With the company of "Journey to the West", the children did not have nightmares at night, and discussed with relish before going to bed, the peaches on Huaguo Mountain, all of them are a pity, so many peaches, how can they finish eating!

For three days, the aftershocks continued, and when the aftershocks were over, they helped to dig out all the villagers of this tribe, except for the dozen or so who were still alive on the first day, the others were killed.

The dozen or so who were alive were also smashed to varying degrees, and they were sent to the nearest county hospital before and after. I heard that the disaster in this county is not too serious, so everyone still added some medicinal materials in the county medical hall, especially diarrhea medicine.

The further north you go, the more people flow on the road, and it turns out that this wave of ground movement has also destroyed many people's houses.

In the current countryside of southwest Bactria now, the civil and straw structure is the most common housing structure. The loess is cut into a section of the grain pole, the rammed earth is a strength work, but there are a few children in the family, three or five houses are really not a difficult thing, the wood is easy to say, the southwest mountains and forests do not have too much.

With the loss of houses, many shallow wells are no longer producing water, and there is no way out of the fields, so there is only one way to escape. To the north, closer to the Great Yellow River, where there is a shortage of water, the Great Yellow River must not be lacking, right? This is the most simple idea of the people going north, if there is water, they can live.

The undesirable situation is: the epicenter of this earthquake may be in the northward direction, the more cracks in the road surface go north, the detour has become the norm, there are still more refugees who have just come out of the tribe, and there are fewer people going backwards, so they can't be wiped out, right? Apprehensive.

They didn't dare to enter the village again, and everyone moved forward at full speed, and this uneasiness was confirmed when they entered Bazhou.

The capital city of Bazhou is closed, the plague! It turned out that the epicenter was in Datong County, a subordinate of Bazhou Prefecture, and it was also the place where their group traveled northwest. Two-thirds of the entire county seat was buried, and the county government was completely wiped out.

The victims simply did not have the ability to do a good job of rescue and corpse disposal, and now that the weather is about 33 degrees on average, the corpses are decomposing more quickly. The environment of the entire county spread to the surrounding areas, and when fever, dysentery, vomiting and other phenomena spread, the plague was out of control.

The gate of the city was closed, and it was strictly forbidden to enter and exit, and the homeless people and the plague people were mixed, looking at the persuasion of the first few groups of people who went to the Bazhou Mansion and returned, Cuihua's scalp was numb.

Plague, my God, in this dynasty there is still no cure. Quickly retreated, and hid in a very remote hill in the distance, it was almost dark.

In the more serious situation, they are still short of water, and there is not much left in everyone's water bladder, including the large leather water bladder on the car, and there are trees on the hills, and there is water in the lush grass.

The hill looked predominantly thorns and shrubs, and the slopes were full of cracks, so everyone split up for an hour before choosing a place to rest.

This depression is very mysterious, surrounded by three hills, there seems to be a big pond on one side, now it is dry and cracked out of a big mouth, if they can't find a better way in a short time, they may have to live here for a while, now try not to mix with the crowd, it is difficult to find a water source at night, first arrange a good night, rest for a night.

The head of the Fu family's entourage, Fu Yi, is reporting the situation to several masters.

"Old lady, madam, you can't go to Bazhou Mansion! The plague in front looks very serious, even if we make people get through the relationship, it is difficult to ensure that the city is safe, for the sake of today's plan, we have to detour, tomorrow the brothers will go to explore the road again, you are here first to wait for the news of your subordinates. ”

"That's how it should be, thank you for your hard work!" Mrs. Fu agreed with the guards' words very much, she was not blind, and she had to rely on these people.

"This is what our subordinates should do, we will leave ten people here, and the rest of us will go out to explore the way." The guard sighed, fortunately, there was a lady in charge who understood the reason.

"Okay, you can arrange it! Just tell me how much money you need! "Madame Fu is not a stingy person.

The old lady didn't say anything, she experienced the earth shaking, and now it was the plague, and she was afraid to death, but she had seen her daughter-in-law lose her temper, didn't she say anything without water to wash?

