After dressing as a widow

Lin Zhen?

Ma Min quickly found the name from her memory, but the Lin Zhen she knew had nothing in common with the Lin Zhen in front of her.

At that time she was not married yet, Lin Zhen was very famous in Liyu Village, he was good-looking, but the opposite of his good looks was his temperament, he liked to be lazy and liked to eat well and dress well When you meet someone, you should first look at the material of the clothes they are wearing, whether they were made this year or last year.

When Ma Min's marriage was first decided, it happened to be the time when Lin Zhen had a scandal with the young master of the Qian family in the town, and the whole village was talking about it.

At that time, Lin Zhen had no shadow of the person in front of him.

Ma Min couldn't help but stared at Lin Zhen several times, and soon saw his original appearance from under the ashes of the bottom of the pot, "Is it really the real brother?!"

"Why did you come to Fucheng?"

"Your son..."

Lin Zhen is only 25 this year, how could he have such a big child.

Lin Zhendao: "When I came to Fucheng to do business, I didn't expect to encounter disasters. By the way, you can put the food on your back in the car later, and go as soon as possible."

There were two more girls, one brother, and a child who couldn't even walk. A group of fourteen people left this place quickly.

Lin Zhen had a sore foot, and sat in the carriage with the child in his arms, while Mrs. Chen, who was weak, sat in the mule carriage.

Two days later, Lin Zhen and the others encountered more and more refugees, all of them were yellow and thin, mechanically stepping on the road under their feet like puppets, and the corpses on the side of the road were from the occasional slow-moving sight at the beginning. Slowly, it became more and more conspicuous. Sometimes people fell down and never stood up while walking. The family members of the dead also dug a hole and pushed the body in with a blank face. Just fall there.

Lin Zhen was cold all over. It was the first time he had seen such an intuitive disaster. Human life is not worth a penny at this time. Just for a mouthful of food and water, he could be beaten to death.

Looking at the corpse that had been decomposing for several days in the middle of the road, Lin Zhen pulled the cloth scarf around his neck to his nose, and moved the corpse to the side with several people.

Those who were also on this road didn't pay any attention to what they did, but many people looked at them and their horses and mules.

That's meat, meat that fills your stomach.

If it weren't for Lin Zhen and the others who were all strong and young teenagers, they would have been gnawed a long time ago.

"Gu Lin, rest here."

Lin Zhen looked at the dying woods that had finally appeared, and got off the carriage with the crying child in his arms. Looking at Lin Zhen with his hand, let his depressed heart relax for a moment.

They have traveled for six days, and they don't know the name of this place. There are stones everywhere, and there is no shade. If you miss this forest, you will have to bask in the sun all day, let alone They can't stand even horses and mules.

Hearing this, Gu Lin stopped and asked Wang Youcai and the others to tie the horses and mules beside them, extravagantly took out two bamboo tubes of water and poured it into the jar to feed them, and then fed them with the hay that was so dry that it would turn into powder when it was kneaded. them.

Then go to the bag to get fried flour, don't wash it with water, just eat it dry.

There were too many people fleeing on the road. They had two horses to support their feet and food to eat, which was already eye-catching. If they took out other things, it would be like holding gold to show off to others.

They are not afraid of one or two, ten, twenty, thirty, one hundred...

Can always tear them up.

Lin Zhen twirled the fried flour in the bamboo tube and stuffed it into his mouth, soaked the dry fried flour with the little saliva left, and swallowed it hard on his chest.

He waved to Wang Youcai: "We have been walking for six days. According to our current speed, how many days are we left?"

Wang Youcai's mouth was filled with fried flour, and he swallowed it and said: "After passing this road, there is a village. After passing this village, it is the main river channel of Majin River in our Anyuan Town. Walk along this river for five days. , when you see a fork, walk to the left for about seven days and you will arrive.”

Lin Zhen also returned to Anyuan Town in the past few years, but at that time there were two roads from Anyuan Town to Fucheng, one was the dilapidated and unusable road they were taking now, and the other was a flatter and newly built official road. road.

They were going to take that road, but the day before yesterday they met people who were running back from that road, saying that someone had encountered a refugee army in front, so they naturally couldn't take risks, so they turned back and took this road.

Like them, many fleeing people chose this road, and they encountered more and more people on the road. They dared not eat more water and food, for fear of causing trouble.

Lin Zhen nodded. Wang Youcai was the one among them who knew the way the most. He took them along many small paths a few days ago and avoided people several times.

He said to Wang Qin who was sitting not far from him: "When we go back this time, give him Wang Youcai's deed of sale, it will not be easy for him to lead us."

He was just a servant, and Wang Youcai did a good job, Wang Qindang even agreed: "Okay, after I go back, I will go to my mother to ask for his contract of sale, and get it to the government office to cancel it."

