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Early the next morning, there was little smoke in the forest, and the people snuggled together to keep each other warm.

Last night gave everyone a good day, although the wind blew all night, but fortunately there was no snow.

Li Chongjiu ordered Tanzong to lead people to find two or three people who could play drums, give them a few drums dropped by Wang Mazi's men, and beat the drums with their hands in front.

Li Chongjiu told the people, if you don't hear the sound of the drum, it means that you are left behind.

In the jungle, there was a lot of rubbing, and when the time came, everyone had finished tidying up, and the sky was still dark, and there was only a little light in the east, and all the people began to walk together.

Li Chongjiu and Tanzong are leading Ding Zhuang's men together, as well as the brothers of Shaolin Temple, leading the way in front, and the people are following behind, not arranging the army behind the palace, if they can't follow, they can only listen to their own convenience.

Among the people who walked, the old and the young joined hands and supported the elderly, and the women held their babies in their arms, taking care of each other and moving forward. The voice of calling for the mother all the way is not stopped.

Li Chongjiu personally led the young man in the front, maintaining a forward speed of three or four kilometers per hour, and resting every two hours, while Li Chongjiu sent ten such scouts from time to time to the front to reconnoiter the terrain.

Traveled for most of the day, there was a 20 zhang wide river in front, asked the road people know that it is the Shushui River, straight into the Yellow River, if it is along the river upstream, you can go to Jiangxian.

In winter, there is no need to worry about flooding along the river, Li Chongjiu is stationed by the river. The people, regardless of the cold of the river, jumped into the river, caught fish, picked up some mussels and snails, and directly smashed them with stones to eat.

However, there are more than 3,000 monks, and there are many porridges here, and the fish in the river are finished in a few clicks. However, Li Chongjiu ordered Qingzhuang to go out together, took dozens of large nets, and went directly to the shallow place upstream to catch fish, but he caught nearly 200 catties of fish.

Li Chongjiu ordered more than a dozen women to start cooking the nearly 200 catties of fish, so that each young man took a head to eat, except for a small amount of one head for the women and children who took care of the children, and the rest were all bandaged and used as emergency military rations.

The next day, at this hour, Li Chongjiu continued to beat the drum for three consecutive days.

Tracing the river straight up the Shushui River is getting shallower and shallower, and the more you go, the less food you eat, so Li Chongjiu decided to turn back to the official road. There is no river water, and everyone is hungry all day.

That night, Li Chongjiu counted the number of people and found that in the past three days, a total of more than 200 people had left or disappeared, some of whom were physically unable to keep up with the team, and some of them left voluntarily, but the departure of more than 200 people was also counted as normal.

From Hedong County to Jiangxian County for two more days, and two days without food, the people who followed Li Chongjiu had vegetables on their faces, and they were walking more and more slowly, many people were hungry and cold, and they fell to the ground halfway and could not afford to do it again.

Seeing this, Li Chongjiu knew that he could no longer hold on, and when he entered the territory of Xia County, Li Chongjiu decided to take Tan Zong and more than 20 others into the city to buy grain.

After bribing the soldiers defending the city, Li Chongjiu and Tanzong entered the city. Xia County's precautions were loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and at least two regiments (Note 1) of county soldiers were stationed in the city.

At present, the huge flow of people in Xia County is full, and it is full of people. At first, Li Chongjiu thought that it was because he was attacked and harassed by the displaced people, so the people in the nearby villages had to go into the city to take refuge, but later he inquired and learned that most of the people stationed in the city were business travelers.

This Hedong County to Jiang County was originally the main road for Lu salt (Note 2) to Taiyuan County. However, in the front of Jiangxian County and Fenyang County, there are more than 100,000 bandits such as Chai Baochang and Mu Duan'er, and the officers and soldiers are unable to open up the official road at the moment.

As soon as this salt road was broken, not only did the people who relied on it for food worry up, but they were more anxious vendors.

