Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

Zhou Guo carried her own bucket of water back to the camp and ignored the other bucket as it was for everyone to drink anyway.

As soon as the bucket was put down, Huang and the others' eyes lit up. They immediately became energetic, picked up the gourd ladle, scooped a full bucket of water and started drinking.

Perhaps they had been thirsty for too long, she saw a bucket of water passing around in the family's hands but not finished drinking it.

Everyone around was looking at it eagerly, licking their lips but too embarrassed to speak, after all, this was the baby that someone else had brought back with great difficulty.

Zhou Guo said: "My dear uncles and aunts, you are welcome. The water we brought back is for everyone to drink. The uncles and aunts behind are still fetching more water on the mountain. These are specially brought back to quench your thirst. Drink them all, there is more behind."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone gathered around with ladles, bowls, bamboo tubes and various water containers.

They didn't say anything, but lined up consciously and moved aside after they finished playing.

Another bucket of water was carried to the head of the village by several people, and now a group of people were also drinking water around it.

Zhou Guo looked at these people. After drinking the water, they were like wilted seedlings that came back to life immediately.

"Oh my god, I'm really thirsty. I can't live without water."

Someone covered his stomach and said, "I haven't eaten for two meals. My stomach has become a gourd filled with water. It makes a rumbling sound when I walk, just like I am carrying a baby."

Everyone laughed.

Zhou Guo couldn't stop laughing.

Coincidentally, at this time, Zhou Mai, Zhou Mi and his group, who were following a group of people to look for water in the mountains, came down the mountain with their heads down. When they saw Zhou Guo and his group coming back with water, they immediately perked up and ran back to drink water.

The disaster victims passing by saw that they had water to drink, and approached them hesitantly. Under the vigilant eyes of the crowd, they spoke hesitantly, "Well... well... we want to ask, where did you get this water from?"

Even so, everyone did not let down their guard, and no one spoke. It was said that there was not much water on the mountain, and with so many people going up there, what would they drink?

But more and more people gathered around. Zhou Guo saw that they said nothing when they came, and stared at the water in the bucket from beginning to end. An indescribable feeling surged in his heart. Just as he was about to speak, he heard someone say, "There is water on the mountain. See the bottom of the cliff? We get water from there."

The first person to speak was Zhou Dacang.

Before he had even finished his words, many people had dispersed, stumbling toward the mountain with their families.

The remaining people looked at the high mountain opposite, then looked at Zhou Guo and the others' water buckets. They were hesitating whether to borrow some, when they saw that the eyes of this group of people had changed, even the three-year-old children, and they were murderous, as if they wanted to eat people.

So he fled in panic.

Seeing that the crowd finally dispersed, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. It is better to avoid fighting if possible. Not only will it hurt others and yourself, but the most important thing is that it will damage things. Many of their things were broken or lost in several fights.

Two buckets of water.

More than two hundred people.

By the time everyone had taken a sip, both buckets were empty.

Everyone looked at the remaining buckets and said, "Let's send these two buckets up as well. They can hold two more buckets of water. Not only that, we also need to carry the buckets coming down from the mountain up here."

"Hey, forget it. Didn't you see so many people going up there? How could we fill up our belongings? Besides, it's almost done. Most of the buckets and other things followed Zhou Guo up the mountain. We only have four left here. Is that enough?"

Zhou Guo looked at the people who were going up the mountain continuously and felt that the water might not be so easy to get. There was not much water on the mountain to begin with, so they didn't want to fight over it.

She found Zhou Dacang and said, "Uncle, so many people have gone up the mountain, and there is limited water on the mountain. Will big brother and his men start a fight? Big brother and his men are just a few of us, and there are so many people going up the mountain. If a fight starts, we will definitely suffer."

Zhou Dacang frowned, looking at the crowd that was still rushing up, and became worried. He looked at Zhou Guo and said, "Then should we take our weapons and get some people to support us?"

Zhou Guo nodded, "Send a few more people, let everyone hold weapons in their hands, and come down when the water is full. Some people carry water, and the rest carry weapons to protect them down the mountain. They need to be brave and ruthless."

Zhou Dacang said, "Then I'll go discuss it with the head of the village."

Upon hearing this, the head of the village nodded quickly, "Yes, yes, my heart started pounding when I saw so many people going up the mountain. There is not much water on the mountain, how can so many people drink it? Can Fugui and the others get water and come down smoothly?"

"That's why I picked someone to pick it up."

There were more than a dozen people on the mountain, and more than a dozen young guys with good legs and feet were selected from the team. There were more than a dozen young, strong, courageous and ruthless guys who had seen blood before.

Naturally, Zhou Dacang was the one who went from the Zhou family, while Zhou Guo stayed behind to protect his family. Even though everyone had gone up the mountain, they were still worried that people would be tempted by the goods, and the food at the foot of the mountain was also of top priority.

After watching a group of twenty or thirty people carrying sickles and hoes up the mountain, the rest of the people picked up stones and held sticks and became alert.

Each family packed up their things and pushed the carts to the main road, waiting for the people from the mountain to come down with water so that they could leave immediately.

When people who came later saw that these people actually had carts and animals, they couldn't take their eyes off them. Let's not talk about anything else, just think about how much silver such a big cow could be sold for?

But the next second I heard that there was water on the mountain, so what was there to wait for? The most important thing was to go up the mountain and get water.

Greedy and covetous eyes kept coming over, and everyone couldn't help but tremble in fear. Zhou Guo held her hoe, with a cold light in her eyes. As long as they dared to come up, they would not survive tomorrow. This hoe of hers had seen blood before.

Fortunately, the news that there was water on the mountain was extremely tempting. None of the people who came later failed to go up the mountain, and they had no time to cause trouble for the team.

But everyone's hearts were not relaxed, but were in their throats. With so many people, could the group that went up the mountain come down safely?

Xu stamped her feet anxiously, her legs felt weak, "There are more and more people, mother, what should we do, will Damao and the others be okay?"

Huang glared at her and said in a deep voice, "Be calm. Don't scare yourself to death when there's no chaos up there. They can only rely on themselves at this time. All we can do is to protect our home so that they don't have to worry about the future."

Upon hearing this, Xu stopped talking and stared at the people around her. Whenever someone came closer, her whole body tensed up and she was ready to swing with the wooden stick in her hand at any time.

As more and more people went up the mountain, Zhou Guo couldn't help but become a little anxious. He didn't know when so many people came. He hoped that they could come down safely.

Every second at the foot of the mountain is an anxious wait.

Those who went up the mountain were not having an easier time.

The people who were originally fetching water on the right heard that the water on the left was deeper, so they only left a few gourds and bamboo tubes here, and took the rest of the buckets and other things to the right. Before the buckets were full, the group of guys at the foot of the mountain also came with their weapons.

Now there is something to grab.

"Hey, Fugui, you guys have already had so much, that's enough, why don't you let us have a little more? My parents and the whole family are waiting downstairs to drink."

Wang Fugui was not polite at all, "Who doesn't have a family down there? Besides, didn't Guo Ya go down with two buckets of water? These two buckets of water must have been shared among everyone. I tell you, after we go down, we all have to collect the water for them, otherwise what will they drink later?"