I don't want to have children

When the kitten realized the plan of the refugees, he tore off an outer shirt and made two simple masks, and put them on his and Li Xuejun's faces, risking infection and mixing with the patients carrying the dead bodies , when the gap appeared, the kitten suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, helped Li Xuejun and took the opportunity to rush out.Most of the refugees did not follow closely behind the patients because of the fear of the plague, but kept a distance.The soldiers were only panicked for a moment. After a small group of patients who were the vanguard rushed out, they immediately reacted and quickly launched an effective counterattack. The battlefield immediately turned into a one-sided massacre.

The kitten supported Li Xuejun and carefully hid from the group of refugees. As soon as the massacre on the battlefield was over, the military officer with a brain would definitely send someone out to chase and kill this group of people. Follow the group of refugees, the target is too obvious, and Li Xuejun, who is weak, is likely to be infected with the plague.

"Brother Xuejun, the officers and soldiers will definitely send people to chase after him. Let's go to the mountains." The kitten whispered while supporting Li Xuejun.

"Be careful, cat." Li Xuejun nodded.

Not long after Kitten and Li Xuejun turned into the side path, they heard the sound of horseshoes on the official road, followed by screams.The kitten turned pale with fright, Li Xuejun covered the kitten's mouth, and crouched down with the kitten's head pressed down. The leaves in the mountain forest had been eaten up by the locusts, so he had to rely on the few remaining solitary tree trunks for cover.

Li Xuejun listened carefully to the sounds on the avenue. After the officers and soldiers caught up with the refugees and carried out a massacre, they set fire to the corpses and drove back with their horses, without searching around.Li Xuejun breathed a sigh of relief, let go of the hand covering the kitten, raised his head and saw a person squatting beside a tree not far away, staring at himself and the kitten, his heart skipped a beat.

The man looked Xiaomao and Li Xuejun up and down, showed a ferocious smile, and said in a positive tone: "You two are not disaster victims from the north."

"Why is the north not the north? Our people here are also affected by drought and locust plagues, and everyone is a victim of the disaster." The kitten glared at the man fiercely and said.

"Cat, ignore him, let's leave here first, it's too close to the town, it's easy to attract soldiers, it's not safe." Li Xuejun pulled the kitten and said.

The kitten snorted, and carefully supported Li Xuejun to walk forward.The kitten chose the direction of returning to Dahe Village, where the population is not as concentrated as in Qingshi Town, and it is a familiar place. More importantly, the kitten remembers the family who stayed in the village.

After walking for a while, the black guy was still following behind. The kitten turned around and shouted in a low voice: "Hey, what's the matter with you, go your own way, don't follow us."

"Hey, little brother, it's fate for us to meet together. We go together and take care of each other. You don't suffer, how?" the man said with a grin.

Indeed, for Kitten and Li Xuejun, who are both young and ill, walking with a stronger refugee has only advantages and no disadvantages.

The man walked up on his own, pulled Li Xuejun's other arm, and put it on his shoulder, the kitten felt lighter.

Li Xuejun looked at the slightly sweaty forehead of the kitten and said politely: "This is Li Xuejun, this is Li's companion, named Wang Xiaomao, what's your surname?"

"Miangui's surname is Zhao, and he is the second eldest child in the family. Call me Zhao Er." Zhao Er helped Li Xuejun avoid a branch, and replied.

The three of them didn't dare to rest, and went from noon to sunset.After reaching a forest with bare tree trunks, Zhao Er glanced at the tired and pale-faced two people beside him and said, "Take a rest first."

The kitten found a relatively flat place, helped Li Xuejun to sit down, and then looked around carefully at the bare tree vines. When he found a thick gray tree vine, his eyes lit up, and he took out a vine that had been hidden in his arms all the time. With a small knife, carefully cut the vines open, the inside is still emerald green, and drops of water slowly ooze out.This kind of vine grows very strong, its roots are deeper than big trees, and the stems and leaves store a lot of water. In the past, when Wang Dazhu played with his kitten in the forest, he would cut the vine directly when he was thirsty. Drink water from the stems.

The kitten carefully took half of the pot of water and handed it to Li Xuejun: "Drink it quickly, and I will pick it up after drinking."

Zhao Er had been watching the kitten's behavior with great interest just now, and when he saw water oozing from the vine, he suddenly realized that he couldn't wait to grab another vine and snap it off, but it turned out to be a dead vine.

The kitten laughed out loud, and when Li Xuejun had finished drinking, he handed over the water bottle: "Hey, wipe off the dirt around your mouth before drinking, I really don't know what you did with your black body. "

Zhao Er lifted up the hem of his clothes, revealing his relatively clean underwear, wiped his face and hands, took the water bottle and said, "I heard people say that if you smear your body with wormwood ash, you won't be infected with the plague."

"You believe it too!" the kitten mocked.

"Well, talk is better than nothing, ah, by the way, how did you know that there was water in that vine just now?" Zhao Erman said indifferently.

"Hehe, it's nothing, just look for the kind of tree vine with bumps." Li Xuejun stopped the kitten who wanted to laugh, and explained with a smile.

