I will lead the whole village to occupy the land and become the king.

The situation outside Yunshan was more serious than Jiang Qinyu had imagined.

Cracked land, dry ditches, a barren landscape with not even a bit of dry grass to be seen, and above their heads a scorching sun hanging high in the sky, radiating its heat all the time.

Jiang Qinyu was wearing a straw hat and had a sweat towel hanging around her neck. The sweat towel had been wet and dry countless times, and it was emitting a strong smell of sweat.

Unfortunately, no one cares whether it stinks or not, everyone is trying to get on their way.

"Everyone, hurry up. We can already see the green ahead. It won't be so hot in another five miles." Village chief Li shouted in a hoarse voice from the front.

Water is precious. Although everyone who came out today brought water bags or bamboo tubes from home, everyone drank it sparingly.

Oh no, there are two exceptions.

"Dad, I'm almost dying of thirst. Can you give me some water?" Lu Yancai was tired and hot. He was panting with his tongue hanging out, and he held on to Old Man Lu and wouldn't let him leave.

Old Man Lu was so angry that he didn't want to care about him. He shook off his hand and said angrily, "I told you to drink less, but you refused to listen. I don't have any water for you! If you can't handle it, get out of here!"

He had a selfish motive for calling the second child over. The families who showed up in large numbers yesterday were all laughing their asses off. Their family was small to begin with, and if they didn't get more people to join in this collective action, what would they eat?

However, Old Man Lu really didn't expect Lu Yancai to be so shameless. After hearing him go back, Lu Yancai really went away quickly, leaving behind a sentence, "Then I'll go back first. Dad, please be careful in the mountains..."

Before he could finish his words, Old Man Lu disappeared from view. He immediately felt unwell. "I shouldn't have had any hope in him!"

I thought that since Lu Yancai had withheld their family's food, he would learn to work hard and make progress, but it turned out... he had already decided not to go into the mountains with them!

Jiang Qinyu didn't even raise her eyelids when she heard this. She had expected that Lu Yancai would not go into the mountains honestly, but she didn't expect that he was waiting here.

On the other side, Wang Laizi was also looking for water from others.

"Hey guys, can you each give me a bite, just one bite, please?"

"Wang Laizi, stop pretending here! Don't think I didn't see you carrying a bamboo tube on your back!"

"Well, Wang Laizi, you even lied to me? Give me back my water..."

The few people who had been tricked into leaving the water by Wang Laizi were chasing after him and beating him. When Village Chief Li saw this, he immediately shouted, "Be quiet, you bastards! Don't mess with the big guys in the mountains!"

Although they haven't entered the mountains yet, who can guarantee that there are no large beasts outside the mountains?

Jiang Qinyu looked in the direction of Wang Laizi and shook her head. As expected of a member of Wang Po's family, although he had changed his habit of stealing, he hadn't changed anything else.

Village chief Li’s words were still useful. The team soon returned to silence and everyone continued to travel under the scorching sun.

After walking for another half an hour, they were finally able to see some greenery.

This is a tall, dense forest. If it weren't for the drought, it would have blocked out the sun. But now, the leaves on the trees have long since fallen off, and those that still stubbornly remain on the branches all look wilted, as if they will fall off at any time.

But even so, Jiang Qinyu and the others felt a lot cooler the moment they stepped into the dense forest.

Seeing that the sun was already high in the sky and it was noon, Village Chief Li hurriedly asked everyone to stop.

"Everyone, stop first, drink some water and eat some dry food before we go!"

Jiang Qinyu couldn't stand it any longer. Upon hearing this, she immediately found a tree. After making sure there were no ants or small insects on it, she quickly sat down against the tree and called out to Old Man Lu, "Dad, you should sit down and rest too. There are no insects on the tree over here."

She was almost sunburned just now. She sat down and took a closer look, only to find that the trees growing there were camphor trees.

Because camphor and camphor oil are actively secreted, camphor trees are less likely to be infested with insects. In addition, with the current severe drought, most of the small insects have been killed by the heat, so camphor trees have even fewer insect pests.

Old Man Lu responded and sat under the tree next to Jiang Qinyu.

Everyone took out the dry food they had prepared and started eating it, but because they were afraid it would go bad, their dry food was really dry and it took a lot of effort to eat each bite.

Jiang Qinyu really couldn't eat it at all. She only took two bites and stopped eating.

The weather is too hot and she is not hungry, so she just needs to drink more water.

The Lu family had several water bags, which were prepared when Lu Yanzheng was still at home. Back then, he often went up the mountain. Because of his good skills and the abundance of prey he caught, the Lu family lived a good life. Chen was worried that he would not have clean water in the mountains, so she bought some for him.

Jiang Qinyu and Old Man Lu brought water bags filled with water. This water was put away by Chen last night to prevent Lu Yangcai's family from stealing it.

Old Man Lu poured the water into a small bamboo cup. After taking a few sips, he asked Jiang Qinyu, "Yu girl, do you have enough water? If not, I'll give you some."

Jiang Qinyu's behavior in the past two days made it impossible for Old Man Lu to treat her as just his eldest son's daughter-in-law, and he even changed the way he addressed her.

Jiang Qinyu shook her head. "No need, Dad. I have more. I'll give it to you later."

Although she had a lot of water, not everyone was willing to share it with her, but Old Man Lu was different. This simple old man took good care of her, both to her original self and to her who had changed drastically in temperament. It was only right that she should return the favor.

"No, no, I have enough water. You can drink more yourself." Old Man Lu said quickly.

He was saving water along the way because he was afraid that Jiang Qinyu would not have enough to drink. Although the girl said that she had no shortage of water, as her father-in-law, he had to prepare some for her. The road ahead was still so long, who knew if they could find a water source?

Jiang Qinyu looked up while drinking water, and she looked for half a minute without seeing a single bird flying by. It was truly a scene of "no birds flying in the thousands of mountains"!

At the same time, Jiang Qinyu opened the system map prompt in her mind.

Looking at the scattered green dots on the map, Jiang Qinyu sighed inwardly. He didn't expect that there was so little edible food in this location, but it was better than nothing.

She stood up suddenly and said to Old Man Lu, "Dad, I'll go take a look around. I won't be far away and will be back soon."

There are four green dots within two hundred meters of her, and she has to check them all out.

"Okay, just be careful." Old Man Lu thought she was going to the bathroom, so he didn't ask any more questions.

Jiang Qinyu looked around and found the lower limit of the map prompt information.

It turned out that this function would only indicate the location of food weighing more than five kilograms. When she turned around, she saw two other places that were not indicated, and there were some nuts scattered on the ground.

After confirming that there were things in the places indicated on the map, Jiang Qinyu called out, "Uncle Village Chief, Dad, I found some food. Shall we collect it first?"