Chapter 36: On the Way to Escape
Some people are not at ease and want to go back to Dakang Village and Xiaokang Village to have a look, but they come back halfway through.
The rocks collapsed, and all the way back was blocked.
In this kind of weather, it is cold and hungry, and even if the imperial court comes, it is difficult to organize a large-scale rescue.
The only way now is for the survivors to hurry up to the county seat and let the imperial court give them a way to live.
It is different from the modern society's concept of supporting one side in times of difficulty and never giving up on any life.
In this day and age, rescue is more on your own.
So, everyone rushed to the county seat in a hurry, they were all homestays, and the ability of the imperial court was also limited, and the earlier they arrived, the more advantageous.
Li Wei and Lin Dahong took turns hugging Erya, and after a while, they couldn't keep up with their foot strength.
Boss Gu simply put the quilt in the basket, and the eldest girl, the second girl, and the iron egg were put in the basket and walked.
This iron egg is the smallest but the fattest, so one person on one side, the eldest girl and two people on the other, just right.
...... This scene reminded Li Wei of the classic TV series Journey to the West, where you carry the burden and I ride a horse, but they don't have horses.
The Gu family's big house is getting slower and slower, and the tail of the person in front of him is invisible.
It's not that Li Wei doesn't want to go fast, but a pregnant woman, a sick number, three children, and walking in the ice and snow, she really can't catch the speed.
Zhou Chunxiu also couldn't say it, originally she came out with her brother and sister-in-law in an ox cart, but now her brother and sister-in-law don't care about her, she can only follow the Gu family. She was so tired from walking in the snow for so long.
"Second child, I can't walk."
Gu Lao Er looked at the big-bellied daughter-in-law, and he was also distressed.
"Mother, why don't we take a break?"
Li Wei saw that Zhou Chunxiu's face was really not good, so she asked everyone to stop and rest for a while.
Fortunately, in the morning, Lin Dahong boiled a lot of boiling water, and everyone's sheepskin bag was full.
One person drank a few sips of hot water, and as usual, Li Wei gave each person a piece of chocolate, which could be regarded as replenishing a little energy.
After resting for about a quarter of an hour, he was about to set off, when suddenly, a team of centaurs in front came back, and it was Gu Dazhuan who walked in the front.
"Big bolt, why did you come back?"
"Anbang, the road ahead of me is blocked, and I can't go there."
Li Wei and the others were about to follow Gu Dazhuan to get closer, when a young man ran back, who had just gone to explore the road.
"Brother Bolt, the road ahead is also blocked."
"It's also blocked, it's bad, just these two roads to Ji'an County."
"There's no other way?"
Li Wei doesn't believe that there is no other way, as the saying goes, all roads lead to Rome.
"On weekdays, the villagers take these two roads a lot."
Gu Dazhuan means other roads, even if there is, everyone doesn't know, that is equivalent to nothing.
Helpless, Li Wei simply asked the system, and the system immediately drew the real-time map.
Not only that, but even the landslide-stricken areas are clear.
To go to Ji'an County, there is only one road, but this road first goes to Tongchuan County, and then from Tongchuan to Ji'an, with a total distance of 300 kilometers.
It is 180 kilometers from Shima Town to Tongchuan. But no matter how far it goes, Li Wei knows that this is the only way at present.
"Village chief, we decided to go to Tongchuan."
Gu Fugui was worried about what to do, but he didn't expect Li Wei to suddenly say that he was going to Tongchuan.
"Tongchuan is not far, almost two hundred kilometers."
"Well, I've heard a mouthful in the town, saying that if it's really a landslide, Ji'an County is the hardest hit area, and Tongchuan is relatively safe."
"There was a landslide last night, and no one knows if there was a second landslide."
"Instead of being so scared, it's better to go directly to Tongchuan, and you can go to Ji'an again when you get to Tongchuan."
Gu Fugui is considering Li Wei's suggestion...
"Village chief, I know that there is a shortcut, which my eldest brother used to walk."
Qinghai Yan remembered that her eldest brother was a merchant, walking the streets and visiting households, and sometimes she would find some shortcuts in order to be in a hurry.
There is a shortcut road from Shima Town to Ji'an County, but it is not easy to walk.
"Brother and sister, do you know how to go on this road?"
"I don't know the specific road, but the direction is known, my eldest brother said, just walk along the Changjin River, only less than thirty miles."
