Lin Wufeng thought of something and immediately spoke to the third brother with trembling hands.

"Third brother, hurry up and go to the secret room to see if the food is still there!"

Lin Wuchong's face was also pale, and his lips were trembling uncontrollably.

He staggered toward the garden.

The issue of hoarding grain was of great importance, and most members of the Lin family were unaware of it.

How could the current head of the Lin family still have the energy to keep secrets?

The entire Lin family followed closely behind, wanting to find out what was going on.

Lin Wuchong looked at the guards and Lin Jingxuan who were still lying in the rockery, and his mouth trembled even more violently.

This place has been discovered, and the ending is predictable!

He has lost hope!

...

...

But, I still have to go in and take a look, just in case?

What if?

Looking at the empty dark room, Lin Wuchong fell to the ground powerlessly.

He simply lay on the ground, staring silently at the dark ceiling and muttering something.

After seeing this, Lin Wufeng's face turned pale and then black, but he was the head of the Lin family, so he could only hold on and not let the Lin family despair.

Lin Wanwan knew how much money her father and third uncle had spent on purchasing food in the past few days.

After seeing all this, her whole body was shaking.

She had only one thought.

It's over, completely over!

My father must have completely lost trust in her...

Her ending is worrying!

The people in the Su family don’t know why all the members of the Lin family are like this.

Isn't it just an empty house?

Is it the same as if your whole family had died?

But none of them dared to speak, and tried to reduce their presence as much as possible.

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early morning.

Waves of heat hit the refugees fleeing famine.

After traveling all night, the people of Taohua Village finally stopped.

This place is thirty miles away from Qingzhou, so it should be safe for the time being.

Although there were many refugees fleeing famine along the way, there were also many people from Taohua Village, and every man was holding a big knife.

Even if someone coveted their supplies, no one dared to actually rob them.

All the property of Taohua Village was looted by the troops.

They didn't even have anything to cook.

Fortunately, Shen Shuli had considered everything carefully, and the twenty-eight trucks of supplies had everything prepared.

"Let's all eat from a big pot together these days, and each family should send some people to help cook." Su Yunhai said to the villagers.

The villagers thought that the Su family would lend them some food, but they didn't expect that they would let everyone share it.

Li Youren was embarrassed to take advantage of the Su family, so he quickly said, "Da Hai, this is not okay. Why don't we buy some cooked food from you? We don't have anything to cook here, or we can buy some food from you, and you can lend us the pots and bowls after you finish eating."

The Zhang family had the same idea as the Li family and said they did not want to owe the Su family anything.

Su Yunhai didn't force it.

After counting the supplies in the car, it was decided to give three large iron pots to each of the Zhang and Li families.

There are not enough bowls and chopsticks.

This is easy to solve.

There are dead trees and bamboos everywhere along the way, which can be used to serve rice after simple processing.

Two carts of grain were also given to the Zhang family and the Li family, weighing about 1,000 kilograms in total.

In addition, a truckload of other supplies was distributed, such as water, lard, dried meat, bacon, vegetables, fruit, salt, sugar, mats, mattresses, etc.

The two families each wrote Su Yunhai an IOU for one thousand taels.

These supplies could not support the more than one hundred villagers who sold themselves to the Zhang family, so Zhang Shiwen handed these people over to the Su family.

These people were exchanged for a truckload of supplies, including food, water and vegetables.

So far.

Except for the Shen, Zhang and Li families, all the villagers from Taohua Village who were traveling with them became servants of the Su family and signed indentures to sell themselves.

However, the deed has not yet been sent to the government for processing, so the villagers are not considered slaves yet.

As a fellow villager, Su Yunhai also didn't want to turn the villagers into slaves.

Once things are settled, he will ask the villagers to change the form of their debts and give them freedom.

The Su family naturally has to take care of everyone’s food rations.

The villagers were very happy.

At least they won't have to worry about food and water until this batch of food is eaten up.

Shen Yuehua assigned tasks to the villagers, including collecting firewood, making fire, cooking porridge, steaming buns, washing vegetables, cooking and other trivial tasks.

Everyone cooperated actively with the work.

Soon, a steaming hot breakfast was ready.

Ten pots of sticky dried meat and white rice porridge, each pot of porridge was added with dried meat, eggs, rapeseed, salt and oil.

This is the least water- and oil-consuming method.

There are also all-you-can-eat multi-grain steamed buns.

I don’t cook at noon, but I make a lot of multi-grain steamed buns, enough for lunch.

Every villager was full and satisfied.

Not to mention that this is a year of famine, even when the weather is good, no family has ever eaten so much.

It’s all thanks to the Su family.

If they could eat so much at every meal as servants, they would have sold themselves long ago.

Unfortunately, the Su family is the only philanthropic family.

The Zhang and Li families had relatively few people, so they finished their breakfast early.

Looking at the meat, vegetables and eggs provided by the Su family, everyone was envious.

They didn't have much food, and what they had was bought with huge debts.

They didn't dare to eat like the Su family.

So all they ate was very watery rice soup and steamed corn bread, which was enough to fill them up with water.

After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill and packed up, they continued on their journey.

During the time we stayed in Taohua Village for dinner.

Thousands of people walked ahead.

It can be seen that the situation in Qingzhou City is extremely tense.

But the ones who will definitely suffer are the refugees outside the city.

No matter what the outcome is, Qingzhou and the Qingzhou military camp will be short of food and will definitely not be able to hold out for long before giving up defending the city.

Besides, the northern barbarians will attack us in five days at most.

The 20,000 soldiers defending the city were simply unable to resist the iron cavalry of the northern barbarians.

They had to leave the northern border as quickly as possible.

"Dad, the nearest county town is still eighty miles away. We definitely won't get there before dark."

Shen Shuli took the map and showed it to Su Yunhai.

"Then let's rest here for a night. There is a river on the map, but I don't know if it has dried up." Su Yunhai said, pointing to a location.

"OK."

There was not a single animal in the team, and the carts were all pulled and pushed by human power.

Naturally, the carriage was gone too.

All the women in the Su family had to walk.

Li Jiao'e has not woken up yet.

"Dad, I really can't carry it anymore, please think of a way!"

Su Changan is now afraid whenever he hears about hurrying.

When Su Changan was in Qingzhou City yesterday, he carried Li Jiao'e to the best clinic to see a doctor.

Unfortunately, the doctor just shook his head and said nothing, and only prescribed a lot of medicine.

Without a carriage, Su Changan could only carry his wife on his back to travel.

He didn't have much strength to begin with, and he could only carry it a few steps before he had to rest.

Always at the back of the team.

He wanted someone else to carry his wife on his back, but which married man would dare to carry someone else's wife?

Young men who are not married would be even more afraid!

The second brother, Su Ping'an, is indeed very strong, but it would not look good if the news got out that the brother-in-law carried his sister-in-law on his back.

Besides, Su Ping'an has to carry his own wife on his back and would never touch other women.

Neither can my sister-in-law.

As for Su Dingan.

Su Dingan is the thinnest among the three brothers, and not as strong as the eldest brother.

Besides, he has reached the age to discuss marriage and cannot have a bad reputation.

Directly and decisively reject the eldest brother's unreasonable request.