Chapter 14 An empty city

Xiao Wang looked at Jiang Yulai who was beaten and screamed, and pulled him aside with amusement.

This person is full of eyes. Even if it is related, then what can I say!

"I kicked me yesterday, and Zhiyue said there were two." Xiao Wang talked about what happened last night, intending to distract everyone from the attention.

They were indeed distracted and asked in surprise: "Two! Really?"

Old Mrs. Jiang and others also surrounded her and stared at Xiao Wang's belly in surprise.

But for a moment, she worried again: "This woman gave birth to a child and went to the gates of hell. The second son's family, Silang Huaisanro, was seriously guilty when he was, not to mention that we are still running outside all day long..."

Everyone understood Mrs. Jiang’s unfinished words, and Jiang Yulai looked at Xiao Wang with a nervous look on his face.

But Xiao Wang smiled and comforted them: "Don't worry, although we are going to travel outside for a while, you have taken good care of me and there will be no trouble."

Zhang also quickly added: "What can Zhiyue see? There may not be two in his younger brother and sister's belly. No matter what, we should take care of it carefully."

"Yes, everyone is right. Let's take care of it carefully. Even if it's two, we are not afraid. Fortunately, Zhiyue asked her to buy fetal pills in advance and prepare it." Old Mrs. Jiang said.

Then he arranged for Xiao Wang to say, "When the sun is not so hot in the future, you can also come out and walk around, otherwise you will have no strength when you are giving birth."

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The people who went around to find Jiang Babi came back intermittently, and they all said that no one was found.

Jiang Bapi has no relatives and family members in the village, and Er also has a bad relationship with the people in the village, so few of these people who went out were looking for it.

But he walked a few hundred meters and came back.

"The Jiang Babian didn't want to leave yesterday. If he disappeared, he might just run back." Someone said.

"Yes, let's go quickly, otherwise the sun will be hotter again in a while."

Hengrong listened to everyone's opinions and shouted: "Go away!"

Jiang Zhiyue walked behind. When she woke up in the morning, she still complained that there were too many mosquitoes. When she saw that they had several small bags of mosquitoes bitten by mosquitoes.

She took a little thought to find mosquito repellent ointment from the space.

She distributed the ointment to her mother and her grandmother each one.

She said mysteriously: "This is the ointment given to me by the old man, which is used to repel mosquitoes. You can apply it to others."

Old Mrs. Jiang took the smooth little jar and opened it with emerald green paste.

"Oh, it smells so good. It costs a lot of money." Old Mrs. Jiang lowered her head and smelled it, and immediately she was reluctant to use it.

She said: "Everyone has thick skin and flesh, so there is no need for this. There is no way to avoid being bitten by insects in summer."

"Let it go quickly, and when we find a place to live, this thing may be sold for a lot of money."

After saying that, he would stuff it into the bag she was carrying.

Jiang Zhiyue quickly stopped him and said, "Grandpa may give me something when. Since I gave it, I will let us use it now."

"If we don't need it, he will be angry and feel that we don't accept his kindness and will not give it to us in the future."

Old Mrs. Jiang was frightened and said in shock: "What's that serious?"

Jiang Zhiyue continued to fool him: "That's not the case. Otherwise, why didn't I give this thing before? I can't say such things in the future."

She remembered that Mrs. Jiang believed in gods and Buddhas the most, and she would definitely not dare to say that again in the future.

If they take out things every time they don’t want to use them. They don’t know how troublesome it is to explain them, so they will stop it once and break through the line of Mrs. Jiang first.

Old Mrs. Jiang held the small jar given to her by Jiang Zhiyue in her hand, feeling distressed and entangled. She finally decided to say, "Use it, everyone uses it."

Then he quietly applied ointment to his body and passed it to others.

The Jiang family knew where this thing came from? It wasn't the old man who liked it to her, and he used it happily.

Zhang handed the jar to Huang Huaihua, pulled her arm and said, "If you apply this ointment on your body, you won't be afraid of insects biting it."

Huang Huaihua opened it and pushed it back: "No need for this good thing, take it back quickly."

Zhang and her gave up the yellow locust flowers before carefully smearing them on their body.

After walking for more than half a day, when they were about to reach the county border, the people in Jiangjia Village finally met another group of teams.

It is a team of less than a hundred people, one by one, one by one.

