Wang Fuli did not understand Li Dawei's inexplicable excitement well. The brothers were left behind, and this is their temporary residence from now on.

After walking for a long time, I saw a village in the distance.

The sun hangs high, and the occasional wind blows, and it is hot to the bones. The weather is dry, the water level in the small river is very low, the ground is yellow, and there are faint people who are busy and fetch water from the river in vain to irrigate.

"Uh~ Brother Wang, is there something wrong with my eyes, why do I think the people working in the fields are not wearing clothes?"

"Brother Dawei, your eyes are so good, I can only see a few small black dots" Wang Fuli sighed, "But I know, it's all hard to be like this, who still has a few complete clothes?" Who is willing to wear it out to work! ”

"Makes sense!" Li Dawei nodded.

A small path, apparently trodden by people. There were no pedestrians on the road, only sun-dried trees on both sides. Walking on the road is to return to civilized society.

"Brother Dawei, do you have any ideas?"

"I haven't figured out anything about the situation now, it's useless to think too much, let's stand on it first and then talk about it" Li Dawei's character of maintaining stability as a teacher in his bones is reflected: "I think that valley is a good place and a good way to retreat." ”

"Well, it's really good," Wang Fuli agreed, "You can attack if you advance, and you can defend when you retreat." We'd better find a relatively large town first, first, to inquire about the news, and second, to learn about the market. ”

The two walked and chatted, and walked a long way until they came to a relatively wide official road, and there were a few pedestrians on the road. Yellow and thin-skinned, tattered clothes, and unclothed are normal descriptions.

Some of the children had exposed arms and legs, and only skeletons remained. Everyone's eyes were glazed, and they were moving around completely on instinct. Occasionally, one or two clothes are relatively complete, and they are all in a hurry, and they have no chance to ask someone.

Seeing that Li Dawei was picking his lips again, Wang Fuli pointed at those people: "Now that there are displaced people, it seems that the situation is not very good." ”

"Doesn't anyone care about this?" Li Dawei said coldly, he couldn't stand this the most, he used to give two pieces of fake beggars on the street. In TV dramas and novels, seeing 'displaced people are homeless and starving everywhere' is far less impactful than what you see in front of you.

Before Wang Fuli could answer, he was not far ahead. A woman, with her head disorganized, holding a child in her arms, looking at the clothes should be a girl, holding her hands, up and down with her mother's movements, and a little boy next to her, barely following behind, suddenly stumbled, the whole person fell to the ground, and then did not move.

When the woman in front of her heard the movement, she slowly turned her head and walked back slowly, kneeling beside the boy with a blank face, trying to pick him up too. But after struggling for a while, he couldn't get up, so he could only move and hold the two children on the tree next to the road, his eyes were scattered.

Li Dawei walked a few steps forward, and at first glance, he knew that he was hungry, and if he didn't eat, he would starve to death if he couldn't hold on for half a day.

I tried my snort with my hand, and it was still there, but it was very weak, especially the little girl in my arms, I couldn't feel it, "Brother Wang, hurry, prepare honey water"

"Brother Dawei, we can't save it"

"Why is there so much nonsense" Li Dawei's tone has never been so rough, his face is gloomy as water, "If you can save one, hurry up"

Wang Fuli was startled, took a complicated look, and immediately put down the basket on his back, poured out some honey from the bamboo tube, reconciled it with water, and handed it over. Li Dawei took it, thought about it and added a little salt, and the sugar and salt water replenished the body's electrolytes and energy more quickly.

Li Dawei took the little girl from the woman's arms, fluttered lightly in his hand, he couldn't feel the weight at all, fed a little sugar and salt water, most of it flowed out, the body lacked stress response, and hurriedly said: "Brother Wang, you feed those two, pay attention to add some salt"

It was a lot of waste, but the little girl finally reflexively swallowed some. Wang Fuli's side was very smooth, after all, he had just collapsed, and all the functions of his body were still running.

The woman's sloppy eyes slowly focused, and she came back to her senses, and looked around a little stiffly, and saw two strangers feeding her children, and knew that she had met a good Samaritan, and struggled to get up and kowtow.

Wang Fuli was about to help, when the sound of horses' hooves came from behind him, and the sound of hooves stopped.

Li Dawei looked up and saw that it was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old woman, dressed in tight and narrow trousers, dressed in red, carrying a bow and arrow, holding a leather whip, and a heroic posture. Sitting high on the horse, he looked at Li Dawei curiously, and said lightly: "I didn't expect to see a good person" and then the horsewhip pointed around, "Can you save so many people?" ”

"I can't save it," this kind of rebellious and conceited little girl has seen a lot, "but it is one who can save one, each of them is raised by his parents, it is better to do than not to be good, and it is better to be than to be a cold sidestander." ”

"You..." The woman in red couldn't hear the mockery, and with a flick of her wrist, she was about to whip it. The sound of messy horses' hooves came again, mixed with 'Miss, wait for us'.

The woman in red put the whip away and snorted, "Don't let me touch you again." After saying that, he rode his horse and whipped away, and it was not long before four more horses passed by.