Everyone was a little tempted when they heard it, even if it was a mountain road, thirty miles of land was closer than one hundred and eighty kilometers to Tongchuan.
Li Wei still trusts the system, if the system does not point out this road, it means that this road should not work.
"Mother, why don't we follow them too?"
Zhou Chunxiu suggested that she didn't want to walk more than 100 kilometers in Raushzi.
"If you want to go with them, go with them."
Zhou Chunxiu pouted, this old woman was deliberately against herself.
If there is a shortcut, a fool will take a long way.
"Sister-in-law, although you are not very good, but if you want to go with us, I still won't say anything, I'm not as small as some people."
Qinghai Yan looked like a villain, as if letting Li Wei follow, which was a great favor.
Li Wei shook her head, ignored it and continued to walk. Shortcuts, who love to walk, go!
Gu Fugui was also entangled, and in the end, he let everyone decide for themselves, and they would go with whoever they wanted.
Gu Fugui himself still followed Li Wei, after all, it was Li Wei's reminder that everyone was spared from the avalanche, and resting in the City God Temple was also Li Wei's opinion.
Through these two things, Gu Fugui felt that Li Wei was quite reliable.
In the end, about half of them followed Qinghai Yan and them to the road.
The rest of the people followed Li Wei and they walked in the direction of Tongchuan.
A group of people walked in the snow, and yesterday they were still looking forward to going to the county seat at noon to eat a bowl of hot Yangchun noodles, but now they don't know when they will be able to have a safe place to rest.
Everyone's mood is low, and they all hope that nothing bad will happen again.
Just go to Tongchuan safely.
But the more you are afraid, the more you come.
Yes...
There was a scream ahead, and someone fell in the middle of the snow.
The people around reflexively jumped out a few meters away...
It was an old widower in Xiaokang Village who fainted, and the head of Xiaokang Village asked people to help him aside
After a while, news came that the old widower was out of breath and had frozen to death.
Immediately, the head of Xiaokang Village asked people to dig a pit on the side of the road and bury it, and then continued to walk.
After Li Wei heard this, she couldn't say what she felt in her heart, fleeing in such a climate, but she was afraid that there would be more and more such situations in the future.
Here, human life is not valuable.
This was the first person to die on the way out, and everyone's emotions became more depressed.
"Let's cheer up, it's good to go to Tongchuan County, when the time comes, we will have hot water to drink and a warm house to live in."
With Gu Fugui's encouragement, everyone's spirit is better, and the pace is getting faster and faster.
But it didn't take long for the sky to start getting dark again, and it was only noon.
The snow is getting heavier and heavier, Li Wei looked at the weather, had a very bad premonition, and immediately asked the system, sure enough, there was a snowstorm within half an hour.
It happened that there was a post station on the side of the road, which seemed to be abandoned and unused, and Gu Fugui proposed to hide here.
When I walked in, I found that it was full of refugees, and they were all cold.
When I inquired, it was a person from Lijiagou not far from Shima Town, with a total of 600 people in the village, and only more than 100 people escaped, which was more heavy than the loss of Dahe Village.
The post station is smaller than the City God Temple, and it is not like last night, some families can still live in a side room, but now they are all crowded together, and they can't squeeze in.
Fortunately, there are a few nests of straw stacks next to this post station, and some of them bring mats, so they use them to fence them up, and then take a few grasses from the straw stacks to reach a top, which can also prevent cold for the time being.
Because there were haystacks, someone cut down bamboo, and soon set up a large straw hut, which could accommodate dozens of people. If you start a fire in the middle, you can take shelter from the wind and snow for the time being.
Li Wei still took out the oilcloth and built a shed in the corner of the post station against the courtyard wall.
With yesterday's experience, the speed was very fast, and under the envious eyes of others, the Gu family's big house all hid in the shed.
"I don't see other people's eyes, I always envy us."
Gu Lao Er said shyly.
"Second child, it's too little, be careful of being beaten."
Gu Lao Er was not convinced when he heard it.
"Who dares to hit me?"
"Now everyone is short of food and clothing, just you, you have it, you don't have a low profile, if you don't beat you, who will you beat?"
"Everyone is the same, it's okay not to help others when they see others suffering, but they must not be self-righteous."
Li Wei said very seriously.
Indeed, suffering and crisis are too much of a test of human nature, and this natural disaster is terrible enough.
But what is more terrifying than natural disasters is human nature, and she does not want to challenge it in the slightest.