The Ancient Life of the Doomsday

Although the refugees from the mountains and streams in the northwest have already fled to Yueyang, the Dali court has also made relevant countermeasures.

Not only sent officers and soldiers to suppress the chaos, but also opened a porridge aid station in the town, so the situation in Yueyang is not bad now.

Apart from the fact that the weather suddenly turned into summer during the Chinese New Year, and the madness of stockpiling food before, and now that the people in the town have returned to the countryside to seek refuge, there is no other situation on Yueyang's side.

So the people on Yueyang's side calmed down after the initial frenzy of food storage. Except for the increase in the number of family members, their daily life was the same as before, farming, eating, sleeping, and gossip...

But even if the imperial court took countermeasures and set up a porridge relief station in the town, but because there were too many victims and refugees coming, the imperial court was also Alexander.

Therefore, many refugees came to the village to beg recently, most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled.

The porridge in the town is not enough to eat, so everyone can only find a way to pick fruits from the nearby mountains, or go to the villager's house to beg. If you are lucky, you can work and exchange more food with the villagers.

But as time went by, the weather was not normal, but it was getting hotter and hotter. All the seedlings that had just grown in the field died, and only the drought-resistant food such as sweet potatoes survived.

By March, the hot weather had reached more than 40 degrees, the water level of the river had dropped slightly, and the crops in the fields had not improved.

And the number of porridge handouts from the imperial court became less and less, and it was obvious that the imperial court was beginning to be unable to do what it wanted, so it could only let the officers and soldiers suppress it as much as possible to prevent the people from rioting.

At this time, everyone really panicked. Before, they only speculated and worried about the victims of the mountain stream, but now they have to worry about themselves. All these situations indicate that a catastrophe is coming! ! !

"It's coming, a severe drought, it's a severe drought, I'm going to be hungry!"

The people in the village blew up the pot. It was not normal to change from winter to summer overnight.

Now, in just a few months, the weather is so hot, the water level of the river has also dropped, and most of the crops in the field have died. What should I do if there is no harvest next year?

Even if we saved some food before, no one knows how long this drought will last. One or two years is fine, but if it lasts for three to five years, everyone will definitely die!

Now that the imperial court has started to ignore things, everyone can only rely on themselves. Faced with such a severe situation, all the people in Linjiang Village gathered at Qin Laoshuan's house, looking at their village chief for an idea.

"Village chief, what do we do now? Is it really a drought coming?"

"Qin Laoshuan, you are our village head, give me your idea, should we follow the example of the people in the northwest and find another place to take root?"

"No, I don't want to leave here. My family has lived in Linjiang Village for several generations. If I leave here, who will worship and take care of my ancestors buried on the mountain..."

"Village Chief, come up with an idea..."

"Old Qin, think of a way..."

Now the villagers are panicking like headless chickens. They don't know what to do. They can only regard Qin Laoshuan, the head of the village, as the backbone and ask for a light and direction.

To be honest, if possible, no one would want to leave the place where they grew up. The ancient times paid attention to returning to the roots of fallen leaves. If you really escaped to the outside and died, you would be a lonely ghost...

The villagers didn't know what to do, and Qin Laoshuan didn't know either. He, the village chief, was fine with settling trivial disputes in the village. If he really wanted to take such a big idea, he was also apprehensive and afraid.

It's okay if you get the right idea, but if you point people in the wrong direction and lead them to a dead end, it doesn't matter if you die at a young age, but he can't afford it with so many people in the village!

Next to him, Pei Shaorong took Mo Xiaobao and sat in the corner without speaking the whole time, listening to everyone's discussions.

In fact, he is more inclined to stay. Although the current situation seems terrible, in Pei Shaorong's view, the situation in Linjiang Village has not yet reached a desperate situation.

Even if most of the seedlings were dead in the field, some of them were still alive, and they could last for a while. More importantly, Linjiang Village was next to a mountain with rich products.

There is basically nothing to eat on the periphery of the back mountain now, but it is different when walking inside the mountain. Pei Shaorong does not believe that such a large mountain will become a barren mountain in a short period of time.

There will be no food at that time, everyone will take some risks to go deep into the mountains, and they will always find something to eat to survive, but if they flee with their things, they will definitely die faster than staying behind!

Although Pei Shaorong didn't know the situation outside because of communication problems, he could guess the situation outside with his toes. Otherwise, if the situation on Yueyang's side just got worse, the court couldn't manage it so powerlessly.

And even after leaving Yueyang, I have seen before that there are so many immigrants and victims on the road, if not, not only will they be robbed by victims who have no food, but they may even be killed by bandits!

So the best way now is also the most helpless way to stay where you are, pointing to the food stored at home for two years, it is still no problem...

The villagers discussed at the village head's house for a long time, but in the end they couldn't come up with any good solution. They stood in the village head's yard and made noise one by one.

But it was noisy for a long time, and no one could come up with a way to get the best of both worlds. After discussing this matter, everyone just let it go and could only take one step at a time.

But no one expected that in April, the weather would become even hotter, and Yueyang would start to face a real disaster, because—there was no water!

