Qi Baoer rubbed his eyes and sat up, squinting his eyes and yawning, looking like he was still awake.
Her fourth uncle's depressed voice came to her ears: "My dear, can you move your fat feet away from my fourth uncle's face first?"
Qi Bao'er said "Oh", moved his feet away from Qi Kangtai's eyes, got up, crossed his legs, and continued to stare.
Qi Kangtai also yawned and stretched his neck strangely to look at the door, "What's going on?"
Yes, they were both woken up.
Women's cries, children's cries, yelling, etc.
It's been quiet outside for the past two days. The occasional refugee arrival is only in small groups of a few or a dozen people. The townhouse is relatively far away from the city gate, and the sound is almost silenced here.
People who live here temporarily also come here to the townhouses. Not only the people in Qijia Village are on guard, but everyone who lives here is on guard. Not only are they guarding against outsiders, everyone living nearby is also guarding against each other.
Not only did outsiders come in, but the people living on the left and right sides hardly spoke to each other.
Not to mention that no matter if a stranger comes over, there will be people from far away to confirm whether they have received the sign and want to move in. If not, they will not let them come near.
The sudden noise was quite strange.
"The sound should be coming from the city gate."
Qi Baoer's eyes opened with difficulty, "Fourth Uncle, this sound should be quite familiar to us."
Every time they go outside the city gate and hear that the city fee is collected, don’t they always burst into tears?
Really, every time I hear it, I feel like the sky is falling.
In this world, even if the poor risk their lives, it is still so difficult to survive.
Qi Kangtai breathed out hissing hot breath and shivered. While shaking his hands and putting on his brocade clothes, he asked: "Bao, do you want your fourth uncle to dress you?"
Qi Baoer shook his head, "Do it yourself."
"Okay, then Fourth Uncle will go outside and bring you hot water to wash your face. By the way, do you still have the balm for your face? Let Fourth Uncle use some later."
Of the five houses in Lao Qi's family, the one where the big one lives has a stove. It must have been built by the person who originally lived there, so if you want to use hot water, you have to come from that house.
Qi Bao'er forced her eyes to open wider, "Oh."
Her fourth uncle was a pretty person, and he used to show off his beauty even if he had no conditions. Later, when he learned that she had obtained several bottles of ointment from the Wu Mansion, he would have to apply some if the wind was strong or the weather was cold.
Euphemistically called it, the face problem.
What a face problem.
The funniest thing is that her father, who looks like a rough guy on the surface, must be there whenever her fourth uncle applies ointment.
The city gate of Yuan'an County opens at five o'clock.
[Speaking of the time conversion in Qilin Kingdom, Qi Baoer finds it quite interesting. They also use a twenty-four-hour system, from zero to twenty-three.
But there are no minutes and seconds. Minutes are expressed in terms of quarters, one hour is four quarters of an hour. For example, if it was six-thirty in Qibaoer's previous life, it is called six-thirty here.
As for seconds, they don’t exist.】
It was five o'clock, it was a cold day and it had not yet seen daylight. There were still torches burning on the city wall, and there was also a torch about a meter away next to the government officials who came out to guard the city gate.
Looking from a distance, under the dim light of torches, one could vaguely see the scene outside the city gate. There were already a large number of refugees gathered, and it was estimated that there must be more than two thousand.
These are all new arrivals last night, who arrived during the day yesterday. Either they have already taken a house to live in like them, or they have no household registration and have found a place to escape the cold, let alone being visible outside the city gate like this.
Arriving later than them, Qi Baoer guessed that there should be only a few people coming from Canaan City, most likely people from Tongcheng and its surroundings. There were not many people who could survive the escape from Canaan City and persist here.
Their journey here is too difficult for ordinary people. Unless they also violate their conscience, they may not be able to make it.
But, if they were really from around here, why would they want to run away?
It's good to have a good father. Qi Bao'er's face had just been washed, and Qi Kang'an hurried back with white smoke every time he breathed in and out, and found out a lot of news.
It's just that the news is not good news to them.
"Epidemic, is there really an epidemic?" Mrs. Tian's legs softened as she just stood up, and she sat back on the bed.
"It should be that the area in Gayang County is not just a village, but several villages have been infected. Gayang County has been completely sealed off. The army went to seal it off, and they are only allowed in but not allowed out.
Those who arrived outside last night were all people from the surrounding counties of Gayang County. They didn’t dare to stay in their hometown anymore, so they all fled with their families.”
Qi Kangan wanted to ask: Did King Xuan offend God?
There was a war in the city of Canaan, and the generals massacred the people.
There is a drought in Tongcheng, and now there is an epidemic in Gayang County, which borders the Acropolis.
What will the Acropolis look like?
Mrs. Tian patted her chest and rejoiced: "Fortunately, fortunately, we didn't go through Gayang County."
Otherwise, you can get in but can't get out.
Qi Kang'an and Qi Bao'er both looked at her speechlessly. No matter how they went around, they couldn't get to Gayang County. They were on the left side of Shanghulu, and they were taking the road on the left. Gayang County was located in
The right side of the gourd.
How much debt do they have to have before they can flee and cross the entire upper gourd from the left, then go around to the right, and then go north again?
What we should be worried about now is not the refugees coming from epidemic areas?
Qi Baoer raised her head and asked her father: "Dad, have you gotten close to those refugees?"
Qi Kang'an shook his head, "I remember your previous reminder. I heard they were coming from an epidemic area, so stay away from them.
I have already discussed this matter with Dr. Gao. He has already gone to check the medicine we picked up on the road. He knows a prescription for preventing the epidemic, but he said he doesn’t know if it will be useful. Anyway, it is not harmful to people if eaten. Let’s drink it first.
"
Old man Qi: "That's good. You also ask everyone not to leave the house. No matter what they do outside, don't leave the house. It's best to go into the city today."
After a moment's pause, he continued: "If we can't enter the city because of the refugees from the epidemic area, we'll think of a way. If it doesn't work, we'll retreat and change our way."
Everyone in the room nodded solemnly, "Yeah."
It can only be this way.
Because of this incident, not only the refugees who had arrived early were nervous, but Yuan'an County was also nervous.
As soon as it dawned, thousands of soldiers with spears came out of the city. Half of them were heading towards the newly arrived refugees in the morning, and the other half were heading towards the row houses on their side.
Soldiers, the people coming out of Qijia Village saw two groups fighting.
As the soldiers approached, they shouted: "Quick, get ready to enter the city immediately. You are not allowed to stay in the city. Leave immediately after entering the city."
ah?
Can you enter the city without checking?
"hurry up."
"Hey, hey."
If you don't want to stay, you won't stay, as long as you can leave.
Hurry, pack it up.
This time it was really a rush. Not only did the soldiers in the row house yell at them to hurry up, but they also packed up their things and the soldiers were still following them to drive them away.
There was no transportation fee, so we drove directly into the city.
After entering the city, the soldiers were still behind. If you walked slowly, they would step forward and dig into your heart. If you dared to delay, they would stab you forward.