Rebirth, end of the world, time travel, escape famine, make money!

The group walked for a whole morning under the scorching sun, and finally, they saw the vague shadow of a mountain not far away.

It is estimated that this mountain is the taller mountain they saw before. The most important thing is that the trees on this mountain are still light green in color and not all dead.

The few of them continued walking for about an hour. They wanted to get closer to the mountain and find a place with shade. It was almost noon, so they stopped to eat something and rest, and continue their journey later in the afternoon.

Otherwise, the sun is too strong and it is easy to get heatstroke and sick if you stay in the sun for too long.

When they got closer, they saw a winding dirt road intersecting with the road they had come from. At the foot of the mountain opposite the road, there were some people sitting and resting.

From a distance, Liu Caixia didn't look like the person from last night. She should be a refugee who came from another route.

I said to Father Liu, "Dad, there are people over there. I don't think they are the same group as yesterday. They must have come from somewhere else!"

"It shouldn't be the group from yesterday. They left two or three hours earlier than us. We definitely can't catch up with them at this speed."

"I'll see if I can find a chance to ask them about the situation later!"

That group of people also saw them coming over, but no one said anything. They only had a bag made of rags on them, which contained some dry buns and some roasted sweet potatoes. They had specially roasted the sweet potatoes this morning just to show off to others.

There was also a woven straw basket containing some raw sweet potatoes and some cornmeal in a small bag also made of rags.

At that time, they were thinking that they didn't know whether these two things existed in this era. If these two things did not exist in this era, they would say that they were brought out from the mountains. There was nothing else they could do because there was really nothing else that was more inconspicuous.

When Father Liu saw them, he took the initiative to smile kindly at the man who was looking at them from the outside. Without saying a word, he walked to an open space at the foot of the mountain, tidied up, and asked everyone to rest.

"Let's rest in the shade for a while."

"Row."

Everyone looked for a place to sit down.

Liu Caixia: "Dad, you are the most suitable person to go and get information from them, after all, they are all men. The rest of us are not suitable. Just go and chat with them casually and try to get as much information as possible."

Father Liu's social skills are quite good. After all, he is a self-made businessman. Socializing is inevitable in the business world. His interpersonal skills are tempered by time and he is much better than others. This task is most suitable for him.

Father Liu took out two raw sweet potatoes from a straw bag, wrapped them in dry straw, walked up to the group of people and spoke to the man at the outermost edge.

"Brother, can I discuss something with you?" He showed him the sweet potato wrapped in his hand.

The man also understood that he probably wanted to exchange the sweet potato for something. "What do you want?"

"I just want to exchange a sip of water with you for my little granddaughter to drink. Just one or two sips will be fine. Is that convenient?"

The man looked over there and saw a little girl. Although the faces and hands of the five of them were covered with wood ash, they had never been hungry, so they were still quite strong.

When the man saw them for the first time, he was actually sizing them up, thinking that since these people had not become thinner due to hunger after fleeing here from famine, they might be from a wealthy family.

"Just two bites, no more, go get something to fill it up with!"

Father Liu gave him the sweet potato and said, "Thank you, brother."

He ran back and asked Jiang Xiaolu to take a very small bowl from her bag, which was actually taken from the space.

As expected, when the man saw the snow-white ceramic bowl, he thought that such an exquisite thing must have come from a wealthy family.

The man filled the bowl with half a bowl of water and said, "Give it to the child first! There's really nothing we can do about this weather, it's too hot!"

Father Liu took the small bowl of water back and gave it to Liu Caixia, then went over to chat with the brother:

"Brother! Thank you for the water. What do you call it? I don't know what to do after drinking this. Do you think I can find water in the mountains?"

"My last name is Hu. We are all from the same village and all the men in our village are surnamed Hu. There are eight people in my family now, which is considered to be the majority of the survivors. We came from the west and bought some water in the previous county town for backup. We can only hope to save it and make it to the next county town.

Hey, brother, you know I can’t help you with this water. We don’t have much water left. We have been walking for eight or nine days since we collected water from the last place we found it. Are we hoping to find some water in this mountain range?”

After listening to him, Father Liu said, "Brother Hu, my last name is Liu. I think I am about the same age as your father. You should call me uncle. Over there are my wife, daughter and granddaughter. It's good that you can buy water in the county town. We had no water in the last county town, and the drought over there is even worse. I drank the last of my remaining water this morning, and I thought about the green mountains I saw from afar, so I came here with hope! But when I got here, I saw that there is probably no water here either. What should I do!"

Brother Hu saw how miserable Father Liu was, and comforted him, "Hold on a little longer. We are not far from the next county. I have heard that the next county is where the Zhou government is located. There is a big lake there, and you should be able to buy water and food. If you can hold on during the day and rest for a few hours at night, you should be able to arrive by this time tomorrow."

"So fast, Brother Hu, how do you know so much?"

"We asked people in the last place, and this place is considered good. We have been fleeing famine for four or five months. We came from the northwest, closer to the north. There were hundreds of people in a village, and now only these are left."

Father Liu was quite skillful in speaking. He asked him questions first, and after he answered them, he made up some information about them based on his answers, such as where they came from.

"We are from the west, but we came down from the high mountains. We used to raise a lot of cattle and sheep, and we lived a decent life every year, and we still have some assets.

Brother Hu, we still have a few sweet potatoes, which can last for a few days, but we are out of water. Can you please make a deal so that we can go with you? If you can spare a bowl of water to help our family, I will definitely repay you when we get to the state capital. Or I can just exchange things with you!"

Father Liu wanted to hint that they had silver and other things to exchange. He was not afraid of others coming to rob them, because everything was in Xiaolu's space, and Caiyun was strong enough to protect them.

If it really doesn't work, it will be more convenient for them to run since there are fewer people.