Traveling through famine: The space peasant girl

Soon, my second uncle and his family came over. Even though they had ten taels of silver, they didn't buy much. They just bought eight steamed buns and five bags of cakes, and the money was all spent. There was not a penny left, and it was almost not enough.

The old man looked at the pitiful food in his son's backpack and didn't know what to say for a moment. You know, in the past, ten taels of silver could buy them a good meal in a restaurant, and that included food and takeaways.

Ten taels of silver can only buy these few things. You have to know that they just bought more than ten sets of clothes and only spent three taels of silver. It’s not that the old man cares about money, it’s mainly because they are too expensive.

I went to the restaurant and bought some braised meat so that my family could have something good today. You know, this braised meat can only be eaten for one meal. The sun is too hot and it will rot easily. We can't store too much. Even if my granddaughter can store it, there is no time to take it out.

Given the current situation in Mo City, he began to doubt whether the Zhang family would have enough food to reach Qiong Island, so he went to knock on the doors of several grain stores.

The door of the grain shop opened as soon as I knocked, but the prices of the grain inside were simply outrageous. Ordinary broken rice used to cost twelve cents per catty, but now it costs two hundred and forty cents. One tael of silver could be exchanged for five hundred cents, so this catty of rice was almost half a tael of silver, which was simply outrageous.

The old man had no choice but to hold his nose and buy some. He bought ten kilograms of broken rice, twenty kilograms of cornmeal, and some brown rice and sorghum flour, spending a total of fifteen taels of silver.

They spent a lot of money, but didn't buy much. They wanted to improve their lives these two days and didn't want to eat cold pancakes every day. They wanted to eat something hot, which would be good for the body. Their stomachs couldn't stand eating cold food all the time.

Then before leaving the city gate, Wang Shiyu secretly stuffed seven bamboo tubes filled with boiled water into the old man's backpack.

She took out eight more rice balls, which were wrapped in cabbage leaves. They contained rice, some vegetables and shredded meat mixed together, and were wrapped in oil paper. Wang Shiyu had prepared these overnight.

As the old man was walking, he suddenly felt his backpack become heavy. He turned around to look at his granddaughter, but pretended not to know anything and continued walking forward. Soon he arrived at the place where his eldest son was waiting for them.

When the eldest son saw his father and younger brother coming back, he hurried forward to help borrow the backpack. He took the old man's backpack first and could clearly hear the sound of water shaking inside.

My brother's backpack is heavier than my father's. It contains some grain, ready-made steamed buns and cakes.

Grandma took a bag of snacks, opened it and saw that it was a bag of osmanthus cake. She took out a piece and handed it to her brother who was leaning on the felt cloth to watch them, letting him eat one piece first. She gave a piece to Wang Shiyu, but Wang Shiyu refused as she was about to eat.

It was noon now, and fortunately there were a lot of sheds built at the city gate. They could sit and wait in the sheds, and the cart was parked at the door of the sheds.

My younger brother refused to get off the cart and just sat on it, so my grandmother used two sticks to prop up the felt cloth and let him sit under it and wait.

Taking the sweet pastry, Xiaoyi sweetly shouted, "Thank you, grandma."

Then he sat there quietly and started to eat. You have to know that he hadn't eaten anything sweet in the past ten days. He just ate biscuits and drank water with the adults.

Although Xiaoyi was so young, she still sat in the car and looked around obediently even when traveling with adults. Sometimes when she was scared, she would no longer be afraid when she saw her sister and mother.

Along the way, apart from following her grandfather to deliver food to the Zhang family, Wang Shiyu did not take anything else. They were all food that had been prepared at home.

Only Mo Ru Ru would occasionally eat something with Wang Shiyu at night, including various snacks.

Every time, Mo Ru Ru ate it secretly, without even telling her husband, because she was the only one who knew that she was eating these fresh foods, and she was very happy.

When they returned to the team, they first took out the cut braised meat, broke a steamed bun in half, and started eating directly with the braised meat in between. Everyone around them was drooling.

