Then, Lin Youcai went to Lin Shucheng and begged, "Third brother, as the village chief, my words still carry some weight. Please, as your uncle, take us with you. We promise we won't cause any trouble. If anyone gets a headache or fever and needs Tiezhu's mother to treat them, we'll definitely trade medicine for it. With more people, we can help each other out."

Lin Shucheng didn't turn around, but looked at his daughter again.

Lin Jinyue thought for a moment and said, "It's fine to bring it, but we need to agree on three rules and sign a marriage contract."

Lin Youcai readily agreed: "Okay."

Lin Jinyue continued: "First, if you want to stay with my family, you must obey my father and brother's orders in critical moments. If you dare to cause trouble, our family will leave on our own. Second, if my family has any conflicts with Lin Youliang's family in the future, you are not allowed to mediate between them. Third, on the road to escape famine, we must prioritize our own family and not give any surplus food to others."

Lin Xueqing added, "Anyone who dares to lay a finger on my sister, my dad and I will break their legs!"

These words were directed at Lin Youliang.

After agreeing on the three-point agreement, Lin Xueqing wrote a letter severing ties with her husband.

Without paper money, he tore off the cloth he had just changed, bit his finger and wrote in blood, showing that he was determined to sever all ties with the Lin family.

Otherwise, even if they didn't bring Lin Youliang's family along today, they would still stick to us like glue, saying they just happened to be on the same route, causing this commotion every day. How annoying!

Lin Youliang is now truly panicked. Seeing that Lin Youcai is about to invoke clan law and that everyone else in the village is siding with the third brother, he is momentarily flustered.

In order to survive, they had no choice but to put their fingerprints on the severance papers and dared not do anything reckless.

Lin Youliang felt extremely frustrated.

But if they were sent north now, Prince Jing would have already attacked. Who would dare to run away? If they were caught, who knows whether they would become slaves or be boiled in oil.

After everything was settled, Lin Youcai asked everyone to tidy up the place first.

Although this cave is safe, it's not a good place to stay for long.

The Prince Jing's army was about to attack, so they dared not go out.

Lin Shucheng then arranged for the young men to climb up the mountain along the thick tree trunks, occasionally glancing at the situation in Nan'an County in the distance.

They figured that Prince Jing's men had already arrived, and they didn't know if any villagers had hidden in the mountains. Since someone was watching from the trees, Lin Shucheng told everyone to go back into the cave and wait and see what happened.

This was where the people of Linjia Village used to hide. It had been tidied up a bit, but it was still a mess inside.

The cave was dimly lit, but there were several vents. Lin Youcai and his group gathered the remaining firewood and started a fire.

As soon as the lights came on, Lin Jinyue was startled: "Ah—"

She immediately jumped up, saying that her legs felt sticky and a little cold, and it turned out that a centipede was crawling on her!

And this centipede was huge; just looking at it gave her goosebumps all over.

Not to mention her, even Jiang Yun was startled. She quickly told her son to catch the centipede, as it could be used in medicine, and she dared not touch it herself.

Lin Xueqing quickly caught the centipede and also caught the small snake hiding nearby.

Lin Xueqing, who spent most of her previous life in the wild, was not afraid of these things. She even said, "We're having snake meat soup tonight. Snakes should be edible, right?"

Lin Jinyue leaned closer to take a look, and indeed, although the snake looked intimidating, it was not poisonous.

Lin Xueqing quickly peeled off the skin and handed it to his father to handle.

Lin Shucheng set up a pot, took the seasonings his daughter had secretly given him, and prepared to stew snake meat soup with rice.

After finishing her meal, Lin Jinyue leaned against a nearby rock, her gaze somewhat vacant.

Lin Shucheng was the first to notice something was wrong with her, and quickly went over to ask, "What's wrong, honey? Did you not like the snake soup earlier? Oh, the nanny usually cooks, but Dad will make it a few more times. It will definitely taste better in a few days."

Lin Jinyue snapped out of her reverie and said with a smile, "No, it's quite delicious. I was just wondering how long this will last."

She was itchy all over. The farm had water, but no bath tub or shower gel. She was also worried about polluting the river, so she didn't dare to go in to bathe. She could only fetch some water and wipe herself down.

However, the original owner of this body had been fleeing the famine for more than a month, and had not washed her hair or taken a bath for a month. Her hair was tangled and infested with lice, and her body was covered in black dirt. This made Lin Jinyue, who had a slight obsession with cleanliness in her previous life, very uncomfortable.

Let alone her, even Lin Xueqing, who spent years on missions and rolling around in the mud in her previous life, couldn't stand it.

Lin Jinyue took a deep breath. These days had to end soon. Now that she was in ancient times, she didn't crave modern villas, luxury cars, or various forms of entertainment and leisure. At least, she couldn't be like this, so filthy that even a dog would despise her.

She immediately picked up a twig and started writing and drawing on the ground. She was currently in Xinyang, Henan, and it was more than a thousand kilometers to Guangzhou. They would have to take a detour and choose remote places to travel, and she didn't know if they could get there in six months.

Lin Jinyue scratched her itchy head. "No, we need to get a carriage!"

She couldn't even stand living like this for a month, let alone half a year.

Lin Shucheng was terrified: "Girl, you want a carriage?"

This really worried Old Lin. Where could he conjure up a carriage for his daughter?

Lin Jinyue has already solved her food and clothing problems and is worried about living a better life. However, the villagers are not so lucky; they are all starving.

The cakes that Lin Jinyue gave us not long ago didn't come in very good use. Some families couldn't bear to eat them, some had them snatched away in the chaos on the road, and some families favored boys over girls and didn't give any to the girls.

Lin Sanya, the granddaughter of her great-uncle, was incredibly unlucky. First, she was robbed on the road, leaving her with only a palm-sized piece of bread. Her great-uncle gave it to her younger brother, Shitou, and Sanya fainted from hunger.

At this time, the uncle's family was still thinking about whether they should just bury Sanya right there.

Lin Jinyue was terrified.

Thankfully, her parents transmigrated.

Actually, the people in Linjia Village were considered relatively good. In ordinary famine-stricken groups, most of the people were able-bodied men, while children and the elderly were the first to be abandoned.

Among the people in Linjia Village, there were the elderly Lin Youliang, Lin Youcai, her great-uncle Lin Youxi, and two old ladies. They couldn't bear to sell the children either. The group of about fifty people included seven girls.

But this is ancient times, and that's how they think. When they're desperate, the first thing they'll abandon is definitely the girl.

Lin Jinyue felt a little reluctant.

After all, she has the original owner's memories, and the original owner had the best relationship with Lin Sanya when they were young.

Putting all that aside, Lin Sanya is only an eight-year-old child. It's one thing if they don't have food, but now that she has plenty of food in her space, she certainly can't just watch Sanya be buried alive by them.

Lin Jinyue then took half a dry food biscuit and handed it over.

Her third great-uncle, who was over sixty years old, actually knelt down and kowtowed to her for half a piece of coarse grain cake that no one in her family liked to eat, saying, "Er Ya, you gave San Ya her life. If we survive, San Ya and Shi Tou will be your servants from now on."

As he spoke, he pulled his son and grandson Shitou to kowtow to Lin Jinyue.