On the Difficulties of Escape in Ancient Times

Chapter 23 Military Disaster
  Mrs. Wu, who had just finished washing the dishes, casually wiped her wet hands on the hem of her clothes. When she walked over, she heard her youngest son's words. She stepped forward angrily and grabbed his ears and scolded him: "You little bastard, for Even if you don’t want your parents to eat, my love for you will be in vain.”

"Ouch, it hurts," Xiao Sanlang cleverly asked for help from Mrs. Xiao: "Grandma, my aunt, help me, my mother hit me again."

Not to mention, the atmosphere got much better when Xiao Sanlang made such a fuss.

After a while, Xiao Youfu and the others trotted back and greeted solemnly: "The weather is bad, hurry up and hurry up!"

After saying that, he didn't even have time to eat the lunch specially left for them, so he packed up, drove the mule cart and started on his way again.

Xiao Xiao noticed that he did not take the official route this time, but took another trail.

Although the official road is also a loess road, it is well compacted and not as bumpy as a trail.

Xiao Xiao simply opened the rough gray curtain, stuck his head out and asked Xiao Youfu, who was sitting on the shaft of the carriage driving the carriage: "Dad, what happened?"

Xiao Youfu wiped the cold sweat from his face, hesitated for a while, and then said with difficulty: "Fortunately, we didn't go in directly..."

When he was approaching the town, he felt sick to his stomach, so he asked them to wait by the side while he found a secluded place to squat.

Unexpectedly, I accidentally saw a few people arguing. One of them said that Huining County was now taken over by the generals and troops of King Cheng. If they went in, they would never return.

Now not only King Annan is recruiting troops from everywhere, but also King Cheng of Sanxiang secretly crosses the border and asks his subordinates to come here to recruit troops and buy horses, and also search for money and food.

Knowing that the people are now fleeing at home, they simply let people ambush them on the official road.

People who fled at home must have brought all their belongings with them. If they were caught, it would be a loss of both human and financial resources.

If Xiao Youfu didn't have a tired family, then maybe he would really like to be a soldier so that he could make ends meet. Maybe with his own skills, he could still be a member of a hundred households?
  But now that there are seniors and juniors, he doesn't want to be captured and become a soldier.

What's more, in order to reward the soldiers, there are red tents in the camp.

He glanced at his little daughter. Even though she was wearing a faded gray shirt that Da Lang had patched before, she still had a fair complexion and delicate features: "Don't be lazy, ask your sisters to get out of the car and run for a while." .”

He was very happy when he saw that his wife and daughter could not even tan.

Now he would rather they were all tanned and not outstanding in appearance, so that he could feel at ease.

Xiao Xiao silently looked at the big sun hanging in the middle, then retracted his head and lowered the car curtain, pretending that he didn't hear what he said.

It was the hottest time of the day, it had to be at least 30 degrees Celsius. How worried did she have to be to get out of the car and run?

Besides, it was inconvenient to take a bath now that she was out, and it was even more inconvenient to wash her hair. She really didn't want to be covered in sweat.

It is more appropriate to exercise in the morning and evening.

Inside, Ms. Liu and her two daughters kept their ears open to listen to what they were saying. Seeing Xiao Xiao shrinking back, Xiao Lian couldn't help but find fault: "Didn't you hear what dad said? Why don't you get down quickly?"

Xiao Xiaocai was not afraid of her. Instead, he took her hand and showed no sign of weakness: "Dad also said that I asked you, second sister, to run with me?"

"Okay, let's take a good rest now. When it gets cooler, let's go for a walk and pick some wild vegetables." Xiao Xiu is used to the two sisters below, and they quarrel with each other dozens of times every day.

She went from nervous at the beginning to indifferent now.

No, it should be said that now I can watch the excitement calmly.

Xiao Xiao came close to Mrs. Liu and asked in a low voice: "Mom, will dad get lost?"

Mrs. Liu was also worried: "Your father has never traveled far. He has a long mouth under his nose, so we can only ask along the way."

Nowadays, apart from official roads, there are not many major roads, but small roads intersect with each other.

However, since they had horse-drawn and mule-drawn carriages, they could only take the main road.

This time, Xiao Youfu didn't even care about feeling sorry for the mule. He even whipped the mule a few times and forced the mule to run away for more than two hours. He still couldn't get to the village or the store. He finally saw a small river and finally got there. Stopped to prepare for dinner and spend the night. This was also the first time that he took the lead on the road. When they stopped, the three cars behind them were still a long way away from them?
  Xiao Youfu first unloaded the mule cart and took the mule to the river to drink water and eat grass.

Mrs. Liu took the opportunity and found a secluded place with her daughters to solve the three urgent needs. Then she carried a bamboo basket and started looking for wild vegetables. By the way, she checked to see if there was any danger in the place where she was going to stay for the night.

Fortunately the sun sets late in the summer.

Even though it was approaching the end of the Youshi period, the sun still stubbornly left behind its afterglow.

Cars and horses from behind also arrived one after another. Some were cutting grass and chopping firewood, some were lighting fires and cooking pots, and some were chatting together.

Xiao Xiao also took the opportunity to go over and listen to what his father and Mr. Wu were talking about.

"I'm not familiar with the roads here either!" Xiao Youfu was very bachelor: "Now we can't leave the official road, so we can only go wherever we go."

Mr. Wu, who was born with a three-pointed smile, could not hide his sadness at this moment: "I went to Jiangsu and Zhejiang more than ten years ago, but I took the official route."

"Now we can only walk and inquire along the way."

Mr. Xiao asked him: "Supposedly, we have been walking for six days, so we should be almost in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, right?"

Mr. Wu was panicking and said that he had only walked once more than ten years ago. Now he was not sure about the distance, but he could only touch his chin and pretend to be calm: "We have walked about half of the way, right? "

Xiao Yougui, who had been silent until now, finally spoke: "If we're only halfway there, if there's no place to buy rice, then our family may not have enough food, and the grains for the mules will be gone."

Now even Mr. Wu is worried.

He originally thought that he had brought five to six hundred kilograms of grain, six hams, and some bacon, which would be enough to chew along the way.

Therefore, I was very willing at first. I not only gave some to the Xiao family, but also gave some to the fake officials at the inn.

Of course, the food and bacon became cheaper for the Xiao family later on.

In addition, there is food for the nine members of their own family, and the mules and horses are also well fed, so they also consume twenty or thirty kilograms of food every day.

So now they only have about two hundred kilograms of grain.

The road ahead is long now, and he is panicking.

But no matter what, he didn't dare to offend the Xiao family at this moment, fearing that if he wasn't generous, they would simply rob him.

Moreover, this desolate and uninhabited place saved them from worrying about how to destroy the corpses and eliminate traces.

Therefore, Mr. Wu immediately said with a serious face: "Thanks to your protection along the way, we can be safe. If you don't have enough food, just come to us to get it."

"Even if we finish eating, let's think of something else."

"Maybe next time I can pass by a normal town?"

"If you are polite to me, you don't regard me as a brother."

　Thank you for your support. There is only one chapter per day before it is put on the shelves. I will try my best to update it after it is put on the shelves.

　　Please forgive me for my late reply.

　　I bought a fund-raising house in a small county town more than ten years ago. Now I start making noodles downstairs at four o'clock in the morning. The noise is too loud and affects my family's sleep, so I can only go to the community to ask for help.

　　Alas, I don’t know when it will be resolved!

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