Traveling to ancient times, with space

Chapter 52 Raining

After eating and drinking their fill, the two of them felt sleepy. Su Yue pulled Dali to sleep on the cart, but no matter how she tried to pull her, the girl refused to get on. In the end, Su Yue had no choice but to take out a thick quilt from her spatial storage and spread it next to the cart.

Fearing an attack at night, Su Yue brought Huang Mao out of her spatial dimension to keep watch.

Dali looked at the suddenly blond-haired man, who stood in front of Su Yue like a lion with its mane bristling.

Su Yue almost burst out laughing when she saw Dali lying down. After explaining to her again, Dali finally lay down.

Yellow Hair and the Mule climbed together to keep watch at night.

In the middle of the night, Su Yue was awakened by raindrops falling from the sky.

When Su Yue woke up groggily, she realized that it had finally rained after such a long drought.

It's unknown how many lives this rain will save, or how many people are waiting for it.

Su Yue quickly took out an oilcloth from her spatial storage, put Huang Mao and the mule into her storage, and then pulled them onto the cart. With the oilcloth on their heads, they listened to the sound of rain and soon fell asleep again.

The rain didn't stop until dawn, and it even seemed to be getting heavier.

When they woke up in the morning, the two of them ate some flatbread under the tarpaulin to fill their stomachs. Su Yue then put the cart into her spatial storage, and each of them held up a piece of tarpaulin to see if they could find a place to shelter from the rain.

Keeping the cart around isn't a solution, and besides, we don't know when this rain will stop, but it doesn't look like it's going to stop anytime soon.

The dirt on the muddy road was heavy, and after a while, Su Yue had to use a wooden stick to scrape the dirt off her shoes, otherwise they would become thick-soled shoes.

There were many displaced people getting soaked in the rain on the road. They seemed quite happy, thinking that the rain meant they would have water to drink and wouldn't be afraid of dying of thirst.

Some refugees, undeterred by the mud and water on the ground, knelt down and wept.

There wasn't much road to travel in the morning; the roads were especially difficult to walk on after the rain.

Moreover, there were corpses of people who had starved or died of thirst by the roadside, and those corpses had long since begun to rot and stink after being exposed to the sun.

The corpses were even more mangled by the rain, and the surrounding area was full of mud and maggots that had fallen from the bodies. Just looking at them made one's scalp tingle.

When passing by those corpses, Su Yue and Dali would go around them from a distance. If they couldn't go around them, they would weave through the withered grass on one side.

The two of them were already walking slowly, and this meant they only covered two or three miles in the entire morning.

On this seemingly endless road, it's quite difficult to find a place to take shelter from the rain; there isn't even a village nearby.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and Su Yue's shoes were covered in mud, and even her feet were soaked and turned white.

After walking for a while, we finally saw one or two herbal tea shops with three sides enclosed at the foot of the mountain in the distance. They must have been roadside tea shops for passing merchants to rest.

Upon seeing this, Su Yue was so excited that she didn't even care about picking the mud off her feet, and the two of them ran as fast as they could.

When they arrived at the place, they found it already crowded with about forty or fifty refugees. Even when more people came, no one moved in. Su Yue wasn't going to tolerate these people.

They didn't see the large empty space in the far corner, and these people just wouldn't go in.

Su Yue had Dali lead the way, and the two of them pushed and shoved their way in, causing many refugees to stumble and fall.

Su Yue removed the oilcloth from her body, turned around and made a face at the people looking over.

One of the people who had been pushed down was about to get up angrily when someone next to him pulled him back and gave him a wink.

Su Yue put the basket she was using as a disguise on the ground, took out a piece of black cotton cloth from it, and wrapped it around herself and Dali, changing into two sets of clean clothes and shoes.

When they finished tidying up and put the cloth down, everyone in the room was stunned; they were amazed that such a thing could be done.

Su Yue's antics didn't stop there. She took out a round iron object from her basket and then pulled out a small iron pot.

Then he took firewood from the basket, lit it, put it into the iron container, and started pouring water into the pot to boil it.

Some people started cooking something over their own fires, and soon the aroma filled the air.

Dali's tears, which she couldn't help but shed, streamed down her face. She wiped them away with her sleeve.

Su Yue tilted her head and looked at Dali with drooling eyes. "Dali, what are you doing?"

Dali didn't even look at Su Yue, and wiped his drool again, "A Yue, it smells so good, it smells so good over there!"

"Dali, do you want to eat meat?" Su Yue thought Dali wanted to eat meat, which was why he was drooling over the aroma of other people cooking meat.

Seeing Dali's endless drooling, Su Yue reached out and turned Dali's head around, then took out a bowl of braised pork from the basket for him.

"Here, eat up, don't look at other people's food anymore." Watching Dali eat the braised pork with gusto, she noticed that the meat cooked by others tasted different from her own; it was just indescribably fragrant.

Anyway, Su Yue had eaten chicken, duck, goose, pork, beef, and mutton in modern times, but none of them tasted like this.

It doesn't matter what kind of meat it is, as long as it's not human flesh.

When those people saw that Dali was actually getting meat to eat, they got the idea and had someone bring over a large piece of dried meat to exchange for a serving of braised pork with Su Yue.

Su Yue glanced at the person who was carrying what appeared to be an animal, then said, "I won't trade."

Seeing that Su Yue was being disrespectful and tried to snatch the basket, Su Yue, who had been on guard, pulled out her large iron ladle from behind and slapped the man, meat and all, back at him.

"Looking for trouble. Bah! Don't you know the ways of the world? If you don't have any skills, you two are on your way. If you dare to cause trouble again, I'll add you to the pot to cook." Su Yue said as she walked to the pot where the group of people were cooking people. She was about to tap their big iron pot with a large iron ladle when she glanced at it casually.

That one glance almost made Su Yue vomit. Luckily, she hadn't had a chance to eat any meat yet, or she would have thrown it all up.

There was a human leg bubbling in the big pot; judging from its appearance, it wasn't very old.

He then looked around at the many people in the room and noticed that they all seemed to have an unpleasant aura about them.

Su Yue felt a wave of nausea wash over her. She forced herself to stay put and turned back to Dali's side, cursing inwardly, "These people are truly depraved! They actually eat people; they're worse than animals."

Seeing that Su Yue's face was pale, Dali quickly asked in a low voice, "Yue, what's wrong?"

Su Yue composed herself and said, "It's okay, Dali, let me tell you, from now on you can only eat what I give you. Don't eat anything else I give you. Also, stay away from those people. If you don't listen to me, I won't talk to you anymore."

Although Dali was a bit silly, she knew that Su Yue was doing it for her own good, so she would definitely listen and never upset Su Yue.

He nodded vigorously, as if afraid Su Yue hadn't seen him, almost nodding his head into the pot of boiling water.

Su Yue was almost driven mad by Dali's cuteness and wanted to lift Dali's head up. But as soon as her hand touched Dali's head, she saw a blood-sucking little bug crawling out of Dali's wet hair.

Su Yue immediately shook off her hand and screamed, "Ahhh~"

"Dali~"