Ye Chuqiu cursed loudly, which shocked Li Youmei. Li Youmei shrank her head, not daring to say a word.
Zhao Hehua on the side saw Ye Chuqiu's hands trembling. She reached out and held her hand, whispering: "Mom, don't be angry."
"I'm not angry, I'm scared."
Ye Chuqiu took a deep breath and let it out for a long time, "I didn't say these words to Yumei alone, I also said them to you and myself.
We are a family, a whole, and we cannot be willful!
Do you think I don’t hate that group of people just now? Can I get used to their behavior? Don’t I sympathize with that little girl? But what can I do?
I am just an old lady. I have no choice when facing the rebels who bully us. I also have no choice when I see the injustice in this world.
I just want to take you through this famine safely and find a place to rebuild your home and live and work in peace and contentment.
I just want you all to live well. There are many things that I can’t bear to see, but I can only endure them.”
Hearing these words, Lin Dahu tightened the hatchet in his hand and remained silent. Li Youmei walked up to Ye Chuqiu and whispered to her, "Sister-in-law, I'm sorry, I won't talk nonsense next time.
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"Oh, I know you didn't mean it. Qingyun just hit you, so you shouldn't have done it."
Ye Chuqiu slowed down his voice and waved to Lin Er again, "Qingyun, please apologize to your wife. Although our family is poor, we must be harmonious and united to move forward.
Your daughter-in-law is a bit arrogant, but she is also kind-hearted and cannot bear to see these unfair things. She can just change her behavior in the future."
"Yes." Lin Er came over and said to Li Youmei: "Daughter-in-law, I shouldn't have hit you just now."
"snort!"
Li Youmei turned her head away proudly, but she was very grateful to Ye Chuqiu in her heart. She did not expect that she and Ye Chuqiu had been fighting for more than ten years, and Ye Chuqiu would actually speak for her now.
However, she is very forgetful. She is grateful now, but maybe she will hate Ye Chuqiu until something happens next time.
"Okay, next, everyone, please be careful. There are so many refugees here. Once they enter the city, it will not be easy to find us."
Ye Chuqiu said again that what she was most afraid of was that the big man went to call for people. At this moment, she saw them entering the city from a distance, and she felt relieved.
After they entered the city, it would not be so easy to take revenge on them later.
"Come on, let's quickly change places, change some clothes, comb our hair, and wash our faces so that they won't recognize us next time they see us." Ye Chuqiu ordered.
People's memory is short. If you delay it for a long time, you will naturally not be able to recognize people. Moreover, the refugees here all look the same, with ragged clothes and caked hair. There are no special memories. She asked the family to change their clothes.
The clothes were neatly arranged, and I guess they couldn't recognize him.
"Mom, we don't have much water anymore." Lin Dahu said, "Besides, we don't have a change of clothes."
"Then let's wash our faces. If we are in rags, others won't let us enter the city." Ye Chuqiu said.
Seeing that Ye Chuqiu had made up his mind, Lin Dahu said nothing. Zhao Hehua filled some water in a wooden basin, wrung out the handkerchief and handed it to Ye Chuqiu.
Ye Chuqiu wiped her face, neck and hands, and the water turned black. She asked Zhao Hehua to tie her hair. Zhao Hehua found a comb with broken teeth and helped Ye Chuqiu comb it vigorously.
"Ah, please be gentle, it hurts, it hurts~"
This lumpy hair was really difficult to comb. Zhao Hehua only combed it twice before Ye Chuqiu screamed in pain.
"mother."
Seeing her complaining about pain, Zhao Hehua did not dare to comb her hair anymore. Ye Chuqiu waved her hand and said, "Forget it, stop combing it. I will find a piece of cloth to wrap it up later."
As she said this, she rummaged around in her basket, but she only got a few pieces of yellow cloth. How could she dare to use that golden color? The red color didn't suit her either, which put Ye Chuqiu in trouble.
