"It smells so good!"

"Grandpa, when can we eat this pork?"

Wang Xiaohu, Liu Enze, and their three little rascals squatted around the grill, watching the wild boar sizzling and dripping with oil over the campfire, their mouths watering with envy.

"What's the rush? We'll share them with you once they're done baking!"

"This was caught by your Grandma Su, so remember to thank her before you eat it!"

Old Wang was delighted to see the little ones swallowing their saliva so hard. To be honest, he had never eaten roasted wild boar in his entire life.

Even when we were at home before, we would only kill a chicken and cut half a pound of pork for holidays, and that would be enough for the whole family, one piece per person.

Where have you ever seen a whole pig roasted over a fire?

If the wild boar hadn't been hunted by Granny Su, her family would never have been willing to eat it like this in their entire lives.

Outside the cave, a torrential downpour was falling, but inside, laughter and chatter filled the air!

The children's playful antics, accompanied by the adults' joking banter, created a scene that, despite the rain, was unlike the gloom and darkness outside.

After it got completely dark, the roasted wild boar in the cave was taken down from the campfire.

Da Zhuang's wife stood in front of the roasted wild boar, dividing it into pieces. She first handed one piece to each person, and then cut the rest and placed it on a large leaf, so anyone who wanted more could take some.

Everyone sat in a circle inside the cave, each holding a piece of roasted pork. The children stopped playing and the adults focused on eating their meat.

For a moment, the only sounds in the cave were chewing and swallowing.

"bite!"

"Host, there's a group of bandits near this cave!"

"They are expected to pass by here in about 30 minutes, so please prepare accordingly!"

Just as they were enjoying the delicious meat, they heard some news. Lin Xue looked at the crowd who were engrossed in eating and the aroma wafting through the cave.

"Do you know whether the other side is a local bandit or a bandit from elsewhere?"

If they were local bandits, they would definitely know there was a cave here, and given the torrential rain outside, this group would likely be resting here.

If they were bandits from out of town, they would have continued on their way and might not have discovered the cave.

"The other side seems to be bandits from Qinglong Mountain. Qinglong Mountain is not far from here, so this group of people are local bandits!"

The system's words made Lin Xue's heart skip a beat; now she couldn't get away with it.

She quickly finished eating the meat in her hand, then clapped her hands.

"You guys keep eating, I'm going out to use the restroom. Remember not to let the kids eat too much, in case they get an upset stomach later!"

Without waiting for anyone's reaction, Lin Xue hurriedly left the cave after speaking.

A few minutes later, she rushed back.

"Oh no! Oh no!"

"I saw a group of people carrying large knives walking this way in the distance. They didn't look like good people!"

"They were also leading a lot of horses, and with them were several refugees, but those refugees were not in good condition. They were all young women being forced by this group of people to walk this way!"

Lin Xue told everyone her findings in one breath. Of course, these were not things she had seen herself, but rather things the system had told her.

"What?"

"If you're not mistaken, that group of people is very likely bandits!"

"I've heard about Qinglong Mountain around here, where there are several groups of bandits. I never expected that we would run into one of them!"

After hearing Lin Xue's words, Old Man Wang stopped eating meat. He looked at everyone with some worry, his heart filled with concern.

"In my opinion, we should hurry up and leave. Anyway, it's raining quite heavily, and if we leave now, they might not be able to find us!"

"If we delay any longer, they might really come!"

As Lin Xue spoke, she began to pack her things, taking out an oilcloth from under her basket.

The oilcloth in this world is made of cotton cloth coated with boiled tung oil. The one she bought is of better quality, with boiled tung oil on both sides, making it more waterproof than one-sided oil.

"Grandma Su is right, we must leave immediately!"

"Second son's wife, put this wild boar meat away, don't let it go to waste!"

"Third son's wife, you and the children pack all our things away."

"Eldest and second eldest, go help Grandma Su tidy up the oxcart, and bring out our oilcloth to cover the supplies later. It doesn't matter if we get wet, but we can't let the grain get soaked in the rain!"

"Third brother, move all our family's supplies onto the flatbed cart and then cover them with an oilcloth."

As tasks were assigned, everyone sprang into action, even the children helped pack.

"Dazhuang and Erzhuang, go and get some sturdy wooden sticks. We'll build a shed on the oxcart!"

"Later, let the elderly and children ride on the oxcart, and put our supplies on your flatbed cart as well. Today, we can only ask for your help, Dazhuang and the big yellow ox!"

"Xiaoyu, go and get some coarse grains. Give the big yellow ox more to eat. If the ox isn't full, how will it have the strength to pull us?"

Old Huang, along with his wife and two daughters-in-law, were busy working in the cave, while Lin Xue, with Da Zhuang and Er Zhuang, were building the roof of the oxcart.

Because of the time constraints, it wasn't done in great detail.

They managed to build a makeshift shelter that wouldn't get wet in the rain, and then Lin Xue had Ge Xiaoyu spread their thick, sticky cloth on the oxcart.

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