Chapter 205: Hurry, Qingshan Town
For ordinary farmers, the perennial work has made them accustomed to the life of sunrise and sunset, so it is not difficult for them to hurry.
Because there has not been any rumors outside, only a group of them are rushing on the mountain road, plus Zhao Furui and Zou Youqian are also afraid that everyone will regret it temporarily, so they are unhurried every day, and they do not urge too much.
Therefore, when encountering a mountain forest that is easy to climb, Father Yuan will also lead everyone into the forest together, and by the way, catch a few fresh wild things and come out to make tooth pieces.
The number of refugees is large, and the wild things that are brought back are often not enough, but fortunately, Zhao Furui can hold the field, and in the end he can ensure that each person gets a bowl of broth.
Everyone ate happily, and there were no complaints.
After continuing to drive for another two days, everyone is now less than a dozen miles away from Qingshan Town.
At this point, the sky will be dark.
For the sake of safety, Zhao Furui directly announced that he would repair the spot overnight and hurry tomorrow morning.
When he got the words, he stopped the convoy, untied the reins from the livestock, and moved to the side to print water and feed the forage.
Young adults gathered together to light up several blazing bonfires with firewood gathered from the woods, and lit up the entire resting place.
Seeing this, some elderly people and children hurriedly gathered in the closest place to their convoy and sat around to rest.
The Li family eats with Yuan's father's family, so the women in the family have a lot of meals to cook every day.
Looking at the jar containing water, Li found that the water stored last night was not enough.
"In-laws, the water is not enough, and we need to install two more altars," Li and Yuan Lao Niang muttered.
"Oops, that's a need to fetch water," Yuan Lao Niang nodded and echoed.
"Well, there is a river ahead, I'll go over to fetch water, in-laws, you can use this water to make do with the rice, grain and meat pieces," Li said, and pointed to the two iron pots on the ox cart, "It's a big deal to put one more pot tonight, boil more water, and loosen the feet of the family, Ming'er is not going to go into the city and buy a few more jars." ”
It has only been two days since he left, and the Li family realized the importance of storing water, otherwise no one would be able to stand running to the river every day.
"In-laws, what you said is," Yuan Lao Niang nodded, "Call Lian Ping, win them in a row, and come back with a few more jars," as she spoke, Yuan Lao Niang called her two sons not far away.
Seeing this, the Li family also called Zhao Shanlin and several other brothers.
asked the Liu family again if they wanted to go to the river to fetch water and wash.
As soon as Liu and the other female dependents sat down, they planned to wash and relax, but after listening to Li's words, they responded one after another.
In this way, Li took a large group of people to the river.
The river is not far from the resting place, and it is a few steps back and forth.
When everyone arrived, the river was full of people fetching water.
Seeing this, Li quickly found a fast open space to squat, and at the same time, instructed Zhao Shanlin to fill the water with wooden barrels.
After filling the jar and the barrel to the brim, Li asked them to return to the resting place to cook first.
And she, on the cool river water, simply cleaned herself.
Seeing this, Zhao Yu hurriedly came over, begging her to wash her hair, wipe her body, and get her body in order, before she happily went back.
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Next to the resting place, with the help of the men in the family, two iron pots have been set up, and the river water is boiling back.
Mrs. Yuan and her two daughters-in-law have already washed the rice grains and meat pieces, and are cutting them into pieces.
When Li saw it, he hurriedly reached out and took the kitchen knife in the other party's hand, and by the way, asked Mrs. Yuan to hurry up and wash up now, so relaxing.
"In-laws, go, go quickly, I'm here here," also let Yuan Lao Niang not worry.
Yuan Lao Niang smiled, turned around and took her female dependents to the river to clean up.
And the Li family took the Liu family and others to cook.
Dinner was not complicated, because they had already stocked up on the dry food they were going to eat on the way when they left home.
There are many types of dry food, some are cakes, some are steamed buns, and some are fried food.
Some of the dry food in it is not too long, in order to avoid being spoiled, so these days everyone eats dry food, with boiled rice grain gruel, meat soup, hunger and trouble-free.
Seeing that the water in the iron pot was boiling, Yuan quickly scooped it out and put it in the jar for storage.
Continue to refill the river water into the iron pot, and after boiling the pot again, hurriedly throw the cut meat pieces and rice grains into it, and put the dried vegetables and seasonings in addition, and stir back and forth.
With constant stirring, the aroma of broth wafted out from the iron pot.
