Chapter 103: The Sixth Mission: Troubled Times 2
Lu Renbing spent two soul powers to open up the meridians of this body, pulling the internal force down to the limit of this world for 60 years. Lu Renbing also tried to use soul power to transform into spiritual power in this world, but found that it couldn't, it was just a waste of soul power.
Fortunately, with internal strength, it is enough for passers-by to have the ability to protect themselves in this world.
Lu Renbing stayed in the pharmacy all day, and lunch was brought in by Lu Qianqian, he was really a sensible child.
Fortunately, every time passers-by came back from collecting medicine, they also had to concoct medicinal materials in the pharmacy, so the children did not feel that there was any problem with their father staying in the pharmacy for a day.
The village is very small and deep in the mountains, so there are few patients in Lu Renbing's small pharmacy. When Lu Renbing split his family, he got three acres of thin fields, a small courtyard with five points of land, and five thatched houses.
Passers-by have been studying since he was a child and have not mastered farming skills, so three acres of land were given to the eldest brother to plant, and the eldest brother gave him fifty percent of the grain and rice every year, which was counted as rent.
Because Lu Renbing serves the old lady, every year the four eldest brothers have to give the old lady 200 catties of rations, cloth, and salt, all of which were said when the family was separated, so Lu Renbing's life was not bad.
Lu Renbing, he doesn't have any ambitions in this world, he just wants to practice carefully in this ravine, support his mother, raise his children, and finally solve his life problem, which is the best.
But it's not that simple. In the second year of Lu Renbing's arrival in this world, there was a great drought, the spring water in the mountains dried up, and in autumn, the fields were almost completely harvested. The life of a small mountain village can barely be maintained.
After more than half a year of operation, Lu Renbing has a small amount of savings, and the old lady has recovered a lot under his recuperation, and she can walk a few steps on crutches. The son and daughter also put on new clothes. The days were in full swing, and there was a natural disaster.
Lu Renbing didn't know what the future would hold, so he began to prepare for a long-term hard life. There was no snow in the winter, and there was a major drought for three consecutive years. The back mountains where Lu Renbing relied to collect medicine were almost bald.
After three years of drought, the government has not been able to provide relief, so no matter how thick the family is, it can't hold on. I heard that in other states and counties, there have already begun to be strongmen, and they have risen up, seeing that the world is going to be in chaos.
People began to starve to death in the mountain village, and they could no longer stay here, so they had to flee to the wilderness.
Lu Renbing's four elder brothers are all grandfathers, plus Lu Renbing's family, there are forty or fifty people in the mighty team. On the way, he brought Lu Renbing's two sisters' families, men and women, old and young, sixty or seventy people.
The rest of the people in the village also fled the famine as a family unit, and at first they walked together, but then they had their own plans, and finally they separated. Lu Renbing's family is quite united. His two brothers-in-law are not strong figures, so they don't have any problem with following Lu Renbing's family.
Lu Renbing's wife is the main reason why this family can come together.
Each family has prepared ox carts to pull food and luggage, and young children and elderly people with limited mobility also sit in the carts.
swayed all the way to the county seat. Lu Renbing is not in charge of affairs in this team, and he doesn't want to get ahead, so he just follows the crowd. Just take care of the old lady and her two children.
His four older brothers also thought he was a young son and a nerd, and they didn't expect him to be the master of the house. Some of Lu Renbing's nephews and nieces and nephews are older than Lu Qianqian, and they don't count Lu Renbing's uncle and uncle as anything. After all, they were all about the same age, and Lu Renbing didn't show any great peculiarities. Don't blame others for not taking him seriously.
Lu Renbing didn't care too much.
When they arrived at the county seat, everyone was stopped outside the city. Because there were too many displaced people rushing to the county seat, the county lords were worried that something would go wrong, so they turned the displaced people out of the city. Only outside the four city gates, porridge sheds were erected to help the victims.
But looking at the people queuing outside the porridge shack, the Lu family summed it up and still felt that they had to continue walking.
Lu Renbing and his entourage, with neat luggage, ox carts and surplus grain, and the elderly, weak, women and children accounted for more than half. It's easy to be the target of robbery.
So at the family meeting, Lu Renbing spoke for the first time, and he had two suggestions. The first is to go south, the climate in the south is humid, the people's livelihood is rich, and you can always find food and a place to stay. The second is to arm the young and strong people in the family, so that when they are robbed on the road, they will not be able to fight back.
In order to enhance his persuasiveness, Lu Renbing took out the newspaper he had copied in the county town and drew a simple map. The map shows where there are wars and where there are disasters.
The Jiangbei area on the map is already full of wolf smoke and natural disasters are raging. This map frightened the Lu family, young and old, who had walked as far as the county seat.
Lu Renbing's brothers and sisters, no matter how they have ideas, are just old farmers who can write roughly. When the complexity of his path outweighed their survival experience, they lost their minds. At this time, the opinions of the little brother who seemed to know the situation in the world well became their lifesaver.
At this time, they all remembered that their younger brother was a scholar who was famous for his childhood. Sure enough, in this world, there are still people who read insightfully. They don't know at all, and Tongsheng is not a famous person at all.
So the right to speak was easily transferred back to Lu Renbing's hands. Lu Renbing bought more than a dozen spear heads, a strong bow, a few arrow feathers, and a few iron knives in the city. He also relied on the relationship between classmates who used to study together and now work as a scribe in the county government, and opened a way for the whole family to visit relatives in the south.
The road strip, with it on the body, will more or less start to work. At least they won't be treated as displaced by the government.
Back in the camping grove, Lu Renbing ordered someone to cut down a dozen wooden poles one zhang long, inserted the head of the gun, and it became a simple spear.
Lu Renbing took out all the men in his family who were over 14 years old and under 40 years old to form an escort team, a total of fifteen, divided into three teams, each with a spear, and each captain with a knife. Lu Renbing's four older brothers are all over forty years old and do not need to join the escort team. However, Lu Renbing also gave them knives, so that when there was a real situation, they would not have the strength to fight back.
Lu Renbing became the captain of the escort team. First of all, he is the biggest, and secondly, Lu Renbing has no longer hidden his clumsiness since the family meeting, the momentum on his body has risen, he is not angry and dangerous, and the juniors involuntarily choose to surrender.
After arranging the team, Lu Renbing asked everyone to repair for another night, and then the escort team took the lead, bypassed the county seat, and headed south.