During the holiday, there are many daughters-in-law in the village who have married outside are a little worried, and the village chief also sees their worries, but fortunately, these little daughters-in-law are from the nearby village, and when the sky is dark, there are several strong men in the village escorting them back to their parents' house to report the news.

It took three days and two nights to finally empty the whole village, and when the time for spring planting came, the village chief also went to the county yamen as if there was nothing to do, and bought all the seeds that should be bought this year.

These seeds can be planted in the mountains, and if the land in the mountains is more fertile, the yield may be higher than that outside.

Usually during the day, there are occasional people walking around the village, just to hide people's eyes.

Until the day when the second dragon raised its head in February, it had been ten days since they moved into the mountains, and the housing in the valley had been almost dealt with, and it was Liu Shuli, the son of Yang Jinwen and Liu Dexin, who came out to patrol on this day, as well as several children in the same village.

These children are mainly used for errands, and whenever they find something here, they will run back to the valley as fast as they can to report the news.

In order to ensure the safety of the villagers, the young and strong laborers of the village also specially moved the relatively high stones next to them to the outside of the cave little by little, and used the stones to make a passage, which can be seen from the outside, this is an ordinary stone passage, and the innermost part of the passage is a small cave that is not very large.

Soon, the child spread the news to the valley, and the noisy sound outside was that King Yu's army had gone to the countryside to draw strong men.

Before, because of the lack of harvest in the autumn, many people ran out of food as soon as the Spring Festival passed, and there were suddenly a lot of beggars in the county who asked for food, and King Yu's army did not even let go of these beggars, as long as they were men, there was no obvious problem, they had to be forcibly expropriated, and they would also forcibly buy the grain of the people in the village when they went to the countryside to draw strong men.

When the villagers in the valley heard the news, they were all very glad that their patriarch was a wise man and decisive enough.

The patriarch didn't dare to send the teenage children to the county seat, Lu Qingshang volunteered to take her eldest daughter to go, the county town to inquire about the news, before going out, they used the ashes at the bottom of the pot to make their faces and bodies black, and their hair was messy, so they tied it up with a strip of black cloth, held a basket, and a walking stick, and the two of them set off from the valley.

Although a few men in the family are not very reassured, but after this month's recuperation and training, it is impossible to say that it is exactly the same as before, but three or four percent have already been there, and now four or five strong men may not be able to beat Ms. Lu Qingsheng, who looks thin and weak.

Not far from the village, there was a squad of about twenty people, only the three leading ones wore armor, and the others were only dressed in cloth.

Looking at the direction of their village, Lu Qingshang immediately stretched out his hand and waved lightly behind his back when he saw it, and the two children who had been following them in the bushes immediately rushed back.

When he heard that an army was about to enter the village, the young man patrolling the village immediately withdrew to the mountain with his children.

When the group passed by Lu Qingsheng's mother and daughter, they blocked their way.

The leader in armor carefully observed the mother and daughter, and found that it was indeed an old woman and a petite pregnant woman.

"Where did you guys come from? Where are you going? ”

"I ...... I...... I ......" Lu Qingshang made a look of being very afraid of these soldiers, stammering nervously, and trembling a little.

"Mother, don't worry." The little daughter-in-law with her belly next to her hurriedly held her hand to comfort her.

"This official brother, my mother will be like this when she is nervous, there is no way to come out early in the morning, the family has run out of food, the man has been missing for almost half a month, I came to this Yangjia Village and inquired for a long time before I found it, my man used to play well with a man in this village called Guangzong Yaozu, but there is no one to find at this time, this is not our mother-in-law and daughter-in-law can only go back to the county now." Yang Yuling used her lame dialect, although she said a little stumbling, but the words were clear.

The armored man in the lead didn't suspect anything when he saw that their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were black and thin, and the basket they were holding was still empty, but when they said that they didn't see anyone at all, they looked puzzled.

What about a village? How could there be no one? Recently, their work has not been going well, and no one has been caught in the neighboring villages, and many of them have gone out to beg.

They did catch a lot of beggars in the county, but there were too many people in this village, and in some villages there were only old and weak women and children, and children under the age of five or six.

The above asked him to hurry up, but no one here is at all to hurry up and act, so it's useless?

When they came to Yangjia Village, they found that it was true, and the house that had no one was also moved to the ground.

Did you get the news in advance, or did you not survive because of the drought? There is no grass in the fields of the whole village, and it doesn't even look like the ground is turned over because of the drought, and the whole village has fled for refuge.

It's troublesome now, no one here can catch it, and I don't know how to punish them, damn it, why didn't you leave early? Leave late or not? It's just this time to go.

Lu Qingshang took her eldest daughter and searched the entire county, and found that except for those who were old and couldn't walk, the rest were children under the age of six or seven, and there were women in the family.

Most of the shops were closed, especially the food and grocery stores, and all the shops selling gold and silver jewelry were closed, and the shops that usually sold breakfast and opened small food restaurants on the street were all closed.

There are so many people on the street asking for food, and they all look like they are half dead, which is a little scary to look at.

"This is just the beginning, how are you going to spend the next few years? A lot of people may not survive the end. Lu Qingshang sighed a little, and their ability is limited, they can't save many people at all, and it is the most important thing to protect themselves and their clansmen.

The two of them came out for more than a day, and they were afraid that their families would worry, so they were trotting back when they walked back.

Walking from the mountain road on this side of the county, you need to cross a mountain that is not very high to reach the mountain in their village.

The whole hillside has been bare, no one can see even the grass, the trees on the mountain have been bald, and there are some thicker trunks left, which can not be made at all without machetes.

The mountain next to the county seat, the last interview is a big cliff, and the people in the county town will not come here to dig wild vegetables and collect firewood.