Rebirth: The wedding night, my whole family was exiled, I raised 500,000 soldiers

Those who have personally experienced severe drought will run away.

Liu Lao Hu whipped the man with a whip and shouted, "If anyone talks nonsense again, I'll chop him to death!"

"I don't care if there's a severe drought ahead. Anyone who dares to run is a fugitive and I will kill him without mercy!"

Liu Lao Hu did not stop until blood appeared on the whip and the runner lay half-dead on the ground.

This move frightened all the exiled prisoners. No one dared to speak again, and everyone was in panic all the way. At night, in order to prevent the prisoners from talking to each other, all the exiled prisoners were separated and guarded.

When Mother Li brought back the food, there were a lot of handprints and dirt on the clean clothes.

"Mom Li, why are your clothes torn?" Qiu Shuang asked sharply.

Mother Li walked up to Shen Lanxi and replied, "Luckily the yamen runners saw me when I delivered the food just now, otherwise all the food and drinks would have been snatched away." Mother Li felt a little scared when she said this.

Shen Lanxi: "Chunxue, give Mother Li some money, and let her buy her a new set of clothes when we get to Yongcheng!"

Chunxue quickly took out the money and stuffed it into Li's hand without giving her mother a chance to refuse.

"Miss, when I was a child, I heard from my family about a severe drought. Everything growing in the fields died. People were so hungry that they ate tree bark, and so thirsty that they even drank blood. Nine out of ten people died, and many people sold their children. Some even resorted to cannibalism when pushed to the limit." Chunxue said this fearfully, rubbing the goose bumps on her arms.

Shen Lanxi stared at the exile team in a trance, and no one knew what she was thinking.

"There is always a way out. If we are afraid, shouldn't the police be afraid too?"

Qiu Shuang's eyes lit up: "Sir, will they lock the prisoners in jail and wait until the drought is over before setting off again?"

Shen Lanxi thought, if it was just ordinary exiled prisoners, it might be possible. But among these exiled prisoners there were members of the Shen family, which just provided an opportunity for the people in the dark.

But, it is also an opportunity for the Shen family!

With the guards watching over them, the prisoners dared not speak and went to bed early. The next day, they set out an hour earlier than usual.

After walking for less than half an hour, they encountered three groups of refugees. Liu Lao Hu stopped one of the groups and questioned them. After the questioning, his face looked very bad.

Shen Lanxi seized the opportunity, found Liu Lao Hu, and stuffed a silver note worth one hundred taels into his hand.

Liu Lao Hu didn't dare to take it, the banknote was too hot!

"Brother Liu, I believe you have noticed that the refugees we encountered today looked worse than yesterday, and there were fewer mule carts. They must have come from farther away. When those refugees passed by the goods on my cart, their eyes looked as if they wanted to snatch them away!"

Liu Lao Hu silently put the banknotes into his pocket. He knew in his heart that the further he went, the more expensive things would become, and the less valuable money would become!

"Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. I have a suggestion and would like to discuss it with Brother Liu!"

Although Liu Lao Hu had a serious expression, he did not refuse immediately.

"Say!"

Shen Lanxi: "It will take us about three or four hours to walk to Yongcheng. If we take a carriage, it will definitely shorten the time by more than half. I want to use the carriage to send the yamen runners and exiled prisoners in batches, and enter Yongcheng before the city is closed!"

Liu Lao Hu's expression froze and he looked at her with a scrutinizing gaze.

Yongcheng is close to the capital, so given the current situation, there is no need to close the city. She deliberately exaggerates the situation.

Liu Lao Hu has been escorting prisoners for many years and is knowledgeable. It is not difficult to make him believe her words!

"Okay, but I have to decide which group goes first!"

Shen Lanxi clasped her fists and smiled: "Of course!"

Liu Lao Hu went to make arrangements with a serious expression, and soon two carriages were requisitioned. The first group of people to leave included Shen Congwen and his wife, as well as a few servants of the Shen family, and then other exiled prisoners who were separated.

Liu Lao Hu did not leave, Shen Lanxi invited him to ride in the ox cart. This time Liu Lao Hu did not refuse, the ox cart could not accommodate so many people, Li Mama's family of four got off, leaving the two children on the ox cart.

Their group of people made the yamen runners completely let down their guard and they left together.

The Shen family looked at Shen Lanxi sitting on the ox cart with envy.

"Lan Xi is going a bit too far. She didn't even invite your grandparents to ride on the ox cart!" Shen Congyi said as he walked, gritting his teeth.

Shen Yuanjing retorted indignantly: "Fourth Uncle, it was not easy for my elder sister to convince the yamen runners to let us go in the carriage. If you say that again, you will make it difficult for my elder sister!"

Shen Yuanjun: "That's right, my elder sister is not a yamen runner. It's already very difficult to let the exiled prisoners ride in a carriage. What if you make other requests and anger the yamen runners? Do you want to be whipped?"

Shen Congyi glared at the two of them with a sullen expression: "Won't she come down by herself and let your grandparents go up?"

Shen Yuanjing: "Fourth uncle, why don't you ask the yamen runners if they are willing to sit with the exiled prisoners? At their age, are grandparents willing to kowtow to the yamen runners?"

When Old Lady Shen thought of her granddaughter bowing to the yamen runner, her face turned ugly.

In the past, even a first-rank lady had to bow and salute when she saw her. So she was too embarrassed to bow and say nice things to a yamen runner!

"Congyi, stop talking. Yuan Jing and the others are right. We have no relationship with the yamen runners. If we keep asking them for things, they will get angry with us. They will make us suffer on the road. Things are different now. We should be patient and don't offend them!"

Shen Congyi walked forward with a dark face and kept silent. It was his turn to carry Old Man Shen next, but he pretended he didn't hear and kept walking forward, so the next person had to do it!

Following the first group were Chunxue and Qiu Shuang. After arriving, they immediately went to Yongcheng and rented four horse-drawn carriages without carriages. They let the two horses rest while the four carriages continued to transport the prisoners.

After running back and forth a total of six times, we finally brought all the prisoners to the foot of Yongcheng.

He was not in a hurry to bring people in, because half an hour ago, people started to pay to enter the city at the city gate!

Liu Lao Hu asked his men to watch the prisoners at the city gate, and he went into the city with two yamen runners carrying official documents.

Shen Lanxi no longer needed to inform the yamen runners in advance when talking to the Shen family, but she still followed the rules and spoke to her father and mother in front of the yamen runners.

"Father and mother, I'm going to the city to sell the goods. I'll leave Qiu Shuang here. I'll be back after I've dealt with the goods. Do you have anything to take with you?"

Shen Congwen said worriedly: "Don't bring anything for us. Use the money to buy some food and store some water. Don't waste money!"

Shen Lanxi: "Got it!"

I gave Mother Li money and asked her to exchange it for a carriage and food, and we agreed to meet at the city gate in an hour!

She took Chunxue and left the carriage at the inn, and then asked Chunxue to buy clothes and a pair of shoes for everyone in the Shen family. She went to buy food, and they agreed to meet at the inn half an hour later.

The price of grain in Yongcheng has doubled. As usual, Shen Lanxi rented an empty room and asked the clerk from the grain shop to transport the grain over. When she passed by a grain seed store, she bought a lot of grain and vegetable seeds.

I repeated this more than a dozen times, using different identities to buy things, and after buying them, I threw them directly into the space.

Taking advantage of the fact that bedding, cloth, cotton, needles and thread were cheap, I bought a lot of them and stored them in the space.