The steamed buns were limited, so if there was some braised meat left, we would just use steamed buns or other bread to eat it all, leaving nothing behind.

The people around watched the family eat up all the braised meat. A few children wanted to come over and order more, but the old man didn't even raise his head. Although Mo Ruru and Zhou Guichun felt sorry for the children, they didn't slow down and continued to eat with big mouthfuls.

Several children who wanted to speak, with tears streaming down their faces, ran back to their mothers, cried with their lips pursed, and looked at the Wang family while crying.

Zhou Guichun, who was facing them, hesitated for a moment, then turned around and continued eating. “As long as you can’t see me eating, then I haven’t eaten.”

After the meal, he took out a bamboo tube from his backpack and gave the water in it to everyone. He drank up all the water in the small bamboo bucket.

When the Wang family finished their meal, the Zhang family had not returned yet. The old man stood up and looked at the team in front. Zhang Tao was sitting in the team without moving.

His two sons are not here. They went to the city. But why haven't they come out for so long? Or did they come out too quickly?

They entered the city in the morning, and it's already afternoon, but they haven't come out yet. The old man looked at Mr. Zhang and seemed a little anxious and nervous. He could also tell the situation by looking at the faces of the people entering and leaving the city gate.

Wang Shiyu also saw the current situation. It was probably because there were not so many reserve resources in the city. You know, a little bit of food is not enough for a whole family to eat. They need to buy a cart. Now water resources are too scarce. There is no way to keep a horse-drawn or donkey cart. They can only pull the cart by themselves.

Around four or five in the afternoon, people from the city finally came out. They saw the two sons of the Zhang family, each pulling a cart. The cart was packed with food, but it didn't look like there was much ready-made food.

Most of them were raw food in bags, and there didn't seem to be much water in their car.

Wang Shiyu and the old man looked at each other.

It’s over.

What they thought at that time has become a reality. At that time, they were talking about what if Mo City didn't have that much food for them? And now it has really come true.

What can we do about their bad mouths?

The officers followed in their footsteps and came back. It seemed that they had a good harvest. The people in the city sent some to the old man. He stood up and took a look. They were all ready-made steamed buns and pancakes. The pancakes seemed to have been dried by fire and had no moisture at all. The steamed buns were black and no one knew what they were made of.

Under the current circumstances, it is good enough to have a stutter. We did not set out at the time we were supposed to set out. We were waiting for another group of people to come out of the city.

Soon, the escort team from Mo City came out. Looking at the group of prisoners that was even larger than their Zhang family's team, Wang Shiyu felt a darkness in front of his eyes. Although these people had nothing to do with him, they were related to the Zhang family.

Fortunately, this new team walked directly to the front of the team. They still followed the Zhang family and walked behind them, but the newly pulled out food had to be cooked immediately, otherwise they would not be able to get it on the road.

The Zhang family does not have any very young children, and the younger ones are all over five years old, so their father or mother would carry their children for a while when they were tired. They have walked for a while and have finally arrived here. It is even better now that they have a car. If they are tired, they can sit in the car for a while and then walk again. The women are freed.

Soon, the team started to set off. Grandma stuffed my aunt into the car and let her lie on it. She also took out a piece of osmanthus cake and asked her to eat it slowly in the car.

The remaining osmanthus cake was given to Wang Shiyu, Mo Ruru, and Zhou Guichun, and the rest was stuffed back into the backpack and put on the car.

Wang Shiyu ate a piece directly after she gave it to her. Mo Ruru was reluctant to eat her piece, so she gave it directly to Wang Shiyu, asking Wang Shiyu, who had just finished a piece of osmanthus cake, to eat it quickly.

She didn't eat Zhou Guichun's piece either. She wrapped it carefully with a handkerchief and put it next to Xiaoyi, asking him to finish the one in his hand before eating the other piece.

Neither mother was willing to eat any of it themselves, and gave it all to their children. Although the family conditions were not good, there was no discrimination between boys and girls in the family, and the two children had the same things.

The old man walked behind, looking at the situation around him, feeling a little depressed. He originally thought that after arriving in Mo City, his uncle's family would be able to live a better life, but now it seems that it is even worse than before.

