Traveling through famine: The space peasant girl

The old man watched the village chief of Luojia Village being carried home without saying much. The finance officer did not go to the fields that day and took his two sons directly to the town so that the family members did not have to go to the fields to work.

"I will take Yixian and Yizhu to the town later. Nianhua, you take the two daughters-in-law to prepare some dry food at home. Don't go to the fields to avoid encountering wild boars. There are no men at home, so don't get hurt."

"You go ahead. I'll take Ru Ru and Gui Chun to steam some dry food at home. Xiao Yu won't be asked to go out. Just stay at home and look after Shi Yi. People outside are in a panic now. Don't go out to dig wild vegetables, or you'll worry about her."

The old man nodded, then he left home with his two sons carrying a basket and headed straight for the town. He did not explain the reason to his two sons on the way. The old man's family did not care, and the eldest son's wife did not know where her parents' home was, so she walked more smoothly.

The second son's wife's family is easy to deal with. She has a scholar father and a mother, but her mother's relatives are complicated, so it is not realistic to take them all away. So this matter cannot be discussed in advance. We can only wait until the river is dry and then talk about it slowly. The most urgent task now is to stock up some food before the price goes up.

In order to avoid being discovered, the old man took his two sons to the next town, Majia Town, to buy food. Now brown rice was only two copper coins per pound, so naturally the more he bought, the better. The old man took his two sons to travel back and forth between Yunshan Town and Majia Town.

The purchased grain was hidden in the newly purchased small courtyard, which had a cellar dug when they were not busy. The cellar was waterproofed, so the grain was stored directly in the cellar.

After all the money in the family had been spent, the old man took his two exhausted sons home. When he got home, he looked at the dry riverbed and felt depressed again. He went back to his room, took out a pen and paper and wrote a letter. Then he went to the back mountain and blew a special whistle. Soon, an eagle flew over from a distance and landed obediently not far from the old man.

He rolled up the letter in his hand, stuffed it into the mailbox and sealed it, then fed the eagle some rabbit meat. The eagle spread its wings and flew away. The old man looked at the flying eagle and sighed silently. He gave up his identity. From today on, he was Wang Huan, a villager of Luojia Village, and he had nothing to do with the Wang family in the capital anymore.

The next day, a luxurious carriage came to the village and entered the Wang family with a box in its hands. Wang Shiyu, who was playing with her younger brother, took her brother directly into the inner room of the old man's room without letting the man see the two of them.

The old man came to see her yesterday and told her something.

"Xiao Yu, someone will come to our house tomorrow. You and Xiao Yi will hide from that person. Don't let him see your faces. Tell Xiao Yi not to speak."

Wang Shiyu nodded and agreed.

As soon as he saw the carriage stopped at his door, he carried his brother and ran to the nearest room, his grandparents' room, and went straight into the inner room.

The grandmother was sewing shoe soles. Looking at the two children, she let them go to the bed to play. She also took some cakes that the old man brought back two days ago and gave them to the two children, and tried her best to keep them from talking.

Xiaoyi is a good child. When her sister is with her, she usually doesn't cry or make a fuss. She just leans on her sister obediently and eats the osmanthus cake slowly.

The grandmother was worried that the child might choke, so she poured two more cups of water and placed them on the box next to her so that the child could reach them. Then she stood up and left the inner room, closing the door behind her.

I don’t know how the conversation went outside, but the old man came in after a while. Looking at the two children chewing osmanthus flowers simultaneously, he didn’t seem so sad anymore.

Grandma brought the box into the house and put it on the table. The old man did not avoid the two children and opened the box directly. It was full of silver bills, all with a face value of one thousand taels. In this small village, it might not be possible to save ten taels of silver in a whole year, so these one thousand taels of silver bills did not seem to be a big deal now.

Grandma's heart beat heavily a few times, but she didn't scream out. She had been dependent on the old man all her life. No matter where the old man got these banknotes from, she wouldn't say anything. Everyone has a secret.

The old man thought for a while, took out a silver note worth one thousand taels, closed the box directly, and then called Wang Shiyu to go out.

"Xiao Yu, I'm going to give this box to you. No matter what happens to your grandparents and your parents, you must live well. Only by living can there be hope."

Wang Huan didn't know why, but he could feel that his granddaughter still had her own secrets and could preserve these things very well. His mother's relics would also be transported from Kyoto to Yunshan Town one after another in the next few days.

The capital city is not far from here. Even if you bring things with you, you can get there in about three days if you are determined.

It all depends on the woman's determination. You have to know that woman was able to force me into this village and has stayed there for nearly 30 years. She is not a good person either. Now that I am willing to give up the title, that woman will probably jump up and give me her things.

She doesn't even have to worry about missing anything. I guess even the things she liked when she was a child can be sent to her. She's just worried that I won't give her the document to give up the title. She's been looking for me all these years. Now that I've finally agreed, she will definitely be very happy.

Wang Shiyu looked at the box in her hand and threw it into the space in a very naive manner. Let her do whatever she wants. Her grandfather probably imagined a lot of pitiful things about her, and she didn't know when he might discover her little secret.

Or it could be said that there are masters in this world, and some even have some hidden tricks up their sleeves.

These days, the old man began to organize his family to prepare for the move. All the things in the house were slowly carried to the town on a shoulder pole under the cover of night. When the things from the capital were delivered, the old man took Wang Shiyu to the town alone.

