After passing through the book, she became the farmer's wife of the villain

Chapter 103 Meeting fellow countrymen

It was just two people driving an ox cart. The speed was much faster, and they arrived outside Qingtian County in a short time.

Now that the imperial court was resettling refugees, there were no refugees blocking the city gates, so the two paid a few pennies and entered the city smoothly.

Arriving in the city, Mei Laoer was at a loss, "Meimei, where should we find someone?"

These refugees were either resettled or persuaded to return to their places of origin. Regardless of what happened elsewhere, it is now difficult to see the victims of the entire city under lockdown.

Seeing this, Merome was also in trouble for a moment, and suddenly ran to find someone. It was really difficult to find someone. She thought for a while and said, "How about we go find some poor people to help?"

In ancient times, as in modern times, there were poor and rich people everywhere. Even at the feet of the emperor, there were many people who had neither enough to eat nor clothing to keep warm.

Mei Laoer had no choice but to say: "This is the only way."

The two parked the cart next to a tavern, asked the tavern clerk for directions, and then prepared to look for someone.

When I walked to a place, I suddenly saw a beggar in the corner out of the corner of my eye. I didn't want to talk to him at first, but I always felt that the figure looked familiar.

Melome paused and couldn't help turning her head to look carefully.

When the beggar saw someone coming, he immediately came forward with a broken bowl and said, "Please, miss, give me something to eat..."

The beggar wanted to beg for something to eat. Suddenly he looked up and saw two acquaintances. He was very surprised and asked: "Is it you?"

Then he laughed happily and said, "I finally meet my compatriots."

Melome didn't expect to meet an acquaintance when entering the city, so she couldn't help but said: "Brother Shitou, why are you here?"

This beggar was Yang Shitou who helped harvest mushrooms in Shanghe Village. After harvesting all the mushrooms, we stopped contacting him.

"It's a long story."

Sheep Shitou sighed, with endless vicissitudes in his eyes, and asked Merome, "What about you? Why are you here?"

"We also have a long story." Merome sighed and said, "How about we go have something to eat first and chat together?"

"good."

The three of them walked to the Chaos stall nearby and ordered three bowls of wontons. While waiting, Mei Laoer asked, "Why are you alone, and where are the villagers in your village?"

Yang Shitou's eyes were red and his voice was choked, "Dead, all dead, our whole village was killed by the Turks."

He shed tears: "I escaped because I lived relatively far away and in a shabby shack."

I have always been ostracized by the villagers, but now I have escaped disaster because of this ostracism. I don't know whether I should be happy or sad.

Although Yang Shitou is young and mature, he is still only a boy of 14 or 15 years old. Now when he meets a fellow villager in a foreign land, he can't help crying.

They live in Shanghe Village, so after the water flow in Shuanghe Village was cut off, there was still a little water in their river, so they were not in a hurry to move, but wanted to wait and see if it would rain in a few days.

As a result, they did not wait for rain, but instead waited for Turkic soldiers to conquer Yinzhou.

After the soldiers entered the city, they began to burn, kill and loot on a large scale, which made people panic for a while.

The night before Shanghe Village was about to leave, a group of Turkic soldiers entered the village, killed the village chief, robbed the remaining food, destroyed the village's young ladies and women, and finally set fire to the entire Shanghe Village.

When Yang Shitou saw the fire and rushed over, he only saw the backs of the Turkic soldiers walking away.

He searched the entire village and finally found no one alive except him.

He suddenly panicked, hurriedly ran back to his shack to pack his things, took a shortcut all the way over the mountains and ridges to Shuanghe Village.

I wanted to run to the village chief of Shuanghe Village for help, but when I arrived, I found that there was no smoke in Shuanghe Village for a long time. Every household was closed and locked, and they must have been gone for a long time.

He had no choice but to resist saluting and hit the road alone. Fortunately, he had a hard life, grew up in the mountains, and was cautious, so he avoided numerous dangers along the way, and finally got mixed up with some refugees and followed him to the capital.

When the group of them arrived in the capital, they were not resettled. Instead, they were deported. He secretly left the group, found a hidden place, and dug a hole in the ground to hide in.

Fortunately, he had earned some money by harvesting mushrooms with Merome and others. He was afraid of hunger at that time, so he bought a lot of food to save. Fortunately, with this food, he was able to survive until now.

Later, the government began to resettle refugees, so he sneaked into the city at the right time and began his life as a beggar.

Yang Shitou cried while recounting everything that had happened in the past three years. After he finished speaking, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

Mei Laoer kept sighing on the side, comforting him, and also told him some things they encountered.

Melome felt sad, and in the end she could only sigh twice, because she didn't know when the world would change.

"My dear guests, the wontons are here, please use them slowly."

The owner of the wonton stall cooked the wontons and brought them over to serve.

"Eat quickly, we can go find someone after eating."

Mei Laoer pushed two bowls of wontons in front of the two of them, and then took the chopsticks and handed them to Melo Mei.

