Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

As soon as the head of the village sat down, he stated his purpose directly.

Lin Xiaoyue understood the importance of the matter, so she sat down next to Lin's mother and recounted to the head of the village everything she had learned from the town, from beginning to end.

At the same time, it was also mentioned that there was a big fair in the town, and it was believed that many people who went to the market had received the information that the disaster was about to come. It was estimated that more people would flock to the town tomorrow, either to find out the truth or to buy large quantities of supplies. In any case, it would not be good news.

The head of the village had a wrinkled face and looked at Lin Xiaoyue with a frown.

He had watched this girl grow up since she was little. She had endured the tortures of the old lady of the Lin family time and time again, and finally survived to this day. Half a month ago, she suddenly changed her personality and was so bold that she even bypassed her father, Lin Lao San, and proposed to break off the engagement in public. Then, last night, she suddenly brought a large piece of bear meat. Today, the whole village spread the news that the third girl of the Lin family killed a wild boar weighing more than 300 kilograms and took it to the town to sell for money, which almost caused a disaster in the village...

This girl has changed. She no longer keeps her head down when she meets anyone and is timid and cowardly.

But Qingming's eyes did not change.

The village head could see that this girl was honest at heart. She would not lie, let alone make up stories about something as serious as a famine.

The head of the village felt depressed and murmured in a low voice, "What should I do? What should I do?"

While the head of the village was thinking, Lin Xiaoyue put forward her idea in a decisive manner.

She suggested that the village head mobilize the whole village to go to the town to purchase supplies as soon as possible, buy as much as possible, and try to buy as much food as possible to store up for safety. If a famine comes, the most serious problem is the shortage of food.

At the same time, Lin Xiaoyue also suggested that the head of the village should ask those who were able to afford it to buy one or two animals. Even if money was tight, they should at least buy a cart so that they could be ready to pack up and flee together at any time.

After all, when famine comes, it is not just a matter of food shortages, it may also lead to war.

Obviously, not only the head of the village, Lin Baotian, but even Lin's father and mother did not think that the famine would be related to war.

Lin Xiaoyue analyzed in depth everything she could think of, and combined it with the rumors she heard in the town about the current unstable situation at the border.

Not to mention how true or false these rumors are, she believes that there is always something wrong! Such rumors must have caused trouble in the border area, so before the unrest begins, they should consider all possible problems. Otherwise, when the disaster comes, those who are unprepared can only sit there and wait for death.

Lin Xiaoyue spoke very seriously, making the people present even more flustered and at a loss.

The village head said with a hint of expectation, "Can you not run? Find a place to hide, even in the mountains."

"Grandpa, when our family split up, nothing was given to us from the old house. Now, all the food and daily necessities at home are maintained with great difficulty by the two acres of wasteland that my parents opened up at the end of the village. According to the normal situation in previous years, even if the whole family worked together to plow the fields and work so hard that their backs ached and they couldn't even stand up straight, they wouldn't get much food in total. We still rely on the occasional help from our neighbors to survive and barely survive.

But I will never make up stories just because my family has no land and encourage everyone to do the same as mine, abandoning our land and leaving our hometown to escape famine.”

The people in the main room seemed to have heard something incredible. They all stared at Lin Xiaoyue with bulging eyes and rapid breathing.

"Your family is going to leave here to escape the famine?"

Uncle Baotian interrupted her anxiously. He did not ignore the fact that the two parents of the Lin family and the little girls all looked confused and opened their mouths in a trance.

It is obvious that this was San Yatou's idea alone, or rather, San Yatou has not had time to tell her family.

"Yeah!" Lin Xiaoyue nodded to him and said affirmatively, "Yes, if the situation gets worse, our family will definitely have to run for our lives."

"Asshole, do you know what you are talking about? Who told you to escape the famine?" Old Man Lin was so furious at Lin Xiaoyue's decision to act on her own again that he slammed the table without caring about anything.

Lin Xiaoyue glanced at the broken wooden table, which was slapped by Old Man Lin's palm as big as a palm fan, and sawdust fell down in a flurry. It felt like it would fall apart in the next second. She curled her lips and turned her head away, ignoring Old Man Lin's anger and continuing to analyze the matter with the head of the village from an objective perspective.

"You also know what the situation is like for every household in our village. I'll give you an estimate. If we calculate it based on 4 taels of grain per person per day, for a family of ten, that would be 4 jin per day.

Of course, if a strong laborer does heavy work, that amount of food will not be enough, so the food will have to be saved from the mouths of women and children. I won’t go into the details of the difference.

Let's take the average number. A family consumes 4 kilograms of food a day, which means they need to consume 120 kilograms of food per month. I'm only talking about an average family. If there are more than ten people like the Lin family's old house, the amount of rice and flour consumed will be even greater.

What's more, some people in our village still rent the land from landlords. They have to give 40% of the harvest to the landlords first, and the rest is taxed to feed the family for the whole year. I dare not think about what those people will do when a disaster strikes.

Grandpa Lizheng, you may not understand why I am settling accounts with you at this time? Perhaps you still think that I am young and what I said is not enough to attract your attention, but what I want to say is that in recent years, everyone in our village has tightened their belts and managed to survive. In addition to carefully tending the fields, the women and children have gone up the mountain to pick wild vegetables and fruits on weekdays. They have managed to survive by patching together everything.

But now there are natural disasters outside, the situation is turbulent, and the instability of the border may lead to war. Even if the garrison can defend the city, will a large number of soldiers be recruited next? In troubled times, how many people will choose to go up the mountain and become bandits?

If we stay in the village and don't leave, then when we face food shortages, we will go to buy food at a high price. Let's not talk about whether we can buy it. Do ordinary people have so much money to buy it? Will the disaster victims in front of us come directly into the village to rob?

Well, let's not consider the food problem. We won't leave and will stay in the village. If the front line recruits soldiers, how many men in our village will be recruited? Those soldiers who are forcibly recruited have not been trained. If they are all thrown into the battlefield, they will all die in battle.

Taking a step further, even if there was no conscription, would those bandits who had become bandits come into our village to burn, kill and loot? How many of us would be able to survive then?

It's really impossible to stay in this place. You can't survive even if you're not arrested or conscripted.

Even so, this is assuming the city can be defended. What if we fail to do so?