Famine and Chaos: Weaving Cloth in Exile to Escape the War

Su Heng glanced reluctantly at the door of the thatched hut before turning around. "Then, Madam Shen, take care. I'll be heading back now."

"Alright, young master Su, take care."

As the footsteps faded into the distance, Jing Zhichun walked back to the tent, bought a steamed bun, a meat bun, a cucumber, and five braised eggs from the system, and began to eat.

In short, don't panic when things happen. Fill your stomach first, and then worry about the rest.

After hastily finishing the food, Kyoto Haru finally felt her strength return.

She took out a temperature gun and checked her body temperature.

38 degrees Celsius.

It's a bit higher than last night.

It seems the dosage needs to be increased slightly.

Jing Zhichun didn't dare to delay and immediately began brewing her second dose of medicine.

Only after swallowing the medicine did Kyoto Haru begin to carefully consider her current situation.

Actually, she wasn't afraid of bandits; if they came, she could just hide in her spatial dimension.

Right now, she has other ideas in mind.

The current situation in the Northwest has actually paved an escape route for her.

The place of exile was on the verge of chaos, and now was the perfect time to leave with the two children.

However, she did not have a map of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

She had considered fleeing south, but she had no map, and escaping from her place of exile would be like being blind.

Originally, a few days ago when she went to Wild Sheep Pass with Yang Xiaoniu to catch tigers, she was thinking that even if she couldn't get a map of the entire Great Zhou Dynasty, at least she should have a map of the Northwest region...

Little did people know that what Yang Xiaoniu had was merely a map of the mountains and rivers surrounding the exile site.

"Oh dear, how am I supposed to get a map now?" Kyo no Haru paced anxiously back and forth in the room.

Just then, there was another knocking sound at the door.

"Madam Shen! Madam Shen! Something terrible has happened! Something horrific has occurred!"

It was Yang Erniu's voice.

Jing Zhichun quickly opened the door and immediately saw Yang Erniu standing outside, wrapped up tightly with only his eyes showing.

His eyes were red and swollen, filled with blood vessels, and looked like he had been crying bitterly.

This startled Jing Zhichun, and she quickly asked, "What's wrong, Erniu-ge? Did something happen to your father?"

"No, no... My father is fine. Madam Shen." Yang Erniu quickly shook his head.

Upon hearing this, Kyoto Haru breathed a sigh of relief. "If it's not your father, then why are you crying? What serious incident happened?"

But seeing Yang Erniu, a grown man, crying like this, he felt a pang of panic.

Now that she has contracted the plague, the rest of the Yang family should also show symptoms.

"Has anyone else in your family contracted the plague?"

Yang Erniu wiped away his tears, then shook his head. "Madam Shen, it wasn't her, it was... my elder brother came back. He said... he said the barbarians have already captured Qingshi County! If things go quickly, in a day, two days at most, they might be here!"

"What?!"

Kyoto Haru was so shocked she could barely stand. "Only nine or ten days have passed, and the barbarians have already invaded?!"

Yang Erniu nodded, "Yes! My older brother told me to come and get you right away, saying he has something important to discuss with you."

Jing Zhichun didn't know what Yang Xiaoniu wanted to discuss with her, but she was also eager to know what was happening at the front lines.

"Okay, we'll go to your house now."

Immediately after locking the door of the thatched hut, Jing Zhichun followed Yang Erniu and hurried towards the Yang family.

On the way, Jing Zhichun inadvertently noticed a few small blisters on the skin that was faintly visible on Yang Erniu's neck.

The two remained silent the entire way, focusing solely on their journey through the swirling snow.

Just as we were approaching Yangjia Village, we could see two groups of people gathered by the village road, arguing heatedly.

A disheveled woman sat slumped between them, wearing only a tattered garment, her arms and legs exposed, crying her heart out.

A lame man in one of the groups pointed at the woman and cursed, "The woman I married for ten taels of silver is a slut with syphilis! Your Ma family is utterly corrupt! I don't want this woman anymore, I want to divorce her! Give me back my ten taels of silver!"

An old man across from them was so angry his beard trembled: "Bullshit! My daughter just had a rash, what venereal disease!"

According to you, my three-year-old also has blisters on his body, so it must be venereal disease?

Gouwa's parents are both over sixty years old, and they've developed rashes all over their bodies. Could they have also contracted that scourge?!

I think you just want to back out of this marriage and are deliberately trying to smear me!

"That's right! You want to divorce my daughter? No way! And don't even think about taking your money back!" A woman chimed in from the side.

"Don't push your luck, Ma family! I've brought the people of our village here today. If you don't return the money, then beat them!"

As soon as the man finished speaking, the two groups began pushing and shoving each other.

Jing Zhichun and Yang Erniu quickly bypassed the two groups of people to avoid harming innocent bystanders.

However, as she passed by these two groups of people, Kyoto Haru quickly glanced at the woman slumped on the ground.

Her exposed skin was covered with countless blisters.

That's not venereal disease.

That was the plague.

After just one glance, Jing Zhichun quickly looked away and hurried toward the Yang family.

When she arrived at the Yang family's door, she saw a man standing outside.

The man was dressed in tattered and filthy clothes, his body was so thin that he was just skin and bones, his hair was disheveled, and his clothes were covered in blood. His face was covered with a cloth, so his true face could not be seen.

The man happened to look up and saw Jing Zhichun and Yang Erniu.

Yang Erniu's eyes instantly reddened again, and he quickly stepped forward: "Brother! I've brought Madam Shen here!"

The man immediately took two steps back, raised his hand to make a shushing gesture, "Shh... Erniu, don't shout. What you have to say, let's go inside and talk."

Jing Zhichun was deeply moved.

The person in front of me is actually Yang Xiaoniu?

Ten days ago, he looked like a burly, robust man.

I never expected that in just a few days, I would become so thin that I'm just skin and bones.

It seems that the Great Zhou suffered an exceptionally crushing defeat in this battle against the barbarians.

Fortunately, he survived.

"Okay, okay, let's hurry into the courtyard." Yang Erniu wiped away his tears and was about to reach out to push the door open when it was pulled open from the inside.

Gao Xiuqin stood inside the door, her eyes also red.

She quickly ushered the group into the courtyard and then immediately closed the gate.

Upon entering the courtyard, Jing Zhichun saw the entire Yang family, young and old, standing there, all with tears in their eyes and sorrowful expressions.

Even Yang Dawang came out of his house and stood at the door of his room, hunched over, watching Yang Xiaoniu wipe away his tears.

At this moment, Yang Xiaoniu spoke up.

He stood in front of the courtyard gate, looking at his family members who were standing a few steps away from him, and said, "Everyone, stay away from me. I have contracted the plague. I'm leaving you."

Having said that, he turned to Jing Zhichun, "Madam Shen, may I have a word with you in private?"

"it is good."

Immediately afterwards, Yang Xiaoniu took Jingzhichun to the backyard.

Yang Xiaoniu stopped three steps away from Jing Zhichun, took out something wrapped in oilcloth from his pocket, and then looked up at Jing Zhichun. "Madam Shen, this is a map of the Great Zhou Dynasty. I know you've always wanted it."