What is the meaning of no advance and no retreat. Fox Xiaomei now has a deep understanding!

Two days ago, they ate the ready-made dry food on their bodies, and for the past two days, they have also made a living by digging tree roots and weeds along the way. It's still a day's journey from Shunhe Town, and the grass along the way is barren and withered, and there is nothing to eat.

Everyone was so hungry that their eyes were full of stars, their legs were weak, and Wang Xiaobao was even more hungry and cried several times. Kong's family is also so weak that he can only sit on the cart, Fox Xiaomei and Fox Lixiang have already put their backs on the cart, and they are stumbling when they walk alone, Fox Dayou and Thirteen are in a slightly better situation, but the two of them want to push the cart and the wheelbarrow, and they are also strong in insisting. Everyone is in a state where they can't hold on.

There were many people on the road who were so yellow and thin, weak and shaky, that they only needed to stumble on a stone under their feet, and they could immediately fall down and not get up.

Don't look at the appearance that these people are all dying of starvation and can't fall, if you see food, you can rush up like a hungry wolf in an instant, and beat your head and blood for a little food.

Therefore, Hu Xiaomei and others did not dare to take out something to cook, whether it was grain or flour.

Others are starved to death without food, and they are starved to death if they have food.

In front of her eyes, there were glittering stars fading and disappearing, and the fox pursed her chapped lips and shook her head vigorously. Suddenly stumbled under his feet, and he fell straight to a dog eating!

"Er, what's wrong with you?"

Wei Sanniang screamed, threw away the bamboo burden and stumbled forward, and her steps were floating and she almost fell to her knees.

"Second, second. What happened to you? ”

Wei Sanniang carefully helped Hu Xiaomei up with red eyes, and the fox fence staggered to the side, reaching out to pull Hu Xiaomei. Fox Dayou and Thirteen were also startled, hurriedly threw away the handlebars in their hands, and ran over to check on Fox Xiaomei.

A bunch of people staggered into a mess.

Hu Xiaomei rubbed her sore temples, opened her eyes, and smiled weakly at Wei Sanniang and the others: "It's okay, I accidentally kicked the stone." ”

Wei Sanniang's heart was sour, and her eyes were full of tears and about to fall.

"It doesn't work! We have to eat. Thirteen looked at Fox Xiaomei's thin face and said.

"This road full of homeless people, I'm afraid that the food will be robbed before it is cooked." Fox Otomo also knew that this could not be the case anymore. If you don't eat again. Even he couldn't last two days. But seeing the continuous displacement of people along the way, I don't know what to do.

"Yes, we have to eat, or we'll all starve to death." Xiang sat on the side of the road with the weak Wang Xiaobao in his arms.

The displaced people who kept passing by looked at the fox Xiaomei who fell to the ground. Just one eye. Then they all looked away. Continuing slowly, their belongings and luggage were left on the side of the road, and no one noticed anything.

Because. There are too many people who fall down like this and can't stand up anymore along the way, and Hu Xiaomei and her party do have a lot of luggage, but if they have something to eat, they won't fall down hungry.

Naturally, no one cared about the luggage of Hu Xiaomei and others on the side of the road.

Without eating, they will hold on for a day or two at most, eat, and maybe fight. Although it is only a day's journey to Shunhe Town, you can't gamble anymore.

Thirteen stood up, approached the fox and whispered, "We must go get some food...... and muttered. Fox nodded staringly.

"Rest for a while, I'll go back as soon as I go." Thirteen pairs of foxes said charmingly, then got up, walked to the side of the cart, took off a burden and carried it on his back, and took the small iron pot in his hand and walked alone towards the barren hillside.

This move immediately attracted the attention of other homeless people, many of whom stopped and stopped, and some moved their steps and slowly followed. Some people saw that Hu Xiaomei and the others were all sitting on the ground tiredly, their eyes were dull, and they looked like they were going to die, so they dispelled the doubts in their hearts, stopped caring about the thirteen, and began to walk slowly towards Shunhe Town.

And those who followed Thirteen also returned a quarter of an hour with their heads down.

A few displaced people who had been standing still waiting for an opportunity finally left disappointed when they saw this. Slowly, groups of displaced people passed by, and Hu Xiaomei and the others found a slightly higher place and sat close to each other. The luggage in front of me was piled up on the ground.

They looked like a group of homeless people dying of starvation. Sitting on the ground and resting is just a matter of taking an extra breath.

So the wanderers kept walking by, and no one paid attention to them.

An hour later, Thirteen finally came back with a small iron pot on his back. He had washed the small iron pot thoroughly and cleaned it with sand and stones, and he couldn't smell the fragrance of the cake on it at all.

Fox Otomo went over and took the iron pot in his hand and tied it back to the cart, and the thirteen held a bowl in his hand, wrapped it in leaves, and covered it with something. He brought the bowl to Hu Xiaomei: "Drink saliva." ”

Fox Xiaomei glanced at him, uncovered the contents of the bowl, hot air came out of the bowl, she took a sip, it was real boiled water. She thought it would be rice porridge or something. At this moment, Thirteen blocked the eyes of passers-by with his body and secretly stuffed two pieces of bread for her. Fox Xiaomei was stunned and hurriedly stuffed the cake into her arms.

