All the way through Xiangzhou and Jingzhou, it was already the morning of the fourth day when I arrived at the boundary of Yuezhou.

After seeing and hearing along the way, Liu Ao knew that the people of Luoyang were already very happy. Liu Ao is still walking on the official road, just like this, when Liu Ao opens the gauze tent to look, he can occasionally see human bones on the side of the road. The grass on both sides is tall and shrubs.

Crops, even a little, are a small piece, a small piece, not far away a thatched herringbone house, a dozen or so constitute a small village. Sometimes after walking for half a day, it is rare to see a few villages. The real poor mountains and bad waters.

Only passing through Zhou City will there be more people, and compared with Luoyang, the difference is too far. So many fields are so barren that there are not as many crops as weeds.

When passing through the countryside, there are some places that are really miserable. And that's not the worst of it!

When Liu Ao continued to walk for dozens of miles, passing by a town, it was almost quiet and scary. There was a faint smell of blood. Not even a single leper dog walked around.

On the side of the empty road, a few children were really skinny, and even Liu Ao saw some old people, begging helplessly on the side of the road.

His eyes were numb, Liu Ao couldn't bear it, grabbed a handful of copper coins and put them into his broken bowl that could no longer see the color, but the old man shook his head: "Eat, give me something to eat." "The voice is hoarse, and it seems that it is difficult to speak.

Liu Ao looked at the old man puzzled. The old man seemed to have a hard time saying these words. "Money... Didn't use ......"

Liu Ao took out some dry food from the car and prepared some fried noodles for this long trip. There is salt and chopped green onions in it, and you can drink it with boiling water.

Liu Ao looked at the old man's bowl, which was almost dirty, so he took out one of his own bowls, there was no boiling water, and he wanted to burn it, but the old man poured out the copper coins in the bowl and stretched out the bowl to fry noodles.

Liu Ao poured him a bowl. The old man grabbed a handful and filled it into his mouth, Liu Ao was afraid that the old man would choke, so he hurriedly handed over a cowhide bag. Inside is filled with clean water.

The old man's cloudy eyes, tears flashing, and his chapped mouth squirmed, unable to speak, probably because he was too hungry, and drank several sips of water before swallowing the fried noodles.

The old man only took one bite, and then, staggering over to four or five skinny children, put the fried noodles into each child's little hand.

turned around and kowtowed to Liu Ao, Liu Ao hurriedly helped the old man. Seeing that the children had finished eating, they had left some for them, ready to leave, hula, not knowing where five or six beggar-like people in ragged clothes came out. One by one, they looked at the old man and the child with envy.

Liu Ao saw it and knew that he was gone, and these beggars would definitely go and grab the food. Ahem, I really don't know what's going on. So, everyone grabbed the fried noodles.

"Childe is from out of town, right?" A beggar who was also dressed in rags and had only one hand, his hair was stiff and stenched. Courage came to Liu Ao.

Liu Ao nodded.

"Go back, don't go ahead, it's all the same here. Ten rooms and nine emptiness! There's no one. Since earlier days. A group of robbers came, there were hundreds of them, and they robbed beautiful women when they saw them, and they robbed them when they saw what they could eat, and men who had a little strength were kidnapped, and they killed a lot of people.

Now, there are not many people in this 100-mile radius, and the families of these children were kidnapped by that group of robbers.

We are disabled, we are old, and we are still beggars who escaped, Childe, you see, how many of us poor people are normal people? ”

Liu Ao took a closer look, isn't it? The cripple of the cripple is either too old or too young. One by one, their faces were dirty. I'm afraid this town is over. It is estimated that there is no one else except these few people.

"Who are those?"

"I don't know, everyone was scared stupid at that time, they all wanted to live, it was a real robber, this town, house-to-house, as long as it was food, as long as it was livestock, as long as it was a strong man, all of them were taken away, women, killed and killed, raped, and everything that could be taken away......

The gang of robbers said that the Li family of the Tang Dynasty has no virtue, if you want to hate, you will hate the current emperor, if you want to live, go to Dongting Lake to join the gang, take a big sip of wine, a big mouthful of meat, and a woman. There is no shortage of the same.

In the past, there were a lot of merchants here, and they could ask for some food, but now, for more than half a month, there is no one, and there are a few passers-by, and when they hear the situation in front of them, they are frightened and go back. Those who could walk were gone, and just those of us who went out also died in the mountains.

I just stayed up like this, and I don't know when I couldn't survive it, but yesterday, one of them died, dying from eating poisonous mushrooms. Died a few days earlier under a fierce beast that didn't know what it was called.

We also walked around the town, without food, without any at all, and scavenged all the fine. Today, it's a dead town. At first, we were still taking care of these children, but now, we can't take care of them ourselves. The crops are not yet ripe, and they live by eating wild vegetables every day.

We were too old to hunt, and we caught snakes or something. We went to every house in this town, this town, and it was over. Estimate the town ahead of you.

Some of the dead corpses are stinking, there are maggots, and the son will give me some food, we have a little strength, see if we can go outside, stay here, sooner or later we will die. The first few towns, it is estimated that they are the same as here, Yuezhou City is estimated to be better, we can't go, it's too far, at least two hundred miles away, and I don't know what beasts we will encounter along the way. ”

Liu Ao left half of those fried noodles and handed them over to the old man, so that they could arrange for their lives. I got into the car with a heavy heart, and it was different from what I thought!

It's also ancient, and it's for the ghosts! What is this for? Three-light policy? Could it be that just these hard-nosed ragtag armies can toughly confront Li Shimin's well-trained generals? Are you kidding?

It's all here, there's no reason to turn back!

"Uncle Muzi, let's keep walking." Liu Ao, who got into the carriage, pondered for a moment, and then continued to move forward.

The road was really depressed, and almost all the dead bodies could be seen on the side of the road, and there were traces of wild beasts having eaten them. There are almost no pedestrians on the road. The first time Xiaolian went out, she was still so free, the young master was different from the old master, the young master had no shelf, so that the two of them gradually regained some of the charm and curiosity that a girl should have. Almost all the way I was looking out curiously.

At ten o'clock in the afternoon, when he came to a mountain forest, Muzi drove the carriage to the jungle on the side of the road, and saw the dumb uncle in the woods, roasting an unknown animal, it seemed to be a deer, anyway, it had horns, very similar.

I really don't know, how did the dumb uncle get in front of him?

"It's a big trouble, Yuezhou City is really controlled by thieves, the city gate is closed, the old man has sneaked in, it's okay inside, but this carriage really can't get in! Now you can enter, only from the south gate, among the four gates, now only the south gate is open and there is still in and out, however, the check is very strict.

It's not easy to go around to Nancheng, Liu Gongzi might as well rest here, and wait for the old man to explore the way around Nancheng tonight. After getting out of the car, everyone sat around, and the dumb uncle began to talk about the results of his inquiry.

The method of barbecue is still the kind that Liu Ao eats, he has roasted whole sheep in the school, and Uncle Dumb has eaten it once and learned it. It's really hard for him, a lot of seasoning is brought out.

"Eat first, eat while you go, and everyone discuss." Liu Ao took a piece of meat that had been roasted from Uncle Dumb, and said while eating, this matter is not in a hurry. Open the south city gate, there is a reason to open the south city gate, a dead city, it will not last long.

"How far is Dongting Lake from the South City Gate?" Liu Ao said coldly...... (Ask for collection)