Transmigrated into a seven-year-old child, my fate is in my own hands, not in the heavens.

"Grandmother, you stay here. I'm going out for a walk to see if I can find my eldest sister and the others!"

“Let’s go with you!” Liu Jinzhu and his brothers stood up.

Zhao Lian shook her head: "No need, it's dangerous outside, and none of you know kung fu. I can go by myself. Uncle, Second Uncle, Third Uncle, why don't you three check if there's anything to eat on the mountain?"

"Also, check if there's water here. If there is, then everything will be much easier."

Currently, they have about ten kilograms of rice and flour with them. Since they have had no water or other food along the way, they haven't touched the rice and flour.

"Okay, let's go up the mountain and look for it right away!"

The mountains here look like they have a lot of vegetation and all sorts of weeds, so they don't seem to be that short of water. Maybe we can even find something to eat.

At this moment, Li Gang also stood up and hesitated before speaking, "Aunt Yan, could you please look after my wife? I'm going up the mountain with Brother Liu to find some food!"

He was worried about leaving his wife alone here, but if he didn't go up the mountain to find food, there would be nothing else to eat. He had no choice but to do this after thinking it over.

“Okay! Don’t worry, young man!” Yan Guihua readily agreed.

This young man seems like a good person, but he's also having a tough time, raising his pregnant wife alone while he's away from home. Let's help him out if we can.

"Sister, I'm worried about you going alone. Shall I go with you?" Seeing Zhao Lian about to go down the mountain, Zhao Di also wanted to go with her.

Zhao Lianyi became anxious: "No! Second sister, you know some kung fu, you should stay here and protect Grandmother and the others."

"Alright, then you'd better be careful!"

"Yeah. I know!"

Then Zhao Lian instructed Sun Shangxiang and Zheng Xiuzhen to take good care of the elderly and children and make proper arrangements for everything before turning around and going down the mountain.

Although it was afternoon, the sun was still scorching, and the mountains were filled with the chirping of cicadas. Zhao Lian returned to the city gate by the same route.

Observing from a distance, Zhao Lian noticed that the city gates were tightly closed, many soldiers were patrolling the city walls, and many corpses lay scattered on the open ground outside the city gates, with no one having cleaned them up yet.

Zhao Lian estimated that there were at least two hundred corpses, a truly horrifying sight.

Some people were searching through the bodies, probably looking for valuables; others were likely separated from their loved ones and were calling out their names as they rummaged through the corpses.

Seeing that the soldiers on the city wall were ignoring everything, Zhao Lian quickened her pace.

Upon entering the scene, Zhao Lian truly felt that life and death were separated by an instant. Everywhere she looked were corpses, and blood was everywhere.

These people were full of energy just a moment ago, but now they lie silently on the ground, their deaths gruesome.

Perhaps they never imagined they would die in such a way.

Zhao Lian looked grave as she carefully searched the corpses, afraid of missing a single face. Each time she looked at a body and saw a face she didn't recognize, she breathed a sigh of relief.

"Waaaaah~ Mother, you died so tragically! Ah~"

Suddenly, a heart-wrenching cry came from ahead, and Zhao Lian's heart trembled.

There was a woman in front of them, crying while clinging to an old woman, with two children beside her.

Another man hurried over, and after seeing the man's face clearly, he also began to sob.

"Ah, ahh~"

Not far away, more people started crying.

Zhao Lian didn't dare stop what she was doing and continued searching.

At this point, more people returned to join the search, and mournful cries could be heard from time to time.

After looking through the body several times, until she had searched through the last corpse and found no familiar faces, Zhao Lian finally felt relieved.

Thank goodness, thank goodness I don't even recognize myself!

Zhao Lian looked around and found that she didn't see Zhao Feng and the others, so she was relieved. Although she didn't know where they were, the fact that she didn't find them here proved that they were still alive.

However, Zhao Lian was still worried, so she circled the area again, not missing a single corner, until she finally breathed a sigh of relief when she found no trace of any of them.

Zhao Feng and He Mu missed the shooting. When checking the household registration, He Mu discovered that his household registration had been lost at some point.

He was at the back of the group at the time, and quickly pulled Zhao Feng and Zhao Fu out of the encirclement. When they came out, they ran into Li Chunhua and Qiao Dun.

It turned out that, seeing that Master Qiao was about to divorce her and not give her to her son, Li Chunhua took advantage of the chaos and deliberately pulled Qiao Dun back.

Not long after, they encountered a household registration check, but she managed to avoid it by hiding in the back.

She was only holding onto Qiao Dun out of spite at the time, and she only started to panic when she actually got separated from Qiao Tai and the others.

Just as she was at a loss, she happened to see He Mu leading Zhao Feng and Zhao Fu out.

Seeing that she didn't know what to do next, Li Chunhua could only pull Qiao Dun along and follow He Mu.

As they walked, Zhao Fu chased after her, not allowing her to get close or follow. Li Chunhua had no choice but to follow at a distance.

Later, seeing the people in front of him running back in a panic, He Mu didn't know what had happened, so he could only follow them back.

Just then, Li Chunhua was pushed and fell by the crowd. She was about to be trampled on.

In his desperation, He Mu didn't care about anything else. He shoved the man aside, then pulled Li Chunhua up, shouting, "You stupid woman, do you want to die?! Get out of here!"

Li Chunhua then realized what was happening and, pulling on He Mu's clothes, followed him back.

They were resting on another hilltop, about two miles away from Zhaolian.

At this moment, Zhao Fu stood with his hands on his hips, cursing at Li Chunhua: "You shameless woman! You didn't want your father before, so why are you still following us now? Get out of here!"

Li Chunhua tried to explain: "Zhaofu, don't blame your mother, I had no choice."

Zhao Fu retorted angrily, "Pah! I don't have a mother like that! My mother died long ago! You're a bad woman, a stinking woman!"

"You're not allowed to curse my mother!" Qiao Dun jumped out and stood in front of Li Chunhua.

Zhao Fu said defiantly, "I'm going to curse her! She's a stinky woman, a bad woman!"

The chubby-faced Qiao Dun rushed up to Zhao Fu, and the two immediately started fighting.

Zhao Fengyi panicked and quickly stepped forward to separate the two of them: "Stop fighting!"

Despite being under seven years old, Qiao Dun was quite strong. He suddenly pounced on Zhao Fu, who stumbled and fell to the ground.

Qiao Dun pinned Zhao Fu down and raised one hand to slap Zhao Fu across the face, making Zhao Fu see stars.