You must know that from the Central Plains to Shanxi and Hebei, you must pass through the Yellow River. Above the Yellow River, there are three main ferries, namely Pujin, Mengjin and Baimajin.

Pujin is located in the east of Xijing, and the river can be crossed from Guanzhong to Hedong Shanxi, and it is also the road that Li Chongjiu has just passed from Xijing to Hedong.

And Mengjin is in the north of Luoyang, crossing the river to Hanoi County, which is also the Zhou Wu King destroyed Yin Shang, will be 800 princes swear to the place, Li Chongjiu from Shangdang County at least the mountain, is from this to cross the Yellow River.

However, due to the looting of the Cao boats in Wagangzhai, the officers and soldiers not only blocked the Heyang pontoon bridge, but also detained all the ferries at the ferry, and the guide Li Chongjiu had to make a big circle and cross the river from Pujin. As for Baimajin, needless to say, it is the hardest hit area of banditry right now.

Therefore, the east of the river is broken, and it is impossible to pass through Taiyuan County, so a large number of traders are blocked here.

After Li Chongjiu heard about it, he really wanted to take this business by the way, but the businessmen didn't trust them, and they were a group of homeless people.

Therefore, Li Chongjiu could only go to the rice shop in the city to buy rice.

It's okay not to buy rice, but when you buy rice, your knowledge has really increased a lot, and even two or three rice shops in the city are hanging up the signs that are sold out, and the only rice shop in operation is a sea of people, hundreds of people are holding rice bags, shouting and looking outside the door.

Many young men beat each other for a good position, the old people are stamping their feet, the children are crying, the order is very chaotic, and the county soldiers guarding the rice shop on the side are doing nothing, purely holding spears, either watching happily or looking at the sky.

"Senior brother, don't worry, you can see that I have a pair of fists and a way out, and I will definitely buy rice and grain today."

There are many people who have seen it, but Tan Zong is eager to try.

Li Chongjiu squeezed out of the crowd, shook his head, and said, "There is no need to line up." ”

"Why?" "One hundred and twenty dollars a bucket!" Li Chongjiu burst out these words in a deep voice.

"Cannibalism!" Tan Zong couldn't help but exclaim.

"Such rice merchants should be killed." Li Chongjiu hated and said, it is really a troubled era to eat people, in the seventh year of the great cause, the price of rice is six wen a bucket, to this year, Xijing is forty wen a bucket, now down Xia County, full of rice even if it is expensive, it should not exceed sixty wen a bucket, and it has risen to the point where it is today, it can only be said that the rice merchants are hoarding and taking the opportunity to raise the price of grain.

"No conscience, no conscience! For this one hundred and twenty yuan, I actually bought rancid rice. An old man walked by with half a sack of rice hanging his head.

"It's good to eat." The people on the side comforted, facing the old man half a bag of rice, with a greedy look in his eyes.

In such a world, it is no wonder that everyone is opposed, in this Xia County, where all industries are depressed, only the people next door can compete with the rice market. The people there are selling their sons and daughters, and there are people everywhere who have grass sticks on their heads to be sold, and girls of twelve or thirteen years old, as long as they sell, can buy one home as a slave and a maid for two or three dollars.

Let's go, let's find a way, Li Chongjiu took one last look at the rice market and said, it's not that he doesn't buy rice, but even if he buys rice, he takes out all the money on his body, which is not enough for three thousand homeless people to eat one meal.

It's too expensive to afford.

Li Chongjiu, Tan Zong came out of the rice market, and was passing by an inn in the city when he suddenly heard a heavy hammer inside.

I saw a woman in a fancy red dress, kicked on the table, and shouted: "You are such a market slave, you have actually bullied the old lady, have you ever seen a fist with a sandbag?" Li Chongjiu heard the familiar voice, turned his head to look, and looked at the woman in the inn, who was furious, it was Sun Erniang, the dart head of the Li family's dart bureau.

Note 1: The military system of Sui County, two brigades and one regiment, 200 people, and school captains.

Note 2: Lu salt is the salt produced in the salt pond of Jiezhou.