On a muddy loess path, Li Huowang and his party returned to their normal appearance and continued on their way.
Several days have passed since I escaped from the town.
At this moment, everyone has a haggard look on their face. There is nothing we can do about it. If we don’t have enough food and clothing, this will definitely be the result.
When he came to a slightly flatter place, Li Huowang wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeves. "Let's all take a rest."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone immediately fell down and lay on the ground in a mess, gasping for air.
Bai Lingmiao carefully took out the last piece of yellow pancake in his arms, broke half of it and put it back, then handed the other half to Li Huowang. "Brother Li, here, let's eat."
Li Huowang glanced at her, reached out and pinched her stomach, which was flat.
This move made Bai Lingmiao feel ashamed, but she couldn't bear to refuse.
"Don't worry, I know you have a big appetite. Eat what you have to. Don't go hungry. I'll figure out other things."
"I'm really not hungry, you can eat it." Bai Lingmiao pushed the pancake over again.
This time Li Huowang was too lazy to answer the question and reopened the map, looking for ways to replenish food.
There is not enough food to eat, so we must replenish it as soon as possible.
He had thought about robbing those bandits, but when he thought about the relationship between bandits and thieves serving in the army, Li Huowang gave up the idea.
It's hard to tell clearly whether these bandits are the woman's outpost.
It took a lot of effort to escape successfully before, but it’s not worth provoking thieves and armies just for some food.
"Robbing ordinary civilians?"
Li Huowang rejected the idea immediately. He would never do the same beastly thing as his master.
I am Li Huowang, not Danyangzi.
It is really difficult to not rob the bandits and not oppress the people, but also to get enough food and clothing.
At this moment, the dog boy on the side came over with a smile and grabbed the cake in Bai Lingmiao's hand, but she knocked it away.
"Senior Sister Bai, give it to me. Senior Brother Li is not hungry, but I am."
"No, we only have this little food now, go and eat your own!"
"I've already eaten all of mine."
"Then you just need to be hungry. You won't die if you starve for a few days."
The dejected Gouwa put his hands into his loose clothes and scratched his ribs.
He turned around and looked at the other people on the side.
But this time, no one had anything to eat, not even the most considerate Yang child.
Gradually, his eyes caught sight of the women rescued from the bandit's village.
"If I had known, I would have abandoned these women and would have done nothing but waste food. They would be a total burden."
Gouwa's words made those women look frightened. They huddled together helplessly at a loss.
"Are you a man? Why are you talking so much nonsense!" Chun Xiaoman couldn't stand it.
"That's right. Am I wrong?"
"Don't... don't abandon me! I'm useful. I know where there is food. It's not far away. I can take you to borrow it."
These words attracted other people's attention to the group of women.
The woman who spoke was a woman with a big mouth. She was able to be robbed by bandits because she obviously had more than just her big mouth.
Seeing other people looking over, the woman lowered her head uneasily.
"Are you telling the truth? Can we really get food?"
Li Huowang came over, stood in front of her and asked.
He suddenly realized that he had just reached a dead end. With such a group of Houshu locals leading the way, what kind of map did he need?
"Well... there is a village nearby... My fourth aunt lives in that kind of farm... I can borrow it..."
Li Huowang looked at the map in his hand again and found that there were no marks on it.
"Haha... There are too many small villages and villages here, so where can I get the bid?" Jinshan came over and explained awkwardly.
"Brother, if you don't understand, you don't understand. What are you pretending to do? How much trouble have you delayed for the little Taoist master?"
Lu Zhuangyuan's ridicule made Jinshan's old man blush, "Brother, I'm not talking nonsense. Do you know how many of them are like this in Houshu-"
"Okay, I don't have time to chat. Let's go over and take a look first. You can take us to your fourth aunt's house."
Li Huowang's words were the final word, causing everyone who was still resting to stand up.
Immediately afterwards, the group of people followed the big-mouthed woman towards a stone mountain in the distance.
When they came to the foot of the barren stone mountain, the big-mouthed woman did not stop, and started climbing up the lonely mountain with the others.
There is still some way at the beginning, but there is no way at all at the end. You need all four limbs to climb up.
Several times, Li Huowang thought that this woman was lying to him. This shabby place didn't look like a village.
But after a lot of effort, he climbed to the top of the mountain, and a paradise scenery appeared in front of him.
This mountain is a flat-topped mountain, and there is actually a village on this flat-topped mountain.
What's more important is that he saw large tracts of green fields, which is really rare to see in the barren Houshu Kingdom.
"Who's crazy...who's so full that they can work hard? They actually built Zhuangzi here. I'm exhausted." Gouwa complained, rubbing his sore legs.
"I'm guessing, maybe it's to avoid excessive taxes and corvee, or to avoid conscription. Anyway, it's just these kinds of things."
"Hey, when I think about it, people in this world are suffering. There are so many things to worry about."
"Did the officials in Hou Shu push people so hard? They forced people to come up the mountains. Our officials were not like this. During the autumn harvest, they only received 50% of the official grain, and those who farmed were exempted from corvee labor."<
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Comparing himself with worse people gave Lu Zhuangyuan a cheap sense of satisfaction.
While they were talking, Li Huowang had already asked the big-mouthed woman about the location of her fourth aunt and walked inside.
It looks really peaceful here, and every house is clean and bright.
Nothing outside has affected this place at all. It seems like it really is a paradise.
"Senior Brother Li, our village is similar. Although there are fewer people, they are all good people."
Seeing everything in front of him, Bai Lingmiao remembered something, and a trace of joy appeared on his face.
"After settling down, it seems like a good choice to be able to live in a place like this with other people in the future." Li Huowang thought to himself.
His keen perception allowed him to hear the sounds in the room.
A large group of people from outside the village walking into Zhuangzi must have attracted the attention of the people in the village.
However, as the loud-mouthed woman accurately stated her fourth aunt's name, the hostility on their faces became much less intense.
I thought everything was starting to go in a good direction, but when I heard that my distant relatives were coming to borrow food, the family didn't even open the door.
The big-mouthed woman stood at the closed door with two doorkeepers attached, looking at the others in fear.
She couldn't stop her tears from flowing down. She choked and said: "I...I really...don't know...please don't leave me...I have nowhere to go."
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The rest of the people standing there had restlessness on their faces. If they didn't have anything to eat anymore, they would have to drink from the northwest wind.