Farming in space: the struggle of peasant girls

Chapter 72 072 Caravan Merger
Xu Gui's movements were quick, and it didn't take long for an ox cart full of sacks to be driven to the front of the team.

Uncover a thick layer of oilcloth to reveal densely stacked sacks, and move down a sack full of grain, which is coarse grain of acceptable quality.

Mu Yu suppressed the excitement in his heart, but couldn't help but look at the bullock cart.

She roughly counted that there were about twenty sacks of grain in this cart, and a sack weighed about fifty or sixty catties, and the ox cart was more than a thousand catties of grain.

With so much food, it was enough for the people in the team to eat enough for the entire journey of fleeing from famine.

Of course it is impossible to do that, it would be too extravagant.

According to the current food consumption rate in the team, the food is enough to escape the famine twice more.

But the current consumption is actually too low. Those who work will eat half full, and those who can’t work or have no work will barely stutter and die. It won't last long, let alone such a high-intensity rush.

Now that we have this food, of course we need to improve the food level of everyone in the team.

There is no need to raise it too high, it is almost half times higher than the current level.

She was standing beside the bullock cart thinking about these thoughts, and Yang Erlang had already discussed the next arrangement with the driver over there.

"I took people to the caravan, and you can arrange it here."

Mu Yu came back to his senses,

"No, I'll go with you too.

I want to see what's going on with their caravan. "

Of course Yang Erlang would not refuse, so the two of them took the selected seven slaves to the caravan behind the team.

It is said to be guarding the caravan, but in fact there is nothing to guard, at least in the eyes of the two of them.

The road they chose was close to the desert. They met a few people near Huangsha City in the first few days along the way, and then they disappeared. Not to mention people, they didn’t even meet a village. , where is there any danger?

If you have to say that you need guards, you are just worried that your own people will be half-hearted or fall behind.

It is not incomprehensible to have such worries with so many belongings.

The two discussed the way to make the progress of the caravan and the team consistent, to supervise each other, and to find out in time if something happened, and to add one of their people to each car for effective supervision.

With this two-pronged approach, the remaining seven vehicles should not have any major problems, and the safety of the caravan can be considered guaranteed.

It's perfect.

When Yang Erlang told Xu Gui about this idea, Xu Gui nodded eagerly and repeatedly praised Yang Erlang as a young talent who could come up with such a good idea.

When Yang Erlang went to make detailed arrangements for the car and people, and she was the only one left, Xu Gui returned to that look with eyes above the top and unscrupulous eyes, and walked away with his hands behind his back, completely ignoring her. exist.

Mu Yu was not as knowledgeable as he was, so he went to find Yang Erlang to check the details.

While Yang Erlang was arranging matters, she was inquiring about the treatment of servants of the Xu family in the caravan.

Yang Erlang arranged things smoothly, and she got the desired information as she wished.

It was the result she wanted, but it was somewhat complicated.

On the way back, Yang Erlang noticed something was wrong with her and asked her,

"What are you thinking? Are you frowning so tightly?"

Mu Yu wanted to say something, but in the end he just shook his head, "It's nothing."

The drivers in the caravan were well paid, but the servants were mediocre and they couldn't get enough to eat.

In addition, she also heard news that the steward would whip the slaves, and there were even cases of people being beaten to death and left behind.

In this era of drought and chaos, the only way out for those left behind is death.

According to a low-level servant, in one of the "stolen" cars, several servants were often bullied miserably, and had no way to ask for help. Compared with these low-level servants, the Young Master must trust the stewards and will not care at all. These, either be bullied to death, or fight to the death...

She believed in this point, this kind of thing happened everywhere, but the result was so tragic, it was somewhat unbearable.

When she was leaving, she whispered to the remaining servants, asking them to pay more attention to get some news.

Human nature is far more complicated than she thought, the caravan of the Xu family was not taken advantage of as she thought, let alone Xu Gui.

In any case, it is always necessary to take precautions before they happen.

After arranging the caravan, when the caravan's carriages and ox carts catch up, the time will be almost up.

The fleeing team set off side by side with the caravan.

Perhaps because of resting all morning, Mu Yu felt that the afternoon passed extremely quickly because of the unhappiness of rushing in the afternoon.

When Taohua was preparing dinner, smoke rose from the caravan camp not far away.

Mu Yu didn't care about these things, and told Tao Hua to double the amount of food for cooking today.

Taohua was surprised, "My lord, this is a bit too much. If we put in twice as much, it will be more than the meal we ate on the first day."

"I know, you cook it."

"it is good."

Mu Yu is planning to invite everyone to dinner again this time, she has her own considerations.

After the rice was cooked, she took Taohua to distribute the rice to everyone in person like the first day, checking their situation and asking about their difficulties every time.

The first few teams were fine, but the latter ones fell behind.

Speaking of it, there are always a few reasons, one is that the physical strength is too strong, the other is that there is not enough food to support it, and the third is that I don’t want to be so tired.

Originally there were 25 people in six groups, but now there are [-] more.

At this time, Mu Yu was standing in the last group, Song Gao and two other people were in front of him, and there were two people missing in their group.

"How do you know the five or six people in the back these days? How is their character? Would you like to join us?"

She looked at the few people sitting together sporadically at the back of the line and asked Song Gao.

"A few are willing, and a few want to go to the Xu family caravan."

"The ones who are willing will get in touch first, and if they are suitable, they will be compiled into your team and handed over to you."

Song Gao nodded solemnly. After a few days, he was fifteen or sixteen years old and already looked like an adult.

Mu Yu added, "Also pay more attention to see if anyone who falls behind catches up."

This is only the seventh day of fleeing from famine, and one Wu is missing. After fleeing for another two or three seven days, will the number of people be reduced by half?
This will not work.

In troubled times, population is also an important resource.

After Mu Yu learned about the current situation of the team, he once again drew a big pie for them that everything will be fine when they get there, helping them rekindle their hope.

Back at the front of the team, I saw Yang Erlang standing on a high ground looking forward.

Out of curiosity, she also climbed up to the high ground, and Yang Erlang gave her a place, and the two looked into the distance together.

"Look, the village I mentioned earlier!"

Mu Yu looked at it seriously.

Yang Erlang continued,
"Now we don't lack food, but we still lack water.

The Xu family caravan has water, but according to their usage, it is enough for their own use, and there is not much for us, even if there is, we can no longer ask them.

It is a good thing for us that they have misidentified me, and if they find out otherwise, there may be other troubles.

So with regard to water, we have to find our own way.

The terrain of this village is not high, the scale is not small, and it is very likely that there will be water.

I'll take someone to see it tomorrow. "

"No, I'll go."

(End of this chapter)