Bai Hanrong dragged his aching leg forward and grabbed the man by the collar: "Why are you so vicious? What good would it do you if we died?"

The man wasn't afraid of him: "What do you want to do? Want to fight? I'm not afraid of you!"

Bai Hansong pushed his elbow upwards, and he felt pain and let go. Seeing this, the man swung his fist and hit him in the nose.

"I've been wanting to beat you up for a long time. If a tiger doesn't show its might, you think I'm a sick cat!"

None of the onlookers stepped forward to help, and they all thought he deserved to be beaten.

The Bai family heard the sound of fighting and ran out: "Stop! Stop!"

The man then stopped and said, "I'm telling you, don't let me see you again, or I'll beat you every time I see you!"

Bai Hanrong's face was bruised and swollen, and she felt extremely aggrieved. Thinking about what happened last night and the days to come, she burst into tears.

"Wuwuwu... God is blind... Wuwuwu... You are too bullying..."

Mrs. Wang had never seen her son like this before. She picked up the broom in the yard and swept it at the few people: "I told you not to laugh at me and bully my son..."

The situation here was very chaotic, and finally the old village chief was invited over.

"That's enough! We're almost starving to death, and you still have the mind to fight?"

Seeing this, Mrs. Wang knelt on the ground and cried loudly: "Village head, you have to take charge of this for us. The bandits stole all our food last night, not a single grain left! Wuuwuwu..."

The village head had already heard about this when he arrived. He glared at Wang Po and said, "I'm going to make the decision for you? You want me, an old man, to go fight bandits? Why don't you just report it to the authorities?"

He glanced back at the villagers and asked, "Who's going to go up the mountain to peel the bark and dig Guanyin soil?"

Everyone dispersed and went home to get their things.

On the other side, Tang Youyou and his family had packed up everything and were ready to set off.

"Tang...you...where are you going?"

The people who went up the mountain looked at this scene and were very puzzled.

Tang Youyou ignored it, smiled slightly, and drove away in the ox cart.

"Oh my goodness, when did she buy the ox cart?"

"Are you moving?"

"It looks like it. The pot has been taken."

"Look... Mr. Xu is following us too. What are they going to do?"

"Hey! Stop looking, let's hurry up the mountain. There will be a lot of people around soon, and it's hard to peel the bark off the tree!"

No matter how much we thought about it, we couldn't guess that they were going to flee in panic.

When several families walked out of the village, they turned their heads and took a deep look at the village, their eyes unconsciously moistened.

Old Man Tang shook his sleeves and said, "Let's go! We'll have a chance to come back later!"

Everyone walked slowly on the road with heavy hearts.

The ox cart was full of things, and the children were afraid of tiring the ox out, so they were reluctant to sit on it. After only two hours of walking, Tang Youyou could no longer bear it.

Oh my god, this road is so bumpy. I didn’t feel it when I was sitting on the ox cart before, but now I feel like I have a solid foot massage while walking on the road, except that I seem to have some blisters.

Unable to hold on any longer, he gasped: "Rest... rest for a while!"

She is a mountaineering enthusiast who has never felt that the road is difficult to walk on, but now she is defeated by reality.

Tang's mother handed her a water bag. She licked her dry lips and waved her hand: "I'm not thirsty!"

She could drink water secretly, but the water in the water bag was limited.

Everyone looked left and right and saw that the trees along the official road were bare, with all their leaves plucked out and their bark peeled off.

"This sun is so scorching, there's nowhere to hide!"

Everyone broke some dry branches, stuck them into the ground, and tied the four legs with sheets to make a simple awning.

Lin Huahua was cutting the weeds on the roadside.

"Mom, take a rest. I'll weave you a straw hat. It will make you feel a little cooler!"

When the children who were resting heard this, they all started pulling up weeds.

Tang Youyou nodded with relief, and became more determined to bring all her family members to Nanzhou alive.

She took out a map. That's right! It was a map. She had spent a lot of money to buy it from the system.

"Dad, look, we are in this place, more than 1,500 miles away from Nanzhou."

Old Man Tang sighed: "It's so hot in this damn weather. We can only travel in the morning and evening. I'm afraid the children won't be able to handle it if we travel at noon!"

She nodded and looked at the half-grown radishes. There were four adults and three children in their family.

My brother’s family consists of two old people, three adults, and three children;

The Yu family consists of six people, three adults and three children;

Butcher Zhang’s family consists of five people, four adults and one child;

There are three adults and one child in Carpenter Zhang's family.

Thirty people in total. (Children refers to those under fifteen years old!)

Normally, traveling fifty or sixty miles a day is not a problem, but now the drought is severe, there is a lack of water, and the sun is too strong. If we travel at noon, we might get heatstroke.

But if you take the mountain road, the distance will be longer.

"Dad! After tomorrow, let's go over the mountain!"

"Daughter? What do you mean?"

"Dad, the sun is too scorching. There's nowhere to hide. We can't hurry or we'll get heatstroke. If we go into the mountains, maybe we can find water. It's not that hot deep in the mountains, so we can walk faster!"

Butcher Zhang agreed with this and said, "I agree. A lot of people looked at us unkindly on the road just now, but now we have some food!"

Yao Cuihua cursed directly: "Damn it, you dare to come and steal my food? I will strip his hair off!"

"My wife is brave!"

Everyone: This dog food was a bit unexpected.

So, everyone pushed the carts into the mountains in the afternoon.

Tang's mother looked at the oxcart frame with some reluctance: "After all, I spent money to buy this. This... is such a waste!"

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