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The Yanyang Kingdom fought against the Japanese for more than ten years and encountered a global natural disaster just after its founding.

At the beginning, it rained heavily for several months in a row, causing mudslides and landslides in many places. In some places, underground rivers collapsed, and the river water flooded villages and farmland.

After the rain stopped and the river water receded, a new round of disasters came. Plagues broke out in various places. Although there were rescue teams, the death toll reached a new high every day.

When the farmers started planting crops again, they encountered a drought that had not been seen in a century. All the crops they had planted died in the fields, the rivers dried up, and the grass and trees withered.

The original owner was the daughter of a hunter in Xiahe Village. She had been engaged to Geng Dazhu from the same village since childhood, so when they fled famine, the two families naturally walked together.

Hunter Zhang had been a soldier and had killed people before. They had never encountered anyone who was so blind as to bully them along the way.

But as they walked further and further and the time passed, they still hadn't found a place to stay, let alone any food.

Some bad voices began to emerge among the crowd, but with the presence of Zhang the Hunter in Xiahe Village, many people were afraid to attack them.

But this situation did not last long, as Hunter Zhang contracted the plague and died on the way due to a high fever.

It was the original owner who cleaned up Zhang the Hunter's body. Because of this, the original owner was ostracized and everyone was afraid of being infected with the plague.

Later, seeing that the original owner was fine, the Geng family began to accept the original owner, asked the original owner to pull a cart, and ate the original owner's only food.

On a dark and windy night, Old Lady Geng killed the original owner with a single knife.

Since they were not their own children, there was no need to exchange them with others. After getting the food, they walked for a long time.

But in the end, he still didn't find a place to survive.

"Shan girl, the village chief is planning to flee the famine, you should go with him then."

Aunt Geng looked haggard, with sunken cheeks, and it looked like she hadn't had a full meal for a long time.

And so it is.

"Aunt Geng, my father...my father has been infected with the plague and is still not well...wuwu..."

Aunt Geng's face turned pale, and she quickly stepped back, far away from Zhang Shan. "What? Plague? Why didn't you tell me earlier? If it kills us, can you afford the compensation?"

Many people in the village died of the plague, but Hunter Zhang lived at the foot of the mountain, far away from the villagers, so no one paid attention to him.

"I...can we still escape together?"

Aunt Geng spat fiercely, "Bah, wishful thinking, do you want to kill everyone? You'd better not follow me, or I'll beat you to death!"

After saying that, she ran away without looking back. Judging from the direction she left, she should be going to find the village chief.

When the village chief heard that Hunter Zhang had contracted the plague, his first reaction was disappointment. Then, like Aunt Geng, he backed away and said, "We should leave secretly when the time comes. We must not let them catch up with us."

Others nodded.

But the village chief couldn't help but sigh, "If only Lao Zhang hadn't been infected with the plague, he would have fought in the battlefield and killed people, and he could have protected us, and we wouldn't have been bullied."

Some people suggested: "Who will go and take a look? Maybe Lao Zhang is not infected with the plague?"

But no one dared to go, as it was a matter of life and death, so everyone was very cautious.

So, until they left, no one from the Zhang family set foot there.

"Shanshan, Dad is sick, you should follow them and escape the famine."

Zhang Shan brought a bowl of millet porridge into the room. When Zhang the hunter smelled the fragrance of the porridge, he swallowed subconsciously.

"I am an orphan girl. If I follow them, I won't survive. I will die anyway. Dying in my hometown is like returning to my roots."

Zhang the Hunter actually thought that Zhang Shan's words made sense. His eyes fell on the millet porridge and he couldn't help asking, "Where did you get this rice?"

He hasn't had millet porridge for a long time.

"I have some ideas. I have exchanged all the money you sent me for food. We can have enough food for a long time, so you don't have to worry."

While Hunter Zhang was drinking porridge, Zhang Shan came in from outside with some dry mugwort and fumigated the room.

On the other side, the villagers of Xiahe Village met people from Shanghe Village as soon as they left the village. The two villages are close to each other and there are many in-laws, so there is no friction.

The head of Shanghe Village asked: "Why is the hunter not here?"

The most powerful warrior in the two villages is Zhang the Hunter. Without seeing Zhang the Hunter, the people in Shanghe Village would not feel safe.

The head of Xiahe Village gave a bitter smile and said, "Hunter Zhang has contracted the plague and can't escape the famine with us."

The head of Shanghe Village was also very disappointed. They did not encounter any bandits or roadblocks along the way. Although the villagers were tired from the journey, they did not encounter any danger.

There are twelve people in the Geng family, and the head of the family is old lady Geng.

At this time, Old Lady Geng complained to her daughter-in-law, Aunt Geng, for not bringing Zhang Shan out. According to how much Hunter Zhang loved his daughter, he should have taken all the food in the house away to Zhang Shan.

Zhang Shan’s food finally fell into their hands.

Aunt Geng also feels aggrieved. At the beginning, she said that they were afraid of being infected, so no one went to call Zhang Shan. Why is she blaming her now?

