Chapter Ninety-Seven: Qinjia Village
"These refugees should have fled from Yingtianfu. ”
"It turns out that the people of the world are suffering like this all the time......"
Seeing this, Di Yue's face was even more miserable, if it wasn't for Zhang Yixian to stop her, she would have wanted to cast some small spells to find some food for them.
"Xiao Yue'er, immortals can't reveal their immortal skills in front of mortals, this is the rule of heaven......"
Thinking of this, Zhang Yixian's face was also a little hateful, he had thought about it before. And he also used the power of the soul to heal some people who were suffering from illness, and the result was indeed thunder and thunder.
"They're hungry......"
"Okay, if you want, take the food and give alms when you arrive in Yingtian, I still have a lot of food in Yingtianfu, and now I can use it. For now, I can only rush to Yingtianfu as soon as possible, and I don't know what happened to my territory......" Zhang Yixian said with some relief.
"Well, big brother, let's hurry. ”
Hearing this, Di Yue's eyes became full of vitality again, and in just seven or eight days, she changed from a carefree, lively and cute little girl to an adult full of thoughts.
This change was so rapid that Zhang Yixian didn't react, perhaps it was the ripples in her heart that she had seen and heard along the way.
Not only that, but Di Yue has become less talkative in recent days, and the emotions on his body have become more and more obvious, maybe this is a kind of maturity.
Zhang Yixian was stunned for a moment, and then raised the long whip in his hand, "Drive!" shouted, and the horse that was originally walking slowly began to shake its body, and its speed became faster.
Walking along the path to Yingtianfu, more than 100 miles of road intermittently can see the fleeing people, dragging their families with mouths, but there is no little food, very hungry to take out the water on the body and pour a few mouthfuls, until the belly bulges up and then on the road again, they even saw a group of old people on the way, because they walked slowly, so they were left behind.
"I'm afraid there are no less than 100,000 people fleeing along the way!"
Zhang Yixian was shocked in his heart, he had never seen this kind of large-scale escape before, but now that he had experienced it with his own eyes, I am afraid that no one could understand the complicated feelings.
Along the way, Di Yue and Zhang Yixian became silent, and when they rode on the horse for more than an hour, they both felt that the horse was getting tired.
"Let's dismount and walk for a while, and let the horses rest for a while. ”
"Hmm. ”
Di Yue's eyes had never left the refugees on either side since she dismounted, and once she saw a woman with a wounded arm, who had just taken out a bundle of white silk and bandaged her, and the woman's husband, though weak and speechless, still used his body to block her daughter-in-law.
Seeing this scene, Di Yue wanted to cry very much, so she asked Zhang Yixian for some dry food and water and handed it to the couple, and the final result was that they were surrounded by these hungry people.
I finally came out, and there was a drizzle in the sky, and I just found a big tree to hide from the rain, but it stopped again.
"Uncle, why did you run away from home?"
"If you can have a bite to eat, who wants to leave your hometown? God doesn't give people a way to live......" An old man who was also resting under a big tree sighed, automatically ignoring the meaning of running away from home in Di Yue's mouth.
Shaking his head, he didn't listen to the chatter, and two lines of tears gradually flowed on his cheeks, which had grown a large number of old age spots.
"Uncle, why doesn't God give you a way to live?"
"Hey, in the first few months, when the crops were growing vigorously, God didn't rain, cracks dried up in the ground, and even the yellow eels below died, and finally it rained, and it rained again, and the crops in the field were blistered again, and there was no harvest! This is not counting, the government levies taxes, as many as 30 kinds of taxes, and a person has to pay 150 taels, and there are not so many iron fryers to sell. ”
After the old man finished speaking, he gently wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his arm, and then glanced at Di Yue, and finally couldn't help crying.
Di Yue glanced at Zhang Yixian, and then he took out the only dried meat from the horse, plus some dry food and wine that Shen Wansan gave when he left, and then gave it all to the dozen or so old men who were sheltering from the rain under the big tree.
Most of their limbs have begun to swell, not only due to dehydration, but also due to excessive lack of nutrients and food for a long time, and if they don't have enough food, they will starve to death in a day or two at most.
For Zhang Yixian's move, Di Yue glanced at her gratefully, and then personally distributed food to these old people, and took care of one or two in person regardless of the mess.
Zhang Yixian was in a trance, Di Yue's actions were not like a fairy at all, but more like the daughter of a rich family, and her every move was highlighted.
More than a dozen old men chewed the jerky over and over again, swallowing it with the tears dripping from the corners of their mouths.
Bidding farewell to these old people, Di Yue was silent again, and Zhang Yixian didn't comfort her, this is a process that others can't understand, only on their own.
Got on the horse and galloped wildly again, halfway through the journey to Ying Tianfu, and the sky was gradually darkening, and they had to stop and find a spacious place to stay.
