During the holidays, there were many daughters-in-law in the village who were married from outside, and they were a little worried. The village chief also noticed their worries. Fortunately, these little daughters-in-law were from nearby villages. When it was dark, there were some in the village.
Several strong men escorted her back to her parents' home to report the news.
It took three days and two nights to finally evacuate the entire village. When the time for spring planting arrived, the village chief even went to the county government office as if nothing was wrong and bought back all the seeds he should buy this year.
These seeds can be planted inside the mountains. If the land inside the mountains is relatively fertile, the yield may be higher than outside.
Normally during the day, people would occasionally walk around the village, just to hide their presence.
It had been ten days since they moved into the mountains until the day in February when the dragon raised its head. The resettlement of the houses in the valley had almost been completed. On this day, Yang Jinwen and Liu Dexin's son Liu Shuli came out to patrol, as well as several people from the same village.
A child.
These children are mainly used to run errands. As long as something happens here, the children will run back to the valley as fast as they can to report the news.
After several days of hard work, the villagers have dealt with all the wild animals near the valley. In order to ensure the safety of the villagers, the young and strong laborers in the village even moved the taller stones to the cave bit by bit.
Outside, use stones to create a passage. From the outside, it looks like an ordinary stone passage. At the innermost part of the passage is a small cave that is not very big.
Soon, the child conveyed the news from outside to the valley. The noisy sound outside was that King Yu's army had come to the countryside to recruit young men.
Because of the poor harvest in autumn, many people ran out of food after the Spring Festival. Suddenly there were many beggars in the county. King Yu's army did not even spare these beggars. As long as they were men, there was no obvious serious problem.
, they had to be forcibly expropriated. When they went to the countryside to recruit young men, they would also forcibly buy the food of the villagers.
When the villagers in the valley heard the news, they were all very happy. Their patriarch was a wise man and decisive enough in his actions.
The clan leader did not dare to send his teenage son to the county town, so Lu Qingshang volunteered to take her eldest daughter there to inquire about news from the county town. Before leaving, they used pot ash to make their faces and bodies black.
Painted and with messy hair, they tied it up with a black cloth strip, took a basket and a walking stick, and the two of them set off from the valley.
Although the few men in the family are not at ease, after this month of recuperation and training, it is impossible to say that they are exactly the same as before. However, they are already 30 to 40 percent, and now four or five strong men are not the same.
He will definitely be able to defeat Ms. Lu Qingshang, who looks thin and weak.
Not far after they left the village, a team of about twenty people came. Only the three leaders wore armor, and the others were just dressed in civilian clothes.
Looking at the direction they were walking in, Lu Qingshang immediately reached out and waved twice behind his back when he saw someone. There were two children who had been following them in the bushes and they immediately ran back.
When he heard that the army was about to enter the village, the young man patrolling the village immediately retreated to the mountain with his children.
When the group of people passed by Lu Qingshang and her daughter, they blocked their way.
The man in armor looked at the mother and daughter carefully and found that they were indeed an old woman and a petite pregnant woman.
"Where are you two coming from? Where are you going?"
"I...I...I..." Lu Qingshang pretended to be scared of these soldiers, stammering nervously, and her whole body was trembling.
"Mom, don't worry." The little daughter-in-law next to her, who was pregnant, quickly held her hand to comfort her.
"This official brother, my mother will act like this when she is nervous. There is nothing she can do to come out this early in the morning. The family has run out of food. The man has been missing for almost half a month. It took a long time to find him after he came to Yangjia Village.
Yes, my man used to have a good time with a man named Guangzong Yaozu in this village, but he can't find him at all right now, so our mother-in-law and daughter-in-law can only go back to the county town now." Yang Yuling said with her words
Although the words were spoken in a poor dialect, the words were somewhat stumbling, but the words were clearly explained in the end.
The leading man in armor saw that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were dark and thin, and the basket they were holding was still empty, so he didn't suspect anything. However, when they said that they didn't see anyone at all, he looked confused.
What about a village? How could there be no one? Their work has been extremely unsatisfactory recently. They couldn't catch anyone from several nearby villages, and many people said they had gone out to beg.
They did catch a lot of beggars in the county town, but there were too many people in the villages. In some villages, only the elderly, weak women, children, and children under the age of five or six were left.
The higher-ups asked him to act quickly, but there is no one here to act quickly, so it’s useless?
When they arrived at Yangjiacun, they found that it was true. The house with no one in it had been moved empty.
Did they get the news in advance, or was it because they couldn’t survive the drought? There was no grass growing in the ground in the entire village, and even the land was not plowed. Was it because the whole village had fled because of the drought?
Now it's troublesome. No one here has been caught. I don't know how to punish them. Damn it, why didn't you leave earlier? Why don't you leave later? You just leave at this time.
Lu Qingshang took her eldest daughter and explored the entire county, and found that except for the old ones who couldn't walk, the rest were children under the age of six or seven, as well as women at home.
Most of the shops are closed, especially those selling food, groceries, and gold and silver jewelry stores. All the shops that usually sell breakfast and open snack bars on the street are also closed.
There are many people begging for food on the street, and they all look like they are half dead, which is a bit scary to look at.
"This has just begun. How will we live in the next few years? Many people may not survive the rest." Lu Qingshang sighed with emotion. Their abilities were limited and they could not save many people at all. It was best to protect themselves and their tribe.
important.
The two of us had been out for more than a day, so we were afraid that our family would be worried, so we walked back at a trot.
From the mountain road here in the county, you need to cross a not very high mountain to reach the mountain where they live in the village.
The entire hillside has been stripped bare, and no one can see even a blade of grass. The trees on the mountain have all been stripped bare, and some of the remaining trunks are relatively thick. It is impossible to cut them without a machete.
This mountain next to the county town has a large cliff at the end. Generally, people in the county town will not come here to dig wild vegetables and collect firewood.