Taking away my family's luck? I won't stand it!

"Ouch, Yaoyao pooped!"

Grandma Liu took Yaoyao from Old Man Yuan and skillfully changed a clean diaper for her baby granddaughter.

Yuan Laoer skillfully picked up the dirty diaper and took it to the river to wash it.

Guoan, who had just woken up, moved to his sister's side, teasing Yaoyao with a sound of "ah ah ah", and holding Yaoyao's chubby little hand lovingly.

Yaoyao looked at Guoan who held her tightly in his arms last night, revealing his pink gums, dimples at the corners of his mouth, and his big black eyes that were particularly bright and shining.

Brother, thank you~

When Yaoyao's chubby hand clasped Guoan's little hand, Guoan excitedly shouted, "Sister is holding my hand! Sister smiled at me, sister loves me!"

Little Guoan's slurred words naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of his brothers, who gathered around him and talked at once.

"You're talking nonsense! My sister obviously likes me!" Guoxing said as he pouted and kissed his sister.

"You're talking nonsense! You like me, right? Yaoyao?" Guowang grabbed Yaoyao's feet and kissed them several times.

My sister is really sweet and soft, even her little feet smell good!

Guoping knocked on Guoxing and Guoan's heads and said, "Be gentle, my sister is still young and can't stand your rough treatment."

Ten-year-old Guoping is mature and steady, and when he frowns he looks like a little adult.

When Yaoyao saw her brothers fighting with jealousy, her eyes curved into crescents, she made babbling sounds, and kicked her hands and feet hard.

"Ahhhhh~"

Like, like, I like you all~

The next second, a string of saliva flowed out of his mouth, which made people laugh uncontrollably.

"Okay, my sister has just eaten, stop teasing her." Old Mrs. Liu picked up a thin branch from the ground and drove the boys away.

Guoping quickly pulled his two younger brothers away.

After breakfast, the family rested for a while, had a quick lunch around noon, and then set off again.

The men of the Yuan family were on their way, and when they had free time they would study the movements in the book together. Fifteen days passed in a flash, and Yaoyao was almost one month old.

During these fifteen days, the Yuan family did not take the official road, but took the small road instead, and they did not encounter many disaster victims along the way.

When they reached the vicinity of Yongchen City, there were no more paths for them to take, so they had to walk back to the official road.

As soon as we stepped onto the official road, we saw more and more victims. There were starving people everywhere, and many victims were lying on the ground helplessly begging for food.

The Yuan family couldn't bear to watch such a tragic scene anymore. They looked at the ground and dared not look up.

Are they heartless?

Are they heartless?

No, none of that. It’s the coldness of the world and their powerlessness.

It was the emperor's aging, the princes' open and covert struggles for the throne, and their indifference to natural disasters.

It was the inaction of the officials in the prefecture. If they had reported the situation truthfully, the farmers would not have been displaced.

The honest official who deceived the emperor rested his head on a bed made of gold and silver, and even though he could not sleep at night, he still embezzled more than 100,000 yuan of disaster relief funds.

Once they soften their hearts, they will be the next to lie on the ground begging for food.

The high city walls were heavily guarded, and the city gates were tightly closed. Inside the city, there was singing and dancing, and the smell of wine and meat was everywhere. Outside the city, there were starving people everywhere, and the victims were curled up, hugging their bulging stomachs with painful expressions on their faces.

The officers and soldiers outside the city gate were all holding whips, and they looked on expressionlessly at the victims who were starving to death in front of them. If a victim crossed the line, the whips in their hands would be swung at him mercilessly.

"Go to the sides, don't gather here!"

"Hurry up and leave the official road!"

While scolding, the officers and soldiers waved the whips on the ground. The whips were covered with barbs, and if they hit someone, it would at least tear off a piece of flesh.

"Second brother, go ask around in front." Old Lady Liu said.

Yuan Laoer nodded and walked towards the officers and soldiers under the city wall in front.

He has an honest face and speaks with a smile.

"When can I go in, official?"

The officers and soldiers glanced at Yuan Laoer and saw that his cheeks were rosy and he didn't look like a disaster victim at all. They were stunned with their tense faces.

"Do you want to enter the customs?" asked the officers and soldiers.

"Yes, sir, when can we enter the customs?" Yuan Lao Er asked quickly.

"Do you have a guide?"

"some."

"There is only one hour to enter the city every morning." After the officers and soldiers replied to Yuan Laoer, they waved their whips to drive away the victims who wanted to force their way in.

Just as Yuan Laoer was about to ask a few more questions, he saw several horses galloping towards him in the distance.

The officers and soldiers immediately raised their voices and shouted, "Get out of the way! Clear the official road! There's an urgent document coming to the border. We won't be responsible for any deaths or injuries!"

The victims who were blocking the official road dispersed in a hurry.

Yuan Laoer had no choice but to turn back.

"How about it, when can I get in?"

When Old Lady Liu saw Old Man Yuan coming back, she couldn't wait to ask.

Yuan Lao Er replied: "There is only one hour of entry every morning."

Old Mrs. Liu looked at the victims scattered all over the place, and then looked at the victims who continued to pour in.

One hour a day is not enough, and I don’t know how long the queue will last.

"It's okay. We'll have to enter the city one day." Old Lady Liu said, "Let's rest here for the night. We won't sleep tonight and will get up early to line up!"

The Yuan family found a place with fewer people.

Ye Wan and Shen Chulan started to make lunch.

Shen Chulan came to a cart and saw four large round barrels on the cart. Each barrel contained different things.

The barrels were filled to the brim with fresh fish, wild boar meat, wild lamb, and vegetables.

These were all hunted by several men from the Yuan family during these fifteen days.

It would be more accurate to say that they picked them up rather than hunted them. Along the way, all the wild boars and sheep were killed by hitting trees. They could even catch a bucket of fish by fetching water from the river, and they could pick wild vegetables in the mountains with water droplets dripping from their tender green leaves.

Shen Chulan took out a large cabbage with water droplets on it.

Today they plan to make a pot of vegetable and lean meat porridge.

Chinese cabbage is crispy and sweet, making it the best choice for making porridge.

The third daughter-in-law frowned when she saw that they were having vegetable porridge for lunch today, "Second sister-in-law, are we only having porridge today?"

Shen Chulan didn't want to pay attention to the third son's wife and just nodded lightly.

The third daughter-in-law curled her lips, thinking that she was being pretentious, and said, "We have walked all the way, it is not appropriate to drink porridge? There is so much in the bucket..."

"Whoops..."

Before she could finish her words, she was hit hard on the head by the pipe bag, and her facial features were distorted with pain.

"Eat, eat, eat, I just know how to eat. There are disaster victims everywhere around me. Isn't the lesson of almost losing my life last time enough?" Old Lady Liu cursed, holding the pipe bag in her hand.

Old man Yuan looked at the pipe bag that the old woman was using as a stick with a distressed look on his face. If he continued to hit her, his partner would be killed!

Thinking of the victims under the city wall, the third son's wife calmed down, but there was still dissatisfaction on her face.

After a long journey, the third son's wife was very noisy, and Yuan Lao San no longer had the heart to coax her.