Chapter 492 Northbound
The whole body was covered in darkness, not like black, but more like nothingness.
Shen Wenchen just curled up into a ball, letting the darkness engulf him.
It rarely rained for two days here in Yancheng, but it was still raining heavily in Kyoto.
All civil and military officials were trapped in the palace, just waiting for the four forces to distinguish themselves before dealing with them.
Twelve lost some weight again, and the palace door was closed. They had been in this hall for nearly half a month.
The daily meals are only two steamed buns and half a bowl of cold water sent by the palace people, not to mention bathing and changing clothes. Now everyone can only queue up on the bucket behind the screen to use the toilet.
They spend their whole day sleeping on the floor and wearing clothes.
There are some older civil and military officials, but now they all have haggard faces and withered bodies, and their court uniforms are stained with dirt. They still have the same splendor as when they first entered the palace.
Hearing the sound of pouring rain outside through the window, Twelve secretly hoped that Shen Miaomiao and the others would have a safe journey.
Perhaps because of the connection between husband and wife, Shen Miaomiao in the carriage felt her heart beat twice.
"Miaomiao, what's wrong?"
Aunt Guihua saw that her daughter's face looked wrong, and she was a little worried and reached out to touch her forehead.
"I feel a little panicked."
Shen Miaomiao covered her chest and spoke truthfully.
In just a few months, I made a total of three thousand taels in Kyoto.
Unfortunately, it was a little late, and the grain and grass she could buy was only two thousand kilograms. The rest she only bought more medicinal materials and some seeds.
She didn't know when she would be able to come back from this trip, but when she thought of what Twelve said to her, Shen Miaomiao could only hold back tears and never look at the mountains behind her.
Behind the layers of mountains is the prosperous Kyoto, and there is her sweetheart inside.
She couldn't take everyone on an adventure. All she could do now was listen to Twelve and stay far away from that place to prevent herself from becoming his handle.
It was cold and freezing, and there was a steady drizzle in this place. After all, their motorcade was moving a little slowly.
Shen Laosan is now in better spirits. Perhaps he has forgotten those bad things after going abroad, and he is now a energetic little old man.
It's just that compared to Lin Shougui, the tendons on his body are much smaller.
Seeing him looking through the window, Shen Miaomiao was a little worried and said, "Dad, be careful not to catch a cold."
"Don't worry, Dad is in good health."
Shen Laosan was talking cheerfully, but his men still closed the window obediently.
He is not a child after all, and he doesn't want to cause trouble to his daughter.
"Madam, the road ahead is unavailable."
The person who spoke was the escort leader of Twelve Recruits. The motorcade stopped and he rode his horse to the front of Shen Miaomiao's carriage.
"what happened?"
Shen Miaomiao was a little puzzled. This road was an official road and it shouldn't be blocked.
"Madam, there are many corpses piled up on the road ahead. It has frozen after the rain. Our carriage cannot pass, so we have to take a detour."
The escort's expression was a little complicated, and he sighed inwardly when he thought of the scene he just saw.
Whether it is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, in the end it is the people who suffer.
I don’t know if this journey will be safe.
The youngest of the bones looked to be only a few years old, and now there was only an empty frame left. It was more like something had sucked all the blood away from his body, leaving only a thin layer of dry skin covering his head. Withered features.
Shen Miaomiao felt a little incredible and just opened the car curtain and went out.
The maid carefully held the umbrella for her, and the master and the servant walked toward the front of the motorcade, and were also shocked by the scene in front of them.
The flat and spacious official road is now filled with corpses. I don't know if it was eaten by some wild beast or caused by some external force. At a glance, there are only wreckage everywhere.
The bones were covered with a thick layer of ice, making them look even more terrifying. From a distance, there was no end in sight.
"lady……"
The maid had never seen such a scene before. Her little face was so frightened that she was as white as paper, but she did not dare to lose her etiquette in front of her master. No matter how scared she was, she could only call her in a low voice with a trembling voice.
"Let's take a detour."
Shen Miaomiao did not want to take another look, so she only took the maid back to the carriage.
Seeing that her daughter's face turned even worse after she went out, and the little maid who followed her out also looked frightened, Aunt Guihua was full of suspicion.
What's going on outside?
"Miaomiao, what's going on?"
Aunt Guihua patted the back of her hand with concern and asked softly.
Her health is actually worse than Shen Laosan's.
The heavy things had a great impact on her mother-in-law. Even if she didn't show it when she was in Kyoto, after she set foot on the road back to Yancheng, her whole body was like a silkworm chrysalis that had been stripped of silk, extremely fragile. .
"Auntie, nothing's wrong, it's just that the road outside is blocked. We have to take a detour.
The escort said that if we took a detour, we might be able to get back five days later. "
"As long as nothing happens. As long as nothing happens..."
After muttering these words in her mouth, Aunt Guihua stopped talking and just sat back in her seat, staring at the window in a daze.
Shen Miaomiao felt uneasy. She had seen corpses, dead people, and even more horrific scenes.
But I have never seen such a scene.
Those bones were not all human bones, but also mixed with some hooves of horses and mules.
The broken pieces of large and small baggage were scattered on the ground, as if they were suddenly attacked.
What happened here?
The convoy retreated a little, then turned around again and took a detour to the east.
The wind blew open a gap in the window, and cold rainwater drifted into the carriage along the gap, and finally hit Shen Laosan's legs.
The convoy swayed toward the east, leaving only corpses on the ground.
Shen Yuntian said goodbye to his brother and sister-in-law, and once again embarked on the road back to Yancheng with the food and medicine he bought.
His parents are here and they won’t travel far. Now that his parents are gone and his brother and sister-in-law are both making a living, it’s time for him to go back.
Thinking of Hexiu's situation in Yancheng, he felt unspeakably worried.
Knowing that Shen Yuntian was leaving, Xu Tianci was extremely reluctant to leave, but something happened at home. After working with his father for a while, the pampered young master at the time also grew up.
Before leaving, the young master sent someone to send him off by boat. Although Shen Yuntian didn't want to trouble him, in order to be able to go back earlier, he could only nod and accept.
Knowing what he was thinking, Xu Tianci didn't feel too embarrassed and just sent a few thugs to take a small cargo ship over.
The weather gets colder as we go north. Looking at the thick snow on the edge of the river, Shen Yuntian naturally feels very worried.
I'm afraid that further north, the waterway will be impassable.