On a late autumn night, the lanterns on the wooden poles at the entrance of the inn were blown out, and the wind blew through the alleys, blowing the window paper, and making a rattle.

The guests staying in the inn slept peacefully, including Su Guoguo's family. Outside the inn, people sleeping on the streets slept quietly.

Early the next morning, Su Guoguo's family had breakfast, packed the leftover roast chicken and roast duck, salted eggs and peanuts from last night, and put them in the carriage. In the end, Su Guoguo settled the account, two rooms, a table of food, bath water, plus breakfast in the morning, and spent a total of five taels of silver! Su Guoguo took the returned silver, and then asked his mother and brother to watch the carriage on the side of the street, and ran to Tianren Pharmacy by himself, wanting to find a man to help drive the carriage.

On the way to Tianren Pharmacy, Su Guoguo saw the corpse collection team of the government, and a few old officials who were so dark that they pushed a cart full of corpses and threw the people who froze to death last night to a mass grave in the suburbs.

The pedestrians on the road, only Su Guoguo looked at the corpses on the carts with curious eyes, because people who froze to death in winter are really common things in this northern county, and no one will care about such a thing.

Not much to say, Su Guoguo hired a guy named Xiaochun, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old peasant child, his face was still a little red, he didn't like to talk, and he was a little shy.

He drove the carriage and took Su Guoguo's family, bumpy all the way, after noon, and finally entered the boundary of Liaonan County, but there is still a lot of distance from the county seat.

Along the way, the wind blew the fallen leaves, and the ground was golden, Su Guoguo saw that it was the same scenery as Wusu County, but her heart had a different state of mind at that time. It was a, dilapidated, a lifeless, oppressive feeling.

A village appeared in front of him, but Koharu urged the horses a few hundred meters in advance, preparing to bypass the village.

Xiaochun explained to Su Guoguo, "There is a famine year and a plague, people are sometimes more terrible than ghosts, so it's better to avoid them as much as possible." ”

When Su Guoguo heard this, he felt a chill in his back unconsciously, when he was a child, he heard some horror stories told to the countryside during the disaster, and it was very terrible to think about. At that time, she was sometimes scared to wake up in her dreams, but she didn't expect that now she can really go deep into it.

The carriage skirted the village and stumbled along a forest road. Su Guoguo suddenly heard the cry, and unconsciously raised his eyes to look for it, and found that under a tree, there was a woman in tattered clothes, and a thin boy who looked five or six years old was wrapped in a torn cotton jacket, kneeling beside the woman and crying.

"Koharu, stop."

Xiaochun didn't stop, but slowed down the speed of the carriage and persuaded Su Guoguo, "Miss Su, you better don't be nosy." ”

"Hey. Look at how pitiful that child is, giving a steamed bun is also a kindness. ”

Xiaochun said indifferently, "You gave him steamed buns, he is full this meal, but at night, he will still die, it's just a waste of food." ”

Su Guoguo was not angry at his indifference, but still told him to stop the car.

Su Guoguo asked for two steamed buns, got out of the car, and held them up in front of the children. "Hungry, aren't you?"

The child died of his mother, very sad, but hungry, looking at the steamed buns, his eyes were full of tears, and he looked at the steamed buns with timid and eager eyes, and nodded.

Su Guoguo stuffed the steamed bun to the child and said, "Do you know how to get around Liaonan County?" ”

"Hmm. In, in front ....... ”

Su Guoguo nodded, pointed to the corpse under the tree and said, "Child, if you want to live, eat steamed buns, just cover your mother." You go to Liaonan County, there may be a way to live. It's a dead end for you to stay here, you know? ”

The child bit the steamed bun, summed up his tearful face, and nodded.

"Uh-huh......."

Su Guoguo didn't dare to touch his face because he was so dirty. Su Guoguo just smiled, stood up, and went back to the carriage.

The carriage continued.

My mother and brother asked about it.

Su Guoguo said, "I gave them two steamed buns." Then tell him that his mother will go to Liaonan County, where there may be a way to live. ”

When Su Shi heard this, his eyes turned red, and he wiped his tears and said to Suning Shang, "If there is no fruit, I am afraid that our mother and daughter will have to end up like that child." ”

Suning Shang Chang sighed and said, "Yes." Perhaps, it was Guoguo who knelt on the ground and cried. ”

Su Guoguo sighed in his heart, and said with a wry smile: "Mother, brother!" Look at you, why are you talking about this, it's so unlucky. Our family won't, how can we become like that, no. Our family is ...... in winter Don't you want to eat sauerkraut and stewed potatoes in winter? ”

In a word, the three of them were brought out.

Koharu, a taciturn person, heard the sauerkraut potatoes and began to turn into chatter!

Chatting about the topic of sauerkraut and potato soup, the carriage ran a long way again, and the topic came to an abrupt end. Because, on this road, there are a lot of people lying down! Some of them are hard, covered with golden leaves, and a little breathy, but it's almost like dead.

Then seeing such a scene, even a scholar like Suning Shang hesitated again and again, and didn't say anything about distributing the food in the car to these people.

They are sick and hungry, and most of them have been buried in the loess! As Koharu said, eating is also a waste of food. Su Guoguo thought so in his heart.

Koharu hit the horse and walked quickly, and soon left this wild road that would make people feel melancholy just thinking about it.

After more than an hour, Su Guoguo couldn't see the shadow of Liaonan County, and looked at the sky, feeling a little anxious. She totaled a car full of food, if she entered Liaonan County in the dark and let Chen Gongzi see it, what would she think.

"Koharu, how long will it take to arrive!"

"Miss Su, don't worry. Do you see that big flagpole in front of you? It was Honghua Village in southern Liaoning, and when I arrived here, I walked three or five miles to Liaonan County. ”

"Oh. Let's hurry. Otherwise, your hosts would be in a hurry. ”

Koharu smiled bitterly, "I want to be fast, too." But this animal has been running for a day, and no matter how fast it is, it will run away to death, and the shopkeeper can't explain it. ”

As he spoke, the flagpole became bigger and bigger, and there were three words on it: flag, book, and Honghua Village.

Compared to the villages I passed by before, I felt a rather friendly popularity before I entered here.

The weather in the village is different, the carriage has not entered the village, and the wind blows and there is a smell of traditional Chinese medicine.

After the carriage entered the village, Su Guoguo saw the sign of Tianren Pharmacy, as well as tents, cauldrons, gurgling herbs boiling, and many villagers were waiting in line.

Xiao Chun's face began to show a smug look, and when he saw someone, he greeted him, and Su Guoguo asked him, only to know that Xiao Chun was from Honghua Village.

"Alas! Miss Sue! Miss Su, you're here! ”

Su Guoguo suddenly came back to her senses, looked for a sound, and saw that next to the steaming cauldron, Bao Zhaowen and Qi Shun beckoned to her