Ye Fu's eyes darkened when he heard the man say there were many corpses outside.
Plague can easily breed when corpses litter the fields and are exposed to the sun.
"Why don't you go to the base in Qing Province?" Fang Wei asked curiously.
"The base refused to accept refugees. We had been living in a small town. A month ago, we met some refugees. They went to the base and were eventually kicked out."
There was a trace of hatred in the man's eyes, "We are all compatriots, but the people in the base no longer regard us refugees as human beings."
"Moreover, there are many bandits on the road. They commit robbery and murder. Half a month ago, the bandits came down the mountain and robbed several women. Their favorite thing is to rob children."
After listening to what they said, Ye Fu looked at the man, "Do you still have black ball powder?"
The man shook his head, "No more."
"I have two more here. I picked them up. I thought they would explode and I picked them up for self-defense." The woman who just cried took out two black ball fragments from her bag. Ye Fu took them and looked at them for a long time.
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"Can you give me this?"
The woman hesitated for a moment, but thinking that Ye Fu had already given them a bucket of water and a lot of cakes, she nodded immediately.
"You can take it, but this thing will explode, so you have to be careful."
Ye Fu smiled and said, "Thank you."
"We should say thank you to you. If you hadn't given us water, I would definitely not have survived tonight." The woman said, carefully holding the package containing water in her arms.
"Me too, I've been vomiting every day since this stench appeared." The person next to me couldn't help but agree.
"Are you the indigenous people here?" the man suddenly asked.
Ye Fu shook his head, "Of course not, we are refugees too."
Ye Fu's clothes were also relatively tattered. She said she was a refugee, but the man didn't doubt her.
"Excuse me, are there any rivers near here?"
Qi Yuan clicked his tongue twice, "I'm afraid the rivers have dried up. Where is the water now? The water for you to drink is still the snow water we saved before."
The man looked at everyone with a grateful face, and then he took out a watch from his bag, but the watch was very tattered, the strap was gone, and only the dial was left, which was still broken.
He checked the time, stood up and bowed to everyone in the farm, then directed the refugees behind him to get their luggage.
"We have to go. We'll walk a few more kilometers while it's dark. As soon as the sun comes out, we'll have to find a place to hide."
Ye Fu glanced at the sky, then at the tattered shoes on their feet, but ultimately said nothing.
The refugees stumbled away. Perhaps the water in their bags gave them motivation and hope. When they left, there was more tenacity and brilliance in their eyes.
They walked towards the junction, and until their figures disappeared completely, Ye Fu ordered Li Cheng to close the farm gate.
"I don't know if they can find the water source." Fang Wei finished speaking and sighed softly.
Back at the wooden house, Ye Fu studied two black balls. She lit the black balls with a lighter to test whether they would explode twice. Although the black balls burned, they did not explode and only emitted a strong odor and smoke.
"The stench should be emitted by these black balls, and the medium is the burning of the sun's strong light."
Jiang Run agreed, but he took the black ball away immediately. After all, it was not only smelly, but also poisonous. If Ye Fu was exposed to it for a long time, it would be bad for his health.
"I hope there will be a heavy rain and the stench carried by these black balls will be washed away."
Ye Fu yawned as he spoke, "It's strange, I've smelled this stench so many times that I'm used to it."
Jiang Jun put one of the black balls into the glass to soak. The moment he put it in, the black ball began to emit white smoke with the sound of "sizzling". After a while, the water in the cup started to emit.
Been muddled.
"After being soaked in water, the smell seems to be worse."
Ye Fu frowned, "Could it be that the rain water does not wash away the toxins, but instead stimulates them?"
Jiang Run shook his head, "This black ball has changed."
He used chopsticks to pick out the black ball. The black ball was covered with dense holes and turned into a red hollow ball.
"After being soaked in water, there is no smell anymore."
Ye Fu pointed at the water in the glass, "The things in the water are starting to settle."
The originally turbid water began to become clear, and a layer of unknown white matter had settled on the bottom of the glass.
"The black balls turned red after being soaked in water, and the toxins soaked out turned white after being precipitated. It's really amazing."
Ye Fu poured the water and began to observe the sediment inside.
"Jiang Run, there is no smell anymore."
Ye Fu used chopsticks to scrape off some white sediment. Its function is currently unknown. Whether it is poisonous or non-toxic also needs further verification.
"Just keep it first, maybe it will be useful."
Ye Fu nodded, "Okay, I'm so sleepy, let's go to sleep."
In the following days, more and more refugees appeared in the mountains around the farm.
Some refugees asked for water and left, while others wanted to cause trouble and joined other refugees to break into the farm. Others came to sell their wives and children in exchange for some food.
Under such circumstances, Ye Fu directly ordered the people to be driven out of Wuliang Mountain, and those who wanted to enter the farm to rob would be dealt with directly on the spot.
Xu Ning and Zhuo Qing went out on patrol and saw someone exchanging children in the mountains.
Changing children to eat has existed since ancient times, especially in years of famine.
As time went by, everyone seemed to have coexisted with the stench, and Ye Fu also felt that his nose had lost its function.
In the blink of an eye, a month has passed. There is no water flowing out of the water room. Everyone has begun to use the water stored in the water cellar. However, in order to save water, the farm has also issued new regulations.
Except for cooking and daily drinking, no one is allowed to waste a drop of water, and it is even impossible to wash your face and take a shower.
The pumpkins in the greenhouse are already ripe. The largest pumpkin weighs dozens of kilograms, and the smallest weighs three or four kilograms.
Tang Yizheng is still thinking about exchanging pumpkin seeds. He has been using some outside information to exchange supplies recently. If there is information that Ye Fu is interested in, he will be willing to exchange some supplies for him.
"Fortunately, we also built a water cellar, otherwise we would have to eat dirt now."
Tang Yizheng picked three particularly large pumpkins. He suddenly felt envious of the workers in Wuliang Mountain. Although life was difficult, here everyone didn't have to worry about anything and could still eat and drink enough.
"Yesterday, a refugee body appeared outside our farm. It was an aunt in her fifties and sixties. When I found her, she was covered with flies. I called a few people and planned to move her away, only to find that there were so many flies on her body.
The wound must have been bled, and she must have been trying to come to the farm for help, but she died before she could reach the door."
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