Doctor Zhang Lingzhi was a kind-hearted man. He first checked the baby to see if there were any injuries on his body. Then, seeing the child's fair skin, he felt pity for him.
"This child must have been abandoned. Why don't we take him back?"
Liu Qiaoer didn’t say no, but is the location given in the space accurate
How creepy it would be if the baby in my arms suddenly spoke, and it was Cui Boyao's voice.
"Okay, but I don't know how to hold a baby. You hold it."
Liu Qiaoer took the bundle from Zhang Lingzhi, and Zhang Lingzhi picked up the child.
After walking and stopping many times with anxiety along the way, the two finally arrived at the county town.
Unexpectedly, before they even reached the county town, they were both stunned.
The county town was under martial law, the city gates were closed, and there were refugees in front of the gates. Zhang Lingzhi and Liu Qiaoer both had no passes and could not get in at all.
"What should we do? How do we get into the city?"
Liu Qiaoer asked Zhang Lingzhi to hold the child, and the two hid in the refugee pile and said, "Something is not right here. Let's not go in yet. Let's wait a little longer."
Zhang Lingzhi also realized that something was wrong. There were too many refugees, and not only was there no one in the county taking care of these refugees, but they were also in charge of the city gates.
"Where exactly is this county town?"
Liu Qiaoer: "Zhu County belongs to Liangzhou. We have passed the place where the refugees revolted. It seems that these refugees fled from the place where the uprising took place."
Zhang Lingzhi was puzzled and said, "Liangzhou has soldiers, why don't they go south to suppress the refugees who are revolting?"
Liu Qiaoer thought for a moment and said, "Maybe it wasn't the refugees who rebelled."
Either they are refugees or someone is rebelling in the name of refugees.
I just don't know if Prince Xiang has any connection with the army of Liangzhou. Once the two armies merge, it will be very unfriendly to the emperor in the capital.
Liu Qiaoer thought that in the history that Du Zixu gave her, there seemed to be a part about a rebel uprising, and the hero who changed the dynasty stood out in this war, overthrew the old system and changed the dynasty.
Liu Qiaoer looked at the baby in Zhang Lingzhi's arms, not knowing whether she was Cui Boxiao or the hero she was looking for.
She actually didn't like children, and even less liked raising them, but seeing how much Zhang Lingzhi loved the child, she gave the child to him.
The two men came to a county town. Most of the people here had already fled. The town was full of soldiers, and it felt like a war might break out at any time.
Zhang Lingzhi was holding the child and was very worried: "I didn't expect that the capital is so peaceful, and Liangzhou is so chaotic. Why can't the news from Liangzhou reach the capital?"
Why? Liu Qiaoer felt that everything was related to this King Xiang.
"I guess it's not that good. Let's find a place to hide first."
Zhang Lingzhi said, "Why don't we follow the refugees back to Beijing? There is war going on everywhere here. It's not safe."
Liu Qiaoer: "We are penniless, how can we go back?"
Before he could finish his words, he saw the gate of the county town opened and many yamen runners rushed out.
They were seen rushing towards the refugees with swords in hand.
"I'll give you one stick of incense to run away quickly, otherwise I'll kill you."
What is this for
The county magistrate is the local official. The common people are suffering, but he wants his officials to kill people.
With this roar, all the refugees ran away, and Liu Qiaoer and Zhang Lingzhi also ran away quickly.
The common people ran and shouted: "Oh no! The police have killed people."
Sure enough, some elderly people and children who ran slowly were killed.
As she ran, Liu Qiaoer discovered that there were no men among these refugees.
She grabbed a random person and asked, "The police want to kill people, why are you still gathered here? Why are there no men among you?"
"All the men have been taken away to serve in the army. These people are here to take our people. If they don't give us our people, they will kill people. Run away."
When Liu Qiaoer heard that men were going to be conscripted into the army, her heart skipped a beat. She quickly took out a piece of cloth and wrapped it around Zhang Lingzhi's head, dressing him up as a woman.
"Run quickly and follow them. They should be villagers nearby."
They were indeed villagers from nearby, but the government arrested all their men as soldiers, and their fields were damaged by disasters. They were old, weak, sick and disabled, and there was no one to farm the land, so they had to leave the village.
At night, the villagers all went back home and burst into tears when they saw the ruins in the village.
"What shall we do? How shall we live?"
The people who were captured kept crying, and it was not until midnight that the men came out of the mountains.
"Oh, what should we do? We keep fighting, when will it end?"
At this moment, the child in Zhang Lingzhi's arms began to cry, and the clear baby voice echoed throughout the village.
Liu Qiaoer quickly took out a thumb-sized biscuit from the space and gave it to him. Looking at the huge group of people, Liu Qiaoer thought of that paradise.
"Fellow villagers, it is a time of famine and we can no longer rely on the government. Why don't we go to the mountains and hide for a while and come out when the world is at peace."
As soon as she put forward this suggestion, some people supported it.
"Yes, let's go into the mountains. If we don't, our entire village will be gone."
But they have their reasons for not going into the mountains.
"There are only rocks in the mountains. There is no water. We cannot survive."
Liu Qiaoer entered the space and opened the map. She found a spring in the mountains and forests. It was marked as having water, but it had not been discovered.
"How about this, you bring your things and follow me, I can find the spring, and then we can live there, okay?"
None of the villagers answered, and Zhang Lingzhi was a little embarrassed: "Are you really planning to stay here? We won't be in Beijing anymore?"
Liu Qiaoer shook her head gently: "It's not that we can't go back, but we can't go back. Let's settle down first, and then we can talk about the rules for going back. Besides, you are a doctor, you save people, can you bear to ignore these refugees?"
"I'll go with you. We'll hide in the mountains during the day. There's food in the mountains. We just need to hide for a while. When the world is peaceful, we'll come out."
Liu Qiaoer called out to everyone: "Let's set off now. Those who are willing to follow me can follow, and those who are not willing can stay here and make a living on their own."
Humans are social animals and are directional. As long as there are one or two people taking the lead, the rest will follow blindly.
Just like that, even though it was night, under the leadership of Liu Qiaoer, everyone followed her all the way into the mountains.
Zhang Lingzhi didn't want to go with her while holding the child, but he had no choice: "Once we enter the mountains, I won't be able to report my safety to my family."
Liu Qiaoer comforted him and said, "It's okay. In two days, I will give you a route. You can go around the mountain and bypass the territory of King Xiang and return to the capital. It's just that the journey is a bit difficult. You are alone... I am a little worried. And if you leave, what will happen to the child?"
Zhang Lingzhi looked at the child and then at Liu Qiaoer, and sighed: "Then I'll stay for a while."
The map shows you are getting closer but walking away, a group of people walked from dusk to dawn but still have not reached their destination.
Everyone was exhausted, and some people even gave up.
"Is it possible? Can we find a suitable place?"
Seeing that everyone was exhausted, Liu Qiaoer glanced at the not very obvious river below and said, "How about this, you guys rest here, I'll go to the mountain, I can find a spring. As long as you see water starting to flow here, it means I've found the place. Follow the water and go forward, I'll wait for you there."