After cleaning up the "crime scene", Qian Yan followed a dozen local villagers in the direction they came.

Just now they discussed again, even if they want to flee south, they can't go empty-handed, they always have to go back to pack some luggage for the road.

As far as they themselves say, there are no people in their village and the two villages next door, and this small group of Khitan soldiers is also passing by here, and they happened to meet them secretly collecting grain in the field, so they caught them together.

A large number of Khitan soldiers were mostly stationed near some towns, where the place was large and there were more supplies to grab.

A small mountain village like them Yangjiaping, built in the mountains, will only enter the village to sweep if they encounter it, and if they can't touch it, they will basically ignore it directly and will not specifically look for it.

This is also their bad luck, the village's fields are not far from the side of this road.

Usually, this road is rarely walked, and some merchants who are familiar with the terrain pass by, and those who are not familiar with it go to the official road, which is wide and flat and can take horse-drawn carriages.

It's just that it's far from the official road, and you have to enter the city, but you have to pay taxes and fees when you enter the city, especially merchants, so most people who are businessmen all year round will bypass.

These Khitan soldiers should have caught which merchant and judged this mountain path, causing the villages on the side of this road to suffer.

Although most of the villagers ran ahead of time, they only had limited manpower, and they left in a hurry, all carrying ready-made food, pots and pans, and some bedding and clothing.

A lot of things were kept at home, hidden in the cellar, thinking that there would be a chance to come back in the future and still be used.

It's not that they want to go to other people's houses to steal things, they have clothes and bedding in their own homes.

Moreover, a lot of grain is still in the field, and it has not been harvested, and if it is not harvested this year, it will be a waste, and they will go and collect the grain, which will be enough to eat on the road.

When she heard that there were clothes at home and food in the field, she was worried that there was something wrong with the clothes on her body.

It's better to dress like them, it won't be so dazzling, you can use dark foundation on your face, she has it in her bag, she came from her parents, hehehe......

As for this backpack on your body, it should be no problem to find a rag to tie outside.

She actually doesn't have to worry about food, there is a lot of food in the ugly space, and no matter how bad she is, there is so much gold, so it is the same to buy some and collect the space.

However, when she heard that the surroundings were controlled by the Khitans, she was still a little worried about how to enter the city, and now she knew that there was confiscated grain in the fields, and she was relieved at once.

They can harvest the grain, thresh it and take it away.

She heard her parents say that June and July are the wheat harvest season, and the harvest starts early on Children's Day and ends in June.

This ancient time may be different from the modern maturity time, after all, there are irrigation wells, fertilizers and pesticides in modern times, and this ancient world generally relied on the sky for food.

Fortunately, it is a military disaster now, not a natural disaster, if it encounters a natural disaster, it will be troublesome, starvation or secondary, there are many starving deaths, the corpses are not well handled, and there will be a plague!

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Although they knew that this place was remote, they didn't dare to be careless, and they slipped along the way, hiding.

I didn't dare to walk in the middle of the road, for fear that if there were Khitan soldiers passing by from this side, I would walk opposite them, so the speed of the march was very slow.

It took nearly three hours for Qian Yan to walk to the village about ten miles away.

Looking at the village in front of them, both Qian Yan and Chou were a little dumbfounded.

The house...... How so? It is made of stone and mud, the shape is round, the top is very similar to a yurt, but it is made of mud and grass, and the windows are only forty or fifty centimeters small.

The houses were all low and low, like the kind of African houses you see on TV.

The yard is quite neat, surrounded by a fence, and there are some green vegetables planted in it, which Qian Yan has never seen, and I don't know what they are.

Yang Dashan, the man before him, said: "Fortunately, we were arrested in the field outside, and the village was not ruined.

Orchid pulled Qian Yan, pointed to the third courtyard and said, "Sister, that's my house, you go home with me first and sit and rest, and we'll leave when we pack up."

They were already frightened and did not dare to stay in the village for long, so they were ready to pack their bags and leave immediately.

Now there are a total of fourteen people in this line plus Tilt Yan, except for Orchid, who is a ten-year-old child, there are five men and seven women, all of whom are old people in the family.

The man in his fifties and sixties that she thought she was before was actually just forty years old, and he was already considered an old man.

The rest of the people are also not very old, just over forty, that is, the average life expectancy in ancient times is much lower than in modern times, and they are all classified as elderly.

They have a short lifespan, so they get married and have children very early, they can get married at the age of fifteen, and a woman who has no in-laws after seventeen years old is an old girl.

Like Orchid's grandmother, she is just forty-two years old this year, about the same as her mother, but she already has a ten-year-old granddaughter, and sixty years old here is considered a long life.

Qian Yan didn't know the other party's age before, the other party did look a little old, similar to her grandmother, so she followed the orchid and naturally called grandma, and she was a little embarrassed for a while after knowing the age.

followed the orchid into their yard, the yard is not big, much smaller than the two next door, and there are also a few ridges of green vegetables, which are very clean.

Their family is left with their grandparents and grandchildren to depend on each other, Orchid's father died of illness, and her mother went back to her parents' house to remarry in other places.

Other elderly people also have children who have died young, or have no children at all.

When the rest of the people in the village left, they were all on the road as a family, and they didn't want to trouble others to become a drag, so they stayed without worry.

When she entered the house, it was as low and dark as she had imagined, with only the smell of earth, but no peculiar smell.

It took a while for the eye to get used to it before I could see the furnishings inside, an earthen kang that took up half of the room, a low-legged wooden table on top, two benches and a shelf on the ground below.

Next to the kang is an earthen stove, which she knows, her parents have seen when they took her back to her hometown, and she can burn the kang by the way when cooking.

There is only one set of bedding on the kang, which does not look very thick, and the corner of the earthen kang is a wooden box, which should be used to put clothes.

On the shelf were a clay pot and three clay bowls with missing corners, and a few clay pots underneath, as if they were used to put oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.