They couldn't eat their food without making fire, and now they were in urgent need of water, so what could they use to cook? The little water they brought from Mo City was not enough for them to drink.

They didn't dare to eat the rice balls in the basket. The green vegetable leaves they could see now were only those wealthy families in Jinling who could afford them. If they could eat the vegetable leaves, they would probably be eaten by the wolves behind them.

He was wondering whether he should openly establish a relationship with the Zhang family. If so, these unarmed people behind him would be more quiet.

Everyone saw how these officers treated the Zhang family favorably. If they could relate to them, these people wouldn't dare to target them openly.

Wang Shiyu looked at the troubled old man and thought for a while, then silently went over and held his hand. There was no way for her to take care of anything else now. Even if she wanted to give water to her uncle and the others, she couldn't give too much. After all, they only had a backpack full of water to carry from the city.

Even if there was still water, they didn't dare to take it out. The old man naturally knew this situation, so he kept thinking about what to do.

What else can I do? I look at the dry land and rivers around me, as well as the trees that have died due to lack of water. There is not a single bit of green left, just yellow and white earth.

There is definitely no water around here. If you could find water, you would definitely see a touch of green. Now is the time when all things come back to life.

Wang Shiyu had no other choice. The only support she could get were the water bags and bamboo tubes that the old man left in his space. Anything more was just unboiled water and could not be drunk directly.

Here, getting sick or catching a cold can kill people. It's too scary. If they were given raw water to drink directly, would it cause stomach upset? They don't even know if they will get infected or get sick.

She didn't dare to take out the water she brought from the modern times, because the modern times are not like the ancient times. The modern chemicals and air quality are far inferior to those in ancient times. The water contaminated by bacteria is not suitable for people today to drink.

I carefully checked the mineral water in my space. The mineral water was okay, but it was not as sweet and delicious as the water I have now.

The old man also knew how much water he had stored. He had already drunk a small portion of it. There were still two or three months left to go, so he didn't dare drink too much and had to limit the amount.

After walking for so long, we didn't find any water source at all. It seemed that all the water was recycled by the earth and disappeared inexplicably.

The officers were also trying to find some water source, but the surrounding area was so dry that it didn't look like they could find water.

As the old man walked, he held Wang Shiyu's hand and signaled her to put the lunch bag away for a while because she couldn't eat it yet.

At least you have to enter the south of the Yangtze River and see green. Now, if anyone has some dried vegetables, it will attract a group of red-eyed wolves.

Wang Shiyu also blamed herself for not thinking it through, forgetting the current situation and actually taking out the vegetables.

She walked to the side of the car and put away the rice balls in the backpack. There were few tasteless things, and there was still a lot of steamed rice in her space. She planned to roll the rice into small balls, one that could be eaten in one bite. If anyone was hungry, they could eat one directly to avoid being discovered by others.

The group left Mo City and walked for a while. The team behind them suddenly started to get chaotic. When Wang Shiyu and the others looked back, they found that the sheds and pavilions where they had just rested at the gate were on fire.

Originally, some refugees who did not go with them wanted to rest there for two more days before leaving. After all, it was a big city and there would always be ways to survive. As a result, now they have no place to stay.

Looking at the burning huts and pavilions, the team in front just paused for a moment and continued to move forward. It was too late for them to go back.

It would be better to leave quickly. Wang Shiyu and the others turned around and continued to follow the team forward silently. Fortunately, they left earlier. If they encountered the fire just now, they would not be able to put out the fire. Who would be willing to use water to put out the fire?

It would be better to leave quickly. Wang Shiyu and the others turned around and continued to follow the team forward silently. Fortunately, they left early. If they had encountered the fire directly, they would have lost a lot of things.

Now as they continued to move forward, the sky suddenly cleared up and lightning began to flash. Just when everyone thought it was going to rain, there were only a few flashes of lightning and that was it, just like God had sneezed a few times.

Those who were standing there waiting for the rain felt lost in an instant, and then quickened their pace to catch up with the team in front.