NFBE Chapter 446: Reconstruction of the Family on the Road to Escape
Chapter 446: Reconstruction of the Family on the Road to Escape
The woman who was exchanged for a piece of meat by the old bachelor during the day, took advantage of the cover of night and collaborated with her ex-husband's family. They not only stole the bachelor's family's stored food, but also stole from several families camping next to the bachelor's family.
If there weren't so many things and he wasn't discovered by patrolling villagers while sneaking away, the bachelor, who had worked all night and slept soundly, probably wouldn't have known that his house had been robbed.
The bachelor's mother grabbed the woman and beat her, and then the families who lost things grabbed the bachelor's mother and beat and scolded her.
Everyone gathered around the bachelor's mother to demand compensation, but now the only things left in the bachelor's family are some rags and clothes, besides the bachelor and his mother. What can they use to pay?
The woman who was beaten to the ground and breathed in less than she breathed out?
Even if the sold woman was caught, she would cover up her ex-husband and escape, taking with her all the things she had collected.
Only she was left.
He Yunwang finished describing the farce in a few words. Gu Li shook her head as she listened. "That woman really loves her husband."
Devote yourself to love, sacrifice your life for love!
It’s more intense than digging wild vegetables.
Gu Mancang smacked his lips in agreement.
Tao Chunhua shook her head in surprise, "She must have a child in the hands of her previous husband." In order for her child to survive, a mother would willingly sell her body.
If she went back home after losing her virginity, she would die and her children would be implicated. She could only squeeze out the last bit of her own value and gave all the stolen things to her ex-husband, hoping that he would treat their children well in recognition of her contribution.
Gu Li looked at Tao Chunhua in shock.
This is a mother's confession.
After this incident, the village chief finally realized how important Gu Mancang's proposal was. He immediately kicked the bachelor's family out of the team.
He also threatened that anyone in the village who did not obey the village rules would be expelled.
The families whose things were stolen did not receive any compensation. They beat up the bachelor who had only served as the groom for half the night and returned to their tents unwillingly.
There were four more people on patrol in the second half of the night, and two more fires were lit.
Unaffected, Gu Li slept again until the sun was high in the sky, her stomach rumbling with hunger.
Taking off the straw hat covering her face, Gu Li was unable to open her eyes due to the strong sunlight.
"Xiao Li'er, wake up. Are you hungry?" This sentence seems to have become the mantra that her old father must ask every day when Gu Li wakes up.
"Yeah." After adapting for a while, Gu Li climbed up from the cart.
The cart was moving forward, and they were already on the road. Gu Li, sleeping like a pig, was placed in the middle of the cart, surrounded by packages of all sizes.
He Xingqing just sat in a corner, still weaving something in her hands.
Tao Chunhua took two pieces of dried meat and half a steamed bun and stuffed them into He Yunwang's hands, signaling him with her eyes to give them to Gu Li.
He Yunwang hesitated for a long time, but finally stuffed the food back into his mother's hands, turning his face away unwillingly.
Tao Chunhua: ------
After the reorganization, Shi'ao Village finally walked peacefully for two days. No one dared to look at anything they encountered along the way, and they walked numbly, arriving at Gongzhou City in Shouchun Prefecture in the evening of the third day.
Gongzhou and their hometown belong to different prefectures, but they are adjacent to each other, separated by an east-west boundary river.
Today, the boundary river has dried up, but there has been no news of drought in Gongzhou. It seems that the water resources in Gongzhou can still sustain the normal life of the people.
Yazhou, where Gu Li is located, is not the county most severely affected by the drought. Along the way, most of the people coming here are refugees from the worst-hit areas. Their situation is even more cruel than that of the people in Gu Li and Shi'ao Village.
Cannibalism, burning, killing and looting can happen at any time and anywhere.
Ten miles outside the gate of Gongzhou City, there gathered refugees who had rushed over from the north.
The refugees, who were so hungry that their bones were showing and they were staggering as they walked, moved towards the city gate like puppets.
"So many people?" Gu Li's delicate eyebrows were tightly knitted. Although she didn't know how big Gongzhou City was, with so many refugees gathered in the outer city, the county magistrate would not let anyone into the city unless he was smart.
Not only can Gongzhou not absorb so many refugees, but these mummy-like refugees entering the city will inevitably cause riots and panic.
Moreover, Gu Li knew that by this point in time, the imperial court's decree should have been issued, and no matter where they went south, no province would absorb them.
Their only way to survive is in Xinjiang.
More and more people gathered, and Gu Mancang pushed the cart forward a little further. Noticing more and more greedy eyes around him, he stopped and hid in the team of Shi'ao Village with his family, never daring to show up again.
Those skinny people who seemed like they would fall down with a push looked at the villagers of Shi'ao Village who were like fat sheep without hiding their presence. If they were not so many in number, they would have rushed over.
However, it's just a matter of time.
When faced with a life-or-death situation, many people will choose to take a risk.
Gu Li's small bag was also replaced with a belt made by Tao Chunhua yesterday. She divided the silver into two parts, gave half to Gu Mancang, and stuffed the other half into the inner pocket of her belt. She gave a bag full of copper coins to Tao Chunhua, but no one knew where she hid it.
As for the banknotes, she stuffed them into her underwear.
Receiving so many eager looks, Gu Li trembled and hugged herself tightly.
She should be the most valuable person in their family now. If someone kidnaps her and kills her for her meat, it would be a waste of resources and a waste of the silver she has hidden.
She had been keeping it all the way, and she still hadn't spent a penny.
No matter how carefree she was, Gu Li didn't dare to doze off. She sat on the cart with her hands and feet tucked in. In order to feel safe, she leaned tightly against He Xingqing's back.
Trying to borrow a shield from him.
In this situation, Gu Mancang didn't dare to leave his family behind to go ahead and inquire, and he also didn't allow He Yunwang to go alone to inquire.
"Yun Wang is not allowed to go. The village chief will send someone to inquire about it."
He Yunwang, who had walked all the way, had already developed his courage, "I can do it."
Gu Mancang said with a sullen face, "I will teach you martial arts when I have the chance in the future."
Seeing that He Yunwang still wanted to fight for it, Tao Chunhua grabbed her son and said, "Just listen to your uncle. Stay with me. I'm a little nervous!"
There were people crowded together for several miles in front of the city gate, so it was not easy to find out the situation. Gu Mancang and his friends waited there until dark, and the people sent by the village chief came back.
They also brought back three people.
An elderly couple and their son. All three of them were in poor condition, unable to even stand normally. As soon as they got off the villagers' backs, they slid to the ground.
"Brother Zhao, why are you here too? Didn't you come to Gongzhou a few days ago? What's going on?"
The old man who was being questioned opened his mouth for a long time but couldn't utter a word.
"Village chief, when I went back to the village to pick up my father and mother, the city gate was still open as usual. But when I came back to pick them up, the gate was already closed."
When the villagers saw that the person coming was Zhao Chuang who had left their village to do business, they immediately surrounded them.
It is not difficult to piece together the experiences of the three people from the intermittent conversations.