When the carriage re-routed on the road, there were significantly fewer people fleeing around, except for occasional couples dragging their children or poor people slowly driving the donkey carts.

On both sides of the road, rotting and smelly corpses could be seen everywhere, and swarms of flies and maggots flew and wriggled around the corpses, which made people's hearts chill for a while. The fleeing people seemed to be accustomed to it, and there was no expression on their numb faces, and they walked forward mechanically with tattered baggage, only the black and thin children hugged their fathers and mothers and desperately shouted hunger.

Wen Wan nestled in Lin Yuan's arms and held her stomach, looking at the increasingly desolate scene, she couldn't help but be glad that she had brought enough food, and fortunately they followed Gu Qingning's convoy, and no one dared to fight them for the time being.

When the convoy stopped at the gate of Bian Zhou City, Wen Wan saw the notice posted on the green wall next to her, and she immediately understood the gist of a bunch of traditional Chinese characters on it: Warat Khan Tokhan is leading his troops to attack Daming from five directions, east, west, south, north and middle, among which the war in the central part is the most severe. The imperial court has sent a large number of soldiers and horses to resist the enemy. In order to prevent the infiltration of spies, those who enter the city must show the road guide document.

This was difficult for Gu Qingning, and soon the housekeeper got out of the car and showed the paperwork, and then took out the ingot silver from his sleeve and stuffed it to the city defenders. The guards seemed pleased with their approach, and after glancing at each other, they happily let them go.

But he lost patience with the poor people in ragged clothes behind him, and blocked people with his spear "selflessly" with an iron face, covering his nose and shouting for death, leaving only a wail.

Surprisingly, the city of Bian Zhou is not as rich and prosperous as they imagined, and there are only three or three shops on the street, and there are few people.

Lin Yuan got out of the car and grabbed a person who was running fast with a burden on his back and asked, "This little brother, where are you going?" ”

The little brother suddenly looked at him as if he was looking strange, "You don't know what it is?" The imperial court and Wara have already started fighting, do you know about Qingzhou City next door? ”

Lin Yuan nodded stunned, how could he not know?

The man looked at him stunned and kindly said, "The city is broken!" I heard the people of the Yamen say that the people in Qingzhou City are dead, that's a miserable one! The people in Bian Zhou City have run away, and if they don't run, stay and wait for death? ”

After speaking, he didn't care about the reaction of these outsiders, he pulled his sleeves and rushed to the city gate, and he didn't run away after the battle, a bunch of fools! In vain, Lin Yuan slowly climbed back to his carriage and looked sluggish.

Wen Wan also heard the man's words in the carriage, and saw that Lin Yuan was depressed, his eyes were red, and he was busy patting him, "When we have a letter, the people in the city are turning over on their backs, and the third brother must have run away with his in-laws." ”

Lin Yuan was still sullen, "Hongchuan, he ......"

Wen Wan sighed: "Jiren has his own natural appearance. It's useless to worry, it's serious to take care of Zhenniang and Wenli. ”

In the current situation, it is unrealistic to stay in Bian Zhou City. The east, west, north and south are not safe, but I am afraid that their only choice is the capital, if there is a real fight, the safety index of the emperor's nest can also be higher.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Gu Qingning's housekeeper to come over and inform Lin Yuan: Divert to the capital. Wen Wan thought about it, and took out another hundred taels given by her mother and asked Lin Yuan to buy as much food as possible, and it was best to add some weapons for self-defense.

It took more than half a day to buy grain and supplies. The carriage rumbled out of the city gate and drove up the official road, and it was already past noon. They could have rested in Bianzhou City for the night, or even taken a hot bath, but the cruelty of the war forced them to leave the city without stopping.

Time unconsciously entered the early summer, the weather was hot, and the rolling heat wave carried the smoke and dust in the sky, making everyone disgraced. There were more and more displaced people on the road, and at first Wen Wan tried her best to get some food for everyone, and later, whenever they stopped to make a fire to cook, someone would follow the smell and look into the forest from afar.

On several occasions, people even moved closer and closer to their convoys, all for the sake of stuttering. When the war came, the rich could flee with a light car, but the people couldn't. There was not enough silver taels and food, and if you fled the war, you could not escape hunger.

Wen Wan's brow furrowed more and more, she didn't want to hurt these poor people who were forced by life like her. But even if she only cooks one meal a day, and the meals are counted and made without waste, those hungry people still swarm around one day to rob them.

The half-cooked rice and radish soup spilled on the ground, and more than a dozen people rushed over at once, grabbed the rice that was on the soil and stuffed it into their mouths. The maids and servants screamed and trembled in fright. Only Wen Wan clenched her fists and stood silently beside Lin Yuan, and asked him to quickly call someone to quickly pull out the big knife under the carriage in a low voice.

