For a moment, everyone panicked and asked, "What should we do?"

There were also people crying and shouting, wiping their tears in the rain: "Oh my God, why am I so miserable..."

Suddenly there was a sound of wailing.

Finally, Lin Jinyue said with a headache: "Don't cry, don't cry, we still have a way to survive."

She looked at these people. Although they were noisy at ordinary times and had even quarreled over the distribution of carts early this morning, they were not bad people. What's more, they had shared hardships in the cave some time ago. Each of them would rather not have enough food themselves than not put the eggs in her arms.

Lin Jinyue must find a way to keep everyone safe.

Lin Jinyue said, "We will divide the work and cooperate with each other. The village chief will arrange the tasks. No one should say who is taking advantage of whom. Only when we work together can we support each other and survive in Lingnan. If anyone is in trouble, we will help them if we can. With crossbows and arrows, we can go hunting in the mountains and not be afraid of starving to death. What's more, the south is rich in products. If we can endure for another ten days, after passing Yangzhou, we will not starve even if we go to the mountains to pick fish to eat."

"The people around us now are our confidence in the future. We only have about fifty people. With such a small number of people, it would be difficult to settle down in the south without a pass. If there are fewer people, it will be more and more difficult to go back."

"Prince Jing is so cruel. I guess there must be a lot of bandits and rebels besides the refugees. When a fight breaks out, no one will care whether you are an innocent civilian or not..."

Everyone's face turned pale. They absolutely did not doubt what Lin Jinyue said.

Lin Jinyue comforted her: "Don't worry, there is still a way."

Lin Jinyue told her plan.

At night, we looked for young people to keep watch. Everyone took out some food and gave it to them to eat. During the day, the carts did not carry food, but directly carried the people who were keeping watch.

There will be no need to argue over these carts in the future.

Lin Jinyue: "If there is someone on guard at night, we will be much safer. If we really can't handle it, we can still shout. At least we won't be caught off guard by wild beasts or soldiers coming to the mountain."

After everyone discussed it, their originally frightened faces relaxed, and they were even discussing which boy among them should be sent to keep watch, and they also said that no one should be allowed to get hurt.

Their faces, which had been pale, were now filled with renewed fighting spirit.

No one questioned Lin Jinyue at this time. Even though she was only eight years old, she had already become the backbone of this group of people.

Lin Jinyue saw their expressions recover before continuing, "We decided to go to Lingnan because Qi Wei read in a book that Lingnan is rich in products. As long as we can get rid of the miasma, everyone will be rich and live better in the future."

She said this because she was actually worried that this group of people would lose motivation along the way, just like those company bosses in her previous life who made empty promises to their employees.

Seeing that everyone was full of energy, Lin Jinyue immediately and efficiently made a plan.

Now there is not only the Shanglin Youliang family, there are a total of eight households and 55 people.

The eight households were Lin Jinyue's family of four, four other families with the same surname Lin, the village chief Lin Youcai's family of nine, the third uncle's family of eight, and two other families with the surname Lin, with three and seven people respectively. However, their relationship was a little distant, and before fleeing the famine, they would not move during festivals.

The remaining three households were of other surnames. The Wang and Chen families had seven people each, all of them were young and strong and children. The elderly did not make it on the road. The last family was the butcher Liu's family. They had just moved to Linjia Village a few years ago. The villagers were xenophobic, not to mention them who had moved in a few years ago. Even the other two families, the Wang and Chen families, who had lived in the village for dozens of months, were not taken out by the village chief to play.

However, Lin Jinyue's plan this time was to bring all the outsiders with them.

For example, Butcher Liu's family often went hunting in the mountains. His three sons could use crossbows and were quite accurate, so Lin Jinyue gave them a crossbow.

Although the crossbow arrows are sometimes effective and sometimes not, they can help solve some problems.

At the same time, three strong young men were arranged to stay on duty every night to help watch the wind to avoid any danger at night when everyone fell asleep.

Seeing that Lin Jinyue had almost finished her arrangements, Lin Youcai said to everyone, "Take a rest tonight. When the rain stops, we can go pick some things nearby and continue our journey tomorrow."

Lin Youliang's family was unhappy: "Then everyone else will have something to do, this is not fair, are you not planning to take us with you?"

Lin Youcai stopped talking.

The other people in the village all disliked their family.

"Why do we take your family with us? We have already agreed that if we don't take your family with us, you will just be lazy and take advantage of us every day. How can we be at ease with you?"

Lin Youliang didn't dare to say anything and just kept glaring at his two daughters-in-law.

Their family loves to be lazy and take advantage, but that was before. Everything they got was divided equally, so they would naturally be lazy if they could. This time, Lin Laosan's arrangement directly excluded their family, and the villagers did not trust them. If any good things were obtained in the future, their family would definitely not get a share.

Thinking of this, Lin Youliang felt uncomfortable and almost hated the third wife to death, but he didn't dare to show it.

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After going through all this, the villagers took a rest or worked, and no one was idle.

There are fewer disputes.

The sky cleared up in the evening, but it was still pitch dark and we didn't dare to travel any further. We left three strong young men to keep watch while the others fell asleep.

With someone keeping watch all night, everyone slept more soundly.

Before going to bed, Lin Shucheng secretly gave each of the three of them two fried dough twists to fill their stomachs when they were too hungry at night. He also said something respectful: "I see that you are capable, so I dare only give the job of keeping watch on this first night to you."

After being tricked by Lin Shucheng, the three men were full of energy. One of them was Lin Fugui's son, Lin Dazhuang, who held two fried dough twists and stayed on the tree all night.

When it was almost dawn, Lin Dazhuang was so hungry that he ate two bites of fried dough twist. Then he looked down the mountain and saw some faint lights, as if someone was using a torch.

Lin Dazhuang stuffed the fried dough twist into his mouth in a few seconds, jumped down, and hurriedly woke Lin Shucheng up, whispering, "Uncle, someone is coming up the mountain with a torch."

The other two also woke up the negotiator and said anxiously: "Hurry up, someone has gone up the mountain, what should we do..."

For a moment, many people were in a panic.

Lin Jinyue was so anxious that she broke out in a cold sweat. Don’t come to the top of the mountain.

Lin Jinyue took two deep breaths and asked, "Are there many people at the foot of the mountain? Are they soldiers?"

Lin Dazhuang scratched his head. "It's pitch black here, and I can see torches and lights at the bottom of the mountain from a distance. There are quite a few torches, about seven or eight."

Lin Jinyue calmed down instantly. There were only seven or eight torches, so not many people could come.

Lin Jinyue looked at the situation over there and said to everyone, "Don't worry, there are only a few dozen people at most. Uncle Liu, Uncle Two, and my brother, keep an eye on them. No matter if they are refugees or officials, shoot them directly in the vital parts with crossbows. The rest of you quickly get some face towels and cover your faces. Don't let anyone find us again. The wooden arrows must be retrieved as well."

A few of them quietly came to the edge of a cliff, and lay on the cliff, just in time to see the torches below.

Their hearts were in their throats and they were all extremely worried.

However, they didn't expect that the people below just walked around here and left before dawn.

Several people were frightened and broke out in cold sweats.

It turned out to be a false alarm.

Lin Youcai said to Lin Jinyue and the others, "It is probably the people who live at the foot of the mountain who came to the mountain to look for food. The price of food has been high everywhere recently. When we were fleeing from famine before, we occasionally saw people who lived in the city coming to the mountain to look for food. They came here in the middle of the night. It is probably forbidden by the soldiers. Otherwise, everything in the mountain would have been plundered by these people, and the soldiers would have nothing to eat."