My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 840 Escape (Part )

In a wildfire in a deserted village, a group of yellow-faced and hungry victims gathered around the fire, looking helplessly at the wild vegetables cooked in the iron pot. In fact, they were wild vegetables, mainly some grass roots and bark, and they needed to be cooked for a while before they could be chewed.

Gouzi looked at the things in the pot and smiled bitterly to himself. He had never eaten these things since he went to Dahan. Even if he went out to sea for a month or two, he could replenish his supplies as long as he arrived at the port, and there was never a shortage of food. .

But he didn't expect that this time when he went home to visit relatives, he would encounter such a natural disaster. Now he can only eat grass roots and bark to satisfy his hunger. He remembers that the last time he ate these things was when he encountered a drought when he was thirteen, and the whole village had to dig in the mountains. Eat wild vegetables to satisfy your hunger.

But then I thought about it, and Gouzi was glad that he was back. Otherwise, without him to lead the way, these villagers would just follow the ranks of the victims, and they would not know the way to immigrate to Dahan.

"Goooooooo~"

The wild vegetable paste in the pot finally boiled, and the people around were holding broken bowls and earthenware pots in their hands, staring at the steaming cauldron eagerly, and kept swallowing their saliva. After all, at this time, As long as it can fill your stomach, you can eat even rocks and dirt.

But at this moment, Gouzi suddenly stood up and saw two glass bottles from his luggage, containing red meat pieces. They were two bottles of canned meat.

Seeing the two meat cans Gouzi took out, the eyes of everyone around him turned green. When Gouzi returned to the village to visit relatives with gifts, he gave each family a few cans to try, so they all knew cans, but they were just canned food. I finished eating it not long after I escaped, but I didn’t expect that Gouzi still had two bottles left.

"Gouzi, these two cans are reserved for life-saving purposes. Let's not eat them."

Unexpectedly, Uncle Qi suddenly spoke at this time. He knew that the dog couldn't bear to eat these two cans, so he kept them to prepare life-saving supplies. After all, sometimes when a person is about to starve to death, eating some meat can really save a life. .

"It's okay. We are only a few dozen miles away from Qingzhou. Let's eat something good today and walk faster tomorrow. Maybe we can reach Qingzhou City in the evening. As long as we get to the city, we won't be afraid of running out of food!"

Gouzi smiled and shook his head. After that, he opened the can and poured it all into the big pot.

When the meaty meat from the can is put into the pot, the wild vegetables seem to become delicious all of a sudden. A hungry person's sense of smell is particularly sensitive, and the smell of meat emanating from the pot makes people salivate.

After finally waiting until the paste was cooked, no one dared to step forward to grab it. After all, compared to other disaster victims, these hundreds of people were from the same village and the same clan. Even at this time, people's hearts were still intact.

As the backbone of these people, Gouzi was also responsible for distributing the food. He deliberately distributed the only pieces of meat in the pot to the elderly and wounded in the team, such as Uncle Qi, but most of these people were reluctant to eat meat. , but took the meat out of the bowl and stuffed it into his child's mouth.

Gouzi himself also drank a bowl of wild vegetable paste. Although there was not much food, at least after one bowl, he felt that his whole body was warm and his limbs had strength.

Taking advantage of the lie to fill his stomach, the dog found a room, opened the bedding and got in. After a while, he began to purr. Before dawn the next day, the dog woke up hungry again. The little food he ate last night was not very hungry at all. There was no breakfast. After all, the last bit of food had been eaten yesterday, so the dog was just being burned. Several pots of hot water were brought in, and each of them filled a few bowls of water to keep them full.

Drinking hot water is also strongly requested by Gouzi, because he heard someone in Dahan say that great epidemics after major disasters are caused by drinking unclean water, and as long as you drink boiled water, you can prevent many diseases. Disease.

After the sun rose, Gouzi and his party took their luggage and left the deserted village with their families. The dozens of miles of road were not far in normal times, but for Gouzi, who was hungry and took the old man with him, For the victims, children and women, it is a very difficult journey.

But in the afternoon, when Gouzi and the others were almost unable to walk, Qingzhou City finally appeared on the horizon, which cheered everyone up and made their steps a little brisker.

As Qingzhou City approaches, there are more and more victims on the road, especially on the official road, where they are all victims with their families, and there are even corpses of people who died of starvation on the roadside.

Gouzi looked at more and more victims around him, and his heart sank. Previously, in order to encourage the villagers, he told them that they would have food and drink when they entered Qingzhou, mainly because there were people in Qingzhou who specialized in immigration business.

After all, Laizhou is the earliest and largest immigration port in the Ming Dynasty. Many immigrants from the north left the Ming Dynasty through Laizhou. Qingzhou is relatively close to Laizhou and has resettled disaster victims. Therefore, there are many businessmen in Qingzhou doing immigration business.

It can be said that as long as you want to immigrate, come to Qingzhou and find these businessmen, and they will help you arrange your trip and provide food and drink. Of course, the final cost must be paid by the big man.

But now that there are so many victims, no matter how rich the immigrant businessmen are, they may not have enough food to feed the victims. Therefore, Gouzi is also worried that the situation in the city will change, and if there is no one to help them immigrate, People, that would be terrible.

However, they were worried, so Gouzi asked everyone to hurry up. After all, it was better to go to the city to check the situation. If the immigrant businessmen were still there, then they would have much less worry, and they would just have to wait to go to Dahan. .

Even if the situation changes, Gouzi has other ways. For example, he still hides some big man's banknotes in the soles of his shoes. These banknotes can also be spent in the Ming Dynasty. Before the escape, there was no place to spend the money, but after entering Qingzhou City, it should be You can buy some food.

As long as they have food, they can continue on their way to Laizhou. Gouzi has an acquaintance at Laizhou Port. Then he can use the acquaintance relationship to get on the boat to Guangzhou, and his boat is docked in Guangzhou. It can be said that as long as he reaches Guangzhou, He can let his fellow villagers return to Han Dynasty on his own ship.

In the evening, Gouzi and his party finally arrived at the gate of Qingzhou City. They saw that the victims were already crowded together, but the gate of Qingzhou City was tightly closed, obviously not allowing the victims to enter the city.

Seeing this situation, Gouzi also frowned. They had actually encountered this situation when they passed by other towns before. After all, for those towns, if the victims entered the city, it would definitely cause chaos in the city. Just close the city gate and keep out all the victims.

Unexpectedly, Qingzhou was like this, which made Gouzi suddenly worried. If he couldn't enter the city, all his previous plans would be in vain.

(End of this chapter)