Fu Yi is quite willing to discuss with Daddy Hu and the money butcher now, and has seen the strength of this group of people, especially Daddy Hu's eldest daughter.

Seeing that their group of people had just finished fighting, they could still help the black barbarians search and rescue regardless of their previous suspicions, this is a group of chivalrous and capable people. From the beginning of the observation to the current recognition, it is only a month. What's more, they all have a common destination, Zhonghan Mansion.

For the second time this night, it was no longer a small circle, so everyone simply lit the bonfire, sat in a group, and the adults hugged the children, brushing and listening to the story. It's annoying! Every time I listened to it, I was itching, and the children of the two ends and the Hu family even rolled around and begged for a private update, but Cuihua sternly refused.

On the second day, the downstream village also sent 15 men to accompany the Fu family, divided into two groups, all the way to the north and all the way to the east.

Cuihua and the rest of their troops scattered in all directions, looking for water sources, but there was almost no water to drink, only Cuihua's water bladder still had a surplus. Of course, this is all the result of smuggling, but cheating can't be too obvious, don't you see that the two heads are staring at her water bladder all the time.

At noon, the people who were looking for water came back one after another and shook their heads, these hills were only a few hundred meters above sea level, and they were all turned over for half a day, and they did not find a place with any signs of water storage.

Grandma Fu Tong rarely brought her daughter Sister Qiao to find Cuihua, and wanted to ask them if they still had extra water, but when she saw that the lips of this group of people were also chapped and chapped, it was not good to mention it again, so she gossiped for a while and went back to her carriage.

Old man Yuan took his two cousins to dig a pit at the bottom of the cracked pond, and the machete was now used as a hoe.

Looking at the little cubs who were eating jerky and chewing hard, Cuihua was distressed, the more they chewed this kind of salted jerky, the more they wanted to drink water, but their dry food was almost eaten, and now the most surplus was the jerky, and the radish strips brought by the Xiucai lady were also eaten.

She had to find a reasonable source of water today, and she was not reconciled, so she set off again with a basket on her back, and ran towards the hills where she had not been.

What did she see under a thin grove? Wild sweet potatoes! This! It was when the wild sweet potatoes were ripe that she said, how could she smell such a familiar smell from afar.

Why is it familiar, there are not too many fields in her space, this is her favorite fruit in her childhood, there is no one. The soil in the space is abnormally fertile, and the sweet potatoes grow bigger than cherries, and she doesn't like to eat them when she gets older, but now, she can do it again.

The wild sweet potatoes in this woodland have the appearance of half an acre, densely turned, a few are the size of a thumb, and the color is already dark red and ripe. First cut out most of the back basket on the ridge in the space, break one, like a fig-like inner cup, take a sip, on the top, there is a special fragrance, sweet honey.

Carrying most of the wild sweet potatoes back to the mountain valley, seeing the smiling face of the mother, the two left the sister they had just met, and ran to meet them. When they saw so many wild sweet potatoes in their mother's basket, a group of cubs were crazy with joy, and they often ate this thing in their hometown.

"Wow, auntie, this sweet potato is so big! Fragrant and sweet! Like a hamster, Ogawa speaks while gnawing.

"Mother, you are amazing! Later, you can take me and I'll dig it for you! When I was in my hometown, I was so good at digging sweet potatoes! "The two heads asked to go together.

"Okay, I'll take you there tomorrow, there's still a piece of the boss, enough for you to eat for a few days, don't rob it! Leave some for the adults too! ”

Like a mouse falling into a rice bowl, a group of cubs sit around the back basket, unable to walk, and chatter about wild sweet potatoes.

Sister Qiao ate this wild fruit for the first time, and her eyes narrowed with joy, "Mother, sweet!" "Grandma Fu was sad, when she was at home, her daughter, who couldn't eat a few bites of any fruit peeled and diced, was now happy to be like this for a few bites of wild things. thanked Cuihua again and gave back a box of peanut candy.

The next few days were the children's wild sweet potato festival, which alleviated some of the famine due to lack of water, but it had not been three days since the water was dug up at the bottom of the puddle, and the adults wilted like the wild plantains by the mud pond.

Hey, no! Plantain tree! Have you forgotten something?