When Ju Ping and his sister entered Guangchuan County, it was an eye-opener. After all, the partial houses you see on the road don't give you a glimpse of the whole picture.

And when he and his sister lined up together to enter Guangchuan County in an orderly manner, they saw smooth and clean floors and neat and orderly shops, which was told to him by an old gentleman who was traveling with him, and later the old gentleman was eaten. There are also pavilions of various colors.

Ju Ping never thought that he would be able to go out of Bali Village and come to the county seat in his lifetime, and they have been farmers for generations, except for farming, they have never thought of going out of Bali Village.

Their lives rise and set at sunset. Candles are luxury, oil lamps are reluctant to light more, the bright moon hangs high in the hall at night will come out for a walk, the night is as dark as ink is early to wash and make a nest to sleep comfortably in the quilt, and wait until the next morning when the energy to go out to play.

There is a ditch in the vegetable garden of every household to divert water and water vegetables, and most of them come around the vegetable field, and there is no vegetable field in the county town. In the season when the river shrimp and river fish are plump, Juping will fish and touch the shrimp with many partners, and he can harvest a lot every time.

There is also a lake in Bali Village, but it is not big, the center of the lake is a little deep, the lake is shallow, it is not given to go on weekdays, adults can go two days before digging pond mud, someone will prepare there, and the herons and water ducks will also run far away because of this posture of people.

But there is nothing in the county, everything about the rivers, lakes, mud and pastoral.

Ju Ping thought to himself, maybe this is the difference between a city and a village.

There should be no battles along the road, they say that the county town is the most orderly, not as good as the countryside is loose and unruly. Hearing such words made Ju Ping feel very happy, if this is the case, as long as he abides by the rules, he and his sister will definitely be able to survive in the county, if the official family is kind enough to take them in, maybe they can also read and write, and even in the future he can become a city person, and his status must be much higher than that of a farmer, my father said so before, if there is a person in the village who can read and write, he will be able to leave the village in the future and become a city person.

However, not long after Juping Ju'an and the two of them entered the city, it seemed that the city lord of Guangchuan County did not allow other refugees to enter again, as if because the population in the city was already enough and could not afford it.

The refugees who went to the city first were lucky and squeezed in first, while the refugees who came later quit quitting, why? Why should they be able to enter if they came first, and why can't they enter when they come later?

First come, then it's not such a first-come, first-served method!!

So the refugees who came later, blocked at the gates of the city, quit, and were not willing to be locked out like this, and then left to their own devices, they went through a lot of hardships all the way to get here, tired, hungry, and thirsty, and couldn't walk, and they were treated like this? It's too cruel and too ruthless!

Ju Ping and Ju An hid under a stall and watched the whole thing, because not long after they entered, the people in special clothes had to close the gates that were heavy enough to be several people high.

As soon as they entered the city, Ju Ping took Ju An to hide in the corner, continuing their past habits, hunters are hiding in the dark when they catch small animals, and people who stay in the open with great fanfare or carefully will be targeted, Ju Ping is not stupid, he knows how to hide himself and how to take the initiative to avoid risks.

Covering his sister's eyes, a large number of refugees were like Ju Ping inadvertently turning over the decayed wooden scalp, and they could often see many ant colonies inside, many, many ants.

The refugees who came in after them were like colonies of ants. Ju Ping shuddered when he saw it.

Anger, sadness, panic, fear, pain, exhaustion, and expressions that words could not describe, Ju Ping felt that he had never seen so many expressions on a human face, so shocking, even incredible.

As a result, those refugees who entered later became the "mob" that later spread to Shaoliang City.

After all, the number of refugees was too much, so that those numbers of officers and soldiers could not be stopped, and the city gates were not completely closed, giving them an opportunity to take advantage of them.

Unable to resist the onslaught of the refugees, the city gates were broken open, and the refugees were no longer in order as before, and the first thing they did when they entered the city was to look around for food, something that could fill their stomachs, even if it was rotten vegetable leaves thrown on the street, and they could eat everything they could, without any scruples.

And now, when they are on the road, they have eaten even the bark and leaves of the trees in the forest.

In Ju Ping's view, the instinctive reaction to hunger is more terrifying than the plague, and hunger can make people lose their minds and abandon the good moral code they have adhered to in the past.

Ju Ping was no longer surprised that they were robbing the food, and he had seen them snatch the baby from the woman's hand and eat the son of man on the way. This has become Ju Ping's nightmare.

The people who originally lived in Guangchuan County had already left, and they should have left in a hurry with some baggage, and there should have been more than one city gate, because Ju Ping did not see them walking through the main city gate.

