Chapter 61: Hunger and Death
"What? The road is full of dead people? Li Laosan couldn't believe his ears.
Jin Daya rubbed his arms, patted his chest in fear and said, "What I saw with my own eyes can be fake?" Everywhere I could see, there were a dozen or so lying still. ”
"Can't you? What's going on? ”
"It can't be that King Zhao has already called, right?"
"Shall we go down the mountain then?"
The last question hit everyone's hearts, and everyone looked at each other, and then they all looked at Li Laosan.
Sheng Ze opened his mouth and said: "Chenzhou has Zheng Shicheng in charge, and there is a cliff ditch to block it, and Qishan is not suitable for marching, so King Zhao should not forcibly take Chenzhou at this time." ”
Zheng Shicheng was a Confucian general, who had both the ability to govern the state capital and the talent to lead troops to fight, and was originally used by the emperor to balance the general Liang Cheng of Zhenbei.
"What happened to the dead man down the hill?" Jin Daya blurted out.
At this time, Shen Qingqian suddenly said: "There is a saying in the book, 'one day in the mountains, a thousand years in the world', we have been in the mountains for more than a month, and we don't know what happened under the mountain, what may be the disaster?" ”
The weather this year is so weird, they have been in the mountains for a month, since the rainstorm, they have not seen rain again, if it weren't for the long Qishan Mountain Range, the highest mountain top is covered with snow all year round, no matter when there will be mountain springs seeping out, they can die of exhaustion just looking for water.
If this is true on the mountain, it is even more difficult to say at the bottom of the mountain.
"That's not possible," Jiang Goudan scratched his head suspiciously, "Even if there is a drought under the mountain for a month or two, there won't be so many dead people on the road, right?" ”
Chen Er squatted against a small tree and became impatient, "What's the use of so many guesses here?" Why don't you go down and see? Or maybe someone is lying still and not dead? ”
During this time, the accents of Chen Er and the others all changed because they always listened to Jiang Goudan's group of people.
Jin Daya wanted to refute, but after thinking about it, it seemed that he really saw dead people all over the ground, and the road was silent, so he was so frightened that he immediately ran back.
So, Jin Daya was blocked by these words and had nothing to say.
Li Laosan thought for a moment, then looked at Sheng Ze, "Cheng San, what do you think?" ”
During this time, when making important decisions, Li Laosan would unconsciously ask Sheng Ze's opinion.
"In this way, let Cheng Yun and Brother Shen go and take a look again, wait on the side of the road for half an hour, see if anyone is passing by, ask about the situation, if no one passes by for half an hour, let's return to the forest just now, and then make plans." Sheng Ze gave a suggestion after a little thought.
When Li Laosan heard this, he nodded again and again, "I think this will work." ”
Ling Yun and Shen Xiao then walked down the mountain, while the others stayed where they were and waited.
"Sixth sister, what the hell are you talking about?" Shen Qinglu sat on the hay and asked while plucking the straw and weaving a straw hat.
Shen Qingqian's hand was not idle, the straw hat in her hand had already taken shape, "I can't say for sure, I won't know until the eldest brother comes back." ”
If no one has been passing by, it can only mean that something big has definitely happened in Chenzhou, after all, the road they go down the mountain is an official road, and they are all cars coming and going normally.
Maybe it was Shen Xiao and they were lucky, and they came back after a while.
"How?" Li Laosan opened his mouth and asked from a distance.
It was Shen Xiao who replied, his face was very solemn, "There was a great drought in Chenzhou for a month, and there was a locust plague ten days ago, and after the locust plague, there was a fire in the camp in Chenzhou......"
These words alone were enough to make people stunned, but what Ling Yun said next made Shen Qingqian and the others not know what to say.