Si Cheng found a few people to return to the highway and pick up everyone who was waiting there, since the salt well was not far away, and everyone could stop and rest for a while.

"Everyone can get a good rest tonight. The salt well isn't far from here. You can all get some rest tomorrow, and we'll continue our journey a little later," Si Cheng announced the good news after everyone had finished dinner.

"Great! I've been traveling every day these past few days and I always feel like I haven't had enough sleep. Now I can finally sleep in." Yun Qiao had always been pampered by his fourth aunt, and this time, his two uncles dragged him out of the house. If he wasn't afraid of being left behind halfway, he would have protested long ago.

"What's so good about sleeping? Tonight, your brothers will take you to find something fun." Yun Heng and the others had just asked Gao Baiyun about it. For some reason, wild rabbits were rampant in this area, so every time the village planted any crops, these wild rabbits would secretly dig them up and take them away. Otherwise, they wouldn't be thinking of leaving their homes.

"What fun things could there be now? Nothing is more important than sleeping." Yunqiao didn't believe that there could be anything fun in a place where it's dark all day long.

"You don't understand, do you? You used to slack off whenever we asked you to come up the mountain with us. Do you know what we usually did when we went up the mountain?"

"What else can he do? It's just killing snakes and patrolling the mountains." Yun Qiao used to be protected at home by his fourth aunt in Pinghe Village, and the villagers didn't like to go out and play with him, so he didn't know a lot of things.

"Have you ever tried roasted rabbit? If you do, you'll definitely crave it again and again." Yunyang joined the conversation.

"Although I saw a lot of rabbits along the way, I couldn't catch them at all. I'd rather sleep a little longer than waste my time on that." Yun Qiao was starting to get a little tempted, but he quickly remembered the wild rabbits he had encountered before. He had only seen them from a distance, and they would disappear without a trace as soon as anyone got close. They were impossible to catch.

"Then we won't take you. Don't regret it later." Yunyang winked at him mysteriously.

Having finally managed to build relationships with everyone over this period of time, Yun Qiao didn't want to lose these hard-won friends. "Then I'll go with you and take a look."

The two uncles who had been watching him from the side couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they heard this. It seemed that they should stop letting their mother take Yun Qiao with her in the future. Look at how well the young people in the village were getting along with Yun Qiao these days, since no one was watching her like the fearsome Fourth Aunt.

Holding homemade torches, Yun Tao and his group found Gao Baiyun and several young men from their village in the dark.

“We still have a lot of small animals here, especially those annoying rabbits that we can’t catch no matter what we do. Let’s try the method you suggested later. If we can catch them, that would be great. It would be a way to avenge all the crops that they’ve stolen from our family.” Gao Baiyun and the others, carrying the tools they had agreed upon, headed towards the place where the rabbits most often appeared.

As they walked along the ridges between the fields, seeing that the fields were still full of crops, Yunxun asked curiously, "You still have so many crops in your fields. If you come with us, wouldn't it be a waste to leave these crops behind?"

"What's there to regret? Even when the harvest season comes, we won't get much. The rabbits will basically destroy everything." Gao Baiyun's cousin, Gu Mili, said with a helpless expression.

"If that's the case, then why are you still growing so many crops?"

"If you don't plant, you'll get nothing. But if you plant, and people stay here to watch over the crops, you'll at least get a little something."

Yun Tao couldn't understand how, with such good resources, they could make a good living even by hunting. "If all else fails, you can hunt some wild rabbits. If you just let them run wild like this, their population will only increase. You know, rabbits have a very high reproductive rate."

“We’ve tried to set up many small traps, but no one in the village knows how. Even if we manage to trap them, they escape.” Gao Baiyun was also helpless, after all, he saw so many meats jumping around in front of him every day, but he just couldn’t eat them.

"We can dig the pit deeper, so even if it's fierce, it won't be able to jump out." Yun Qiao thought about how rabbits would fall into the ditches in her village every now and then, and felt that it was impossible for no one in Gaozhuang to have thought of this.

Upon hearing this, Gu Mili also looked speechless. "We dug a deep pit at first, but for some reason, instead of attracting rabbits, we attracted a pit full of snakes. It was terrifying to look at, so we quickly covered it up again."

How could we forget about snakes? When the village first dug the trenches, snakes were the first to make their homes in them. Later, most of the rabbits that fell into the trenches were bitten and eaten by them. It wasn't until wild boars moved in that the villagers were able to find rabbits in the trenches more or less.

Thinking of this, Yun Qiao stopped and refused to move. "Then why are we even setting a trap? What if we end up with a bunch of snakes waiting for us tomorrow?"

"You're so stupid, you won't admit it. Have you forgotten that we still have the medicine prescribed by Uncle Nan Yao?" Yun Jianying happened to be walking behind him and tapped him on the head.

"That's right, as long as we put one of Uncle Nan's snake repellent in each trap, we won't have this problem." Yun Qiao scratched her head and laughed embarrassedly.

From their conversation, Gao Baiyun realized they had a skilled doctor and even snake-repelling medicine. The thought of his family soon moving to their village filled him with anticipation for the future.

While these people were going on their adventure, the head of Gaozhuang was also discussing things together.

"Maybe we shouldn't move. If we get scattered like this, we don't know if we'll be ostracized when we get to the new places?" Some people started to back out when they heard that they were going to be dispersed to various villages.

Everyone fell into thought, and it was Grandpa Gao who spoke up, “Everyone knows our situation here. It’s such a remote place, with only a few dozen of us. It didn’t matter much before, but look at the surrounding environment now. Right now, it’s just wild rabbits causing trouble. But what if some other more powerful animals come one day? Then even a few of us wouldn’t be enough to cover our losses.”

"I don't think so. We've never heard of any wild animals around here before."

“Just because we didn’t have any before doesn’t mean we don’t have any now. We didn’t see so many snakes and rabbits here before.” Gao Shitou was the one who most agreed to move away from here. It wasn’t because he disliked the remoteness of the place, but because he had already sensed the danger. In addition, he heard from them that the water was getting less and less along the way, and the village’s water was about to dry up. He didn’t know what fate awaited them next.