The king of Han was originally born as a bandit, but now the army is in chaos, natural disasters are continuous, the army's supplies of grain and grass are very limited, and most of the army is looting on the spot.

Therefore, the life of the people is becoming more and more difficult.

After listening to this, Shu Yan sighed slightly.

"It's hard to live."

This is the first time Shu Yan has said such depressing words.

But it's not without good things.

By midday the sky was clear, and the sun hung in the sky, driving away the fog throughout the floodplain.

Shu Yan and the others saw in the distance.

They had already reached a slightly higher place, and now the buildings on the ground had basically been washed away by the flood, and there were ruins everywhere, but they couldn't see where Yingzhou was.

Only the washed out rice fields in the fields can be seen.

This Cheng San said in a deep voice: "Yingzhou Xiachuan, but the famous land of fish and rice, this is the time for spring planting, and in the autumn and winter of this year, I don't know how many people will starve to death." ”

Yu An lowered his eyes and looked into the distance, as if he had thought of something, and he suddenly said, "Grandma, will we starve to death?" ”

Shu Yan was a little helpless, but he didn't know how to answer Yu'an.

The little fish on the side fished out a toy carved from wood from the water and handed it to Shu Yan with great surprise.

"Grandma, look at this."

Shu Yan was about to take a closer look, but he heard someone calling for help not far away, only to see that two or three miles away from them, there was a handsome woman holding a child, standing in front of a house that was about to collapse, calling for help to several people.

The child in the woman's arms looked like it had just been born.

This is supposed to be a village next to Xiachuan, where the water has receded, but many houses have collapsed, and many villagers are searching for the ruins of houses.

Shu Yan and Cheng San glanced at each other, and Cheng San touched his legs.

"If I don't find a clean place to wrap my leg, I'm afraid it will be wasted."

Cheng San's wound was already a little black.

Shu Yan propped the boat and leaned towards the village, and when he approached the boat, the woman holding the child ran to Shu Yan and knelt down.

Before Shu Yan could speak, the woman cried and said, "My son is sick, and there is no doctor in this village, so I have to go to a town thirty miles away to ask for a doctor." ”

In this season of great floods, it is good for people to survive, if they are sick, they can endure it, but children can't.

Shu Yan glanced at the child, and a very bad thought appeared in her heart.

Cheng San glanced at the child, the child's face turned blue, and he was obviously dehydrated.

Cheng San said quietly: "Your child has suffered from the plague, and he won't survive if he is sent to the town." ”

When the woman heard Cheng San's words, her face suddenly turned pale.

"You're not a doctor, how do you know?!"

Cheng San sneered, and found a bag of things out of nowhere, and after opening it, there were actually rows of silver needles.

When the woman saw Cheng San, she immediately took his hand excitedly.

"Doctor, please save my son."

Cheng San couldn't bear it.

"If it is a plague, how can I save it, but you, it is better to find a place for the child to live and live, and stay away from him, so as not to return to the west with the child."

When the woman heard this, she was immediately furious, she pointed at Cheng Sanmian and said, "Good you black-hearted evil ghost, you actually curse my child like this!" ”

As she spoke, the woman coughed up.

Cheng San hurriedly left with Shu Yan and the two children.

Cheng San said to Shu Yan: "You take them to the boat, I see a small hill behind this village, I will go to find some useful medicinal materials, otherwise we will be infected with the plague and go to see Lord Yama before we get out of this flood area." ”

Shu Yan naturally took the two children on the boat very obediently.

The woman who asked for help like them held the child and looked at Shu Yan viciously, and Shu Yan ordered the two children to cover their mouths and noses.

Although there is a high probability that it is useless, there is still some comfort in the end.

Yu'an asked, "Grandma, won't we help her?" ”

Yu'an looked at the woman, the woman was crying helplessly with the child, in the ruins, everyone else was doing their own thing, and there were a few soaked white corpses piled up in the corner.

Flies surround which carcasses, and the sun makes the stagnant water on the shore green.

Shu Yan felt a little hot, and she wiped the sweat from her face.

"Can't help."

The sun had sunburned everyone to the ground, and even the only surviving mulberry tree was a little wilted.

Shu Yan was hungry and panicked, so he asked Yu'an to bring the kettle.

There is no more water in the kettle.

Xiao Yu'er took the kettle from Shu Yan's hand and was about to get off the boat to find a place to catch water, but was stopped by Shu Yan.

"Don't go, it's not clean, maybe if you drink it, you'll get the plague."

The little fish came back in a huff, sat down in the boat, plucked some grass, and began to weave straw shoes. After weaving one, she picked up the fishing rod and threw it into the water, ready to fish.

The water was lifeless.

Yu An glanced at Xiao Yu'er, pondered for a while, and then whispered.

"The flood washed away the fish, and you won't be able to catch them."

As soon as Xiao Yu'er heard that someone was questioning her housekeeping skills, she immediately lowered her face.

"You know, I catch more fish than you eat."

Yu An was a little angry, his little face was flushed, and his voice was a little louder than before.

"I don't usually eat fish with spines, I eat sea fish, and you haven't caught a sea fish."

Shu Yan suddenly wanted to laugh when he heard this, this kid actually knew how to change the topic.

The little fish didn't notice it at all.

"Sea fish, that's very expensive, don't brag."

Yu'an is a sincere child, but he really doesn't brag, the wealth of the Chen family is Yu'an's illegitimate son who is not welcomed, and his daily food costs a few taels of silver.

Enough to buy a young slave.

Yu Anqi's little face flushed, and he clenched his fists, as if he was thinking about how to refute Xiao Yu'er.

Shu Yan only cared about watching the two children quarrel, but he didn't notice the woman holding the child.

I don't know when I walked towards them.

He also had a kitchen knife in his hand.

Shu Yan only heard a sharp roar from the woman, and a bright kitchen knife slashed towards Shu Yan and the others.

Shu Yan is an old man, and she reacts slowly.

In an instant, Xiao Yu'er picked up a speargun in one hand and knocked down the knife in the woman's hand.

The woman fell to the ground and began to cry loudly.

"Ahh I'll kill you, I'll kill you! My son......"

Shu Yan hurriedly rowed the boat to the shore, her hands were shaking, she couldn't even say a word, and she didn't even dare to question the woman.

Just sitting on the boat and looking at the woman.

The woman's wrist was poked with a large hole in the speargun, revealing the white bones of the forest.

The little fish held the speargun tightly and confronted the woman.

In contrast, Yu An and Shu Yan were pale with fright.

Shu Yan couldn't help but look at Xiao Yu'er, Xiao Yu'er showed a smile at Shu Yan, she pretended to be calm and said, "Grandma." ”

Shu Yan stretched out his hand and touched Xiao Yu'er's head.

I wanted to say something, but she couldn't say a word.