A massive famine! The whole family travels through time together, and with their spatial abilities,

Shen Shuli did not alert anyone and secretly led her black horse at high speed towards Pingyang Prefecture.

I just walked a short distance.

A large number of refugees stopped to rest by the roadside on the official road ahead.

Shen Shuli didn't want to disturb these refugees.

He secretly stored the dark horse in his spatial storage and strode forward.

Using night vision goggles, Shen Shuli saw that both sides of the city gate were densely packed with refugees.

However, there was an open space within a two-kilometer radius of the city gate.

It is likely that the soldiers guarding the city did not allow the refugees to get too close to the city gate.

otherwise.

Once a civil uprising occurs, the soldiers will have no time to react.

Shen Shuli quietly approached the refugees at the front, took out a small piece of hard, dark bread, and asked them for information.

"Auntie, what's going on here? Why is everyone staying here? Are the officials not letting us into the city?"

The woman, who was as thin as a skeleton, suddenly brightened up when she saw the dark-colored steamed bun.

She clutched the dark-colored steamed bun tightly and carefully put it into her mouth.

As she savored the sweet taste of the grain, her eyes grew brighter and brighter.

Ignoring Shen Shuli, she immediately fed the child in her arms with the liquid from the food she had chewed.

Shen Shuli did not urge her, and quietly waited for the woman to feed the child.

After finally feeding and putting the child to sleep, the woman looked at Shen Shuli with remorse and told her what she knew in a very low voice.

“Girl, I have been here for two days. The city gates only allow those with supplies and money to pass through. We who are penniless have no chance of entering the city.”

"The only way to survive is to sell yourself or your family into slavery to wealthy families in the city."

"Otherwise, we can only wait to die slowly outside the city."

The situation here is similar to that in Qinzhou Prefecture.

I just don't know if the local government will forcibly confiscate the goods of the passing people.

Shen Shuli pressed on, "Didn't you consider taking the mountain road or other routes to get there? It shouldn't be too far from the capital, right?"

"There's no way around it. There are several powerful bandit groups guarding both sides of the mountain. Ordinary people like us can't get through at all. If we are discovered, we might even be captured by the bandits."

"We have no way to survive... We won't even make it to the capital..." the woman murmured.

Upon hearing this, Shen Shuli's heart sank.

Originally, Shen Shuli planned that if they couldn't enter the city, they would lead their team to take the mountain road to get around it.

Unexpectedly, bandits roamed the mountains, and despite having countless firearms at her disposal.

However, if they force their way in, there will definitely be losses, large and small, in the team.

After bypassing Pingyang Prefecture, there is another Cangzhou Prefecture behind it.

Cangzhou Prefecture was the last checkpoint in the capital.

The refugees who separated from Yongzhou, Qinzhou, and Dingzhou all converged in one direction: Cangzhou Prefecture.

By then.

What we will be facing is an unimaginably large group of refugees.

The capital city is only so big.

The people living in the capital were overcrowded.

Under the emperor's nose, would those refugees be allowed to pass?

The answer is obvious.

The section of the route from Qinzhou Prefecture to Pingyang Prefecture is the only place in the entire north where the water source has not completely dried up.

Many ordinary people probably wouldn't want to continue heading south to Beijing.

However, the local government was unable to resettle such a large number of displaced people.

If this goes on for too long, a popular uprising is bound to occur.

And now.

Apart from Qingzhou Prefecture, no civil unrest had occurred in the areas Shen Shuli passed through.

This shows that the Qinhe River has brought a lot of vitality to the people.

The people will not rebel unless they are completely driven to desperation.

In a short moment, Shen Shuli's thoughts flew far away.

Shen Shuli stuffed another dark-colored steamed bun into the woman's hand and then quietly left.

Back to the team.

Everyone is still resting.

Shen Shuli told Su Yunhai and Shen Yuehua the information she had found out.

"Father, Mother, let's line up to enter the city as early as possible tomorrow, and then leave the city directly. Let's not stay in the city, since we don't need anything anyway."

"Row."

The team rested in place for two hours.

The crescent moon had not yet set when the group began their journey.

The refugees along the way did not block the route, and the procession arrived smoothly at the city gate to queue.

The people who had arrived at the city gate long ago already knew that they were not qualified to enter the city, so there were not many people queuing to enter.

However, the Su family, the Gu family, and the people of Shan'ao Village together number over a thousand, and it would take a long time for just their own people to queue up.

Fortunately, the government of Pingyang Prefecture showed no signs of seizing the goods.

After paying the exorbitant entrance fee, the group immediately lined up to leave the city through another gate.

Leaving the city also requires paying the same exorbitant exit fee, which is ten taels of silver.

This transaction alone amounted to ten thousand taels of silver.

The Gu family paid more fees.

Because their entourage was three or four times larger than that of Peach Blossom Village.

Fortunately, the Gu family is wealthy enough to afford the expense.

Just left the city.

Su Chang'an ran excitedly to Su Yunhai and exclaimed.

"Father, Father, Grandpa, Grandma, and Uncle and Third Uncle have woken up! Go and see them!"

Upon hearing this, Su Yunhai raised his eyebrows slightly.

He rode his horse slowly towards the back of the group.

Far away.

Su Yunhai saw his parents and his eldest and third brothers, their four heads huddled together, chattering away.

He suddenly felt that he couldn't understand it.

These two cheap parents might be secretly seeing Su Dashan.

But I will absolutely not bring Su Dalin along.

After all, the elderly couple were growing increasingly disgusted with Su Dalin and wished he would stay far away from them.

Su Baogen was positioned so that he could see Su Yunhai on the other side. As soon as he saw Su Yunhai, he jumped off the cart.

"Second brother, is that you, second brother?"

Su Baogen's cloudy eyes glistened with tears as he looked Su Yunhai up and down.

Su Yunhai was even more confused.

Since he transmigrated into this world, this cheap father of his has never looked at him with such eyes.

Is he out of his mind?

Wang Cuilan, Su Dashan, and Su Dalin also hurriedly jumped off the carriage and all looked Su Yunhai up and down on the horse.

Those eyes held a mixture of unfamiliarity and familiarity, yet also a sense of strangeness.

Su Yunhai felt a chill run down his spine.

"What are you doing? Are you possessed?" Su Yunhai rebuked coldly.

Su Yunhai has always kept his distance from the Shen family.

In terms of blood ties, he does indeed have an unbreakable blood relationship with them, especially since they look exactly like his parents and siblings in the real world.

Emotionally speaking, Su Yunhai could never get closer to them, and even felt somewhat repulsed by them.

Su Yunhai's parents and siblings in this world were not close to him to begin with.

Even Su Yunhai, a time traveler, couldn't get close to them.

In particular, these people only have the same body and appearance as their parents and relatives, and have no resemblance in any other aspect.

He didn't want to waste his feelings on these substitutes.

Otherwise, it would be unfair to their loved ones in the other world.

The reason I didn't decisively cut ties with these people is that I let them continue to cling to me.

It's just that I want to keep them by my side, so that when I miss my family, I can look at these substitutes and find some comfort in them.