Hucheng has always been a troubled city in the Qin State, and there is no remedy for floods every year, not to mention that there is a locust plague this year.

Before the autumn harvest arrived, tens of thousands of locusts swept through Hucheng, making the people's year's work wasted.

The official yamen seemed to be accustomed to the natural disasters in Hucheng, and did not post notices, nor did they open warehouses to release grain, let alone appease the people.

All in all, each family sweeps the snow in front of their own door, and doesn't care about the frost on the tiles of others.

The rich and noble don't have to worry, they have food and drink, no different from usual.

Food is rising day by day until it rises to sky-high prices.

The price rose from one tael of silver and twenty liters of rice to one tael of gold and ten liters of rice.

Unable to afford the sky-high price of food, the peasants began to look for a way out, taking the family's remaining rations and going to other places.

The long avenue is endless, and the cold wind is raging, rolling up the loess underground, covering the entire earth like a light veil.

"Ahem, ahem!"

Thousands of refugees walked this long avenue with great difficulty, and not a single one of them was not disgraced and filthy.

"Sister, do you think we can find Daddy?" The dirty, thin young man asked, grabbing the arm of the woman beside him.

Like the other refugees, the woman was in ragged clothes and her face was covered with mud and plaster, so she could not see what she was.

However, the black and white eyes are exceptionally clear and transparent, as if the spring in the mountain and the stream under the waterfall can very clearly reflect the charm of people's facial features.

"Yes, we will definitely be able to find Dad, so at ease, you must hold on and not fall." The woman looked at the thin skull-like face and couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

One moment she ate and drank a lot and went to Huangquan without hesitation, and the next moment she became a skinny starving ghost.

After several rebirths, Lin Xingyu summed up a cookie-cutter characteristic, that is, the author has never been a mother.

The identity given to her is either a poor jingle or a pitiful little person with no status, or a glamorous assassin who licks blood from the knife and must always be vigilant.

Moreover, the tasks given are more difficult than the other, and the previous task at least has a direction to work on, but this time, it makes her feel like she is punching the cotton and is powerless.

Lose the identity of the female partner and turn over to be a queen, take the thieves to fight the world, and have a strong position with the male protagonist, this is not a lamp in the pit - (looking for death)!

"Sister, I'm not going to be able to do it, can we rest for a while?" Comfortably grabbed Lin Xingyu's dusty sleeves and gasped.

Lin Xingyu glanced back at the crowd of people who were sitting down to rest, nodded, and pulled the young man to the side of the road and sat down.

"Drink some water." Reach out and untie the water bladder on your waist and hand it to the boy.

Zizi licked his chapped lips and shook his head: "Sister, I'm not thirsty, you drink!" ”

Lin Xingyu's eyes softened more and more when he looked at the very sensible young man in front of him: "Good, drink a little and moisten your throat." ”

They came out of Hucheng, and they didn't see any water source on the way, except for a small stream, so all the water bladders on her body were empty except for the bag she was holding in her hand at the moment.

Zizi continued to shake his head, sniffed and said: "Sister, along the way, you always save food and drink for me, so you fell to the ground last night, but it frightened me, I thought at the time, if sister, you just let go of chasing my mother, I don't have any interest in living, it is better to find a tree and hang myself to find my sister and mother, in this way, we can be regarded as a family reunion." ”

Lin Xingyu said with a straight face: "Comfortable, don't talk nonsense, even if your sister dies, you still have a father, as long as you recognize your father, he won't ignore you." ”

From last night, she knew that the owner of this body was starving to death.

It took more than a month to walk all the way from Hucheng to here, and the little rations they brought with them had already been eaten.

Many people starved to death along the way, and their mother, Liu, was one of them.

Liu came out of the house with a pair of children, afraid that the children would starve, so she reduced her rations, and then the food became less and less day by day, she simply did not eat or drink and tightened her belt to live, and in the end, she ended up starving to death.

The owner of this body, Lin Youran, is not much better, after her mother Liu died, she was afraid that her younger brother Lin Zi would starve, so she followed her mother's old path, and returned to Huangquan last night.

"I'm thirteen years old this year, my father has been away from home for almost ten years, I don't remember what he looks like, and I don't have any feelings for him, but my sister and mother are all I have, and now my mother is gone, I only have my sister left, if my sister is also ......." Lin Zizi's voice became smaller and quieter, and even cried with fear.

Lin Xingyu let out a long sigh, stretched out his hand to hug the young man's thin body with only a handful of bones left, patted his scolding back, and his voice was as soft as water: "Don't be afraid, my sister will always accompany you." ”

Lin Zizi only felt that after last night, her sister seemed to be more and more gentle, like a bright lamp, shining on the whole body of the person who was warm.

"Yikes! Why is the front so heavy dust? ”

"Boom....!"

"What sound? Did you hear that? ”

A sudden thunderous noise in the distance brought up countless heavy dust, blocking all eyes from the outside world.

"It's not good, it's a horse thief, run!"

"Ahh Mother....! ”

"The horse thief is coming, run!"

The sound grew louder, and several blurred shadows slowly appeared in the distance.

Lin Xingyu hurriedly grabbed Lin Zizi's arm, led him into the crowd, and ran forward with his nursing feet.

The refugees are like headless flies, fleeing for their lives in a haphazard manner.

Although the avenue is wide, it cannot accommodate thousands of people at the same time.

Soon, the stampede was born.

But no one cares about the lives of others to stop.

I just know that in order to survive, I have to keep running forward.

Can two legs really outrun a four-legged horse?

The answer doesn't matter anymore, because the sound of horses' hooves is already close to the pinna.

"Sister." Lin Zizai was pulled by Lin Xingyu, Lin Xingyu pressed Lin Zizai, and made him also put on a posture of not resisting and surrendering, and squatted on the ground with his head down.

The surrounding crowd, like their brothers and sisters, squatted on the ground and raised their hands in surrender.

"Big brother, today's harvest is good, I caught so many fat sheep at once."

"Hahaha, it's all the credit of the sixth brother."

"Big brother, how dare the little brother be greedy, if it weren't for the fact that the eldest brother had a little friendship with the county guard, how would we know that this batch of fat sheep would take this path."

"Don't talk so much, small ones, go down and count the number of fat sheep, and wait for a good price to be negotiated, enough for the big guys to eat and drink for a while."

One by one, hundreds of sword-wielding thieves dismounted, took out thumb-thick ropes, and tied the refugees' hands one by one.