When the ship docked, it was already the second half of the night.

After seeing those strange gray-robed people walk away, several people took a long breath against the river and sat down.

After crossing the river and then to the north, horses are strategic materials, civilians can't buy them even if they have money, if they're lucky, they should be able to buy donkeys or mules, and if they're unlucky, they can only walk by foot.

After sitting for a while, the three of them all felt that there were always some weeds blown into their noses by the wind, and when they rubbed them in their hands, they felt like hair.

So they got up, found a leeward hillside and sat down, lit a fire, took off their boots and leggings that had just been wet on the surface of the river, and began to bake.

By the time they were done preparing to rest, it was already dawning, and the three of them were still on duty as before, and it was Bai Ling's turn tonight.

She looked at the changing canopy in the east, and as the sun rose, she began to see everything around her—including the "weeds" that had been blown to her cheeks by the wind since the night, and they were indeed broken hairs that had been blown up by the wind.

After daybreak, the wind weakened a little, but as soon as the wind picked up, it carried the fluff and dust and turned into a light gray sand mist.

Bai Ling had never seen such a scene, she only thought it strange at first, until the sky was brighter, she lowered her head, only to realize that the "stone" that she had kicked aside last night because of her back pain was half a human skull.

She was suddenly frightened to the cold of her hands and feet, and when she got up and looked at it again, the white bones were more than this small piece in front of her—on all sides were the withered grass that had withered and yellowed in autumn, and between the decaying and withered grass, there were scattered yellowed and weathered dry bones.

Most of these bones are scattered on the ground, and it is difficult to discern the parts of the body that once belonged except for the spine, hip bones, and skull.

The edges of the white bones were rough and uneven, and they might have been gnawed by wild beasts, some of them were neatly cut, and there were even scorched marks.

The mist of the river drifted from the Jian'an River, and Bai Ling could not sit still any longer, so she stood up alone in the morning fog and climbed up the small dirt slope on which they had leaned last night.

The plains in front of you stretch as far as the eye can see, and some of the trees in the distance are only dead branches, while others are still green. The yellow sand rolls up and jumps on the uninhabited road in the distance, and there is no trace of people as far as the eye can see.

In the vast world, there was only the chirping of birds from nowhere, and the slight breathing of Mu Cheng and Li Yiru behind them.

……

After dawn, several people did not delay, quickly got up and went to the river to draw water and came back, boiled the bamboo tube they had picked up and put it into the water bladder, and then continued in the direction of the north.

The trio quickly found the official road, which was covered in sand and dust, but had apparently been cleared.

Bai Ling had never seen so many human bones piled on the side of the road in her previous life and in her life, and at dawn earlier, she had tried to dig some pits and bury these bones in one place, but later found that what she saw at that time was a drop in the ocean.

From the official road all the way to the north, these dry bones have hardly been broken.

Although the roads are overgrown with weeds, it is not difficult to see from the ridges during this period that the land was once fertile land for farmers, but now it is deserted.

Towards noon, they passed through a deserted village, and several people walked along the stone road at the entrance of the village, asking "is there anyone?" as they went, but no one answered.

After a little discussion, the three of them decided to go into the house separately to see if they could find any surplus food, and there were a few houses that looked a little dilapidated, and the three of them did not even push the door for the sake of safety.

The bones seen here are more complete than the outside, and some even maintain the posture they had before death, which is shocking.

"When people are gone, the house will collapse quickly," Li Yiru sighed, "My grandfather used to say the same, as long as the house is still inhabited and supported by a wave of popularity, it can be lived in for many years." ”

Bai Ling listened silently and pushed open a door in his hand.

From the outside, the yard looked a lot like her old home, except that the fence was taller.

However, as soon as he pushed the door, Bai Ling gave up his intention to enter the house again to search for objects—there were two racks of human bones scattered in the courtyard, one on the ground and the other half-hidden in the earth.

Bai Ling stepped back and looked at Mu Cheng, "...... Let's go, here, I don't think there's anything left left. ”

"Hmm." Mu Cheng nodded, and the rice jars of the few houses he went to were also empty.

They should all starve to death.

It's just that before today, Bai Ling had not had such a tragic understanding of the "famine".

In the past, she had also heard news of a famine in the north in Pingjing—whether it was Pingjing or Yuezhou, there had been a large influx of displaced people since the 45th anniversary of the founding of the Xi Dynasty.

In the history books, there have also been many records of "the plague of the year, ten rooms and nine emptiness" and "great hunger, cannibalism".

Something suddenly conjured up to her mind, as if it had been some time in the past—perhaps one night when she was drinking and laughing with many nobles in Baihuaya, under the same sky, thousands of hungry people and refugees were fleeing south with fear and hunger.

As long as you swim through the Jian'an River, which separates the north and south, you can live.

And the people who did not make it south were left in the land under their feet for about forever.

Bai Ling felt a bitterness in his throat.

Did Chen Yicong also see such a situation during his northern tour?

He's probably seen it too......

Bai Ling's jaw trembled slightly, and she suddenly felt that things in the world were too cruel - she stood in today's Jiangbei and looked back, and soon saw the fate of more displaced people in the past.

Even if you survive this Jian'an River, will it be safe to continue south?

No...... If he is lucky and stops in Jiangzhou, Yuezhou, Chuzhou or Pingjing, then he may indeed be able to live in peace temporarily.

What if you go all the way south to Huizhou?

And when he was in Pingjing, Emperor Jianxi was still able to secretly sacrifice the lives of thousands of homeless people in order to catch the gold thief and let them go elsewhere, what would happen?

Bai Ling didn't dare to think about it.

There are some things that you can't think about in the first place, and when you think about them, they are all tears.

"There should be no one in the village in the plain," Li Yiru said softly, "Do you remember what the mother-in-law said yesterday, they should all be on the mountain now, but this part of the mountain is far away from the official road, if we want to go to stay, it is estimated that it will take a lot of time." ”

"No more in the mountains." Mu Cheng said in a low voice, he obviously misestimated the situation in Jiangbei, "Let's take the official road, if we encounter a caravan on the road, let's borrow their carriage again." ”

"Hmm." Bai Ling and Li Yiru both nodded.

In the silence, they all invariably remembered Jiang Zhou Chengwai, the Zhuozhou caravan that wanted to take guests north at a high price.

Now that I think about it, the caravan's asking price at that time may not be outrageous, but they didn't understand it at the time.

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