On the road to escape famine, others ate vegetables but I ate meat

Chapter 19 Want to eat meat? Then think about it

They must not be infected with this kind of contagious thing, otherwise it will cost them their lives.

"What should we do?" Gu Xue was a little scared as she listened to the conversation between the two. "We are going to Nanzhou, and there must be many people going there. We will meet people like this on the way. If we get infected, will there be no hope for us?"

Gu Xue’s worries are not without reason.

Liu looked at the rice in the pot. They could still have two meals now. When they got to the next place, they would have to find water.

"Will this disease affect the water?"

This is what Liu was worried about.

We absolutely cannot live without water. It is better not to pollute the water with such contagious substances. Now there is drought and war, and people are living in misery everywhere. If there is no water, how can they survive?

Gu Yan: “It’s hard to say.”

Soon, their meals were ready. Each person had a bowl of rice mixed with barbecued meat. This meal was the best among all the refugees.

The Xu family was also making a fire and cooking, but they didn't have much food at the moment.

"Sir, do you want to cook meat tonight?"

They were in a bit of a mess, but it was late and it was difficult for them to find water to clean themselves up, so they could only cut off the dirty parts made by the refugees and throw them away.

Xu Yi glanced at the family of four over there and asked, "How much meat do we have left?"

Butler Liu answered truthfully: "Sir, less than 20 kilograms."

"Then let's cook five pounds of meat." Xu Yi thought about it and decided that the remaining meat could be eaten every two days and would be enough to last until the next county.

Only the masters of the Xu family could eat the five pounds of meat. The maids and followers who served them could only eat vegetable steamed buns.

The illegitimate concubine Xu's family could only eat a few bites of meat, and the rest went into the mouths of Xu Yi and Xu Rou.

After dinner, everyone started to go to sleep.

Nothing happened all night.

After breakfast, Lan Yue and the others set out on their journey immediately.

"God is unfair!"

“Why are we, the common people, the ones who suffer?!”

"The way of heaven is unfair!"

Along the way, Lan Yue and his friends encountered many people cursing on the roadside, and also many people who died on the road.

Along the way, they witnessed too many joys and sorrows, but Lan Yue didn't feel much in her heart.

Anyway, at the end of the world, she had experienced much more than what she was experiencing now, and her heart had become numb.

"Not many people here are infected with that thing." Liu observed the people around her and found that no one looked unwell or was in poor health.

Gu Xue took a glance and was still very nervous. Even if there was no infection now, who knew if there would be an incubation period?

Gu Yan looked indifferent and said, "If you can stay away from these people, you should."

The people who were resting on the roadside glanced in the direction of Lan Yue and the others. They looked really energetic.

Unlike them, with sallow complexion and exhausted, they sat on the roadside to rest.

Except for a little dirt on Lan Yue and the others' faces, their clothes were not seriously dirty. It can also be seen that their complexions were rosy and healthy.

Behind Lan Yue and his group, there was also a group of people from the Xu family, as well as Li Shengge and his family. After Lan Yue and his group walked for a while, they found a place to put down their things and rest.

"We'll have to walk for another day to get to the county town, right?"

Lan Yue and his friends didn't have a map, so they traveled based on their sense of direction, and they didn't know if they were going in the right direction.

"I don't know. Let's take it one step at a time." Gu Yan shook his head and took out some dry food. "As long as there are people on the road, we can't go wrong. When we get to the next county, we'll see if we can get someone to give us a route map."

"We have only been walking for several days. It will take at least until the New Year before we can reach Nanzhou?" Liu took a bite of the cake. If no one had robbed them before, they could still take a horse-drawn carriage, which would be much faster than it is now.

"Ouch, it itches me so much!"

"Brother, when are we going to get to the next place? It's so hot that I'm going to get prickly heat."

Lan Yue glanced in the direction of the Xu family. With her sharp eyesight, she immediately noticed that something was wrong with those people.

Among the Xu family group, many people were scratching their necks or arms.

"Let's rest for a few minutes after eating and then continue on our journey. Stay away from those people." Lan Yue drank several sips of water and her stomach was barely 50% full, but she didn't eat too much, in order to avoid feeling uncomfortable in her stomach while traveling.

Gu Yan took a look and knew what Lan Yue meant.

It seems that those people were infected.

I just didn't expect that thing to be so powerful that I could get infected just by touching it a few times.

Liu and Gu Xue were not interested in those people either, they just listened to whatever Lan Yue said.

Li Sheng's family lived far from the Xu family, and they wanted to go with Lan Yue and the others, but considering that they were not very familiar with each other, they did not rush to make friends with them, so as not to make both parties unhappy.

"Sir, they're leaving." Butler Liu, who had been secretly observing Lan Yue and the others, came to Xu Yi's side and asked, "Should we follow them?"

This family was truly extraordinary. If he had not followed the older generation of the head of the family and had not seen the world, he would not have realized that the family was so extraordinary.

Even though they were wearing coarse linen clothes, their noble aura could not be concealed. However, they did not know why the other party had fallen into the group fleeing famine.

"Well, let's get everyone packed up and follow."

Xu Yi stood up and straightened his robe. Even with the plaster on her face, he could tell that the woman with a good figure was very beautiful. If he had the chance, he would definitely go up and say a few words to her.

"Butler Liu, do you have any medicine? My arm is itchy." Xu Rou looked at her arm that was bleeding from being scratched, and the place where pimples appeared, and felt very aggrieved.

If her family had not been wronged, she would not have fallen from being the fourth lady of the high and mighty Duke of Protectorate's Mansion to an exile!
"Fourth Miss, wait a moment."

Butler Liu brought some medicine over and Xu Rou applied some. Feeling that it relieved the itching, she applied the medicine all over her arm.

Chunfeng was also very itchy, but she was just a maid and had no right to apply medicine, so she could only endure it.

There were also many people in the team who were itching all over their bodies. Those who had medicine on them helped each other to apply some. Unfortunately, the medicine could only provide temporary relief, and the itching would return after the effect of the medicine wore off. However, they have not discovered these details yet.
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After climbing over a medium-sized mountain, it was getting late and Lan Yue and the others started cooking.

After this meal, which was only the last one left, they were running out of water.

The smell of barbecue aroused the taste buds of many people, and their mouths were itching to eat it.

The people around watched them eating meat, slowly brought it into their own minds, and then took the steamed buns and ate them in silence.

"Chunfeng, go ask them if they can sell some meat to us." Xu Rou and her family didn't eat meat tonight. They only ate vegetables and egg soup. When she saw that family eating meat, she also felt greedy.

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