After resting for about half an hour, the village chief asked Han Shunde to come over and ask Li Lanzhen which direction we should go now.

Li Lanzhen drank the porridge and fell asleep in a daze. After waking up, she was still thinking about this problem. She was going to ask Han Mingjiang to call Xue Lao Hu and Zhang Deshui to come here to discuss how to leave, when she saw Han Deshun coming.

"Sister-in-law, my father asked me to come over and ask, what should we do next?"

"I just need to go discuss this with my two in-laws. Go back and ask the village chief to gather the heads of each family. Second brother, go call your father-in-law and your uncle Zhang and the others. Let's go to the village chief to discuss this."

After saying that, they went together to find the village chief.

Li Lanzhen thought very clearly that she and her family still had to flee the famine with the people in the village. If they did, there had to be someone to speak up and manage the situation. Otherwise, there would be too many people and too many mouths, and when things came up, there would be disagreements, which would delay things.

There are many people in the village, so the village chief is still in charge. Over the years, everyone has become accustomed to listening to the village chief, and the village chief is fair in his work.

Seeing the village chief, Li Lanzhen greeted him with a smile, "Village chief, have you rested well? Let's come over and discuss with you what we should do next."

The village chief smiled, still very happy in his heart that Li Lanzhen could come to discuss things with him, "You can handle the future affairs, I will not care about it. I am old, I will follow you to escape the famine, wherever you go, I will take my whole family with me."

Li Lanzhen also laughed, "Village Chief, this won't do. We have been used to listening to you for more than ten years. You have to take us to escape the famine and find a place with mountains, water and fertile fields. We will live there and start a new life."

Everyone who came over heard Li Lanzhen's words, and their uneasy, uncertain and confused mood suddenly improved.

They all laughed and asked the village chief to continue leading everyone to escape the famine.

"That's right, village chief, you have to continue to be the village chief. Even if we find a good place to live, you still have to be the village chief."

"Yes, yes, yes. We all listen to the village chief."

Everybody was talking and laughing. Ever since they left their hometown and fled from famine, they had encountered many troubles and had never felt at ease. Now, they felt as if their hearts had finally settled down.

Aunt Huaihua from the village chief's family laughed and asked them to sit down.

The village chief looked at Li Lanzhen, who nodded and said with a firm look in her eyes, "Village chief, just say it, we will all listen to you."

After looking around and seeing that everyone was there, the village chief spoke up, "Since everyone still wants me to be the village chief, I will continue to lead everyone to escape the famine and find a good place to live like the Yanshan family said."

After looking at everyone, he continued, "Now we are a group of people, including those from Hanjia Village, the two in-laws of Yanshan's family, and Minghai's mother's parents and brother's family. What I want to say is that no matter which village you are from, when you come together, you must help each other and not exclude people from other villages and their families."

As soon as the village chief finished speaking, everyone said that of course this was the case and that they should unite together to escape the famine.

"Okay, now that everyone has expressed their opinions, Ming Hai Niang, tell us what you think."

Li Lanzhen was not used to everyone calling her "Yanshan's" or "Minghai's mother". Now that she was asked to speak, she would start with the issue of address.

"Okay, the village chief asked me to tell you, so I'll tell you. Before we fled the famine, we met the young master of Jin Fulai. He told me that if we wanted to flee the famine, we should go to the east and find a big mountain to hide for a few years. But I'm a woman, I don't know where the east is, and I don't know how to get there. If you know, tell me. Also, from now on, just call me by my name, it's convenient."

The village chief looked at her and said to everyone, "Lan Zhen just said to go east. Youzhou in the east is the fief of King Rong. It is said that King Rong is very close to the people and treats the people in his fief very well. He encourages the reclamation of wasteland."

Han Deshun also said, "Yes, my father is right. When I was the shopkeeper of Fucheng Restaurant, I often heard about Prince Rong, and they all praised him."

"Yes, I hunt and sell game. I've been to the city and several surrounding counties. I've heard about Prince Rong. It's the same situation as what the village chief said."

"Village chief, can we not go to Youzhou? It's too far and our food and water won't last that long." said a dark and thin man.

Someone immediately agreed, "That's right, Village Chief, the food we have at home won't last as long as your journey."

For a moment, everyone was silent.

Han Mingjiang shouted loudly, "We are not going there. We are going there. The young master of Jin Fulai told my mother at that time. There must be a reason. There must be a source of rift in their big family. Anyway, we are going to Youzhou with my father-in-law, my brother's father-in-law's family, and my grandmother's family."

Goudan immediately shouted, "My grandmother and I followed Grandma Lanzhen to escape the famine."

Although he was small, he could see clearly that along the way, everyone was focusing on Li Lanzhen, and the weapons Li Lanzhen took out were too powerful.

But Uncle Han Mingjiang said it was a wooden thorn. Well, I was just a child, and a wooden thorn was just a wooden thorn. What did it matter?

Seeing that everyone was hesitant and didn't know where to go, Han Mingxiang said, "If we want to go to Youzhou, we have to go through Linshui County, and then go back a distance to reach the official road to Youzhou. If we go directly from Hanjia Village, we don't have to take so many detours."

Xue Lao Hu also said: "Yes, if we don't take a detour, it's OK, but we have to go through Linshui County and enter the mountains. After crossing the mountains, we will reach the official road to Youzhou, which can save half the distance."

Someone said, "Village head, let's go to Linshui County, buy some food, replenish water, and then head east."

Butcher Han Dazhong said anxiously: "Can we bypass Linshui County? The brother of that old lady Wu is in the Linshui County government office. I'm afraid it will be dangerous for us to go there."

"Why should we be afraid of him? We haven't done anything wrong."

"That's right. Our family came out in such a hurry that we are running out of food."

"You can't buy food even if you go to Linshui County. There's nothing good in the food shops now. They're all old rice mixed with sand, and food with more bran and less bean flour. Even this costs one tael of silver per pound."

"That's right. The imperial court doesn't care about the lives of us common people. We have no choice but to flee from the famine. I don't know if we can find a place with water and farmland to live. Alas."

The people in Hanjia Village were talking about it, expressing their dissatisfaction and confusion about fleeing famine.

Li Lanzhen was also confused. The road ahead was long. There was no food or water. She had to walk everywhere. It was a very difficult journey.

Fortunately, she still had the system. When she thought of the system, Li Lanzhen realized that things were happening one after another. She hadn't checked the mall for two days and wondered if there were any changes.

Thinking of this, she summoned the system, "Tongzi, what happened to the matter I told you to report to your system headquarters last time? Is there any result?"

After a long while, she didn't hear any sound from the system. Just when she was about to tease the system, she heard the village chief's summary speech: "Let's go to Linshui County and see if we can buy food in the food store. We can also get some information. Now, let's go home and pack our bags and leave."

Everyone returned to their families with full hearts and told them what the village chief had said. Fortunately, no one made a fuss and they all said it would be better to follow the village chief to escape the famine.

In this way, the people of Hanjia Village continued to move towards Linshui County.

Behind them there were many other people fleeing famine, some were fleeing as a group from a village, some were in groups of three or five, and some were fleeing alone, like this one, King Jin's spy.

He had been observing Li Lanzhen secretly, and as a result, he saw the reddish-brown wooden thorns in the hands of Li Lanzhen and her two sons Han Mingjiang and Han Minghai.

At that time, he did not believe it and thought that Li Lanzhen was cheating. However, after following them for a while, he did not find anything special. He thought about following them to Linshui County first. At worst, he could capture the men among them and report to King Jin, so that he would not fail to complete the task and be killed.

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