Crossing the famine, relying on a spiritual spring to support the entire village

Su Nian'an and his companions continued on their journey. They passed by a village along the way, took down the door and made a cart out of it, and placed all the pots and pans they could on the cart.

Every time he passed a village, Su Nian'an would put some water in the well in the village, leaving it for the destined people.

Others followed his example and made carts. It was indeed much easier to pull them with a few people taking turns.

"Aunt Li, here." Su Nian'an quietly stuffed three vegetable pancakes into Aunt Li's hands.

"Hey, An'er, is it enough for you guys to eat?" Aunt Li said with a little concern.

Su Nian'an smiled and nodded.

Aunt Li held the three pancakes with joy. Su Ergou, who was not far away, saw all this. Su Nian'an still had so much food, and his eyes were full of greed.

"Aunt Wang, where are you going?" Su Ergou saw that Wang came back alone and greeted her with a smile.

Wang was startled by the sudden appearance of Su Ergou. After seeing who it was, she was puzzled and said, "It's Ergou. I have to go back to the team. You should also go back and rest for a while. We have to travel soon."

Seeing Wang was about to leave, Su Ergou quickly called her back and looked like he wanted to say something but couldn't.

"Ergou, what's the matter?" Wang asked patiently.

"Aunt, this is what happened. I haven't eaten for two days. If I don't have anything to eat, I feel like I'm going to die soon. Can you lend me some food? I'll definitely return it to you when I get to Geli."

"Hey, Ergou, it's not that I don't want to give it to you. There are three people in our family now, and we are running out of food. It will only take a day or two. Why don't you borrow some from your paddy field?" An said and ran away.

Seeing that Wang was so heartless, Su Ergou felt resentful. What do you mean by having no food? Would a person without food share his food with others?

I just don't want to give it to him. If that's the case, don't blame him for robbing her. If he wants three women, he can get them easily.

It was no wonder that Wang avoided him. She was usually lazy and gluttonous. When the other men went to look for water, he was the only man left among the crowd of old, young, women and children. He would come back to enjoy the fruits of their labor.

At night, Wang saw Su Ergou curled up under a bare tree and sleeping. She felt sorry for the child who had been alone all the time. She quietly put a pound of sea buckthorn fruit at his feet.

The sea buckthorn trees and apple trees in Su Nian'an's space, which she carefully irrigated with the spiritual spring, actually bore fruit again the day before yesterday.

The spiritual spring not only has a quick recovery effect on humans, but also on plants, and the fruits can grow again a few days after being picked.

The fruits grown are large, sweet, and full of water. Eating them has the same effect as Lingquan, but the effect is not as good.

The spiritual spring in the space is so effective, so is she still worried about having nothing to eat?

The potato seedlings were also growing very well. She dug them out again tonight to have a look. Unfortunately, the sweet potatoes had not grown. The quality of the seed potatoes was too poor and they had not even sprouted.

Although she could do nothing for strangers, she didn't want to see her fellow travelers starve to death or die of thirst.

Moreover, Su Shuitian and Uncle Li and his wife treated her sincerely. Seeing that they were all women and no men, she helped them pull the cart.

That night, Su Nian'an entered the space and dug up the potato plant. Sure enough, it produced huge potatoes. Su Nian'an dug out all the potatoes, placed them next to the spiritual spring, and watered them first, so that they would sprout faster.

After doing all this, I took a bath and fell asleep.

But that night, all the food on Su Nian'an's cart was stolen, even the water. Xiao Hao couldn't hold on in the middle of the night and took a nap. Su Ergou also disappeared at the same time.

It's easy to figure out who stole it, Wang said angrily. She gave that bastard a pound of sea buckthorn fruit last night.

Su Nian'an calmly filled one of the pottery jars with half water and put sea buckthorn berries in it to cover up the fact that he had stolen half of it.

"Dudu, don't we have anything to eat?" Xiao Nier looked at Su Nian'an with her big black and white eyes and asked.

"Yes, Auntie." Su Nian'an hooked Xiao Ni'er's nose and corrected her, "Don't worry, Xiao Ni can eat as much as she wants."

Wang thought Su Nian'an was just comforting the child and looked very sad. They originally had apples and cakes, but now they only had some sea buckthorn.

The further south we went, the more refugees there were. Su Shuitian's family's food supply went from a small mountain to two sacks.

All the refugees just walked without talking, their eyes were dull, like walking machines, lifeless.

From time to time, someone couldn't hold on and fell on the side of the road, and it was unknown whether he was dead or alive.

"God, please have mercy on us ordinary people, please let it rain! Please let it rain!" A desperate cry came from somewhere in the crowd. The man fell down as soon as he finished shouting. Many people walked by without paying any attention. Two kind-hearted old men carried him to the side, bowed with both hands and continued on their way.

"Everyone stop and undergo routine inspection," suddenly an officer on horseback shouted loudly, and then dozens of officers and soldiers appeared in an orderly manner.

"Sir, what are you checking?" Uncle Li asked

The soldier didn't answer, but whipped him with his whip, hitting Uncle Li on the chest. His clothes were torn and a blood mark appeared immediately.

"Young Master, what am I checking? Do I need to give you a report?" Then he whipped her down with a whip.

"Husband!" Aunt Li's face turned pale, and she hurried to Uncle Li's side when the soldier raised the whip for the second time.

Uncle Li hurriedly held Aunt Li in his arms

Everyone was shocked. The man didn't say anything wrong, so why did he get beaten?

Su Nian'an said with a frighteningly cold expression: "What are you doing!"

Wang held Xiao Ni tightly in her arms

Uncle Li whipped the soldier three times, but he didn't stop, so he grabbed the whip firmly when he was about to whip him for the fourth time.

"Sir, haven't you heard the saying, 'Forgive others when you can?'" Then he exerted force with his hands, and the soldier fell off his horse.

"Someone come, someone come!" Dozens of soldiers immediately came over and surrounded Su Nian'an and his group, including Su Shuitian.

"Who among you is Su Nian'an?" When the officers and soldiers saw Su Shuitian's mule cart, they immediately confirmed that this was the group of people the woman had mentioned. These refugees had been looking for them for several days, and they were the only ones with a mule cart.

Su Nian'an frowned. She searched her memory again and again to make sure she didn't know this soldier.

Uncle Li and the others all looked at Su Nian'an, as if asking, do you know him?

Su Nianan shook his head

"We don't know any Su Nian'an, sir. We are all refugees and good citizens. We don't do anything illegal." Xiao Hao said naively, but a hoe fell out from behind him and his expression froze.

"!" Your family brought a hoe with them when they fled. Did they hoe the land or people? Dozens of soldiers immediately pointed their swords at Xiao Hao.

Xiao Hao raised his hands and said, "This is a misunderstanding, sir."

"Whether it's a misunderstanding or not, search for me," the soldier ordered.

Dozens of soldiers slowly approached

Xiao Hao and the others from Su Shuitian's family started fighting because the soldiers wanted to move their only two bags of food.

The weapons were a bit inferior. Xiao Hao held a hoe, while the others held sickles, kitchen knives, and even a rolling pin.