Traveling through 1942 with space

The enthusiastic fleeing team from Nanjiagou was naturally noticed by some fleeing teams from familiar villages and towns nearby, and they all came forward to inquire.

The fleeing team from Nanjiagou did not hide this matter. After all, many people from the villages who fled together knew each other and were related, so they naturally told everything that happened in the newspaper.

In fact, this is also normal. When a large group flees together, the more people there are, the safer it is. If it is just a small group, the fewer people there are, the more dangerous the road will be.

As the saying goes, good news doesn't travel far, but bad news travels a thousand miles, after hearing the news, many teams also got busy and joined the team that continued to flee famine.

The next morning, before dawn, Hou Xiaoge quietly woke up her elder sister and younger brother, gave each of them a steamed bun, and told them to eat quickly.

Recently, food has been going out instead of coming in, and my second aunt and younger sister-in-law have also reduced the food distribution. Each person only has two bark and multi-grain cakes weighing a little over 200 grams and half a bowl of bran porridge that can feed a person a day.

There is no nutrition in tree bark and bran. At most they can only keep you alive. That’s why everyone was so hungry these days that they didn’t even have the energy to speak.

Hou Xiaoge, who had more food than he could finish in the space, naturally would not let himself go. He would sneak into the space every day to eat his fill, and in order not to gain weight, he also had to exercise every day.

With the help of spiritual spring water, fine grains, and delicious fish and meat, Hou Xiaoge's body has now fully recovered.

And with the continuous replenishment of spiritual spring water, Hou Xiaoge, a child less than ten years old, has become as strong as an adult.

If you want to eat and drink well, you can't let your real family suffer. So every morning and evening, Hou Xiaoge would secretly cook for the siblings.

In the morning, each person has a fine-grain steamed bun, and in the evening, each person has a small piece of dried pork. After eating, they go to sleep, so there is no smell to spread.

With the addition of spiritual spring water, the two siblings, although not very active these days, are not so hungry that they don't even have the strength to speak.

In order to keep the secret, Hou Xiaoge also asked his elder sister to take his younger brother with her wherever she went, not to run around and attract attention, and to prevent his younger brother from accidentally letting the secret slip.

But these days, the little guy has been very obedient. He knows that food is hard to come by and never says a word.

When the neighbors in the village asked the little guy what his family had to eat, the little guy said he was almost starving and asked others for food.

After eating the steamed buns, the two siblings each took a big sip of the spiritual spring water to rinse their mouths, and then fell asleep contentedly.

After waking up, Hou Xiaoge did not go back to sleep, but used his mental power to enter the space to collect the ripe fruits and medicinal herbs inside. After all, one night outside was equivalent to seven or eight days inside.

"Erhuan, Heiwa, everyone get up and pack your things!" At daybreak, the aunt walked around the camp waking up all the children.

After packing up, without eating, everyone started to head out of the camp with their families.

Perhaps yesterday's publicity worked, as several other villages set out together with the Nanjiagou refugee team, with a total of over a thousand people.

Because the little guy has been eating nutritiously recently, Hou Xiaoge did not let his younger brother sit on the unicycle when they first set out, so that the older brother could save some effort in pushing it.

After all, even though my elder sister and I were pulling it in front, it was still very difficult to control the unicycle.

By the time the sun rose high in the sky, everyone had walked about three or four miles. It seemed that everyone had rested well during the past few days.

"Come on, stop and rest your legs, eat something before you go on." At this time, the team stopped in front and an elder came over and shouted.

After everyone sat down, the sister-in-law gave each person a bran pancake.

Hou Xiaoge, who was used to eating these cakes, couldn't eat them at all. He found an excuse and went to the nearby area with a basket on his back to look for wild vegetables.

"Heiwa, don't go too far. Rest for half an hour. We have to go before it's light!" The uncle leaning against the tricycle hurriedly said to Hou Xiaoge.

"understood!"

