Yan Yu brought a small handkerchief to Sanbao's mouth and made him vomit a little.
He brought it over to wipe her mother's sweat, and then held up Sister Daya's newly made fan vigorously, fanning...
Li Xuemei: "I'll do it myself. Don't move around. The more you move, the hotter it gets."
She took the fan and shook it slowly, not daring to move too violently.
As she said, the more you move, the hotter you get.
"Mom! There's no reminder yet!" Yan Yu muttered with a sad face.
"So we can't completely count on the platform." Li Xuemei's eyes were solemn, shining with the light of wisdom. "Currently we have food, water, meat, wild vegetables... we will not die of hunger, but the weather is unbearable!"
She sighed, as if trying to convince her daughter and herself: "Just wait until sunset."
When the sun goes down, the surface temperature will drop, which is the most comfortable time these days.
Yan Yu took out her small notebook.
The route they took along is hand-drawn above.
She kept flipping the pages and comparing them with the original pictures reproduced from the mileage chart.
reached a conclusion.
"Dad is right, we should be there soon, but why is it still so hot!" Yan Yu was puzzled.
Li Xuemei was very indifferent: "This is normal. Climate changes are never limited to one place. There is no reason that Qishan Prefecture and Leshan Prefecture are suffering from drought. Guanzhou, which is next to Leshan, has nothing to do with it. The greater the temperature difference between morning and evening, it proves that we are getting worse."
Close to destination.”
"Mom, I'll get you something to drink." Seeing that Li Xuemei was really hot, Yan Yu hurriedly went to her father to find something to do.
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"Dad!" Yan Yu pulled Yan Laoer aside, "Mom is so hot that her clothes are soaked with sweat."
Normal people can't stand sweating like this, let alone pregnant women.
Yan Laoer immediately said: "Sweet and sour water! Yes, I will make it. Everyone in our family will drink some to prevent heatstroke."
Yan Yu immediately remembered the sweet and sour taste that she drank when she was a child. She brought it to school and if she accidentally spilled it, her hands would get sticky.
The two men ran back, not caring that they were covered in stinky sweat.
Yan Laoer found a bamboo tube and peeled off the cloth strips wrapped on it layer by layer.
Lifted the lid and smelled it.
The sour taste seems to be lighter than when I first got it.
Add vinegar to the rock sugar, then pour in cool boiling water and stir continuously until the rock sugar melts.
Yan Laoer asked his daughter to pour the drink herself, and hurriedly brought a cup to Li Xuemei.
Yan Yu greeted her eldest brother and sister, and the three of them finished drinking together, then found Lao Yan with a glass of sweet and sour water.
"Uncle, daddy boiled the water." Yan Yu played a little trick.
Sure enough, Lao Yan smelled some sourness at first and didn't want to drink it, but when she heard that her father had cooked it, she drank it in one gulp as usual.
"What kind of water is this?" Yan Huaiwen asked.
"Dad didn't say anything, he just said it's good to drink this when it's hot."
Yan Huaiwen nodded and continued to talk to several village elders: "With hot days and cool nights, it is easy to get sick, especially those who are weak. The elderly and young children should pay attention."
"Master Xiucai, it's too hot today, why don't we change the time and leave at night." Village Chief Luo suggested.
"Are there enough torches?" Yan Huaiwen asked.
Village Chief Luo said: "We collected a lot of tree oil when we were in the mountains, it should be enough."
Yan Huaiwen thought for a moment and nodded.
"If you travel at night, you won't be able to rest in the middle of the journey. You will only be able to fall asleep if you are tired during the day."
Yan Yu ran to share the news with her parents.
"Walking at night? Why don't you rest?" Yan Laoer frowned. "It's so hot during the day, how can I sleep?"
"That's why the uncle said he didn't rest in the middle of the trip. He was sleepy and tired, so he fell asleep." Yan Yu said.
Li Xuemei: "It should only be temporary. Once we get out of this barren area, we will adjust."
"Meow--"
The elongated sound of the cat suddenly came out, attracting the attention of the three people.
"Is there something wrong?" Yan Yu asked urgently.
The cat's movements are very funny. It uses the cat's body to imitate the appearance of a galloping horse...
The whole family couldn't laugh.
"There's a horse, right?"
The cat nodded and started to raise its paws towards them.
"One hundred and three." Yan Yu confirmed the number.
"Why are there so many? Are they coming for us?" Yan Laoer was very confused.
Maomao continued to nod and looked behind them in the direction they were coming from.
Yan Yufu was very moved: "They came from behind us and chased us? Are the people on horseback, so many people, officers and soldiers?"
"The bandits definitely don't have so many horses. They are probably officers and soldiers, but... why are the officers and soldiers chasing us?" Yan Laoer couldn't figure it out.
Li Xuemei asked: "Is it possible that they thought we were bandits, so they chased us?"
Yan Yu pointed at his nose, "We? Bandits?"
"How do we warn the big guys when they come from behind us? Maomao's warning is five kilometers. If we ride a horse, we will be very fast and we should be close to catching up with us."
Yan Laoer was a little flustered for no reason, "Let's first think about it and see if there is any possibility other than officers and soldiers."
Something seemed to flash through Yan Yu's mind quickly.
She hesitated and said: "Father, mother, there is a drought right now. Even if the government can do something, they will not send people to chase us, right? Bandits have been rampant for so many years, and they have blatantly robbed people on official roads, but they have not sent troops to suppress them...
Okay, assuming we are bandits and have traveled such a long distance, would there really be any officers and soldiers so righteous in pursuing the murderers for thousands of miles?
What's more, they will never mistake us for bad guys! We are doing good things by killing the bandits, and the only people who know about it are..."
She was shocked.
"There are only ourselves and the rescued victims!" Li Xuemei continued what she said.
Yan Yu caught the line immediately and said quickly: "It's the victims who left. They came back to the official road and met 'these people'..."
"They are probably in the same group as the bandits!" Yan Yu boldly guessed. "Yes, the bandits arrest people and sell them, and there must be someone to buy them."
Yan Laoer added: "The boss of Chuanyun Village can make a round trip every ten days, which means that the buyer he is dealing with is not too far away."
"We came out of the mountains. It has been seven days, excluding one day that we have not traveled. Calculate the distance. If it is really a buyer, we find that Chuanyun Village has not delivered the goods according to the agreed time. We go into the mountains to check and chase the people. It seems that there is some time.
Sorry." Yan Yu frowned.
"Change your thinking." Li Xuemei said calmly: "Maybe it's not just the official roads near the mountains that have problems."
"That makes sense!" Yan Yu murmured.
"We have to think of a way to put everyone on guard." The beads of sweat on Yan Laoer's head fell to the ground with a thud.
Li Xuemei stood up, held the frame of the bicycle, and said in a solemn voice: "Lie down and listen."
Yan Laoer fluttered and fell to the ground, his ears pressed to the ground.
Mother and daughter didn't dare to breathe for fear of affecting him.
Suddenly!
Yan Laoer opened his eyes wide, "Yes! The sound of horse hooves!"
