Chapter 266: Drought
After listening to Li Yunbao's inquiry, Team Leader Chen sighed again, and said in a somewhat helpless tone: "Alas! Presumably you also heard it just now, Mrs. Li, Boss Lin insisted on taking the shortcut of Jinan Mansion and asked us to hurry back, this caravan belongs to the Lin family after all, and my little team leader is helpless many times! Li Niangzi, our caravan will definitely continue to cross the Yellow River here, but I just hope to rush back to Luzhou through Jinan Mansion as soon as possible when there are not many displaced people and there are no large numbers of people gathered to flee! If it drags on any longer, it will only get worse!"
After getting the exact answer of Team Leader Chen, Li Yunbao had the bottom in her heart, since she was going to take a dangerous road, then she had to plan well!
Taking advantage of the fact that the convoy had not yet crossed the river, she spent a lot of effort and money to collect a lot of various intelligence information on the other side of the river, hoping that by summarizing these news and then making an estimate, she would have a plan, and she would not be blind when things came to an end in the future!
First of all, just in case, she found Leader Chen again and asked him how to go on some roads, with the help of Leader Chen, Li Yunbao summed up and drew a general map of Jinan Mansion, marking a lot of routes, with this map Li Yunbao even if she got separated from the caravan, she could know how to move forward. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
After crossing the Yellow River, the convoy went faster this time, and when Li Yunbao got off the boat, he saw a lot of displaced people, who dragged their families and all their belongings, and crowded at the ferry to cross the river, probably trying to escape to the north to earn a living.
It's just that there are a lot of people on the side of the Yellow River, so you can imagine the displaced people along the way!
Considering that Li Yunbao had two children, in order to prevent the displaced people from having bad intentions, he specially arranged for Li Yunbao's mule cart to follow Lin Jiayun's carriage and walk in the middle of the convoy.
From the beginning of crossing the Yellow River, Li Yunbao saw that the land on this side slowly became larger as the convoy moved forward, and the surrounding flowers and trees gradually became a little green from the beginning, and then only the bare poles remained.
Along the way, there were no more cicadas and birds that were heard for the longest time in summer, and only the constant flow of homeless people passed by the convoy!
Now the convoy has also begun to be impetuous and nervous, not to mention people every day, even the water that livestock drink has begun to be restricted, and now it is not easy to find water, the most terrible thing is that they dare not eat in broad daylight, for fear that this will provoke the homeless people to rob, which also makes Li Yunbao's heart nervous.
She knew that it was not good for this kind of development, and if this backlog reached a critical point, a bad situation would definitely explode.
She is now highly nervous every day, even more nervous than the last time she guarded the household, because she knows that now she has no foreign aid, no friends standing behind her to support and help her, and even if it is Chen Ling and Chen Shunshun, Li Yunbao doesn't dare to believe it completely, after all, people are selfish when people are separated from their stomachs, and it is instinct to protect themselves first in danger!
Li Yunbao can't pin her hopes on others, she has long made it clear to Brother An about the severity of the current situation, and explained to him that if there is an accident, she will definitely take him and her younger brother into the space, and in order to avoid people's eyes, Li Yunbao even found a doll collected by the original owner, which is very realistic and the size is as big as Kang Ge'er, Li Yunbao is ready to send the child into the space if there is an accident, and she uses this doll instead of the child.
Because of the lack of water, everyone's lips are now very chapped, although Li Yunbao Niang is not short of water, but it can't be too obvious, she thought of an idea to grind glutinous rice into powder and boil it into a paste and wipe it on her lips, after drying, there will be a layer of shell on the skin of the mouth, as long as you don't stare carefully, you can't find the abnormality.
Now they don't dare to live outside the city at night, of course, they don't dare to sleep in the wild, everyone can delay some time and trouble, and they go into the city every day to find an inn to rest.
All the counties in Jinan Prefecture are under martial law, and the displaced people are blocked outside the city gate and are not allowed to enter, and every time you enter the city, you can always see a lot of displaced people gathered outside the city gate, and they will look at the convoy with a kind of envy, jealousy, and fierce eyes, which are very complicated and scary.
This also led to a lot of displaced people crowding into various towns, because most of the towns did not have a city gate to protect the displaced people to enter, which also led to the small streets of the town where displaced people can be seen everywhere, and many shops and shops are closed, and the residents of the town are also closed.
What touched Li Yunbao the most was that as he gradually walked into the disaster-stricken area, the price of things soared very much, not only the price of food increased, but even the price of the guest house at night increased, and the store had an attitude that you can't live in, and what was even more cheating was that you had to spend money to buy water.
The speed of the convoy in Jinan began to slow down, and Li Yunbao also felt that life was difficult. It has been more than ten days since they crossed the Yellow River before they reached the territory of Laishi County.
From here, however, the convoy entered the hardest-hit area, and the speed of the convoy slowed down again due to the increasing number of displaced people fleeing the country.
On this day, Li Yunbao was nesting in the carriage, and the mule cart that was moving suddenly stopped, and Chen Shunshun, who was rushing outside, hurriedly patted Li Yunbao's door.
"Sister Li, the situation is not right."
Li Yunbao could hear that Chen Shunshun's voice was anxious and a little scared.
Li Yunbao hurriedly opened the car door, and as far as he could see, the convoy was stopping on the road at this moment, and on both sides of the road were large fields with cracked openings, and there were not even crop poles in the fields, which showed how ferocious the locusts were in the first place.
Separated by about 20 meters on both sides of the convoy, many homeless people gradually outflanked them like hungry wolves, and Li Yunbao only had time to look at it before he immediately explained to Chen Shunshun.
"Shunshun, you help me stay outside for a while, I'll go in and bring the child down, if something is wrong, we will run!"
After speaking, he didn't wait for Shunshun to answer, he turned around and went back to the carriage, the current situation The mule cart was in the middle of the convoy, and it was caught in it and couldn't move, there was no way to retreat, Li Yunbao couldn't care about the frustration in his heart, and now he just wanted to save the child first.
After closing the door, she quickly put the two children into the space, put away the things in the carriage without pulling them away, took out the fake doll that had been prepared long ago, put it on her chest and wrapped it in a cloak, picked up the basket and found a piece of cloth to cover it, held a dagger in one hand and an umbrella in the other, and quickly opened the car door and went down.
Li Yunbao's movements were very fast, and it didn't take much effort to do these things well, when Chen Shunshun saw Li Yunbao coming out and didn't see Brother An, he was still very puzzled and anxiously asked, "Sister Li, where is Brother An?"
"In the back basket, his little arms and legs can't run fast, and I carry him on my back."
Li Yunbao's eyes looked at the situation around him tightly, and he didn't want to answer Chen Shunshun's question.