"It's not that we don't have hope, it's that we are too hopeful, because we are alive, and being alive is the greatest hope." Li Qing said to Yun and Dao.

"Mother~"

Yun Ji hugged Li Qing, he was very scared. The little fat in the village died, Aunt Lian's three-month-old baby died, and the second grandmother also died. They all caught a cold in the water, and then the wind and cold, and the wounds did not heal and died. The mother's medicine failed to save them, and Yun Ji felt very sad.

"Yunji, you have to be strong, don't forget, you are the only man in our family, the pillar of our whole family, and you are the hope of me and my grandmother."

It was the first time Li Qing said such a thing, she didn't want to say it, but Yun Ji was really scared this time.

She is a woman, and so is Jiang. If it is placed on weekdays, Jiang's sprinkle is naturally no one dares to bully. But once it touches the essence below the bottom line, Jiang's combat power is not enough for others to chew.

Therefore, you must show the ability to take charge of yourself, at least under human nature, to have the ability to protect yourself and protect others.

Most of the people in Shilitang are extremely lucky, but it doesn't mean that people outside Shilitang are lucky. What the people of Shilitang have to face is not the irreconcilable internal contradictions, but the external enemy.

When the flood waters recedes, the whole of Jinzhou will be in chaos, and the order that was originally established will be chaotic. At this time, the villain factor is most likely to be incited, and the mob is prominent.

Those who sell their children, those who take advantage of the opportunity to abduct and sell, and those who block the road and rob others...... Just because you're rich doesn't mean that others can afford to eat, and no matter what world you're in, the gap between the rich and the poor is always two extremes. What the imperial court maintained was only a superficial tranquility. They just need to see the people obedient.

Li Qing didn't dare to imagine it anymore, it was not as safe as he imagined in ancient times.

For so many days, I have been trapped in the mountains, the news is blocked, and I don't know if the imperial court has made corresponding countermeasures.

According to the village chief, it will take more than half a month for Jinzhou to go to Beijing by water, at the usual speed. If it is necessary to speed up the speed because of the critical situation, it will take at least ten days.

By the time they were ready and mobilized their supplies, it would probably be a month later.

It has been more than half a month since the day of the rainstorm. The rain stopped completely two days ago, and it was cloudy for a day, and today God showed the long-lost sunshine.

At first, everyone still had rice to eat, but when the grain ran out, they began to gnaw on the bark of trees, eat wild vegetables, and even small berries that were not ripe, and the roots and stems of plants in the soil.

The wild vegetables around here are almost wiped out.

Li Qing has never been with the big army in the village, not only their family, but also other people. Because there was no food, they gradually dispersed and formed their own small groups.

Fortunately, the mountain is big enough and the crops are abundant enough, and even if the drought lasts for several months, the food on the mountain has not been wiped out.

The so-called goose plucked its feathers, leaving no hair. Of course, there is not only one village in Shilitang on this mountain, but also Dayebai Village behind the mountain, as well as some villages in Hengzhou next door.

Usually, a few villages can't make a mask, because most of the Jiang family's clansmen are in Dayebai, and the Dayebai Ancestral Hall sent some people to find Jiang Kui and asked if he was okay.

When they got the news of peace, they went back.

In a few days, the ground should be exposed. It is speculated that the rice in the high fields should be able to grow a little longer, but the mulberry fields and low fields are not saved.

In addition, the price of grain in the grain store will definitely skyrocket, the supply of medicinal materials will exceed the demand, and the money will not be able to buy fabrics and furniture.

Li Qing set his sights on the trees on the mountain, this mountain forest should belong to the county government, no one buys and sells to occupy it, so the trees on it can also be cut down.

I think the trees on this mountain will also be cleaned.

This night, the children of the Wang family actually launched a high fever, and the Wang family was caught off guard.

Li Qing will boil some medicine on weekdays to prevent wind and cold, etc., and this child has also drunk it. I didn't expect it to be as good as the sky, but I wiped my body with a wet cloth and was sick.

Wang Hongshi hugged the doll and cried, while Wang got up and hurriedly boiled the medicine. Even Jiang went to light the mugwort and smoke it around.

Li Qing guarded Yun Ji and slept, trying to keep Yun Ji from the patient, for fear of spreading the sickness.

The two herbal medicine charts I bought in the bookstore last time, Li Qing took Yunji and gnawed slowly, and he almost gnawed it.

As for the source of the book, Li Qing only said that the book was placed in his dowry box and had never been taken out. The dowry box is something that the Jiang family won't touch, and they don't know what is inside.

After the rain stopped, Li Qing took Yunji and began to look for herbs all over the mountains, looking for images, of course, many times he couldn't believe that the herbs he picked were correct, and the black and white pictures were still different from the reality. However, some common herbs for the treatment of typhoid fever and high fever can be determined. That's why the Wang family can have medicinal materials to boil.

The next day, the high fever of the Wang family's children subsided. This is also thanks to the pot of wine that Li Qing hid.

The child was born too young, and he was afraid that he would not be able to support him, so he did not give him a big name, but only took a small name called Xiao Bolt. The Wang family was also afraid, and Liyue stayed away from them before, and there has been no news so far.

Wang Hongshi is very glad to mention him in the past half month, if he stays here, I am afraid he will have to suffer a lot, it is better to be outside, at least he will not even have nothing to eat.

When the flood had not yet reached the cellar cave in the mountain behind the Jiang family, Li Qing took the two laborers of the Wang family to move the potatoes and other edible and usable things in the cellar to the mountain.

The flood came too quickly, and the Wang family lived in a relatively low-lying place, and they were submerged all of a sudden. Except for people, valuables, and a small amount of food, nothing else could be saved.

Jiang Kui came to her to discuss and left some potatoes as seeds after the flood receded, and then distributed them to the people in the village to plant, and the people in the village would help her build a house for free. On the one hand, it is the credit of this kind of sub, and on the other hand, it is thanks to Li Qing for saving his life.

Li Qing is at least the life-saving benefactor of most of the people in the village, and now her prestige in the village is high, and when she sees her, she has to say hello to her and call Li Niangzi. used to give her her husband's surname Jiang Li, but now except for the village chief, everyone else only calls her Li Niangzi.

What does this mean?

It means that Li Qing's status has improved.

Sometimes it's just so strange that these people can change the perception of others and turn enemies into friends. Li Qing admired the brain circuits of ancient people. One second he was still scolding himself as a shrew, and the next second he was able to smile and worship himself as a benefactor.