"Isn't it? With the war on the border, is there going to be a drought here? Isn't this world good enough for people to live?"
"It's fine, but it's late autumn now and winter is about to begin. Even if we escape, where can we escape to?"
Li Zheng had a serious look on his face: "Flee all the way north. Jiangnan is rich and prosperous. Let's go and settle there. If we leave earlier than others, we will have a little more hope!"
"Alas! Even if the south of the Yangtze River is prosperous, our journey will definitely not be peaceful!"
"Then what should we do? If we don't move, we can only wait to die!"
"Don't waste time. Everyone should go back to their homes and prepare some dry food for the road. We will set off in three days. We will try to find a place to stay before winter comes, spend this cold winter, and wait for spring before setting off again." Li Zheng made a direct decision.
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No matter how unwilling everyone is, they can only do it!
Shen Dashan went home and told the news,
The house was quiet.
Jiang Ci had known about this for a long time, so there was no surprise.
"Are we fleeing again? Old man, we managed to escape to this village thirty years ago, why are we fleeing again! Does this thief want our lives?"
Mrs. Qian Wang’s tears were flowing,
"Alas! There was no sign at all, so why did the general surrender to the enemy? There are tens of millions of people behind him!"
Qian Tiezhu also looked desolate,
He gnashed his teeth in hatred towards the defecting general, but it had no effect at all.
"It's useless to talk about this. Let's quickly buy things for the road! I heard from the village chief that he only got the news when he met a family of refugees on the road. When the news of the general's rebellion comes, the price of food will definitely rise.
Got it!"
Shen Dashan frowned,
"Yes, yes, yes! We have to go to the town quickly to stock up on more food. Every household in our village has surplus food or old food, but our family is the only one who is the boss. If we don't buy food, we won't even be able to survive for three days.
Don’t go down!”
Qian Guixiang said as she wanted to go to town anxiously.
Jiang Ci stopped her: "Mom! Let me take care of the food collection. You can bake more pancakes at home and we can eat them on the way."
Qian Guixiang was a little worried and specifically told her: "Xiao Ci, the road to escape is not as good as at home. You are delicate and you can buy some rice and flour. But your grandpa, grandma, and your dad and I are all rough people.
Just eat black noodles and brown rice, as long as it’s cheap, we can eat anything.”
Jiang Ci smiled and said nothing.
The food in her space is enough for their family to eat for a lifetime!
Several people divide the work and cooperate, and the matter of medical treatment is completely put aside, and everyone no longer has to prepare medicines.
Qian Guixiang and Qian Tiezhu helped Qian Guixiang bake pancakes and steam steamed steamed buns.
Jiang Ci and Shen Dashan divided their forces to catch prey on the mountain. Jiang Ci only kept one or two of the prey he caught at a time, and threw the rest into space.
Everything Shen Dashan caught was made into bacon, smoked chicken, smoked rabbit, wolf meat, roe deer meat, venison and so on, and was castrated with salt.
And Shen Shuan was not idle either. He took the children in the village to fish in the river. I heard that they also invented the fishing net. Anyway, they brought back big pots every day.
Qian Guixiang fried all these into dried fish!
Jiang Ci took advantage of her free time to make some mushroom sauce, chili sauce, pickles, spicy strips, etc. If it was not convenient to cook on the road, she could just eat dry food.
All in all, people in the village are very busy.
There are elderly people in the village, and about ten households have gritted their teeth and bought carts.
And just as Jiang Ci expected, the day after the villagers purchased food, the price of food increased crazily, and the price doubled from the original price.
Those farmers who were waiting on the sidelines no longer dared to hesitate and bought grain directly. Every morning, the grain in the grain store was sold out early.
On the third day after the villagers purchased food, the price of food doubled.
However, due to the supervision of the village chief, all the villagers purchased food on the second day, and it was not greatly affected.
Early on the morning of the fourth day, all the villagers of Taohua Village came out with their families. Looking around, everyone was covered with piles of things. Not only did they have dry food,
There are also bedding, straw mats, iron pots, etc.
Some even brought their own chickens, ducks and geese.
They formed a long fleeing team,
Jiang Ci couldn't help but be shocked after seeing it. If she didn't have space, she must be one of these villagers!
Jiang Ci's house is considered the lightest and cheapest. There is an ox cart, and several people can take turns to rest.
In this way, the escape team from Taohua Village began to set off.
In late autumn, even though the sun was high in the sky, there was not much heat. The large army stopped and people had lunch.
"Mom! How long will it take to escape? My legs are so sore that I don't want to leave!"
"Be good! Keep holding on! When we get to the north, we won't have to walk every day!"
"How long does it take to get to the north?"
The woman was speechless,
Situations like this abound in the team.
Because life has become more settled, some families can't help but pamper their children. After a while some of them can't bear the long journey.
The smoke from the lunch cooker curls up, and the aroma of the food slowly spreads!
As for the outstanding member of Jiang Ci's family, they had just escaped famine, and every household had enough food. Their family could only be so extravagant and wasteful in the early stage, and they had to tighten their tails in the later stage!
Jiang Ci stir-fried a piece of pork with stir-fried celery and a plate of spicy tofu, along with some baked wild vegetable pancakes and a pot of pumpkin and red date porridge. The whole family was satisfied.
Qian Tiezhu and Qian Wang originally wanted to eat less, but Jiang Ci distributed just enough food for each person every time.
Therefore, Qian Tiezhu and Qian Wang could only accept it.
But their hearts are even more bitter. They feel that this is how they feel about living, and in the past month, the couple have rarely even thought about their children.
After a short rest, the long-distance fleeing team embarked on the journey again.
On the first day of their escape, everyone's pace was not too slow, and before dark, they found a cave to rest.
The team that Jiang Ci's family was in was close to the cave wall, so as soon as they settled down, while no one was paying attention, Jiang Ci sprinkled some powder to repel snakes, insects, rats, and ants.
As soon as I sat down, someone from the end of the village came over to remind me:
"There is a stream in front of you. Sister-in-law Guihua, do you have water in your house?"
"Okay, I wonder if we can see the water source tomorrow!" Qian Guixiang took away the gourds and bamboo tubes that everyone used to hold water.
If there is still water, pour it all into a gourd.
Jiang Ci didn't stop her at all. Her family couldn't be regarded as aliens in the eyes of the crowd. Even if there was water in her space, she still had to look good to everyone!
Compared with the smoke everywhere at noon, the smoke during the evening meal was obviously reduced by half.
After walking more than ten miles in one day, some people ate some pancakes and pickles they had brought with them as soon as they had a place to rest, and then fell asleep due to exhaustion.
In the cave, with many people in one place, the food at Jiang Ci's house was much more normal: