Lin Ziyang had indeed heard it; it was the last time his wife came back from a state of shock that she whispered to him. His wife lived in Niu Shou Village, and his mother-in-law's family was in Teng Shu Village, two hills away. The last time his mother-in-law came back, she was terrified. The village where she grew up was reduced to ruins, the villagers she knew were charred remains, and the houses were just collapsed rubble.

The mother-in-law ran to her brother's house like crazy. The bodies of her brother and nephew had already rotted, with black flies and white wriggling maggots all over their bodies, and a layer of hard maggot shells underneath their bodies; her brother's wife and niece's wife died naked on the bed in the house, also covered with flies and maggots flying everywhere.

After searching the house for a while, he couldn't find his brother's grandson. Just before leaving, he suddenly thought of the kitchen. He opened the big pot in the kitchen and found that it was filled with leftover human body parts. The shape and size of the bones were exactly the same as those of a child.

My mother-in-law finally couldn't help vomiting. She didn't dare look back at the village full of corpses, and fled back home. She was sick for three days in a row. Her brothers from her mother's side were worried and sent a letter to ask my sister to go back and see her.

That's why his wife knew the inside story of this matter. She came back and talked to him anxiously, asking him if he wanted to escape and leave this place.

He didn't reply. Their ancestors had lived in Linjia Village for generations, so where could they go? Once they left their registered residence, they would be refugees. So he kept this matter to himself, never telling anyone, living in fear. It wasn't until today, when he heard his father say that his second uncle had come to mobilize them to leave Linjia Village, that he felt relieved.

Lin Zicheng couldn't help but frown after hearing this: "Brother, this matter is so important, how could you keep it secret so strictly!"

Lin Ziyang also frowned. "What good will it do if I tell you? Leave here? Then what's the difference between us and the refugees outside? We have no land, no crops, no food, and we have to rely on begging to survive along the way, or if we're lucky, sell our children into slavery and prostitution? And we're separated by two mountains. On the bright side, they may not be able to find us."

Lin Rui didn't expect the situation to be so serious. He looked at Lin Ziyang and asked, "Are you going to leave or not?"

Lin Ziyang now looked at his cousin as if he had been reborn and had become a different person. He was very independent and even felt that he had a backbone when following his cousin Lin Rui. He nodded immediately and said, "Let's go, cousin, I'll go with you!"

Lin Rui nodded. "Okay, cousins. If you want to leave, go back and pack up early. We'll leave tomorrow at the latest. There's no time to waste. It's best to tell the village head uncle what you've seen and heard so he can make plans early."

Lin Ziyang and Li Zicheng nodded repeatedly: "Okay!"

After the two left, Lin Rui rolled up his sleeves and started to help. He was not good at kitchen work, but he was good at other things.

You may encounter all kinds of bad weather on the way to escape famine, especially heavy rain. If the ox cart has no roof, what will the people do? They will be soaked like drowned rats. In ancient times, colds and fevers were really life-threatening!

Lin Rui and Sanliang dismantled the door panels of their house and made full use of them, and started to make a carriage like a carriage. Lin Changxi usually did some carpentry, so he had some handy tools at home. After all, Lin Rui was a half-expert after the extreme struggle with the decoration company. After the whole house customization went wrong and the merchant refused to admit it, he had to take the tools and do it himself according to the online tutorial.

Now it’s just a matter of installing a sedan chair. It doesn’t matter whether it is crudely made or not, as long as it can shelter us from the wind and rain.

As for the carts and oxen used to store the goods, he was not afraid. There were tents for outdoor use, thermal blankets, and waterproof cloths in the house. His second sister was sewing them with cotton cloth as camouflage.

Feng Zhenniang and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Lu, were busy in the kitchen all the time. They spread the kneaded dough in the pot. After a while, a pancake was made and placed on the pot lid to cool.

The bacon and pickled vegetables were all loaded onto the ox cart one by one. Rice and other things could not be preserved for a long time after being cooked. In addition, the weather was so hot that they would spoil very quickly. They could only be tied up in bags and cooked when they found a place to rest.

You need a pot to cook, right? Okay, I'll take this pancake pan with me later. The Lin Dynasty has strict control over ironware, and ordinary farmers don't have any extra allowances except iron pots, kitchen knives and farm tools.

In addition to silver, pots and farm tools are also valuable assets of the people.

At this time, the second sister took out the waterproof cloth, thermal blanket and tent that had been sewn, and covered them with a layer of cotton cloth. Sure enough, there was no trace of modern things.

"Mom, remember to boil water. Don't drink it raw!" Lin Rui repeatedly emphasized that the water in ancient rivers was indeed cleaner than the modern water, but sometimes there would be insect eggs in unboiled water, such as leeches. Drinking it would cause vomiting and diarrhea, and it would be terrifying if parasites could survive tenaciously in the body and continue to produce small insects.

Feng Zhenniang sighed, then turned around and complained to her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Lu, "What's the point? Every kid from a farming family grew up drinking raw water. I don't think they're bad at all!"

Mrs. Lu smiled and said, "Mother, listen to Rui'er. He always does good for us."

The boiled water and baked pancakes were placed aside to cool. Even though Feng Zhenniang and Lu were busy all the time, Lin Rui still had a lot of flour he bought. The two of them worked hard to knead the dough. Lin Rui also reminded them to add some salt to the pancakes so that people could absorb salt and replenish trace elements.

The weather in September was still extremely hot, and the temperature did not drop at all in the early morning. Lin Rui and Sanliang were busy, sweating and panting. When the sun came out, mosquitoes came out with it.

This gave Lin Rui a heads-up. Since he had to hurry through the mountains to avoid danger, he would inevitably have to deal with mosquitoes and insects in the mountains. "Mom, do you have any dried mugwort at home?"

Mugwort was an indispensable plant for fumigating mosquitoes in ancient times. Carrying it and lighting it when resting at night can always keep mosquitoes away and allow you to sleep well.

Otherwise, you would be exhausted from traveling all day, and then be bitten by mosquitoes as big as fists in the mountains at night, which would drive you crazy. That would be unbearable.

"Yes, yes, there are two big bundles in the woodshed. Take them if you want."

Lin Rui went to the woodshed and saw two large bundles of mugwort. The yellow branches had no moisture at all, so they could be lit at one o'clock in the morning to drive away insects with the smoke.

Lin Changxi didn't go anywhere. He packed up all the clothes and bedding in the house and put them on the ox cart. Although it was still very hot now, the weather would get cold after the early autumn rain, so he would definitely have to change into thick clothes.

"Grandpa, uncle, what are you doing?"

At this moment, Lin Rui's nephew, Lu's son Xiao Mu, came out of the house with sleepy eyes. Lin Changxi took Xiao Mu in his arms and took him inside to change clothes: "Hurry up, change clothes and help your uncle with the work. We have to leave here immediately!"

Lin Changxi's family was busy as hell, and Lin Changhe's family also started to dismantle doors and boards to clean up. This made Lin Changtai and Lin Changshou, who were sent by Lin Pingmao to investigate, unable to sit still: "Brother, it seems like this is serious. Let's go back and talk to Dad!"