Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

She had just started, but before the fourth and fifth children could sensibly refuse, she was pushed aside by Lin Xiaoyue. She was so proud that the little bean sprouts could take care of themselves, and she was even carrying the fourth and fifth children on her back, but they tripped and the three of them rolled down the hill like balls.

Lin Xiaoyue spoke sternly to Xiaosi and Xiaowu, saying that now is not the worst time yet. Before, everyone still had the energy to take care of you, and would think of ways to make you two little ones suffer less and endure less fatigue. Now that everyone is wilting, they have to stand up.

Otherwise, Qing would wait for her parents and sisters who could protect her to die one by one, and it would be even more painful for her to force herself to grow up then.

The little ones only understood half of what was said, but they roughly understood that Sister San Ya wanted them to leave on their own, and they felt a little wronged. However, they still listened to Sister San Ya's words.

It was because Sister San Ya risked her life to save them that she got injured. If they were still ignorant, they would be too sorry to their sister and their parents.

The group of people walked grumblingly and slowly for half a day. It was almost You time (6-7 pm) when both the people and the animals were exhausted and their legs and feet began to become uncontrollable. So they stopped to rest.

The Lin and Qiao families had livestock, but they couldn't just plop down on the ground or lie down and stretch their legs and feet to relax like other families did. They also had to unload the animals' loads, feed them water, tickle them, smooth their fur, clean them, and coax them, which was much more troublesome than other families.

But it is not possible to say that they do not want livestock, otherwise their two families would have been able to preserve more items than other families, all thanks to the livestock.

Therefore, animals that do physical work must be well taken care of so that they can continue to be used day after day.

Besides, although the extremely hot weather has killed many plants in the mountains, the deep mountains and old forests have a deep foundation, and there are always many herbs and wild vegetables still growing wildly under the shade of trees or rocks.

In this way, those who fall ill can receive effective treatment.

After a few days on the mountain, the first group of people who were infected with the disease had been mostly cured. Doctor Li and others were able to come down and walk for a while on their own without having to be carried by others every day. It was considered a great joyous event.

The people who fell in the second wave have now stabilized and no longer have high fevers, which saves us a lot of worry.

At night, when they set up camp, the infected people no longer had to eat and sleep in separate places. They all went back to their own homes and rested together. Everyone chose a place close to each other and laid out their mats. Then they divided the work to collect firewood, dig pits and bury the pots, and prepare evening meals.

In short, after a few days of running-in, everyone now has a clear division of labor for each person and everything is in order. This alone makes people feel less worried.

……

The night was pitch black and everything was silent, except for two night watchmen who occasionally added some dead branches to the burning campfire to prevent the fire from going out and attracting wild beasts to attack, the rest of the people who were tired after an afternoon of work lay down in their nests early to rest, otherwise they might not be able to get up at dawn the next day.

But perhaps this night was too peaceful. In the second half of the night, even the moonlight and starlight hid away for a nap, and the mountains and forests were truly plunged into a pitch-black abyss.

Perhaps because they had eaten well and rested well in the past few days, people gradually relaxed their vigilance. Even the two people who were on guard could not hold back their eyelids from fighting each other, and they buried their heads in their knees and fell asleep in a daze.

When Lin Xiaoyue was sleeping soundly, she suddenly heard someone shouting, "Someone is robbing——."

Hearing the scream, Lin Xiaoyue woke up with a start, and subconsciously reached for the bone-cutting knife beside her, wanting to jump up. However, she forgot that the poison had not yet been cleared up, and her hands and feet were still weak. She stood up too quickly and staggered. Her legs went weak and she fell heavily again.

"Sanya"

"Third Sister"

Seeing this, the sisters around her rushed towards her, but Lin Xiaoyue's attention was not on them. Instead, she looked over the crowd in the other direction.

Over twenty mighty men came rushing over there, waving machetes, iron forks, sticks, spikes and other weapons, and rushed into the crowd of people who were resting here, chopping anyone they saw without saying a word.

Everyone was still sleeping, even the two night watchers were asleep. If Lin Baotian hadn't woken up and found a figure sneaking into their camp with a knife, obviously with bad intentions, which scared him so much that he cried out, everyone would have died in their sleep without knowing how they died.

Seeing a bandit raising his bayonet and stabbing it straight at the head of Ergou who was sleeping next to him, Ergou's mother flew forward to protect Ergou and was stabbed straight into the chest by the bandit with the bayonet. Blood spurted out and splashed all over Ergou's body and face.

"Mom, I'm going to fight you." Wang Dashi, a widower who brought his mother to seek medical treatment, saw his mother's head chopped off by the leader with a knife, blood gushing into the sky, and the old lady's terrified head was thrown high and fell to the ground, rolling several times, and finally kicked away like a ball. Wang Dashi went crazy on the spot, picked up the wooden stick at hand and rushed up to fight, but was stabbed through with an iron fork and died instantly.

When the wife of the headman saw the bandits coming towards their house with knives, she screamed in fear. Her daughter-in-law, Aunt Baotian, wanted to step forward to protect her mother-in-law, but the frightened mother-in-law pushed her out to block the knife.

The bandit's knife didn't recognize anyone and he would just pick up the knife and chop anyone who came up to him without fear of death. In order to protect his wife, Lin Baotian rushed forward and hugged the bandit's strong waist tightly, shouting at Aunt Baotian to run away.

The village head saw the man turn the knife and stab his son with the sharp blade. At the critical moment, the village head, who was over fifty years old, somehow got the strength to rush forward and snatch the knife from the man's hand.

But at his old age, he was no match for the bandit. He was kicked away, rolled twice on the ground, spit out blood, and fainted with his head tilted.

Uncle Yasuda was also scratched on the arm by the opponent's knife.

Father Niu and Aunt Niu were surrounded by two men. Seeing that they were about to be killed by the sword, they screamed, huddled together and waited for death with their eyes closed. Niu Tietou had just knocked away the evil bandit who wanted to molest Luo Qianqian, but turned around and saw that his parents were about to be killed by the sword. His eyes were bloodshot, but Luo Qianqian, who was screaming in fear, held his waist tightly and could not break free. He could only watch the gleaming tip of the knife fall towards his parents.

At the critical moment, Qiao Dewang, a farmer living next to them, rushed forward to block the knife for the two Niu family members, thus saving them from death on the spot.

The Lin family was in chaos as well. Xiaocao protected Xiaosi and Xiaowu as they dodged a knife swung at them from a man. A long bloody mark was left on them from the corner of their eyes to their chin. The man wanted to come up and finish him off, but the desperate Lin Zhaodi slammed him back with her body. Later, Lin Xiaoyue also pounced on him, rode on him, and stabbed him three or four times in the chest.