On the way to escape famine, my parents divorced

Chapter 54 What should we do?
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In the end, most people, led by Li Shiyang, still believed that they should rush to Dengzhou as soon as possible.

I don’t know if Mr. Chen, who knows Li Shiyang, is still in Dongmu Port, Dengzhou, so it’s better to go there as soon as possible.

As for those who are sick, either you try your best to keep up, or if you want to stay, then you can stay.

At that time, life or death will depend on one's luck.

If they were to stay like this, no matter it was just one person or a family, they would surely be waiting to die.

So, how could anyone stay?
After confirming that they would set off tomorrow, the people in Lijia Village became busy, throwing away what needed to be thrown away and storing the water that needed to be taken.

If you care about your sick family members, you can tie a rope to the cart and tie the person to it when the time comes.
Or they could make a simple frame and tie people to it like a chair and carry them on their backs.

Of course, there are also people who think sick people are a burden, but they won’t say it out loud. But the way they show it everywhere, isn’t that a sign of disdain?
The lamb's uncle was busy packing up his things, not even looking at the lamb lying on the ground.

The lamb was taken care of by my aunt for the past two days. She fed it porridge and medicine, and somehow managed to fool the lamb into not dying.

But the lamb is still a patient after all and needs care.

My aunt asked my uncle to use some hemp rope to make some space on the cart for the lamb to sit on.

But my cousin's uncle looked at the lamb that couldn't even stand up and thought it was troublesome. He didn't want to do it and turned a deaf ear to what my cousin said.

In addition to patients like Yangzai who had lost his parents, there were also several elderly people who were in a daze. It seemed that they had fainted, but they weren't. They would respond when you called them, but it was impossible for them to get up and follow you on their own.

These are all patients who cannot move on their own and need care.

But at this moment, even if they are your own children, you still have to consider your own children first, and then think about your parents.

Therefore, when they set out, no one said anything about the five old men who were still gasping for breath in the wild grass.

If you can’t even take care of your own family, who can take care of the abandoned elderly people in other people’s families?

There were already a lot of things thrown away on the Li family's donkey cart. Grandmother Li, who used to sit but was not able to walk, now only had a few bags of grain, some cooking utensils and clothes, and the wooden cabinet that Grandmother Li did not allow to be thrown away.

"Mother, please sit on it. Our donkey can pull it."

Li Shiyue raised his hand to ask Li's mother to get on the donkey cart, but Li's mother waved her hand. She wanted Zheng Meiniang, who was sitting on the cart pushed by Li Qiutian at the back, to sit instead.

Li Qiutian, however, refused her mother's words: "Aunt, I can push it."

Li Qiutian could indeed push the donkey cart. Besides, the donkey cart belonged to the Li family after all. Although Grandmother Li was gone and Father Li had been divided up, Li Wangming was still alive.

Li Wangming had been in a very low mood since the beginning. Grandmother Li was buried here, and if everything went well in the future they would naturally settle in the Andong Protectorate. He was afraid that he would never be able to come back here again.

This farewell is a farewell forever.

From now on, when you worship, you can only worship a tablet.

Therefore, Li Wangming was in such a heavy and depressed mood. Even though his feet were walking, one could tell from his expression that his mind was thinking about something else. His body was here, but his soul was not there.

Finally, Li's mother got on the donkey cart and was finally able to take a break.

They walked like this for most of the day, and near dusk, the people of Lijia Village stopped beside a small river.

Li Shiyue looked at the soil layer beside the stream and was sure that although the water level of the stream had dropped a lot, it could only be considered a bit dry, and it was still dry enough for people to water the millet.

It seems that the area around Lijia Village near the provincial capital where the drought is most severe. So there shouldn't be many people in the north who would abandon their homes and businesses to escape the famine like the people in Lijia Village did. Most of them should stay in their hometowns and continue to live their lives.

Therefore, Li Shiyue concluded that the further he went, the more people he would meet.

Then, we have to be careful to avoid, first of all, we have to avoid the soldiers who are everywhere conscripting men;

Second, we must avoid crowded villages, otherwise if we are seen, we may attract soldiers.

Li Shiyang met Mr. Chen in Dongmu Port. Only when he arrived in Dongmu Port and met Mr. Chen could he feel relieved.

Otherwise, they will always be worried, and the knife hanging over the heads of the people in Lijia Village may fall at any time.

Not only did he evade military service, but his entire family also fled famine, not to the provincial capital, but to other cities instead. If you count all these things, the sixty or so people left in Lijia Village will have no chance of survival.

Li Shiyue had some thoughts in her mind again. After she told her mother, she went to talk to Li Shiyang. But when she saw Li Shiyang, she saw that Li Shiyang was frowning, "Brother Shiyang, what's wrong? Is there any change?"

Li Shiyang turned his head and said to Li Shiyue in a low voice: "When we set out from outside the county town earlier, I asked Ma Zi and Mole Zi to explore the way first.

Logically speaking, they should have been waiting for us here for a long time.

But," Li Shiyang looked up at the sky, "it's almost dark, and neither of them has returned."

"So, either they encountered something on the way, or they have traveled a long way and are still halfway there."

Li Shiyue's words were confirmed by Li Shiyang, who nodded and said, "Wait another half an hour. If he doesn't come back, then..."

"If they don't come back, I'll lead people forward to meet them!"

In fact, this is what Li Shiyang meant. During the journey of fleeing famine, dozens of men from Lijia Village encountered two disasters. In the end, only two brave men, Li Wangshui and Li Shiyue, emerged.

The other few people did kill people, but they didn't have that kind of tenacity. Some of them were so scared that they had nightmares for several nights and their cries and screams could be heard by everyone in the village.

Then, the only people who can make use of Li Shiyang are Li Shiyue and Li Wangshui.

Moreover, Li Shiyue's mind is more flexible than Li Wangshui's.

When Li Shiyue said that girls have to resist on their own and not just rely on men to rescue them, Li Shiyang knew that Li Shiyue was a smart man.

"Then I'll have to trouble Sister October. I'll ask Uncle Wangshui and the others to go with you so that they can take care of you if anything happens."

Half an hour later, there was still no news from Ma Zi and Mole.

Li Shiyue instructed Li Qiutian and Li Wangming, and under the worried gaze of Li's mother, he took the hatchet, Li Wangshui and three other villagers and ran towards the path ahead.

After running along the path for about ten miles, Li Shiyue, with his sensitive hearing, heard faint shouting coming from the front.

Li Shiyue turned around and said to Li Wangshui and the other three people, "I heard some noise ahead. Did you hear it?"

Facing Li Shiyue's inquiring look, Li Wangshui said directly: "I didn't hear anything."

Li Shiyue looked at the other three men again. They also didn't say anything. Li Shiyue looked at them encouragingly. Then one of the men spoke hesitantly: "I seemed to hear shouting, but I don't know if I heard it wrongly."

"Let's go into the wild, farther away from this road, and a little further ahead to see if there is really anyone there."

Li Shiyue was not mistaken. They crouched and walked forward about three meters, then they saw people sitting in a circle around a fire.

These people were actually shouting loudly and grabbing something to get work.

There were two people lying on the ground beside these people. With Li Shiyue's eyesight, he could see them clearly in the firelight. They were Ma Zi and Mole Zi!

"It's pockmarks and moles!" Li Wangshui also saw the person lying on the ground with his mouth gagged and hands tied.

"What should we do?"

Li Wangshui turned around and looked at Li Shiyue and asked.

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