Gu Dashan is not a stupid person, when he heard Qi Yi's words, he knew that Qi Yi was helping his family, and he didn't let their family attract the eyes of the people in the village, so he accepted the food and water.

Qi Yi handed a small cloth bag to Gu Jinli and said, "This is a thank you gift from your insider, she is very grateful to you for saving the child, but she is too weak to thank you in person, so she can only prepare a small gift and let me pass it on to you." ”

Gu Jinli took the cloth bag, touched the graininess in the cloth bag, and was shocked, it was filled with salt.

Salt, water, and food are indispensable things on the way to escape the famine, and salt is easy to carry, as long as it is hidden well, it will not be eye-catching.

When Gu Jinli learned about the contents of the cloth bag, he smiled sincerely, and said to Qi Yi: "Thank you, Uncle Qi." ”

Qi Yi smiled and asked Steward Lin to bring Village Chief Gu and them over.

As soon as Village Chief Gu and the others came back, they saw a load of food and a load of water, their eyes lit up, and the eyes of several villagers were even more greedy, eager to come up and grab it.

Gu Jinli and Gu Jinan saw their reactions.

Gu Jinan, as the eldest son in the family, said on behalf of Gu Dashan: "Grandpa the village chief, these are the thank you gifts from the Qi Mansion to our family, my father said, our village is to escape the famine together, these things should be handed over to the village, let the village chief and grandfather distribute them." ”

When Village Chief Gu heard this, he was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth: "Okay, Dashan, you are a person who does not forget your roots, and the village will remember your love." ”

When the villagers of Gujia Village heard this, they also laughed happily.

Gu Ergou and the two brothers ran forward directly, squeezed out the two small servants next to the burden, took the initiative to pick up the burden, and said to the village chief with a smile: "Uncle village chief, let's pick it up for the village." ”

Village Chief Gu glared at them, wanting to scold them a few words, but he felt that it was not good-looking, after all, this was in the camp of Qi Mansion, so he had to say angrily: "Be careful, this is the water and food of our village, if you fall, I can't spare you." ”

This Gu Ergou brother has always loved to take advantage, let them pick up the grain, and there must be several handfuls in their pockets.

Brother Gu Ergou said with a smile: "Uncle Village Chief, don't worry, who is our brother?" It was a person who carried a two-hundred-pound burden and walked more than ten miles of mountain roads without panting. ”

Village Chief Gu didn't bother to pay attention to their brothers, and said to Qi Yi: "Young Master Qi, it's not early, if you don't have any instructions, we will go back." ”

They have been out for a long time, and now it is dark, and half of the strong laborers in the village are here, and only women and children are left in the rest place of the village.

Qi Yi said: "The village chief walks slowly. ”

Village Chief Gu led everyone to the resting place of Gujia Village with a smile on his face.

After returning to the resting place, the village chief Gu asked the villagers to notify each family to come to his resting place to receive water and food.

The villagers of Gujia Village were all overjoyed when they heard that they had food and water to receive, but they did not dare to show too much for fear of provoking the eyes of the other victims, so they took the water jug and cloth bag at home and walked briskly to the resting place of the village chief's house.

When all the villagers of Gujia Village arrived, Village Chief Gu said: "Xiaoyu saved the little young master of Qi Mansion, this time the food and water are a thank you gift from Qi Mansion to Xiaoyu, but the Dashan family thought of us and took out the food and water to the village, so that the people in the village could share it together." ”

Village Chief Gu pointed to a load of grain and a load of water, and said: "We are stained with the light of the Dashan family, but we can't be too greedy, I decided to give ten catties of grain and a jar of water to the Dashan family, and we will divide the rest." ”

The villagers have no opinion, after all, this is Gu Dashan's family's thing, and they can get some, which is already considered lucky.

Seeing that they agreed, the village chief Gu asked his son Gu Dafu to take ten catties of grain and a jar of water for Gu Dashan's family.

Then, the food and water were divided.

There are more than 200 people in Gujia Village, more than 50 families, and the load of grain given by the Qi Mansion is almost 150 catties, and each family can get about 3 catties, which is a lot of grain on the way to escape the famine.

After the villagers received the food and water, they all smiled from ear to ear, saying good things about Gu Dashan's family.

Zhang came to the resting place of the village chief's house and whispered to the village chief: "Village chief, I will come to get my family's food and water." ”

As soon as these words came out, Gu Ergou's daughter-in-law burst out laughing, and said in a sharp voice: "Yo, isn't this Gu Laosan and his daughter-in-law, your Gu Laosan has sold the Dashan brothers' family, and you still have the face to receive food?" ”

She patted the cloth bag with the grain in her hand and said, "This grain was given to the village by the Dashan family, are you embarrassed to ask for it?" ”

Zhang's face was red when he was said, but he didn't fight back, he just lowered his head and continued: "Village chief, my mother asked me to get food and water. ”

Village Chief Gu remembered Qi Yi's care for Gu Dashan's family, so he said: "There is no food for your family, go back and tell your father-in-law and mother-in-law that the Dashan family is no longer their son, don't do anything to make everyone ugly." ”

When Gu Ergou's daughter-in-law heard the village chief's words, she laughed louder and shouted, "Did you hear it, there is no food for your family, hurry up." ”

When Zhang heard this, he couldn't stay any longer and left in a hurry.

The old Gu family was all angry when they saw that the Zhang family did not bring back the food and water, and Gu Xiaomei scolded: "The pheasant has been in power for nine days, isn't it just a few grains of grain and a few mouthfuls of water, our family is not rare!" ”

Gu Shi also said: "We are scholars, no better than their mud legs, and we don't bend our waists for five buckets of rice." ”

Qian Li'er was resentful, staring at the resting place of the village chief's house, her eyes were resentful, damn Gu Xiaoyu Gu Jinxiu, wait, one day she will take revenge today!

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After distributing the grain, Village Chief Gu ordered a few villagers to watch the night, and the other villagers went back separately.

Gu Jinli's family followed the third grandfather and three grandmothers back to the resting place of the two families.

Everyone was so tired today, and after a few words, they fell asleep.

Gu Jinli reached into the cloth bag and took out two pieces of paper from it, one turned out to be a silver ticket of fifty taels, thinking that Qi Yi specially gave her his own, and the other seemed to be a letter.

She looked at the words on it by the light of the bonfire, and saw a line written on it: It is dangerous to go east, try to go south.

Gu Jinli looked at this line of words, her heart sank, and sure enough, it was the same as she thought, the victims of the disaster went to the east in one go, and tens of thousands of victims went to the east, it was easy to make chaos, once the chaos started, the consequences would be unimaginable.

It was already autumn, and it was too cold in the east, and they might freeze to death before they reached Yangji Mansion.

The south side is warm, the victims hardly go to the south, and the danger will be much less along the way, and the south is the land of water and rice, so you can find more food on the way.

It seems that she has to find a way to convince her family to go south and not go any further.

The next day, when the sky was bright and the sound of banging sounded again, the victims got up and gathered and continued to flee eastward, and when she stopped to rest in the evening, she could no longer see the convoy of Qi Mansion.

The Qi Mansion accelerated the speed of escaping the famine, and completely separated from them.

After walking for another three days, the situation on the road did not improve, but worsened, and Gu Jinli keenly noticed that there seemed to be some unfamiliar faces mixed in among the victims.