Farming in space: the struggle of peasant girls

Chapter 53 053 The Crisis of Yellow Sand City
"Uncle Cui said that he saw dozens of wealthy families leaving the city in a convoy, and there were more than one family."

The firewood room suddenly became very quiet, except for the occasional crackling sound of the firewood burning quietly under the clay pots.

The news is very bad.

Huangsha City is the safest place with a radius of a hundred miles, but now those big families want to flee here, they must have learned that there will be a big crisis in Huangsha City, or a big crisis that cannot be escaped.

Although Yang Erlang had already predicted this point, sooner or later they would need to leave Huangsha City, but he didn't expect it to be so fast, and he didn't expect it to be so serious that even those big families would need to flee.

The two were silent for a long time thinking about each other.

Mu Yu said, "We need to inquire more about this matter. If it's really that bad, we have to make plans early."

Yang Erlang gave a "hmm" and agreed with her words.

"Then let's split up tomorrow. I'll go to the nearby streets to inquire, and you can go to the city wall to see the situation."

"it is good."

Yang Erlang told her not to go to the East Street, she would be expelled, and just walk around the streets of the ruined temple. Mu Yu reminded him not to go to that hill, and not to get too close to the city wall.

The two exhorted each other and went to sleep with a lot of worries.

……

Early the next morning, Mu Yu and Yang Erlang bid farewell and went out, heading towards the neighborhood.

Naturally, I didn't go to Dongjie. She also checked when she went to the grocery store, and she didn't find any major problems. This time, she mainly looked at the situation in the ruined temple.

The houses in the nearby blocks were not much different from when she came to inquire before. If there were any, they were even more dilapidated. The dilapidated houses were almost no different from the places where beggars gathered.

That's right, the people living here were originally the poorest group in Huangsha City.

She walked very cautiously at the beginning, for fear that the people here would also start to drive out beggars, or meet people who were hungry, mad and lost their minds, so she walked very slowly, and only saw two streets in half a morning.

However, it didn't take long for her to discover that this was unnecessary.

Every now and then on the street, there is a person who does not know whether he is dead or alive, or a person whose eyes are blurred and distracted. It is not known whether it is a nearby resident or a beggar, and it is impossible to tell.

The shops on the street either had their doors tightly closed for a long time, or their doors and windows were damaged, and the doors concealed the appearance that they had been visited by thieves long ago.

Occasionally, the hurried passers-by I met would not give her a second look at all. Everyone was busy with their own survival, and had no time to care about other things.

After walking for a while, Mu Yu figured out the situation. As long as he doesn't dress too conspicuously, as long as he doesn't show his belongings and food, and as long as he doesn't talk nonsense and get noticed, he can walk here casually.

Of course she would not commit such a low-level problem, so she walked smoothly all the way without encountering any trouble.

Although it is said to be smooth, there seems to be no more gains than what I saw at the beginning, and no one has moved away.

Maybe some moved away, but she didn't catch up, maybe they didn't move away, because the people here didn't have the money and food to move away.

Without money and food, leaving home rashly to flee famine can only lead to death.

Of course, staying is also a dead end, but some people can't leave their homeland, and they just want to die at home.

Mu Yu didn't have this kind of thought. If Huangsha City really couldn't stay any longer, she would leave decisively and seek a new way of life.

Although she doesn't have much money and food, she is much better than other ordinary people and refugees.

What she needs to consider more is not the lack of water and food, but the safety on the road.

She walked and thought while walking, and unknowingly came to a familiar place.

The place where she first came here, the place where the original owner died.

When she came back here again, a sad look appeared on her face.

The Wangcai restaurant is still there, but the guy who told her to go away at that time is gone.

No, in fact, the Wangcai restaurant is no longer there.

The signboard on the shop was gone, several windows were broken, one door panel was missing, and the other was partially hidden, and the messy tables and chairs in the shop could be vaguely seen.

She was observing intently, when suddenly a hunched figure holding something with a hunchback jumped out of the door, and flashed across the street in darkness.

Startled, she subconsciously took a step back.

The black figure didn't seem to expect that there would be someone outside, and was also taken aback. He stopped and looked back for a while, then ran away again after feeling nothing.

Mu Yu stood on the street for a while, and finally took a look at the dilapidated Wangcai Food Shop, sighed silently, and continued walking forward.

The situation in the remaining few streets is also similar to the previous ones. Many houses and shops look like they have been "patronized" and unattended. There are more people who are not moving on the streets than people who are moving. There are people like that everywhere. An unspeakable stench.

But this situation changed a little when she walked out of this familiar block and continued to walk to the south block, and it became almost the same as her situation on the east street.

She walked forward cautiously for a while, there were some beggars sitting on the street, but it was much less than before, and there were almost no shops and houses with their doors open, and the situation here was relatively stable of.

She walked forward slowly, looking around as much as possible while paying attention to her own safety.

Before returning, she saw people coming and going in and out of the yard of a second family. There were two carriages and a few ox carts parked outside, full of things, obviously planning to move out.

Things are confirmed.

She returned to the ruined temple with a heavy heart, and met Yang Erlang who had been waiting for her with the same serious face.

Needless to say, just by looking at each other's expressions, you can understand the result of the two people going out for a day.

However, Mu Yu cheered up and asked Yang Erlang what he had gained.

"I was guarding a few city gates in the north from a high place, and I saw a group of about 50 people driving horses and horses out of the city to the east. Looking at the clothes they wore, they were from wealthy families.

There were still quite a few people who dragged their families along the city wall and seemed to want to go out of the city, but the officers and soldiers guarding the city did not open the door for them.

It is possible that the city owner forbids people to leave Huangsha City, or it may be that they cannot afford to bribe the officers and soldiers.

But don't worry, if we want to leave, we don't have to go through this. "

With the few holes in the wall they found earlier, they really didn't have to go through the city gate, and the officers and soldiers harvested a stubble of money and food.

Mu Yu wasn't thinking about it, so he hummed casually and asked,

"When shall we go?"

This question also stopped Yang Erlang.

The choice of walking early and walking one day later in troubled times is sometimes a choice between life and death, even if you are not very sure about this when you make this choice.

"Are we ready to leave now?"

"No."

"When will we be ready to leave?"

Yang Erlang didn't answer, and couldn't answer.

Mu Yu let out a long sigh.

(End of this chapter)