After walking for a long way, everyone was very tired. Even the usually active Erhuan and Yangwa were so tired that they collapsed on the ground to rest. No one followed Hou Xiaoge, but this was exactly what Hou Xiaoge wanted.

At a hillside, Hou Xiaoge turned and entered the space, where he ate a few roujiamo to fill his stomach.

In order to prevent people from smelling the meat, Hou Xiaoge grabbed a handful of mint leaves and stuffed them into his mouth and chewed them.

After eating and drinking, Hou Xiaoge took out less than a few purslane leaves from the space.

"Wow! Heiwa, you are so lucky. You get something after just a short while." Several neighbors nearby looked at Hou Xiaoge handing the purslane to the second aunt and said with envy.

"Oh! Sixth Aunt, these few purslane sticks are not enough for me to consume. I should have taken a rest earlier." Hou Xiaoge pretended to sigh.

Following Hou Xiaoge's interruption, everyone stopped asking further questions.

"Everyone, get up and check if the children are all there. Don't let them get lost. Walk a little further now while it's not too hot. Once the sun gets too hot, you won't be able to walk anymore." The leading elder Hu felt the time and called everyone to set off.

They walked and stopped like this until about five in the afternoon, when they stopped at a small village that had been abandoned by the disaster victims.

For the disaster victims who stopped, the women cooked, the men cleaned up their homes, and the teenagers dug wild vegetables and caught grasshoppers around to find food.

Hou Xiaoge was catching grasshoppers and playing with a few friends on a hillside when they suddenly saw someone riding a horse and leading some people towards them in the distance.

"Brother, what do those people look like?" Hou Xiaoge pointed at the crowd a mile down the hillside and asked in confusion.

"Where is it? Let me see." Erhuan was digging for a cricket hole. When he heard Hou Xiaoge's words, he crawled over with interest.

"Brother, brother, look quickly, are these bandits?" Er Huan was shocked after taking a look and quickly asked his eldest brother who was scraping tree bark nearby.

"Hurry, run back and tell your family that bandits are coming." Hou Huanying came over and took a look. He was so scared that he dropped the backpack and ran back.

Hou Xiaoge was also horrified when he heard about the bandits. At this time, the bandits, who were more than 300 meters away from the hillside, were also seen clearly by everyone.

There were hundreds of bandits in this group, each of them holding a javelin, a broadsword, a hunting bow, and a dozen of them carrying muskets. They looked very aggressive.

The group of children had never seen such a scene before. They grew up listening to stories about bandits. They were so scared that they burst into tears. They dropped their backpacks and tools and ran back as fast as they could.

Hou Xiaoge was strong and ran the fastest, shouting as he ran.

"The bandits are coming! The bandits are coming!"

Fortunately, the fleeing team was not far from the village, only a few dozen meters away. When they heard Hou Xiaoge shouting, the bandits came over to ask questions.

Some people wanted to stop Hou Xiaoge and ask him questions, but they were all knocked down by the hoe in Hou Xiaoge's hand.

"Don't ask anymore, hurry up and call for help to resist. The bandits are already behind the hillside outside the village. We'll reach them just over the hill." After Hou Xiaoge said this, he continued to run towards the village and shout.

Hou Xiaoge knew that the outskirts of the village were filled with scattered groups of people fleeing famine. These people were not powerful enough and were most likely to cause chaos.

Therefore, what Hou Xiaoge needs to notify now are the large ethnic groups in the village and the teams that are fleeing the entire village. Only these teams have the power to resist.

"That kid is shouting, where did these bandits come from?" A man ran out holding a butcher knife and looked around.

"Uncle, quickly inform the villagers that hundreds of bandits have come to the village with more than a dozen muskets, and are now on the hillside." Hou Xiaoge saw that the visitor was a butcher from the village, so he hurriedly said.

Soon, the village became chaotic. Most of the elderly, the weak, women and children began to hide here and there, while the men beat gongs and drums to spread the word.