Gu Qi and the others looked over one by one, and sure enough, there was no figure in half of this Shahe County.

"Hey, what do you think this is?" Just when everyone was about to give up and make sure that it was an empty city, Qingquan didn't know what he had found, and suddenly shouted and called everyone to his side.

He pointed to the trailing strings of water droplets on the ground, which were still wet, and it was clear that something had just passed from here.

Gu Qi frowned, looking at those watermarks thoughtfully.

If this county is empty, then where does this water come from, you must know that where there is water, there are people, not to mention that the traces of these watermarks are so uniform with each other, at first glance, it is someone holding some utensils containing water passing here.

"Let's go, let's follow these marks and see if we can find anything."

She wanted to find someone out so much now, she wanted to know why there was not even a figure in a huge Shahe County. Is it a natural disaster? Be**? Or is it affected by some special factors that make the people here unable to survive and have to leave here with their families.

Although her ability is also very weak, since she has come here, maybe there is a kind of fate in the dark, and she really hopes to know the strange phenomenon that no one in Shahe County is located.

Fortunately, she was always favored by the goddess of fate, and several people followed this slippery mark to find it, and finally found a house in a corner in the north of Shahe County, and the house was still faintly lit with candles.

"Knock knock."

Gu Qi knocked politely on the door, and after a while, he heard a "squeak", and an old man looked at them suspiciously.

"Uncle, we are a merchant going to the capital to pass through Shahe County, and when we see that you are still with the lights on here, we will come to take a look, can you facilitate us to stay overnight?"

What she said was the truth, they were indeed passing by here, but it was not random, there was only one here, and it was impossible for them to spend the night somewhere else.

And judging from the current situation there, this old man may be the only witness who knows the situation in Shahe County.

The uncle glanced at them a few times, and finally moved his body away and motioned for them to enter.

Gu Qi was pleasantly surprised and thanked the uncle again and again, but he didn't expect the uncle to believe them in the end.

After entering the house, Gu Qi saw the old man's appearance clearly. This is an old man who is about fifty years old, and there are traces of age around the corners of his eyes, but there are more gentle and kind eyes on his face, which is already slightly old.

"Uncle, a few of us have been on the road for a day, do you have anything to eat here?"

The old man still didn't speak, but bowed slightly, and reached out to hand them a few dusty dry cakes on the stove.

Gu Qi was speechless with gratitude, distributed a few dry cakes to everyone, and was about to open his mouth to eat, but before he could eat it, he didn't have a small hand to beat it down.

"Don't eat it!" A child came out without knowing when and looked at them with indignation.

"Why aren't you allowed to eat it?" Gu Qi raised his eyes and asked, this kid seemed to be enduring something in his eyes, as if a few of them had done something very bad. Several other people were also puzzled, but when they saw the child suddenly yell, they thought there was something wrong with the cake.

Only Duanmu Jiya happily threw the cake to Gu Qi, and said with disgust: "I'll just say, there must be something wrong with such an unclean thing, I kindly remind everyone, be careful of eating bad things and diarrhea." ”

Gu Qi suppressed the anger in her heart, and asked the child without looking at her, "Good boy, can you tell Sister Sù why she can't eat it?" You see, my sister also has children here. Gu Qi pointed to Xuan'er who was sitting next to him, it seemed that because of the angle problem, the child didn't find Xuan'er, and now Gu Qi let it out, he found out, but when he saw Xuan'er again, the expression on his face also became relaxed.

The child raised his hand and rubbed the corners of his eyes, and there seemed to be unwillingness in his tone: "This cake is a month's ration left over by my grandfather and me, and now let you eat it, so what will we eat next?" ”

"What? This is your ration for a month? Gu Qi looked at the grandfather and grandson in front of him incredulously, if this was the case, then they were really guilty.

"Girl, you can eat, I have some food here, enough for our grandfather and grandson."

"But grandpa ......" The little grandson still wanted to say something, but he was patted on the head by the old man, and he had to cry aggrievedly.

Looking at the wronged child like this, Gu Qi and they were still going to eat, and they were about to comfort him, when they saw Xuan'er walk up to the child at some point, raise her sleeve and wipe his tears.

"Little brother, don't cry, Xuan'er hasn't eaten this piece yet, give it to you." As he spoke, he handed him the piece of dry bread in his hand.

Looking at the dough in front of him, the child was speechless, so he had to look down at the cake in his hand, and stuffed it back into Xuan'er's hand.

"Uncle, can you tell us why Shahe County has become what it is now?"

She was very curious, judging from the scale of this county, she really couldn't tell that this was a place that couldn't afford to feed people, why did the people here disappear, leaving only the old and the young to stay here.

"Alas......" The old man sighed, his eyes were a little distracted, as if he was recalling something, Gu Qi didn't dare to disturb, so he had to wait quietly on the side.

Finally, the old man's hoarse voice sounded.

"In the past, our Shahe County was also very rich, every family had surplus grain, and some of them could even be sold in neighboring counties. But I don't know when the crops in this field stopped growing, and some even began to die as soon as they were planted.

"Then you didn't think of a way?" She doesn't believe that people will abandon their homes lightly, and if they can't save it, she believes that most people won't leave their homes.

"I thought about it, but it didn't work." Gu Qi's idea seems to have been verified, and the problem here is indeed very strict: "At that time, the county magistrate of Shahe County also thought of a lot of ways, so that in addition to drinking water and irrigation, even the wizard prayed for rain, but it still had no effect, the kind of crops in the field still damn death, and in the end, even people began to get sick, everyone felt that a big disaster was coming, and people who were a little younger and capable began to move their families, and in the end, even the older ones left." ”

"Yes, my father also persuaded my grandfather for a long time, but my grandfather said that he would die here even if he died, and he would not leave anything." The little grandson interjected, but when he saw the old man's gaze, he was silent.

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