On a rare sunny day, Li Da woke up early to do laundry. He now lives in the staff dormitory. The owner called it that. They felt awkward at first, but after they got used to it, it became natural. There is a long rope hanging from the balcony for washing clothes. It is thick and strong and can hang a lot of clothes. They don't have any clothes. Even the old cotton-padded clothes they wear are given by the owner.
So now all I wash is underwear, a few pieces of rags, just a little wash.
"What are you eating this morning?" Old Zhang next to him asked Li Da.
Li Da: "How do I know? I'll go to the cafeteria after washing my clothes."
The cafeteria is a grass hut, but it is sturdy. The women cook on the stove in the back. The only advantage is that there is no shortage of oil and salt, and it is delicious enough for them.
The women are all the family members of Yang Zian's brothers. After their autumn harvest, they took over the family and escaped the disaster in Wucheng.
Lao Zhang smiled at Li Da: "Look at what you washed, it's almost broken."
Looking at the stack of rags in his hand, Li Da couldn't deny what Lao Zhang said. He looked at the woods not far away: "The owner is going out?"
He saw the bullock cart.
Lao Zhang followed Li Da's gaze and found that Lin Yuan was getting into the car. He thought about it before saying, "Maybe the owner is going to Wucheng to see?"
Li Da was taken aback: "What are you going to do in Wucheng? To die for nothing?"
Lao Zhang slapped Li Day: "Close your crow's mouth, the owner has its own plans."
At the edge of the woods, Lin Yuan rushed to the person who saw him off and said, "Everyone will go back. I'll come back when I'm done."
The place they went to was relatively far away, Wucheng was hit by disaster, and the nearby towns would not be much better. He and Jiang Gui went into battle lightly, with nothing but silver.
"Whether it's good or bad, you can buy all the food you can eat." Father Lin urged.
Lin Yuan: "Father, I see. I'm not here during this time. If you have anything unclear, just ask Brother Li and Second Brother Yang."
Father Lin also knows that Lin Yuan has three righteous brothers. He thinks that his son is very smart. It is a good thing to have several righteous brothers in a place where he is unfamiliar. His attitude towards Li Congrong and Yang Zi'an Jiang Gui also Very good, as if to treat them as their own sons.
Li Congrong said from the side: "Little brother, you don't have to worry about this side, as long as I am here, your efforts will not be wasted."
Lin Yuan: "Brother, it's our hard work."
Li Congrong smiled and said, "Yes, I said something wrong again."
However, Yang Zian said, "Don't take the main road, you can go around a little bit. If you notice something wrong, just abandon the car and hide."
Jiang Gui answered: "Brother, don't worry, we know it well."
Lin Yuan knew that he would either hire a group of people to come back, or buy a group of people to come back, because there is so much food, relying on him and Jiang Gui, not to mention transporting it back, it is good to walk on the road without being robbed and lost. .
Such troubled times will not end easily, at least there are still several years, or even ten years or so.
If there are too few people, it will be difficult to be self-sufficient. Farming is fine, but other necessities will continue to be consumed. Once the virtuous cycle is broken and the vicious cycle begins, his small base will easily disintegrate from the inside.
Lin Yuan was more inclined to buy people than to hire people, and most of those who were unwilling to be slaves and maids had already become bandits.
And those who are willing to be slaves and maids, they have already brainwashed themselves, and will not betray their masters easily.
He wanted to take people away from his side, but the problem was that there was only one ox and a donkey, but he was afraid that the donkey would die on the road, so only the ox cart could be used.
Jiang Gui is very confident. He has been to Liuzhen where they decided to go, where the folk customs are strong, but if they are also very hospitable, most of them rely on farming for a living, and a small number of them rely on hunting.
I heard that in the early days, the whole town was good at hunting, and they would arrange traps and bows and arrows since they were young, as well as poison-painted blow arrows. A local toad secretes venom on its back, and only needs a little , can paralyze a cow, so that the cow can only be slaughtered.
Jiang Gui said: "they have fertile land, less people and more land, and there will be no shortage of Chenliang."
Lin Yuan couldn't drive the car, so Jiang Gui was the one who drove the car. Lin Yuan sat in the car. He took a sip of water and looked at the uniform trees and grasses around him. If he came out to pick greenery, maybe he would praise the scenery. , the air is fresh, but unfortunately he is not, so all this makes him feel a little irritable.
They drove the road for five days. During these five days, they simply ate some dry biscuits, washed their throats with water, slept in the car at night, drove the ox cart to the depths of the woods, and set fire to prevent wild animals from attacking them. You have to stay alert at all times and take turns to watch the night.
After all, having a fire can really scare away wild animals, but not people.
These five days made Lin Yuan feel like a month had passed.
Jiang Gui's beard has grown a lot, and he looks more vicissitudes than five days ago, but Lin Yuan is better. His body is only fifteen years old, and the hormones are not as much as Jiang Gui secretes. There was a little stubble, just a few - he was pulled out.
A few beards on the chin... Does that make sense? !
"It's almost there!" Jiang Gui was excited, and shook Lin Yuan who was sitting beside him. Lin Yuan rubbed his aching buttocks and opened his eyes wide to look at the road that suddenly opened up.
There are even tea stalls set up by local people on the roadside for passing pedestrians and merchants to drink. Of course, they have to collect money.
It seems that the refugees here have not been affected at all. They live a self-sufficient life. Both men and women have the ability to protect themselves. Even children have not learned to walk, they must learn to hold a bow.
Lin Yuan also asked Jiang Gui carefully and determined that most of the people here are Han people, and there are only a small number of Mongolians.
The Mongolians here are not officials, they are ordinary people, and they live together and intermarry with the Han people, and they have been fully integrated here.
"Auntie!" Jiang Gui drove the ox cart to the tea stall by the roadside and called for someone to come and tie the ox.
The aunt is about forty years old, and she is already a bit old, but her body is strong, and if she doesn't look at her face, some people believe that she is in her early thirties.
"Soybean feed or grass?" The aunt touched the cow.
Jiang Gui looked at Lin Yuan, and Lin Yuan said, "feed me some bean meal."
The bean material here can even be used to feed the cows, Lin Yuan felt that he had found a treasure.
The aunt checked them, and there was a plate of side dishes and two bowls of porridge. At this time, there were no other guests, so the aunt sat with her grandson and sang local nursery rhymes while coaxing.
After drinking the porridge, Lin Yuan felt that he was finally alive, so he asked, "Auntie, we are from other places and want to buy some food to go home."
He is not worried that this is a black shop, no black shop owner will be a woman, and no black shop owner is not only a woman but also holds a grandson.
And this store can also afford bean ingredients and cook white rice porridge, so it won't take risks for money.
The aunt turned her head, with a happy expression on her face: "How about Chen's?"
Her family received new grain, and the granary could no longer put it down, but the old grain could not be sold for a price, and she said no to selling it in a fit of anger. , They are very remote here. They have to drive an ox cart for three days from the nearest neighboring village. There is no road, and it is difficult to transport food when they buy it. There may be bandits on the road.
Almost every household in the area has this headache.
They were starving to death outside, but they were worried that they had too much food, and Lin Yuan didn't know what to do when he knew.
In a sense, this is also a paradise.