But Zhang Mu really didn't pay much attention to this. She quickly said: "Don't worry about these things. Either I can't bear the hardship, or I have severe motion sickness. Whatever you eat from now on, we will eat too."
You can't be so particular at this time, it's really not that valuable."
"Okay, anyway, I'll try my best to make something nice for Sister Zhang."
If the conditions are really not good, then Zhang Mu can only be wronged.
After that, the group walked for another five days. During these five days, they still encountered several waves of refugees on the road, but the number of refugees in each wave was still not too large. They were frightened by the strong men in the village and left.
But as he walked, Jingchen noticed something was wrong. He quickly asked Wenxin, "Xin'er, I want to ask you something."
Wen Xin was tired from walking now and was sitting on the donkey cart. When she heard Jing Chen calling her, she immediately ran towards him, but she was still on the donkey cart.
Jingchen asked: "Xin'er, I remember you said before that Miss Zhang got separated from the Zhang family when she encountered a large number of refugees, right?"
"Yes, that's what Sister Zhang said. There were too many refugees at that time, and everyone rushed in to grab food, injuring many people in their house."
After saying this, Wen Wen felt that something was wrong. There were too many refugees. Yes, as for the refugees, they did not see large numbers of refugees all the way here. Instead, they saw quite a few in small batches. There were more than ten people in the group, ten
How could several people be able to defeat the hundreds of people in their village?
But if the several groups of more than ten refugees they encountered were combined, the number of refugees would be quite large. "Uncle Jing, you mean that the group of refugees who robbed Zhang's family have dispersed, and now
He's watching us all the way to test us, right?"
Their village had just come out to escape famine. Although the food was not that good before they fled, the people in their village still had some meat compared to the refugees. In addition, they also carried a lot of baggage, so they became the targets of the refugees.
It's not something that can't be explained.
If this was the case, then they would have taken precautions earlier, "Uncle Jing, tell the village chief about this."
"Xin'er, Yu'er, you two go and talk."
The two of them glanced at Jingchen and knew that this man didn't want to be in the limelight, and then they squeezed in the direction of the village chief.
Wen Yu found the village chief and told him the analysis he had just made. The village chief immediately became vigilant, "Yu'er, what you are saying is that we may be surrounded by that group of refugees, and you don't know when...
.”
"Village Chief, this is just my guess. Maybe I am wrong. But if it happens, we will be in danger. Although there are so many people in our village, most of them are women, children and the elderly. If you really think about it, we are not
If you have the upper hand, and all the refugees are desperadoes, you still need to be careful."
The village chief pondered for a while, and after searching around, he pointed to the hills not far away and said: "It's getting late now. That hill is higher. Let's go there to rest. We'll stop there on the way.
Let’s discuss what to do about this matter. We are still 15 days away from Pingyao County. If we are targeted, the refugees will definitely come within these 15 days.”
The villagers didn't know why, but the village chief said they should go there to rest, so they went there to rest together. But after everyone rested, the village chief told Wen Yugang's conjecture. Naturally, some people believed these conjectures.
, and some people don’t believe it.
"If this is the case, then we should take precautions as soon as possible."
"Increase patrol manpower and divide into two shifts to keep watch."
"There are only so many middle-aged men in our village, and they are all keeping vigil now. Who else can be added?" The middle-aged men can't do it, and the women and the elderly certainly can't do it either.
"No, you don't need to be so nervous. Wen Yu is just guessing. What if he guesses wrong?"
"But if we guess it right, what will happen to the lives of us people?"
No matter how these people quarrel, it has definitely been decided to increase the number of people to watch the night. After final discussion, it was decided that the people to be added would be some middle-aged and elderly people who are a little older, more than 40 years old.
Don’t look at those in their 40s and think they are still young and should not be called middle-aged or old. But at this time, people’s life expectancy is only about 50 years old, and those who live longer are only 6 or 70 years old. And they are quite rare. There are hundreds or even thousands of people in a village.
There were only 5 or 6, which shows how short people’s lifespan was at this time.
Therefore, people in their 40s are considered to be very old in this era, so when they started vigil, people were really worried.
There was no movement that night, and even after walking for more than ten days, there was still no movement. However, just when everyone finally had two days to reach Pingyao County, they accidentally relaxed their vigilance and were attacked by a large number of refugees.
Blocked.
The refugees were so densely packed that they came towards them one after another, and the surrounding roads were immediately filled with water.
Maybe they had endured it for too long. Each of these refugees' eyes were scarlet, and they seemed to be so hungry that they lost their minds and rushed towards them. But obviously their first target was not humans like them, but the people they brought with them.
Donkeys and cows around.
Live animals were bitten to death by this group of homeless people. The scene was really horrific.
There are too many refugees, and these donkeys and cattle are simply not enough to fill their teeth. They turn around and become the targets of these people.
With their mouths full of blood, these refugees threatened the villagers with knives, "Hurry up and hand over the food, otherwise you will be the next one to eat."
The villagers who had just left the village had never seen such a scene. They didn't care about begging for mercy or giving food. They were so scared that they peed their pants on the spot.
Seeing that the villagers ignored them completely, the refugees stepped forward angrily, snatched a child in the front of the crowd and wiped his neck directly.
The child didn't even have time to cry. Even though he was dead, the child's mother didn't react. When she reacted and rushed towards the child, she was stabbed to death by the refugee before she could even say a word. She was killed on the spot.
To live and breathe.
These refugees were so fierce that the very first battle frightened the villagers who had never seen the ‘world’. Everyone shrank back in fear, but they couldn’t hand over the food.
The man who had just killed the mother and son threatened fiercely: "I'll give you two choices, either hand over the food or the money. Otherwise, this is where you will be buried."
Although the villagers were frightened, they were not stupid. They were afraid that whether they handed over the food and money or not, this would be their burial place.
But in a large group of people, there are always one or two people who are not clear-headed. Suddenly, a trembling voice sounded in the crowd, the man said: "I will give you the money and food, can you give me a way to survive?"