Ah Yao's journey has been really hard.

A weak girl, with seven or eight children, although Bao Er always helps, but the long journey is already hard......

I am not afraid of hard work, the key is that there is less and less food.

Since entering Hebei Province, it has been devastated and desolate, often walking hundreds of miles without seeing people, and even if there are villages, only broken walls remain.

In spring, the mountains are full of flowers, which often means that there is no green and yellow.

What is a lack of greens?

It seems to be a word that everyone understands, but few people can say why.

The so-called green and yellow does not receive the green and yellow seedlings, the wheat has not yet grown, the wheat has not turned yellow, and there is still a distance from the harvest season, but last year's old grain has been eaten.

This is called green and yellow!

There was no food at home, the land was not ripe, and the ancient people were so pitiful that they had to suffer such a crime almost every year.

In the days when there was no crop, it was common for people to starve to death.

Since entering Hebei, even the official road seems to be a lot more difficult, due to disrepair, coupled with the lack of pedestrians, the official road in many places is overgrown with wild grass, and there are fierce beasts on both sides of the road from time to time.

A-Yao took the children to hurry carefully, and did not dare to stay in the village even if she met the village.

Because they once found an old man starving to death in a small village, the kind-hearted A-Yao dragged her tired body to dig a pit and buried the old man, but a few days later she encountered a village and found that there were also starving people in the ruined house.

The corpses were already stinking, and I don't know how long I starved to death, and since then, A-Yao didn't dare to enter the village again, she was afraid that the children would be infected with the plague.

It is difficult for future generations to understand how terrible it was in ancient times, when countless families starved to death without food, which was actually the most brutal massacre in the world.

Ah Yao sometimes muttered to herself, with sadness: "I only knew that Brother Li Yun was from Hebei, but I didn't know that Hebei was so poor, the fields were barren, overgrown with weeds and no one planted them, Brother Li Yun... He has lived in this kind of place since he was a child, no wonder he often said that to be a human being, you must have eaten well, and he must have been hungry every day when he was a child......"

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This is the case in Hebei Province, where the fields are barren and uninhabited.

Throughout the dynasties, it has been a place where wars and disasters are rampant, either because of foreign invasions or their own internal fighting.

For example, during the two Jin Dynasty, the most severely injured was Hebei, and the people of Hebei during that period were called 'two-legged sheep', which was the food that foreigners skewered on sticks and barbecued.

Finally lasted until the end of Wuhu, Hebei Province finally looked forward to the rise of the Sui Dynasty, and as a result, Emperor Yang of Sui went on an expedition to Goryeo, and the poor people were millions of people......

Hebei Province is unlucky again!

Because it is the closest to Liaodong!

Since it is the closest, who will you levie if you don't levy the people?

As a result, the people of Hebei Province continued to suffer.

Later, the Sui Dynasty was about to collapse, and they thought that they could escape from the dire situation, but as a result, all the anti-kings in the world set off the smoke again, and fought to the death in order to chase the Central Plains, among which there was Liu Heimin, the anti-king leader of Hebei Province, who led his subordinates to fight a tough battle with the Li family for many years.

Fighting a tough battle sounds bloody, but it is the common people who are suffering, those big battles in Hebei Province back then, almost killed ten rooms and nine emptiness, even if the Tang Dynasty has been established for ten years, Hebei Province still has not recovered.

Even Li Shimin felt guilty, and often looked up to the sky and sighed: "I am in Hebei, the killing is too much, if there is a chance, I should make up for it......"

It's a pity that the current Tang Dynasty as a whole is very poor, and the emperor wants to make up for Hebei.

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Ah Yao took the children on a long journey, almost to the point of exhaustion, but this tenacious girl gritted her teeth and struggled to support herself, she did not dare to let the children see that she was tired in any way.

Every night, she would light a bonfire, and then stand by the fire with a stick, staring warily at the night.

The children slept soundly next to the campfire, and these little ones never knew how much hardship their sister A-Yao had secretly paid.

A-Yao can endure all these hardships and hardships, but the most unbearable thing for her is the lack of food.

Previously, the strange old man had given the idea to go to the post station every two hundred miles to buy food, which was okay at first, but gradually it no longer worked.

It's not that the post stations refuse to sell, but that there is no grain in the post stations.

The postmen themselves had to hunt game to satisfy their hunger, and there was still surplus grain to sell to passers-by.

After careful questioning, I found out that it was not that the imperial court did not give Yulu, but that Yulu was used to help the poor, whenever the green and yellow were not accepted, the post station was always full of people fleeing from the famine, and these people were generally hungry gangsters, as long as they did not give money, they would starve to death in the blink of an eye.

The post guards of Hebei Province have to help the people every year, which makes their own lives difficult, but they can't help them, because they are all local villagers, and the post guards are generally from local people, and they can't bear to watch their hometown fathers starve to death in front of them.

It is for this reason that A-Yao has empty entanglements but can't buy food.

Even if you can buy a little food at a certain post station once in a while, you will soon be surrounded by hungry victims......

These victims don't have the strength to snatch, they will only kneel on the ground and keep crying, how kind is A-Yao's heart, how can she see death without saving her character?

So the food I bought was gone in a blink of an eye.