In the middle, Zhang Yixian took the time to go to the nearby mountains and forests, found some bamboo shoots and edible fruits, and then caught two fatty enough fish from the mountain stream.
Before the fire, Di Yue's eyes stared at the rising flames in a daze.
"Brother Zhang, do you say that the suffering in the world really comes from heaven?"
After a long time, Zhang Yixian, who had been worried about Diyue, heard her speak, breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and then said: "Heaven is the most fair, ruthless is better than affection, but people are different, they are very emotional, family, friends, affection, friendship, and even love, and God can doom them to suffer the experience, but it can't affect their feelings towards others, so the world says that people will win the sky!"
"The source of all this suffering is not who it is, but what we can understand, what we find, and even what we get from it. ”
"Not afraid of suffering, not afraid of death, this is the man, the one who has been tormented by suffering and has been reborn. ”
"I don't understand. ”
"You'll understand later, because you're not alone, you're not integrated into their lives, you're not going through the process that a person should be. Come on, eat something first, you can feel the day tomorrow, and then I will take you to experience the joy of being a human being. ”
"Hmm. ”
There was no word for the night, but neither of them felt the slightest sleep, for them, sleep was just a way to relax.
The sky slowly turned white, and the frost on both sides of the leaves turned into water.
After getting on the horse, he galloped all the way along the path, and the closer he got to Yingtianfu, the more scarce the refugees here became, and they were gradually replaced by some patrolling soldiers.
After rushing forward for half a day, Zhang Yixian and Di Yue came to a place twenty miles away from Ying Tianfu, which was close to the Yangtze River, and there was a relatively large port, on which ships came and went, which seemed extremely busy, compared with the lifeless air on the road before, it was completely different worlds.
Around the harbor were some officers and soldiers of the Yuan court, and all those who came near the harbor were driven away, and the people on the ships kept carrying sacks of grain, rice, and flour below.
"Ying Tianfu has arrived!"
Zhang Yixian secretly said in his heart, this is his first stop in this world, and it is also the first place he has to stay.
Now that he has arrived here again, he has a feeling of coming home in his heart.
The Yuan troops patrolling around did not stop them from continuing their advance, and after advancing a few miles again, Zhang Yixian took Emperor Yue to detour from a small road to the City God Temple.
More than ten miles further is Qinjia Village, and behind the village is the range of the City God Temple.
At this moment, Zhang Yixian was faintly excited in his heart, he didn't know how Old Qin Tou took care of the City God Temple when he was away, and what happened to the guards in the temple, and whether Xiao Ming, the ghost boy he left in the temple, was okay.
He couldn't wait.
The wind in his ears was whistling, Zhang Yixian's eyes were looking ahead, and the scenery on both sides kept retreating.
An hour later, a stone tablet appeared in his sight, and the three big characters "Qinjia Village" jumped on it.
It seems to be a newly raised stele, and traces can still be seen on the red paint painted on it.
The road seems to have been trimmed, and even the fields beside the road are green, and when the wind blows, the crops on it sway gently, as if to welcome Zhang Yixian's return.
"Stop! No bicycles are allowed within ten miles of the City God Temple!"
Just as the horse's hooves were about to step into the land of Qinjia Village, a loud shout came from the front, and then a team of ten people stepped neatly towards him.
After seeing Zhang Yixian, he reiterated the ban just now.
"Who are you?"
"We are believers in the City God Temple, if you go to the City God Temple to incense, go straight is, if you go to visit relatives, go straight on the right hand side and go straight for two miles is Qinjia Village, but there is one rule, no trouble is allowed within the City God Temple, violators, beheaded!"
The man at the head shouted, and Zhang Yixian was sure that these people were the escort team he had set up at the beginning, but now it seems that the effect is not bad.
Leading the horse, the more he walked in the direction of the City God Temple, Zhang Yixian had a number in his heart, in his eyes, a two-story restaurant rose from the ground, and there were still some people eating inside.
When he entered the restaurant, he faintly heard the people in it discussing the affairs of the City God Temple, and he was curious, so he ordered some wine and food with Di Yue to sit down and listen slowly.
"I heard that no, Qin Miaozhu is going to gather the majority of believers again in the next few days, saying that the city god is dreaming of him and wants to find someone who is destined. ”
"What kind of news are you, who is Qin Miaozhu? The messenger of the City God! This should be the boundary of a hundred miles from Tianfu, and it is the most effective here, I heard that a few days ago, the wife of the wealthy merchant Wang Da Shopkeeper in the city was pregnant, and I heard that she drank the spiritual water given by the City God. Think about it, the shopkeeper Wang is fifty years old, and his wife can still get pregnant, isn't this a fairy trick?"
"......Shh Lao Wang, you live next door to the shopkeeper's house, and the child in his wife's womb won't be your help!
"Haha, extremely, extremely!"
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