Four Foods in the Mountains

After the disease broke out in the town, some people would definitely want to hide in the country.Compared with the town, there is no disease in the countryside, and there is no shortage of food. It can be said that there is no better place to go.

But who knows if these people who came were sick?Furthermore, one day's food supply is fine, but after a long time, which family has so much food to give out?

Let this group of people stay but not the other group, and give food today and not tomorrow, then there will only be troubles, and the whole village will suffer.

Although they are all ordinary people, they all just want to live a good life, but the safety of the whole village is at stake, and the village chief has no choice but to make such a bad plan.

"Go back and get the guys, and dig the dirt road from the village to the town." The village chief said in a deep voice.Then he turned to his eldest son and said, "Take two people to drive the ox cart to the surrounding villages, and tell them about this, so that they can think of a way, move quickly, and come back before the road is dug."

The villages with a radius of several miles are very close. Either the daughter of this family is married, or the elder brother of that family is married to the village. When encountering such a big event, they always have to speak up.

Not daring to delay, the boss immediately went home to tie the ox cart, and everyone hurried home to get the shovel.

Just now he was awakened by the knock on the door, Lu Yunchuan was afraid that Cen Ning would be afraid to sleep alone at night, so he took him to the front to be with Yao Chunling.

In the front room, Brother Zhi was wrapped in a small quilt and sleeping beside him. Cen Ning and Yao Chunling were so worried that they couldn't fall asleep, so they simply moved the table to the middle of the kang, lit an oil lamp, and the two sat on the kang and talked in a low voice.

"Your elder brother ran out to open the door. I heard the voice and walked to the door of the house. I just heard the word plague in a daze. I was so flustered. I only heard old people talking about the severity of the plague at home. How could I think of it these days? Suddenly it happened again." Yao Chunling said with a frown.

Cen Ning said: "I heard from Chuanzi that something happened in Fucheng. The town hasn't heard the news yet. It must be that the situation is not that serious. I wonder if Fucheng can figure out a solution."

Yao Chunling patted her chest: "God bless, find a way to cure it quickly. So many people died of starvation in the plague 30 years ago. I was afraid just listening to it. I can't do it again."

After a while, he looked out of the window again, "They have been gone for a while, why haven't they come back?"

Cen Ning was also flustered, so he calmed down and said, "If you knock on the door in the middle of the night, the village chief must have gone to discuss something with them. Let's wait for a while."

The two looked at the dark night outside the window with their hearts in their hands, and after a while there was a noise at the courtyard gate.

"Ah, I'm back!" Yao Chunling said with a suppressed voice.

Holding brother Zhi into the side of the kang to prevent him from rolling off the kang and falling, Yao Chunling and Cen Ning hurriedly put on their shoes and went to the gate of the courtyard.

Lu Yunlang and Lu Yunchuan hurriedly pushed the courtyard door and came in, seeing the two of them standing in the courtyard, Lu Yunlang said: "Why don't you sleep?"

"Who can sleep when such a big thing happened." Yao Chunling asked impatiently, "What did the village chief call you to say? Did you discuss anything? Is it really a plague?"

Lu Yunlang scratched his head and said, "Really, the village chief asked us to come back and get the guy, dig the road, and seal the village."

"Seal the village?!" Cen Ning opened his eyes wide and looked at Lu Yunchuan anxiously.

Lu Yunchuan stepped forward and said, "The village chief has already asked someone to drive an ox cart to the surrounding villages to report the epidemic. The epidemic is not a trivial matter. Once they hear about it, they will definitely find a way. Don't worry.

Hearing that there was an epidemic, Cen Ning was also thinking about his parents and elder brother and sister-in-law all night, and he was relieved when he heard Lu Yunchuan say this.His father has always had a way, if he knows the news in advance, he will be able to protect the whole family.Yao Chunling also breathed a sigh of relief.

Lu Yunlang and Lu Yunchuan just came back to get the thing, and they went out immediately with the shovel on their shoulders.

In the middle of the night, torches were lit at the entrance of Yunxi Village, and the men started digging the road with tools in their hands.

Yunxi Village is close to the mountain, and there is only one road from the village to the town, and the road is not wide, with a mountain wall on one side and a cliff on the other.

As long as a hole is dug out of the road, the hole is covered with thorny weeds, and then a fence is built around it, it will be difficult for others to get through.

The men were sweating profusely from digging, and one of them wiped his sweat with his clothes up and said, "This was originally a way to deal with wild boars, how can I think that one day it will be used against people."

"Isn't there no way to do this? They escaped because they wanted to survive, and we didn't let them enter the village because we wanted to survive. We just wanted to survive. We can't exchange our lives for theirs, right?"

"Well, it's not easy for everyone, but who doesn't have a family? They can't really let them harm the whole village."

A group of people kept talking and clapping their hands, and the village head's boss and his companions came back driving two ox carts.

