Old man Qi waved his hand, "What a big deal, I'll ask Daliang and Erlang to help you tomorrow. Are the two of them enough?"
"That's enough, that's enough. It's easy to help distribute the medicinal materials. The three brothers are capable of grinding the medicine."
Before Doctor Gao and his son left, Mrs. Yang and her granddaughter came over again.
This is the daily life of Lao Qi's family these days. Whenever they take a break, everyone will go to Lao Qi's house if they have something to do.
But instead of looking for Old Qi and the others, Old Mrs. Yang asked Old Mrs. Tian if there was any cotton left. She wanted to buy some and make a pair of cotton gloves for her grandson, Boy.
Not only her, but she also represents several companies. She has never thought about the issue of gloves before. Their hometown doesn’t get very cold in winter, and they don’t have to push carts out much in winter. There is no such thing as using gloves.
It was when I saw the ladies in Lao Qi's family making gloves that I realized that it would get colder in the future. The men were pushing the riders with their hands exposed. When the weather gets cold and the wind blows, their hands can't stand it.
But at this time, there was no way to make cotton. The ladies of Lao Qi's family were very agile and had already made cotton-padded clothes or quilts. Now the cotton used to make gloves is pulled out of thicker quilts.
Don't talk about good intentions or bad intentions at this time. There are three to four hundred people in your family. If you have good intentions, Lao Qi's family should simply not use cotton to disperse them all.
After Mrs. Yang returned disappointed, Mrs. Tian turned to chat with Ye Sanni, "When we put it out for everyone to buy, Anzi kept shouting that it would be cold later, so don't be reluctant to give up the money. We need to prepare enough cotton. This is not enough for us."
It’s really no longer possible to ask Liu Yamen and the others to buy it.
As a result, everyone said that reed flowers are enough, and everyone in the family came to think of it that way.
Now that I'm asking for it again, it's not something unnecessary."
She felt that their family was quite redundant. Everyone was on the run, so why did his family have to take care of these elderly people?
Now it seems like it has become a responsibility.
"No, mother." Everyone ran out together to escape, so his family had nothing to do with it.
Yesterday, there was a frightened child who wanted to call out his ghost to come to them. Did you think it was funny?
After walking all morning the next day, I saw a big fork in the road. There was a quite large tea shed next to the fork, and the tea shed was still open.
There is a mountain col behind the tea shed. At this moment, on the top of a hillside beside the mountain col, two heads, one big and one small, slowly poked out.
There is no doubt that it is Qi Kangan and his daughter.
Qi Kangan kept silent: "There are so many soldiers, and they don't look like they are passing by. What are they doing?"
There were soldiers standing on both sides of the tea shed. They had their backs to the tea shed and could not see inside. They guessed that there were either big shots or a group of soldiers inside.
How does it look like you stopped here on purpose to wait for someone?
Last night, Piaozai came to see it in advance and said that there was a large tea shed where they could rest, but he didn't know if they dared to rest here.
Piaozai seems to be in a bad mood recently. His words are always sarcastic. He often makes ambiguous remarks and then hides in the Buddha beads. His daughter can't even scream.
But this news was enough. There was a problem when I heard it. No, they didn't dare to go straight to the tea shed, but took a detour from another village in the mountain.
Unfortunately, they could only go around to the tea shed, otherwise they would just go around the tea shed and leave.
After a while, some refugees came out of the official road.
The soldiers who had been idle immediately surrounded them with spears raised. Some refugees tried to resist, but were beaten and kicked.
Amid the screams of the women and children, the soldiers drove them toward a hill.
Only then did the father and daughter notice that there were several large prison vans hidden among the dense woods and weeds at the foot of the mountain.
The soldiers did not imprison the captured refugees together, but separated them into one car for old people and one car for men. Women and children were also separated.
They were all gagged and their hands and feet were tied with rags ripped off the refugees themselves.
Qi Kangan broke out in a cold sweat and swallowed hard, "Bao, why did you arrest all the refugees passing by?"
What we encountered in Sanhe Town was killing, and what we encountered here was arresting refugees. What are we doing?
Qi Bao'er thought of a piece of news she heard from someone not long after she set out, saying that King Xuan's biological mother, the Imperial Concubine, was also in Yingzhou, and that King Xuan was building a big palace for her to live in.
"Dad, do you think it's about arresting people for corvee work?" She also thought about arresting people to become medicine people, but it shouldn't be so blatant,,, right?
No matter what they do, it's not a good thing for them.
"Bao, what should we do?"
There was no place to go. They could climb the mountain, but if they didn't succeed, the path they wanted to take was further forward where the river turned from the mountain, and they had to cross a bridge.
To go to the other road on the left, you have to climb over the big mountain col in the middle, and the unknown thing will fall into the eyes of the soldiers?
Going to the right was even more difficult. They had to go through the middle path first and then turn over. To get to the middle path, they had to turn over.
Qi Bao'er pulled her father's belt back, and the father and daughter slowly slid down while lying down.
The villagers at the bottom of the hillside raised their heads silently and waited anxiously. When they saw them moving, they all saluted with attention, and their eyes followed them all the way down.
When the father and daughter stopped on the ground, Old Man Qi, Gao Dayou and others hurriedly gathered around them.
Old man Qi patted Qi Bao'er's body and asked, "What's up, are you really in trouble?"
Qi Kang'an changed himself from lying down to sitting down, but was too lazy to get up. He didn't have the energy, "There was a large group of soldiers in the tea shed, about three thousand in number, and there was a dense and dense group of soldiers at the foot of the mountain to the north.
There were several prison vans hidden among the tall weeds. I couldn’t see the exact number of them, but I saw six of them, all of which contained people.
Just now, Bao'er and I watched with our own eyes as they arrested a dozen refugees and put them in a prison van.
There are many people in the prison car, they must have been arrested from the front."
"His" is all you hear.
Qi Kang'an immediately shouted in a low voice: "Don't say a word, don't say a word, it will be troublesome if you are heard."
They quickly covered their mouths, and the adults also covered the mouths of the children next to them.
What to do?
There is no choice but to wait.
Wait until night to see if the soldiers will leave. If they can leave, that would be the best. If not, they can walk through the high weeds in the col and take another path at night.
They whispered one after another. The adults should keep an eye on their children, don't make noises, and don't make loud noises. Although they were a certain distance away from the tea shed, it was easier to use the ears of those soldiers who couldn't bear it.
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Three to four hundred people huddled down the hillside, trying to remain still as much as possible. Their hearts were in their throats. If they had to move, for example, to go to the convenience store or something, they would hold it in as long as they could. But when they couldn't hold it in any longer, they would lift their toes and pinch their feet.
walk.
No matter what happens, make eye contact.
Blink your mouth, hold it in, and then touch your belly. Is it convenient for you?