Squeak

Lu Ming pushed open the dilapidated and dirty door, his face was a little gloomy, and he went downstairs to have breakfast with Old Man Lu.

"What's wrong Xiao Ming, I didn't sleep well last night?" , Old man Lu asked, peeling the eggs of some kind of poultry that had been boiled as he asked.

"I just got the soul ring, I was so excited, I didn't fall asleep", Lu Ming, smiled reluctantly.

"Come, eat a blue feather egg, and you can sleep well when you go back", Old Man Lu touched Lu Ming's head.

Lu Ming took a deep breath while eating the egg handed over by the old man Lu.

What do I do, thinking so much is useless except to increase my troubles, I am very happy now, I just need to remember this, Lu Ming continued to comfort himself in his heart.

Breakfast was eaten quite quickly, and after the meal, the two hired a carriage to go on the road early, and while it was still early, they hurried home early, and Lu Ming already missed his bed a little.

The journey to Star Luo City was very difficult. Bumpy wagons and hard-to-swallow dry food, icy water and noisy winds.

It was not until it was close to night that we arrived at the post station, just like the high-speed service area in the previous life, on both sides of the official road, there was a post station every half a day when the carriages traveled, so that the traveling carriages could stay overnight.

Since the Sun Moon Continent was connected to the Douluo Continent, the appearance of the Flying Soul Guide and the reduction in the price of the Storage Soul Guide have made many large caravans begin to adopt this faster and safer method.

With the obsolescence of the old horse-drawn carriage mode of transportation, the situation of this kind of post station has gradually become difficult, and most of the business is not very good, and most of them are in a state of just enough to make ends meet.

It's not that the empire still sends a small amount of support every year, and I'm afraid that most of these stations are closed.

Approaching the post station, a shrill sound came, and several characters, probably named Hanako, sat down next to the root of the outer wall of the post station, and one of them was a little crazy, shouting about his son, his son, and suddenly let out a piercing scream from time to time.

The strange thing is that Lu Ming and Old Man Lu also stayed here for a day on the way to the Soul Beast Forest, and they obviously didn't see these people, but on this big official road, there was only a village within the distance of the half-day carriage, and where did these people come from.

An old man, a crazy old lady, a woman with a child in her arms, and the child in the woman's hand does not cry. A few people sat lifelessly and slumped by the wall, except for the old lady who made a few noises from time to time.

Seeing the carriage coming in the distance, several people named Hanako shrank back. Lu Ming had never seen such a strange scene, and Hanako saw that the pedestrians did not come up to ask for money, but stayed away.

When the carriage stopped, the two of them got off the car and moved, which made Hanako get better a little. I saw the old man and the woman carefully going up and down to figure out their clothes, and after a few seconds, the old man stepped forward tremblingly.

Lu Ming was stunned for a moment, and carefully looked at the old man who walked over, the old man was holding a stick sharpened from a tree branch that could be seen everywhere on the side of the road, and he was limping when he walked.

The shoes were worn and tattered, the rags on the body were no longer the original color, the greasy hair was sticky into locks, the fingers were dark, and there was still a little mud between the nails. Leaning on his body, his swarthy arms like a skeleton supported the weight of his whole body.

"Two adults, the old and the young beg the two adults to eat, anything, anything", the old man's voice was a little hoarse, and the speed of his speech was also very slow, panting as he spoke.

Lu Ming looked up at Old Man Lu, he had never seen such a scene in his life, a beggar shaped like a tree, it seemed that he was about to die in the next moment.

Old man Lu looked at the old man's dress, and then looked at the old man's untimely slightly bulging lower abdomen, and frowned.

When the old man saw Old Man Lu's brows frowning, he immediately panicked, and knelt down with a plop, and kept kowtowing while kneeling.

"Lao Xiao'er's family has traveled all the way from Fangzhou, and in recent years, the tax has become more and more serious, and there has been a drought in Fangzhou, and there is no harvest in the field, and the nearby government says that there is no food to provide relief."

Lu Ming hurriedly went to pull the old man, but the old man's extremely light body bones seemed to grow on the ground. Lu Ming, who had experienced the baptism of the soul ring at the age of six, and his strength was close to that of a teenager's child, even if he tried his best, he could only lift him a few centimeters off the ground.

