roccoschili Chapter 121 Let's Have Something Sweet
Chapter 121 Let's Have Something Sweet
The night is charming at this moment, but unfortunately no one appreciates it.
The temple that Zheng Da found was not big, and could accommodate more than a hundred people at most. Su He placed a kerosene lamp inside, and asked a skilled escort to hang a kerosene lamp at the entrance of the temple, and another one in the middle of the team. Now, it was not so dark.
Everyone cleared the weeds around the area under the cover of night, and the open space at the entrance became much larger.
Several skillful village women started boiling brown sugar ginger water. Since they did not stay overnight in the village, the water was not enough for more than 600 people to have meals. They could not have meals if they had only boiled ginger water. So Su He asked everyone to have half a bowl of brown sugar water each and have some dry food.
As usual, the men went to sleep first. This time, those who went were the ones who pushed the carts during the day and had consumed the most physical energy. After drinking the ginger and brown sugar water and eating some dried sweet potatoes, they wrapped themselves in quilts and fell asleep.
Zheng Da and a few others built two fires at the temple gate, and the rest of the people took turns sitting around them to keep warm.
Su He did not go. She stood at the intersection, feeling anxious. Grandpa came over and said, "He Hua, is there something wrong? Is there any problem with the village?"
When Su He saw his grandfather, he wanted to talk to him. "Grandpa, that group of people are not from that village. I suspect that everyone in that village is dead."
"The village chief was too young, and his hands were very white. He didn't look like a villager at all. Mu Tou said he saw blood on his shoes."
"Later we saw that Zheng Da's reaction was not right. He didn't seem to recognize this person. He told us that he had walked this road countless times and he had seen almost everyone in this village. The previous village chief was a middle-aged man."
Grandpa's face became more and more gloomy, "Then let's hurry on our way."
"No, we are all too tired. Even if we wanted to, we couldn't leave. Grandpa, you guys should eat some dried meat. If they really catch up with us, we need to have the strength to escape."
Grandpa looked at his granddaughter who was still looking into the distance, feeling a little annoyed, wondering why his whole family was so useless.
"I'll go tell everyone so that everyone can be prepared."
Grandpa decided not to hide the truth from everyone and not to rely on Su He all the time.
After a while, the atmosphere outside the temple became tense, and some older people started crying out of fear.
"Everyone, eat your fill. Captain Zheng, please lead the others to continue weeding with kerosene lamps. Make some space to the side so we can build two more fires. Everyone can push the carts over and sleep by the fires. We'll set off at daybreak."
This time, my grandfather was in charge. Regardless of whether the group would come or not, they had to prepare themselves first and try to eat well and rest well. They could either fight the enemy or set off at dawn. In short, they had to be prepared at all times.
Tietou snuggled in his father's arms and ate some dried meat. "Dad, my great grandfather said there were bad guys in the village we passed by before. Will we die?"
Wang Bin tore the dried meat in silence, "No, Dad will protect you. Eat more dried meat. You will have more strength to run later."
Miaomiao and Mutou both sat next to Liu Niang and Liu Bai. Miaomiao rarely didn't smile. She felt the sad atmosphere around her and took out a bag of candy from her arms.
"Brother, do you want some candy?"
"Well, have one."
Mu Tou did not refuse, and asked Miao Miao to share it with the people around him. If you really can't see the sun tomorrow, then cherish the sweetness in front of you.
Miaomiao stood up obediently to distribute the candies, and soon all the candies in her hand were distributed.
She ran to find Su He, "Sister, where is my big bag of candy? Give it to me quickly. I need it."
Su He came back to his senses and walked to his cart, pretending to take out a bag of candy. "Here you go. If you want to share, give it to the child first."
Miaomiao nodded hurriedly, held the candy bag and handed it to Liu Niang. The two talked about something, and Su He watched Miaomiao run back.
"Sister, here's one for you."