The fact that there is no water does not mean that there is no water in Yueyang. The situation in Linjiang Village is very good. Because of the terrain, Linjiang Village is in the upper reaches of the river, but the situation in the lower reaches is serious.

Ever since the weather suddenly changed from winter to summer during Chinese New Year, the weather has become hotter and hotter, until now it has reached a high temperature of [-] degrees, and there has never been a cloudy day in several months.

The crops in the field are dying one by one, and those that can survive are the crops hidden in the soil.

Naturally, the water in this river couldn't resist the sun. In just a few months, the upstream river was fine, but the downstream river was basically dry.

Drinking water is better. Every household has a well. The water in the well is not dry, but the crops in the field are miserable. No matter how drought-tolerant crops are, it is impossible to completely drink water. When the water in the river is dry, it means The food is gone!

Even if the downstream villages go upstream to collect water and borrow water, it is useless. The crops in the fields cannot be saved at all, and the water in the upstream is also decreasing...

If there is no water, no food can be grown, and if there is no food, you will be hungry. The downstream villages exploded all of a sudden.

Judging by the weather, this... This will definitely be a year of severe drought, and it is absolutely impossible to alleviate it in two or three years. Can their food last until then?

Let's not talk about the future, the current situation is enough for everyone to have a headache, especially the downstream villagers are already ants on the hot pot.

The downstream villages are anxious, and the upstream villagers are also worried. Although the upstream situation is better than the downstream, everyone is worried about their children and relatives in the downstream villages.

The ancestors have lived in this land for so many years. It is certain that there will be intermarriage between the villages, and the villages are closely connected.

When the river downstream was basically dry, the villagers could no longer sit still and began to seek help from relatives and family members upstream.

Finally, all the sweet potatoes and potatoes that were still alive in the field were dug out, and the villagers in the downstream packed up their things one after another, and moved them with their belongings to relatives and acquaintances in the upstream village.

There are so many people in the upper reaches of the village all of a sudden, the house can't fit in, but you can't let your relatives live in it. If the house is bigger, it will be crowded, and if the house is small, it can only be built temporarily. It became lively.

Even so, there are still many people in the downstream who can't find a place to go, because they have no relatives or friends in the upstream village!

But everyone will not just sit and wait like this. The river is dry, and the food is also dried up. If you continue to stay in the village, you will only die.

In the end, after discussing with the remaining villagers, they simply ran to the upstream village, found an open space and built houses by themselves. In short, they should stay upstream now!

Anyway, no one wants to leave the land of Yueyang unless it is a last resort. The ancestors have taken root for so many years, but they will be duckweed when they go out, and they will be lonely ghosts when they die.

Although the people in the upstream village were somewhat reluctant to the actions of the villagers in the lower reaches, they did not stop them. Counting the ten miles and eight villages in this country, they can basically be regarded as relatives with three aunts, six wives and eight poles. Who can come forward to drive people away?

Although there are now so many people in the village who use the river water much more, the water in the upper reaches still seems to be able to support it.

And with so many people gathered together, the refugees and refugees who wandered around the village and started to have bad ideas were basically scared away, which made everyone feel at ease...

The village has undergone such a big change all at once, but it doesn't affect the Pei family that much. Pei Shaorong is a foreigner and has no relatives, and the Mo family is similar, so this day is still the same as before.

For Pei Shaorong, the only thing that has changed is that he knows two of the downstream villagers who moved to Linjiang Village.

The first one is the former son-in-law of the village chief's family, Qin Xiangrong's ex-husband Cen Ziwen Cen's family.

In fact, according to Cen Ziwen's failure to Qin Xiangrong, as the village head, Qin Laoshuan completely disagreed with Cen's family moving to Linjiang Village.

But Qin Xiangrong didn't know why she asked Qin Laoshuan to agree to stay with the Cen family...

And the other is Father Mo's in-laws, his enemy's in-law's Sun's family, and the Sun family's village lives downstream, so it was unlucky to be hit by a disaster.

The only person the Sun family knew upstream was the Mo family, and now that they were facing life and death, they didn't care about their previous unhappiness with Father Mo.

Anyway, in the end, the Sun family settled down in Mo's house with the monthly payment of thirty copper coins and ten catties of grain to Mr. Mo's family.

When he heard the news at the time, Pei Shaorong couldn't help but chuckle, how could the Sun family act like Mo Lanzhu without thinking.

Having had such a big conflict with Mr. Mo before, he dared to join him in front of Mr. Mo and live under the same roof. This is really the rhythm of courting death!

After the Sun family moved to the Mo family, as expected by Pei Shaorong, it was a joy to play with Father Mo.

The two families stabbed me with a knife, and I stabbed you with a sword. Under the small eaves of the Mo family, it can be said that there were swords, swords, swords and swords fighting, and blood was everywhere...

The more the Sun family quarreled with Father Mo, the more difficult Mo Lanzhu's life in the Sun family would be. Pei Shaorong was very happy to see it, and thought of a way to directly push him into the pit for revenge.

But before Pei Shaorong started to implement the plan, he also encountered a small trouble, and this trouble caused a lot of excitement...