The end of natural disasters: the daily life of child brides in ancient times

Lu Shuhe passed by one thatched hut after another, trying to find a familiar face among them.

From a straw hut ahead came the sound of a little girl crying like a kitten, followed by the voice of a woman coaxing the child.

Lu Qingqing was about to go through when she heard the woman calling out to a few people.

"Hey, are you looking for someone? I've lived here for quite a while, maybe I know who it is. If you do, I need you to give me some food, my child is starving."

Lu Shuhe subconsciously looked at Lu Qingqing, and the two looked at each other.

Lu Qingqing looked at the woman's extremely emaciated face, then at the little girl in her arms whose head had become as big as a doll due to hunger, and said:

"Is there a team of dozens of people around here?"

The woman's eyes lit up, and she subconsciously looked in one direction, then withdrew her gaze and said:

"I know of a group of about 40 people, almost all of them men. They looted everything around here, and even stole the two kilograms of food I left for my daughter!"

The woman gritted her teeth as she spoke, but then she looked up at Lu Qingqing:

"Girl, all you need is a pancake, and I'll tell you the location, saving you the trouble of walking all over the mountains in the rain looking for someone, okay?"

Seeing that Lu Qingqing didn't say anything, the woman said anxiously:

"However, half a pancake will do. You can find something that requires some effort!"

Lu Qingqing used her arms as a shield to take out a cold pancake from the space and placed it in front of the woman.

"Tell me the location, and the pancake is yours!"

The woman snatched the pancake, looked around vigilantly, and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that no one saw her.

As she carefully tore off a small piece of bread and fed it to the child in her arms, she said:

"That group of people lived on the back of this mountain. There was a cliff that could shelter them from the rain, and they seemed to have built a thatched hut outside."

The little girl in my arms stopped crying after eating the biscuit. She chewed it twice and swallowed it. Before she swallowed it, she opened her mouth again for more.

She ate too fast and choked a little, stretching her neck and trying hard to swallow.

The woman quickly picked up the gourd filled with water and fed it to the child. When she saw that she was better, she pointed to a road and said:

"Just walk along this road, turn left at the end, and then walk a little further and you'll see it."

The woman looked at the little girl eating the pancake with fondness. She carefully caught the fallen crumbs with her hands, gathered the crumbs together and put them into her mouth, with a satisfied expression on her face.

"By the way, those guys are very domineering and don't allow anyone else to go to that area. Someone went there looking for food before and was beaten half to death. You better be careful when you go there and don't get discovered by them!"

After hearing this, Lu Qingqing thanked him and asked:

"Are there other teams of dozens of people on this mountain?"

The woman just shook her head.

"I haven't seen anyone else in the past few days since I went up the mountain. Besides, judging by the temperament of those people, if there were other teams, they would have started a fight long ago."

Lu Qingqing nodded, pulled the bow and arrow that was a little crooked on her back, and squinted at the road ahead.

The three of them walked towards that road.

Lu Qingqing and the other two hid behind the trees and looked at the mountain wall. There was indeed a thatched hut on it.

At this time, some livestock were tied under the straw shed.

Qin Lang spotted his own cow with his sharp eyes, poked Lu Qingqing's back gently, and whispered:

"Daya, that's our cow!"

Lu Shuhe also found his own horse. This must be the residence of the group of people who robbed his cave!

Just as Lu Qingqing and the others were about to go back, they saw two men coming out of the straw hut to urinate.

Qin Lang quickly covered Lu Qingqing's eyes, tilted his head to check, and after confirming that they were covered properly, he muttered:

"Daya, you are a girl, you can't watch boys peeing, I will cover it for you."

Lu Qingqing was speechless. It was raining so far away, what could she see?

Lu Shuhe next to them felt a little embarrassed. He was older than both of them, had already married, and knew everything about the things between men and women.

In an instant, the three of them fell into a strange silence.

Only after the two men finished peeing and returned did Lu Qingqing and the other two quietly slip out and quickly leave the place.

When the three of them returned to the cave, no one else had returned yet.

After Lu Qingqing told Lu Tianming what she had learned, Lu Tianxin, who was listening beside her, wanted to stand up anxiously.

Lu Tianming glanced at his brother and said soothingly:

"We'll go after dark. You go and rest first to refresh yourself."

Lu Tianxin shook his head, stopped talking, and just squatted beside Lu Tianming.

Other people came over and asked Lu Qingqing about the situation of that group of people.

Lu Qingqing told some of what she knew.

When everyone had asked almost all the questions, Lu Tianming asked everyone to go back to eat and rest early, and set off on time at midnight.

Before dark, everyone who had gone out returned.

Some people had heard the news, while others had not. Everyone summarized the information and drew conclusions.

That group of people should be refugees who gathered together when fleeing famine. They were all men, about forty in number.

Six people died at the cave entrance today, which means there are more than thirty people left.

The number of people sounds smaller than that of our side, but the number of men who can fight is greater than that of our side.

But they had the advantage in weapons, as all the men used knives.

Lu Qingqing suddenly remembered something, ran back to the carriage, and took out a tube of sleeping pills from the space.

This was the drug that Lu Xingshun wanted to use when he went to Qin's house before but didn't. This drug has been kept in the space and has never been used.

Lu Qingqing came out with the sleeping pills and handed them to Lu Tianming.

"Uncle Tianming, this is what Lu Xingwang took from my house when he stole something. He blew it in through the window. I guess it's a drug, but I've never seen it before and I don't know what it is. Anyone know who it is?"

Lu Tianming took the drug and looked at it. He didn't know much about it.

I looked around and everyone shook their heads, indicating that they didn't understand this thing.

In the end, it was Master Yan who took the things over.

He carefully unscrewed the tube, took a look, and sniffed it from a distance, and suddenly felt dizzy.

Lu Qingqing hurriedly supported Master Yan.

Master Yan shook his head, took the drug a little further away, covered it, and then said:

"Daya guessed right, this is the drug, and the effect is very strong!"

Hearing this, Lu Tianming smiled and said:

"If we use this thing, our chances of winning will increase a lot!"

After the group discussed a plan, the women took charge of guarding while the men fell asleep.

At midnight, everyone was dressed, armed, and ready to set off.

All the men were full of fighting spirit. This time they were going to take back their own food and money.

In the sky, the rain is still falling.

This time they took a different route, one with fewer refugees.

The several straw huts we passed by were also very quiet, as everyone had gone to bed at this time.

Everyone was worried about being discovered, so they tried to walk as quietly as possible.

When they arrived at the mountain wall where the group of people were, Master Yan stopped everyone and quietly approached the mountain wall holding a smoke screen.