I became an exiled convict after we got married

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On the way to the west, Wan Jinlan and Xiao Feng learned from the refugees that King Guangling had been captured by King Su, as well as the rumors that the emperor was not the son of the former emperor or the empress dowager's own son, and that he was not in the right position.

Most of the refugees were pale and emaciated from hunger, and they wore scantily clad clothes in the cold winter months.

People like Wan Jinlan and Xiao Feng, who wore thick clothes and had two taels of flesh on their cheeks, were snatched away. If they didn't know martial arts, they would have been drowned in the crowd and snatched away.

Along the way to the west, there are more and more refugees, some of whom are infected.

The towns along the way did not accept refugees, and soldiers were sent to expel them to prevent the epidemic from spreading into the city.

The refugees had nowhere to go, and many died on the road in the winter.

At this time, Wan Jinlan and Xiao Feng were blocked by two hungry, skinny and half-grown children on the Yellow Earth Road.

"I beg you to save my mother."

The two children knelt in front of them, crying with snot and tears, frostbite on their hands and faces, wearing tattered straw sandals, and their black toes were not only swollen, but also festered and pus-flowing.

In the withered grass in front of him, there was a black and thin man with a pale complexion and his eyes closed.

As for the children's mother, she was lying beside her dying.

Both Wan Jinlan and Xiao Feng were covered with veils.

This family of four is not the first time the two have met, but before, the father of the children was still alive.

It was also because of giving dry biscuits to the two children, and being seen by other refugees, the two of them were almost robbed.

"I beg you, take my two children with you in the future, and they will make you cows and horses as slaves and handmaids, as long as you stutter."

The woman's mother's face was red to purple, her thin cheekbones protruded, and her eye sockets were deep-set, but there were prayers and hopes in her eyes.

The two children were crying and wiping away their tears.

Xiao Feng sighed: "There are doctors in the villages and towns behind, I'll go and invite them."

Wan Jinlan didn't speak, she felt that the doctor might not be able to invite him.

If it is an epidemic, asking a doctor is tantamount to killing someone, and doctors are also afraid of death.

The two children cried and kowtowed, "Thank you benefactor."

Xiao Feng rode back on the horse, while Wan Jinlan sat on a stone beside her, took out three pancakes from the bundle, and handed them to the little girl, letting the three of them share the food.

"After eating, find a place to dig a hole, bury your father, and let him rest in peace."

Wan Jinlan felt that her heart had hardened a lot. Although she sympathized with the two children who had lost their father and were displaced, she could calmly look at the cold corpse.

The child's mother was reluctant to eat, and wanted to leave the pancakes to the two children.

Wan Jinlan said: "Eat it, I still have this, if you are gone, you will not see what kind of life the two of them will live in the future."

"Your own child, of course you have to watch it grow up by yourself."

Along the way, those who died of starvation, disease, or freezing, in Wan Jinlan's view, lack of food is the most important thing. A minor illness can lead to a serious illness, and a serious illness can drag people to death.

Seeing the mother and son eating pancakes and drinking cold water with tears in their eyes, Wan Jinlan looked away.

She thought she was very unlucky. She lived a life of gold and jade since she was a child. After she got married, she was unlucky and went into exile all the way. Compared with these refugees, she seemed to be lucky.

Voices came from the other side of the yellow earth, Wan Jinlan raised his eyes and saw a group of ragged refugees walking towards this side, supporting each other.

Wan Jinlan said, "Hurry up and swallow the pancake."

The two children opened their eyes wide, and they didn't care about the tears. They swallowed the pancakes in a few mouthfuls, and the mother of the children did the same, chewing voraciously.

Wan Jinlan held the long knife in his hand, propped it on the ground, and looked sharply at the group of refugees.

The refugees saw her look like "I opened this road" and were frightened by the red birthmark on her face. They walked into the withered grass on the side of the road and avoided her.

Wan Jinlan had to do the same, she would rather be a bully than be robbed.

Although I have never seen cannibalism with my own eyes, I have heard of it.

"Aunt, Uncle Zhang is dead?"

The mother of the two children, Feng Guihua, looked up into the crowd and saw Li Dazhuang, who was from the same village.

"Da Zhuang, where are your parents?" Feng Guihua looked around but did not see Li Dazhuang's parents.

Li Dazhuang stopped, "My father went to catch fish in the glacier and fell and died of freezing, and my mother died of illness on the way."

"Aunt, do you want to go with me? Let's go to the border town. I heard that the border town is currently recruiting troops. Once you enter the barracks, you will have a place to stay and food."

Hope appeared in Li Dazhuang's numb eyes.Although they had hope, they knew that because of their illness, they might not even be asked to serve in the army.

Wan Jinlan observed this group of refugees, and found that there were old and young, not all young and middle-aged. When Li Dazhuang invited a woman and child who seemed to be seriously ill to go to the border town together, the group of people did not speak out against the three people. burden.

Wan Jinlan nodded secretly in her heart, a person's character is best revealed when the adversity is low.

Feng Guihua glanced at Wan Jinlan and asked, "Benefactor, where are you going?"

Immediately, Li Dazhuang heard the birthmark brother dressed in men's clothing speak a woman's voice.

"You will follow me in the future, and I will take care of your food and lodging. From now on, you will obey my orders. If you want, you can come to my side."

Li Dazhuang and the others looked at her.

Wan Jinlan stood up on the stone with a knife in her hand, and looked at everyone.

Li Dazhuang was the first to speak out: "You little lady, what can you do in the future, what do you need us to do?"

Wan Jinlan raised her eyebrows: "I can let you have enough food, clothing and warmth to live well. As for what to do in the future, we will talk about it after you settle down."

Wan Jinlan took out all the pancakes in the bag and distributed one to each of them.

The biscuits here in Liangzhou are dry, hard, and thick. It takes a lot of effort to chew, but they are very easy to store. In this kind of weather, they won't go bad after half a month.

Wan Jinlan herself chewed a dry biscuit with water.

This group of refugees is headed by Li Dazhuang.

After chewing a piece of cake, Li Dazhuang asked, "Where shall we stay at night?"

Wan Jinlan said: "First help Xiaohua and Tieniu to bury the person, and when my husband brings the doctor back, I will show you all."

Wan Jinlan dug the hole first, and Li Dazhuang and several young men also came to help.

After the person was buried, Xiaohua brother Tieniu knelt and cried in front of the grave, Xiao Feng really brought a doctor.

The doctor in common clothes covered his mouth and nose tightly. He was a middle-aged man in his 40s. After asking about Feng Guihua's situation and looking at it from a distance, he frowned and said, "I prescribed medicine, but with your current situation The conditions can only be resigned to fate."

The doctor didn't say what the disease was, but Xiao Feng explained it. If it's a cold, there's no need to say it and cause panic.

The doctor didn't have close contact with Feng Guihua at all, and he could roughly confirm the illness after asking about it.

"I also trouble you to show them the same. The consultation fee will be doubled."

It cost Xiao Feng ten taels of silver to invite people here.

Ten taels of silver can be used by ordinary people for three to five years, which is already a lot.

Doctor Li Fugui saw that this group of people looked healthy despite being extremely thin, so he began to diagnose them with all his heart for the sake of money.

(End of this chapter)