"Anyone?"

Wu Xiaoqing knocked on the door.

No one answered, he should have been scared away and dressed by Wu Xiaoqing.

Although I heard the news that when I entered the eastern mountain range, it would be deserted, but in fact it was not.

The so-called deserted people are just no nobles wearing armor and riding horses, but free people, in fact, there will be no shortage anywhere.

These people did not belong to any country or lord, and naturally they were not protected by any army. So every time Wu Xiaoqing met these people, they hid from Wu Xiaoqing far away.

At the beginning, Wu Xiaoqing didn't really want to deal with these people, keeping a distance from each other, and for Wu Xiaoqing, it was more secure in terms of safety.

But he eventually couldn't take it anymore.

It's not just him, Jingding, his horse, is also a little unbearable.

On TV, Wu Xiaoqing always envied those ancient knights who rode the dust, but when he really started to ride the dust freely, he knew that the taste was really uncomfortable.

Despite bringing a modern saddle, after a day of riding, the horse basically does not stand on either leg. When I took off my pants, I saw blood blisters on the inner thighs. Jingding was also not comfortable, after leaving the barracks, it ran for three days in a row, every day was a thunderous 150-kilometer long-distance run, with only a few short breaks in between, plus Wu Xiaoqing's feed was almost eaten, and people and horses needed rest and supplies.

At this time, let Wu Xiaoqing find a small settlement composed of thatched houses, around the house, Wu Xiaoqing also found some farmland that had just been sown, this should be human, when he came in just now, he also saw the smoke in the settlement.

Wu Xiaoqing was helpless, took out the loudspeaker, and asked the search and rescue team to help him explain the situation, stating that he was just here to buy something to eat and promised to give money.

After the statement was completed, Wu Xiaoqing tied the horse to the shade of a tree, and then sat aside and waited.

It was very hot at noon here, and people couldn't stay outdoors at all, the two suns were basking in the sky, and soon those who were hiding couldn't stand it anymore, an old man took the lead and walked out, paying careful attention to Wu Xiaoqing's sword, and pleaded with him: "Sir, we really don't have any extra food, you see, now we eat this, I really don't dare to take it out for you to see." ”

After saying that, the old man took out a handful of black things from his dirty robe. Wu Xiaoqing glanced at it, and his whole face wrinkled. He had seen this thing a few times before, and it was the daily food of the poor of this era, black bread.

However, don't think that black bread is black bread, and even when Wu Xiaoqing saw it for the first time, he fantasized that it was chocolate-flavored bread. In this era, the black bread was theoretically made of wheat and bran, but in practice the poor put everything in it, sawdust, bark, leaves, and even mud...... Anything they think can fill their stomachs will be ground together into flour and mixed in when making bread.

Because cooking requires a lot of firewood, this kind of bread is basically made once a week, winter or even a month, in short, the purpose is to make enough bread at a time, and then eat it little by little. In an era when there were no refrigerators, no preservatives, and so bad hygiene, the appearance of those breads was often quite horrible, moldy, and worm-grown, which was common, and even some poor people thought that the worms that grew would help to increase the flavor of the bread - at least not a little more meat.

The piece of bread that Wu Xiaoqing saw in front of him was such a standard "medieval poor man's burger".

The surface of the bread was already a little moldy, and he tried it with a knife, and the hardness was comparable to that of a brick, and the military dagger he brought was not even a little cut. After cutting it hard, you can clearly see that there are many rich fillings in the bread, which looks like a mixture of tree bark fibers and leaves, and it is really a natural and organic green food.

If you smell it closely, you can see that the whole bread has a very unpleasant sour smell. Wu Xiaoqing didn't dare to continue to probe it, so he waved his hand and let these people take the things down.

He originally wanted to buy some meat, cook a barbecue or something to change the taste, but now the economic situation of these families seems to be unlikely. Compressed biscuits and self-heating rice aren't great, but they're better than these things...... Wu Xiaoqing bets that these poor people's fantasy kings may not be able to eat something of the level of compressed biscuits.

