The dust raised by so many soldiers was even heavier. They chased all the way and never expected that the people running in front of them would go off the official road and run into the rocky beach. Moreover, they saw from a distance that there were crowds of people on both sides of the road ahead.

So they rushed past the place where Hanjia Village exited the official road and rushed forward, which also gave Hanjia Village time to escape.

The people from Hanjia Village followed Xue Laohu and his group, who were leading the way, and ran all the way into the rocky beach.

There were high and low, large and small strange rocks all along the way. After half a mile in, there was a hill, and the terrain was irregular and there was no way to go on, so we had to walk around the bottom of the hill.

The last group running were Han Dazhong's family, and behind them were the people from Zhoujia Village.

These people probably hadn't eaten for a long time, so they were all stumbling. Xue Bao and his men dragged them forward.

The old village chief's second son and his family were also trying their best to move forward. Aunt Huaihua put the two children of the second son on a cart and let Han Shunde push it forward.

At this moment, Zhou, the mother-in-law of the village chief's second son, cried and shouted, and insisted on sitting on the cart and letting Han Shunde push it.

Han Shunde rolled his eyes in disgust and walked faster. Han Shunde's wife Liu Daidi grabbed her brother's wife's mother Zhou and pulled her forward, her mouth not idle either.

"Auntie, please stop crying and shouting, you want to attract all the officers and soldiers, right?

Didn't you take our second brother to Beijing to enjoy life? Why did you come here? And there are hundreds of people in your village, how come there are only more than 30 of you?

You really are like refugees from famine, you don’t even have a decent backpack. The more you flee from famine, the more panicked you become.”

She held Zhou's hand, and she never stopped walking or talking.

Aunt Huaihua smiled in her heart: As a relative-in-law, I have to let my eldest daughter-in-law clean up everything.

In Hanjia Village, people celebrate the autumnal equinox as soon as autumn comes.

Every time, he would cry and shout that he was starving to death, and always wanted to get some food from home. But the second daughter-in-law was a softie, and she would listen to her mother all day long and secretly send the food back to him.

Once, the eldest son's wife caught Zhou red-handed. She pulled a pound of corn flour out of Zhou's arms, and just when Zhou was about to sit on the ground and roll around in a rage.

The eldest son's wife sat on the ground, slapped the ground and cried loudly, "Everyone come and take a look, my in-laws are trying to force me to death, do I want to live~~ My whole family has been working hard in the fields and harvested this little grain in the fall, but the second son's wife actually sent it to her mother's house. Look, my in-laws are leaving with our grain in her arms~~ I can't live~~"

The eldest son's wife sang and recited for a while, and directly snatched all the lines from her in-laws. Zhou stood on the side, saying "you, you, you, me, me" for a long time, but nothing came out, and she just walked away.

The eldest daughter-in-law entered the yard, closed the door, and immediately dealt with the second daughter-in-law, "Zhou Mingyan, let me tell you, if you dare to bring the family's food back home again, we will split up the family. After the split up, I will see that you carry all the family property back to your mother's house. We will not take care of it."

The second son was also very angry and was about to hit her, but was stopped by Aunt Huaihua, "We don't have the habit of hitting women in our family, but second son's wife, I'm going to say this today, if you do this again, you can go home."

After saying that, he rolled his eyes at the second brother standing next to him.

I let you marry her because she is beautiful. She is beautiful and can be eaten. She listens to her mother all day and cleans up your house. You are starving!

Since that time, this relative rarely came to visit. Whenever she came, the eldest daughter-in-law would lock the granary and kitchen tightly, leaving her no chance to take advantage of the situation.

During this time of fleeing famine, the second son's wife, for some unknown reason, insisted on going back to Zhoujia Village to follow his father-in-law and his family to the capital.

The old village chief and Aunt Huaihua wiped their tears, reluctant to leave their son and grandchildren, but there was nothing they could do.

Finally, they were given a cart and carried food and bedding to Zhoujia Village. Now they have nothing left, and the people who came back are just skinny skeletons.

Even so, this witch still wants to sit on the cart and let her eldest son pull it away. What a wishful thinking.