Melome took the chopsticks and said, "Brother Shitou, do you have a place to live now?"

Yang Shitou poked two chopsticks together on the table and said, "I live with a group of beggars in a ruined temple outside the city."

In order to grab the territory, a group of beggars fought a lot. Fortunately, he had good physical strength, so he occupied a small den.

Merlome popped a wonton, blew it, put it in her mouth, chewed it, swallowed it, and then said, "Do you want to continue helping me? I'm in need of someone right now."

Yang Shitou had already finished two wontons quickly. When he heard this, he raised his head and said, "Of course, I have nothing to do. I can't get a full meal even if I beg every day. It's good to have work to do."

Although this girl was a few years younger than him, he never dared to look down on her.

Melome smiled and said, "Well, Brother Shitou will help my family with the work, and I will take care of the food."

Yang Shitou: "Being able to take care of the food is already very good. Nowadays, people who don't have enough to eat are all over the streets. If you give an order, everyone may rush to help you work."

This is true. Nowadays, many people have trouble even drinking water, and it is even more difficult to eat. If there was a place that provided food and shelter, everyone would probably squeeze their heads into it.

"Brother Shitou is joking, but you came early. Do you know anyone else? I want to find more people now." After a pause, he added: "The character must be good, but don't abuse good people."

Yang Shitou finished a bowl of wontons in a few strokes and said: "I know some people, but I don't know if you can like them. Do you want me to take you to see them first and then decide if they suit you?"

Melome thought for a moment and said, "Okay."

Those who work for your own family must really look after you.

After finishing the wontons, Yang Shitou picked up the bowl and drank the soup, licked the bowl again, and then reluctantly put it down.

Melo Mei paid the money, and the three of them left the wonton stall and headed all the way to the place Yang Shitou mentioned.

"Sister Luo, let me take you to see the beggars living with me first. If it's not suitable, I will take you to Xicheng to see. There are all poor people there."

Since Sheep Shitou said this, Merome didn't agree with it, so she followed him.

Arriving at the outskirts of Qingtian County, I walked for a while before arriving at the ruined temple that Yang Shitou mentioned.

"That's right there." Yang Shitou pointed to a dilapidated temple in front of him.

Melome looked up and saw that the plaque in front of the temple was gone. There was only half a door in the ruined temple. When she opened it and entered, there were only a few piles of dry straw inside.

The walls of the temple are dilapidated, with drafts leaking everywhere, and the beams and pillars have been gnawed with holes by rats. The roof is full of fist-sized holes, which looks very dangerous.

"It took me a long time to find this place. I even had several fights with the boss here to get a piece of land."

Yang Shitou touched his head, feeling very embarrassed.

Mei Laoer followed up, looked at it for a while and said, "This place is so shabby, I'm afraid it will collapse if it rains."

"Yes, but apart from this place, there is no suitable place to live. Other houses, no matter how bad they are, will cost hundreds of dollars."

How can they, a bunch of beggars, afford to rent a house!

If it weren't for the fact that sleeping indiscriminately was not allowed in the city, he would have slept in the corner of someone else's house with a straw in his arms.

"Brother Shitou, didn't I hear that someone was recruiting soldiers? Why don't you join the army?"

That’s at least better than being a beggar!

"Oh, I heard about it too. I wanted to go, but when I started to be recruited, I was only twelve years old. They didn't want me. They said I was too young. I must be at least fourteen years old."

Yang Shitou got angry when he thought of this, thinking why he couldn't be a few years older. When he finally reached the age of fourteen, he never encountered recruiters again.

Melome: "Everything depends on fate. Maybe you shouldn't join the army and should make a lot of money."

Yang Shitou said: "If others say this, I will definitely not listen, but if you say this, I believe it."

In three years, everyone has changed a lot.

The two chatted for a while, and then Melome came to business, "Didn't I say that a group of you live here, where are the people?"

They came for a while but didn't see anyone.

Yang Shitou went out and looked at the sky and said, "It's almost time for them to come back."

Beggars usually go out in the morning, come back for a rest at noon, and go back again in the afternoon.

"Then I'll wait a little longer."

There was no place to sit in the ruined temple, so Mei Luomei and Mei Laoer also went out, and the three of them found a big tree that had just sprouted a few leaves.

Yang Shitou moved three big stones in front of the temple and placed them under the tree to serve as stools.

A few people were sitting under the tree, and Mei Laoer and Yang Shitou started chatting again. While chatting, they suddenly talked about the fight between the three villages to get water. Mei Laoer asked, "I don't think you saw the fight between your village and our village last time."

you?"

Yang Shitou said, "Oh, I usually don't interact with people in the village, so they don't inform me whether they fight or not. I only hear about it later."

Mei Laoer nodded and commented: "What you did in Shanghe Village is really unethical."

Thinking that the whole village had been killed now, he sighed: "It's so unpredictable. I didn't expect that that fight would be the last one."

Yang Shitou clenched his fists and said bitterly: "Those Turkic dogs will always be unlucky one day."

(End of chapter)