At this time, the second daughter-in-law came over with a clay pot, "Mom, come by noon, we still have a long way to go, we can't walk without something in our stomachs."

Old Mrs. Geng touched her belly, licked her lips, carefully untied the bag, and scooped out a small cup of sorghum.

"Eat sparingly..."

I weighed it and it didn't feel right.

"God damn it, where's my food?"

The Geng family only had half a bag of sorghum left.

Suddenly, the voices of the twelve members of the Geng family crying for their parents were heard from the team.

"What happened to the Geng family? Did someone die? Hurry up and take a look!"

"I won't go, and you can't go either. What if it's a plague?"

The village chief took back the step he had taken.

The nearby villages had all fled the famine, and Zhang Shan did not search door to door for useful items because she was not sure whether they were infected with the virus.

She herself didn't care, but Zhang the Hunter was a mortal and could die if he wasn't careful.

At the same time, because some of the food in her space was not suitable to appear in this world, she had to go up the mountain to find food.

Xiahe Village is backed by a mountain. The weather is hot now, many trees have died, and the ground is bare.

The further she went inside, the more Zhang Shan could feel what it meant for grass and trees to wither.

If the trees on the outer areas were uprooted by humans, then the trees deep in the mountains died due to lack of water.

Deep in the mountains, there is only one puddle with water.

But the pit was very deep and the water was very shallow. Zhang Shan pulled out a long tube and pumped the water into the space.

There was a fish in the pit, but I couldn't pull it out anymore.

Fortunately, there was not much water left, so Zhang Shan jumped into the pit and put all the fish in it into the space.

When Zhang Shan returned home, she was carrying a basket of wild kudzu roots and holding two big fish in her hands.

"Shanshan, have you gone into the mountains?"

Zhang Shan nodded and told him what she had seen in the mountains.

“Didn’t you see any wolves or tigers?”

Zhang Shan shook her head.

"That's good. It's dangerous in the mountains. You'd better not go in there again. Dad is much better now and can go in the mountains now."

As he spoke, Hunter Zhang took out a hunting rifle from under the bed and wiped it with oil, looking very precious.

There was still water in the big river in Xiahe Village. Zhang Shan washed the Pueraria root and mashed it to separate the residue and starch.

Then add clean water, stir repeatedly, and let it sit overnight to allow the starch to settle.

Hunter Zhang had already chopped the firewood and was stewing the fish in the pot.

Zhang Shan can eat after wiping her hands.

When I walked in, I saw that most of the fish meat was still hanging on the wooden rack. "Dad, there are still a lot of fish in the pond. There is no need to be frugal."

"There will always be a day when we run out of food, so it's always a good idea to save some. By the way, where is the pond where you fish?"

"It's from the mountain stream and looks like an egg." Without raising her head, Zhang Shan took out a handful of Litsea cubeba leaves from the cloth bag and threw them into the fish soup to remove the fishy smell and enhance the flavor.

Hunter Zhang thought of something and said seriously, "You didn't jump in? You can't jump into that puddle. In the past, someone jumped in to swim and never came out. Even the corpse didn't float up."

“The pit was very deep. We tied a rope to a stone and lowered it down. The rope was stretched to the end, but the stone had not yet reached the bottom of the pit.

But it is also true that in this horrible weather, only that pit still has some water."

He poured the fish soup into a large bowl and served a bowl of rice. Hunter Zhang felt distressed and swallowed his saliva at the same time, because in the past, this was rice that only big landlords could eat.

"If we eat like this, how much food will be enough?"

Too extravagant.

"You can't bring anything with you when you're born, and you can't take anything with you when you die. There are only two of us, and we don't know when we'll be gone. Eat good food while you're alive, and you won't regret it after eating it."

That seems to be true, but Hunter Zhang, who has been used to a hard life, still thinks it is too wasteful. If it is replaced with coarse grains, it can last for a long time.

The rice is delicious though.

good to eat!

"I will bring all the fish back tomorrow. The kudzu roots on the mountain have been almost dug up. We only missed a few today. We'd better leave here."

Hunter Zhang was silent for a long time, but finally nodded and agreed, "I am really reluctant to leave the place where I have lived for so long."

"If a tree is moved, it dies; if a person is moved, it lives. As long as you can live, it doesn't matter where you go."

"Dad, you should take a good rest these few days and take good care of your body so that we can continue our journey."

At night, Zhang Shan heard Zhang the Hunter sighing, but she ignored it and slept until the next morning.

When I got up, Hunter Zhang was already busy in the kitchen.

"Take this and eat it on the way."

Zhang Shan took the cooked sweet potatoes and ate them without hesitation. She poured out the upper layer of kudzu powder suspension that had been left overnight and obtained yellow-pink starch.

The sun is very strong in the morning. Break the kudzu root powder into small pieces and place them indoors. They will dry out in a short while.

The main task today is to go up the mountain to pick up leftovers and see if we can find anything to eat.

I didn't see any small animals, but I did encounter a group of wild boars. The hungry wild boars were very ferocious. If someone else had come, I would probably have been left here today.