The people of Hanjia Village ran all the way until the sun set and they could no longer see the road clearly. They dared to stop only then. At this point they didn't know where they were running. They only felt stones under their feet and stones beside them.

The stones were so hot from the scorching sun that I couldn't sit on them. I had to stand and my soles felt burning after a while.

Everyone stood there gasping for breath, and no one thought of lighting a bonfire. They were all worried that once the bonfire was lit, the officers and soldiers would rush in when they saw the flames.

But the people of Zhoujia Village didn't think so. They collapsed in the hot rocks and shouted, "Please be kind and give us something to drink and eat. We haven't had a good meal for more than ten days."

The old village chief said, "Everyone please stop lighting fires. Once the fire attracts soldiers, we will be trapped."

Everyone was silent, packing up their own carts, baskets and backpacks after a bumpy journey. The children were so tired that they had fallen asleep, so everyone took out straw mats and spread them on a slightly flat stone for the children and the elderly to sleep on.

The old village chief called Han Shunde and Han Dazhong to go over and talk to the people in Zhoujia Village.

Xue Lao Hu and the others did not go over, but Li Lanzhen followed.

She wanted to hear what happened to Zhoujia Village, and whether they had to follow Hanjia Village would be a problem.

Han Shunkui's mother-in-law laughed when she saw Li Lanzhen coming over. "Oh, you old lady, you are not dead yet?"

Li Lanzhen went up and slapped him twice, "You are alive and well, showing off here. Why should I die? Even if you die, I will not die. Do you know why? Because my children are filial, because I have high standards and a smart mind, because I will not go to my in-laws' house to rummage through boxes and cabinets for food, and because my mouth is not as stinky as yours."

Zhou was slapped in the face. She had never suffered such a loss before. She jumped up and wanted to fight with Li Lanzhen.

At this time, Xue Bao, Han Mingjiang and Han Minghai stood in front of Li Lanzhen, holding machetes and wooden sticks in their hands. They glared at her angrily, as if they were ready to hit her with the sticks if she made any move.

The old village chief frowned and said, "Zhou Laonian, why don't you come out and say a word? If you keep making trouble like this, we will go our separate ways."

Han Shunkui's father-in-law Zhou Laonian stepped forward at this time and said with a chuckle, "My dear relatives, we are really desperate. You can see that there are more than 30 of us. All our belongings have been lost, and many of us are injured. Please give us some food to get through the present."

Li Lanzhen continued, "I'll give you food? What will you give me in return? Why? What will you do after I give you food? What will you eat? Stones?"

Zhou Laonian jumped up and pointed at her and said, "You are such a jerk. How can you have the right to speak when we men are talking?"

Han Shunde said, "Whether to give you food or not? It's really up to Lan Zhen's sister-in-law to decide."

The people in Zhoujia Village looked at Li Lanzhen in wide eyes, wondering whether she would give them food or not. How did it have anything to do with this top-notch product?

Han Shunde continued to explain to them, "Sister-in-law Lan Zhen helped us along the way. She saved the son of Young Master Jin Fulai, and the Young Master gave her a batch of food as a reward. She helped us along the way."

Zhou Laonian and Zhou Shi were dumbfounded, thinking in their hearts: Tsk tsk, if I had known earlier, I would have tried to please her, maybe she would have given me more food.

Li Lanzhen looked at the old village chief and said, "Old village chief, are they going to follow us?"

The people of Dongjia Village nodded vigorously, saying, "We'll follow you, we'll follow you, we must follow you."

Li Lanzhen glanced at them and continued, "Village chief, for your sake, I can give them food, but they have to write an IOU and pay me back when they find a place to live. And with interest."

The people in Zhoujia Village swallowed their anger and thought, let's take care of the present first, as they didn't know where to settle.

In this way, Han Shunde wrote a document, requiring each family to lend out three kilograms of grain in exchange for five kilograms of grain within a year.

Each family in Hanjia Village took out some dried wild vegetable pieces and put them in the box, then lent them to the people in Zhoujia Village. Everyone in Zhoujia Village put their fingerprints on it.

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