No one planned to keep these catfish to make dried fish meat or something, so they just roasted them on the fire. They had been eating either porridge or rice along the way, so this kind of roasted food was just right to help them savour the flavor.

Everyone was full after the meal and burped. Only then did everyone feel that they had not been hungry since the patriarch started to implement the public food system.

The benefits of having enough food are visible to the naked eye. One is the spirit and vitality, and the other is the strength of the Lin family members. Now the Gao family is very upset. Although they left when Lin Rui and the Fang family combined the grain and calculated the share, they did not know the specific calculation method.

But when they were on the journey later, they were still with everyone. What they saw with their own eyes was real. They ate white porridge with the aroma of meat, or white rice with pickled vegetables and meat slices. The fish caught by Lin were shared. Although Fang Bing and the father-in-law in Xiao Cui's family were not good at catching fish, because of the public food, Lin would give them three fish out of their kindness.

Later, Gao Yumin couldn't help it. Too embarrassed to ask Lin Rui, he could only stealthily find Xiao Cui and Fang Bing and ask, "Sisters, don't you and the Lin family eat the public grain together? How do you divide it? There are so many of them, and there are only three of you. Aren't you at a disadvantage?"

Xiao Cui smiled and shook her head: "Patriarch Lin is such a good person, how could he let us poor people suffer any loss? No loss, no loss, he is helping our family in various ways!"

"What do you mean? Why would I help your family? They have so many people, they would lose a lot of money just to subsidize them!" Gao Yumin became even more curious.

Xiao Cui just smiled and said nothing, refusing to reveal any more relevant information no matter what.

Gao Yumin and Gao Yuliang were both grumbling in their hearts, but in the end, Gao Yuliang established a good relationship with Fang Bing and was able to get the information by pestering him.

The food of the Lin clan was robbed, and it was true that the other three families were facing the possibility of starvation, but their clan leader was very capable. Even in the latter half of the journey, he still had a backup plan. He had about 200 kilograms of food, which allowed the clan members to survive for at least more than 20 days with enough food and water.

More than twenty days are enough for them to reach Huangmo Pass. Now, as long as it is not a man-made disaster, they will definitely be able to avoid natural disasters.

Now the two brothers Gao Yumin and Gao Yuliang were regretting it so much that their intestines turned green. Of course they knew it now. This was not public grain at all. It was the patriarch of the Lin family who wanted to express his gratitude to the Gao family and his young wife's family for their help before.

As a result, the young wife's family seized the opportunity, while they watched it slip away, thinking they were so smart.

He immediately regretted it and didn't have the face to tell the human clan leader again. He made up his mind that next time he would hold on to the golden thigh of the Lin clan leader no matter what. He was really a capable man.

This was a famine year with a shortage of food and clothing. Not to mention my own family, even the clan leader was well-fed and healthy.

As the pressure of survival eased on Lin Rui's side, everyone was able to eat and drink enough, and their physical fitness improved a lot. The second sister had milk again, and my mother's prolapse was cured by the folk remedy of heating the soles of the shoes, and she had more strength to walk.

Even the two old cows pulling the cart found a patch of grass and ate it heartily after passing the drought zone. Sanliang filled basins with the prepared water to feed the cows. The family was able to get out of the drought zone safely, and these two old cows made an indispensable contribution!

After 500 meters of the arid area, we really found a number of streams. In front of us, there were many people lying or sitting there to rest, all of them in tattered clothes.

Mu Tou cheered and ran to the nearest stream, where only the elderly, the weak, women and children were sitting, and they didn't look like they had much attack power.

In other words, those who had fled the famine and were lucky enough to survive were starving beyond recognition, and the men among the victims might not be able to afford to eat every meal.

Fortunately, everyone cut their long hair when leaving Lianshan, otherwise lice would have made a nest and sucked at least a pound of blood.

All the men were unshaven, except for Lin Rui, who was clean-shaven. After all, he had both manual and electric razors in his house, so he could choose whichever he wanted. He didn't want to eat like his uncles, eating his beard and then pulling it out.

Sanliang took Qingqing to the river. The victims lying on the shore looked at the burly Sanliang and the dark but plump Qingqing with envy in their eyes.

They were lucky not to have starved to death along the way, but what they didn't expect was that there were still people who lived a life without worries about food and clothing, with enough to eat and drink, and their children at home were still lively and energetic.

Didn’t you see that the children around them were so hungry that they were almost breathing their last breath, and now they were lying by the river drinking water to fill their stomachs?

Sanliang washed Qingqing's face, and Lin Susu took soap to wash her own and her daughter's hair. If there were no one by the river, she would probably have used a basin of water to wash them simply.

There is not enough water to drink along the way in the drought-stricken area, let alone brushing teeth and washing up. No matter how uncomfortable it is, you have to endure it.

Of course, the latter is more terrifying than feeling uncomfortable or dying of thirst. What’s the big deal about being dirty? Won’t you get used to it after living in it for a while?

Lin Changxi and Zhao Qing, the father-in-law and son-in-law, first unloaded the two ox carts from the oxen, and then led the oxen to the downstream where they would not affect the water source. The two big blue oxen were so dirty that they were almost covered with grease. When Lin Changxi led them into the slightly cool water, they immediately roared in comfort, and except for their noses and heads, their entire bodies sank into the water.

Of course, the water where the old cow was soaking soon became turbid, which is why Lin Changxi moved the cow downstream.

Even though they were exhausted from fleeing the famine, the habit of not drinking raw water was ingrained in everyone in the Lin family. After a short rest, the attentive women started to build a fire and boil water, waiting for it to cool before pouring it into the water bag.

I poured all the water in the bucket that I hadn't been willing to use up onto the ground, went back to the river to rinse the bottles, and then got another bucket of clean water to use in case of emergency along the way.

Dunzi, Douzi, Xiaozhan and Xiangxiang and other children were all playing together. Sanliang was responsible for taking care of these children, so everyone felt relieved.

After all, with Sanliang's fighting power, Lin Zijun and others, with only three or five people, could not get close to him. What's more, Sanliang is still a teenager who can only eat half full along the way. When he grows up, his strength will be even more immeasurable.

When Mu Tou was playing with his brothers and sisters of the same clan, he accidentally tripped over something soft and stumbled. He took several steps back before he could barely stand.

He saw that it was a child lying there drinking water, so he immediately went up to him and asked, "I'm sorry, did I hurt you?"

The child was still lying there motionless. Mu Tou was worried and touched her, but there was no response.

Until Mu Tou turned the child's whole body over with force, he saw that her belly was very big, which was very inconsistent with her thin body. She stared at the sky with wide eyes.

"Ah!" Mu Tou was startled by the sudden change and crawled back several steps.