Traveling through famine: The space peasant girl

She didn't dare to underestimate the wisdom of the ancients now. She just looked at her grandfather's wise and foolish appearance, constantly testing her. Wang Shiyu knew that the old man had been testing her all the time, that is, since he started to flee from famine.

Only then did he believe that he had not become someone else, and he just thought that he might have somehow gained the memories of his past life.

Even though the old man had stopped testing her, she didn't dare reveal the slightest flaw. The space could be seen as a gift from God for his granddaughter's rebirth, but it definitely couldn't be seen as a stranger possessing his granddaughter.

Ancient people paid more attention to blood traditions. They would not bother with independence. They valued their ancestors and blood ties. If a stranger came upon their descendants, they would fight to the death and make that person pay the price.

Originally, Wang Shiyu thought that she would live a very comfortable life after coming to ancient times, but now natural disasters are frequent, and the current drought is definitely not a good thing.

She also planned to ask her parents to give her two younger brothers after their escape, and then she would wait for her younger brothers to support her.

Now that she is still on the road to escape famine, it is not appropriate to talk about these things yet. She still has to wait until she is settled down. However, she seems to remember that Qiong Island seemed to be terribly poor at that time.

But now I think about it, it’s pretty cool. Grandpa opened a page of the family tree himself, and they became the first page of the family tree. It’s exciting just thinking about it.

He didn't take his great-grandfather seriously at all. According to what Lin Shiyu had concluded in the past two days, his great-grandfather should still be alive and doing well.

The gold, silver and jewelry moved from Jinling prove that those people are still alive and have something to ask of the old man, otherwise why would they let go of so much gold, silver and jewelry?

Now seeing that there was no one around to help the Zhang family, the old man could only sigh and lie down to rest.

Lin Shiyu looked at her mother, who was blocking her back. After wolfing down the rice ball, she quietly stuffed a piece of maltose into her mother's hand.

Mo Ru Ru saw the maltose in her hand, smiled, and quietly put it in her mouth without letting anyone see it.

The sweet taste in her mouth made the corners of her mouth slightly raise when she closed her eyes to sleep, as if she was dreaming about something good.

No one from the Zhang family went out. They were all too tired to speak and just lay on the ground to rest. Today, the old man held on for a while. Then, Wang Shiyu got up by herself and let her grandfather go to rest. She had rested on the cart for a while before.

Although she was very tired, she had eaten too much, so she could not sleep. Although she was a child now, she only needed to call the adults. No matter how tired she was, the family members would not sleep too deeply, after all, they were outside now.

If you fall into a deep sleep all of a sudden, you may not even know how you died.

Because there were no trees in this place and no place to enjoy the shade, everyone was under the scorching sun. After resting for about half an hour, everyone got up and continued to move forward. Even the prisoners in front did not continue to rest, but continued to move forward, dragging their tired bodies.

Because they could see a forest about two miles ahead, and that forest was a very good place with shade.

There is really nothing wrong with the saying that if you only run in the hope of getting there, you will die; if you only walk in the hope of getting there, you will die. Even though we knew that the forest ahead was not far away, it was still very tiring to walk there. By the time we got there, the sun was already high in the sky and everyone was almost exhausted.

When Wang Shiyu was on the road, she sat on the cart for a while. When she was almost at the destination, she stuffed some biscuits and pickles under the felt cloth. These were the dried pickle strips that Wang Shiyu had dried in the space before.

Every time grandma opened the divination box, there would be a new surprise. She didn't say much, but just distributed the food in the car to everyone. Each person was given two pickles to supplement the salt. The water bags and gourds without water were placed under the felt cloth. When they were taken out again, they would be full of water and taste like boiled water.

Sometimes it is too hot and when you finish drinking the water, when you pick up the water bag and gourd again, they will become a heat-relief potion.

Everyone was silent, enjoying all this, no one asked where the water came from or where the food came from.

After arriving in the woods, the old man took Wang Shiyu and followed in the direction Zhang Tao went. The old man looked around as he walked to see if anyone was following them. Wang Shiyu was also thinking about what to take out today. After thinking for a while, she continued to take out the white flour cakes and some pickles in jars collected by the old man.

He found five or six water bags and added some refined salt he had brought from modern times. The salt at that time was a bit bitter. It was coarse salt that had not been refined again, and it was dark black.

But she didn't put the water bag in the bag because the old man didn't tell her to and she didn't make any noise. There were too many people in the Zhang family's team, and it wasn't like the situation in their family. She secretly stuffed something in it and everyone in the family pretended not to see it.

Soon, I saw the old man who had just finished using the toilet coming out from the side and was tying his belt. When he saw his nephew leading his granddaughter over, he hurried over.

"Uncle, here are some white flour buns and pickles. Eat some to replenish your energy. Do you have enough water? If not, I will come over to get you some next time."

The old man knew that all the teams were short of water, but he didn't give any today because he didn't want his uncle to think that he could take out anything, so he had to be more restrained, after all, everyone was short of water.

Zhang Tao thought for a while. He had just seen what the Wang family was eating. Now his nephew was willing to give them the white flour cakes while he ate the black flour cakes himself. He was so touched that he didn't have any other requests.

"Huan'er, you have to take care of your own family first, then take care of us. Don't give all the good things to your uncle. It doesn't matter if your uncle's family doesn't have good food. We can reach Mocheng in three or four days. When we get to Mocheng, there will be someone to pick us up, so it won't be so difficult. Then you can bring your family to join our team."

When Wang Shiyu heard this, she silently looked up at her uncle. It seemed that her uncle was quite useful. After all, they were about to arrive in Mo City. After leaving Mo City, there would be more bandits and thieves on the road, especially some robbers.

