"To the south?" The third grandfather frowned deeply, took the letter handed by Gu Jinli, and called Gu Jin'an: "Brother An, come and see." ”

The third grandfather didn't know many words and couldn't understand what was written on it, so Gu Jinan pointed to the words on the letter paper and told him word by word, and after Gu Jinan finished speaking, the third grandfather's brows furrowed even deeper.

Gu Dafu also frowned and said, "Why do you want to go south?" The ancestors of our Gujia Village are from Yangji Mansion in the east, and this escape is to return to our ancestral land, if we go south, we will be farther and farther away from our ancestral land. ”

Before the village began to flee the famine, his father had discussed with the villagers that he wanted to return to Yangji Mansion, the ancestral land, and the villagers agreed, so they kept going east.

"Besides, all the victims are going east, let's go south, isn't this separated from everyone? What should I do if something happens? "Gu Dafu is a relatively rigid person, after experiencing the catastrophe of half of the villagers being killed, he tends to be more conservative, that is, he honestly follows the route set by the village chief Gu.

After a few months of escaping the famine, he was already familiar with the victims who fled the famine together, and he would panic when he suddenly separated from the victims.

Chen was also reluctant to go south, hearing Gu Dafu's words, he stabbed Gu Dagui with his elbow, and after seeing that Gu Dagui didn't pay attention to her, he simply said to himself: "Third uncle, we can't go south, I heard that the southerners are bullying lives, if we go to the south, we will definitely be bullied to death by the southerners." ”

Gu Dagui scolded: "What do you know about a girl? Hurry up and shut up Lao Tzu. The people of the south bully the people, but the people of Yangji Mansion do not bully the people? As long as you leave your hometown, you will be bullied when you settle down there. ”

When Chen heard Gu Dagui's words, he pursed his lips and didn't speak again.

The third grandfather looked at Gu Jinli and asked, "Xiao Yu, why did the eldest young master of Qi Mansion let us go south?" ”

looked at the several families present, especially Gu Dafu and Gu Dagui's brothers, and said: "The eldest young master of the Qi Mansion is a man who is knowledgeable, he can leave this letter to Xiaoyu, it can be seen that he sincerely wants to remind us." ”

The third grandfather said this because he wanted to defend Gu Jinli. After all, she is a ten-year-old child, and some things should not be ripped out of her.

Several adults nodded, and said to Gu Jinli: "Xiaoyu, tell us, why does the eldest young master of Qi Mansion remind us to go south?" ”

Gu Jinli said: "It's too cold in the east, I heard that it will snow in the Yangji Mansion in the east in autumn, and when it's the coldest time, there is ice everywhere, which can freeze people to death." It's already early autumn, and if we go further east, we will freeze to death before we reach Yangji Mansion. ”

When several adults heard this, they were shocked. Father Luo walked through the dart, saw a lot of things, heard about the cold in the east, and said: "Xiaoyu is right, there are places in the east that do snow in autumn, and it is cold. ”

Qin Lao also said: "When I was young, I walked through Yangji Mansion a few times, and the place was really cold, and it was freezing in winter, and the people didn't dare to go out when they were idle, and they were all at home in winter." ”

He looked at the clothes of several families and said to the third grandfather: "Brother Gu, we don't have winter clothes to protect against the cold now, if we go east, we will freeze to death before we reach Yangji Mansion." ”

As soon as Qin Lao's words came out, several families turned pale with fright.

The third grandmother looked at the clothes on everyone's bodies, and said fearfully: "Then we can't go to this Yangji Mansion, we will freeze to death on the road." ”

Chen looked at the clothes on the four of them, thinking that they might freeze to death if they went to the east, and they were also afraid, so frightened that they didn't dare to talk more.

Gu Dafu also hesitated.

Gu Jinli took the opportunity to say: "Not only is it cold in the east, but there are also many victims. The victims of the seven provinces in the northwest are going east in batches, eating up everything they can eat, we haven't reached Yongtai Mansion yet, and the food that can be found on the road is only leaves and grass roots, if we go further east, what do we want to eat? Either freeze to death or starve to death. ”

Yongtai Mansion is the dividing line between the northwest and the northeast, and after Yongtai Mansion it enters the northeast, and then three months to the east is Yangji Mansion.

Qin Lao didn't seem to want to go east, so he took Gu Jinli's words and said: "How easy it is for the disaster victims to have accidents, when everyone is hungry, the disaster victims will start to grab food, and the group of evil people a few days ago, most of them were disaster victims who fled the famine, and they were so hungry that they picked up hoes and shovels to kill people and grab things." ”

Qin Lao paused and continued: "Those wicked people are also going east, just in front of us, if we go further east, we will run into them." ”

Everyone was still afraid of the wicked people a few days ago, and when they heard Qin Lao's words, they were so frightened that their faces were pale.

Chen was the first to say: "Then what else are we going to the east?" Don't go, it's too dangerous, let's go south. "Even if the southerners bully life, they will not kill people with hoes like those wicked people.

When Qin Erlang heard Qin Lao's words, he glanced at him a little anxiously, and he couldn't help but say something.

Gu Jinli continued: "There is nothing bad in the south, it is warm there, I heard that there is a lot of rain, and there is very little drought, we will definitely live well when we go to the south, at least we don't have to worry about drinking water." ”

Father Luo nodded and agreed: "The south is indeed warmer than the north, and the rain is abundant. ”

"The fields are full of water?!" Chen was shocked, there was a shortage of water in the northwest, and all she planted was dry land, and she had lived for half her life, and she had never heard that the ground could be filled with water and then planted crops.

"Then what are we waiting for, let's go to the south." When Chen heard that there was a lot of water in the south and there was no drought, he was so envious that he couldn't wait to go to the south to settle down now.

The third grandfather looked at Gu Dafu and asked, "Dafu, what do you say?" Are you going to the east or the south? ”

The chance of freezing to death and starving to death in the east is too great, and half of the villagers in Gujia Village who have already died can no longer afford to die. Gu Dafu hesitated for a while, gritted his teeth, and said with tears in his eyes: "Let's go to the south." ”

When they have a chance in the south, they will go back to the ancestral land of Yangji Mansion, and they will also fulfill his father's wish.

The third grandfather asked Gu Dashan and Luo's father what they meant, and after seeing that they all agreed, he said: "Since this is the case, then we will go south, but this matter is decided by several of us together, and it has nothing to do with Xiaoyu, if you go to the south and have a bad time, none of you can blame Xiaoyu." ”

Gu Dafu, as the son of the head of the village of Gu, already regarded himself as the head of Gujia Village, and when he heard this, he was the first to say: "Don't worry, we won't blame Xiaoyu." ”

After hearing this, the third grandfather nodded with satisfaction, and after the families said a few words, and after arranging the manpower for the night vigil, they spread weeds on the ground and began to rest.

In the middle of the night, Gu Jinli and Luo Huiniang got up at night, and when they walked into the dry grass, they vaguely heard a quarrel.

"We said that we were going to Yangji Mansion to find Uncle Liu Shi, why did we go to the south? We have no roots in the south, what's the use of going to the south?! This was Qin Erlang's voice, he was very excited, his voice was full of anger and unwillingness.

"Second brother, grandpa is right, what is the situation on Uncle Liu's side, we don't know yet, if you go rashly, it is easy to have an accident, it is better to go to the south first, and then send a letter to Uncle Liu when you settle down in the south."

"Shut up, I'm not your second brother." Qin Erlang almost roared: "It's not your family who died, of course you are not in a hurry to take revenge!" ”

"Erlang, shut up." This was Qin Lao's scolding.