Space Food Storage: Daily Travel

After dinner, Liu Yuhan told her "guess" to several adults in her family.

"What? You mean the plague? This..."

"Sir, it's very likely. You should discuss countermeasures with the village chief and the elders."

Liu Daling walked out of the room with heavy steps, and it was half an hour later when he came back.

Liu Yuhan and others didn't ask and went to sleep.

Liu Yuhan entered her space, picked up her phone and searched Baidu, and wrote down the personal protection rules for the epidemic:

Wrap up, isolate, and stay indoors;

Wash your hands and clean frequently;

Do not eat raw water, eat raw food;

Avoid filth and pollutants, and refresh the air;

Fumigation of the air (the room can be fumigated with herbs such as Atractylodes macrocephala, Artemisia argyi, Clove, Angelica dahurica, and Phellodendron chinense)

Liu Yuhan searched Baidu for the most common plagues after an earthquake: plague, cholera, and typhus. She took out her notebook and, using a black marker, meticulously wrote down the causes, symptoms, and herbal remedies for each of these three plagues.

Whenever Liu Yuhan has time, he will copy down agricultural and medical knowledge, and even several important inventions for people's livelihood, with a ballpoint pen.

Because she was afraid that her cell phone would malfunction one day, she carried an important notebook with her. Although writing in traditional Chinese characters was troublesome, she forced herself to adapt. She wrote in a condensed version of traditional Chinese characters with a ballpoint pen.

Liu Yuhan got up at daybreak, walked out of the village, picked up a telescope and looked around, seeing devastation everywhere.

The official road was not far in front of her. On the left side of the official road was Yiyang City, and on the right side was the previous pass of the valley. The road on the right was completely blocked, while the official road on the left was flat and not badly damaged, and it was passable as far as the eye could see.

I just don't know what the situation is like in Yiyang City. Cities are places where people and houses are concentrated. If an earthquake occurs, it is hard to imagine how many people will be injured or killed.

So the road to the right is blocked, and the road to the left is unknown and full of danger. Which way should I go?

Behind the village? In the distance, there are endless mountains, and I don’t know where they lead to...

In the main hall of the courtyard, there sat two village chiefs and several elders, including Liu Daling, Liu Yuhan, and her parents.

"My grandfather left his hometown and moved to Lin'an Prefecture because of the earthquake. It was not just because of the earthquake. The earthquake triggered an epidemic, resulting in countless deaths and injuries. People had to move from central and southern China to the north. Alas, God wants to kill the people..." An elder of the clan said tremblingly.

"Right now, we can't go where there are crowds of people. If we run out of food and water, how will we survive?"

"We can't go to Yiyang City, where can we go?"

.........

Liu Daling, Liu Shinan, Liu Shi and Liu Yuhan's family told us the countermeasures they had discussed.

"If a plague really breaks out, some people will definitely hide here. It's not safe here. Let's hide behind the village first. There are mountains behind us. Let's go into the mountains first. Does it seem feasible to you all?" Liu Daling said.

Village Chief Liu said, "How about we send a few people to the back mountain to take a look? Let's discuss it."

"Uncle village chief, we should not only send people to check out the back mountain, but we'd better also explore Yiyang City first." Liu Yuhan said.

After everyone made their decision, they quickly packed up their things.

Liu Yuhan took his parents to the back mountain. She had a telescope, and Liu Shinan would climb a tree to observe. Liu Yuhan told him it would be best to find a secluded cave. Try to get as far away as possible, away from the village. Fortunately, the back mountain was not affected by the earthquake.

The three of them walked for a full hour and ate some bread on the way. Liu Yuhan also brought braised eggs and dried meat to his parents and gave each of them a bottle of Red Bull.

Liu Shinan had never eaten such delicious eggs and dried meat. The fragrance was a bit spicy. The bottle was hard, the words on it were strange, and the water tasted strange too. But he felt full of energy after drinking it. Could this be the magic water given by God?

If Liu Yuhan knew what he was thinking, she would definitely be grinning from ear to ear. This is not magic water, it is a functional drink.

Found a piece of land using a telescope.

Well, this place is good. The cave entrance is high, surrounded by large rocks, and there are big trees next to the rocks. It can eliminate factors such as landslides and mudslides, and it is also good for defense.

Liu Yuhan felt that the weather was not right. He was afraid that there would be severe floods after the drought, so he had to find a good place to resettle.

They went inside and took a look. Not bad, there were no signs of animals. They walked around and found a small, secluded cave nearby. The three of them cleaned it up.

Liu Yuhan took out all four bags of brown rice that he had cleared out in Luoyang County. He had cleared out five bags before and cooked and ate one on the way.

Take out all the white and black flour you took from the bandit's den. There are about two bags, plus two bags of brown rice you took from the bandit's den. Six bags of brown rice and two bags of flour.

The two large water tanks taken from the bandit's lair were taken out, as were the several large water tanks taken during the raid on Luoyang County. Water was drawn from the space, the water tanks were cleaned, filled with water, and covered with wooden lids. There were seven large water tanks in total, and they would last for a short time if they were conserved.

