Traveling through ancient times: daily life on the run

Xia Liang and her lackeys finally got down to the cliff. She looked up at the edge of the cliff and saw that the group of people had not left yet. It seemed that they had no intention of catching up with them?

Xia Liang did not dare to underestimate the enemy, and rushed into the woods below the cliff with his lackeys.

Soon, she will be able to see Brother Qin Bingrui and Sister Luo Yu. She wonders if they have prepared a big meal for her and Gou Zi.

Besides, Qin Bingrui and Luo Yu had eaten and drunk their fill, and brought some food back to the inn for Fang and Bai Lingyi.

Bai Lingyi has always been by his mother's side and is a filial and good child.

Luo Yu patted his shoulder and asked him to keep an eye on the carriage in the backyard downstairs. She and Qin Bingrui decided to take only one carriage out of the city.

Bai Lingyi knew that they were going to pick up Baihu and Gouzi. He felt it necessary to explain it to his mother so that his mother would not be frightened if she discovered this terrifying incident halfway.

Qin Bingrui went to the clinic to buy a bundle of gauze for bandaging. Luo Yu asked nervously, "Is Xia Liang injured?"

"The lackey was grazed by an arrow, but we need to buy more gauze. Who knows if we will get hurt in the future."

Luo Yu smiled and said, "Just bear with the minor injuries. You can predict the major injuries, but for the unpredictable deaths, you can only rely on me."

In this era, there was no iodine disinfection, no sterile gauze packs, and no antibiotics. All infections were dealt with by the body.

"Sister, do you think we should first research medical ethanol for disinfection? After all, it has a bactericidal effect."

"Well, this method is very simple. We can try it when we have a chance to stop. By the way, how about taking someone who knows medicine with us? This will not only make it easier for everyone to travel, but we can also indirectly teach him some modern medicine and let him study it on his own."

Luo Yu thought that if he really planned to stay in this dynasty, he had to gather all kinds of talents.

But now is not the time.

Xia Liang and his lackey went into the woods. The lackey suddenly stared at some grass. Xia Liang asked him, "What's wrong? Are you hungry and want to eat grass?"

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a dandelion.

This dandelion seems to be able to be used as medicine. Could it be that the dog wants to treat himself?

"I know there's a plant with red flowers. I heard from the two-legged beasts that it's called thistle (ji), and it can stop bleeding and eliminate carbuncles (yong), but I can't find it, so I might as well make do with this grass."

Baihu patted the dog's head gently: "I didn't expect that, you have a talent for medicine."

"This is our survival instinct, hehe!"

Fortunately, the blood loss was not too much, and the white tiger continued to carry the dog on its back. Animals have a strong sense of direction, and the white tiger can accurately find the south no matter how far it goes.

It's like a lackey carrying a lot of herbs that can stop bleeding and remove blood stasis along the way. Regardless of whether they are useful or not, he eats them first as a courtesy.

Qin Bingrui and Luo Yu drove the carriage slowly. Now that they had their household registration, the journey was particularly smooth. In addition, their carriage was equipped with high-end equipment, and the guards recognized them.

As soon as he saw Qin Bingrui, he greeted him. Qin Bingrui was also a warm-hearted person (mainly because he hadn't seen so many living people for a long time). He was very friendly to everyone he met, whether they were brothers, uncles or beautiful aunts.

If he stayed a few more days, everyone in this city would be his relative.

Luo Yu was afraid that the Queen's men would come to visit him, so he was always taciturn.

Even though she had lightly used makeup powder to make her face look better, her figure and posture were easily recognizable. Besides, with a dazzling figure like Qin Bingrui by her side, it was hard not to attract attention.

Qin Bingrui disagreed and told Luo Yu: "You can never be completely on guard against others. As the saying goes, you can never be too careful with villains. We have the aura of the protagonists. We can't just rely on defense, but we have to take the initiative to attack."

"..."

Luo Yu pursed her lips and glanced at Qin Bingrui. If she didn't possess the ability of rebirth, she wouldn't be able to say it so frankly.

The two of them chatted and laughed as they arrived at a forest ten miles away. There was a village not far away. The village was surrounded by endless wheat fields. The wheat was already golden yellow, and the people were working hard in the fields, rushing to harvest the wheat.

"Sister, now people have to harvest wheat by hand, it's very hard work!"

"Ah."

Luo Yu looked around, but didn't find anyone noticing them. Everyone was working hard in the fields, regardless of gender, age or status.

The youngest child, who was probably only seven or eight years old, and three or four-year-old children were hanging around on the edge of the field. The mother not far away would call out their nicknames from time to time.

