The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

   Chapter 73

This night was the safest night these people had slept since they went out. Li Yu slept until he woke up naturally. He got out of the tent and saw that the grass at the entrance of the hole had been cut. Everyone was still looking for those green leaves to cut off for the animals. Prepare forage.

   Zhou Jia walked to Li Yu's side, looked at her refreshed look, and smiled: "Looking at them like this, I'm thinking about staying here or not."

   Li Yu smiled bitterly, "It's unrealistic, you just rely on the water in the hole, what can you do? When everyone has finished eating the food they brought, so many people will chew on the bark!"

   Zhou Jia nodded, "What you said also makes sense. You go to eat first and we will rest here for two days before making plans."

  Li Yu looked at the cheerful smiles of the children, "Yeah! Just take a good two-day break here and wait for everyone to recover before leaving."

   While resting on the mountain, Li Yu secretly filled the water tank in the space when everyone was not paying attention.

The    team rested on the mountain for two days, and when the old people and children had come over, everyone packed up their luggage and started on the road again.

The    team walked on the road for more than a month without any danger, and everyone slowly found that the grass on the road was no longer withered and yellow, and there were no locusts in the sky, and there was no shortage of water along the road.

  It was overcast at noon this day, and the wind blew the trees on both sides of the mountain road to the west. The village chief looked at the sky and shouted worriedly, "Go faster, big guy, I'm afraid it's going to rain."

Everyone quickened their speed. The team just came down from the mountain and saw dark clouds shrouded overhead. A 'boom' thunder exploded overhead. The village chief shouted from behind: "The rain is coming, quickly find a high place to stop. , the rain is coming soon."

   Jixiang drove the mule cart ahead and saw a half-hanging cliff. Jixiang pointed to the cliff in front and said, "Let's go under the cliff in front to take shelter from the rain."

Everyone led the animals to the bottom of the cliff, took the tarpaulin out of the car, opened the tent with all hands and feet, moved all the salutes to the tent and stacked it up, pouring rain fell from the sky, everyone stood under the tarpaulin and watched the long-lost Heavy rain, all raised their heads to enjoy this rare cool and comfortable.

  The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the fog and mist spread out, and even the road ahead could not be seen clearly, so everyone had to unpack their luggage and plan to stay.

  Laidi watched the heavy rain come to Li Yu, and whispered with a smile: "Cousin, is there anything delicious? Let's cook something delicious!"

  Li Yu looked at her and smiled, "Okay! You can go and see what else is delicious in the tanzi and bamboo baskets. We will cook what you like."

   "This girl..." Li Mei looked at Laidi, who had a thin face with only one slap in the face, swallowed the blame on her lips and silently helped to prepare.

   Everyone saw that Li Yu was starting to prepare food, and smiled and said to Li Yu, "Xiaoyu, eat a big pot of rice."

"Okay! Eat a big pot of rice." Li Yu smiled and asked Aunt He to take out the last few pieces of pork belly in the bamboo basket. Then the owner's handful of red beans, the west's handful of beans, and miscellaneous grains were mixed together and stewed for a while. A fragrant bacon multigrain rice.

At night, Li Yu quietly took out some jerky from the space and distributed it to Zhao Di, Laidi, Li Qing, and several children took the jerky and asked Li Yu in surprise, "Sister, you can do tricks? Today, Granny He put the bamboo The basket is empty!"

   Li Yu laughed, "I put it in a cloth bag and forgot to eat it a few days ago. Seeing that you guys are greedy for meat, my sister just remembered it."

  The rain didn’t end until after noon the next day. The mountain road was slippery and muddy and it was difficult to walk. Everyone decided to take a night’s rest before walking.

   Jixiang, Ruyi, and Chen Yaohui went hunting on the mountain. Mrs. Li and a few women found some wild vegetables, bracken, and mushrooms at the foot of the mountain. They washed them and waited for them to come back.

  Hai Shi, a few people carried a wild goat, two roe deer, a string of pheasants, and a string of hares down the mountain with a smile.

Butcher He brought a few people to the pond and cleaned up the wild things. Everyone set up firewood and iron pots, a goat and two roe deer, smeared with aniseed and salt, skewered them with pine sticks and grilled them, and stewed bracken with pheasants. And mushrooms, hare is braised in spicy sauce.

People on the 100th ate around the fire and the iron pot with their mouths full of oil. Chen Gui wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with a hearty laugh, "I never even dreamed that these two months of fleeing from the famine, Although it is bitter and difficult, it is the most interesting life I have lived in all these years."

The village chief sighed, "Yeah! I used to open my eyes every day and think about how to dig food out of the soil. The day the locusts came, I felt that the sky was falling down, and when I saw how little Chuanzhou and the others were, I gritted my teeth. I decided to go out with Xiaoyu and the others to find a way to survive. Now the land is not dry. Are we still dry? Are there any locusts? How are the patriarch and uncle at home, and those villagers, how are they doing? already?"

   Everyone fell into silence after hearing this. After a while, Chen Yaohui smiled bitterly and comforted the village chief, "Father, when we settle down, we will go back and have a look when we have time."

   The village chief shook his head and sighed, "Alas! Who knows if I can wait until that day."

  Li Yu listened to the village chief's words and thought that he would never be able to go back, and was also saddened.

   Zhou Jia saw Li Yu's dejected expression and thought she remembered her home in Xishan Village, so she squeezed her hand distressedly and comforted her with a smile, "Yes, we will go back to see."

  Li Yu felt warm in his heart when he looked worried, and nodded at him, "Okay, we'll go back and have a look."

   Mrs. Liu's family and those villagers who had returned to Xishan Village halfway through the road returned to the village together after two days of walking, and found that many houses in the village were burnt to ruins, and not a single person could be seen in the village.

   Everyone looked dumbfounded at the situation in front of them, and the Xu brothers sighed, "If I knew this was how I came back, why would I come back?"

The Xu brothers looked at the scorching sun and there was not even a cloud. There were locusts flying everywhere. The water had been used up and the food on their backs would become less and less. Everyone silently packed up and saluted, and went out of the village to join the famine. , Xishan Village fell into silence again.

  Zhang Defa sat at the door of the shop and looked at the empty street with a frown, thinking that the well at home has dried up, and there is still such a big family, what are you going to do these days?

   A scrawny beggar with a dirty face and dry lips and cracked lips walked to the shop. Zhang Defa was about to chase him away when the beggar looked at him and called out, "Brother, I'm back."

   Zhang De heard it and took a closer look, and shouted in surprise: "Second brother, is that you? How did you become like this?"

   There were bloodstains on Zhang Decai's chapped lips, and he said to Zhang Defa in a hoarse voice: "Brother, get me something to eat, I haven't touched rice in water for a few days."

   Zhang Defa hurried into the room and took a bamboo tube and handed it to Zhang Decai, "You drink water to pad your stomach first, I'll close the door and let's go home."

   Zhang Decai couldn't wait to take the bamboo tube, took a few sips before he came back, sat down on the ground, Zhang Defa closed the shop and walked back with Zhang Decai.

   (end of this chapter)