Chapter 184

Li Chengru is still sitting lazily in the back carriage.

At this time, he is still angry.

He wants to go to the battlefield but can't go. He wants to join the army but has no way. He also wants to do something for the people, but with his own strength, where can he do anything?

I think he's a magnificent young master. Now he's exiled to the point of escape. It's strange if he spread to the capital and won't be laughed to death by the people there.

Now he heard Fengsheng say that ye Xiaoxian was there, so he looked out of the window.

Is that a big family? There are old people, children, women and children. Each takes a steamed bread and chews it, holding the raw water in the river. Look at their carriage. The carriage was temporarily nailed up. A few boards and tarpaulins to keep out the rain. This kind of carriage can't withstand the severe cold. If there is a storm, it is estimated that water will seep.

Li Chengru "cut" and thought: it's really a group of poor people. It's strange that they can survive for ten days and a half months if they escape in this way!

Finally, Li Chengru's eyes fell on Ye Xiaoxian.

She was leaning against the carriage, eating steamed bread and nibbling at it. Strangely, she was different from many refugees. Most of the refugees' eyes were confused all the way, but he could not see a trace of panic from ye Xiaoxian.

The petite body is calm and firm, brave, fearless, confident, eating steamed bread or drinking raw water. It seems that no matter how difficult the road in the future is, it is impossible to knock her down.

Li Chengru's heart was shaken by a small earthquake. He thought of the soft figure in front of him when he had a fever. That figure, like Ye Xiaoxian now, looks weak, but actually contains great power.

However, Li Chengru soon pulled up the curtain of the car. He didn't want to see ye Xiaoxian again. The more he looked, the softer a place in his heart was, like a piece of ice slowly melting in his body.

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In this era, cities are often far away from each other. I don't know how many mountains to cross, how many villages and towns to cross.

Because there are many people fleeing the famine in front of them, the village in front of them also escaped after learning the news. The rest are old, weak and disabled people who can't run away.

When it was dark, ye Xiaoxian and others also came to a small village, which was not only brightly lit, but also very lively.

But take a closer look, it turns out that these are refugees and are setting up a stronghold in the open space in front of the village.

In fact, the so-called zhazhai village doesn't have any tents. Most of them pick up some firewood, and then ten or eight people form a circle, warming up and baking something to eat.

Seeing that it was dark, ye Xiaoxian knew she couldn't go any further, so she discussed with Xiao Tieshu that she would rest here tonight.

Everyone has no opinion.

Xiao Tieshu and Xiao Tongshu had been pushing for a whole day. They were already exhausted. As soon as they stopped, they wanted to lie down on the grass and sleep.

But ye Xiaoxian didn't let them lie down directly. Instead, she and Li Hongmei took two straw mats from the carriage and spread them on the ground, which made Xiao Tieshu lie down.

Then, ye Xiaoxian ordered several children to pick up some firewood nearby.

They came late. The firewood nearby had been picked up long ago. They need to go further.

Just as she hesitated, ye Xiaoxian heard someone calling her, "leaf, leaf!"

Looking at the sound, ye Xiaoxian saw Liu Qianqian. Their family's camp had been occupied for a long time. The firewood in front of them was burning vigorously, and the family was holding a group to bake the fire.

Although the Liu family walked fast, there were not many nearby villages. They were afraid that they would miss this village and have to walk for a long time to have the next village.

Liu Qianqian asked Ye Xiaoxian, "Why are we here now? We have been here for more than an hour."

Ye Xiaoxian said with a smile, "how can we compare with you? There are so many of you, and almost all of you take carriages. We still have two manpower carts."

"Haven't you caught up now? Just catch up. Anyway, as long as it's the same way, you can always meet it." Liu Qianqian looked very optimistic.

Ye Xiaoxian didn't think so. She said with a bitter smile, "it's no use catching up. The firewood has been picked up. It's cold at night. It's not good without firewood."

Liu Qianqian immediately said, "you go to the southwest of the village. There are two families who are estimated to have escaped and left a lot of firewood. Our firewood is taken there. If you are lucky, there will be some."

After hearing this, ye Xiaoxian immediately called Xiao Baofeng and Xiao Baocheng to go in the dark together.

It was quiet in the village. Occasionally one or two families were lit by candles. Ye Xiaoxian didn't dare to say a word. They were all creeping.

It is reasonable to say that the people in the village have fled, and the people from behind can borrow their houses to rest.

But no one has the idea. First, worry about bad luck, and second, worry about what rat poison the refugees will leave.

Although they have escaped, anyone will fantasize about coming back one day, so they don't want their house to be damaged. They put rat poison in every corner of the house. It's best to poison those invaders.

Just like when Li Hongmei was packing up, she didn't want someone to occupy her house. She sprinkled fecal water in front of the house and splashed several buckets of feces in the house.

But it's OK to come and find some firewood.

Ye Xiaoxian found the two courtyards mentioned by Liu Qianqian. It was quiet inside. Baocheng Baofeng and they were afraid to go in. They were afraid that something would suddenly appear inside.

