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

The most urgent task now was to get Chu Zhiang to control the people of Axe Village and prevent them from running around. She didn't want to think about it any further.

When Su Nian'an walked into the cave, he found it in a mess. The newly bought bedding and clothes were gone, and there were only tattered clothes, gourds and bowls scattered on the ground...

In the whole cave, only Aunt Wu and the pot lid were still lying on the ground.

Did the person really run away? Did the boss run away too?

She covered her mouth and nose, and didn't go in again. She stretched her neck and called out tentatively: "Aunt Wu? Pot lid?"

The lid didn't respond. If it weren't for the rising and falling heavy breathing, she would have thought something had happened.

Aunt Wu dragged her tired body over and turned to face Su Nian'an and said, "An, son,"

This voice was even weaker than at noon. Su Nian'an's heart tightened. Without caring too much, he tied the handkerchief that covered his mouth and nose at noon again, squatted down next to Aunt Wu, and touched his forehead. It was so hot that his hands turned red.

Aunt Wu also has a fever! She turned her head and looked at the lid of the pot. The symptoms were similar to those at noon. Her face was flushed and her lips were pale.

"Aunt Wu, where is the boss?" Su Nian'an asked anxiously.

But Aunt Wu's eyelashes trembled like butterfly wings, and she couldn't open them. Her lips were pale, and she was mumbling with her mouth open.

How come Aunt Wu became so ill all of a sudden?

Where did the boss go?

What should I do? She doesn't know medicine.

Su Nian'an was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan. At this moment, she deeply regretted why she did not study medicine in college.

After thinking for a long time, she had no clue. She scooped two bowls of spiritual spring water from the space and prepared to feed one bowl to each of them, hoping that it would relieve some of the symptoms.

Aunt Wu was fine, she drank it in a daze, but Guo Gai remained unconscious with his mouth tightly shut, and most of the spiritual spring flowed down the corners of his mouth onto his clothes.

I had no choice but to pour it a few more times, but the top of the pot lid was soaked through.

Su Nian'an was stunned. Should she change it for him? This was ancient feudal thinking. She was afraid that it would be bad for her and the reputation of the pot lid. If she didn't change it, it would be more harmful if it got wet and aggravated her condition.

"An'er, there's no one left in the village!"

At this time, Su Pingan ran in to see if there was anyone in the cave and saw his sister and said

Chu Ruohuai: I am not a human anymore...

Aunt Wu, Pot Cover: We are not human beings anymore...

"Brother, cover your mouth and nose, and change Guo Gai's clothes, his clothes are wet," Su Nian'an said hurriedly.

There was no one in the village and most of the things had been taken away. It was likely that the villagers had heard about the plague and wanted to flee Axe Mountain.

When they were looking for dry grass along the way, they saw some people in the fields. They must have learned the news after returning to the village.

They must not have gone far. Maybe we can catch up with them if we chase them now. Fortunately, transportation was good in ancient times, otherwise, who knows to what extent the plague would spread. Su Nian'an felt scared just thinking about it.

Wang and the others were looking at who else was in the house. When they knocked on Chu Zhiang's wooden house, there was no response, and the door could not be opened.

Wang asked doubtfully, "Boss? Are you in there?"

Chu Ruohuai was shocked inside. Is this his mother-in-law?

The wooden chair in the room was accidentally knocked over, and then the door opened with a creak. Wang and Chu Ruohuai's pupils widened and they pointed at each other in surprise.

"you are still alive!"

The two said in unison

The two of them stared at each other as if they were waiting for the other to speak.

"Why are you here?"

Once again, the two spoke in unison

"Mom! I'm going out for a while! Don't go anywhere. Sprinkle the ashes from today's burning in every corner of the village, and boil the wormwood and burn it!"

Su Nian'an ran and talked, interrupting the two Wangs' staring at each other.

"Hey, An'er..." Wang came to her senses and wanted to call Su Nian'an, but she disappeared in the courtyard of the mountain village in a flash, and the place where she had just spoken was empty.

Child, your husband is here, what could be more urgent than this?

When Chu Ruohuai heard Su Nian'an call Wang's mother, he was shocked. What? That woman was really Su Nian'an!

Why is his personality so different from before? Is there something wrong?

Thinking about it, I feel relieved. In a disaster year, anything can happen. How much suffering did she go through to become such a fierce character now?

"Mother-in-law, why are you here?" Chu Ruohuai came back to his senses and asked

"Haha, it's all thanks to your mother!" Wang said with a sour face. She had long ago made this stupid son-in-law cut off ties with their family.

The result was that she would not listen. If it wasn't for her daughter's good luck, she would have almost died. If she said that the bitch's family had no contribution, no one would believe it.

"My mother? What happened to her?" Chu Ruohuai's heart tightened. When he met his father, mother, brother and others, they looked miserable and pale and thin due to hunger.

So they gave them some food and sent a few soldiers to escort them to Geli for refuge.

At that time, his parents said that Su Nian'an was dead, but she is still alive and with her mother-in-law.

Moreover, the tone of the mother-in-law's voice seemed to be full of resentment towards his mother.

Chu Zhiang said that Su Nian'an is now five months pregnant, and he has been away from home for six months, so whose child is she carrying?

There was a layer of anger in his eyes. What deep love? She hooked up with someone else as soon as he left!

Wang said indignantly: "Go ask your parents!"

She left the cabin after saying a few words, leaving Chu Ruohuai behind.

Su Ping'an changed the clothes for Guo Gai and left the cave. Seeing Wang spreading wood ash in their wooden house, he walked over, took the bamboo basket and helped to spread it.

As he was scattering the seeds, he glanced at Chu Ruohuai, who was standing in front of Chu Zhiang's wooden house, and he dropped the bamboo basket in his hand in shock.

"Mom, mom, look, look over there, is that my brother-in-law?" Su Ping'an blinked, and the man was still standing there.

"Yeah." Wang replied casually.

"Mom, my brother-in-law is still alive!" Su Pingan said happily

When he saw his mother's cold expression, he fell silent. What's wrong? Are you not happy that your brother-in-law is alive?

He was quite depressed before, because none of the partners in the Su family lived long. How could he not be happy now that he knew his brother-in-law was still alive?

Could it be that my mother and sister already knew that my brother-in-law was alive? Otherwise, why would they be so calm?

Didn't he lose control just now? He lost his dignity as the eldest brother.

I thought, pretending nothing happened, I picked up the bamboo basket, put the grass ash on the ground back into the bamboo basket, and continued to spread it.

Chen Jing and Xu were boiling mugwort water, Su Shuitian, Dabao, Erbao and Pan Changhe were burning mugwort, Xiaohao, Bench and Shuangxi were spreading lime, and Xiaonier was following behind Wang and playing with the grass ash.

Chu Ruohuai looked at Wang's people, stood in the wooden house and thought for a moment, then closed the door and walked out of the village.

He knew that the woman was his wife. Although the child in her belly was not his, he promised his father to take care of her and should not let her run around outside.