Qian Yimao chased his soldiers for a day, but did not catch anyone, but found unsettling clues, judging from the traces, the group of homeless people who did not know the specific number were scattered, and the clear footprints that could be found on the ground showed that people were constantly walking in different directions.

In order to chase these traces, Qian Yimao sent half of the soldiers he brought with him out in small groups to track them separately, and in the evening he waited for the soldiers to come back to gather at the place where he went ashore in the morning, and judged from the clues they brought back that the displaced people were roughly divided into two directions, one was to look for nearby villages, and the other was to go over the mountains in the direction of Erma Town.

The soldiers didn't chase people, they chased the traces only half the way and then returned, otherwise they had to spend the night in the open air, but the clues gathered together were also available, and these two directions would not be wrong, if you found the wrong way to Erma Town after going over the mountain, the worst is to go to the beach.

After Qian Yimao returned to the camp, he discussed with his deputy, preparing to go straight to the village tomorrow.

"Those homeless people have some dry food at most, they can't stay in the wild, they must want to find a place to live temporarily, it's too difficult to climb the mountain, we don't care about the people who go over there, we will chase this gang to the village first."

"Okay, they're two days ahead of us, and if everything goes well, they've probably found the villagers, hoping that if they want to do harm, they can plague a village, and don't involve too many people."

"Think of something good, the average villager has always been wary of strangers, and they can't hurt too many people." The deputy patted Qian Yimao's shoulder, "Let's eat, the lord sent a boat to deliver something, Qi Ke took the boat to send some fresh vegetables and clean water, we had a meal at noon, this is specially reserved for you, otherwise that little vegetable will be gone a long time ago." ”

"Leafy greens? Fresh? Why didn't you say it earlier? Qian Yidime threw down his deputy and ran to the camp where he was cooking.

The deputy followed behind with a smile, "Qi Ke brought the words, saying that the water here is not clean, and every day she prepares a water bladder to send it by a hitchhiker, so that we can eat, drink and wash with water from the bladder, don't use it from the river." ”

Qian Yidime, who was already standing by the soup pot and waiting for a bowl of mixed vegetable soup, nodded very hard, "It's still Qi Ke careful, and she's not too troublesome, it's also tiring to fill so many water bladders every day." Did you tell everyone? Don't go to the river to fetch water, water with water bladders? ”

"As I said, the half of the people who are going with you will talk about it again when they eat, and everyone will tell each other."

After dinner, Qian Yimao wrote a letter to Qianhusuo, tired after a day's work, rested early, and the next morning he continued to cross the river with half of the soldiers to find the village, and the deputy who stayed behind waited for the boat that sent supplies to Qianhu to hand over things.

This time, after the goal was clear, I successfully picked up several homeless people who were frozen to death or half frozen to death after running down one day, and the thin clothes could not withstand the biting cold of the winter night, and what happened was predictable.

Whether they were frozen to death or half frozen, the officers and men did not pay attention to them, let alone help them, and walked away after checking the situation twice, for fear that they would be sick after touching them.

After verifying the guess that the homeless people were indeed looking for the village, Bai Jiajun didn't have time to wait for these homeless people to freeze to death, and everyone was more worried that there were already homeless people with better physical strength who had mixed into the village and passed on their illnesses to others, so after finding the first village, they called the village chief to inquire about the situation and asked him to check the strangers who had appeared in the village in the past few days.