Although the mountain road ahead is rarely walked, the Nagumo Mountain Range runs east-west, and you can safely get out of the mountain range as long as you pass through the forest and avoid areas where wild animals are active.

As a hunter who often goes up to the mountains to hunt, it is most appropriate for Mr. Xu to walk in front and observe the road conditions.

Where to avoid and where to walk safely all depend on Old Man Xu's judgment.

"Yongshan, you go and tell the people behind, let them hurry up and go, as long as we go five miles further, we can have a safe place to stay today."

Old Man Xu looked at the traces on the ground, and there were no traces of wild beasts from here, and it seemed that he was walking forward for a while, and camping at night would not attract wild beasts.

So he called Xu Yongshan, who was following him, and asked him to inform the villagers behind.

Hearing Xu Yongshan's words, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and walked for more than two hours under the scorching sun, and they couldn't drink water and rest happily, let alone children, even adults couldn't stand it.

I wanted to stop and rest, but I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to keep up with the big army, so I could only hold on and move forward, and my lips began to dry out, and this was the first day of the journey.

Xu Yunjin was also a little unable to hold on, although his physical strength was okay and his strength was great, even if he carried a small basket, it didn't take much effort.

But she couldn't stand the fact that the weather was too hot and kept sweating, and her body lost too much water, so she could only drink two sips of salt water and let Luo Xianglan drink a few more sips.

It was already completely dark, and everyone was already marching with torches, and finally reached the place where the road-opening troops had stopped.

It's a flat, open piece of land with some trees blocking most of the light, making it the best place to camp nearby.

The people who arrived first tidied up the surroundings casually, and also collected a lot of firewood, and a fire was also lit in the middle.

Xu Wu and the three of them led their ox cart to the old man Xu, tied the ox to the tree next to him, and everyone in the Xu family sat by the fire without speaking.

"If you have dry food, you should eat some dry food to cushion your stomach, and if you don't have it, you will cook something full of food, and the water sources brought by each family are precious, don't use it up easily, rest early after eating, and we will rush early tomorrow morning."

Xu Yongnian was also worried that the people in the village would not know the hardships ahead, and they would run out of their own water early, so he couldn't help but say a few more words.

"We know that the village chief will not waste water."

The Xu family didn't cook anything, so they just used a small clay pot to boil some hot water.

After the water boiled, everyone in the Xu family held a flatbread that had been made before.

Chew it with hot water and swallow it into his stomach, Xu Yunjin felt a pain in his throat and eyes.

"Seeing Anan, Yunmeng is older, and he is about to start looking at others, but when he encounters such a thing, I don't know when I will be able to settle down, and I will have to wait for a year and a half to settle down, and I can slowly explore it after I am familiar with the people nearby, I am afraid that I will delay the child for two years."

Zhang took the water and flatbread handed to him by Xu Yunmeng, and looked at Xu Yunmeng, who was still thirteen years old in a few months, worried.

The family of the dealer will give their children a look at each other at the age of thirteen or fourteen, and they will get engaged if they are suitable.

When they are fifteen years old, they will discuss marriage, and most families will marry off their children at the age of sixteen.

"Grandma, don't worry, Sister Ah is smart and capable, good at embroidery, knowledgeable, when we settle down in the south, find a way to make some more money and do some small business, Dad can also continue to study or be a gentleman, and when my brother is also admitted to Xiucai, our family is high, so there are more people that Sister can choose."

Xu Yunjin is already numb, he is going to get married at the age of sixteen, and his body has not grown, and giving birth too early will lead to a short life expectancy for women, and people are prone to some gynecological diseases when they reach middle age.

In this society, it is not as convenient for women to see a doctor as in their previous lives, and the world is always unfair to women.

She didn't want her sister to marry early, although those who did not marry when they reached the age of eighteen would be fined, and those who did not marry at the age of twenty-two would be forced to marry.

But Xu Yunjin also wants to work hard to make his sister wait until he is eighteen years old before marrying, and fine them for not lacking in the family.

"You still say, look at yourself, your sister can make clothes when she is your age, you can't embroider a purse well, and you hold a silver needle all day long."

