After asking them questions, the village head took out half a bag of corn cobs from their family, and said, "If any of you have corn cobs, if you are willing to give some, you can put them in my bag."

Rice and noodles are expensive, and I don't have much, but every household has some of this kind of miscellaneous grains.

The soft-hearted people took out one or two, and there were many that they didn't take, and they didn't have enough food for themselves.

After gathering a lot, the village head arranged for young adults to distribute them, and each of them got five corns.

If you get the clever ones, you don’t even plan to cook them, just eat them, or gather with familiar people to watch out for other refugees in the team.

After asking questions and giving the corn, the team set off again, and the more than 100 refugees silently followed the team a little farther away, because Zheng Fengyuan's team behind threatened them not to get too close.

"Today is the first time to send food, and it will be the last time! From now on, we will see the victims again in the future! Whoever wants to give food is soft-hearted! Just go!"

"Yes, I don't know how many disaster victims we will meet along the way. We have a lot of food, so we have to be careful not to be robbed!"

"We all listen to the village chief."

"Yes, yes, yes, I promise that there will be no more food."

Everyone knows how dangerous it is for a hungry person to go crazy, so the feeder can no longer be opened.

"Okay, as long as everyone knows, let's continue!"

After Su Guohua shouted to everyone, the team continued to move forward slowly.

.........

After walking another [-] kilometers, without exception, there is no green on the side of the road, and everything you see is frightening.

Gradually, many people lying still appeared on the side of the road. They had been dead for a while, and the stench filled the sky...the corpses were covered with flies, and maggots squirmed.

The people in the team vomited in turns, and all of them were as pale as paper.

He walked past in a hurry, not daring to take a closer look at the person lying motionless by the side of the road.

"Mother, you are tired, let me down and go by yourself."

"Okay, I'll hug you when I'm tired."

Yun didn't refuse, she was indeed tired, her hands and feet were so sore every night that she couldn't sleep.

On the way these few days, Su Zhenzhen and Su Chenxi would take turns to go down to the ground, and the elder brother would occasionally ride on the scooter.

Not only their family was exhausted, but the whole team was miserable. The children sometimes cried and refused to leave, but in the end they gritted their teeth and insisted on walking down under the persecution of their families.

They are now taking the official road, a very flat road, because all the people from the waterway to Fengcheng have to pass through this official road, so the road is well repaired, and the carts pass easily.

At this time, the last ray of sunlight in the sky was also completely darkened. Before the sky was completely dark, they saw a ruined temple by the roadside.

However, when they got closer, they realized that both the inside and the outside of the ruined temple were already crowded with people.

Just like the refugees I met before, they were all in tattered clothes, withered, their faces were ashes, and some people even had various mottled bloodstains on their bodies.

Seeing them, apart from being vigilant, they were also greedy and covetous.

In the ruined temple was a group of men with fierce faces, most of them were young and strong men, their eyes were bloodshot, and their tongues were licking their chapped lips, it was obvious that they had seen blood.

And there were three groups of people lying on the ground outside the temple, about 300 people. It seems that the inside of the temple and the outside of the temple are not the same.

Someone was so frightened that he grabbed the person next to him tightly, and Yun Shi also hugged Su Zhenzhen tightly, pulling Su Chenyi in front of him, and Su Chenxi got back on the cart halfway.

"Let's go outside and make do for the night!"

As he said that, Su Guohua led the crowd and retreated 100 meters away from the ruined temple.

"It's already dark, and we can't go any further, so we can only make do with the night here."

"Women gather some firewood nearby, let's start a fire and cook. Men put our luggage away, leave a few more people to guard, and a few more people to set up a tarpaulin shelf to sleep."

"Those who go to the toilet, be careful not to leave alone. Babies, be careful not to run around. If you have something to do, please yell quickly and don't go far!"

Su Guohua and the other two village chiefs arranged their affairs solemnly.

Having lived to their age, it is natural that they have heard many people of the older generation talk about those things on the road to escape from famine, such as burning, killing, smashing and looting, and eating for food and so on can be seen everywhere.

This large group of people is different from the helpless refugees before. This group of people is more young and middle-aged, and the number is also large, and most of them are bloody in their bones.

"We take turns keeping vigil at night, everyone stay alert, don't fall asleep, especially those who guard the food, be careful not to be touched by someone!"

Feeling the dignified atmosphere, everyone went about their work in silence, and even the children didn't dare to fight.

………………

"Brother, shall we do it tonight?"

A team of nearly 200 people in the ruined temple was discussing something inside.

There are more than 100 young and middle-aged people in the whole team, [-] to [-] women, more than a dozen children, and no old people.

The men gathered together to discuss whether to rob the new team at night.

The women, on the other hand, hugged their shivering children and curled up next to each other in a corner. Their tattered clothes could not cover the bruises and pinch marks on their exposed skin. Their faces were numb and pale, and they sat dully and silent. .

In this ruined temple, only the people in their team can come in to rest. The other refugees dare not rob them or fight against them, so they can only rest on the ground outside the ruined temple.

"But there are too many of them, and apart from being a little dirty and tired, none of them seem to be hungry." Someone in the team hesitated.

"There are so many of them, we're afraid we won't be able to grab them, and there's a man in an official uniform at the back of the team, surrounded by a lot of rich family thugs!"

The leader was a burly man with a scar on his face. He leaned his head against the wall with his eyes closed, quietly listening to the discussions of his subordinates, rubbing his fingers against the handle of the big knife in his hand, as if waiting wearing something.

"Brother, I'm back."

At this time, a thin man came in from the outside and said to the big man.

The big man opened his closed eyes, and asked the visitor with a sharp look, "Did you hear that?"

The visitor replied in a low voice with mischievous eyebrows: "I found out, the people from Qingcheng are not short of food and clothing, and there are many wealthy families, but there are nearly 500 of them."

"The little one also found out that they arranged for more than a hundred people to take turns guarding the food at night, and some people kept vigil by the fire."

"The team in front are all villagers, they have a lot of food!"

"As for the man in the official uniform, he is the lord of Qingcheng, but none of his soldiers survived. Surrounding him are wealthy households in Qingcheng, all of whom are utterly rich!"

"As for the more than 100 refugees in the back, they didn't go all the way with them, they followed them when they encountered them on the road."

"Brother, what should we do? Shall we do it?"

"How to do it? There are so many of them, and they are still outside, the wind is so strong, our smoke is not easy to use, and the drug is not easy to drink." Some people disagreed.

The big man in the lead listened to the discussion of his subordinates with a gloomy face, and didn't know what he was thinking without saying a word.

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