The next morning, the team set off and continued to advance westward!

"Boss, during the break last night, more than a dozen people ran away, and the officers and soldiers were lazy to chase after him!"

"Well, I understand, how much food is left in our country?"

"There are not much, so I can only make a small pot of porridge."

...

Since entering Henan, as the situation has become worse and worse, more and more victims have fled. The original team of 300 people has decreased by at least 30%. The rest of the people are also panic and ready to leave at any time!

There is no way, if you continue like this, you may be dead end. If you run away halfway, you may have a glimmer of hope!

Not only did the victims understand this, but even Zhang Xiaoqi and several soldiers also understood this. Therefore, when someone escaped, they turned a blind eye.

In addition, if some people escape, they can save some food rations, so that the remaining people can last for a few more days!

"Boss, I can't hold on anymore. If this continues, people will starve to death. Otherwise, let's run away too!"

"First find a place to stay. When we recover, we will find some money and then find Jin Ya, Hongxiu and the others!"

...

"Oh, let me think about it!"

The mouse, monkey, and Dahei were all shaken and came to persuade him one after another, hoping to change his plan to go to Shaanxi and find another wealthy place to settle down. Xue Yu did not agree, but he did not refuse!

I knew this time I was not easy to immigrate, but I didn’t expect it to be so difficult. I am immigrants here and there. It was like walking in front of the gate of hell. I sneaked in if I was not careful. It was difficult to reincarnate because I was a starving ghost!

Xue Yu has considered the matter of escaping for a long time, and it has been more than once, but if you run away now, it is second to not be able to go to Shaanxi. How to solve the household registration problem?

When he was in Hejian Mansion, Xue Yu suffered enough of the loss of not having a household registration. He finally took advantage of this big immigration and gave himself and his friends the opportunity to settle the household registration. Once he left the team and ran away, he would become a black household again!

Black households cannot farm, do business, join the army, and even more so, they cannot be an official. They will never make a name for themselves in their lifetime and will be bullied everywhere!

If Xue Yu didn't care about household registration in another ten years, then the world was in chaos and heroes emerged, and the original social system collapsed. He could do whatever he wanted, and it would be fine to go up the mountain and fall into the grass!

What is depressed is that I traveled to the 47th year of Wanli. Although the foundation of the Ming Dynasty has been shaken, it is still a long time before it collapses. During this period, no matter how great you have, you have to abide by the original social system!

If you want to have a high status and become prosperous and live a good life, you must get a household registration!

But it is not wise to take your friends to the death for the sake of household registration!

Should we continue to venture to Shaanxi as planned? Or should we leave the team, find a place to stay for the time being, and then slowly find another opportunity?

Xue Yu was in a dilemma, and was so worried that he lost his hair. This was not only his own life, but also the life and death of other friends!

But even if you settle down, you have to find a good place. Let’s walk forward and go to a densely populated place!

...

"Mr. Zhang, there is a large shack in front of you!"

"Oh, go, take a look!"

Before moving, a small mound appeared in front of me, about ten meters high and two or three miles in a radius. There were no plants and trees on it, but there were pits of many large and small, and the pit body showed a special white!

Under the mound, there are many shacks, abandoned stoves, and some domestic garbage, but no one is walking around!

Obviously, this was built by the immigration team in front, a temporary rest place.

"The team stopped, let's rest here today!"

"yes!"

Due to the severe lack of food, the victims were extremely weak and could no longer travel all day. They could only walk for half a day and rest for half a day, and it would be great if they could walk for more than ten miles!

Seeing that the team really couldn't move, Zhang Xiaoqi issued an order to rest. The already exhausted people walked towards the shack, thinking about gasping for a while, and then going to the mound to see if they could find something to eat, even if they were grass roots and tree bark!

As soon as Nazhi walked to the vicinity of the shack, a scream came from the sound of exclamation.

"There are people in the shack, all of them are dead!"

"Well, there are pancakes, white flour pancakes!"

"Get the pancakes quickly!"

Some of the shacks under the mound were empty, while others were dead lying, both men, women, young and old, and even the whole family died inside. Judging from the degree of decay of the corpse, it should have happened not long ago!

Along the way, countless victims died. It was not unusual to see a few corpses, but what is strange is that in the hands and around these corpses, there were some white-floured pancakes on the abandoned stove!