Originally, the family was still wondering, what if they encountered bandits or robbers on the way, what should they do?

Now with people like Uncle Zhang, they should be able to travel safely on the road, but I don’t know if they will encounter any other disasters later.

The weather was so dry that after just one day and night, the fields that were previously still visible were now covered with cracks from the sun.

It looks horrible. Even though we knew the weather was incredibly hot, we didn't expect the fields to be baked like this.

Doesn't this completely cut off the farmers' escape route? Moreover, in recent days, the number of people fleeing famine has been growing, and there is almost no end in sight.

The Wang family members followed closely behind the prisoners. They were never left behind nor overtaken by anyone, and they firmly occupied the tail of the prisoners.

There are more and more people on the road, which also means that there is a mixed group in the team. Some ruthless and dishonest people are here. They dare not stay too far away from the prisoner team, nor do they dare to contact the people behind.

Now there are several people who have joined the group fleeing famine. It can be seen that they have enough food but not enough drinking water.

Sometimes Wang Shiyu looked back and saw the children behind her who were dressed in rags, who could afford to eat but not drink water, and whose lips were cracked and bleeding. After looking at those children for a while, she felt a little bit sorry for them.

They had no water to cook, so they must have eaten raw dry food, swallowed it directly, or peeled tree bark and grass roots. But if Wang Shiyu felt sorry for these people, the rest of the people would rush over and eat them until not even a bone was left.

So she could only turn a blind eye and pretend not to see it.

With the subsidies from the Wang family over the past two days, Zhang Tao and the others' injuries have gotten better and better, and they even have more strength to walk than when they just came out of Jinling.

And they seemed to have a hope in life. You know, when I first met them, I thought these people would not live for more than a few days, especially those officers who looked ferocious.

If they hadn't seen these people taking great care of the Zhang family's feelings these days, they would have been deceived by their appearance.

In fact, if you think about it, it's almost the same. If Grandpa Wang hadn't recognized that the person in the team ahead was his uncle, these people would probably be close to death. They had no medicine for their wounds and no food to replenish their energy. Even with the help of these servants, or the secret care, they would still be basically close to death.

Second Aunt has been a little distracted these past two days, with anxiety visible to the naked eye. She is probably thinking of her parents' home again. Although she has given up hope on them, she doesn't want them to die like this. Now, looking at the situation on the roadside and the dried-up river, she has basically concluded that Yunshan Town will not be in a good condition, even if there is a big well at the entrance of the town.

It won't last long. Now even the land is dry like this, with so many insects that it looks like centipedes crawling on it. How many days can the deep water well provide food?

Actually, Zhou Guichun’s idea was right. Yunshan Town was in chaos. If one wanted to leave Yunshan Town properly, one had to go to Anshan County to get a pass. Otherwise, even if one fled to other places without a pass, there would be no way to settle down there, unless one became a refugee. But becoming a refugee was a very bad idea.

You have to know that when refugees arrive at a new place, without a pass, they will not be arranged to live in a rich place, but instead in the deep mountains or remote areas.

For those who have a pass, things will be much better. With a pass, they can directly settle down in the town under the county town, and even the government office will provide subsidies. However, the county magistrate of Anshan Town no longer issues pass to others. Those who want to leave with the pass are making trouble in front of the county government office all day long.

There was no way to issue a pass because the county government had received an order not to allow these people to move freely and to wait for the imperial relief team to arrive.

Once everyone migrates to the south, there will be no one in the north. How can we plant these fields? Once the drought is over, this place will become a deserted city.

Xuzhou is the territory of Prince Cheng, and Prince Cheng naturally does not want to let these people leave at will. In this era, population is the main labor force.

Moreover, the imperial court has said that it has sent troops to escort relief supplies and silver, so Prince Cheng has banned all counties from providing pass for the villagers below.

The second reason is that because some crops cannot grow in the fields, the food at home is getting less and less, while the food sellers in the city have raised the prices to an outrageous level, and they can no longer afford to eat.

Naturally, they wanted to leave this place, especially the hardest-hit area where the fireball landed. The houses they had just built could not withstand another landfall a month later, so they naturally wanted to leave here and seek a way to survive.

They heard that the south was rich in water and that even rice and wheat could be grown in two or three crops a year, so they wanted to go south to seek a way to make a living.

However, no matter how much they made trouble, the people in the county government did not dare to give them a pass, and the matter remained at a stalemate. Even the people from Luojia Village, led by the village chief, went to the county town to get a pass but were turned away.

After they arrived at Yunshan Town, they found out that the Wang family had already led the way out long ago and left. It was too late for them to go out now.

The mother of Zhou Guichun, a relative of the Wang family, was yelling at the Wang family for being disloyal and leaving without telling them. She not only cursed the Wang family, but even her own daughter could not escape her curse.

As in-laws, he didn't tell them when he was escaping. Isn't this a breach of trust?

When he left, he actually left quietly, without even thinking of sending them a letter to tell them that Zhou Guichun was a traitor.

Even though Zhou Guichun's mother was cursing so harshly now, if the Wang family had really asked them to leave together a few days ago, she would not have agreed.

Instead, they would scold the Wang family for being wishful thinking and actually wanting to leave the foundation laid by their ancestors and seek a living elsewhere. It would not be like they couldn't survive at that time, so how could they possibly leave there?

You should know that Zhou's father is now teaching in school and receives a salary of three taels of silver every month, which is a considerable income. With this three taels of silver, all the children in the family can go to school.

In his spare time, he would write some books and sell them to bookstores to add some income to his family. Their life was pretty good and they could buy two taels of meat every two days to improve their lives.

How could they possibly leave that?