PDLP Chapter 259: The Cubs Being Treated as Two-legged Sheep on the Road to Exile (2)
Chapter 259: The Cubs Being Treated as Two-legged Sheep on the Road to Exile (2)
After hearing what Zhou Yatou said, the people from the Fang family and the Hu family looked at each other.
Well, the gold and silver they have are really limited!
Wei Keyuan didn't care what the Fang and Hu families thought. After Zhou Yatou finished speaking, he asked to buy another cart.
Chief Zhou naturally agreed readily, and asked the yamen runners to buy a few more carts so that they could prepare more food.
After the matter was explained, Zhou Yatou ordered them to rest in the forest for another day and go to the city to buy food in the afternoon. This time, Zhou Yatou went with them, as he planned to go to the yamen to confirm the news.
Unfortunately, the final result was even worse than Zhou Yatou and his men had imagined.
Yatou Zhou sighed and could only ask the prisoners and yamen runners to prepare more food and buy as much coarse grains as possible.
Wei Keyuan returned to the Wei family team and told everyone in the Wei family, young and old, about the situation.
"Although we have a mustard seed space, the food we eat is still similar to that of the other two families. Everyone should work harder in the next few months, and everything will be fine once we settle down," Old Man Wei said earnestly to everyone in the Wei family.
After this month's baptism, the family has been almost transformed, if not completely reborn. At least they understand their current situation very well.
Everyone, including the children, nodded and said they understood.
Song Yuxian looked at her daughter in her arms who had become a little thinner. Even though she felt very distressed, she could only leave it like this for the time being.
Wei Keyuan understood the pain in his wife's eyes, and hugged his wife and daughter and said helplessly, "This can't be helped. We will make it up to Linglong after we settle down."
Song Yuxian nodded. This was all she could do for now.
When they set out again, there were more than a dozen carts in the team, all filled with food and bedding.
And on the way ahead, the drought became visibly more severe.
As early as in the previous town, Wei Keyuan bought more than twenty water bags and tried to get one for each member of the Wei family. Every time they came across a water source, the Wei family would take the water bags and earthenware jars to fetch water. In fact, the water inside was replaced by water in the space by Wei Keyuan.
Moreover, Wei Keyuan would fill the Wei family’s water bags every day while everyone else was asleep.
Therefore, the Wei family has no shortage of water.
But as for food, there is no other way but to reduce the intake of refined grains and eat more coarse grains as much as possible.
So, after a period of time, the Wei family members lost weight visibly, but they looked no different from other people, which reduced a lot of trouble.
Later, the exile groups began to encounter groups fleeing famine.
Because there were many yamen runners in their team, the people fleeing famine did not dare to rob the exile team.
Even so, two months later, life became increasingly difficult for both the runners and the prisoners in the exile team, because it was difficult to buy food even in towns, and even if they could buy it, the price was very high.
The journey ahead became increasingly difficult. In addition to the Wei family, several people from the Fang family and the Hu family had also died.
As for the Wei family, Wei Keyuan could only secretly give the Wei family members extra meals at night after everyone else had fallen asleep. Even so, the Wei family members, young and old, all looked pale.
Midnight,
Wei Keyuan and Song Yuxian snuggled together.
"That group of evil bandits will appear a month later, right?" Song Yuxian said after searching his memory.
"Yeah," Wei Keyuan hugged his daughter and wrapped her up with clothes.
"Do we really have to go to Lingnan? The drought will last for several years. Even if we go to Lingnan, our lives will not be much better," Song Yuxian felt a headache as she thought about the road ahead.
Wei Keyuan also thought of this, and his brows were furrowed. As expected, the yamen runners behind him would still run away. Then it would be meaningless whether they went to Lingnan or not.
"Hey, what do you think about us occupying the hilltop of that gang of bandits?" Song Yuxian said with a little excitement, touching her man with her arm.
"The bandits' hill?" Wei Keyuan frowned.
"Well, Wei Keyuan died early in his previous life, so he didn't see the environment of that hill. But I did see some things here. There was a natural spring on that hill, which was occupied by those evil bandits. The spring didn't dry up until all the Wei family members died. Even if it dried up, it didn't matter. We have space. The most important thing is that there is a natural barrier outside the hill. Without a guide, outsiders can't go up. We can stay there until the drought is over and then go out of the mountain. What do you think?" Song Yuxian said as he searched through his memories.
The more Wei Keyuan listened, the brighter his eyes became.
"Okay, then we'll take over that hill!"