Chapter 43: Escape

"Dad, we'...... Maybe we have offended those brutes just now, and sooner or later they will take revenge on us, so we need to be vigilant! Because of the rampant nature of those madmen, Li Yangming didn't know what crazy moves they would make next, and he instinctively became worried.

"Dad, I also think that we have to eat more carefully than before, if they find out that we still have food, they will definitely come over and rob it, the rest of us are okay, but my mother and Wen Qiu are still sick, and we can't resist at all!" Li Yangde then worriedly talked about the difficult reality that the Li family is facing now and the dangerous situation that may lead to carelessness.

Old Man Li glanced at the terrifying scene, looked back at the people in the family, and frowned, "Well, you can't all fall asleep at night, take turns on duty, everyone pin their weapons to their waists, one is to deter those beasts, and the other is to be able to resist and protect themselves at any time, we also have to take a closer look at whether there are any people we know on this water, if they dare to offend, join forces to deal with them, and sooner or later they will be the one to blame." ”

"Dad, I suggest that we row the bamboo raft a little farther away, leave this circle, as far as we can see so far, there are no acquaintances, let's row forward to see if we can find acquaintances, and we can still distance ourselves from that group of people, how about it?"

"Okay, Yang Ming is right, let's start now." Old Man Li ordered to go down, and the adult men and women of the Li family began to wave the sticks and branches in their hands vigorously, and moved forward, and the other families watched the actions of the Li family, and also paddled forward, planning to stay away from the four hungry ghosts.

"Hehehe...... these spare grains are slipping fast, depending on where you flee, sooner or later they will enter the mouths of grandfathers, hahahaha......." The group of hungry ghosts who had just crossed the bottom line of people had lost the last bit of humanity in their hearts, no, they could no longer be called human beings, they were no different from wild beasts, ignoring the fleeing crowd, the hungry ghosts chased everyone with their urging laughter, even those who were already hungry and tired, they also burst out of their last potential and rowed forward hard.

"Don't worry, they have no food, they have been hungry for so long, this idea of strength can't run far, where can we compare to our well-fed and well-fed people, wait until we have rested enough and then slowly chase those poor sheep." The leader didn't care about the next arrangements for the younger brothers around him.

"Yes, yes, the boss is right, follow the boss to have meat to eat." The three little Rolls followed and complimented the leader of the lead.

The leader is right, just like a lamb that will eventually fall into his hands when a jackal plays tricks, and they thoroughly analyze the habits of the prey that comes to their mouths, and they enjoy the dying struggle of their prey.

Old Man Li's family has more people than others, and the speed is much faster than others, but it is not much faster, and the Li family temporarily drew the sight of that group of hungry ghosts.

Cold sweat broke out on Li Wen's forehead, and he clenched his stomach with his hand, "Dad, I'm ...... I can't hold on anymore, I'm bored, let's take a break! ”

Li Wen's because of the care of the children at home, he was reluctant to eat a small amount of food, and he had to share a little to the children, he didn't eat for a long time, his stomach couldn't stand it, after this action, the body consumed faster, and the stomach hurt again, just like someone pricked back and forth with a needle on the stomach, accompanied by a burning pain, the position of the stomach caught a fire, and accompanied by a sour feeling.

"Mother, mother, what's wrong with you? I see you're breaking out in a cold sweat! Li Wendong looked at Li Wenshi and asked with concern.

In order not to worry his family, Li Wenshi endured the pain and said, "I, I...... I'm fine, I'm just a little tired, you don't have to worry, I'll just drink saliva. ”

"Auntie, come and give you water to drink!" Wen Shui hurriedly opened the lid of the bamboo tube and fed the water to Li Wen's mouth, and Li Wenshi drank a large mouthful of water "gurgling", which entered the water in his stomach and the stomach acid, and the burning sensation was reduced, which was much better than just now.

The other adults understood Li Wen's situation, and everyone had this problem to a greater or lesser extent, but they couldn't say it, so as not to worry the children, and they would not eat more food next time they were given more food, and they would rather starve themselves than starve the children.

The Li family stopped what they were doing, sat and rested, and all took out bamboo tubes and began to drink water, trying to mix water to fill up, and after drinking, they continued to fill it with rainwater.

"Sister-in-law, you can rest later, let's continue rowing, just slower than just now." Li Sun, who has always been strong and strong, has also lost a lot of people under this continuous hunger, and everyone looks a few years older.

Old Man Li also spoke, "Eldest daughter-in-law, you rest first, and we will continue to row forward." ”

The Li family continued to pick up the branches and sticks, and encouraged each other to row forward, this time for a longer time, directly rowed for half an hour, everyone really didn't have the strength to row, and the old man Li sent a message to let everyone rest here today, everyone is looking forward to the arrival of the night! Because under the cover of night, everyone can eat a little dry food, and they can't wait for the time to run out quickly.

The Li family began to knead his body and relax his wrists, Li Chenggang began to look around when he had nothing to do, and saw a small boat not far away, which was the only boat he had really seen for so long, so he shouted excitedly, "Grandpa, grandpa, look, there is a boat there." ”

When the relaxed Li family heard Li Chenggang's voice, they all raised their eyes and looked in the direction of Li Chenggang's finger, and saw that there was indeed a canopy boat not far away, and some people were faintly sitting on it.

Old Man Li was also very excited when he saw it, "Let's go, let's row over and see if it's from the village." ”

"Okay, if it is!" Wen Shui prayed with both hands.

