Quick travel: the life of smuggling is so exciting

Thousands of miles of barren land, desolate and full of starving people.

The refugees on the roadside were ragged and haggard, their faces covered with dust and sweat, their eyes revealed fatigue and despair, and they were either skinny or had bulging bellies.

The three men walked forward in silence, without any sympathy, because they were also one of them. Their food was about to run out. They exercised intensively every day. Except for sleeping at night and resting during the hottest hour of the day, they kept rushing on the road the rest of the time. They had no strength to walk if they were not full.

They had been walking for half a month since leaving the forest. Their frugal lifestyle had seen the dried fish and meat in their backpacks dwindle at a noticeable rate. The cities they passed through were completely closed, their gates filled with wailing refugees begging for porridge. Supplies were nowhere to be found.

Aunt Ge was very concerned about the potential consequences. She had to leave the remaining food for her grandson to eat, and then started grinding tree bark powder to eat. The worst thing was that she might not even be able to find tree bark.

Of course, Lin Xiaming had little food left, so she would not tell Aunt Ge that she still had some food. She hid it quietly in the space and would not help anyone. This was her last guarantee. She did not have such a deep friendship with Aunt Ge as a grandson.

Along the way, tragic situations of selling children and eating their own children occurred repeatedly. If Lin Xia had not been holding a big knife and Aunt Ge had not been holding a sickle and looked tough, the three of them would probably have been in the pot.

At noon that day, three carriages arrived near where they were resting.

Everyone's eyes turned red as they looked at the several sword-wielding guards surrounding the carriage but kept away in fear. People who had been oppressed all their lives were afraid of the rich, because to them, the rich had no mercy.

Two people, a man and a woman in brocade clothes, got off the carriage, sat on the stools prepared by the servants and prepared to eat.

One of the girls said worriedly, "Brother, if the new ruler suddenly dies, leaving only an eight-year-old child in power, can the world still be stable?"

The man sighed, "So our family asked us to go to the south. The Xian King of the Northeast and the Rui King of the Southwest are both eyeing Kyoto, and the North and Northwest have already started fighting. The south is not a fiefdom, and the battlefield cannot be attacked, so it is always safer."

"Even with foreign invasions, everyone is still fighting for power and profit. They really can't tell what's more important than what's not." The girl snorted heavily.

"Little sister! Be careful with your words." The man scolded in a low voice.

Lin Xia didn't move. She was originally thinking about the feasibility of buying water and food from them, but with the help of her excellent hearing, she got such great news!

The emperor has changed for the third time, so how long will it take for the army to enter the country?

Oh, this is such a headache.

The two rich young men opposite stopped talking about political affairs and began to lament the difficulties of people's lives, the suffering of the people, and the ruthless natural disasters.

Then she ate in silence. When she was about to chew some dry food, she turned around and saw Tiedan staring at the cake in his hand, Aunt Ge chewing tree bark, and Lin Xia in a daze. The girl couldn't bear it and threw the cake in her hand to her.

A big pie fell from the sky!

Tiedan quickly stepped forward, hid the pancake under his body, and came back to break off a piece for each of them.

Lin Xia didn't want it. People mainly felt sorry for the child. She wasn't in such a desperate situation yet that she wouldn't compete with the child for food.

In short, when the situation is desperate, anything can be done.

Seeing that the other person was kind-hearted, Lin Xia went forward to buy water. At first, the other person thought she was begging and even drew her sword. Finally, after she explained the reason, the other person reluctantly sold her a bag of water. Since the other person didn't have enough food to eat since she hadn't sold the food, she symbolically charged two cents. When Aunt Ge saw this, she also went forward to buy a bamboo tube of water.

Although Aunt Ge looked so poor that she was about to pawn her pants, she actually still had a few taels of silver in her hands. She had earned it by hunting and selling it when the man in her family was still alive, and she had always kept it on her body so that no one had stolen it.

The good family ran away quickly after eating, probably because they were afraid that the three of them would bother them.

After seeing the people leave, Lin Xia and the other two continued on their way.

*

One evening,

Lin Xia was taking care of his physiological needs in the bushes. Just as he pulled up his pants, he heard some movement behind him.

"Who?"

Lin Xia picked up the big knife, his body tensed and he instantly entered a state of combat readiness.

"It's me, girl."

Aunt Ge walked out of the darkness.

Lin Xia relaxed a little and asked, "Why are you here? Where's Tiedan?"

"Tiedan found another rabbit hole. I asked him to guard it and asked you to come over and catch rabbits with me."

wrong!

Lin Xia frowned slightly and looked focused. This was not an uninhabited forest. How could Aunt Ge leave Tiedan alone there?

She stared quietly at the figure in front of her who was talking sideways, but she couldn't see the other person's expression in the darkness.

"Auntie, aren't you afraid of someone leaving Tiedan over there?" Lin Xia'an asked anxiously.

Aunt Ge paused slightly and said casually, "I saw that there was no one there, so I dared not leave him there."

"Let's walk faster, otherwise it will be bad if the rabbit runs away." Aunt Ge began to urge.

Lin Xia continued to observe her surroundings calmly and cautiously, while a mask quietly appeared in her hand.

After putting on the mask, he took out an oil-paper bag and opened it quietly.

"Where is Tiedan? Why did you come here?" Lin Xia looked at the deep dead grass around her.

"It's just a little further ahead." Aunt Ge's tone began to show panic.

No sooner said than done, four big men jumped out from the surrounding bushes, two of them holding sticks, one holding a sickle, and one holding a hatchet.

The other party came over and wanted to say a few words, but Lin Xia had no moral ethics and directly took out the medicine powder and sprinkled it on the other party's face, and did not forget to sprinkle it on Aunt Ge.

The big guy on the other side: He’s as fierce as a tiger in his operations, but his performance is nothing but an idiot.

The five people fell to the ground in an instant. Lin Xia didn't say much. He stepped forward and wiped the necks of four of them, leaving Aunt Ge alone.

"Why?" Lin Xia was puzzled.

Lin Xia couldn't understand the look in Aunt Ge's eyes. It seemed to be sadness, fear, and hope.

"Tiedan...they...said...to change." Aunt Ge said strugglingly.

Lin Xia understood that Tiedan was captured when she was away, and people asked Aunt Ge to exchange him for someone else.

She asked again: "Where is Tiedan?"

She had a good impression of Tiedan, a well-behaved and obedient child, and planned to see if she could rescue him.

Aunt Ge pointed in a direction with her eyes.

I ignored her. The powder was very effective and she wouldn't be able to escape for a while.

When Lin Xia arrived, he saw a big pot on the fire. I saw a familiar head on the ground, and the ground was full of debris.

She felt depressed. Is this the world without justice?

Returning to the scene of the incident, Aunt Ge's eyes lit up as she waited expectantly for her to tell her the good news.

Lin Xia was silent for a while. Aunt Ge's hopeful eyes gradually dimmed, and tears kept falling from her red eyes.

"I will bury you together."

With that, she ended Aunt Ge's life with a single blow. She wouldn't allow the betrayer to live. If Tiedan were still alive, perhaps she would have spared their lives and parted ways, but he was no longer with her...

Lin Xia embarked on a journey alone, just like when he came, with a pile of graves behind him that was almost too low to exist.