Traveling through famine: The space peasant girl

After hearing this, Zhang Tao's eyes widened a little. Putting aside other things, when did Huan'er learn how to make land mines? It seemed that Yun'er was indeed in Huan'er's hands, so this was good.

He glanced back calmly, then turned around and continued talking to the two men.

"Then I roughly know where Yun'er is. Don't rush to look for Yun'er. He is very safe now. Don't mess around. Have you prepared the dry food? Is there enough water in Jianmen Pass?"

"Old Master, there is still a lot of water in Jianmen Pass. A lot of water suddenly came out of the well that dried up two days ago. Water is no longer a rare commodity. Food is a bit short of hand, but it is not too short. It is just more expensive to buy, so we collected the food. We drew water after the well water came out. It didn't cost any money."

An Er lifted the curtain of the carriage, and saw it was filled to the brim with food, with almost no place to step. Although there were so many things, they were actually only enough to feed them for a few days. In order to make it more convenient for the Zhang family, An Er and his men prepared almost all dry food, so they could not last for more than a few days.

Zhang Tao asked people to move the things away. After seeing that everything in the carriage had been moved away, he took out the silver bills and continued talking to the secret guard.

"You can take this carriage away later. We have people from the Liu family behind us, so we can't use the carriage at all. Take these banknotes and go to the front to prepare some dry food for us. The other two of you can split up into two groups. One of you can ride a horse and rush forward. When you get to Wucheng, you can store up food for me. Also, I remember that my wife has a five-story house in Wucheng. Arrange people to clean it up in advance. The weather is not good. If we get to Wucheng, we may have to stay there for a while. If you don't have enough money, you can go to the shop under the old lady's name to get it."

"Yes, old man, we are leaving first."

An Er took the silver bills from the old man's hand, and left in the carriage with An Qi.

Zhang Tao was wearing dark blue patched clothes. He stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the receding carriage. He then looked up at the sky and sighed softly.

"You don't have to worry about Yun'er. You know Huan'er's ability. Yun'er will be fine. Now let's worry about ourselves. The well in Jianmen Pass suddenly gushed out water. I'm afraid the weather is going to change. I just don't know when it will change. Let's be prepared in advance."

After Zhang Tao finished speaking, he returned to the team without waiting for his son to answer.

Now, the people of Wang family ran back to the small house where the hunters had rested before. They were sitting in the house to rest. Because they were worried that the people behind would catch up with them, they did not dare to sleep directly. Instead, they sat there and started to eat. Because they were too scared to light a fire directly, each of them had a pancake with pickles in it to fill their stomachs.

After they had their meal, they discussed the route ahead. Going forward, there was a small town ahead, but they didn't know if the town ahead would be the same as Jianmen Pass. Being strictly guarded, they didn't dare to go directly into the town, so they had to plan their route well, so as not to be like Jianmen Pass, which scared them to death.

Now, unless they can find the Zhang family directly, they will never appear in front of other people easily again. However, the mountains are not connected, especially after they stepped into the south, the mountains here became very small, and the mountains are no longer continuous.

Although it is still a bit dry, there is green in some places. This proves that after they enter the south, the water resources here will be more sufficient, and it is even possible that the south will return to green within a few days.

As they walked in the mountains, they could sometimes see dried-up springs slowly begin to gush out water. Although the flow was not large, it was enough to prove that the weather in the south had begun to slowly recover, and that water sources would soon be sufficient.

But the other conditions were not very good either. The farmlands were just like those in the north. Basically all of them were dried up and cracked by the sun. The crops in the fields were all gone. They had no choice but to replant again, but the time had passed and they didn’t know if the crops would still grow.

Even if there were some water sources on the mountain, they had no way to carry it down to irrigate the fields. After all, the journey was too long and it would be too slow to carry water. In addition, the places with water sources were almost occupied by various ferocious beasts. They dared not go up the mountain to find those water sources. If they were bitten to death by wild beasts, they would really die. It would be better for them to guard their own wells at home and live longer. The main reason was that even if there were many men in the family, they could not withstand the hardships of taxes and corvee labor.

The climate in the south is suitable, and they can grow two crops a year, so every household has a lot of surplus food. The people here hardly move anything, and those who are forced to go deeper are those who have little land and cannot afford the labor service and taxes.

There are more landlords in the south. Those who don't own land basically rent land from landlords. They have to pay 60% of the land to the landlords as rent, and 30% as taxes. Now even a chicken has a chicken tax. Who can bear it?

The people were required to pay taxes in various clever ways. If they didn't pay the taxes, the court would directly force the men in the family to perform labor service. The men in every family were the backbone of the family, so they had no choice but to run away with their families. Not only did they have to pay taxes on chickens, but even the farm tools in the house had to be taxed. If they didn't pay, the taxes would be taken away. It was simply crazy.