After making sure that the meat pieces were boiled, the rice grains were boiled, and the dry grains were brought out, Li quickly called everyone and served them in bowls to eat.
After eating, the aroma of food wafted everywhere in the rest place.
Everyone was full of food and drink, and their expressions were satisfied, squatting or sitting in front of their own convoy to chat, and the atmosphere was lively.
Thinking about entering the city tomorrow, Zhao Furui discussed it with Zou Youqian again, and it was no surprise that they would be able to reach outside Qingshan Town tomorrow morning.
According to their own promise, the whole team will adjust in Qingshan Town for one day, and will not leave until the next morning.
"There are a lot of people, and when I entered Qingshan Town, what did others say?"
You can't tell the truth, you just say that you are afraid of war, so you come out and flee.
If that's the case, if nothing else, he will definitely be caught and taken away by the officials of Qingshan Town.
Even, if they can't bear to leak their mouths, they will be twisted and sent back to Changle County, so haven't they been in vain in the past two days?
Zhao Furui thought for a while, "Then say, at the moment of spring ploughing, the family is short of grain, and the land is not yet in the middle, so they come out to beg for a living, so that they can buy grain and go back to farming," this reason is the closest to their current situation.
In previous years, there were many such incidents, but everyone chose to go to Changle County or Changping County, because these two places were closest to them.
"That's good, then I'll go back and talk to the big guy, and when the time comes, I will say something and attract the suspicion of others," Zou Youqian said, and then thought of something, and hurriedly added,
"By the way, this time, we have to limit the number of people in the team entering the city, like a woman holding a child, and the old man will not go, there are too many people, no matter how good the reason is, it will arouse suspicion,"
"Well, let the clever young people in the team go, they have flexible brains and are not prone to accidents."
Zou Youqian's words, when it came to Zhao Furui's heart, Zhao Furui nodded in agreement.
The two made a request to go to Qingshan Town tomorrow, and then Zhao Furui got up and told him in front of everyone in the resting place.
After all, there are conditions, which naturally caused dissatisfaction among everyone.
It's not that everyone likes to go, but they didn't say it was good when they first said it.
Good fellows, in order to enter the city, everyone has been waiting for two days, and now they are notified not to go, isn't it embarrassing for them?
"Patriarch, I have a brother at home, can you say a word and take it away together?"
"Village chief, my second egg has a fever, I have to take him to see the doctor,"
"Village chief, my little red clothes are torn, I have to buy a piece of cloth to mend it,"
“………”
Everyone is saying one sentence to another, and each of them has found a reason to go.
Countless voices mixed together, making the whole environment chaotic.
Zhao Furui and Zou Youqian were a little unhappy when they heard this.
Especially Zou Youqian, he has always been the Lizheng of Shangwa Village before, talking and doing things, how can anyone dare to refute.
couldn't help it, Zou Youqian reprimanded a few words, and emphasized that now they are out to flee and not play, and all the swarms of bees have entered the city, if something happens, what should I do if I am arrested.
Is it possible, can they still rob people with the county government?
As soon as Zou Youqian's words came out, he successfully scared most of the troublemakers.
But there are still a small number of people who are not convinced, clamoring to go to Qingshan Town.
Zou was rich and angry, and wanted to open his mouth to say more, but was stopped by Zhao Furui on the side.
Zhao Furui waved his hand and signaled Zou Youqian not to say anything about it.
Well?
"This can't be done," Zhao Furui looked at the people behind him who were still making trouble, and muttered in a low voice, "We can't stop it now, and it's easy to clash with the big guys,"
"In this way, let's take a step, except for those who are really sick and have to go to the city to buy things, the rest of the family will have at least one person enter the city," In this way, everyone will not make any more trouble.
Zou Youqian thought about it, and said in his heart, "But in this way, there are more people going to Qingshan Town, will there be anything?" ”
Even if there is a family, but counting the sick, shopping, and inquiring about the news, there are at least dozens of people.
These people all ran to Qingshan Town with a sudden hula, and it was very suspicious to look at it!
Zhao Furui had already prepared for this, and waved his hand calmly, "Don't worry, we will arrange time for them to go separately, and we can't go together," so that there will be less danger.
The two discussed the countermeasures again, and then told everyone about it.
Sure enough, this request sounded much better than before, and everyone stopped making a fuss and agreed one after another.
Early the next morning, everyone woke up early, packed up, had breakfast, and rushed on the road.
Soon, they came to the vicinity of Qingshan Town.