The Li family didn't care about the tired body, gritted their teeth and continued to row towards the target, and rode the wind and waves to the target, and the people on the boat saw someone rowing towards them, and they also looked up, "You are ...... Are you Li Tingyuan's family? The old man who spoke at the bow of the boat happened to be the old man Li Jiang, and he saw Li Tingyuan on the bamboo raft with sharp eyes.

When Li Tingyuan heard the voice, he felt that it was the voice of the old man Li Jiang, and he was a little excited, "Yes! I'm Li Tingyuan, Uncle Jiang, we can finally meet the people in the village, who are on the boat? ”

Old man Li Jiang was also very excited, the last time there was a big flood, he had a boat at home, because the river continued to rise, he was worried that the boat would be washed away by the water, so he asked the villagers to help carry the boat back to his home.

At the beginning, when Village Chief Li went to every household in the village to tell Li Tingyuan's family what they had heard in the town, Mr. Li's family paid attention, repaired and strengthened the wooden boat, installed a rain canopy, and put clothes, food and other common items on the boat, and their family can be said to be the best prepared and luckiest family in the village.

"Ting Yuan! Thanks to the news from your family, our family has been able to make such preparations! At present, the people on the boat are all the villagers I saved by the way, me, the child's mother, my daughter-in-law, and Yu'er are all here, and my son left the last conscription. ”

When the other people on the boat heard the conversation between Mr. Li Jiang and Li Tingyuan, they also poked their heads out to look at the Li family, and they all wished for the safety of Li Tingyuan's family.

"Tingyuan, at present, there are ten people in the Dadao family on the boat, three orchid mothers and sons, four people in my family, it just so happens that Dr. Zheng in the town is also on my boat, and the other people in the village have not seen it at present, there are seventeen people on the ship now, but I'm sorry, Brother Li can't sit on this boat anymore, I can only grieve you on the bamboo raft, I have a rope on this boat, you then, tie the bamboo raft to my boat, so that it will not be washed away by the water."

Old Man Li heard the situation, took the rope thrown by Old Man Jiang and tied the bamboo raft, and now he understands the situation that no more people can be added to the boat, "It's okay, our family is basically here, it's ...... My young daughter is nowhere to be found, and we don't know where to look for her now. The child's mother and Wen Qiu are both sick. ”

After listening to Old Man Li's words, everyone else became silent and sad, but it was Doctor Zheng who broke the somewhat sad atmosphere, "Tingyuan, you said that the girl Yangqing is gone, pity the smart little girl, let's mourn by the way!" The old man still has some medicine here, to see if he can treat the sick people on your bamboo raft. ”

The Li family was very happy to listen to Dr. Zheng's words, and hurriedly welcomed Dr. Zheng to the bamboo raft to see Li Qiu and Li Wenqiu.

Dr. Zheng got on the bamboo raft, squatted down, and began to check the two people lying on the bamboo raft, the two were already in a semi-comatose state, and the movement on the bamboo raft did not disturb the two to wake up, and they looked very sick.

Doctor Zheng first looked at the complexion of the two people, his face was haggard and sickly, he rolled the eyelids of the two with his hand, tested the temperature with his hand on the foreheads of the two of them, and cut the pulse of the two.

The Li family paid close attention to Dr. Zheng's movements, and saw that Dr. Zheng was silent for a long time, his brows were furrowed, and it seemed that the situation was not optimistic, so Old Man Li hurriedly asked, "Doctor Zheng, how is it?" Treatable? ”

"If it was in normal times, I could have packed a ticket to cure the two of them, but now in this living environment of lack of medicine and food, I can't guarantee it! How long have the two been in a coma? ”

"Doctor Zheng, these two people have been sick for seven or eight days, and they have been in a coma for two or three days.

"Have you ever medicated?"

"When the two of them were sick, they took some of the wind and cold medicine that they used to prescribe from Dr. Zheng, and it still had an effect at first."

Doctor Zheng pondered for a moment, "Ting Yuan, these two people's physique is weaker than the others, coupled with the long-term rain and lack of food, physical cold, mental fright, etc., resulting from mild wind chill to fever and cough, and even serious to the appearance of coma, because there is no comfortable place to fully rest, proper medication and body tonic, the body can not support normal activities and lead to coma, now the conditions can only continue to take the wind chill medicine prescribed to you before, I will see if there is any fever medicine in my medicine box." Dr. Zheng opened the medicine box and rummaged carefully, and really let him find the two herbs of Coptis chinensis and Bupleurum, and there was nothing else, so he could only increase the dosage.

"Doctor Zheng, we understand that you have tried your best to heal this condition, and the others can only be resigned to fate, I hope they can survive it." Old Man Li expressed his attitude to Dr. Zheng that he didn't want to embarrass Dr. Zheng.

"Brother Jiang has a stove on the boat to boil medicine, so I'll go up and boil it for them to drink, and then let Brother Jiang take some warm clothes to cover the two of them."

"Thank you, Dr. Zheng, for your trouble." Old Man Li thanked him, Li Yangde also stepped forward to thank him, and the two of them worked together to send Dr. Zheng onto the boat, and Dr. Zheng explained the matter to Old Man Jiang and entered the boat to start boiling medicine.

Old man Jiang's wife Sun Hongniang out of the canopy, Sun Hongniang is already in her sixties, the bun on her head is neatly tied with a red cloth towel, mixed with a few silver threads, her hands and feet are neat, and her face with some wrinkles has a kind smile, although she is old, she looks like a clean and tidy old woman, with two thick clothes in her hands, Sun Hongniang quietly put six nests and two eggs in it, and raised her hand to greet Li Sun, "Yangde daughter-in-law, there are two clothes and a little food here, you can accept it!" Not much, don't dislike it. ”