In the first month or two, they were barely able to survive, but as the drought got worse and worse, as some of the wealthy merchants in the town began to flee, and as the refugees began to appear.

Everybody knows it's not good.

Ordinary civilians are running out of food.

Who will give alms to beggars?

In the past, some restaurants might have left some leftovers for them, but now there are basically no leftovers in those restaurants, and even if there is, they are all covered by the staff in the restaurant.

What will be left for them to eat?

So it's naturally harder for small beans to survive.

In the end, he was still in pain, so he took them all to the small courtyard where he lived, and spent all the money in his hand to buy food, and bought a lot of high-priced food, hoping to use this food to survive this disaster with all the children.

But they all underestimated the length of the drought.

It also underestimates the madness of human nature.

After more than four months of drought and complete despair of the harvest in the fields, the town began to flee from the famine, and by this time the powerful had already fled, and even the county magistrate had already left his post and fled with his family in a hurry.

The rest are no more than ordinary people.

Or barely the existence of kulaks.

In fact, the real reluctance of the local people to leave is still some rich peasants, who may not only have real estate in this area, or even if they do not change the real estate, they also have the money to live elsewhere, buy another piece of land, and then return with the title deed to take back the land when the drought is over.

The very poor ones have no land at all, or they are hired farmers themselves, and when they find that the situation is not right, many of them directly drag their families and beg all the way to the south to beg for a living.

Only those who are not up or down, who have land, are not particularly poor, but they are not particularly rich.

They will be particularly reluctant to give up the field.

I'm afraid that if I leave the field, I will be gone.

Even though some of the rivers have dried up, they are still scrambling to dig wells and get the last bucket of water from the mountains and wells, hoping to revive the seedlings and rice seedlings that have almost dried up completely in the fields.

But these are all useless work.

Four months later, they had to admit that they couldn't save the season's grain, but even if they wanted to sell their fields and leave, no one would buy them.

for all the truly rich have fled.

At this time, everyone can go again, there are even fewer things to take with them, and even drinking water along the way is a problem, and the previous group of hired farmers who left earlier may have basically eaten up the food that is easier to find along the way, and the grass roots that are still delicious have basically been eaten, and when the rest of the people go on the road again, those who have stock can still eat some of the stock they carry, and those who do not have stock can only eat tree bark, and wait to starve to death, or break through the limit and do evil and eat people.

At this time, because the only well in the yard had completely dried up, he had to take the remaining food and children and run south together.

She is a woman with a group of underage children, and then she also brought a lot of food, how can she not attract the attention of others, life and death are at stake, so what etiquette and morality are there?

The original body was robbed without accident.

If it weren't for a few kind helps.

None of them will be able to save their lives.

But even so, the original body and the twenty-one children were basically exhausted, and after that, they no longer dared to get together with the crowd, but only dared to sneak away from the crowd and follow along.

Along the way, the original body would often go out and sell some jewelry and other gadgets he was carrying, although he couldn't get much food, but he could finally let everyone eat something and not starve to death.

And then there's the other victims.

Pick grass roots together and find tree bark.

Barely sustaining life.

Because the original body has always been hungry, she doesn't know if she is too hungry, anyway, she just eats as little as possible, only a little bit every day, and then says that she is full, and basically gives those children everything she can find.

I was hungry and hungry all the time.

I starved to death.

Before he died, he was still thinking about those children.

After that, there was the traction of the arbor.

As for the way of the world today.

Obviously not much better.

If the world had been good, there would have been no drought for six months, and there would have been no relief.

In the memory of the original body, the current ruler is only twelve years old Emperor Yuanhe, and then at this time by the Queen Mother regent, at the same time, the country seems to have disasters everywhere, and there are many families divided, in short, since the death of the first emperor six years ago, the whole country has not been very peaceful, if it were not for the fact that their area is relatively desolate, it is estimated that before the drought comes, it may have fallen into chaos.

In short, this is a troubled time.

As for whether it is the end of the dynasty.

It's hard to say about this arbor.

Because although the situation in various places was relatively chaotic at this time, the general trend of the imperial court was relatively stable.

And there are millions of troops on all sides of the country.

By this time, the counterinsurgency had already been effective.

In addition, this dynasty was only established one hundred and sixty-eight years ago at this time, so it is really difficult to say whether this is a catastrophe of decline or a catastrophe of the end.

It depends on whether there is a Ming monarch and a virtuous minister.

Yes, it is a decline, and it can even be a boom.

No, that's the catastrophe of decline.

Knowing this, the arbors immediately understood that the hill might not be too safe, and they would have to go to a more remote place.

Because according to the history of the arbor and the various circumstances he has experienced in the past, the six-month drought will not end easily, even if it will be alleviated after the winter, it will not be alleviated in the second year.

And that's just the best possible.

The worst could be a drought for several years in a row.

It's not like this hasn't happened before.

Either way, however, it is already time for the autumn harvest, and if there is no more relief grain, then here, and indeed in all the arid regions, will inevitably set off an extremely large peasant uprising.

The situation will definitely be more chaotic by then.

Once accidentally caught in it.

It's going to be hard to get out.

So Qiao Mu had to prepare early.

Try to be as remote as possible, more remote.

More no-man's place to go.

After all, all she was carrying were children.

We can't afford so many disasters and shocks.

Because Qiao Mu thought a lot and made a lot of plans that night, it was naturally more difficult to get up the next day, until Xiaodouzi and they finally went out to collect a small bowl of dew and came back, and Qiao Mu opened his eyes.

Seeing that they were all there, Qiao Mu immediately beckoned Xiaodouzi and them over, and began to say:

"Little Bean, we still have to go to a more remote place, so that it can be safer, you don't need to worry about the food, the gods left me a lot.

Enough for us to eat all the way.

The most important thing for us now is safety.

The rarer the human track, the safer we are.

What do you guys think? ”