"Goudan, Tiewa."

"Here I am, mother."

This scene is indescribably touching.

Looking at the children wearing layer upon layer of patched linen clothes, each of them was barefoot, their faces were tanned, and the skin on their exposed hands and feet was a little cracked.

Luo Yu couldn't help but think of the little princes he had seen in the palace. They were all as young as dragons and phoenixes, with delicate skin and tender flesh. It seemed as if the splendor of the world bloomed so gently and beautifully in them.

It is just luxurious and only belongs to a few people.

Perhaps it was because Luo Yu had been staring at a skinny little girl who looked younger than her actual age. She was sitting on the edge of the field holding her little brother who was only a few months old. In one hand, she had a little bit of something hard and black in her mouth and was chewing it.

The little girl raised her head and looked at the stopped carriage, then looked at Luo Yu, blinking her big eyes.

Finally, she raised the black substance in her hand and said in a thin and weak voice, "Sister, are you hungry?"

Luo Yu let out an "ah".

It turned into a bright smile: "Thank you, little sister. I am hungry, but I have food too. Can I share it with you?"

After saying that, he took out a bag of mung bean cakes wrapped in oil paper from the carriage, took out a piece for himself, jumped off the car and handed a piece to the little girl.

"Let me give you a taste of my sister's too."

Luo Yu politely took the black bun from the little girl. It turned out to be a bun made of wheat bran. It had been stored for who knows how long and was hard and dirty.

Luo Yu handed it to Qin Bingrui and said with a smile, "Brother is hungry too, give this to brother to try."

"OK, all right."

After a while, I heard a woman calling out, "A Xiang."

The little girl responded: "Hey!"

Holding the little brother in her arms, she ran to her mother with the mung bean cake in her arms, "Mom, please give me a piece of this sweet cake. I'll give it to you to try."

Qin Bingrui, who originally disliked the black steamed bun, had tears in his eyes. He swallowed the bun in one gulp, and after a while, he spat it out with a "wow" sound.

"Sister, it stinks."

The little girl's mother looked up at Luo Yu and the others on the side of the road, then looked at her own shabby and shabby clothes, her face flushed and she lowered her head, whispering to the little girl to go eat something over there.

Luo Yu didn't want to disturb them, so he called the little girl over and gave her all the opened cakes.

"I exchanged this bag of cakes for your steamed buns. You're a good child. But you have to remember that cakes can't be kept for too long. If they are, they will go bad and you'll get a stomachache if you eat them."

"Well, Ah Xiang will give it to Daddy, Mommy, and my older brother and younger brother to eat together."

"Good boy, sister will leave first."

"it is good."

Although the little girl was born in the countryside, she was not the kind of timid child who was afraid of the world. Luo Yu was very pleased. Compared with this little girl, Luo Yu saw numbness and timidity in her mother's eyes, mixed with strong inferiority and shame.

This was the emotional change of a woman who had not seen much of the world. Although Luo Yu did not understand, she knew that there were too many people like her in this dynasty.

There is an invisible gap between people in the city and people in the countryside, which is impossible to cross.

Qin Bingrui dry-heaved several times, rinsed his mouth, and couldn't help but sigh: "Alas, there is no idle land in the world, but farmers still starve to death. Sister, this child is only three or four years old at most. Why are you helping to look after a younger child?"

Luo Yu glared at him and said, "There's another saying, 'Why not eat meat porridge?' It's about people like you."

"No, I understand their difficulties. If possible, I hope to truly help them instead of persuading them to eat meat."

"..."

In fact, Luo Yu knew better that they had also felt hopeless at the end of the world, but they did not dare to become numb.

What is truly suffocating is the numbness and lack of any hope for the future.

Day after day, year after year, even if there is food to eat, even if I don’t starve to death.

"Sister, don't think too much. Let's go pick up Xia Liang. If she keeps going hungry, she might even eat all the grass in the forest."

After circling the forest several times, they finally found Xia Liang hiding behind a big tree with the dog on his back. There was a wheat field outside the forest, and they were afraid of scaring the people who were harvesting.

When Luo Yu saw the injured dog, he seemed to have lost a few pounds. He picked it up and caressed it to comfort it. The dog rubbed against Luo Yu's arms, and he was so moved that he wanted to cry.

Xia Liang grimaced in jealousy.

Qin Bingrui helped her open the trunk door, and after pushing her in, he hugged the dog and stroked it hard.

"Good dog, thanks for protecting Xia Liang. I'll give you a bigger meal tonight."

"Woof woof." The dog was so happy. Its master treated it better than Lord White Tiger. It felt that being a dog in this life was not in vain.