He tied the ox cart aside, and the eldest walked up to the village chief and said, "Father, my third son and I walked around the surrounding villages and told the village chiefs. We heard that we were digging roads all night, They're all ready too."

It was rude to disturb Ben in the middle of the night, but when he opened the door and heard that there was an epidemic, everyone was terrified. Knowing that the news from the eldest son of the village head of Yunxi Village would not be a lie, they had already started while thanking him. Call someone, and the fatal matter cannot be delayed.

The village head nodded, the boss took a few sips of water, took off his coat and tied it around his waist, picked up the shovel next to him and went forward to dig the road.

The torches were lit all night, and the sound of digging and men shouting as they worked hard rang out all night. It was not until the chickens raised by every household in the village began to crow that the road was dug.

The soil is piled up behind the pit, and the deep pit is covered with thorny shrubs, surrounded by wood.

After staying up all night, everyone's eyes were bloodshot, and they went home to rest while carrying the guy and yawning.

As soon as the sky was bright, Cen Ning returned home from the front room, lit a fire to boil a pot of hot water, and threw some steamed buns and pancakes into the stove.Just like what I do every day these days, I cleaned up the chicken coop and the hut inside and out, and smoked wormwood all over the yard.

When Lu Yunchuan came back, Cen Ning sat on the stone table with his arms propped up, his head moving little by little.

With a smile on his tired face, Lu Yunchuan fetched water to wash his hands, lightly touched Cen Ning's face with his clean hands and said softly, "Ning'er, go to sleep in the room."

Cen Ning opened his eyes when he heard the voice, rubbed them and said in a daze, "I'm back, have you dug the road?"

"After digging, go to sleep in the house if you are sleepy, don't catch a cold."

Cen Ning shook his head: "I'll go to sleep later, there's boiling water in the kitchen, you can go to the room to sleep after you wipe and eat something."

Both of them stayed up all night, scrubbed briefly, ate a few mouthfuls of steamed buns, and went back to sleep.

The road leading to the town was cut off, and no one knew the current situation of the town and the prefecture. Every day at the entrance of the village, villagers stood in front of the pit and looked towards the road beyond the forest.

Cutting off all contact with the outside world, everyone is inevitably a little anxious.

Has the situation in Fucheng worsened?Has the town noticed that this is not an ordinary disease but an epidemic?Can the medical center control the plague?

While living with care, everyone cleaned up the feces and sewage in the house every day as the old man asked, and hung herbal medicine bags on the eaves.

"It's been several days, why hasn't there been any movement?" Brother Zhu muttered while knocking on the melon seeds, "It's making people nervous."

One day when Lu Yunchuan was chopping firewood in the yard, Brother Zhu came to look for Cen Ning, and the two sat in the main room talking.

Cen Ning added a cup of tea to Brother Zhu and said, "It's a good thing that there is no movement. Maybe the disease is not as serious as we thought."

"That's the best thing, you don't know, my mother is so nervous, not to mention cleaning every day, my brother and sister-in-law's house is full of herbal bags, and it smells bad when I go in. I went home that day I teased my nephew by not washing my hands, and I am not allowed to eat my mother’s meat with me at dinner.” Brother Zhu said angrily, “That meat was brought by Wu Erhe.”

Wu Erhe is brother Zhu's betrothed husband.

Cen Ning said with a smile: "Your nephew is still young, so of course you should be more careful. Brother Zhi is also like this. During this period of time, he is not allowed to go out and be stubborn."

Brother Zhu curled his lips: "My mother scolds me at home every day, saying that I am not caring enough, that my heart is thicker than the mouth of a bowl, and that I will not be a good husband or a good mother in the future."

Cen Ning saw that he was full of anger, and quickly peeled a handful of peanuts to coax him: "Aunt Qian is joking with you, I think you have a pretty good temper."

Brother Zhu pursed his lips and smiled. After laughing, he saw Lu Yunchuan who was busy working in the yard. He moved closer to Cen Ning and asked, "Ning'er, when are you and Chuanzi going to have a baby?"

Cen Ning blushed, glanced at Lu Yunchuan and whispered, "This is something you can have if you want it."

Brothers are no more likely to conceive than women, and many brothers have been married for many years but have not been able to conceive.

Cen Ning has been married for so long, neither Lu Yunchuan nor his eldest brother and sister-in-law have ever mentioned the matter of children in front of him.

Although he often thinks about it in his heart, he also feels that he is not in a hurry, raising a child is nothing compared to others, he has to wait for him and Lu Yunchuan to save some more money, so that they can be well-fed and fat.

What's more, this year's fleeting time is not good, and there is still a hurdle of epidemic disease right now.

It has been stable for a few days, and the people in the village are used to being so isolated from the world. As usual, some people in the village went to the village entrance for a walk this day, but the mountain road in the distance was not as peaceful as before, but the blurry sound could be heard from afar. Voices and footsteps.

The sound came from far to near, and there were a few hurried figures in the woods beside the road.

"Oh my god, go and tell the village chief, someone is really coming to our village!"

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