It's hot, it's soft, and it's a little hot, but it's good, just holding it on your chest has driven away half of all the tiredness and sleepiness.

Then, Thirteen fed the water one by one with the bowls, and everyone showed a hint of joy on their faces after drinking the water. After drinking the water from the bowl, Thirteen was about to put it back, and some homeless people stopped by the roadside looking at him. He glanced at the men with a blank face. Then he stood in the middle and said to Hu Xiaomei and the others: "Rest for a while, let's continue to hurry, everyone hold on, maybe you can have food when you get to Shunhe Town." ”

As soon as the words fell, I heard some of the homeless people who stopped sighing, and then buried his head in ignoring them and walked away.

Thirteen found a place and sat down, looking at the homeless people coming and going with clear eyes. Wang Xiaobao was next to Xiang's family, staring at her with a longing face, she couldn't bear it, so she patted Wang Xiaobao's back, pressed him into her arms, and said, "Xiaobao, sleep for a while, my mother will call you in a while." Secretly, one hand revealed half of a piece of bread from his arms, and then lowered his voice to Wang Xiaobao's ear, and said in a voice that could be heard by the mother and son: "Eat quickly, quietly, don't let people see it." ”

Wang Xiaobao's eyes lit up, and he buried himself in Xiang's arms and nibbled on the cake.

In this way, Hu Xiaomei and the others also covered their eyes and ears by resting on other people, and ate a piece of cake. I finally have the goods in my stomach, and I have some strength under my feet.

However, the crowd did not hit the road immediately, but really rested. A quarter of an hour later, the group once again supported each other on the road. That night was on the road to stay overnight, Thirteen picked up a lot of firewood and made a fire, some of the surrounding homeless people followed suit, there was no fire, so they ran to Thirteen to borrow fire. For a while, countless fires on the side of the road lit up the night, and they were like hope, and they made the originally cold night no longer so cold.

On the morning of the second day, while no one was paying attention, the group quietly ate some bread again, and arrived at Shunhe Town before dark, but because of physical exhaustion, it was already the end of the day (nine o'clock in the evening) when they arrived in Shunhe Town. ）

The whole Shunhe was calm and quiet, every house was closed, it was dark, there was no light, and I didn't know if there were people or no one inside. I couldn't see it clearly from a distance, and when I walked through the street, I found that there were many people shrunk under the eaves. The group also found a slightly sheltered place and shrank down. They were all next to each other, took out the quilt and put it on their bodies, and finally made do with it all night.

Before dawn the next day, there were homeless people walking around on the street, and Hu Xiaomei and others had already woken up, but they didn't move, they were not in a hurry, and the most important thing at this time was to find a place to prepare dry food first, so that they had the strength to go to Wei County.

Including Hu Xiaomei, they all thought that Shunhe Town was close to Wei County, and it was protected by the government, so it must be much better than other towns, but after dawn, everyone knew that it was a big mistake, and the situation in the entire Shunhe Town was worse than that of several other towns.

"Why is this happening?" Hu Xiaomei said in surprise.

"Because Shunhe Town is the closest to Shunhe, when the Shunhe River embankment bursts when there is a big flood, Shunhe Town is naturally the first to suffer seedlings!" Thirteen said with a serious face.

In this way, it is difficult for them to find empty houses. Because most of the houses that are generally unoccupied have collapsed, most of the intact households are still at home and have not been relocated.

The group walked around the market and didn't see the house they liked, and finally, they looked for a place, Hu Xiaomei and others stayed in place to rest, and Thirteen took the fox fence to find the house.

This time Thirteen didn't delay too much, and came back in half an hour.

"Those people just left, I let the fence guard, let's go quickly."

Several people picked up things one after another, pushed carts and wheelbarrows, bypassed two streets, passed through a small alley, and finally stopped in front of a small courtyard, this is a dead alley, the end of the alley is full of water, because the ground in front of the courtyard is higher, there is no water, there is a family on the opposite side, the front yard looks fine, but there is a big hole in the back of the house, and the wall of the house has also fallen a large piece. There was no one in there.

Thirteen stepped forward and knocked on the door, and the fox fence opened the door, and saw that Thirteen had returned with someone, so he hurriedly opened the courtyard door, and after everyone entered, he bolted the courtyard door again.

The courtyard was quite small, with only three rooms, two inner rooms and one hall house, and there was a shed on the side of the courtyard, which used to be used as a kitchen, but after the shed collapsed, it was a mess. One of the two inner rooms had obvious cracks in the wall, and I don't know what was on the outside of the wall, but it was soaked in water from the outside, and the whole wall was soaked. The house was also very damp.

In modern times, it's a dilapidated house!

However, this is their place of residence!

Put the things under the eaves, Fox Dayou and Thirteen moved things and simply set up a stove in the yard, and Wei Sanniang took out the pot to prepare pancakes. Cooking still has to be firewood, fox Xiaomei and fox fence incense, Xiang and others moved the only firewood out in the kitchen. All the remaining flour was baked into cakes, and after the cakes were baked, Wei Sanniang cooked porridge again.

Fortunately, this yard is remote, and the surrounding households have left, and the smoke rises in the yard, and no one pays attention for a while! (To be continued.) )