided to continue moving forward and rest after dark.

At this time, the pace of the entire village slowed down. Just when everyone was relaxed, suddenly, about a mile ahead, dust rose from the official road and rolled in.

Then I heard the sound of people running and crying.

Xue Lao Hu immediately sent out an alarm signal to the team behind him. The guards immediately gathered the people from Hanjia Village together, formed a circle, raised their weapons, and looked at the crowd running opposite.

Immediately, the cloud of dust surrounded Hanjia Village.

Suddenly, Han Shunde yelled, "Let go! Let me go!"

Before he finished speaking, the person kneeling on the ground and hugging his legs tightly shouted, "Brother, brother, I finally found you, wuwuwuwu..."

Han Shunde looked at the person who was hugging his legs tightly in disbelief and asked, "Second brother? Are you Shunkui?!" He also knelt down and hugged his younger brother Han Shunkui tightly in his arms.

She burst into tears, "Sunkyu, how did you become like this, you disobedient and stubborn person. Wuuuuu."

The two brothers hugged each other and cried bitterly. The old village chief and Aunt Huaihua heard it and ran over to see what was happening. When they saw the man kneeling on the ground, they were stunned.

He was dressed in tattered clothes and was so thin that he looked unrecognizable. Half of his legs were exposed from his pants. There were knife marks on both of his calves, some of which were bleeding and some had already festered. There was a deep knife scar on his cheek, which should have been fresh and was still bleeding.

With tears in their eyes, they walked forward to see their son, and then they heard two voices.

"grandparents!"

The old village chief and Aunt Huaihua turned around and saw their grandson Han Zhaocheng and granddaughter Han Shuying, the two middle children. The two children threw themselves into their arms and cried loudly.

Aunt Huaihua hugged Han Shuying tightly and felt that she was just a skeleton with a pair of big eyes rolling around on her face.

The two children cried and fainted in the arms of the two old people.

The people nearby quickly picked it up and put it on the cart.

At this time, a woman rushed over from the side. When she arrived in front of Aunt Huaihua, she sat on the ground, slapped her thigh and shouted, "Oh, my relatives, I finally see you. If you are a little later, I will die. My relatives, you look so rosy-cheeked. You should have food. Bring me some food quickly. I am starving to death."

Aunt Huaihua was just about to get some food from the donkey cart when she saw Han Shunkui stand up and speak loudly to Han Shunde.

"Brother, run! Run! We met a group of soldiers on horseback with swords looking for Hanjia Village. My father-in-law thought it was a good thing, so he told them we were from Hanjia Village. But they came up and wanted to kidnap us. We finally broke free and ran away, and they chased us from behind."

The people of Hanjia Village immediately became nervous. Why would the soldiers look for people from Hanjia Village? They must be looking for them, right?

Han Shunde immediately became serious, pulled up Han Shunkui who was kneeling on the ground, turned around and saw Xue Lao Hu, Xue Bao and others.

He shouted loudly, "Everyone retreat, there are soldiers ahead looking for people from Hanjia Village, let's run back."

Xue Lao Hu said, "We can't retreat. There are so many refugees behind us. We will be attacked from both sides."

Li Lanzhen also heard this and thought that this should be the second son of the old village chief. Didn't he follow his father-in-law's village to escape famine? How could they meet here? And it seemed that they should go to the capital.

When she heard that the soldiers on horseback were looking for Hanjia Village, she knew that these soldiers should be in Ankang City, and they killed King Jin's soldiers.

She turned her head and looked in both directions. One side was barren, with not even a few grasses, and the other side was a messy rocky beach. She shouted to Xue Lao Hu, "My dear, I think we should run this way. Let's run into the pile of rocks. It will be difficult for them to find us on horseback."

Xue Lao Hu and Han Shunde discussed it and decided to run into the rocky beach. Han Shunde shouted to the people in Hanjia Village, "Everyone, hurry up and take your children and run over here."

It was Xue Lao Hu who took the lead and immediately turned into the rocky beach.

Snow Leopard and his companions were still the last to leave. Each of them held a dry branch in their hands and kept clearing the traces of the road leading to the rocky beach.

Just as the people of Hanjia Village were running into the rocky beach in panic, a team of more than a dozen soldiers on horseback rushed over along the official road.

These soldiers were none other than King Jin's team of soldiers from Ankang City. That day, they received the order and took the official road, ran several miles towards Youzhou, and then turned back. Unexpectedly, they met the fleeing team led by the second son of the old village chief, so they asked them if there were any people from Hanjia Village.

Just because these soldiers asked in a friendly manner, Han Shunkui's father-in-law Zhou Laonian thought it was a good thing, so he nodded and said yes, yes, yes, they were from Hanjia Village.

As a result, the officers and soldiers dismounted and were about to arrest all of them. Only after they put up a strong resistance did they escape.

Halfway through the journey, we met the real people from Hanjia Village, and the scene that just happened on the official road happened.

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