Because she was entangled and could occasionally buy food, more and more victims followed her, and gradually formed a small team of more than 100 people.

This made A-Yao even more tired.

Because the people who followed her were all old and weak, women and children......

She not only has to take care of the children, but also the old and weak, and it is also thanks to her tenacity that she can resist such hardships.

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Along the way, the word that Ah Yao heard the most was Fan Yangcheng.

In the past, the common people fled the famine, basically running to Chang'an, but now the people are fleeing the famine, and there is a new choice.

"We have a city in Hebei Province, and its name is Fanyang City......"

A gray-haired old woman muttered to herself wistfully, and she was holding in her hand a bundle of dry firewood, which had just been picked up from the foot of the mountain.

The old woman threw the dry firewood into the bonfire, and then sat next to Ah Yao panting, her face was still longing, and she kept nagging: "There is a city in Hebei Province, called Fanyang City, where the people can eat every day, and there is a prince there, that is the prince of our people." ”

Ah Yao stretched out her hand and handed over a wild vegetable dumpling, and said softly, "Sun A-Niang, you take a bite." ”

The old woman obviously swallowed her saliva, but she didn't pick it up, she just said: "We have a city in Hebei, the name is Fanyang City, girl, you must persevere......"

The voice became lower and lower, and gradually became a little inaudible, and suddenly his body was crooked, and he fell to the ground limply.

Ah Yao was shocked and stretched out her hand to help, but unfortunately her mind was dizzy and she had no strength in herself.

At this time, the old woman's breath was extremely weak, and suddenly she didn't know where to come again, she stretched out her dry palm and grabbed A-Yao.

She suddenly became anxious when she spoke, as if she was afraid that she would not be able to finish speaking, and her voice was accompanied by a scream of struggle, and said: "Girl, you must insist, there is a city in our Hebei Province, and the name is Fanyang City......"

There is a prince in that city, he is the prince of our people, and he will feed us and feed all the children!

It's a pity that the old woman couldn't say this last paragraph.

Her cloudy eyes were closed.

When he was dying, he was looking forward to being able to go to Fanyang City.

Ah Yao whimpered and cried, and was afraid of disturbing the sleeping children, she covered her mouth with her hand, and kept saying in her heart: "Brother Li Yun, Brother Li Yun, I can't hold on, Ah Yao really can't hold on......"

The campfire crackled and burned, barely dispelling some of the darkness, but not far away there was the sound of wolf howls, and some green eyes were constantly shaking.

Ah Yao hurriedly wiped the corners of her eyes, then picked up a stick from the ground, she struggled to stand up with the stick, and looked vigilantly into the dark night.

At this time, she suddenly heard a movement in the distance, and Ah Yao's heart suddenly panicked, she tried to raise the stick, but her delicate body trembled slightly.

Let's go, let's go!

The voice was getting closer and closer, it was the kind of heavy footsteps, A-Yao was about to scream to wake up the old and weak women and children, when she suddenly heard a gentle voice sound, and said in a low voice: "Don't be afraid, girl, it's me." ”

The bonfire illuminated the darkness, and someone came out of the dark night, A-Yao was stunned at first, and then her eyes were hot, and she was surprised: "Father-in-law, have you hit the prey?" ”

The strange old man walked all the way to the bonfire, raised his hand to still the corpses of the two tigers on the ground, and said apologetically: "Only hunted these two, barely able to last for three days, Hebei Province is too poor, the people eat the game clean, I searched in the mountains for two days, only to find these two tigers......"

Ah Yao was very surprised, looking at the tiger on the ground in a daze, her pretty face was incredible, and she was stunned: "You killed the tiger?" ”

The strange old man shook his head and said, "Picked it up!" ”

"Picked up?"

Ah Yao was a little confused.

The old man coughed and said, "It was a trap under the hunters in the mountains that killed these two tigers, and they happened to be discovered by my father, and I tried my best to drag them back." ”

In fact, there is an obvious hole in this statement.

Let's not talk about how the tiger came to be, it takes hundreds of pounds of strength just to drag it back.

It's a pity that Ah Yao only thinks about having food, where is there any doubt about anything else, she eagerly stepped forward to check the tiger, worrying about how to slaughter and extract meat.

At this time, the strange old man saw the old woman on the ground, and suddenly sighed lonely, and said: "The old man is dead, keep food, for the heirs, for the children, this should be Sun A-Niang, my father also said a few words to her a few days ago." ”

Ah Yao was inspecting the tiger carcass at this time, and when she heard this, she suddenly felt sad again, and said silently: "Sun A-Niang must have lied to me, and she definitely didn't eat the vegetable dumplings in the morning." ”

The strange old man blamed himself and muttered softly: "If the old man can come back a while earlier, she will be able to eat tiger meat, alas, another starvation to death, another starvation to death!" Manpower is sometimes poor, what if the world is invincible, the relief of the people depends on the power, but it is not a bad old man like me who thinks he is strong......"

He said this in a very low voice, almost to himself between his teeth.

Ah Yao was sobbing quietly, so she couldn't hear it clearly for a while.

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…… Something delayed today.,When I got home, I went crazy and wrote two chapters.,Two more released together.,This is chapter 1.,There's another chapter to follow.