The old man didn't say anything, and Wang Shiyu didn't say anything either, but all the boxes placed in the yard disappeared inexplicably. Even the people who had been keeping a close eye on the treasures were wondering where these things had gone.

When leaving the village, the old man found the village chief's brother-in-law and sold his house to her. With the fifteen taels of silver from the sale of the house and land, he and his family left Luojia Village and went directly to the town. The old man had no intention of saving Luojia Village as the village was already decayed and filthy inside.

There were a lot of things in the house, but they were all secretly moved to the town. When the village chief's brother-in-law went to take back the house, only the unfinished house was left. They were very angry. They thought that Wang Jia's people did not have time to move their things away, so they planned to use their status as the owners to drive them out and take over their things. As a result, there was not even a grain of rice in the whole house.

I thought that last time a rich family came to Lao Wang's house in a carriage and gave him a lot of good things, I could take advantage of them, but I didn't expect that he was just a poor guy who was reluctant to even give up his belongings. I'll make them poor to death.

The old man led his people to settle down in the town. In fact, Wang Shiyu didn't know whether the town was safe or not, but it was not the time to move the whole family yet. If they ran away early without a pass, they would be discovered by the guards at the city gate before they even left Xuzhou City, and then be deported.

It might even alert the vicious woman in the capital and let her find out. He, who originally had no interest in the capital, might also be blamed. In order to prevent himself from being blamed, even though he knew that Yunshan Town was also very dangerous, he did not dare to leave here with his family.

He can only wait until chaos breaks out, then he will have time to fish in troubled waters. Then he can leave here directly and go south. This place is located in the north, and he originally wanted to retire here, but now the natural disaster will not let them rest in peace, he has to find a way to go somewhere else.

When the family arrived in the town, they had nothing to do. It was the spring ploughing season, and they didn't know what to do. The old man ignored them.

Just let the old woman and the others continue to steam dry food, and try to steam as much as possible. If the disaster cannot be ended for a while, they don’t know where to settle down in the future, so they have to be prepared.

Instead, he took the banknotes and Wang Shiyu to the county and found a bank to get the money.

This way it would be more convenient to spend the money. When he arrived at the county town, the old man first went to the coachman's shop to rent a carriage, and then took the children to the money shop and asked the clerk to exchange 800 taels of silver in cash, which were in the form of ten-tael gold ingots, and were loaded onto the carriage.

The remaining one hundred and fifty taels were exchanged for five-tael small ingots, and the remaining fifty taels were directly exchanged for small change and copper coins. The old man asked Wang Shiyu to get into the car to put away the things, and he held the fifty-tael small change and copper coins in his hand.

In fact, the old man had seen such extraordinary people before, but none of them were as powerful as his granddaughter. However, this also happened to show that his granddaughter must have had some tragic experiences, otherwise how could she know so much.

He had been secretly testing her these days, and his granddaughter could answer him fluently, even knowing some things he had never told her. She must have suffered a lot later.

Except for the initial suspicion that his granddaughter had been switched, he never doubted her identity again. As long as the whole family could survive, what was wrong with hiding a little thing?

Then he rented a yard from the broker, asked Wang Shiyu to wait at home, and went out to buy various supplies.

The old man bought a lot of long-lasting cooked food, various buns, some cornmeal cakes, and a lot of pastries, and asked Wang Shiyu to put them away so that they could have a better time on the road.

I also asked someone to sew a water bag and fill it with boiled water. I also boiled some medicine for cooling off and treating typhoid fever and poured it into the water bag. This way, if I get any problem on the road, it can be dealt with in time and won't turn into a big problem.

When going out, the biggest worry is getting sick. He originally wanted to get some medicine to prevent diseases, but he found that he seemed to be being targeted by someone and he could no longer make any big moves.

So he hired someone to buy medicine from the pharmacy, and also got a lot of medicine for typhoid and colds. He planned to buy a donkey and a cart when he returned to Yunshan Town.

This makes it much easier to walk on the road, but we are worried that the weather will be too hot and there will be no water, so the animals will not survive long. It is said that the closer we go south, the more water there will be, and with water there is hope of survival, and people will be more likely to survive.

Time passed quickly, and just when everyone was busy at home, a fireball fell from the sky. Wang Yizhui, who had been watching in the yard, suddenly shouted.

"Dad, Mom, and Big Brother, please come out of the house quickly. It seems like something is falling from the sky."

After shouting, she quickly went into the house and took her son out. Wang Shiyu also ran out with her mother. Looking at the fireball in the sky, it seemed as if she was back to that time in her dream, when the village was burned into a desolate wasteland with only ruins left.

Mo Ru Ru held her daughter's hand tightly and followed her husband. The old man quickly asked everyone to go into the cellar to avoid the disaster.

When they dug the cellar, they dug it quite deep. As long as you don't get unlucky, it's safe to hide in the cellar.

Before hiding inside, the old man asked his son to take his family down first. He held the gong in his hand and kept beating it while shouting.

"A fireball is falling from the sky. A fireball is falling from the sky. Everyone, come out and take shelter. Be careful not to get hit."

After shouting, he went straight to the cellar with the gong. That was all he could do. He couldn't help in any other way and could only leave it to fate.

Hiding in the dark cellar without lighting the kerosene lamp, the family stayed quietly in the corner. They could clearly hear the sound of heavy objects falling, but no one dared to speak. The old man touched his pipe and listened silently to the movement outside.