Because those refugees have banded together to break into other people's shops or homes to loot, as long as they can see and eat, all of them are like locusts crossing the border.

The Juping brothers and sisters felt that they did not have the intention of competing with them, because it was not easy for them to live until now, so they were already satisfied with temporarily living in Guangchuan County.

Maybe it's because I've been hungry for a long time, and my stomach is sunken, Ju Ping doesn't care if I'm full or not, the main thing is that my sister can eat enough.

He found a cloth bag under the stall where he was hiding, and inside the cloth bag were broad beans and soybeans, which were still fried. Fried beans, Ju Ping is the favorite, when the mother was there, every time the soybeans are ripe, they will fry a large pot of soybeans, sometimes put some leeks and pickle them, after eating the beans, and then drink several bowls of water, one day I don't know that I am hungry.

Therefore, it is an extremely surprising thing for Ju Ping to be able to find fried soybeans at this time.

In this way, Ju Ping changed places every once in a while, found a lot of pot ash, and he painted himself and Ju An's faces and bodies intentionally or unintentionally, and rolled on the ground.

Ju An was still young, and he didn't know what his brother's purpose was in doing this, so he thought it was fun, so he followed along.

In this way, in the eyes of outsiders, they are two dirty, sloppy and inconspicuous little refugees, and they will not come to fight with them for food, so they can be ignored.

I have to say that Ju Ping is really smart and lucky enough to survive in such a bad environment.

But that's what happened just when the refugees moved into the city.

The refugees drove away all the people of Gwangcheon Prefecture, and they were as proud as victors. Grab everything in the city of Gwangcheon.

But these things are limited, and the refugees who come in and out of the city with the gates wide open are unlimited.

I don't know where I got the news, saying that His Majesty has sent people to Guangchuan County to provide disaster relief to refugees.

So everyone began to ignite hope again, waiting every day is looking forward to the arrival of a large amount of food, there is not much grain in Guangchuan County, those grains, oil, salt and iron are controlled by the government, the county order of Guangchuan County has run, where can I know where the spare granary of Guangchuan County is?

The county magistrates of the surrounding counties also don't care about the frost on the tiles of others, but only care about the snow in front of their own homes, so it is impossible for them to take the initiative to lend a hand.

There are many areas where floods occur, and the refugees on the road know that the place they go to is Guangchuan County, and only when they arrive in Guangchuan County can they have a chance to live, because the imperial court will allocate food, and they will be able to eat enough, and if they can eat enough, they will no longer have to worry about starvation.

There is no need to starve, this is enough to make all refugees crazy, if they flee to other places, they will inevitably have to look at people's faces, not to mention that they will not be treated coldly, and even starve to death on the streets, no one will be willing to pay attention to them.

In addition, the surrounding county commanders colluded in a fit of rage, secretly sending their subordinates disguised as refugees to squat on the path of refugees, and if they came to their own county, they would directly rush to Guangchuan County, so that those refugees would immediately change direction and go to Guangchuan County after hearing these remarks.

The reason why it is said to be a statement and not a rumor is because the capital Shaoliang already knows about Guangchuan County, and also knows that these refugees are gathered here, so sooner or later an order will be issued to govern it.

Being able to let the refugees gather to facilitate the unified governance of the imperial court is also the official external rhetoric of the surrounding county orders, not to mention that they did not let the refugees go to Guangchuan County, but a small messenger "suggested" it, if the refugees came here, they would not be unacceptable.

Anyone will say it, but if you do it, you will be sure, and even if you do it, who knows how much you can really execute?

When the number of refugees in Gwangcheon County reached the saturation stage, it could no longer bear the trend of increasing every day. When the contradiction intensified to a certain peak, there was another tragic struggle in Guangchuan County.

The strong and advantageous people wantonly smashed and robbed the houses and shops in Guangchuan County, and all the things they could eat, drink, and rob were all taken for them, and unconsciously formed a faction like the officers and soldiers who were guarding the city gate at the beginning, all of them were small teams of several people, although they did not wear uniform clothes, but their appearance and demeanor were enough to prove that they were in a group. Someone directs someone to carry it out.

When the small team converged into a large team, there was a figure like the county order of Guangchuan County, and the leader Ju Ping did not recognize him, nor did he know what his name was, just as he did not know the name of the county order of Guangchuan County at that time.

Of course, he can't ask his name like an ordinary person, he is afraid of being killed.

The old, weak, sick, disabled and young refugees can only be slaughtered by their strong refugees, and gradually, when the refugees gradually divide themselves, Ju Ping suddenly feels that he understands a reason.