The leader was an old man over fifty years old, who looked even more vicissitudes than Jiang Hengrong, but his face looked kind.

When they looked at the Jiangjia Village people who appeared in their sight and the bags of luggage they brought, their eyes lit up.

The luggage looked bulging, and there must be a lot of food.

Several middle-aged men standing behind the old man approached the old man and said, "Uncle, they see that there is a lot of food. When they come, we... ask for some."

The middle-aged man said it was extremely difficult, and obviously he also felt that this idea was not feasible.

He clenched his fist and said cruelly: "Or let's grab some, at least we can live the current life first."

"The grandson of my aunt's family hasn't eaten for two days. If you don't have anything to eat, I'm afraid I won't be able to last long."

The others looked at the old man with expectations, as if as long as he spoke, they would have to wait until the Jiangjia Village people came over and they would do it.

The old man saw that there were three times more people in Jiangjia Village than them, so he shook his head.

"Stand up and let others go."

The people looked unwilling, but no one refuted the old man's decision, so they had to move backwards.

However, when the people in Jiangjia Village approached, an old woman holding her grandson rushed to the front of the team.

"Give some food, please give some food. My grandson hasn't eaten for two days. Please give some food to kind people."

The old woman knelt down in front of Hengrong's family walking in front of him, crying.

Jiang Hengrong's wife glared at her eyes and said angrily: "We don't have food to eat, so how can we give you extra food? Let's go out of it."

After saying that, he stepped forward and pushed the old woman kneeling on the ground aside.

The people in the team supported the old woman who almost fell.

Several daughters-in-law from Jiang Hengrong's family protected the food bags on the ox cart tightly and stared at the old woman with alert eyes.

Everyone behind him also looked at him, just the old woman who was crying on the ground.

Even if there were those who couldn't bear it, they were pressed by the rest of the family.

Now that I can’t even eat enough, how can I use this kindness to help others?

The refugees behind the old woman stared at the team in Jiangjia Village with covetous eyes. They could only speed up and wanted to distance themselves from these refugees.

When they reached the end of the team, Jiang Zhiyue saw the old woman still kneeling on the ground and the white-faced refugees behind her.

The old woman was holding a little boy who was only five or six years old in her arms.

The little boy's lips were chapped and his eyes were tightly closed and his old woman hugged him in his arms.

The people in Jiangjia Village are pretty good. Some families collected food in advance, while others bought some food from her house. Although they couldn't fill their stomachs every time, they were not as good as not having enough food.

The team of less than 100 people in front of me looked like they had not eaten for many days, and their cheeks were sunken.

Some men also had injuries on their bodies and looked listless.

The Jiang family couldn't bear it and could only force themselves not to see them.

When they were about to pass the group of refugees, Jiang Zhiyue suddenly said, "Mom, we have to take a good look at the county town later. Although the refugees have swept it, they may have missed some food."

Jiang Zhiyue's voice was quite loud, and the refugees next to her and the families walking in front of Jiang's house all heard her words clearly.

If there is really food in the city, you can't let others find it first.

Those families accelerated their pace and soon surpassed the people ahead.

"What's the hurry? I don't know how to save some effort." The person who was squeezed muttered.

Jiang Zhiyue turned her head and looked back, and indeed saw the group of people behind her following each other, not far or near.

"There is really food in that city?" Zhang, who was beside Jiang Zhiyue, asked in a low voice.

Jiang Zhiyue said: "I don't know either, but maybe I'm lucky enough to find the food that was not stolen."

After walking for a day, I could only walk to the gate of Shaoxian County.

It was a desolate look, the city gate was wide open, and there were still corpses outside that had been dead for several days.

There were no one in the city. The refugees came in a fierce manner that day, and a large wave of people gathered outside the city. What the people in Jiangjia Village saw on the mountain that night was just fur.

The refugees burned, killed, looted and vented all the resentment that had been accumulated for many days here.

The people in the city had already run away, and now Shaoxian is an empty city.

Everyone covered their mouths and noses and carefully avoided the corpse, and planned to settle down in the city tonight.

...

The Jiang family found a slightly cleaner yard to live in. They were crowded and the yard they found was also large, so they specially made a room for Jiang Zhiyue.

Only the families in front of them and the group of refugees next to them heard the last two words Jiang Zhiyue said before entering the city.
To be continued...