"Brother Zhi, there's a tea shed in front, should we take a break?" Liu Cai asked.

"Rest, Gongzi Zheng, my old arms and legs are about to be shattered." Old Man Liu got up from the saddle and twisted his waist.

"Then rest, everyone is tired."

After Zhiwen and the others came out of Zhuolu Mountain, they spent the night in the place where the small caravan was robbed, and now they have been riding horses for half a day, and they are about to find a place to solve the lunch when they see this tea shed.

This is Shuntianfu, has been completely out of the boundary of Taihang Mountain, there is no more hills and hills around, as far as the eye can see, it is all a flat and boundless plain.

When the four of them arrived at the tea shed, they threw off the saddle and dismounted, and Zhiwen asked the other three to find an empty table to sit down first, and he led the horse to a hidden place, quietly took out the alfalfa, and fed the horse.

The horses he fed all the way, and the Liu father and son only thought that he cherished the livestock and didn't care about it.

This tea shed is simple, not to mention that there is no forage for the guests to feed the horses, even if there is, Zhiwen is not at ease, it is still safer and more nutritious for himself.

When Zhiwen finished feeding the horses and sat down at the table, the three of them had already drunk tea for a while, and Liu Cai leaned his head into Zhiwen's ear and whispered, "Brother Zhi, something is wrong, there are too many people fleeing the famine." ”

Before he went to the official road, Liu Cai found that there were a lot of people, and now he settled down to take a closer look and found that they were all fleeing.

Zhiwen began to hear him say that something was wrong, and he was nervous for a while, and when he heard clearly that he said that there were many people fleeing the famine, he put his mind at ease, "This..., it's nothing, we came all the way, it's all like this." ”

From time to time, groups of refugees passed by outside the tea shed, and Zhiwen felt that compared with Hexi, there were still few.

Liu Cai shook his head, "We didn't have so many people last time we robbed grain. ”

Last time, if there were so many people, the caravan would not be able to leave alone, and they might not dare to do it again.

"It's okay," Zhiwen comforted, "There are many people fleeing the famine, maybe it's safer." ”

"Yes." Kewang nibbled on the dough, "I saw a few familiar faces just now, but they didn't recognize me." ”

"Really?" Zhiwen was a little surprised, they were looking for a special place, this area was already very close to Biansai, and he really couldn't figure out how the people who fled with them all the way would come here.

"Where did you see them before? Big Column. ”

Kewang frowned and thought for a while, "I've seen too many people along the way, I can't remember it clearly." ”

If you want to say why there are more people fleeing the famine, it is also related to what Zhiwen did in Hexi.

Due to their proper burial and disinfection measures, not only did they reduce the number of deaths, but also controlled the explosive spread of the plague, so that the number of refugees was much higher than the original history.

After the Yellow River froze, there was no need to rely on ferries, and the people who were originally trapped in Hexi poured into Jinxi in large numbers from all over the Yellow River, except for a very small number of people who followed Zhiwen's route and arrived at Pujie and Liangzhou, most of the other people went to Jinyang, the capital of western Jinxi.

But Jinyang can't accommodate so many refugees, whether it is the government or the gentry's handouts, it is far from enough, in order to survive, the refugees have to set off again and go to Jingshi, where the feet of the Son of Heaven are located, and they will not be left alone.

The refugees spontaneously divided into two parts, one to the east and through the Taihang Mountains, and the other to the north, bypassing the Taihang Mountains and then going east.

Don't look at Zhiwen, more than 2,000 of them are young and strong, but they can't get up in a hurry in the Taihang Mountains, and they can't really get up, this group of refugees who went north is actually not far behind Zhiwen.

Coincidentally, he arrived in this area at the same time as the four of Zhiwen.

And Liu Cai was not relieved by Zhiwen and Kewang's words, "I don't know what's going on, I always feel like something is going to happen." ”

Now I can't help but Zhiwen doesn't care, this kind of old Jianghu's intuition is sometimes very accurate.

"Then let's be careful, Brother Liu, will this kind of tea shed and restaurant still enter in the future?" Zhiwen began to worry about whether he would catch the Tao in his diet.

Liu Cai shook his head, "I feel that it has nothing to do with this, but with the people who fled the famine." ”

This is troublesome, so many people who have fled, it is impossible to prevent it.

In the end, the four of them can only remind each other, be careful.

After the meal, the four of them continued on the road, as in the morning, although there were horses, but there were many people on the road, and the speed was not fast, similar to on the mountain path.

They were reluctant to trample on the fields on both sides of the road, although they did not know if there were any other plants in the fields, and the soil was so soft that it was easy to injure the horses if they ran on them.

Kewang is quite unhappy, this way is only in the pass gate of the flat land after a short time after a short period of galloping addiction, other times have to be careful, either to see the road, or to see people.

When resting at night, Zhiwen didn't want to spend the night in the wilderness, since Liu Cai said that the root of the accident was in the fleeing people, it was safer to find an inn in the market town, and also open meat, such a good wish, of course... Failed.

On this day, I didn't meet a market town, but I passed by a few small villages, and I saw that they were all very wary, how could they let them stay.

After dark, Zhiwen and the others ran for a short distance, but they still couldn't find a shop in front of the village or behind the village, so they had to rein in their horses and start looking for a place to camp.

After two days of turbulence, Liu Laohan was initially adapted, and after dismounting, he and Liu Cai quickly dug out a snow nest, found some hay mats, lit a fire, and a camping place became a place to stay, indeed a person who has lived in the mountains and wilderness for a long time.

"Dazhu, you and Uncle Liu sleep first, and I'll call you later." After eating something simply, Zhiwen looked at Liu Laohan and Kewang's eyes and couldn't open them, and arranged for them to stay in the middle of the night.

When Zhiwen estimated that the time was about the same, he only woke up Kewang, Liu Laohan was old, and seeing that he was sleeping soundly, he couldn't bear to disturb him, and Liu Cai had already fallen asleep as soon as he fell to the ground.

Kewang grabbed a handful of snow and wiped his face, and sat by the fire boredly.

Just as he was drowsy, a rustling sound came from the grain bag, Kewang shook his head and looked over, a small head with a long beard on the side of his mouth, gray and black poked out of the gap, and his small black eyes reflected the firelight, as if he was looking at Kewang.

Mouse! As soon as this thought popped up in Kewang's mind, he subconsciously threw out a piece of firewood in his hand.

After Zhiwen's earnest teaching, it has become everyone's habit to fight when they see mice.

The grain bag was pillowed under the head of the old man Liu, and the old man took the grain very seriously, and put it on his horse during the day, and leaned under his head at night to be sure.

The firewood that Kewang threw over hit the grain bag, startling the rat away, and then it was bounced up, and the second fell on Liu Laohan's head.

"What are you doing?" The old man didn't sleep deeply, and this time he didn't have much strength, but he still woke up.

"Fighting mice, Uncle Liu, I'm sorry to wake you up."

"Rats? It's all over the place, you can beat it. ”

"It's trying to steal our food."

"What?!" Liu Laohan was blown up all of a sudden, the food is so expensive, how can this little animal be ruined, "Where is it?" I'm going to have to shoot it to death. ”

"Ran, it seems to have gone that way." Kewang pointed to the shacks not far away, where the families were located.

Before camping, they didn't join in the fun, and deliberately separated themselves from other people.

"Didn't get into the ground?" Liu Laohan asked, "That's not a vole, it must have escaped from these people's guys, you wait, I'll settle accounts with them." ”