Everyone was already hungry, and suddenly rushed over like crazy, grabbed the pancake and stuffed it into their mouths, just like a starving ghost reincarnated. Some people started fighting for the pancakes, and they were beaten to death and they didn't let go!

"No one is allowed to go over, step back!"

"Boss?"

"Back back!"

"yes!"

The children also wanted to go over and compete, but were stopped by Xue Yu. They spoke sternly and asked them to retreat, and no one was allowed to get close to the shack!

This is a accommodation spot. There are countless hungry people walking by in front of them. Even the grassroots and bark nearby have been gnawed clean. How could the white flour cake be left?

There must be evil if something goes wrong. There must be problems with these pancakes. There are also the corpses in the shack, which are also strange in the death situation!

The thin and powerful ones are not too skinny, but their stomachs are big and bulging, as if they are about to explode. The face on their face is also very strange. It doesn’t seem to be starving to death, but it seems to be swelling to death!

"Ph, ph, what kind of cake is this? Why is it a fishy smell?"

"It's hard and toothy, and it's harder to chew than tree bark!"

"I'm choking to death, water!"

Looking at the people who eat the cakes, they all choked without exception. Some vomited out directly and kept rinsing their mouths with water. Some were reluctant to vomit and chewed hard, but they broke their big teeth.

"Brother Xue, come and see, what the hell is this?"

The blacksmith Hu relied on his strong body and grabbed a lot of cakes and gave them to Xue Yu. After the previous incident, the two sides not only did not make a grudge, but instead made friends!

"No, this is Guanyin's land. Let me tell you that no one is allowed to eat this kind of cake, otherwise someone will die!"

"ah?"

He broke open the pancake and looked at it, and smelled it again. As a top student who graduated from the University of Geosciences, Xue Yu immediately recognized it - Guanyintu!

Guanyin soil, also known as kaolin, is mainly aluminosilicate, white, soft in nature, and has a smooth feeling. After adding water, it turns into a paste, which is very similar to flour!

Kaolin is a kind of clay, which is originally the material for firing ceramic vessels. However, in the year of the disaster, the hungry people took the idea of ​​this clay after eating all the grass roots and bark, and ate it as flour pancakes!

After eating, the hungry people found that the taste was good and their bodies did not immediately have problems. They also had a kind of effect of filling the stomach. They believed that this was a divine object sent by God to benefit the hungry people. In the Chinese mythological system, Guanyin is famous for its benevolence, so they named this clay Guanyin soil!

The problem is that Guanyin originally had no nutrition. The so-called feeling of fullness was just a deception. Moreover, after eating it, Guanyin soil will accumulate in the intestines and cannot be excreted from the body, and eventually it will cause people to swell to death!

Those dead in the shack died of Guanyin dirt, and then they became strangely dying with skinny and bony bodies, but their lower abdomen were swollen like bulges!

In fact, many people know that eating Guanyin soil in large quantities will kill people, but the feeling of starvation is too painful and most people can't bear it. Therefore, hungry people would rather eat Guanyin soil and die with a bulge than starve to death. The former is at least more comfortable to die and be a full devil!

Just like the victims who were traveling with him, after learning that this was Guanyin land, some people threw them on the ground, while some people were reluctant to throw them away and secretly bit them. There was no way, they were hungry!

Next, Xue Yu climbed up the mound and saw that the pits of all sizes were full of white Guanyin soil, and there were traces of being excavated!

No wonder the immigrants ahead wanted to set up a shed to stay here. It turned out that they came for Guanyin. I don’t know how many people along the way could not bear hunger and were eventually swelled to death!

After sighing for a while, people started to act, dragged the bodies in the shack out, threw them into the largest pit, and buried them with sand.

Otherwise, the summer will be hot and the corpse will soon rot, and it will be troublesome if it causes a plague!

After cleaning the shack, it can be used for rest, but how to solve the problem of eating?

The food in the team has been eaten up, and the private food everyone has brought has been eaten up. Even grassroots and bark cannot be found around it. There is at least three days left to the next supply location.

Due to long-term malnutrition, everyone is very weak and some people start to sway when walking. Not to mention not eating for three days, they just starve for one day and have a meal. I am afraid that someone will die!
Chapter completed!