"Then ...... Fetch me some water, do you have clean water in your village? I'm going to take a shower. ”

At this time, a child came over curiously, looked at Wu Xiaoqing and his horse, and after listening to the search and rescue team finish taking a bath, he asked his grandfather: "Grandpa, what is a bath?" ”

The old man had never heard of this word from above, but he probably understood the meaning of the word, and replied to his grandson, "It's a person soaking in water." ”

The child looked at Wu Xiaoqing with sympathetic eyes: "Why do you want to soak people in water?" ”

The grandfather quietly pulled his grandson away and whispered to him: "Maybe it's because of the injury, and the wound needs to be cleaned." ”

Then the old man came from the house and called out a few men in the prime of life, and sent them to fetch water, and to harvest fodder and feed the horses. Wu Xiaoqing originally wanted to ask them if they had beans, or eggs or something, to add a little nutrition to the horses, but now they can only give up - no one eats them, and the horses are very happy if they eat a little grass.

I haven't taken a bath for four or five days, there are two suns during the day here, and the highest temperature often exceeds 40 degrees. Wu Xiaoqing felt that his whole body was like that piece of black bread, and it was about to ferment with a sour smell. When the water arrived, he almost couldn't wait to get rid of his essence and jump into the water. Of course, he hadn't forgotten to hold the pistol in his hand, and the people on the embankment came close to steal something.

Fortunately, the people here seem to have relatively simple folk customs, and Wu Xiaoqing is at the door of their house, so the monk can't run the temple, so he didn't make any dangerous moves. When Wu Xiaoqing was taking a bath, each of these people poured a bowl of water for themselves, and ate the big piece of black bread together.

Wu Xiaoqing saw the process of them eating bread, which was really eye-opening.

First of all, use a stone chip as a knife and smash it against the bread, and the force is like ramming the earth. It was as if they were eating not bread but a brick. Then the small pieces and debris that were smashed out were carefully collected, little by little, carefully sprinkled into the bowl of water. Then repeat this process until the bowl of water in front of you has soaked enough breadcrumbs and is rich enough to look like a bowl of porridge.

The old man carefully thought about everyone's rice bowls, and made sure that everyone had received the right portions, and some of the portions were too much, and he had to carefully scoop out a part of them with a wooden spoon and distribute them among those who were less. After the distribution was completed, the old man carefully took out a wooden jar from his clothes in the eyes of everyone, and then put two fingers into it, and carefully sprinkled some gray-white powder on each bowl of the contents of the wooden jar.

The search and rescue team analyzed it, and it should be salt.

Then the people began to eat happily. The bowl that the little grandson had been given seemed to be not soaked yet, and after a few bites, he suddenly called out to his grandfather, "Grandpa, I lost my tooth." ”

It is true that the tooth was lost, but it is not known whether it was knocked out by bread or because of the tooth replacement. The grandfather carefully added more water to his grandson and warned him to wait until it was soaked before eating.

But the grandson seemed to be a little unable to wait, staring at the others and gulping down the porridge, swallowing saliva in his throat. But he didn't dare to disobey his grandfather's order to eat his share of porridge first.

Wu Xiaoqing really couldn't stand it anymore, and threw a bag of chocolates to the child: "Let him eat this."

The child hesitantly looked at the beautiful packaging, confirming that it seemed to be a precious thing, and handed it over to the grandfather, who had never seen such a thing, and had nowhere to start with the beautiful plastic packaging - he would not have thought that such a beautiful package was meant to be torn open.

When Wu Xiao finished taking a shower and getting dressed, they still didn't dare to open the bag of chocolates.

Wu Xiaoqing walked over directly, tore it open, broke a piece of it and ate it for himself first, and then broke a large piece and stuffed it into the child's mouth.

The child's eyes were wrinkled at first, because he felt an unfamiliar bitter taste. But soon his eyebrows widened, and by the time the chocolate had melted in his mouth completely, he had already covered his eyes, his throat did not move, and he deliberately did not swallow - as if desperately trying to retain the taste in his mouth.

Wu Xiaoqing told the search and rescue team: "If the volcano erupts, the people here ...... It's going to die. ”

"The probability of death is 99.4 percent, and the chance of survival still exists, but it is negligible." "It's too close to the volcano. ”

There are only less than three days to travel, two or three hundred kilometers. If it's okay here, then the red alert shouldn't exist, not even the alert.

"Otherwise, tell them first, let them run first."

"They won't believe it, and they have nowhere to run. These people were refugees who fled from the feudal system, do you expect them to escape back? ”

"Life and death are fateful, we can only do our best," the search and rescue team said, "The faster we move now, the sooner we determine the outbreak time and rescue plan, the better the hope that the people here will be saved." ”