Ye Xiaoxian was also afraid, but at the thought that if there was no fire at night, it would be more terrible, so she dared to push open the gate of the courtyard.

As a result, as soon as I pressed my hand on the door, the door opened.

Scared Ye Xiaoxian and Baofeng, Baocheng shouted in panic, and ye Xiaoxian shouted "ah".

Just about to run back, the people inside suddenly shouted, "little lady ye, is that you?"

Feng Sheng?

Ye Xiaoxian stands where she is. Why is Fengsheng here?

She looked back in horror. In the hazy night, she really saw Fengsheng's beautiful face.

Fengsheng also held a pile of firewood in his hand. He asked Ye Xiaoxian, "are you looking for firewood, too? I'll give you this batch first, so that you won't go in again."

Then Fengsheng gave the firewood in his hand to Ye Xiaoxian. Baofeng saw it and hurried up to take over for ye Xiaoxian.

There are a lot of firewood in this pile. If you save a little, you can burn it until dawn the next day.

Ye Xiaoxian thanked Fengsheng. She knew that the eyesight of martial arts practitioners would be much better at night, just like xiaobaoshan at the beginning, so she didn't worry about the danger of Fengsheng after she went in.

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Back at the entrance of the village, I saw the Xiao family lying upside down on the mat, especially the old man Xiao, still swearing. For a while, he said he was hungry and for a while, he complained about why he had to flee so hard. He had known it was so hard. He would rather die in the village.

Xiao Tieshu comforted him at first, but everyone was tired. They didn't have the time to comfort a chattering person. Wang Mudan and Chen Ju didn't want to talk to him.

When Wang Mudan and Chen juping were in the village, they were a little daughter-in-law who had never seen the world. When they came out of the village, they listened to Ye Xiaoxian and had no idea. They did whatever ye Xiaoxian asked them to do.

When ye Xiaoxian came back, she asked Wang Mudan and Chen Ju to make a fire, and then went to the river at the entrance of the village to fetch a pot of water and burn it.

After making the fire, ye Xiaoxian took out the steamed bread and counted two for each person.

Then he cut more than ten small bamboo sticks, strung the steamed bread on it, then smeared a little oil, and then sent a string to everyone, so that everyone could bake it on the fire and eat it again.

As soon as the fire burned and the steamed bread was baked, everyone's fatigue was swept away in an instant.

Especially children.

Although the children came out to escape and the road was very hard, after all, everything was borne by the adults. They just had to follow the adults.

Now they can camp in the wild and eat steamed bread. Instead, they are very excited.

After another pile of firewood was cooked, ye Xiaoxian asked Wang Mudan to put them on a shelf, then put two catches of rice in the pot, and when it boiled, there was porridge to eat.

When ye Xiaoxian and her family were baking steamed bread, people nearby all looked at them.

Most of the food on the way to escape is dry food, and some people cook porridge themselves, but I saw baked steamed bread for the first time.

The delicious steamed bread is very attractive.

Li Chengru is also staring at the baked steamed bread on Ye Xiaoxian's side.

They also prepared dry food, but they were all prepared by Feng Sheng. They were all dry, such as cakes and steamed bread, but that was all. He had just eaten two baked cakes. The cakes were hard to hide for a day. They were cool in his stomach and could not satisfy his stomach at all.

Fortunately, the fire on their side also started. He wanted to follow Ye Xiaoxian's example and bake steamed bread on the fire. However, I don't know if it was wrong. It didn't take long for the steamed bread to be put on, but it burned more than half.

He looked at it carefully again. It seemed that some oil was needed before baking steamed bread, but they didn't prepare oil.

He angrily threw away the half burnt steamed bread on his hand, and then went to see the porridge in Ye Xiaoxian's pot.

After the rice boiled, it soon boiled and the taste of porridge floated out, but ye Xiaoxian refused to move. She said she wanted to boil it again and drink it when the rice boiled until it was thick.

Li Chengru also wants porridge, but they don't have a pot.

He can't help blaming Fengsheng. Men are rough. When it comes to inescapable, they only bring dry food, not even a pot.

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When ye Xiaoxian was dividing porridge, Li Hongmei suddenly touched her and reminded her: "Ye, Li Chengru has been looking at us."

Ye Xiaoxian looked in the direction Li Hongmei pointed. Sure enough, she saw Li Chengru looking at them.

But not looking at her, but at the porridge in her hand.

In fact, ye Xiaoxian quite understands. On the way to escape, she is usually thirsty and tired. It's comfortable if she can drink a mouthful of hot porridge at rest. Just like the old man Xiao, who had been shouting for dry rice and fried potatoes, he stopped shouting and kept staring at the porridge water in the pot.

Ye Xiaoxian said, "Mom, our firewood is given by Feng Sheng. Let Baofeng bring them two bowls of porridge? Anyway, we have enough to eat."

Li Hongmei thought for a moment and then said, "it's OK. It's not easy for everyone to escape. Maybe we won't see each other again after tonight. It's good for everyone to read to each other."