The end of natural disasters: the daily life of child brides in ancient times

Lu Qingqing waited for a while and saw that the old village chief was no longer shivering and the temperature on his forehead slowly dropped. Then she followed Qin Lang who had come to find her and walked back.

The cold wind blew on her face, and Lu Qingqing couldn't help but shiver.

Now that winter has arrived, it is really a torture for them to spend the night outside.

In fact, everyone in the team had thought about entering the village to spend the night.

However, when they passed by the village, they saw many corpses that were only skeletons left, which successfully scared everyone away.

They all remembered that before entering Jingou, there was still a plague rampant outside.

Regardless of whether these bodies died of plague or not, they could not risk going in.

Finally, the team stopped for the night behind a leeward slope.

This was the only relatively sheltered place they had found after walking all afternoon.

Lu Qingqing tightened her collar and ran back quickly with Qin Lang.

Qin Lang had already laid out the bedding, and the two of them got in wearing thick cotton coats, and only then did they feel better.

Only their heads and faces exposed outside the quilt were still blown by the wind, so they simply buried their heads in the quilt.

In the howling cold wind, the two gradually fell asleep.

That night, many people in the team were woken up by the cold.

They got up, added some firewood, and dragged their bedding closer to the fire before going back to sleep.

When they woke up in the morning, many people had runny noses due to the cold.

But fortunately, no one fell ill with fever again.

The old village chief, who had a high fever last night, is now well.

The whole family came to thank Lu Qingqing, but Lu Qingqing refused the steamed buns they gave her.

Now the whole team is short of food, and each family does not have enough to eat.

She can't accept this steamed bun.

After breakfast, everyone put out the fire and set off again.

Two days later.

The team was on their way when Lu Qingqing suddenly felt a chill on her face. She looked up and saw snowflakes floating in the sky.

Soon, the snow fell heavier and heavier, and everything as far as the eye could see turned into a sea of ​​white.

If she had no worries about food and clothing, Lu Qingqing would still be in the mood to appreciate the snow scene.

But at this moment, the team is still on the road.

As the snow fell heavier, everyone started to get nervous.

Many people's shoes and trouser legs were wet, and their body temperature was gradually dropping.

They had to find a place to shelter from the snow and settle down as soon as possible!

Everyone quickened their pace, and a cold wind blew in their faces from time to time, blowing the snow onto people's faces and eyes.

The adults were trying hard to keep going, but the children in the group could no longer walk after walking for so long.

The adults were all carrying things, and it was difficult for them to walk in the snow.

After carrying the child on my back, the speed slowed down a lot.

Seeing that the snow was getting thicker, Lu Tianming asked families with children to tie their wooden basins to horses and have the children sit in the basins.

This way, having the horse pull the child forward saves a lot of effort.

Now that the children no longer have to walk, they are in the mood to play in the snow.

Ignoring the adults' objections, he quietly reached out and grabbed a handful of snow outside, rolled it into a snowball and threw it out.

After the adults said it several times but it didn't work, they stopped caring.

After all, the cold wind outside was blowing snow in, and as soon as you opened your mouth, you would get a mouthful of snow.

They didn't know how long they had been walking before they finally reached the official road.

This is good news for everyone, as the official road will always pass through towns and cities.

When Lu Qingqing looked at the white snow in front of her, she suddenly realized that they couldn't always stare at the snow.

If you look at it for a long time, you may get snow blindness, which will be troublesome.

She quickly walked to the front and told Lu Tianming about it.

In fact, the people in the village also know that looking in the snow for a long time will hurt your eyes, but they were so anxious that they didn’t think about this.

After Lu Qingqing's reminder, those in the team who had extra fabric cut the fabric into an eye mask with a small hole for seeing things.

If there is not much cloth and nothing else to cover yourself, just walk with your eyes narrowed and try not to look at the snow.

The group walked until mid-afternoon before they came across a market town.

The entrance to the town was originally blocked by a wall, but now the gate of the wall was open.

When everyone walked in, they found that the town was very desolate, as if no one had lived there for a long time.

However, after traveling for such a long time, many people in the team suffered from hypothermia, and their hands and feet were numb from the cold.

At this moment, they didn't care about anything else and hurried towards the nearest house.

When I got to the door, I found that the door lock had been broken.

Lu Tianming stretched out his hand and pushed the door, and it opened.

The whole yard was bare, with only some firewood piled in the corner.

Everyone crowded into the yard, looked around, and breathed a sigh of relief when they didn't see any bodies.

This house must have been uninhabited for a long time. There are holes in the doors of several rooms, and there are several holes on the roof through which snow leaks in.

But now it’s good enough to have a place to shelter from the snow, and no one will mind that this house is shabby.

The few people leading the horses in front drove the horses into the dilapidated shed, and then went into the house with the others.

Fortunately, although this house is dilapidated, it is big enough.

Including the east and west wing rooms on both sides, there are a total of six rooms, which is no problem for them to live in.

As soon as everyone stopped, they hurried back to the house with firewood and lit a fire to keep warm.

After a while, my numbed hands and feet regained feeling.

Lu Tianxin's wife took the iron pot out and dug some snow from the yard.

She put the iron pot on the fire again, and after a while the snow water boiled. She asked everyone to scoop it up and drink it.

When everyone in the room was holding a bowl of hot water, someone sighed:

"This damn thing almost froze me to death on the road!"

The village head's wife also echoed:

"That's right. We're just lucky to have found the official road. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to tell the direction and would have been freezing in some remote mountain area!"

The women complained to each other, but the atmosphere in the room became better.

By the time it got warmer, everyone was hungry.

Before, when we were on the road, the cold wind was blowing with snowflakes, so we couldn’t eat at all.

The people, who had been hungry for most of the day, took out dry food from their bags and sat around the fire to roast it.

Soon, the aroma of roasted steamed buns filled the room.

Children are the most vulnerable to hunger. They started crying out that they were starving before the steamed buns were even heated.

Tianfu Niang broke off a piece of the steamed bun and handed it to Xiao Shitou next to her. She watched him eat the steamed bun in big mouthfuls with a smile on her face.

He broke off a small piece from the steamed bun and kept it for himself, and handed the rest to Shi Xiu'er.

"Tianfu, Xiu'er, you two can eat this."

When Shi Xiu'er saw the large piece of steamed bun handed to her by her mother-in-law, and then looked at the small piece of steamed bun in her mother-in-law's hand, she couldn't help feeling a little sad.

She broke off another piece from the steamed bun and forced it on her mother-in-law:

"Mom, you eat it. This is enough for the boss and I!"

Tian Funiang naturally refused and wanted to return it, but was rejected again.

Lu Tianfu watched his wife and mother pushing each other away and couldn't help but say:

"No, let's break off another half of the bun. Don't we still have some now?"

"no!"

"That won't work!"

Both the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law refused at the same time.

Lu Tianfu also knew that he shouldn't eat too much, but seeing them hungry, he felt really bad.

The entire team, not just Lu Tianfu's family, is like this, almost every household is like this.

It's freezing outside now and there's no place to replenish food.

Everyone is in a state of living off their savings!

After dinner, Lu Tianming began to organize everyone to search the town.

Now they are short of basically everything, so even finding some firewood would be good.

Leaving a few people behind to look after the house, everyone went out to search together.

As usual, Lu Qingqing was in a group with Qin Lang. They did not search near the house, but walked towards the shops along the street in the distance.