Su He bent down and held the candy Su Miao gave her, "Sister, will you sit with us? Tietou will be with his father."
Su He squatted down and hugged Su Miao, "Okay, sister will go with you."
Su He held Su Miao's hand and walked to Mu Tou's side. Liu Bai gave up his seat and said, "Xiao Bai, take your blanket and go to the carriage to sleep for a while. We will set off at dawn."
Liu Bai nodded, turned and left.
"Don't worry, miss. We are all in this together."
Liu Niang handed the quilt to Su He and took the candies to distribute.
Miaomiao and Mutou leaned on both sides of Su He, "Sister, I have been learning knowledge from books with Brother Yu Wen these days. There is an article in it that Brother Yu Wen can actually recite by heart, and his handwriting is also beautiful. Let me write it for you to see."
Mu Tou leaned on his sister's shoulder, took a branch and started writing on the ground.
Su He turned his head to look at the serious Mu Tou, Miao Miao who was lying on his lap, and his family who were watching him from a distance. This dark night would not be difficult to endure.
"Mu Tou, take half of our remaining food and pile all the luggage on my cart. Let the people from Goudan's family and Dali's family sit in the empty carriage. We will form a team with them. They have a wheelbarrow, remove the wheel and keep it, and chop up the rest and put it in the fire. Don't let the fire go out. Go find our village chief and tell them to follow our instructions and form their own teams."
Su He thought that they should speed up. The one slowing down the progress of the whole team was the people pushing the wheelbarrows. If the wheelbarrows were removed, the whole marching speed would be increased.
Now we have been walking for eleven days, and the food is much less. In the early stage, Su He let everyone eat those heavy sweet potatoes. Now the weight of food in every household is less, and the luggage on the wheelbarrow can be stuffed into the flatbed cart. Then let some small children sit on the cart, and the rest of the young people will all run at a constant speed. The mud legs still have the leg skills, so they can give it a try.
If they really can't handle it, healthy women like her and her aunt can give up their seats in the carriage to those who are tired. If everyone cooperates with each other, the time will definitely be shortened.
Su He tried hard to think of the self-defense equipment in the space. She secretly swore that after getting through this, she would never let herself be so passive again.
A dozen people led by Chen Shi finally arrived at Su He's house on horseback before they fainted from thirst and hunger. The door was open, so Chen Shi went in and drew water from the well. Fortunately, there was still water in the well.
After fetching four buckets of water in a row, the group of people finally had enough to drink.
A group of people collapsed on the ground, they were too tired. They were no longer thirsty, but still hungry.
"Xiao Wei, go to the backyard and search every room carefully."
Xiao Wei climbed up with difficulty. He knew that Chen Shi meant to go look for food. He had no hope. The front yard was so empty. There was nothing there except a well.
Fifteen minutes later, Xiao Wei's weak voice came, "Boss, we didn't find it."
Chen Shi frowned, thinking back to what Su He said. Could he have been wrong?
"I'll try and find it."
The backyard is better than the front yard, but all that's left is some wood, wardrobes and other things.
Chen Shi searched carefully and finally found the small cellar in Su He's house.
"Come a few people!"
When the people who were lying in front of the corpse heard what was happening, they immediately started struggling.
After 20 minutes, everyone had moved everything out of the cellar.
Two sealed pottery jars and two large wooden boxes.
Chen Shi opened the wooden boxes first. One box contained five water bags and a piece of dried meat wrapped in four layers of oil paper. The other box contained dried sweet potatoes, which Chen Shi was very familiar with.
"Eat something first to fill your stomach."
Everyone was so excited when they saw the bright yellow dried sweet potatoes that no one spoke anymore and everyone focused on chewing the dried sweet potatoes.
Chen Shi stopped eating when he was 70% full. He had been hungry for a whole day and night. If he ate too much at once, he would vomit it all out while hurrying on his way.
He didn't know why, but he felt his head swell up a bit, and the next second he started sneezing violently.