Lin was a little hated and poked Xu Yunjin's head.

"What Jin Yatou said is also true, you have to work hard, so that you can find some solid homes for your children in the future."

Looking at the Zhang family, who was not mentioning this topic, Xu Yunjin breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled at his mother and mother flatteringly, and everyone couldn't help but laugh.

Xu Yunzhao, who was only five years old, was not afraid to laugh loudly at his sister, he had seen his sister's sewn purse, which was called an ugly.

After eating, Xu Danian and several old people in the village sat around the fire of the Xu family, and Chen Sihuai was the first to speak:

"Brother Xu, we haven't walked out of this mountain for half a day today, the trail we are going to walk tomorrow is quite spacious, the only thing that is not so good is that the road is a little difficult to walk, to get out of this trail, it will take about a day, we are going to start early tomorrow."

"Although the people in the village have prepared dry food, they can only last for four or five days, and they can't stop eating every day when it gets dark," Xu Danian also said.

"In that case, then we will set off tomorrow morning, and we will be able to see the road clearly by then, so let the road-opening troops continue to open the road in front, and go down the mountain and then return to our home."

Old Man Xu was also about to ask Chen Sihuai how long this path would take, when the village chief and others arrived.

"I also have to arrange a few people to keep vigil, although it is far away from the mountains now, but we still have to be careful to take precautions, so tonight I will organize the young and middle-aged people in the village into four teams, every two teams take turns to keep watch all night, and change every other day, Dawu Linhu, you are more familiar with the situation in the mountains, and I will trouble you to take everyone to keep watch for one night tonight."

"Okay, Uncle Village Chief, we'll take you around later."

After a while, all the families heard the village chief's arrangement, and they all started to cut a few wooden sticks and stick them in the ground, covered them with oilcloth, and made a simple tent.

"There are many snakes, insects, rats and ants in the mountains, so you sprinkle this powder around when you sleep at night."

Xu Yunjin, Luo Tiandong and Luo Xianglan took the snake repellent powder and divided it into each household, and they could use it two or three times, and there were not so many herbs to make the powder.

That's all, they still know that they have to hurry to make it temporarily, and there are not many, so they can only make some more when they take the next break.

By the time the door-to-door division was over, it was already more than half of the hour, and the Xu family set up two tents, and the men and women lived separately.

As for the five-year-old brother who followed them, Xu Yunjin entered the tent, and fell asleep next to his sister for a while.

In the early morning, there was no fog in the mountains that had not rained for a long time, and everyone had already packed their bags early and prepared to set off.

It took two quarters of an hour (half an hour) for everyone to reach the foot of the mountain, and Chen Sihuai and Old Man Xu were still walking in front.

The village at the foot of the mountain was also deserted, and it looked a little desolate.

After walking for another quarter of an hour or so, I arrived at the trail that Chen Sihuai said, and there were traces of people walking on the trail.

"It looks like someone has already passed this trail before us, I don't know how long they have been walking."

Old Man Xu observed the traces on the ground and said to Chen Sihuai.

"Little Si'er, you go and ask everyone to speed up, if there are disaster victims in front, let's go faster, otherwise the rest place will be occupied by then, and everyone will have to rest in the open air."

Xiao Si'er is an orphan in the village, and usually relies on the help of his uncle and grandparents in the village, and lives in a small thatched hut next to the Chen family.

Chen Sihuai looked at him pitifully, and often gave him something to eat, and asked him to help watch Chen Siyuan.

Xiao Si'er ran towards the large army, shouting at everyone to hurry up as he walked, and it didn't take long for the villagers to catch up with the people in front.

Xu Yunjin also rushed to the front and followed his grandfather, still carrying Luo Xianglan's small back basket on his back.

After walking for a while, he caught up with the people in front, and looking at the group of refugees in front of him who were ragged and walked without energy, Xu Yunjin felt uncomfortable in his heart.

In her previous life, she was born in an era of peace and prosperity, and she had never seen such a scene.

Although life was a little hard at the beginning of this life, his family never treated him badly.

After making a fortune and living a good life for half a year, this is the first time I have seen this kind of scene.