“Do I need to hand over materials to apply for an ID card?”
Qi Yuan shook his head, "No need, it's free."
"Then let's go live around the town. It's closer to the town and it's more convenient if we need to exchange supplies."
"It's okay." It's not far or close to the town. You can go into the town to exchange supplies, and the news won't be too blocked.
"By the way, I also asked about the situation in towns and bases. They said that life in northern Xinjiang has basically returned to normal. There are schools and hospitals in cities and bases."
"I'm afraid it's not easy to get into that kind of place." In troubled times, schools are not places where refugees from the lower classes can enter. Schools and hospitals in the last days only serve the upper class.
"Too."
"Then which way shall we take tomorrow?"
There is a fork in the road ahead, and there are several forked roads. There are no road signs on the roadside, and I don't know where I am now, so I can only move forward blindly.
"Go straight, let's change cars tomorrow."
The RV cannot be driven, it is too high-profile.
"Swap the truck?"
Ye Fu shook his head, "Of course we're changing carriages, and we're also pretending to be businessmen."
"It's okay. Several carriages passed by on the road next to it tonight, and we haven't been in a carriage for a long time. There are trees on the road, and we don't have to worry about food and grass. But there are thirteen of us, so we may have to take three carriages."
"That's not a problem. Go to bed early tonight and set off at five o'clock tomorrow morning."
At night, Ye Fu was in a daze holding a piece of paper. Jiang Run called her twice, and Ye Fu came back to his senses.
"What are you thinking about?"
Ye Fu handed the note to Jiang Run. It contained the address of the Hu family in Northern Xinjiang, a residential area in the Third Base.
"I remember He Jingwen said that the Hu family has a food factory in northern Xinjiang."
"Do you want to go directly to the third base to find the Hu family?"
"There's no rush, we'll go find them to settle this old debt after we settle down."
Ye Fu was in a good mood after successfully entering Northern Xinjiang. Northern Xinjiang is indeed a good place. People in other places have a hard time. Apart from the cold, there are not many changes here.
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At half past four, Ye Fu woke up on time. She opened her eyes and just took out her pocket watch. Jiang Run also woke up.
"what time is it?"
Ye Fu rubbed his eyes and said, "At half past four, let's wake everyone up."
There was a clanging sound on the road not far away, and Ye Fu yawned before jumping down from the upper bunk.
"Um...are you going to get up?" Fang Wei squinted his eyes and looked at Ye Fu, who said "hmm" and then turned on the light.
"Everyone, get up quickly, get the carriage ready, and put everything on the carriage."
The mammoths were so eye-catching that Ye Fu only let out six horses.
Three carriages, one for Ye Fu, Jiang Run, Officer Song and Wenwen, one for Qi Yuan, Fang Wei, Xuxu, Fang Ming and Fu Jiao, and one for Tang Yizheng, Wu Pei, Wan Tao and Liu Zhang.
The horses were a little uncomfortable being suddenly let out. Jiang Run went over to comfort them for a long time before they gradually became docile.
The carriage was still used before and was very well preserved. Although it was not as domineering and luxurious as the two people yesterday, it could still protect it from wind and rain.
Jiang Run took a few men to install the carriage, then put the supplies on the carriage, and Ye Fu put the RV away.
Wu Pei went to cut some branches and came over. Qi Yuan and Fang Ming carried a few buckets of water. Before setting off, the horses had to be fed.
"Although the carriage is a little slower, it is still quite artistic. I always feel that it is not like a carriage, but more like a pumpkin carriage. The prince in the 16th century rode a pumpkin carriage to marry Cinderella."
After hearing Fang Wei's words, Ye Fu couldn't help but laugh.
"We are fleeing, so there is no artistic conception."
Xuxu looked up at Fang Wei, "Mom, what is Cinderella."
"Cinderella is the fire girl."
Xuxu's eyes lit up, "I am also Cinderella, and I am good at making fire."
Fang Wei rubbed her head and said, "Silly boy, you are obviously an elf."
At half past five, the night was getting dark. After having breakfast, everyone got into the carriage and got ready to set off.
The horse is very smart and does not need a person to drive in front. The sound of "crunching" sounded and the carriage started slowly. Ye Fu and Wenwen sat in front of the stove and roasted sweet potatoes. The sweetness of the sweet potatoes soon spread to the back.
in the carriage.
From morning to afternoon, there were not many horse-drawn carriage merchants encountered on the road, only two. Everyone just looked at each other from a distance and then left.
Today's disguise was successful.
"Wenwen, do you want to go to school in the town?"
Wenwen shook her head, "I won't go. I can learn a lot by staying with you. Sister Ye Fu, I don't want to study. I just want to learn medicine and farm with my brother. I don't want to have contact with outsiders."
Ye Fu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he didn't force her to do something she didn't like.
"I'll give you a set of silver needles later, so you can learn the acupuncture points on the human body."
Wenwen rushed over excitedly and hugged Ye Fu, "Sister Ye Fu, I will definitely study hard and won't let you down."
"Wenwen, Ye Fu can be considered your master. You must listen to her carefully in the future. Do you understand?"
Hearing Officer Song's words, Wenwen nodded heavily, "I will."
There are more and more villages on the road, and patrols can occasionally be seen. The patrols will not check the carriages. When they see people who have frozen to death on the road, they will dispose of the bodies on the spot and burn them clean.
When passing by a small village, Ye Fu saw a large wooden sign on the side of the road, which said that the mine was recruiting workers, and food and housing were included.
The mine belongs to the second base. Qi Yuan went down and asked the villagers that the second base is not far from here. There is also a county town next to the second base, about 40 kilometers away from here.
"We can settle down after walking another twenty kilometers."
"Twenty kilometers from the county seat, isn't it too far?"
Ye Fu shook his head, "No, this distance is just right."
The villages on the road are scattered and not dense. The houses are very simple, some are earth houses, some are stone houses, and there are also many wooden houses.
The weather is too cold, and most of the crops grown in the village are potatoes and white radish. There are also people walking around in the woods with bows, arrows and shotguns. Some are hunting, some are digging wild vegetables, and some are scraping tree bark.
"The child's face was red from the cold, and his mouth was cracked by the cold. It was so painful."
"Don't be afraid of hardship. As long as there are no natural disasters, you can survive no matter how hard the life is."
At eight o'clock in the evening, the carriage slowly stopped. After putting the carriage into the space, Ye Fu led everyone into the rime forest next to it.
Rather than blending into other people's territory, it's better to carve out your own territory.
Ye Fu likes this rime forest because it has tall trees and streams surrounding it. However, to enter the rime forest, you need to row a boat.
"The rime forest in front of us is like an isolated island, but there is no boat, so we can't get in. Ye Fu, give us two machetes. Let's chop some wood to make a raft first."
"No need to bother." Ye Fu put out the raft he had made on the farm, and everyone was stunned.
"Are these rafts still there? When did you collect them? I thought they had been washed away by the flood long ago."
Of course it was Jiang Run who collected it, but I didn't expect it to come in handy today.
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