Being fooled by fierce beasts to travel through the beginning is fleeing famine

Because it was too late, everyone didn't choose any place, and directly unloaded the donkey cart to rest on a wasteland with no stones or grass beside the road.

Because there is a river nearby, I fetched some water and washed it before going to bed.

That is to wash your hands, face, and feet, so that you can feel more comfortable when you sleep.

The water in the river has been exposed to the sun for a day, and even now the water is still warm, not cold.

Although they had already eaten in the afternoon, after walking for such a long time, seven or eight hours had passed, and they were actually hungry again.

It's just that everyone was very tired, and they didn't bother to regenerate the fire to cook food, so they just fell asleep hungry.

Qingyan was also very tired, so she lay down after drinking some water.

Early the next morning, just after dawn, Qingyan was awakened by chirping birds.

She sat up in a daze, rubbed her hungry stomach, and looked to the right.

I saw many birds jumping around on the ground in the open space on the right.

Qingyan rubbed her eyes vigorously, and looked over again, it was really a group of sparrows jumping around on the ground!
He reached out to pick up the little leopard that was crawling around on his lap, hugged it in his arms, and said with some doubts: "How did these sparrows get on the ground? We have so many people sleeping here, aren't we afraid of being caught and cooked?"

The others were also woken up and got up to look carefully. The sparrows seemed to be pecking at the ground to eat.

Everyone became more energetic in an instant, Yang Dashan's family said: "Oh! Could it be that we are eating our food? Could it be that we didn't pay attention when unloading the donkey cart yesterday and scattered the food on the ground?"

Apparently she wasn't the only one who had this idea, and everyone else got up and walked over there.

The two sisters, Lan Hua and Da Ya, ran over directly, startled a group of sparrows, but those sparrows didn't fly away, they just changed positions and continued to peck on the ground.

When I got closer, I saw that there were many locusts on the ground!

"It's locusts!" Several people exclaimed.

"How can there be locusts? There is no lack of rain this year?"

In previous years, when there was a slight drought, the locusts would come. If we say that the locusts became a plague, it would not be so, but there were many more than usual.

Seeing those sparrows pecking happily on the ground, it is obvious that there are not many locusts. Before the sun rises in the morning, because there is dew on the ground, those locusts will be more obedient and stand motionless on the leaves of grass or crops. This also corresponds to the sentence The proverb that the early bird gets the worm.

And at noon, when the dew on the ground has dried up, that is when the locusts are most active. At that time, you will see them jumping around on the ground, and they are also very difficult to catch.

Qingyan raised her eyes and looked into the distance, because it was just dawn, the sky over there had just turned red, and the sun hadn't risen from the east, so it wasn't very dazzling.

However, we can also see that there are mostly barren grasslands along the road, and there are some villages in the distance, and there are wisps of smoke from the houses.

This shows that there are people in those villages, unlike the villages on Da Ya's side, who were slaughtered.

Maybe they thought wrong before, those people were not slaughtering villages along the way to grab food, nor did they go there to grab food.

If that's the case, it's not the same to grab these roadside villages. You can see the village directly, and you can leave on the main road.

Although there is a road passing by Da Ya and the others, who knows how many villages there are?Is there food in the village?
But those people searched for it accurately, and even slaughtered several nearby villages, as if they didn't want to keep alive in the first place.

They might not have thought of this before, but now they all wear some jewelry and those rusty weapons, these things have to remind them.

Could those people have gone there just for these buried things?Is it a descendant of the person who buried things?

I went looking for these things specifically, but I couldn't find them, or I thought they were dug out by the villagers there.

If they found these things, it is possible for them to be discovered and murdered, but this thing was obviously not taken away, so this possibility is not established.

It can only be that they didn't find it at all, and when they went to inquire, they didn't find out anything, and then they were afraid of being seen as a problem, so they simply robbed food without doing anything.

It also happened to be the time when the villagers had just finished harvesting the grain and had surplus grain.