Li Lanzhen watched her son and daughter-in-law quickly occupy a place, tidy up the house, and prepare to go up the mountain to take a look.

The Xue Lao Hu and Zhang Deshui families have gotten used to it. Whenever they stay somewhere else, they first wait for Li Lanzhen's family to decide on a place, and then they stay next to their house, one on the left or the right.

Goudan’s grandparents and grandchildren also live next to Xue Laohu’s family, Han Dazhong’s family, and Ma Dazui’s family.

Han Shunde stayed with his parents this time because he had to keep an eye on his crazy sister Han Yanyan.

After crawling down the mountain, the children were exhausted. As soon as they arrived here, Han Yuemei spread out the straw mats and the children fell asleep one after another.

"Yuemei, you stay here and watch over the children. I'll go up the mountain to take a look. The farther down we go, the drier it gets."

Zhang Yueniang saw that Han Yuemei also wanted to go up the mountain, so she said, "Yuemei, go ahead if you want to. I'll take care of the children."

Li Lanzhen saw that Zhang Yueniang looked unhappy, so she asked her, "Yueniang, do you feel uncomfortable in your stomach?"

"It's okay, Mom, I'll just drink some water."

Li Lanzhen took out a pinch of brown sugar from her backpack and put it in a bowl. "Here, mix it with boiling water, drink it, and sleep with the children for a while."

Zhang Yue Niang's eyes turned red with emotion. She took the bowl and nodded, "Thank you, mother." Zhang Yue Niang's mother, Zhang Li, who was standing next to her, felt even sweeter than if she had drunk brown sugar water when she saw her daughter's mother-in-law being so kind to her daughter.

He quickly added a handful of grass to the stove so that water could be boiled quickly, and made some brown sugar water for his daughter to drink while he took a rest.

Li Lanzhen brought Han Yuemei with her. Xue Bao's mother Wu also came with a basket on her back. "My dear relatives, I will go up the mountain with you to have a look."

"Okay, let's go." Li Lanzhen knew that her in-laws were worried about her and her daughter going up the mountain, so Wu followed them.

The three of them slowly went up the mountain, digging up any edible weeds they saw and throwing them into the backpack. Li Lanzhen stayed a little distance away from them, and threw all the saplings and weeds with their roots into the space.

Because Li Lanzhen always remembered that the first merchant who exchanged a few knotweeds with her for a cornmeal bun liked plants with roots, so whenever she had free time, she would dig up plants with roots and throw them in to exchange with that merchant.

First, Li Lanzhen remembered the favor, and second, the merchant was very generous. What he exchanged with her were food, coarse cloth and other things, which were necessities of life that Li Lanzhen would need while fleeing famine or even if she settled down.

The three of them walked up for a while, but there were not many wild vegetables. Moreover, the mountain was muddy and difficult to walk on, so Li Lanzhen said to them, "Let's go back."

Wu laughed and said, "Okay, let's go back. There are very few fresh grasses and wild vegetables here, and they are all dried up. Alas, I don't know what the situation is like at the bottom of the mountain."

Li Lanzhen looked up into the distance. At the foot of the mountain was the official road leading to Youzhou. She didn't know what was going on.

She turned her head and looked in the direction where Han Mingxiang fell into the flood, feeling very worried.

She thought that Han Mingxiang had studied in a private school for more than four years and was thinner than his two brothers. Fortunately, this child would go up the mountain to chop firewood and dig wild vegetables and work in the fields whenever he had free time, so he was still quite strong.

I don't know if he can keep the bag I gave him. I hope Han Mingxiang is smarter and let go if he can't keep it. As long as he is alive, it's fine.

In fact, Li Lanzhen was always worried that Han Mingxiang brought Han Shulan with him, and what was even more worrying was that Han Shulan was a beautiful girl.

In this troubled time, a girl's beauty is the most dangerous thing for herself and her family.

Hopefully, the two children will be able to have a smooth life and be reunited with their families sooner.

When the three of them returned to the valley, Xue Nizi had already prepared the meal, including wild vegetable porridge and wild vegetable pancakes.

Still taking Xue Lao Hu and Zhang Deshui's families with him.

Li Lanzhen was holding the bowl, and Linglong came over and sat next to her. Miaomiao also came over and sat on the other side. The two little girls giggled.

Han Yibai also wanted to sit next to Li Lanzhen, but his legs were short and he walked slowly, so when he walked in front of Li Lanzhen, there was no seat left for him.

His big eyes looked at Li Lanzhen's aggrieved look, making Li Lanzhen feel very distressed.

She pulled him to sit in front of her and said, "Hey, grandma's little grandson is here. He wants to eat with grandma. Come and sit in front of grandma."

The meals in Hanjia Village tonight are all similar, all wild vegetable porridge and wild vegetable pancakes. Of course, the grains mixed in the porridge are mostly bark powder, and a little chestnut powder is added to the wild vegetable pancakes.

Just like that, everyone was very happy. Being able to eat until you were 80% full was already a very happy thing.

Seeing that everyone had finished their meal, the village chief coughed a few times and said, "Everyone from Hanjia Village, listen to me. We are a village that has fled from famine, and we all voluntarily chose to follow Lan Zhen to Youzhou in the east. The road is still long, and it won't work without a leader. I'm old and can't keep up with the spirit, so I thought, let Lan Zhen lead us in the future. What do you think?"

Before anyone else spoke, Li Lanzhen said, "I choose Han Shunde to be the head of our Hanjia Village. The old head can keep an eye on us and give us some advice. An old man in the family is like a treasure. You have experience, so you should watch over the new head. I wish us a smooth journey and that we can find a good place to settle down and live."

Li Lanzhen's words gave the old village chief enough face, boosted everyone's morale in fleeing famine, and gave everyone hope and goals.

This was what she needed, and this was why she said this.

The road to escape from famine is still long. After all, there are many people in Hanjia Village. If there is no one to take the lead and speak effectively to subdue them, it must be the old village chief.

However, the old village chief made Li Lanzhen very disappointed in the matter of Han Yanyan, but she could also understand that her own daughter was closer to her than an outsider like her.

Even if the old village chief didn't say anything today, she would have spoken up to choose a leader, and the old village chief's son was the most suitable candidate.

No one in Hanjia Village would vote for him, and they would listen to him, because even in Hanjia Village, if the old village chief resigned, his children and grandchildren would take over, and finally they would go to the town to report to the head of the village.

The old village chief wanted Li Lanzhen to stay in Hanjia Village, but that was impossible. First, Li Lanzhen didn't like to control others, nor did she want others to control her. She only needed to worry about her children and grandchildren, as well as her parents.

So she expressed her opinion, and sure enough, the people in Hanjia Village all wanted Han Shunde to replace the old village chief and become the new village chief of Hanjia Village, so that he could take them to escape famine and find a place to settle down and live.

Han Shunde glanced at Li Lanzhen. He also understood what Li Lanzhen was thinking. His father was indeed old, and his sister had been making trouble along the way, which made him tired.

He stood up, looked at everyone and said, "Okay, as long as everyone agrees that I should be the village chief of Hanjia Village, I will take on this responsibility and lead everyone to find a place to settle down by the river."

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