Lu Ming could only look up at Old Man Lu, and Old Man Lu helped the old man up, but this time the old man did not resist.

"The family went from Fangzhou to Xuzhou, and from Xuzhou to Huangling, all the way there was no one to provide disaster relief, thinking that Xingluo City was at the foot of the Son of Heaven, the old child's family wanted to try their luck in Xingluo City, along the way, peeling bark, digging grass roots, and the family had not eaten for several days."

The old man's hoarse voice mixed with the sound of grabbing the ground with his head completely shattered Lu Ming's brain, like a sharp sword inserted deep in his heart.

"Brother, we have food here, you wait a minute, I'll go in and buy you some rice porridge later", Old Man Lu helped Lu Ming up while stuffing Lu Ming with a few soul coins.

Lu Ming naturally understood, and quickly ran into the post station, and there were a few words written on the top of the wooden sign at the door of the store - vegetable porridge ~ two copper soul coins in a bowl.

Lu Ming hurriedly took out his pocket, took out twelve copper soul coins on the table, asked the female shopkeeper for six bowls of vegetable porridge at the front desk, and instructed the shopkeeper to set up a table outside.

"Hey, why bother, it's a waste of money, some of them can't live for a long time, the bark and grass roots and miscellaneous food are too much, they will only be blocked in the intestines and can't get down, they can't go up, and sooner or later they will die." The female store manager muttered as she wiped the table.

"That's it, it's okay to be a full ghost, two bowls of porridge with one copper soul coin", the female shopkeeper picked out three copper soul coins and put them in the drawer, and muttered to herself, the little kid is ignorant and spends money indiscriminately......

"Thank you, sister", Lu Ming smiled at the female shopkeeper, and then ran out.

Back outside the house, Old Man Lu talked to the family, probably asking about their previous life situation, and whether there were any people who had defected to Xingluo City.

Lu Ming stood by and listened continuously, and gradually understood the situation of the refugees, Fangzhou and a few nearby areas have experienced a severe drought this year, many crops have not been harvested, tenants can not even pay the land rent, and the government has not organized disaster relief measures.

The people who were desperate in the local area had to try their luck in another place, from Fangzhou to Xuzhou, from Xuzhou to Huangling, and finally had to try their luck in Xingluo City.

There are still some beautiful women who can still compromise with survival, but the rest of the people do not have so many choices, they believe that the Son of Heaven will not ignore these refugees, and Xingluo City is their last hope and their last beacon.

"Our family can only go to Xingluo City to try our luck, the official road will only occasionally pass by a few people, a few days ago begging from others, the child's father was beaten to death by others, how can we live."

At this, the woman couldn't help crying, her chest rose and fell, her cry was faint, she didn't have much strength, she sat on the wall in a big figure, holding the child in one hand, and pounding the ground with the other, as if lamenting the injustice of the world.

On the other side, the old lady shouted frantically for her son, but she didn't shed a single tear, but let out a few screams from time to time.

Old man Lu looked embarrassed, pursed his lips, turned his head and didn't dare to look at the woman again.

"Everything will be fine", Old Man Lu slowly held back a few pale and weak words.

"Come, let's eat first", Lu Ming saw that the clerk had moved out the table and chairs, and hurriedly picked up the woman and asked her to sit on the chair, "There are still children", Lu Ming comforted the woman.

Try to eat as little as possible after a long period of fasting, and drink some porridge to slowly restore the stomach and intestines, and the irritation is not too strong.

Bowls of porridge were gradually served, and the old man pushed his bowl to the woman while feeding the crazy old lady.

"You still have to feed the child, eat more, my old bones don't know how long it can last, there is no need to waste it", the old man said and touched the baby with a weak voice in swaddling clothes.

"Brother, if you drink a little, you will definitely be able to make it to Xingluo City, my grandson wants more, not enough", the old man Lu stood up and came to Lu Ming's side to determine the amount to buy.

Where has Lu Ming seen this kind of scene, he has only seen it occasionally a few times in film and television dramas, but it is not as strong as the reality impact of a few people, and the humble sympathy constantly hits the brain.

"I'm going to walk around", Lu Ming greeted Old Man Lu and ran away from this place.