I took out 5 bags of salt, the salted dried vegetables I bought at the farmers' market, and the remaining winter melon and pumpkin. Together with the villagers digging wild vegetables and finding yams nearby, I should be able to hold out for long.

Liu Yuhan wanted to ask Liu Shinan to bring the villagers over tomorrow while she and Liu were going into the city. Liu Shinan was extremely reluctant and insisted on going with them!

He was really worried about the mother and daughter going out. Liu also agreed to let Liu Shinan go with him.

There was no other way but to ask Liu Shinan to make another trip and call all the villagers over to tell the grandparents and only his family members about the things hidden in the cave.

There is a small cave next to the big cave. The mother and daughter cleaned up the small cave and prepared to leave it for themselves and Liu Shiliu's family.

After the cave was swept clean, Liu Yuhan took out a lot of bamboo curtains from the space and spread them on the ground. He then covered the bamboo curtains with thatched curtains and the worn-out quilt he brought from home with them. This way, it wouldn't be so cold to sleep at night as the cave was very humid.

He took out a hoe from the space and dug a hole on both sides of the cave. He put the large wood stored in the space into the hole, filled it with soil, and made a simple wooden door at the entrance.

She went to the innermost part of the cave and pulled out a large wooden barrel, a large water jar, and a small water jar. She filled the water jar with water and covered it. Inside the barrel, she placed some rice, millet, salt, a can of oil, pickled vegetables, cucumbers, zucchini, and tomatoes. She also put in four cartons of eggs. She covered everything with a cloth. She would tell Old Lady Jiang about this.

He took out another backpack from the space and placed some of the common herbs that Doctor Liu had given him, labeling them. He also took out a large amount of dried mugwort and told them to use it daily for fumigating the cave. After some thought, he saved some of the firewood and charcoal he had gathered from the town. He used the firewood to cover the water tank and the wooden barrel.

They didn't see any water source along the way.

After waiting for two hours, Liu Shinan brought everyone over. Liu pulled Liu Shinan aside, pointed to the small cave next to them and said a few words to him.

Liu Shinan went to tell the two village chiefs. The village chiefs would not say anything. They had worked hard to find the place to live, and it was only right for them to occupy a small cave.

As usual, everyone divided up their work and got busy. Some cleaned the cave, some chopped firewood, and the hunters took care of the gate. They had to familiarize themselves with the surroundings and take precautions.

Liu Yuhan called his grandparents in, and the others were at the entrance of the cave. Seeing that they had cleaned up the cave, his grandparents took Liu Guang and Liu Lu to chop firewood nearby.

Liu Yang's brain wasn't fully healed yet, so he needed more rest. He sat at the cave entrance with Xiao Si and Xiao Wu.

The two sisters, Liu Yao and Liu Yun, followed their younger sister to pick wild vegetables nearby. Seeing that they wanted to talk, Liu Shiliu's family also joined in the work.

Liu Yuhan told his parents and grandparents everything. The three of them were going to the city, and some food and water had been left for them in the small cave.

I'll take them and the old man to the cave where the things are hidden. There's still some food in the village, so if there's no other way, we can go get it.

The two elders knew that nothing they said could change their minds, so they could only repeatedly remind them to be very careful, to come back as soon as possible, and not to worry about them.

Liu Shinan took his father and brother to identify the location. They had already blocked the cave where they hid the items with rocks. There were some weeds nearby, so if you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't be able to see them.

Liu Yuhan gave the herbs and mugwort to the village chief and told him they would be leaving for the city shortly. They would definitely be back within 20 days. He also asked the village chief to lead everyone in stockpiling firewood and food, fearing that floods would follow the drought. It was always better to take precautions.

And pay special attention to hygiene. I gave him one of the copies of personal precautions for epidemic prevention. There was a literate person in the village, and my brother knew him.

The village chief told them to be careful and come back early.

Liu Yuhan went back to his little cave, changed the medicine on Liu Yang's forehead, gave him a bottle of erythromycin, and told him to apply it himself every day and not let others see it.

I also gave him some safflower oil that can be used for mosquito bites, which is for family members.

She called Xiao Si and Xiao Wu to the inner room, took out clean clothes from the space, and helped them change their underwear. She would help them change every few days, and then take the underwear to the space to wash.

I took a cloth bag and left a lot of candies and snacks for them, and told them to eat them secretly with their older siblings and brothers so that no one else could see them. They were also told not to run out of the cave.

He took out another box of mosquito coils, unpacked it, and gave it to his grandmother, asking her to burn some inside the cave before she went to bed every day.

I took three days' worth of steamed buns from the space and gave them to the villagers. If they were eating together, they could keep some for a snack, but they couldn't keep them for too long, otherwise they would get upset.

The family knew that the three of them were leaving to go to the city to find out the news, and they were very reluctant to let them go.

Xiao Si hugged her sister's neck tightly and was about to cry.

Liu Shinan patted his brother's shoulder and told his sister to take good care of their parents and their children.

Liu Yuhan wanted to go there on horseback. She and her father had learned how to ride horses from her mother along the way, but she was afraid that the road ahead would be blocked, and she didn't know how to place the horses.

The three disappeared from everyone's sight.