It rained for several days. It seems that the thief God also cried sadly for Han Won and his party.

The former village of Rotten Peach has been reduced to muddy ruins, with only a handful of houses, due to their remote location, not affected by the fire. The Han family is one of them.

The bones in the rubble have been buried by the surviving teenagers. There are nearly 400 people in Rotten Peach Village, and there are more than 200 corpses that have been cleaned up, most of which are women, children and the elderly. As for the young man, he was probably taken captive to work as a coolie. There is no second one in the village who escaped a catastrophe like Han Xian.

Han Xian was able to survive thanks to his mother Liu.

At that time, the thieves were coming, and the Liu family hid Han Xian in the dry well behind the courtyard, and covered the mouth of the well with a dustpan. When the thieves entered the courtyard, Liu gritted his teeth and committed suicide, and when he was about to die, he did not forget to fall at the mouth of the well and protect his son with his body.

Han Xian is really fateful. When the rebels arrived, seeing that the dead Liu was dressed in shabby clothes, they did not search for the body, but instead entered the hall, and after a large-scale search, they arrested Han Tong, who was so frightened that he was shrunk into a ball.

Perhaps it was a temporary intention, and after the thieves killed, they hastily set a fire before leaving. This is the scene after Han Won and they return to the village.

…

At night, I don't know where a few crows chirped, and it sounded extremely terrible.

In the courtyard of the Han family, more than 20 homeless teenagers sat around the fire.

Everyone resisted the impulse and stared at the roe deer hanging from the fire in front of them. This is their ration for a hard day's work.

After the thieves ransacked Rotten Peach Village, except for some ruins, there was hardly a grain of rice left, not a penny.

After the grief, the first problem for the survivors to solve is to eat, except to hunt animals, fish and wild vegetables, everyone has no other way for the time being.

The roe deer had not yet been roasted, and everyone sat dumbfounded, and no one spoke.

Junko suddenly spoke, breaking the lifeless atmosphere.

"Brother Han, you say, what should you do in the future? I'll listen to you. ”

"We listen to you, too."

The two brothers, the big tiger and the second tiger, also hurriedly said.

"And me."

"Me too."

“……”

Immediately, everyone said that they wanted to follow Han Won, and everything was arranged by him. In the hearts of these people, the won has always been the backbone.

Han Yuan stared at the fragrant roe deer in front of him, looked at it again and again, and finally made up his mind, and said in a deep voice:

"You can't stay here, if you want to live, follow me tomorrow."

The won will say that, in fact, many people have already expected it. The village is destroyed, there is no food, and if everyone does not leave here, will they wait to starve to death?

Although they had expected the result, everyone's hearts were still sour. This village is where their ancestors have lived for generations. Many of the people here have never left the village in their entire lives.

When they were alive, they cultivated the land, and when they died, they also slept under the land. For them, here are their roots.

"Where can we go without the village?"

Junko hesitated for a moment, but still asked. His problem is, in fact, everyone's problem.

Han Yuan looked at everyone's expectant eyes and suddenly felt a great responsibility.

"Let's go to a few nearby villages to see if there are any living people, and if there are, let's take them and go to the county seat to make a living together."

Junko couldn't understand it, and wondered: "What are we going to do in the county seat?" Isn't the city occupied by thieves? ”

At this time, Han Xian, who hadn't said a word for several days, spoke:

"The western thief is a rogue who robs houses and houses, and will not stick to the city. Enough looting, they went to plague other states and counties. ”

Han Won nodded, and what his brother said was exactly what he thought.

He continued: "Before Jiaxian was broken, the gentry in the city had already fled out of the city. The western thieves couldn't grab anything in the city, so they went to the villages and towns to burn and loot. At this time, the thieves in the city should have left, and Jiaxian County was probably 'recovered' by the government. ”

"This time the county town fell, and the young people in the city were either killed or captured, and we didn't have to worry about finding a way to live when we went into the city."

Everyone listened to the words of the Han brothers and secretly admired them in their hearts. Sure enough, people who have read books are just different.

At this time, the roe deer was also cooked, and the teenagers hurriedly ate the barbecue, and then crowded at Han's house for another night.

…

The next day, it was still very cloudy.

Everyone went to the grave of their deceased relatives to pay a hasty respect, said goodbye, and then embarked on the first trip in their lives.

The weather is rainy and sunny, and Han Won's heart is very anxious. If anyone gets sick in the rain, in such a situation, if they are unlucky, they are afraid that they will not be able to live. Fortunately, after everyone arrived at the horse farm, the sun finally appeared in the sky.

Mazhuang was also devastated by the Western Thieves, and the situation was not much better than that of Rotten Peach Village. There were rubble bricks and dead bodies that no one had cleaned up.

Ma Erhan, who fought with Han Won a few days ago, is still alive, and he is the only one alive in the entire horse village.

At this time, Ma Erhan was ragged, with a yellow face and thin muscles, like a flower child. When the crowd spoke to him, he could barely make his speech. I don't know how he survived these days.

Everyone left with Ma Erhan and walked towards several nearby villages.

Along the way, everyone found more than a dozen living mouths, including a fourteen or fifteen-year-old mute girl, a boy under the age of six, and two adults who were scared into madness, and the rest were teenagers who were not much different in age from the Rotten Peach Village.

At noon, everyone came to Daliang Town. The once prosperous town no longer exists. The streets and alleys were littered with dead bodies, flies fluttering, and the stench was stinking. The crowd searched for it, but found no living mouth. Because they were afraid of contracting the plague, they didn't dare to stay longer, so they could only rush to the county seat.

Most of the people didn't know how to get around the county seat, so they could only follow the Han brothers. At this time, the team already had nearly forty people.

Everyone endured hunger and thirst, and the journey was hard, and finally walked out of Daliang Town before it was dark and came to the foot of the county seat.

There is a clearly visible vermilion banner at the head of Jiaxian County, which is the banner of the imperial court, indicating that Jiaxian County has been recovered.

Everyone's hearts are slowing down, and they are waiting to move forward.

"Who are the people under the city? Don't go any further! The officers and men at the head of the city found the people at the foot of the city and immediately shouted.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are the surviving civilians of the nearby villages, and now we have nowhere to go. Ask the military master to do well, and let us go in and ask for a way to live. ”

Han Won replied loudly to the city. No one in the crowd dared to speak up except him.

"Don't move where you are, wait for me to report to the official."

After a long time, a trumpet sounded at the head of the city, and the gates were opened.

A group of officers and soldiers, dressed in battle armor and armed with weapons, went out of the city to 'greet' the teenagers outside the city.

Before the boys could react, they were pressed by the soldiers, and then tied up and escorted into the city.

"Won, what's going on?" Ma Erhan exclaimed.

"Dare to be noisy!"

Before he could finish his sentence, the officers and soldiers were whipped on his body.

…

It was already completely dark.

Tired and hungry, they were taken to a prison where they couldn't see their fingers.

The prison was dark and smelly, like a pigsty. Everyone who didn't know their fate was in despair.