Chapter 519: It's Worse

Along the way, fortunately, Luo Wuyi sang a few words from time to time, and was able to discuss the plot of some dramas with Bai Susu, which made Bai Susu gradually come out in contemplation.

The environment is becoming more and more desolate, even the trees are much less green, and occasionally a few trees are seen standing there alone, without the slightest summer vitality.

The sun in the sky was unobstructed, and it shone on the people hot.

Even the wind that blew in was terrible.

This is already the case before the hottest hour, so what will happen in a few days?

Bai Susu was considerate of the guards outside, but now was not their day to rest, they could only take a short rest when they entered the mountains and forests, but they still couldn't stop on the road.

Although there are fewer plants, there are more and more people on the road.

Some of them didn't know how far they had gone, and their eyes lit up when they saw their team.

Fortunately, there are guards guarding by the side, and there is Chu Hengyu who explained, once he finds out that he stepped forward directly, if he doesn't accept the small amount of food they give and wants to take more, he will do it directly, so there will be no last incident.

The heat of the weather and the shortage of food caused the people on the road to gradually become heavy and aimless.

Those who have left their hometowns do not know where they are going, but are just following the people in front of them. Maybe when they come across a city that is willing to take them in, their walk will be over.

Bai Susu occasionally lifted the curtain and looked outside, and those thin children followed the large army, as if they had already known what they had experienced, and when they looked at the carriage, their eyes were full of envy.

I have also heard a few children ask their parents in confusion why Bai Susu can sit in the carriage.

The parents just looked at the carriage, sighed heavily, carried the child on their backs, and took heavy steps again.

Seeing that the food he carried along the way was about to be distributed quickly, Chu Hengyu could only order to speed up the journey again.

As a result, even sitting in the carriage did not have the stability before.

If it weren't for the scorching sun outside, Chu Hengyu would even have the urge to ride a horse directly with Bai Susu.

Bai Susu has never fainted the carriage since she came here, although this carriage is not as comfortable as the car in her previous life, but in the end, she doesn't have to turn her legs upside down, and she is also happy.

Now it is a solid experience of ancient motion sickness.

At night, the people had to stay at the foot of the mountain.

The only family here is still a hunter, and when they saw everyone coming, they finally ate rice that they hadn't eaten for many days.

Orion usually relied on hunting in the mountains to earn some silver taels, or directly exchanged for rice and noodles, but when this drought came, even the wild animals on the mountains were much more ferocious, and the smaller ones were eaten a lot by fierce beasts, and he could only barely pick up some leftovers to fill his stomach.

Hearing that Chu Hengyu and his party were going north, Orion could only persuade him.

The drought in the north was much worse than in their place, and I heard that many people began to dig into the ground to eat the soil.

Bai Susu's eyes widened, is there really anything to eat soil?

Orion shook his head again and again, and tears fell to the ground as he spoke of the appearance of some of the homeless people who passed by him.

"Those people are so pitiful, all the thin ones are only skin and bones, it is said that this drought is just in time like this, the old grain is almost eaten and the new grain is gone, but can you only starve?"

Bai Susu hurriedly asked, "Where did the relief food sent by the imperial court go before?" And don't the cities also have granaries? ”

General Orion looked around, and the smile on his face was gloomy.

"I think you are all members of a big family, and even the guards are much better than us ordinary people, how do you know the life of ordinary people?"

Bai Susu pursed her lips, she is not a lady, but she has a troupe that can rely on the government to eat, and she can be regarded as having food and clothing, and the situation at home is indeed different from when she didn't come.

But if she is an ordinary person, she is not an ordinary person.

After all, Kyoto is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, that is, they have to be jealous of what they want to do, unlike here, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, which one cares what you mean?

As long as the things handed in are clean, no one can find out at all.

On the second day, with the guidance of Orion, everyone was able to successfully cross the mountain, and in order to express his gratitude, Chu Hengyu asked people to leave him some food, which was enough for him to eat for a while.

Originally, Orion didn't want it, but Chu Hengyu said that he would exchange it for the fox skin in his house, and the other party happily accepted it.

Bai Susu also wanted to laugh at him for actually using the food of the government for his own personal gain, it seems that he is not a clean official, who would have thought that the fox skin was in Chu Hengyu's hands for a while, and then he turned his head and sent it to her.

"This jacket made of fox fur is comfortable, and when you go back, let Madame Bai make you some winter jackets, even if it is not close-fitting, it will be warmer."

Bai Susu suddenly remembered the matter of cotton, now that the weather is dry, it is better to plant cotton, and it is good to keep out the cold in winter.

Chu Hengyu didn't expect that there would be such plants, so he hurriedly wrote a letter, asking people to send them back to Kyoto in a hurry, and everything was left to the emperor to decide.

After passing the mountain, the group seemed to have entered another world.

It's desolate, and as far as the eye can see, it's all about loess.

The wind is no longer only hot, but also dusty.

Bai Susu felt that his breath was mixed with countless dust, and his eyes were even more veiled.

Chu Hengyu remembered that he had read in the history books that this place was still lush a hundred years ago, but he didn't know when it became what it is today.

There is no river, no trees, and even grass is hard to see, so it's no wonder that this is not the case.

Bai Susu muttered secretly.

Chu Hengyu also heard it in his heart, and felt more and more that Bai Susu seemed to have his own unique views on these issues, so he said a few words to her, but the more he said it, the more he found that Bai Susu's thinking was really different from theirs.

But all the governance plans that Bai Susu said, Chu Hengyu recorded them one by one, and once again asked someone to send them back to Kyoto.

The next stop they made was Lok Lam Mansion.

The name sounds wet, but the whole city seems to be built of loess, and everywhere is filled with the smell of dust.

The people on the street have no skin darker than them, even the whites of their eyes are yellow, and the clothes on their bodies don't know how long they have been worn, looking at the sand that has been stained with a layer of dust.

When the prefect heard that the people had entered the city, he hurriedly came with an official messenger to greet them.

Bai Susu looked at it at this time, it turned out that this prefect was not much better, look at the dust all over his body, the official uniform must have not been washed for a month, right?

The prefect also noticed the gaze of the group, and even if he was embarrassed, he could not see the blessing of the black face.

"The situation in Luolin Mansion is worse than that of other prefectures, and our side is already dry and rainless, so the situation is even worse this year, and we can't exchange food with other prefectures."

The official documents were piled up everywhere by the prefect, and I didn't know that the group was coming, and I didn't have time to clean it up.