"I don't know." Yao Nian shook his head.

Chen Qian hooked his lips and smiled lightly, his rough fingertips crossed the picture, and his words carried a slight tentative meaning, "Miss Yao came to Taoyang City this time, didn't she see anything?" ”

Yao Nian thought that he was talking about the dilapidated appearance of Taoyang City, so he told her one by one what she saw when she entered the city.

"And that's just the tip of the iceberg." Chen Qian rolled up the picture on the table, stood up and said, "I wonder if Miss Yao is interested in accompanying her to take a walk around this Taoyang City?" ”

Yao Nian didn't know what he was selling, but he opened his mouth, and it was not easy to refuse, so he nodded.

"I'll go, I'll go." Ouyang Jin also hurriedly spoke.

The three of them went out of the county guard's mansion, and what was waiting outside the mansion was the tree, still a familiar carriage and a familiar curtain.

Yao Nian looked left and right, just this one, in the past, she saw that there were several carriages parked outside the gate of the county guard's mansion, and besides, this carriage looked so simple, it didn't look like a county guard.

Yao Nianzheng thought that Chen Qian had already sat in, and she didn't want to ask again, so she sat in with her.

A small carriage with three people seated, it was really a little crowded, Yao Nian lifted the curtain and panted, the beggars on the side of the road he saw when he first came were gone, and the whole street was empty.

The carriage stopped outside the courtyard of an alley, the gate of the courtyard was tightly closed, and the black gate was solemn and lifeless.

The three of them got out of the car, and the tree pushed the door open, and the scene inside was fully visible.

The trunks of dead trees, the crumbling pillars that were about to collapse, and the people lying on the ground.

Some of them sat sluggishly, some had fallen into a coma, and some were even dead, covered with a white cloth and flies flying around.

"How so?" Yao Nian was stunned, there were nearly two hundred people here, and she roughly counted the ones covered with white cloth, and there were dozens of them.

She remembered that she hadn't been like this when she came here last month, huh?

Why has Taoyang changed so much in just over a month, what happened?

Chen Qian was no longer surprised, and a weak and regretful expression appeared on his face, "At this point, I won't hide it."

He sighed, looking at the scene in front of him, his eyes were full of helplessness, "Taoyang City has been completely abandoned, the relief food of the imperial court cannot be distributed, the plague has been experienced, the people are sick and dying, starving to death, Taoyang City, which originally had thousands of people, is now like a dead city!" ”

"A few thousand, is that all there is left?"

How did you die so many? How could a small plague be so powerful, her heart was about to rise to her throat.

Chen Qian also realized that he didn't understand, smiled a little embarrassedly, and said again, "Originally, there were thousands of people in the city, and the relief food from the imperial court could not be distributed, those who starved to death starved to death, those who died of illness died of illness, and those who were able to pack up their things and flee the famine. ”

"Thousands of people left overnight, and the rest of the bad legs were left here."

Yao Nian's face was solemn, looking at those who had completely lost hope of life, and his heart was not happy.

She was about to say something when she heard a hoarse and sharp cry, "Mother! Mother! ”

In the corner, a little girl with a dirty face was lying on a freshly dead corpse, crying and wailing.

Her arms were full of scars, and her little hands kept shaking the corpse, crying and shouting, "Mother! Don't go, don't go! ”

It's a pity that no matter how much she shakes, her mother won't come back.

Chen Qian looked at this scene, his eyes flashed with unbearability, "Her mother has been sick for half a month, and she has survived until now for her daughter, it's a pity..."

"Is there no other way?" Yao Nian's tone was dull.

Do you just watch them die?

"Yes."

"Now there are two ways." Chen Qian looked back at Yao Nian, as if he had been waiting for her to ask this question for a long time.

"The first is to guard Taoyang, wait for the relief food of the imperial court, and wait for this line of vitality."

As soon as he spoke, Yao Nianjiang frowned and said, "It's not feasible, the relief food of the imperial court hasn't been sent down for so long, either it hasn't been adjusted at all, or someone has cut off the beard from the middle, no matter which one it is, we can't sit still, we can't wait, they can't wait." ”

Chen Qian nodded in agreement, "Yes, it's not feasible to wait for death here." ”

"What about the second one?"

"Escape the famine."

Yao Nian's heart crossed over, "Are you optimistic about the position?" Where are you going? ”

The man didn't rush to answer, but looked up at the sky, the surging sky, he had watched it for thirty years, and he had never been tired of it, but he was really reluctant to leave here.

"Go to Shuzhou." He said.

"Shuzhou?" Yao Nian looked puzzled.

"South of Ningguta, that grassland."

When Chen Qian said this place, Yao Nian's eyes widened directly, it turned out to be the same place she wanted to go!

"Is that Shuzhou? What a coincidence, I'm going to go there too! Yao Nian was a little excited.

There is great strength in numbers, and they can also take care of each other.

This time it was Chen Qian's turn to be surprised, he originally wanted to take Yao Nian to show her the scene in the city, and was ready to persuade her to go to Shuzhou with him.

One is that her medical skills are good, and her wife has been drinking medicine, and the other is that she lives in that place in Peach Blossom Village, which is more difficult than Taoyang, rather than waiting for death here, it is better to go out and find a glimmer of life.

Before she could persuade herself, she actually had this intention.

"Are you going to take your children to Shuzhou with your father-in-law? Have you set a date? He asked happily.

Yao Nian shook his head, "Not yet, it should be with the people of Peach Blossom Village, but they have lived in Peach Blossom Village for so many years, I'm afraid they are reluctant to go." ”

Chen Qian sighed when he heard this, "I'm also worried about this matter, compared to the people in Peach Blossom Village, these people are more difficult to persuade, you see that they look lifeless, completely give up on themselves and wait for death, I have persuaded many times, but they don't listen." ”

Truly.

These people guarded the corpses, refused to leave with a dead face, completely lost hope of life, they stayed with their loved ones, waiting for time to drain their spirits, and then reunite with their loved ones.

"Ugh." They are indeed more difficult to deal with than the people in Peach Blossom Village.

"Does the county guard have a specific time? I'm so ready to prepare. Yao Nian asked again.

"At the end of this month, there are still more than ten days, the food in the house is almost empty, the road is far away, and it is windy and sandy here all the year round, we have to go early and strive to reach Shuzhou in spring."

From Taoyang to Shuzhou, it will take two months.

Thinking that the distance was so far away, so many people had to eat and drink, Chen Qian became sad again, the food in the house would last for a month at most, it seemed that he had to think of a way to find some food somewhere else.

Yao Nian nodded, "Okay, I will try to persuade the people of Peach Blossom Village within half a month, and then we will exchange money in Taoyang City." ”

"Good!"