She looked at Gu Qingning, who was pale and pale surrounded by a bunch of servants, and knew that she couldn't count on him at this time.

Only then did Lin Yuan recover from his astonishment, quietly and quickly whispered to each family member to prepare for battle, and even gave them lime powder.

It didn't take long for the rice that had been spilled on the ground to be pushed and eaten clean by a bunch of poorly clothed and smelly people, and the bold ones were still not satisfied, licking their rice-stained hands while staring at their carriage with a green glow.

I don't know how many carriages passed back and forth were hijacked by them, and this bit of scraps naturally couldn't be easily dismissed. There are still three catties of nails in the broken ship, not to mention the rich?

Wen Wan had already prepared, and immediately shouted, "Copy guy!" ”

The high-pitched voice made everyone find the backbone of the heart in an instant, and the bright broadsword was shown one after another, and each house slave pursed his lips and waited for it. In terms of numbers and weapons, Wen Wan currently has the advantage. A group of people who were about to rush to the carriage were stunned, and looked at each other a little hesitantly.

"Everyone has taken refuge, and everyone has also robbed us of our food, so I advise you to accept it when you see it. Our master is a well-known good man, and he is not to blame for the past. But if you insist on rushing, the knives in the hands of these nurses behind the little woman are not vegetarian. Wen Wan stood in the center of the convoy, looking at everyone present coldly.

"Big brother, what should I do?" There is a cowardly one who has been scared when he sees the bright knife.

But the leader is not afraid, these pampered rich people may not be able to beat them strong men who crawl out of the pile of dead people.

Seeing that half of the people had a retreat in their eyes, Wen Wan stepped forward and said loudly, "What you ask for is nothing more than rice and flour food." We can drop two bags of rice grain, but we don't have much rice grain of our own, if we have to break our muscles and bones, it's a big deal for everyone to fight to the death! ”

"Are you really giving us two sacks of grain?" A suspicious male voice came from the crowd opposite. It is naturally much more cost-effective to get two bags of grain for nothing than to grab them desperately, and they can eat two bags of grain for three days.

Wen Wan smiled coldly, "Naturally." ”

"But since the Tao is mixed and the rules of the Tao are preached, how do I know if you will go back on your word when you take the grain?" To say so is to acquiesce that they agreed to her offer.

"Let's go back ten miles." After speaking, the leading man slowly retreated with more than ten people.

At this time, Wen Wan turned around and whispered a few words in Lin Yuan's ear before getting into the carriage and commanding loudly, "Go!" ”。

Gu Qingning and the others woke up like a dream, and climbed into the carriage under the protection of many domestic servants. When the carriage began to move slowly, Lin Yuan lifted two bags of rice to untie the gap, and slowly fell to the ground along the side of the carriage.

The hesitant group of people standing there immediately ran forward to snatch the food, only caring about the head and bleeding, where could they care about the carriage chasing Lin Qiniang and them?

The leader-looking man punched the man next to him so much that his body was crooked, and he spit out a bloody tooth, picked up half a sack of rice grain, and scolded hatefully, "Phew, I didn't expect a woman to be tricky!" Lao Tzu fell in love with her! ”

Gu Qingning woke up from the panic just now, and after reading the sage book for a while, he waved his hand to beckon the housekeeper, and scolded in a deep voice, "It's just a few homeless people, it's worth giving two bags of grain, I'm afraid they won't succeed?" Ignorant woman! ”

I think he is a talented person in the business field, but today he showed his timidity in front of a group of Diao people and let a woman lead him by the nose, so he had to make up for himself.

The old housekeeper didn't understand, the young master was annoyed that he had just lost face, "Young master, you don't know." Those homeless people are all strong and strong, and their numbers are not much worse than ours. If you really fight, the servants will protect you, and you will also protect the women and children, and death and injury will be inevitable. ”

It is not easy to get out safely with only two bags of grain. If it weren't for Lin Niangzi's quick decision, it would be impossible for them to get out of the country now.

Gu Qingning's face turned pale for a while, "Oh, you mean, I'm not as brave and resourceful as a woman?" ”

He's a housekeeper who is really blindless!

The housekeeper of the Gu Mansion thought to himself, didn't he? After all, the family is thick and protected by the county magistrate, and everyone is holding it in Qingzhou City, and the people are still a little more tender in terms of sophistication, "Naturally not, if you don't protect them, how can they live with their children and daughters?" ”

Gu Qingning then put down the curtain of the car and softly coaxed his nephew to go. If it weren't for the short mouth of the cannibal and the affection of Hong Chuan, he would not have let this woman climb on his head.