A few years ago, when the Hua family separated, almost all the benefits were taken up by the big house, and now this small courtyard, except for the kitchen, has only two rooms, which is small and dilapidated.

Hua Qingshan spent a lot of effort, and built a new house for Hua Yan to live in in the east, although the room is not big, but in the village, it is not easy for the girl's family to have a room to live alone.

The remaining two rooms, one for Hua Qingshan and one for Xia, and one for Hua Jing to live with Song Yu.

It is precisely because of this that when Hua Yan came out quietly, she did not alarm the Xia family.

Moved two large empty jars into the space, Hua Yan took the fire fold and candles that had been put away in advance after dinner and went up the mountain.

Fortunately, the moonlight was very good tonight, and it was bright, especially in the second half of the night, when the moonlight happened to shine on the road leading to the mountain stream, and Hua Yan went up the mountain smoothly without candles.

After filling two large jars full of water, Hua Yan went down the mountain and returned home, went into the kitchen, filled the bucket that had already used some water, and then returned to her room.

After doing all this, Hua Yan was lying on the bed, her stomach was already growling, and the bowl of brown rice porridge at night was really not hungry.

But she also knows that now in addition to the water on the mountain stream, I'm afraid she can't even find a root of extra wild vegetables, even if the space storage capacity is strong, but the Qiao woman is difficult to cook without rice, there is nothing, she naturally can't hold anything.

The problem of water can only be solved for the time being, and then we will see if there is any other way to find some food.

Hua Yan was hungry, and while thinking, she fell asleep in a daze.

The next day, before dawn, Xia had already gotten up.

There is still some brown rice left in the house, and even if there are some other foods left, they are all pitiful.

Xia was about to get water and boil some porridge, but when he lifted the wooden lid on the bucket, he couldn't help but be stunned.

"How can it be full!"

She remembered that she had used up a lot of water last night.

And outside the kitchen, Song Yu, who had already gotten up, heard this, his eyes deepened, and he looked at Hua Yan's room......

Hua Yan woke up hungry, and when she opened her eyes, the sun had already come out.

After getting dressed, tidying up a little, and when he pushed the door and walked out, he found that the family was in the yard, and even Song Yu and Huajing did not go to the town.

Looking at Hua Qingshan and Xia's solemn expressions, Hua Yan's heart chuckled.

"Is something wrong?"

"Sister, I came to inform me just now, saying that it would not work if it continued like this, and I decided to find a way to live elsewhere."

"Is this an escape from the famine?" Hua Yan frowned.

"Li Zheng said that if he doesn't force it, he can continue to stay in the village. But if you go, you will leave the day after tomorrow. Hua Qingshan sighed, his tanned face was full of gloom.

Hua Yan understood Hua Qingshan's worries, and escaped from the famine to find a way to live, but in fact, no one knew if she could survive in the end.

Let's not talk about whether you can find a place to stay when the time comes, and eating and drinking along the way is a big problem, and now the world is not very peaceful, on the way to escape the wilderness, maybe you will encounter something.

Moreover, after all, it is the homeland where I grew up, and I am afraid that I will never come back after this departure.

"Qingshan, if you are really reluctant, or we will not leave for now, and then if we really can't hold on, we will talk about it then." Xia frowned and spoke.

"Nope." Hua Yan stepped forward, "If you really want to escape from the famine, then it's best to follow the large army and set off with the people of the village, there is a deterrent on the road." If the family is left alone, I don't know what will happen. ”

Listening to Hua Yan's words, Xia's expression was obviously a little more nervous.

Although she seems to be a peasant woman, many people in Huajia Village know that Xia was in trouble at home and went to Huajia Village, and later married Hua Qingshan.

Although she never mentioned the past, she was literate, delicate, and pure, and many people could guess that even if her family was not rich and rich, it was definitely not a poor peasant family.

In addition, Hua Qingshan has always taken good care of her over the years, so the Xia family has never known about such a thing as escaping the famine.

"Yan'er is right, this time at least half of the people in the village will leave, if they really want to leave, then they can only be with them."

Hua Qingshan took a deep breath, looked at the courtyard again, and after a while, finally made up his mind.

"Keep staying, life can't go on, let's go!"

Now that you've made your decision, it's time to hurry up and get things ready.

Hua Qingshan first instructed Song Yu and Hua Jing not to set up stalls anymore, and then took out all the savings in the family.

said that it was savings, but in fact, it was only three taels of silver.

In the past few years, there have been major droughts one after another, and it is a problem to fill the stomach.

Of course, if it weren't for Song Yu's subsidy for the family, I am afraid that I would not even be able to save these three taels of silver.

Hua Qingshan originally wanted to take the silver to the town, no matter how much food he bought and came back. Once you really start to flee the famine, then food is life.

But before he could set off, the village chief sent someone to call him and Song Yu, saying that he wanted to discuss the matter of departure with the strong laborers in the village, and Song Yu called over together because he had ink in his stomach and might be able to give some good advice.

The town is far away, and Hua Qingshan still has an injury on his leg, so this delay is naturally a little too late.

Xia Shi had already taken Huajing to dig wild vegetables, thinking that before leaving, it would be good to dig more wild vegetables.

Because Hua Yan got up late, she stayed at home to have breakfast first, and when she saw that Hua Qingshan was embarrassed, she took the initiative to go to the town to buy it.

Hua Qingshan hesitated, but still gave the silver to Hua Yan, and told her that if she couldn't buy it, forget it, and she must come back early.

The town is about 20 miles away from Huajia Village, and Huayan walked for an hour before arriving in the town.

Although there is a perennial drought, there are merchants in the town, and the situation seems to be much better than in the village.

There were people lining up outside many shops, and Huayan inquired, most of them were people from various villages, wanting to buy some food, and then set off to escape the famine.

It's just that although the queue is long, it is basically in vain, most of the shops have long since let go, no longer sell rice, and many have also put up signs.

Hua Yan looked for a number of homes, and finally saw one that still had a sign saying that there was rice for sale.

The guy at the rice shop saw Huayan asking the price, and said directly: "Pay for how much you want to buy, and then take it five days later." ”

"Do you want to sell rice for pre-sale? I don't think you still have stock in your store. Hua Yan looked at the small half bucket of rice in the store, "I don't buy much, only ......."

"No matter how much you buy, it's the rule to pay first." The guy directly interrupted Hua Yan's words.

Hearing the conversation outside, the shopkeeper also walked out, stood at the door and looked Hua Yan up and down, probably estimating that the other party had no silver and was not a big customer, so he rolled his eyes and was about to turn around and go in.

But at this moment, a young man jumped into the rice shop and grabbed the shopkeeper.

"Finally waiting for you, you took my money, it's the seventh day, hurry up and give us the rice!"