Chapter VII. Grab the silver
The news that Su Yan had picked up the rice soon spread. Now everyone is not calm, it is a whole bag of rice! For a while, many people ran to the mountains, trying their luck.
Su Yan handed the rice to Wu Qing, and Wu Qing poured another half bag to the patriarch.
Originally, some people felt a little uncomfortable because the Su family had no food, but they didn't say anything because of the face of the patriarch and Wu Qing. Unexpectedly, Su Yan handed over half a bag of brown rice in a while, and their hearts were instantly balanced.
Su Yan taught everyone to cut bamboo skewers and cut meat slices with salt. After marinating for a while, the meat is skewered and the meat is grilled.
The big pot of rice next to it is ready. Roche and the others went and brought some multigrain rice. All kinds of messy beans, and some brown rice mixed in.
This... Is this still rice?
Su Yan suddenly felt that the barbecue in her hand was not fragrant.
Damn Lee! If she hadn't sold Su Yan'er, Su Yan'er wouldn't have been beaten half to death by the drunkard and killed the bandits' den, so she wouldn't have come to this ghost place to suffer.
The mosquitoes around me came and went, and the meat in my hands was no longer fragrant, so I just felt inexplicably irritable in my heart!
There was a lot of sweat on my sideburns, the sweat on my body was wet and dry, dry and wet, and my clothes were sticky and sticky to my body, which was very uncomfortable.
"Yan'er, mother, let's bake!" Zhang took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his daughter's head.
"Mother, it's almost ready, you eat it first and then help me bake it!" Let's take turns. ”
After a while, the barbecue exuded an attractive aroma, and Su Yuan and Wu Jinlan looked at the barbecue in the hands of Su Yan and the others.
After a while, the meat was finally roasted, and Roche divided the rice into their respective bowls, and everyone ate the roasted meat.
Su Yan took a few bites of the multigrain rice in the bowl, and she couldn't eat it anymore. She poured all the rice for her mother to eat, and she ate a lot of barbecue herself, but she was also full.
"Sister Yan'er, if only you could pick up roe deer every time! So that I can have meat to eat every day. Wu Jinlan touched her stomach and said with satisfaction.
Su Yuan nodded in agreement on the side. "Uh-huh!"
Wu Qing knocked his daughter's head. "Hurry up and go to bed, there will be no car for you to sit in tomorrow."
"Okay!" Wu Jinlan covered her head and ran to Luo's side.
Several of them slept overnight in tents made of coarse cloth.
In the early morning, before dawn, the women got up to make breakfast, and the men who took turns keeping vigil were still asleep.
When Su Yan woke up, the porridge had already been cooked. Drink porridge in the morning, eat porridge if you have dry food, and drink porridge only if you don't have dry food.
Luo Che turned out the last few pieces of cake, but Su Yan didn't answer it, she only drank a bowl of porridge.
"Yan'er, I'm going to walk today, so you better eat more!" Zhang handed over the hard cake in his hand.
"Mother, I don't eat it, you can keep it for yourself!" If she hadn't been really hungry before, she wouldn't have been able to eat those hard cakes at all.
The group walked all morning and passed through the county seat, and the city gate was closed.
Wu Qing's ox cart was loaded with a lot of grain that everyone had put together. The ox cart couldn't sit people, and even Su Yuan had to get down and walk.
There were many refugees along the way, because of their large team, and those refugees followed from a distance, for fear that they would be robbed as soon as they got close.
Su Yan walked for a day, the shoes on her feet were torn, the skin on her feet was also torn, and every step she took, there was a heart-piercing pain on the soles of her feet.
As the sun set, the team finally stopped, and Zhang sewed the cracks in his daughter's shoes. "When these shoes are really no longer worn, let's get new ones."
"Hmm." Su Yan looked at the bubbles on her feet, her brows furrowed tightly.
"I'll pick it for you, just get some sleep." The daughter's white and tender feet were covered with blood blisters, and Zhang's heart was distressed to death.
Su Yan couldn't cry or laugh, how could she be fine in one night? This is to coax her like a child.
After the bubble on her foot burst, the wound was hot, she couldn't bear it anymore, so she excused herself to relieve her hands, entered the gourd space, and rinsed the wound on the soles of her feet with gourd water.
