In the blink of an eye, it was late February, and the local thief "Yitou Valley" did not come, and the atmosphere in Qilizhai was relatively relaxed. After a while, you can start sowing seeds. No matter what, as long as you plant food, people can feel a little at ease and avoid feeling panic and despair.

The field in the county prince's mansion in the distance was eaten up by locusts, and the tenants there also fled. At least no one was sent to manage the land yet, so the deep wells there were temporarily used by them. There was also the farm in the Zhou prince's mansion slightly south, which was also eaten by locusts, and that was certain that the tenants also ran away. Although the small river there could only flood to the instep, there was still some water. A few days ago, Li Yanzhang took people to silt a pond and stored some water first. As for the downstream, during such a severe drought, he could only take care of himself first.

That afternoon, groups of hungry people began to appear on the road, supporting the elderly and young, and some even drove big trucks with their belongings on them, and heading north in ragged clothes.

"Membersman, where are you from?" Wang Dejiang asked on the side of the road.

An old man sitting on the shaft of the car replied, "Taikang."

"You should be a wealthy family, why did you escape?" Wang Dejiang continued to ask.

The old man stopped the car and said helplessly: "Brother, give me some water. Along the way, water is as expensive as food."

Wang Dejiang asked his son who was by his side to get water, and then asked, "Are you going to Kaifeng?"

The old man nodded and replied, "Locusts cover the sky and the sun are covered. The hungry people who have no food borrowed food everywhere, but later they started to rob them. The house guards day and night, but the courtyard wall was opened. Alas, the family business that has been saved by several generations is only left." As he said that, he patted the cabinets, bedding, boxes and so on the car. Then he said, "I can't help but escape from the famine."

"We have eaten up all the locusts here," Wang Dejiang pointed to the bare field and sighed: "If it weren't for Mr. Li, we, like my brother, would have gone to flee the famine."

"Young Master Li?" the old man asked.

Wang Dejiang pointed at Li Yan, who was wearing a green robe at the edge of the village and said, "That's Mr. Li. Without him, we would have died long ago."

"Good man. Then, can I meet Mr. Li?" the old man asked immediately. He felt that since Mr. Li was a good man, he would have the opportunity to convince this good man and give him a bite of food. It would be better than to escape from the famine like this.

Wang Dejiang was not stupid either. He smiled and shook his head, saying, "Brother, drink some water quickly, it's easy to get on the way. Mr. Li is now a clay Buddha crossing the river - he is unable to protect himself, even if he is willing, he will lose his strength. We can't cut off Mr. Li's flesh as well, right?"

The old man understood what Wang Dejiang meant. Although he was very unhappy, he was a phoenix that fell into the grass and was not as good as a chicken. He had to keep silent and start to pour water. After drinking, he filled a few gourds and bowed to Wang Dejiang, and continued to follow the hungry people's team to the north.

Two days later, another group of hungry people came along the way, but this time the hungry people were no longer as decent as they were two days ago. They were all pale and thin, and they were all walking slowly with wooden sticks. However, the twenty or so people dragged behind were all men, holding sticks in their hands, but not for walking, but for weapons.

A woman holding the child slowly moved forward, and the child in her arms kept crying, her voice hoarse.

"Okay, okay, accept my daughter?" The woman handed the child over to a middle-aged woman standing by the roadside, and said weakly: "Just give me some food."

The middle-aged woman is Mrs. Zhang from Qilizhai. Her daughter was killed by bandits in her infancy and she was also robbed here. This child who had been crying made her think of her daughter, so she took the child over in a daze.

"I'll go get some food." Qiu Niang, who was beside Mrs. Zhang, said, and immediately ran back to get the mixed grains and cakes.

The woman knelt down to Sister Zhang, kowtowed twice, and said, "Thank you, sister-in-law. My daughter is my daughter."

Mrs. Zhang didn't respond, but looked at the baby in the cradle with tears in her eyes. The child was still crying constantly, obviously very hungry. She didn't speak, and turned around and walked into the village with the child in her arms. Wang Dejiang's second daughter-in-law was also breastfeeding the child. She went to find the Wang family's wife to feed the child.

"Sister-in-law, you haven't given me some food yet! Don't leave!" the woman shouted loudly and chased after her. Her shouts alarmed many people, and the twenty or so men also saw it. One of the thin guys seemed to be the leader, and wanted everyone to wave their heads and slowly leaned towards the woman.

"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious, the pancakes are coming." Qiu Niang walked over with a few pancakes, pickles and water in her arms, shouting loudly.

The woman stopped and looked at the pancake in Qiu Niang's arms and wanted to swallow her saliva, but she was so thirsty that she didn't even have any saliva in her mouth. She ran quickly towards Qiu Niang, no longer caring about where her daughter was going.

Qiu Niang handed the pancake to the woman and said, "I'll give it to you, eat it slowly, these are all yours."

The woman ate voraciously, choking her and rolled her eyes. Qiu Niang patted her back while feeding her water.

At this time, some hungry people had already leaned towards them. These hungry people stared at the cakes in their hands, stumbled like walking corpses, but walked towards Qiuniang and the others unstoppable.

"Hurry, go quickly and enter the village." Qiu Niang saw the hungry people surrounding her, so she immediately dragged the woman who was still trying hard to stuff pancakes into her mouth and ran towards the village.

The gang of more than 20 men suddenly rushed out from behind, pushing down the hungry people who were stumbled down, and then they quickly chased Qiu Niang and the others. These days they rely on the number of people and the strength to steal food from the hungry people, so their physical strength is much better and their speed is much faster than those of the hungry people who have been hungry for several meals.

Qiu Niang was about to be caught up by those people, so she shouted loudly: "Brothers, come and help! I am Qiu Niang."

The two soldiers standing at the trench gap had long seen what was happening there, but Li Yan gave them the instructions to guard the gate and not allow the hungry people to enter the village. Since the hungry people were all outside, they didn't have to worry about it. Now that the people in their village were chased by the hungry people, they had to go out to save people. They had also been hungry and knew that if people were hungry, everything could be done.
Chapter completed!