Wang Youcai didn't expect that he would have a day to get back the contract of sale. People like them, as long as they become slaves for one day, they will be slaves for the rest of their lives.

But now, he has the opportunity to make himself a poor man!

Wang Youcai immediately kowtowed to Lin Zhen and Wang Qin.

When Wang Youcai went to see the horse, Wang Qin sat next to Lin Zhen with a bamboo tube containing fried flour: "Uncle Lin, why did you suddenly bring up the matter of his prostitution contract?"

He didn't regret it, but was curious why Lin Zhen did this.

Lin Zhen licked his chapped lips, and looked at the other fleeing people who were also resting in this woods: "If we take the original road, the few of us will pass by anyway, and we can find Anyuan if we look for the markers. Town, but now only he knows this road, and with his familiarity with the road, if we encounter any situation, he can take us on a remote path, we need him."

"It's not worth it to exchange a life contract for stability on the road."

"So that's how it is." Wang Qin suddenly realized.

As far as I could see in the forest full of people, there were hardly any voices, and I didn't have the strength to speak or do anything else. I just sat on the ground with my back bent and my head bowed deeply.

Lin Zhen's throat and eyes hurt from eating fried noodles, and he couldn't swallow any more. Suddenly, he found a child next to him staring intently at the fried flour in his hand. His hair was withered and yellow, and the cheekbones on his face were raised high. , the two lips were so chapped that there were strips of mouth.

Just like Gu Lin when he was a child, he was so thin that his bones were bristling.

He looked at the small half of fried noodles left in his hand, looked at the child, sighed, and hooked the child.

The child immediately ran over rolling and crawling, if it wasn't for the concern that Lin Zhen is an adult and he is a child, the eyes would probably grab him directly.

Lin Zhen took his hand, let him hold it in both hands, and poured the fried flour with chopped nuts and sugar into his hand: "Slow down when eating, moisten it with saliva before swallowing." , otherwise it is easy to choke."

Lin Zhen thought that this hungry child would immediately eat up the fried flour in his hand, but he didn't expect that he just kept swallowing, and then stared at the fried flour in his hand.

When Lin Zhen finished pouring, he nodded to Lin Zhen, trotted to the side of the younger child, and put fried flour to his mouth.

"..." Seeing so many people and things along the way, Lin Zhen still felt pain in his throat when he watched this scene. He looked up at the blue sky, and screwed the bamboo cup tightly.

Suddenly, just when Lin Zhen was going to let everyone take turns guarding and the rest of the people had a rest, the neighing of horses sounded in this barren rocky mountain.

Lin Zhen suddenly turned to the place where the sound came from, and saw a man with a height of 1.9 meters, extremely broad shoulders, and a big waist riding on a horse with various flowers, laughing wildly, and slashing at the ground with a broad knife in his hand. The refugees on his right, the four or five refugees who had no time to evade were killed by the knife without even making a sound!

And behind him were a few riders, and hundreds of bandits who ran behind the horse's buttocks.

Lin Zhen opened his eyes wide and pulled Wang Qin beside him: "Run!!!"

The resting refugees instantly swarmed and fled in all directions. Children were knocked to the ground, old people were trampled on the soles of their feet, and all faces were filled with despair.

Lin Zhen was so crowded that he almost fell, one hand held him tightly, Gu Lin said: "Run into the woods!"

Wang Qin, Huang Yuwen, Zhong Yan and others followed immediately. The dry branches and leaves were crushed, and the overgrown branches brushed on the face and body. No one dared to look behind.

"Ah!" Lin Zhen staggered, and Gu Lin grabbed his waist and supported him. Gu Lin looked at his feet and saw that his feet were pierced by a thorn as long as a thumb that fell from a tree trunk. wear out.

Gu Lin said to the others who followed: "Wang Youcai, you take them and run forward, find a secret place to hide, and don't come back to get things if you're not sure they're safe."

"Then what about you!?" Zhong Yan ran out of breath.

Gu Lin said: "I'm definitely not as fast as you when I carry Uncle Lin on my back, you go first."

"Gu Lin—"

"Hurry up, if you don't leave, no one will be able to leave." There are hundreds of people on the opposite side, and the leader seems to be a practitioner. Even if he is alone against Gu Lin, he is not sure of victory, let alone Zhong Yan and the others, stay here Can only wait to die.

Zhong Yan clenched his teeth and glanced at Gu Lin: "Okay, see you in Anyuan Town."

As soon as Zhong Yan and the others left, Gu Lin quickly tore off a piece of cloth and tied it on Lin Zhen's calf, then pulled out the long thorn, and carried Lin Zhen on his back.

The difference between carrying a person on your back and running alone is too great. Hearing the voices getting closer behind him, Lin Zhen said to Gu Lin: "They may not be able to search Linzi, Gu Lin, put me down and hide me, I know You can run out."