As soon as my foot touched the water, the broken skin didn't hurt after a while. Su Yan didn't dare to stay longer, so she immediately got out of the gourd space and returned to her mother.
The younger brother Su Yuan took off his shoes and sat aside with tears in his eyes, Su Yan understood in seconds.
"Mother, do you have a handkerchief that you don't use?"
Zhang took out a half-worn handkerchief from his arms, "Take it!" ”
Su Yan poured a little water to soak the handkerchief and wiped all the wounds on her brother's feet.
"Sister, it really doesn't hurt anymore." Su Yuan's voice was full of surprise.
The water they drink now is gourd water, and the effect is certainly good!
The group walked for five or six days, and finally arrived at Qingyang City, and Su Yan saw a large group of people blocking the city gate from afar.
Not only Su Yan saw it, but the Wu clan also saw it, and the patriarch asked a few clever people to come forward to inquire about the news, and Wu Qing also went.
When a group of people walked in, they found that there were many officers and soldiers guarding the city gate.
The patriarch and everyone waited for the people to come back from the city gate.
After a while, Wu Qing and several other clansmen returned.
In Qingyang Prefecture, there is still water, but refugees are not allowed to enter the city.
Everyone in the Wu clan had a look of defeat on their faces, when they came out, the family's grain storage was robbed by bandits, and it was impossible to go back, the river in their hometown had dried up, and there were bandits everywhere, and they had no way to live when they went back.
Su Yan was very unwilling, it was really hard to come all the way, she finally came to the city with water, she was unwilling to leave like this.
"Mother, I want to go to the city gate to have a look."
"How dare you go over as a girl?" Zhang was anxious.
"I'll go with you!" A hoarse voice was Wu Jinsheng.
"Thank you, Brother Wu, mother, you can rest assured!" Su Yan wore a straw hat and walked towards the city gate.
There were dense refugees gathered near the city gate, most of them were unclothed, women were holding their children and crying bitterly, some people were lying on the ground in despair, and some people even grabbed food, Su Yan and the two did not dare to stop, and it took them a lot of effort to squeeze to the city gate.
The city gate was closed, and there were several officers and soldiers guarding outside the gate.
"This official, I don't know how to enter the city?" Su Yan's straw hat was pressed low, pulling an officer and soldier, and secretly stuffing him with a piece of silver.
The officer and soldier pinched the silver, looked at the two people in front of him and said contemptuously: "Why do you want to enter the city even if you call Hanako?" Get out of here! He pushed Su Yan away.
It turned out that a carriage was about to enter the city, and the city gate was opened by the officers and soldiers, and the officers and soldiers who collected the money nodded and leaned up to welcome the carriage into the city.
Su Yan's lungs, who were pushed aside, were about to explode, and she took my money, and returned this attitude? What is the rationale for this?
"Wait a minute, no matter what happens, leave me alone!" Su Yan instructed Wu Jinsheng.
Before Wu Jinsheng could understand what was happening, Su Yan stepped forward and pulled the officers and soldiers to the front of the carriage, shouting, "Grab the money!" Grab the money! ”
Wu Jinsheng was shocked and stared at Su Yan nervously.
"Give me back my money! That's my grandmother's life-saving money for medicine! She cried out in despair as she grabbed the officers and soldiers.
The carriage behind was stopped by someone, and the people at the city gate gathered around to watch the commotion.
The officer and soldier who was caught were startled and tried to break free. "When am I going to rob you of your money! Where did you get the money, you poor devil? ”
Su Yan pulled the officer and soldier hard and cried, "My grandmother is dying of illness, these twenty taels are the life-saving money for her old man's family to buy medicine!" Whining...... Please, give it back to me! ”
She drinks gourd water every day, and her strength has long exceeded the strength of an adult man. That officer and soldier couldn't break Su Yan's hand.
Wu Jinsheng next to him looked at Su Yan worriedly, he just stretched out his foot and was about to come up to help, Su Yan glared at him, and finally he had to stay where he was.
If Wu Jinsheng came up, maybe those officers and soldiers would be arrested, after all, a girl being bullied is completely different from the treatment of two people making trouble.
The officers and soldiers were going to die in a hurry, "Fart! It's ten taels of silver! "She actually dared to blackmail his silver, she simply ate the bear's heart and leopard's gall!