I opened a treasure chest on the road to escape

Chapter 4 The shocked Geng family
  "I swore to your father that I would protect you two sisters, so I won't take you on any adventure."

Uncle Geng meant to leave this village and go to other surrounding villages to find a suitable and viable village to settle in.

But Chen Chuxue knew very well that the whole world was in famine, especially in the north, and there was no telling how long this famine would last.

In other words, in the next few years, there will still be water and food shortages, and there will be no place suitable for survival and living in the entire north.

More importantly, Chen Chuxue learned from her correspondence with her grandparents that victims of disasters had revolted in many places in the north. Although the imperial court sent troops to suppress the uprising, it was unable to suppress the entire north.

Therefore, the north will become increasingly dangerous in the future.

Although she selfishly wanted Uncle Geng to escort them to Jiangnan, she also wanted to do it for Uncle Geng's family and didn't want them to be involved in trouble.

Although the road to Jiangnan is dangerous, is it safe to stay in the north?

This is not necessarily the case.

No one knows whether the revolting victims will show up here, or whether the imperial troops who suppressed the victims will show up and kill them then, which would be a crime of killing a good person and taking credit for it.

However, this failed to convince Uncle Geng. Chen Chuxue understood that it was not that her words had no weight, but that the differences were caused by different concepts.

After all, Uncle Geng's family grew up in the countryside. They want stability mentally and don't want to do risky things.

Therefore, Chen Chuxue could only use her trump card and take out the letters between herself and her grandparents.

"My grandma said she wanted to see me one last time!"

Uncle Geng didn't read the letter. Xiaoxue said it was true and he had no doubts.

Finally, Aunt Geng once again spoke out to smooth things over, "Let's do this, let's make a compromise..."

"Let's flee south together. If we find a suitable place to live, Xiaoyan and I will stay, and then Yan'er's father will send Xiaoxue's sister and sister to the south of the Yangtze River to find relatives. How about that?"

Chen Chuxue was silent, this choice was not a good one, because she was worried that if something happened to Aunt Geng when Uncle Geng sent them back from Jiangnan, she would be the sinner.

But now she couldn't find a suitable reason to persuade them. She could only take one step at a time to see if she could persuade them to stay away from this place.

The north is now a powder keg. If we don't escape, nine lives will not be enough.

None of the people objected to Aunt Geng's words, and the atmosphere relaxed a lot, and then they began to discuss the escape route.

If you flee south, the nearest village is Anping Village, which is sixty or seventy miles away. If you walk quickly, you can get there in one day. This is still as fast as an adult can walk.

But for a family like theirs, which mainly contains women and children, it would take at least two or three days of walking to get there.

In other words, they need to prepare food and water for at least two or three days.

This is still the least, because they are not sure whether they can find food and water in that village, but it is probably enough.

After all, the ground around their village has been dug up for miles, and everything that can be eaten has been hollowed out.

The situation around other villages is probably similar.

Therefore, it is best to prepare food and water for five or six days, so as to ensure that they do not starve to death or die of thirst.

Aunt Geng turned around and took out a gray cloth bag from the room, then poured it on the table.

Chen Chuxue was silent as she looked at the things poured out. They were all bark and grain.

And all in all, it's probably less than enough for five people a day.

"There's only so much food!" Aunt Geng felt heavy.

Uncle Geng also sighed, "I went to the well behind the ancestral hall today and saw that there was no water either."

The village's ancestral hall is built on the hillside, so even if there is a drought, there is still more or less water.

And once there was no water, they continued digging. Now the well is more than twenty meters deep. It's so deep and there's still no water, which means that if you don't leave here, you can only wait to die of thirst.

The Geng family actually wanted to leave a long time ago, but Uncle Geng was discovered by people from the machete club on the way back from digging tree bark, and several people planned to kill people and steal goods.

But Uncle Geng is not easy to bully. Those people were almost killed, but those people pretended to beg for mercy and then attacked Uncle Geng.

Uncle Geng was knocked to the ground and almost killed by the group of people when Father Chen happened to be passing by and rescued him.

However, he was stabbed in the abdomen by the cunning machete gang, causing serious injuries and putting the family's original plan to escape on hold.

However, not long after, Chen's father died from his injuries. A few days ago, the Geng family helped take care of Chen's father's funeral affairs and began to prepare to escape.

"Let's save some food. We should be able to hold on to that village..." Aunt Geng analyzed, "As for water, I'm afraid there won't be enough..."

Uncle Geng said in a deep voice, "I'll dig in that well tomorrow morning to see if I can dig out water..."

"Dad, it's too dangerous. Didn't the well almost collapse this morning..."

Geng Xiaoyan, who had been silent until now, was a little worried and said that she saw her father come back in disgrace this morning.

Her father didn't even tell her at first, but her mother told her honestly with a look in her eyes, and he was almost buried.

"It's okay." Uncle Geng waved his arm, "Your father and I are very powerful. I have fought against big insects, so what else can defeat your father."

When Chen Chuxue heard this, she couldn't help but speak, "Uncle Geng, you don't have to worry about food and water. I can take care of it, and I still have a lot over there that you can get first..."

If something happens to Uncle Geng, who will protect them? What's more, she has enough water and food now, so there is no need to take risks.

Uncle Geng waved his hand, obviously not wanting it, and Aunt Geng also changed the subject, "I'll make these into dry food first, so as not to attract bad people when cooking on the road..."

It is too dangerous to cook on the road. No one knows whether disaster victims will suddenly appear. These victims will do anything for food.

Seeing this, Chen Chuxue asked Xiaoyue to stay for now, then turned back to her home and brought over the rice, water, and dried meat.

Of course, she didn't have that much energy, so she could only deliver the water here first, and then go to Timi, making several trips back and forth. Fortunately, the two houses were close to each other, only a few meters away.

"This……"

Seeing the white rice, a bucket of water, and dried meat that Chen Chuxue put on the table, the three Geng family members widened their eyes and were shocked.

Water aside, the rice is very thin!
  After three years of famine, there was no harvest at all. Their old grain had already been eaten up, and the rest was grain.

Even before the famine, they had only seen this fine rice but never eaten it, but Chen Chuxue carried a big bag, which must have weighed more than ten kilograms!

And the dried meat, the famine killed all the livestock, and they haven't eaten meat for several years.

But now, Chen Chuxue took out a piece of dried meat.

This has to be shocking.

Although they know that the Chen family has never been simple. Before the famine, they did not farm much and did not lack food. They had meat to eat every three days, but now it is a famine!
  The food they eat now is the roots of trees dug with great pains and the grain left over from the past.

Now seeing the white grain and a piece of dried meat, they all felt like they were in a dream.

"Xiaoxue, take it back quickly. These things are too precious. Don't expose them."

Uncle Geng and his wife reacted quickly and said seriously.

Chen Chuxue took this moment to observe the three Geng family members, but found that they were only shocked, not greedy or otherwise, and she was relieved.

She kept half of the food, water and dried meat. It didn't matter if they were greedy. At most, she could see their true colors clearly, but fortunately, they didn't.

She also made the right bet!
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