Farming in space: the struggle of peasant girls

Chapter 79 079 Back to the camp
The childish voice broke Ji Xiucai's insistence, and he silently agreed to Old Man Ji's request.

The two of them walked out of the cellar where they had stayed for more than two years with a child in their arms. The long-lost sunlight shone on Ji Xiucai's pale face and on the two skinny and shapeless children.

On this day, they walked out of the dark cellar to hope, or to hell.

When Yang Erlang saw Ji Xiucai and Ji Laowen coming towards them, the irritability of waiting was swept away, his tense spirit relaxed, and his normally expressionless face even showed a bit of kindness.

He took a few steps forward and said to Old Man Ji,

"Do you want us to help hold the baby?"

Old Man Ji glanced at Ji Xiucai, shook his head, and said,

"No, how can we bother you with such a trivial matter, we can take the child by ourselves, it doesn't take much effort.

Hero, this is Ji Xiucai.

Scholar, this is a hero..."

"My surname is Yang, Xing Er, they all call me Yang Erlang."

Yang Erlang glanced at Ji Xiucai, and saw that this scholar held his head up coldly, and had no intention of communicating with him, and also saw that this old man listened to Ji Xiucai, and knew that he had nothing to say right now.

He didn't care about Ji Xiucai's arrogance. During the years of fleeing famine, he had seen countless bad-tempered people, and he was used to it.

Moreover, this is a scholar, a scholar, always proud.

Enough wasted time here, it's time to go back.

Yang Erlang greeted the others, carried water and led the four people from Jijia Village to the camp.

Yang Erlang didn't pay attention to the four people, and the others also ignored the four people, and they didn't have the energy to pay attention to them because they had to carry water and go on their way.

These four people, or two people with their children in their arms, followed behind the team. They were able to keep up at first, but then it became very difficult.

Ji Xiucai gritted his teeth and followed without opening his mouth.

Old man Ji wanted to ask them to slow down, but it was just a momentary thought. How can there be so many requests for help from strangers, so he just gritted his teeth and followed.

Fortunately, the camp is not that far away, so we can see it soon, even if we are a little behind, we can look for it.

Ji Xiucai looked at the group of people stationed and some of the carriages from a distance, and then he was relieved, believing that they were not bandits in disguise.

The same goes for Old Man Ji, his face wrinkled with a smile,
"I knew it, I knew they were good people, we have a way out..."

Ji Xiucai didn't say anything this time, but adjusted the position of the child in his arms and walked faster.

Yang Erlang walked at the front of the team. He always looked in all directions. Early in the morning, he saw Mu Yu standing on the high ground and waving at him.

He froze for a moment, then quickened his pace and ran towards Mu Yu.

Mu Yu over there also ran towards this side, and the two quickly got together.

Yang Erlang looked her up and down in surprise, "Are you awake?"

Mu Yu nodded heavily, "I'm done! I won't do this again in the future!"

After the two greeted each other, a few people carrying water and carrying children followed up intermittently. Mu Yu glanced briefly and said in surprise,
"Have you found water? Good luck!

...Hey, who are these people? "

Yang Erlang explained in due course,
"They are from Jijia Village. There are only four of them left in the whole village. They can't survive anymore. They want to escape famine with us."

Mu Yu regained his energy and looked at the four people carefully.

These four people, the old one, the young one, and the only adult was as thin as a stick, with a straight back, and looked like no threat.

Mu Yu nodded, there was no threat, and the burden was acceptable. Of course, she had no objection to such a person willing to join the fleeing team.

Taohua directed the water bearers to drain the water, and for a while there were only four members of the Ji family left here.

"Look and arrange for them."

"it is good."

Mu Yu nodded, then looked at several people, and said gently,

"You four come with me."

Old Man Ji smiled all over his face, "Hey, okay, please trouble this girl."

Although Xiucai Ji didn't say anything, his expression eased a little and he followed.

During the short exchange, Mu Yu judged that this season's talent is very defensive, if it is not handled well, it may be difficult to integrate into the team.

That's normal, in this troubled world, you can't survive without any precautions. Even the smiling Old Man Ji may not trust them wholeheartedly. It's just that they are newcomers, and they want to get involved as soon as possible. .

She brought the four of them to the corps where Cui Fatty's family was, and the corps leader of this team was Uncle Cui.

At this time, Fatty Cui was still in the deserted village, and there were only Uncle Cui, Aunt Cui, and Fatty Cui's cousin, a seven or eight-year-old girl.

She roughly judged that the girl in Ji Xiucai's arms should also be of this age.

When Ji Xiucai walked into the camp, his body was very tense, but when he saw this girl, his expression softened a lot.

Mu Yu smiled sideways, and turned to talk to Uncle Cui about putting these four people in their group.

Of course, Uncle Cui has no objection. I heard that Fatty Cui and the others discovered it, and they are still very interested in a few people, so they immediately chatted with Old Man Ji.

Although Ji Xiucai didn't say anything, he listened carefully.

Mu Yu stood by and watched for a while, and saw that the two children were really skinny, especially the girl, whose face looked particularly bad, she didn't know whether it was dead or alive.

She thought for a while, and asked someone to invite Old Man Zhao over.

No matter how good old man Zhao's medical skills are, he should be a dead horse at this time.

Old man Zhao soon came with a cane and explained to Ji Xiucai why he was here. Ji Xiucai put down the girl in his arms, and there was a sound of gasping all around.

Aunt Cui couldn't bear it, and said, "This poor girl."

But the girl was pitifully skinny, with a sallow face that couldn't hide her weakness, her whole body was unconscious, she was like a doll and could be manipulated by others, and her limbs seemed to be broken with a little force.

Both Ji Laoweng and Ji Xiucai showed pained expressions on their faces.

The old man Zhao took the girl's pulse with a serious expression, stopped his hand for a long time, shook his head, and everyone's hearts were raised.

Someone asked anxiously, "Old man Zhao, how is this child? Can he be saved?"

Old Man Zhao stood up leaning on his cane, looked at Ji Xiucai and Old Man Ji, and said,
"This child was born weak, and then he was starving all the time. After a long time, he became seriously ill."

Ji Laoweng hurriedly said,
"Yes, our sister has been in poor health since she was born, and she has been taking medicine to recuperate in the early years.

In this calamity year, the medicine was cut off first, and the food is also cut off for a while..."

Old man Zhao listened for a while and said,

"If it was normal, I could still prescribe a prescription to recuperate, but in this calamity year, any prescription is useless.

Congee and rice will be distributed later, so you feed her less, and it will be the same in the future.

If I can recover after two or three days, maybe there is still some hope..."

In the evening, when distributing porridge and rice, Mu Yu personally delivered a bowl of gruel that had been boiled until the rice grains had melted.

Ji Xiucai took a deep look at her and said "thank you" in a low voice.

(End of this chapter)