Chapter 13: Black Wind Ridge
Most of the people stayed in the county seat, and only four families came out with the village chief, plus the village chief and the Wen family for a total of six families.
Everyone met at the city gate, decided to spend the night at the city gate, and then walked in the direction of the capital early tomorrow morning.
Everyone can get a bowl of porridge at night, but it's really porridge, Wen Xin didn't see a few grains of rice until he drank a bowl of porridge, and he drank boiling water, Wen Xin comforted himself in his heart.
Many people gathered at the city gates, and when night fell, the city gates suddenly opened, and then soldiers in official uniforms pushed cartloads of corpses out.
The leading soldier pointed to the corpse in the car and said, "Look, this is the man who wants to make a living in the city, and you all have to leave here early tomorrow morning, and if I come tomorrow and see you here, then you will be like them." After speaking, he pointed to the cold corpse in the car.
It was the first time Wen Xin had seen a dead person, and there were so many dead people, he was directly frightened and trembled.
I thought that only I was scared, but when I turned around, I found that most of the people were scared, and the clerk was even more scared to pee.
No one dares to argue anything with the leading soldiers, everyone is an out-and-out peasant, they are officials, even if they kill you, they will be protected by the people above, not to mention that it is a disaster year, and human life is not worth anything at all.
Although I knew that in ancient times, I didn't take human life seriously, but when I really saw Wen Xin, I really knew that I was afraid. As soon as he closed his eyes when he slept at night, the corpses that had been stabbed to death by spears appeared in his mind, and he kept his eyes open until dawn.
At first, Wen Xin had doubts about the village chief's decision to go to the capital, but now it seems that there is only one way to leave, hoping that he can settle down when he goes to the capital.
The county ordinance of each county will not allow a large number of refugees to enter the city, but it is not good to care at all, so most of them are soup kitchens, but they will not let you stay here for a long time.
There have been several incidents of refugees entering the city to steal food and kill people, and several county orders have been killed by refugees.
Knowing the fear of the county order, Wen Xin left the county seat with the village chief with the salute behind his back, and there were other people at the city gate who left together, but everyone didn't know each other and guarded against others.
Everyone knew each other in groups, and those who were alone were quickly robbed of supplies by others. There were also people who saw that there were many things on the Wen family's cart and wanted to grab them, but they were all scared away by the village chief and everyone.
Wen Desheng put on a desperate state, if the food was robbed, they would really have no way to live. There is not much silver on his body, and he depends on the food on the cart all the way.
"Grandpa the village chief, will we really settle down when we go to the capital?" It has been seven days since he came out of the county seat, and he met a lot of refugees on the way, most of them were in low spirits and had yellow faces, and Wen Xin was even more worried that he would not be able to settle down when he went to the capital, so he found an opportunity to ask the village chief.
"To be honest, I don't know, but in the past, the most people who went to the capital survived the disaster, and many people were able to return to their hometowns. The village chief didn't care that Wen Xin was only ten years old, and in his opinion, Wen Xin was more sensible and polite than fifteen-year-old Wen Sheng.
After listening to the words of the village chief, Wen Xin looked forward to it in his heart, hoping that he could settle down in the capital.
She looked down at the cloth shoes with her two toes exposed, and sighed, she only had this pair of shoes, and she didn't know if she could insist on walking to the capital.
Fortunately, the original body has a lot of strength to work all year round, otherwise it would be strange to carry so many things and walk so far without getting tired.
She only relied on a few potatoes or red signatures every day to satisfy her hunger, and if she hadn't often secretly drunk the spiritual water in the space, she would have fallen ill a long time ago.
In the past few days, Wen Yue's illness has been repeated repeatedly, Wen Di is also sick, Wen Sheng and Wen Yuan are sick, and only Wen Le and Wen Xin are not sick in the family.
Quietly entered the space to see, the weeds had grown into patches, and the hares had made their homes in the space. Looking at those fat rabbits, Wen Xin could only swallow his saliva quietly, but there was nothing he could do with them.
In the past few days, Wen Xin has picked up a lot of firewood into the space, but she sadly found that she can't kill rabbits, and her original body has never killed lives, so she doesn't know what to do with rabbits.
Wen Xin once thought that after a few days of firewood, she would kill the rabbit and roast it with fire, and she didn't care about the internal organs.
Anyway, no matter what the difficulties, don't try to stop her from eating meat.
Wenxin found that the time in the space was the same as the outside, except that the crops would grow ten times faster than the outside world.
"It's Black Wind Ridge ahead, everyone get together and don't act rashly." When he walked to a forest, the village chief suddenly stopped and said to everyone.
Black Wind Ridge is a dangerous place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, before the disaster came, it was the stronghold of mountain bandits, and the bandits in Black Wind Ridge also increased a lot when the disaster came.
Wen Xin listened to the whispered discussions of the people around him, and wondered in his heart, since the Black Wind Ridge is so dangerous, why don't you take a detour? After a while, Wen Xin heard the answer.
"If it weren't for the fact that another official road was blocked by heavy snow and couldn't be crossed, why would we have to risk crossing the Black Wind Ridge."
"Yes, it's all to blame for this ghost weather, I hope those mountain bandits won't come out of the hole for fear of the cold."
Although they knew that it was almost impossible for this to happen, everyone had illusions in their hearts.
Almost every family has sick old people and children, and now there is a consensus whether everyone knows them or not, and their current enemies are mountain bandits.
In a moment, hundreds of people gathered in the clearing in front of the mountain forest, but most of them were the kind of people who were starved and had no strength. Such a person has no combat effectiveness at all, and he is afraid that he will not be able to stop a single move when he encounters mountain bandits.
Looking at the food on the cart, Wen Xin felt sorry in his heart, he was afraid that he would be stripped of a layer of skin when he crossed the Black Wind Ridge this time, and he knew that it was better to eat more by himself.
Everyone didn't want to let the mountain bandits take advantage, and a few old people with some prestige in the crowd got together and discussed for more than half an hour before they came up with an idea.
"Now if you want to cross the Black Wind Ridge, everyone is afraid that they will have to give a material, only in this way can the mountain bandits let us go." Before the village chief could finish his sentence, the crowd stirred.
"How can we give food to the mountain bandits, so that we can still live."
"The weather is so bad, we are now relying on this little bit of food to support, don't we want to die if the food is gone?"
Speaking of which, no one is willing to hand over the grain.
The people led by the village chief are a group of people with high combat effectiveness in the crowd, and now when they heard that everyone was unwilling to hand over the grain, they had to sigh and say: "Do you think I want to hand over the grain, but if I can think of any other way, I will not let everyone hand over the grain, if I don't hand over the grain, we will not be able to cross the Heifeng Ridge, everyone will starve to death here, and second, go back to the county seat and be killed by the officers and soldiers." ”
"Although we have lost some of our food, as long as we cross the Black Wind Ridge, we can reach the next county seat in one day, and we can find another way, it is better than going back and being killed or starved to death."
The village chief persuaded hard, and everyone was a little moved.
"But how can we ensure that the bandits only take part of our food, and what if the bandits don't agree to let us go after taking the food?" Wen Qingfu's brain was very flexible, and he thought of these questions at once.
The village chief and several older people all looked at Wen Qingfu and felt that the question Wen Qingfu said was very important.