Choosing the lesser of two evils, Ye Chuqiu could only pull out a piece of red cloth and said, "Use this bag."
"This color?" Zhao Hehua was stunned for a moment, and Ye Chuqiu said: "Do you have any better fabric? This is my previous dowry cloth. I have never been willing to use it. Let's use it to wrap my hair."
After Zhao Hehua heard what Ye Chuqiu said, she could only help her wrap her hair. A dirty and sloppy old lady wrapped her head with a piece of red cloth. No matter how she looked, it was ridiculous.
But what can she do? She has to go to the city.
Without entering the city, she couldn't take out the things in her hand. Moreover, she didn't have much food in her hand. The food she checked in in the system was just enough for her to chew. The food she bought before would not be enough for her along the way.
, I almost ran out of food a long time ago.
Dirty hair can be covered up, but this set of dirty clothes cannot. Just when Ye Chuqiu was in trouble, Li Youmei said: "Sister-in-law, I still have a set of clean clothes here."
"You have?" Ye Chuqiu was stunned.
"They belong to my daughter-in-law. She just got married last year. She only wore the new clothes made at home a few times." Li Youmei said, handing over her daughter-in-law's clothes.
Li Youmei's daughter-in-law, whose surname is also Li, is the daughter of her maternal cousin, and can also be considered her niece. Because she became pregnant after she got married, she couldn't wear these new clothes.
She was unable to bear to wear these clothes due to the dust and dust during the escape journey, so she kept them until now.
"Thank you, Dani. I will definitely buy you a new set of clothes later."
Ye Chuqiu said something and asked her family members to come over, pull up the tattered mats and form a circle. She herself used extremely dirty water to wipe the dirt on her body, and then changed into this set of clothes.
I originally thought that the whole family would go to the city to have fun, but in the current situation, it was difficult to gather decent clothes for Ye Chuqiu alone, let alone a family.
The people guarding the city will never let refugees in ragged clothes enter, otherwise there are so many refugees here who would have entered the city long ago.
Wearing his nephew's daughter-in-law's new clothes, a red scarf on his head, and a basket on his back, Ye Chuqiu asked his family to be more careful while he walked towards the city gate.
"If you want to enter the city, you need twenty cents per person!"
At the door, several officers guarding the door were holding killing sticks and looking at the refugees with a straight face, "If you don't have money, you can talk about it. If anyone dares to break in, don't blame me for not recognizing anyone with the stick in my hand!"
"Master, didn't you have two cents before?" an old man asked, carrying a bundle of firewood and hunching his waist.
The old man was poorly dressed and his clothes were patched, but judging from his appearance, he should be a nearby villager, not a refugee.
"It used to be the past, and this is now, two cents, what is enough for two cents?" The official shouted coldly, "If you want to join, then join. If you don't, then stop talking."
The old man must have specially chopped firewood and came to the city to sell it. Such a load of firewood would probably be sold for less than 20 cents. How could he afford the 20 cents entry fee?
But his home was far away from the city. If he didn't go into the city, he would have to carry the load of firewood back.
"My old lady is sick. She is waiting for me to sell firewood and go to the city to pick up medicine for her. Lord, please do your best, please do your best."
The old man lowered his posture more and more, pleading. His gray beard trembled slightly as he spoke, looking extremely pitiful.
"I pity you, who will pity me? If the magistrate blames us for not receiving so much money, then we will also be in trouble. You, go wherever you want. There are so many poor people in the world. Look at it.
Which of these refugees outside the city is not more pitiful than you?"
"That's right, we see that you are an old man and we are already very polite to you. If you continue to mess around, don't blame us for turning against you!"
The two guards sang in harmony, and the old man knew that he had no hope, so he could only sigh and leave with the firewood. The firewood was very heavy, and his back was bent even more.
The hemp rope is specially chosen to be broken at the thinnest part, and disasters will lead to misfortune and misfortune.
During this journey of escaping from the desert, Ye Chuqiu's heart had long been numb.