Transformed into an extremely evil grandmother and fled to escape famine with her children and grand

Walking in the front was a donkey cart belonging to Xue Laohu's family.

The donkey cart was driven by Xue Nizi's younger brother, 16-year-old Xue Bao, and his parents walked behind. The cart was fully loaded, with only a space left in the middle.

Xue Nizi's mother, Mrs. Wu, was in good health. She knew herbs and had simple medical skills. She smiled and picked up her two grandchildren and put them in the bed of the donkey cart, letting the two sleepy children continue to sleep.

Following behind were the family of Zhang Deshui, the father of daughter-in-law Zhang Yueniang.

Zhang Deshui is not tall, but he is in good health. His wife, Zhang Li, rolled down the mountain while climbing last year and injured her waist, leaving her weak.

At this time, Zhang Deshui was driving a donkey cart, Zhang Li was walking beside him, and Zhang Yueniang's eldest brother Zhang Songshu was pushing a cart with various things on it.

Li Sanya followed with her three sons. I don't know if all the food in the house was eaten by these three. They were all dark and strong. The youngest, Zhang Sanniu, was only 2 years old. He carried a bundle on his back, shook his hands, held his head high, and walked very fast.

Behind them were Aunt Han and her grandchildren.

When they arrived in the morning, Li Lanzhen's family of three had already loaded the car and were ready to leave.

Six-year-old Goudan was pushing a scaled-down version of the cart that Han Mingjiang had made for him yesterday. The cart was over one and a half meters long and one meter wide. The cart was loaded with bedding, pots, pans, two ceramic jars and other things.

Aunt Han is in her 40s and is relatively strong, but she is very thin and dark. Two days before she was leaving to flee the famine, she went up the mountain to look for wild vegetables and tree bark and broke her left wrist. So when the village chief gathered the villagers to flee the famine, the two of them did not follow. Another main reason was that the village chief said that Li Lanzhen's family would not flee the famine either.

Last night, Li Lanzhen thought about it and realized that it was indeed her original self who said that to the village chief. She also scolded and drove out the village chief who had repeatedly dissuaded her from taking her family and following the villagers to escape the famine.

Alas, the original body probably couldn't bear to part with her husband who passed away young, and Goudan and his grandson were also a little reluctant to part with Goudan's grandfather and his father who were buried in the back mountain.

Goudan’s grandmother was pulling the cart in front and Goudan was pushing it from the back.

Finally, it was Li Lanzhen's family. The eldest and the second oldest were pushing a cart loaded with bedding, clothes, baskets, barrels and other not-too-heavy items.

The eldest brother's daughter Han Miaomiao was sitting in the cart. Han Yinan and Goudan were together, helping to push the cart. The two brothers stayed in the village and were inseparable, going up the mountains and down the rivers.

Han Mingxiang drove the mule cart, and his eldest daughter-in-law sat in the big blue mule cart. The cart was loaded with dry food, a large wooden barrel with boiled water, and pots and pans.

Li Lanzhen, Xue Nizi and her daughter Han Yuemei, the three of them, carried backpacks and walked in front of the mule cart.

In this way, they hurriedly bypassed the town and the county, took a path that Xue Laohu was more familiar with, and walked quickly for most of the day. When the sun was at its hottest, they came to a forest.

At this time, there were already more than a dozen families in the woods. They also had donkey carts and carts. They were eating and resting. They looked very tired. The children and the elderly were lying directly on the ground.

Xue Lao Hu called everyone: "Everyone stop the car, take a break and eat something, then we will go on. We have to hurry up this afternoon, otherwise we won't be able to get through Yejia Bay, and then we will have no place to rest. Yejia Bay is not a good place, we can't stop there."

"Yejiawan?"

When Li Lanzhen heard the place name, she suddenly remembered that she was the girl from Yejiawan. It was the young Han Yanshan who passed by here and rescued her from being bullied by some gangsters on the road. That's why she married to Hanjia Village.

There are also parents, a younger brother, his wife, and two nephews and nieces in the family.

Li Lanzhen's mother's hometown, Yejiawan, is an extremely poor place. The poor mountains and bad waters produce unruly people, the people are fierce, and the xenophobia is strong.

Her father, Li Erhan, was an honest and simple son-in-law. Her mother, Ye, was an only child. In the third year after Li Lanzhen was born, both Ye's parents passed away. Their family's life in Yejiawan became increasingly difficult, and they were often bullied by villagers.

His younger brother Li Xishui was 28 years old. His wife Hong Tonghua fled here to escape famine and was separated from her family. She was 6 years old at that time and was picked up by Ye and raised at home. She married Li Xishui and started a family when she was 16 years old.

Li Xishui and Hong Tonghua have two children, a son named Li Guangyang, 11 years old, and an 8-year-old daughter named Li Lingdang.

Since the passing of their two elders, the Li family's life has been getting worse and worse. Fortunately, Li Erhan knows how to quarry stones and they can barely make ends meet.

Li Lanzhen married and moved to Hanjia Village. She rarely goes back to her parents' home and has not been back for three years to date.

She didn't know if it was her original consciousness that was causing trouble, but there was a voice in her heart that shouted strongly: Go to Yejiawan! Go to Yejiawan! Go find your parents and take them away from Yejiawan, otherwise, you will never be at peace in your life!

Li Lanzhen was chewing a piece of black flour cake made of four grains of flour. No, it should be five grains of flour. Her eldest daughter-in-law mixed some bark powder in it, making it hard to swallow. But she just chewed it and swallowed it.

Looking at Zhang Yueniang who glanced at her secretly from time to time, Li Lanzhen smiled at her with pity. She was also a child who was used to living a hard life. She was afraid of lack of food. Once there was food, she would find ways to feed the family for a longer time and make them hungry for a shorter time.

Yesterday, I asked my two daughters-in-law to send black noodles to their respective parents' homes, and both families returned gifts. The Xue family gave a skinny dried pheasant, and the Zhang family gave a bowl of powder made from ground tree bark.

The eldest daughter-in-law looked at the dried chicken in the second daughter-in-law's hand, and the smile on her face slowly disappeared. Li Lanzhen immediately said words of thanks: "Thank you, in-laws. This dried chicken can be chopped up and boiled into a pot of soup for everyone to nourish. This bowl of bark powder is ground very finely and can be mixed with some black flour pancakes. It must be tastier than at home."

Both daughters-in-law left happily.

Perhaps because they had just left their hometown, the people fleeing famine around them were also eating dry food, and some families would even cook a pot of clear soup to drink.

Seeing that everyone had finished eating, Li Lanzhen said to the eldest and second oldest children, "Do you two still remember that your grandmother's home is in Yejiawan?"

Both of them nodded, and the eldest Han Minghai asked, "Mom, let's go and see them when we pass by. If grandma and the others haven't left, let's take them with us to escape the famine."

Han Mingjiang also nodded: "That's right, mother, we have to take grandma, grandpa and uncle with us to escape the famine, otherwise we don't know when we will see them again after this departure."

"Okay, I'll go discuss it with my two in-laws."

Coming in front of Xue Lao Hu and Zhang Deshui, Li Lanzhen said, "My dear relatives, it's like this. My mother's home is in Yejiawan. I passed by there and wanted to find my parents and take them with me to escape the famine."

Both of them were a little flustered, muttering to themselves: "Yejiawan?!"