The kitten snorted, took the kettle and began to find another vine to collect water.

In the middle of the night, the kitten woke up from hunger and hadn't eaten for a day.The kitten pressed its "cuckling" belly in discomfort and turned over.Li Xuejun, who was sleeping next to him, woke up immediately: "Cat, what's wrong?"

"Brother Xuejun, I'm so hungry." Kitten said sadly.

Li Xuejun was stunned, and pulled the kitten into his arms: "Go to sleep, you won't be hungry when you fall asleep, and we will find something to eat at dawn tomorrow, okay?"

"En." The kitten waved lightly, retracted its body into Li Xuejun's arms, and fell asleep again in a daze.

"Brother Li, you have injured your internal organs, right? I know some medical skills. If it's convenient, let me show you. Maybe I can find a way to make you recover soon." With a muffled snort, he said with concern.

Li Xuejun naturally agreed, and while helping Li Xuejun undress, the kitten muttered in his heart: A guy who can smear grass ash all over his body, and said he knows medical skills!

Zhao Er carefully pressed Li Xuejun's chest and abdomen, asked Li Xuejun how he felt and his usual pain symptoms, nodded and said: "It's not a serious problem, it's just that the internal organs were impacted when he was hit many times. The living conditions should have been improved a long time ago, and now we can only take care of them slowly."

"Hmph, after all, it's still not the same." Kitten had a lot of prejudice against the refugees in the north who carried out banditry at that time.

Zhao Er was a little confused: "Brother Mao, why did I offend you?"

"Mao'er, stop making trouble. Brother Zhao is different from those robbed refugees." Li Xuejun stopped the kitten first, and then said to Zhao Er apologetically: "When the refugees rushed into the town, they came to our house to rob and scare the little ones." It's a cat, Brother Zhao, don't mind."

"They were also responsible for your injury. Didn't they say they only robbed food!" Zhao Er said with some surprise.

"People are not enough, snakes swallow elephants, only grab food, hum." Kitty said with an accent on "only grab".

"Okay, okay, cat, don't you think I've got nothing to do, let's go find something to eat, I'm starving." Li Xuejun stroked the kitten's hair and said softly.

Zhao Er looked at the kitten who was carefully helping Li Xuejun away, with a wry smile on his lips: It seems that he was not completely right to encourage the refugees.

"Hey, hurry up, you still want us to find you something to eat!" The kitten turned around and shouted to Zhao Er who was still in place.

In the mountain forest left after the double attack of drought and locust plague, it is not easy to find food. The kitten stared at the ground carefully with wide eyes, looking for some wild vegetable roots or something.

"Look, what is that?" Zhao Er pointed to a tree not far away and shouted.

When the kitten looked up, it was startled. It was a huge honeycomb. It was immediately filled with joy, and yellow and sweet honey began to appear in front of its eyes.

The honeycomb was empty, and the kitten smashed the whole honeycomb to find a small piece of half-dried honey, carefully cut it into three pieces with a knife, and handed a larger piece to Li Xuejun.

"Cat, eat it, I don't like sweet and greasy honey." Li Xuejun pushed back the kitten's hand and said.

"No, eat it if you don't like it, you need to get better soon." The kitten said with wide eyes, stuffing the piece of honey into Li Xuejun's mouth.

Later, the kitten found some dry roots of wild vegetables, and the three of them swallowed some with difficulty. After walking and stopping for a long time, they saw the village in the distance. The kitten screamed and wanted to rush over.

"Wait a minute, I'll go and have a look first." Zhao Er held the kitten down, and walked quickly over by himself. There was a scorched blackness in front of his eyes, only a few adobe brick walls standing stubbornly. It was obvious that officers and soldiers swept past and set fire to it. In this part of the village, there are still traces and arrows trampled by the horse team on the ground.

The kitten broke free from Li Xuejun's hand, and ran towards its own yard while yelling.

"Father, Ah, did you hear, it's a kitten, the cat is back." Wang Dazhu who was hiding in the cellar said happily.

Wu Su'er burst into tears immediately, and Wang Er carefully removed the clod from his head: "Cat, is it you!"

As soon as the kitten ran into the faintly visible courtyard gate, he heard Wang Er's familiar voice coming from the original backyard.The kitten stumbled to the back and saw Wang Er crawling out of the cellar.

"Daddy..." The kitten let out a cry and then limp and fell to the ground.

A few days ago, in order to prevent the plague from continuing to spread, the officers and soldiers set fire to all the villages where the refugees had infested. Some people escaped and were shot to death with arrows. Fortunately, Li Jiaer cleverly thought that they could hide in the cellar.In order to store potatoes, sweet potatoes and other grains in the village, every household will dig cellars.Li Jiaer arranged for the family to quickly pack up the necessary supplies such as kettles, food, clothes, and digging tools before the house burned down and went to the cellar. During the past few days hiding in it, Wang Er and Wang Dazhu have more than doubled the size of the cellar. Fearing that the officers and soldiers would return, the family had been hiding in the cellar for two days.