'Hmm~', the little boy opened his eyes first, and muttered "Mom".

Wang Fuli handed the little boy to the woman, who took it and kowtowed again, "Thank you, two great benefactors."

The little girl in Li Dawei's arms was much more serious, but after all, her breathing was heavier than before. I felt my pulse, and I felt a little stronger. "Well, this eldest sister, why don't you stay at home, the child's father?"

The woman cracked her mouth bitterly, "I will make an appointment with someone, but I will not wait for a long time." The entanglement is exhausted, and I really can't survive. The child's father gave us the last bit of food on the way, went out to find it himself, and never came back."

"And what are you going to do now?"

"I don't know" The woman shook her head, looked down at the boy in her arms, as if she had made up her mind, kowtowed again, and said: "I know that the two are well-wishers, I beg you to adopt these two children, thank you for your great kindness, and the slave family will be a cow and a horse in the next life." ”

Wang Fuli turned his head to look at Li Dawei. Li Dawei returned the little girl to the woman, pondered for a moment, and said, "We still have some things, if you believe that we are waiting here, we will come back in two days at most." ”

Then he left her a bamboo tube of honey and some pickled meat, and instructed, "It should be enough for you for a few days." This little girl drinks honey water first, and must chew it for her when she eats. Be sure to eat it slowly, well, you'd better find a place to hide."

After Li Dawei finished speaking, he turned around and left, and after a long time, he turned around and found that the woman was still kowtowing on the ground, and the little boy was also accompanying him.

There are many displaced people on the road, and they all feel that if they go forward, they will have a way to live. The situation of these people is slightly stronger than that of the mother and son just now, at least they can go.

"What would happen if we took these displaced people?" Li Dawei, who was silent all the way, said suddenly.

"There will only be more and more displaced people, we can't save everyone" Wang Fuli looked at Li Dawei's face and continued: "Look at this situation, it will soon be chaos, these are women and children, they can't play any role, but they are all burdens"

"How much food is needed for that? Can you buy enough food? ”

"Uh~" Wang Fuli saw that Li Dawei and his own consideration were not the same thing at all, so he could only follow his question, "In fact, there is still food, but it is kept by some people, if you have enough money, of course you can buy it." ”

Li Dawei and Wang Fuli have a big basket behind them, and they are very hateful. There were a few men staring at them on the road, with bows and arrows behind them, but they didn't look like hunters, and their eyes betrayed their thoughts. Li Dawei was unconscious, and he was still discussing what to buy? Wang Fuli was anxious for him.

I spent the night outside, and the next day when it was almost dark, I saw a tall city. It's the tallest Li Dawei has ever seen along the way.

The gates of the city had to be closed when it was dark. In fact, it was closed before it was dark, Li Dawei looked up at the city gate, and was a little confused, where is this?

Although he is a science man, Li Dawei is usually quite interested in history, and he has some understanding of the past five thousand years, and of course big cities such as Yongzhou, Xianyang, and Chang'an know this, and he must pay attention to details when reading books in the future.

Wang Fuli followed up and explained: "This belongs to Xiangyang County, leading Xiangyang, Yicheng, Zhonglu, Linfu, Ye, Shandu, Shanghuang County, among which Linfu is here." ”

"Xiangyang" Li Dawei suddenly realized, and finally heard a familiar one in a bunch of names, "It turned out that I went to Hubei"

"Hubei?" This time, Wang Fuli was a little confused, "Which lake?" ”

"Dongting Lake, hehe, this is the name I gave it", Li Dawei looked around, there were many people who did not enter the city, most of them were homeless, and unexpectedly there was actually a carriage, protected by a few families, at first glance, it was a big family, Li Dawei forked the topic, "Let's find a place to deal with it for a night first." ”

The hotter the day, the more mosquitoes, dragging the family to 'rub the rice', the two of them wiped the mosquito repellent, and they still couldn't resist. There are many sins under the darkness, mosquitoes are only one of them, and what is even more terrible is people.

The homeless have nothing to lose, and those who return late are willing to huddle together.

On this kind of day, of course, lighting a fire is not for heating, it is 'showing off wealth'.

Indeed, if you can have a bite to eat, who doesn't secretly swallow a few bites, and dare to make a fire, it can only be a delicious 'big meal'. So the most gentlemanly is the man in the carriage.

Sporadic fires lit up, and people cheered for catching a mouse, a snake. Li Dawei also made a fire, which is a habit that has been cultivated for several years. After a while, a man with thick bones came to borrow a fire.

Wang Fuli said in a low voice: "That person was holding a knife in his hand just now"

"I know," Li Dawei replied casually while taking things from the big basket behind his back, "He still has a wife and children, and it's normal to be defensive." ”

Wang Fuli turned his head to see that the man had lit a fire not far away, and a 'pot' was hung on it to boil water, and his wife was holding a child in her arms, and there was no crying, and the woman could be seen sobbing silently, reaching out to caress the child's thin face.

The man took off his coat, glanced at the child, and raised the knife in his hand.

As if she had woken up, the woman let out a hoarse scream: "Don't! ”