She did not plan to take these wild boars back home. Instead, she found an open space, drained the blood, skinned and boned them, cut them into small pieces, and marinated them with litsea cubeba, salt, pepper and chili for a while before hanging them on wood.

Then, use the same method to marinate and dry the fish.

By noon, the dried meat had become hard. We put the meat away and continued walking deeper into the mountains. From time to time, we could hear the roars of tigers and howls of wolves.

There are poisonous snakes roaming under the fallen leaves. Without the cover of leaves, the place that was originally full of miasma has now become very desolate. The dried bodies of poisonous insects, birds and beasts are hanging on the trees. If it weren't for the strong yang energy, one would have thought that one had accidentally entered the ghost realm.

After walking for two hours, we finally saw a chestnut tree, with fruits with thorns falling to the ground.

There is no need to dry the fruit in the sun, as it will be dehydrated automatically.

After harvesting several thousand kilograms of chestnuts, Zhang Shan put them into the space and walked back. When she was about to reach the foot of the mountain, she took the fish out of the space and put it in the backpack.

In the evening, the father and daughter ate fish again.

"Dad, I found some chestnuts in the mountains. I'll carry them back tomorrow. I have to find a way to grind them into powder so that they can be eaten and cooked."

"We have a donkey and a millstone at home, so don't worry. Dad has nothing to do at home, so leave this to him."

Hunter Zhang is much better now, but Zhang Shan won't let him go up the mountain, so he can only stay at home chopping wood and feeding the donkey.

Now Zhang Shan felt relieved, but she did not take out all the chestnuts, only more than 300 kilograms.

But more than 300 kilograms was already a lot, and when Hunter Zhang saw the food, he became very motivated.

Even the donkey pulling the mill was working enthusiastically.

While Hunter Zhang was recuperating, Zhang Shan had already searched the forest at the back of the mountain clean and brought out everything edible.

A month passed quickly. After Zhang the hunter recovered from his illness, he went into the mountains again. However, he was unlucky and returned empty-handed nine times out of ten.

"Let's get ready and leave here."

Hunter Zhang has already felt the barrenness of this place. The big river at the entrance of the village dried up yesterday. The riverbed is dry and cracked, and there is not a drop of water.

"I heard from the villagers that they are going to the south. There is an ocean in the south, so there must be water. Let's go to the south too."

The drought in the south is more serious. In the previous life, many people went south, but died halfway before they reached the seaside.

Although going south is the best solution, Zhang Shan has a hunch that she cannot go south and must go northwest.

"The sea water in the south is salty and cannot be drunk directly. Let's go northwest. There is a big lake there."

After agreeing on the destination, the father and daughter loaded the car and hit the road. Along the way, they encountered many corpses, including a few familiar mummies.

Zhang Shan and Zhang the Hunter were both far away and had no extra kindness to help the man bury him.

We walked through Xiahe Village for a month without leaving the province. We encountered robbers on the way and all our food was stolen.

The starving villagers began to target the people around them. People were on guard against each other and didn't dare to sleep soundly at night.

The first person to take that step was Old Lady Geng.

Old Mrs. Geng exchanged her granddaughter for a family in another village. Both sides ate their children, but the meat would eventually run out.

There were fewer and fewer people around him, and finally they died on the way out of the province and were eaten by passers-by.

There were also quite a few people on the road that Zhang Shan and her daughter were walking on. They were all dressed in rags and were wary of each other, not daring to communicate much on the road.

During the journey, they only dared to cook chestnut porridge to eat, and when they felt hungry, they hid in the donkey cart to eat dried meat.

After walking for half a year, they finally arrived at Qinghai, but the area around Qinghai was guarded and they were only allowed to fill water.

Zhang Shan didn't plan to go any further north, so she spent some food and moved into a new house near Qinghai.

After a while, they were accepted.

Two months after settling down, the temperature began to drop and the weather became colder and colder. The clothes Zhang Shan brought were no longer enough.

Fortunately, there was still some cotton in her space, so she made three thick cotton coats and trousers by herself. She also hired someone to repair the house, thicken the walls, and rebuild the kang, fire wall, and floor heating.

When we moved in again, it was already a month later. The temperature had reached minus 15 degrees Celsius and was still dropping.

In September, it snowed heavily and the outdoor temperature dropped to minus 52 degrees Celsius. In order to avoid being covered by the snow, Zhang Shan went out to shovel snow every morning.

More than half a year passed like this, the snow melted, all things revived, and new buds appeared on the hillside.

Zhang Shan and her daughter did not plan to return to Xiahe Village, but stayed in Qinghai.

Many people died in the three-year disaster, and there was no one left alive in Xiahe Village except Zhang Shan and his daughter.

Twenty years later, Hunter Zhang died of illness, and Zhang Shan took his ashes back to Xiahe Village, where people from other villages had already moved in.

After repairing the ancestral tomb, Zhang Shan left.

Qinghai is a very beautiful place. When Zhang Shan was milking the ewe, a golden eagle flew from a distance and landed on a tree stump not far from her and cried.