When the people in Yunhua Village heard this heart-wrenching cry, they felt bad and sighed with their heads down.

Lin Shuyue hurriedly asked Li what happened?

Li whispered to her that the three families were burying their deceased family members in the woods.

Under the current circumstances, we can only dig a hole and bury it hastily.

The three families cried their hearts out, especially Aunt Li, because the ones who died were her and her grandson, whom she had depended on for survival.

Aunt Li was a person with a miserable life. Her husband died of illness at a young age, leaving her and her young son alone.

After much difficulty in raising his son, he got married and had children, but his son died of illness.

Later, the daughter-in-law couldn't stand the hardship anymore, so she abandoned her baby and ran away secretly, leaving Aunt Li and her grandson to depend on each other.

Now my grandson is almost old enough to get married, but unexpectedly he died here. It is true that a hemp rope breaks at the thinnest point.

After breakfast, everyone set off again. The villagers who were injured last night were unable to walk, so they could only lie on the cart wrapped in thick blankets and be pushed.

At the front of the team, the village chief Lin Dayong, sitting on a mule cart, wrapped his jacket tightly and rubbed his pipe in his hands.

Everyone has been eating dry food these days. The villagers' food is being consumed very quickly. It is estimated that the food supply will only be enough for a few days.

However, after passing Yu'an County, you can reach the provincial capital in another day's walk, and then you can buy some food in the provincial capital.

The most important thing now is that everyone has only a little water left.

Although no water has been used to cook these days, the weather is too cold and the villagers also need to drink some hot water to warm themselves up.

It seems that we need to send more people to find water sources during the lunch break today.

Because there were injured villagers on the cart, the speed of travel today was much slower than the previous two days, and they were caught up with many groups of refugees.

One of the teams attracted the curious gazes of everyone in Yunhua Village.

There were hundreds of people in this team, regardless of gender, age or status, and they all looked ferocious.

Some of them held sticks, some held bows and arrows, and the middle-aged man leading the group held a large knife.

But their hair and clothes were messy, and a few women in the middle could be seen quietly wiping away tears. The whole team looked like they had just been through a fight.

Noticing the gazes of the people in Yunhua Village, the leading man looked over vigilantly.

Lin Dayong asked his son Lin Hua to go and find out if anything had happened.

Lin Hua used to be a waiter in a restaurant in the town. He was very good at talking, so Lin Dayong always asked him to go when he needed to gather information these days.

Everyone watched as Lin Hua walked to the team next to him, stopped, and bowed to the leader.

I don't know what he said, but the leader seemed to relax a lot and was not as nervous as before.

Then the two of them started chatting, and Lin Hua patted the leader's shoulder from time to time, as if to comfort him.

A quarter of an hour later, Lin Hua returned to the team and told his father the news he had obtained.

It turned out that the members of that team were all villagers from Yunwu Village under the jurisdiction of Yu'an County.

This morning, they were packing up to set out again.

Unexpectedly, dozens of men with machetes suddenly rushed out of the woods. They chopped down anyone they saw, snatched the food and ran away.

This sudden change caught the people of Yunwu Village off guard.

After a strenuous resistance, less than a hundred people finally escaped, most of them were killed or injured, and some families even had all their food stolen.

Lin Dayong sighed deeply after hearing what he heard, and then turned around and told everyone to be on high alert.

On the mule cart at the end of the team, except for Lin Shuyuan who was driving the cart, everyone else was crowded in the carriage.

Lin Shuyue carefully told them the information she had gathered and took out the map to show them.

Lin An and his companions looked at the map carefully and found that it was exactly as Lin Shuyue had said.

If Yunhua Village's team's destination is the capital, they can directly pass through Anyang Prefecture and then Huayang Prefecture to reach the capital.

But Jiang Chao said that Tong Weiren's people in Anyang Prefecture were conscripting able-bodied men everywhere, and the government did not care. It would be too risky for the team to pass through Anyang Prefecture.

If you don't go through Anyang Prefecture, you have to go around to Yuping Prefecture on the right side of Anyang Prefecture, which is much farther away.

Moreover, the eldest prince was in Yu Ping Mansion, and they had no idea about the situation there.

Several people frowned, having no idea what to do.

"Alas, these people really don't care about the lives of ordinary people." Li sighed.

Seeing that everyone was frowning, Lin Shuyue comforted them, "It's okay. Maybe the situation in Anyang Prefecture is not as serious as we thought?"

The others nodded, thinking this was the only way to comfort themselves.

At noon, the team stopped at the foot of a mountain, which was a location specially chosen by Lin Dayong.

The people of Yunwu Village and several other groups fleeing famine also stopped to rest.

Lin Dayong arranged for everyone to find water. This time there were many more people going than before, and Lin Shuyue and Lin Shuyuan also went along.

Lin An and his wife, Lin Shuyan and his two companions, and a few brave young people stayed in the open space to protect the women, children and the elderly.

The mountain was not high, and the searchers followed the path up the mountain. Looking at the withered trees, Lin Shuyue did not hold out any hope for this trip to find water.

The team split up into twos and threes, and after searching for a long time, they only found a few dry streams.

Lin Shuyue looked at the disappointed and tearful expressions of the crowd, thought for a moment, and then pulled Lin Shuyuan to perform Qinggong to shuttle through the mountains and forests. She wanted to help them.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the brother and sister found a very hidden pool of water. Above the pool was a short waterfall. No water was flowing down, and only a thin layer of water remained in the pool.

Lin Shuyue asked her eldest brother to call the team looking for water over, while she squatted down and used her mind to transfer the water from the stream in the space into the pond.

She planned to fill up the pond directly, and then tell other fleeing teams the location of the pond after the villagers' buckets were full. In today's world, it's best to help as much as possible.

Soon, the pond was full of water. Lin Shuyue used her mind to check the stream in the space and found that the level of the stream had not dropped. Xue Bao and Wei Feng were lying by the stream teasing the little silver fish in the stream.

After waiting for an incense stick of time, Lin Shuyuan and his team finally arrived.

When everyone saw the clear and cool water in the pool, they were ecstatic and were ready to rush forward.

Lin Shuyuan hurriedly stopped them and asked them to line up in two teams and come one by one.

When everyone had filled their water tanks, half of the pond was still full. Lin Shuyuan also filled a bucket of water and took the villagers back first.

Lin Shuyue slowed down a few steps and walked at the end. While no one was paying attention, she returned to the pool and filled it with water, then hurriedly caught up with the team.

The woman who stayed in the open space to rest was so happy to see everyone coming back with two full buckets of water that she couldn't stop smiling.

I immediately said that I would cook a good meal and not eat hard steamed buns at noon.

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