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

Mrs. Xu was very unhappy. If her uncle didn't marry, how could her son marry? She was still waiting for her eldest son to get married so that she could have a grandson. It would also be an explanation to the child's father.

Li looked at Huang worriedly and said hesitantly, "Mother, I think we should just forget it. He doesn't want to marry her. Even if we marry her, I'm afraid she won't be able to live well. The third son has always been a man of his own ideas."

Huang snorted, "That's not an idea at all, you're just a stubborn donkey."

Xu still wanted to struggle, "That's not the case. As the saying goes, parents decide and matchmaker decides. Just don't tell his mother and do it yourself. Marry her. It's a done deal. It will be useless for him to object then. Besides, who wouldn't be happy to marry a wife? If he really waits until the pretty wife is married, he won't remember what he said at this time."

Huang was a little hesitant and felt that what Xu said made sense.

Zhou Guo said, "Grandma, my uncle and my eldest brother are not the only ones who have not married yet. There are 20 or 30 others. If all of them take this opportunity to marry, there will suddenly be so many mouths to feed in the team, and no one will agree."

Huang was awakened by a word and sighed, "It would be great if the grain was not handed over!" She glanced at Zhou Guo's terrible hair and his unrecognizable face, and then looked at the other children in the family. They were all unrecognizable with chins as pointed as a cone.

He sighed and said, "Forget it, forget it. The child is right. We can't even afford to eat at this time, so how can we marry a new wife? Our family can't even survive. We should save this little food for the children. They are so skinny now."

After hearing this, Mrs. Xu opened her mouth but said nothing more. If he didn't want to marry, then he didn't. She already had four children. If she brought in two new ones, wouldn't the children have less to eat? It didn't make sense to let the rest starve for the sake of her eldest daughter-in-law.

Li also breathed a sigh of relief unconsciously, and couldn't help but glance at Huang, feeling a little sorry in her heart.

Zhou Guo did not hide it at all, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up. A wife is not as important as a belly. Besides, his uncle is not that old. When he settles down and the family situation gets better, he can find a good marriage for him. It will make everyone happy.

They were quiet here, but the other people in the team also showed their thoughts.

"I see these girls are so cheap, they can take away a few bowls of food, should we get one too? The younger one should get married too."

"Forget it. Don't you see how hungry these people are? They don't have any energy at all. Who knows if they are sick? Even if they recover, they may still have some underlying disease. It's a waste of food."

"What? Marry a wife? We can't even get enough to eat and survive. How can we marry a wife? We are escaping. You have seen how many of us died along the way. I'm not going to say it harshly. If someone dies one day, your food will be wasted. Don't you know how expensive food is in this disaster year? One bowl of food can buy a person."

……

Some want to get married, but most of them can recognize the current situation. They can't even survive themselves, so adding a new person is just suffering.

Zhou Guo walked around the team and left with his hands behind his back, satisfied.

The team hurried on, dragging the elderly, the weak, women and children on the road every day. Finally, when the water was about to run out and the wild vegetables in the bags were eaten up, they no longer saw patches of withered yellow along the way, and the ground slowly began to show some green.

It is this touch of green that gives everyone endless hope.

"Oh my god, I've been walking for more than 20 days, and I'm finally able to see green grass and eat fresh wild vegetables!"

"There must be water ahead. There's no need to rush. If we don't replenish water, we'll be thirsty again."

That day, the group traveled all night and when daybreak came, they still hadn't found a suitable place to stay.

Although there was land, refugees were lying in groups of three or four on the roadside, piled here and there, all occupied.

Zhou Guo felt strange. Why were there so many refugees here? Aren’t they leaving?

We walked forward for about a mile before we found a suitable location. Because there were so many people and supplies, the locations we chose were all in the back and inconspicuous.

Once we stop, the first thing we do is to cook.

They have three meals a day, one in the morning, one before departure in the evening, and one late at night.

However, this morning meal is usually simple. Sometimes I just cook a few wild vegetables and mix them with soup, and that’s it.

Of course I couldn't feel full after eating, but I would sleep after eating anyway, and I wasn't rushing or doing any physical work, so I could still endure it. Sometimes I was so tired that I would just fall asleep and not eat anything. When I fell asleep, I didn't feel hungry anymore.

Zhou Guo lay on the cart with the two children for an hour. Now he couldn't fall asleep, so he walked around the nearby foot of the mountain with the basket.

The three of them had the same hairstyle, with the same short stubble. No normal family would cut their children's hair like this. If they went out, they would be laughed at to death.

The refugees sighed when they saw this, "Oh, there's no food even in the temples these days. The monks have all gone down the mountain."

"Yeah, where did these three little monks come from? Why don't they see their master? It's hard for them to travel in this chaotic world without their master. They might be captured and eaten."

……

Zhou Guo didn't take it seriously at first, but when he heard the monk, he stood up and looked around to see what kind of little monk he was.

It turned out that people around them were pointing and talking about the three siblings, and they knew that the little monk was talking about them.

Zhou Su was still very happy, and said happily: "Sister, sister, they said we are little monks."

Zhou Tao, a little girl, didn't want to be called a little monk, so she pouted and said, "What's so good about being a little monk? Why are you smiling like that?"

Zhou Su said: "The little monk is not well yet, how good..."

I can’t really say what’s so good about it, I just think the title is kind of cool, after all it means he’s a person of status.

Zhou Guo didn't care and left with the two children.

"Hey, I heard that there's some kind of Kuizhou Prefecture not far ahead. Let's take a rest and then get going right away."

"What are you thinking about? Are you going to die? Haven't you heard that Kuizhou has long banned people from entering? The soldiers at the city gate with spears and swords have eyes like lightning. If they glance at you, you will be in trouble. At the beginning, there were still many people gathered at the city gate, but later they were driven away by the soldiers. Now there is no one at the city gate. The officials in this prefecture really don't care about the lives of us ordinary people!"