Dai Xiangen frowned, he was the pavilion chief, and it was the most headache to encounter such a thing.

If you want to do it well, you have no money and no food, and if you don't care about it, it will be terrible if something happens.

"When Dong Yong and his mother fled to our side, didn't they say that the road was strictly controlled, and most of the people who fled north were blocked back?" Speaking of fleeing, the Sun family thought of the Ge family, and the Ge family died in Puyang Town, which shows how difficult it is to escape all the way.

And this is exactly what Gu Xiaomin was worried about, he looked at Dai Xiangen who was frowning and Sun who was puzzled, and finally set his eyes on Dai Shuanglin beside Sun, probably realizing the strictness of the matter, the little girl's brows were tied with a beautiful knot, and her full and ruddy lower lip was constantly ravaged back and forth by the white fangs.

Gu Xiaomin, who was full of heat, lowered his eyes and didn't dare to look at it anymore, pursed his lips and calmed down: "I can't control the northern escape, I think it's a failure of the southern expedition, I'm afraid it's ......" It's not just a failure.

"How is that possible? That's the emperor's personal expedition! Dai Xiangen was shocked, and went to the county government to do business, he knew more or less about this matter than others, so he couldn't believe that their wise and martial emperor would lose the battle.

"The emperor's personal conquest?" Gu Xiaomin smiled bitterly, no one thought that it was precisely because the emperor was in it that more unfavorable factors would be added to this war, as the saying goes, the thief will capture the king first, as long as the two countries join forces to find a way to catch Emperor Jingchu, then the Qi country will become the meat on the chopping block of the two countries in a short period of time, and let others slaughter it.

Of course, this is just Gu Xiaomin's idle thoughts, in fact, it is not easy to capture the emperor of a country alive, there is no internal response to the external cooperation, it can be said that it is difficult to ascend to the sky, because the fear of death of the emperor is a historical reference, even if Emperor Jing Chu, who dares to conquer in person, must have done a good job of various protective measures.

Dai Shuanglin, who had bitten her lip for a long time, saw the wry smile, pursed her lips slightly and reminded: "The top priority is to find out where those people are going...... "If it's just passing by, then don't worry about it."

"Yes, definitely just passing through. What if we all stay here? That's a man, who wants to eat! "Sun's woman is in a hurry, at this time when the green and yellow are not connected, the people in Puyang Town who have cut off food do not know how many, in previous years, they could live by buying or exchanging, but this year, if you want to buy it, there is nowhere to buy.

When it comes to eating, Gu Xiaomin is obviously out of options, the Gu family can't make it his turn, and his father has begun to take advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune.

The county grain store was closed and reopened, the price of grain has been high, the relatives and people of the same clan who borrowed grain from the house before the year did not know how many, his father Gu Dabao refused to borrow, but he couldn't stand being talked about, so he came up with the method of "borrowing one to repay two", initially to prevent others from coming to the house to borrow grain, but after a year he found that even the method of "borrowing one and returning two" could not stop those people's heart to borrow food.

Someone came to Dai's house to borrow food without speaking, and Sun said that there was not much food left in the family, and there were still two houses to support.

That person was not close to the Dai family in the past, and he never said a word, and finding the Dai family can only be said to be really helpless, and looking at her yellow and thin appearance, it is pitiful, and the Sun family has a hard time.

The man may have seen Sun's hesitation, and said fiercely: "Sister-in-law Dai, I heard that I need an IOU to go to the Gu family to borrow grain, why don't I also give you an IOU?" Don't worry, I understand the rules of borrowing one and repaying two, and I will send it to you immediately when the wheat is harvested at home, do you think this will be successful? ”

The two stood in the courtyard to talk about things, and the woman didn't know that Gu Xiaomin was in the house, so she took the Gu family as an example and hoped that Sun would be willing to lend her food.

Sun hesitated when she heard this, although Chen told her about borrowing one and repaying two, she was still afraid that the family would come to borrow grain.

The woman kept begging, and finally told the fact that the Gu family asked to "borrow one and repay three", Gu Xiaomin blushed when he heard it, and lowered his head slightly embarrassed.

Dai Shuanglin was listening attentively to the words of the woman outside, and she didn't notice Gu Xiaomin's embarrassment, which made Gu Xiaomin breathe a sigh of relief.

In the courtyard, Sun finally did not resist the woman's pleading, and promised to lend her twenty catties of Shu millet, as for what the woman said about borrowing one to repay three, borrowing one to repay two is ruthless enough in Sun's eyes, if it is three, it will be a clear robbery.

Sun, who had Gu Dabao despised in his heart, whispered to the woman to wait until it was dark before coming to get food, so as not to be looked at.

Seeing that the woman left with tears in her eyes, the whole room sighed, this is still a local family, where are those refugees going to get food?

Just now that he heard what the woman said, "borrow one to pay back three", Gu Xiaomin couldn't sit still any longer, and after talking to Dai Xiangen and Sun, he got up and went home to find his father.

It was freezing and frosty at night.

The refugees arrived only one day later than Gu Xiaomin.

When dragging the family to Puyang Town, not to mention the unkempt and ragged clothes, just looking at the chilblains on the hands and faces made people unbearable.

In these years, the population mobility is very small, and the chance of seeing people thousands of miles away in the countryside is basically zero, unless the world is in turmoil.

Hearing that there were refugees in the town, all the young and old in Puyang Town ran out to see the excitement, and Dai Shuanglin also led Brother Xian out to watch.

The group of people in front of them who were so dirty that they couldn't distinguish between men and women really shocked everyone, when Ge Dongyong's mother and son fled here, they were much better than these people in front of them.

"Mom, you're so hungry...... three or four-year-old child snuggled up to the old man with his fingers in his mouth, and the villain was so thin that he had only a pair of big eyes.

The white-haired old woman, who was not much better than the child, could not hide her sadness in her cloudy eyes, and said tentatively to the people who surrounded them and watched: "Okay, okay, give the stutter, poor child hasn't eaten for a day......"

As the old woman slowly stretched out her black hand covered with chilblains, the crowd retreated in unison, but the pain in the old woman's eyes was even worse, but she did not give up begging, and continued to reach out to everyone to plead, because only in this way could her granddaughter live.

The old woman did this, and the others also got up and begged everyone to give them a bite to eat, but none of these outstretched hands were intact, either red and swollen or suppurated, and the crowd was so frightened that they began to retreat rapidly.

Dai Shuanglin in the crowd only felt that her throat was blocked by something, and even it became difficult to breathe, after living for thirteen years, she felt that Puyang Town was small and poor, but she didn't expect that Puyang Town, which was small and poor, was a redemptive existence in the eyes of these people.

"Brother, sister, be merciful......" The crowd retreated, leaving Dai Shuanglin and Brother Xian standing in place, surrounded by people in an instant.

Dai Shuanglin was stunned by the appearance of these people in front of him, but Brother Xian couldn't leave Dai Shuanglin and walk away alone.

"Now you can find the right person, it's the brother and sister of the pavilion chief's family, their family has food, hurry up and ask for it......" The people of the Li family in the crowd began to coax, and Brother Xian was so frightened by the pair of red, swollen and black hands that he trembled, tightly clamped Dai Shuanglin's hands, and his teeth kept hitting and trembling: "Second ...... Sister...... How...... What to do? ”