Finally stopped, Xu Yinyin couldn't think about anything. When she saw old man Xu stopped, her body was more honest and faster than her brain, so she sat down on the spot.
The moment I landed on my butt and released the weight of my feet, I felt so comfortable that my soul almost ascended to heaven.
After sitting down, Xu Yinyin was able to look at the people waiting here. They had just arrived.
Hearing Old Man Xu greeting them, he met these people one by one. The family belonged to her eldest brother's family, that is, the second aunt Zhou's natal family. Together, there were about twenty people, old and young.
The other family is her mother's natal family here, and it is also the family of her two uncles. There are relatively fewer people there.
There are five people in the eldest uncle's family, and only four people in the second uncle's family.
In addition to these two families, there are several other families.
Old man Xu was talking about this matter with his uncle. Old man Zhou took his brother-in-law and whispered: "Don't worry, when the two daughters-in-law went back to tell their parents, they went there at night. No one knew, and we were just after childhood.
I immediately sneaked away."
Uncle Zhang also said: "Uncle, my father-in-law's house is opposite my house, so I must tell you something."
But it turned out that the three extra families were the natal family of Aunt Zhang and the natal family of the two daughters-in-law of the Zhou family.
Everyone chose to escape now, and many people took care of them along the way.
They all came, and at dawn, they all walked to Dama Town, and no one caught up with them.
Old Man Xu breathed a sigh of relief, but he did not dare to delay here any longer. He only rested for a quarter of an hour, and without waiting for anyone he wanted to wait for, he shouted to everyone to move on quickly.
Mrs. Xu turned her head three times every step of the way and couldn't help but wipe her tears.
Old Man Xu didn't say much, he just said: "Chunxi has a husband and a son, we can't force it. If we are destined, we will meet again."
"Of course we are destined, we are mother and daughter." Mrs. Xu wiped away her tears and never looked back.
After walking a long way, until the sun was high in the sky and had left the boundary of Dama Town, Old Man Xu waved his hand and motioned for the team to stop and rest.
Everyone has been on the road since midnight last night, and it's almost the end of the day now. If we don't rest, we will all be ruined.
Not only tired, but also hungry.
The last meal I had was just after noon yesterday. After walking for such a long time, my physical strength was almost gone.
Everyone took their homes as a unit, took a rest, and began to distribute dry food.
Mrs. Xu sat in front of the cart, untied the sack, and took out the steamed buns from the inside. Each person had one steamed bun made of elm bark and mixed with chaff and grass shavings.
The wowotou is about the size of a fist, which is not enough for an adult. However, because it is filled with chaff and grass shavings, it will keep you hungry, so this one is just right to eat.
If you want more, you don't have it. In this meal, you will go down to fourteen.
Mrs. Xu was very concerned about the food. Even though she felt sorry for her children and grandchildren, she took out fourteen and tied them into sacks immediately.
Xu Yinyin held the hard dough head and looked at the bran and grass clippings on the surface, and couldn't help but swallow.
She doubted very much whether she could swallow it.
I looked up at the other houses and found that everyone was eating the same woofou as they did. The Zhou family and the other Shi family had no bran on them, just elm bark flour and grass clippings kneaded.
At least Chaanhui is considered good food.
You can imagine that these two families are really at the end of their rope, with nothing left.
Xu Yinyin sighed quietly, and looked at the forest where they rested. There was really no green at all. Sitting under the tree, the sun could still shine on her body without any obstruction, making it a bit hot.
This forest is bald, and everything in my mind has no response, not a single ripple.
Alas, there is no way to exchange even if you want to.
Looking back, she saw her father and mother eating the steamed buns after a few seconds. She gritted her teeth and took a bite.
I'm so hungry that I won't have the energy to go on the road if I don't eat. I have no choice but to swallow it all no matter how hard it is to swallow.
Xu Yinyin tried her best to convince herself, and it took a long time before she finished the whole bun with difficulty.
Then she wanted to drink water so much that she wanted to cry.
But Mrs. Xu, who was hanging the kettle, didn't move at all and didn't even mention drinking water.
That's right, don't even think about getting wet until you're so fucked that you can't even open your mouth.
She could only stick out her tongue and lick her already peeling mouth.
After eating, before Old Man Xu said he should continue on his way, Xu Yinyin simply lay down with her back stretched out. What image? It no longer existed.
Looking at her mother lying next to her, Xu Yinyin remembered that she had not had time to share with others that she also had a golden finger.
He opened his mouth, but still swallowed it.
Forget it, this golden finger is pretty useless now and is of no use for the time being.
It's a joy to say it.
It's better to count on my brother.
Yes, Xu Yinyin thinks that my brother's sudden ability to hear far away is probably a golden finger. She has it. It's not surprising that my brother has it. I just don't know if my parents have it?
Thinking of this, Xu Yinyin turned aside, looked at Xu Dajun next to her, and asked in a low voice: "Where can you find the water source?"
Xu Dajun curled his lips, "In this entire Yunzhou, where is the source of water that has not been discovered?"
Although he said this, he still listened carefully.
After a while, he shook his head and said, "No, there are many people coming this way on the opposite road."
Xu Yinyin listened and tilted her head to look across. There was a branch road on the other side that also wanted to join the main road they were taking.
Are there many people?
Don’t know who he is?
There was no water source, and she didn't want to talk any more, so she simply closed her eyes, listening to her father's loud snoring above her head, and slowly fell asleep.
When I woke up again, the sun above my head was even hotter, and the hottest time of the day had arrived.
There was no easy access to drinking water. The weather was obviously not suitable for traveling on such a day. It was very hot even if you lay here without moving. If you were on the road and there was no water to replenish your fluids, you would get sunburned.
Therefore, everyone was still lying lazily and had no intention of rushing.
Xu Yinyin sat up and leaned against a tree behind her. Only then did she see many people in the forest diagonally opposite. From the looks of it, they must also be fleeing the famine.
I think they must be the people I heard just now.
Old Man Xu also said that it would take at least half a month. In less than half a month, so many people have already begun to flee the famine, and there must be many in other towns and villages.
as expected.
After the hottest period at noon, everyone continued on their way. When they stopped when it got dark, the bald land was densely packed with nearly a thousand people.
Old man Xu was sitting with the old men from several houses. Looking at the situation, he couldn't help but sigh, "It seems that not only our area is in chaos, other places are even more difficult to survive than ours."
He didn't expect it either. He thought he would be the first to get there, but there were already so many people fleeing on the road.
It's a mess, it's a mess.
"We all need to wake up. Let's send two people from each family to take turns keeping watch. One person will keep watch for half the night, and the other will keep watch for the rest of the night."