Su Ci is a medical student. She comes from a medical family. Her father is a Western medicine doctor and her mother is a Chinese medicine doctor. Her family owns shares in a famous private hospital in the province and has no shortage of money. However, she is a bit lazy and has no interest in the tiring and competitive profession of doctor. After graduation, she and her cousin started an outdoor survival live broadcast. Before the time travel, they had already formed a whole team and were flying domestically and internationally, and were quite popular.

She has been here for a year, but has spent almost half of that time outside.

The fundamental reason is probably that the current old emperor has no son.

For some unknown reason, more than one emperor of the Daqing Dynasty had no children. Whenever this happened, the royal family would be like a great white shark that had smelled blood, and the bloody storm would often last for several years or even more than a decade.

As for how long it will be, it depends on how long the old emperor can live.

Anyway, from the capital to the outside, whether it was the government, the army, the central government or local governments, they were all either voluntarily or forced to be involved in this struggle.

Su Di and his garrisons, which have been brazenly fighting on the northern border for many years, are the strongest armed force in Daqing, and few people can escape from them.

This time, the storm was caused by the emperor being injured while leading the army in person, and the Sixth Prince followed by the Su and Yang families was at the center of the vortex. Seeing that the situation was becoming more and more dangerous, the father hurriedly and quietly arranged to send his daughters away.

In addition to saving their lives, what is more important is that unmarried girls are different from boys. There are too many dirty things in prison. Even if they finally get out, they will basically be abused.

Su Ci lived in fear for half a year and moved to several locations during this period. Fortunately, the weather was not too bad outside, and she was safe in the end. Until the dust settled, my father sent someone to pick me up two days ago.

Hiss, if she had remembered it earlier, she would not have replied.

Okay, now the solution is found, except for this last step. How can she get the two families to change their migration routes?

Well, Su Ci blinked her eyes. She had already thought of a solution!

…

The porridge in the earthenware pot was bubbling. Su Ci washed her hands, opened the large pot that had been used for sterilization, scooped up the three pieces of plywood that were tumbling inside, put them together with the cotton rope that had been boiled and exposed to the sun outside, and wrapped them up in clean linen.

Then she squatted down and dragged out a large frame from the firewood pile under the stove. Inside was a row of large brown rhizomes that had been washed. Su Ci chopped them with a knife, threw them into another large pot, and scooped boiling water over it to cook them directly.

There is white starch water on the chopping board. After cooking, you can peel off the skin of the stem and eat it directly. Of course, you can also leave it unpeeled. The skin is a little rough, but the inside is soft and glutinous.

Millet porridge is the meal for patients. I would take a portion to my parents' room, put the freshly fried millet bean cakes on a plate, and put another plate of chopped roots from the big pot. I would pour the rest of the millet porridge into a small clay pot, put everything in a basket and carry it in my other hand, while holding a burlap bag.

When I left the kitchen, the bright sunlight was still dazzling.

There had been two years of drought, and even the cicadas had stopped chirping. Two young girls were squatting by a well washing clothes, but the well was almost out of water. They pumped up the water that had been stored for a day, and used almost all of it for drinking. Only the very turbid water at the bottom was thrown in with alum, and allowed to settle for washing clothes.

Basically, we wash the wounded first, and for others, we just wash their underwear at most.

"younger sister!"

One of them by the well was Su Yan, who was sweating profusely while washing clothes for a family of four. She was busy rubbing and rubbing the clothes. When she saw Su Ci coming out, she smiled broadly.

Su Ci said, "The meal is ready. Bring it back to the house and eat with mother first."

"knew!"

Su Yan was on the left side of the well, and the other girl was on the right side of the well. The distance between them was neither far nor close, and they did not look deliberately unfamiliar, but if you looked closely, there was a subtle feeling of clear distinction between them.

The other girl also raised her head, revealing a fair and beautiful face. She was not as heroic as Su Yan, nor as delicate and beautiful as Su Ci, but her face was like a full moon, and she was very dignified and pretty, with the same temperament.

"Thank you for your hard work, second sister."

This is Su Ci’s half-sister, the original heroine Su Rong.

Su Ci's mother had a difficult labor when she gave birth to her, and the doctor said that she might not be able to get pregnant again. Su Ci's father and mother had been childhood sweethearts and had a deep relationship. He was determined to take care of his mother and two daughters and didn't care about not having a son.

But the grandmother did not agree. She had taken her niece from her mother's side in for many years, and this opportunity was just right, so the aunt and niece teamed up to drug my father, and they finally succeeded while my mother was in confinement. Aunt Bai was very lucky to win the bid, so Su Di had to take her in, and she finally gave birth to a pair of twins, a boy and a girl.

The elder sister of the twins is the original heroine Su Rong.

If I were to ask Su Ci to give her evaluation, to summarize the original book, it would be that Su Rong is a smart person.

In the original book, when she realized that she could only use "gentleness" as a means to deal with a cold and strong man like Yang Yanzong, she immediately restrained all her edges, lost her temper and became only gentler, using gentleness as a weapon, and working hard day after day for decades before she finally achieved success.

As for the reality, Su Di has a pretty good impression of Su Rong. Although he can't love a pair of fruits of love from the bottom of his heart, it's also very good. She has everything that Su Ci's sisters have, and she will also care and ask about them, and she can also do the same to her younger brother and biological mother.

Su Di was a good person, so he would naturally not do anything to exclude or mistreat others. However, it was impossible for him to truly like Aunt Bai and her two children who came into the house under such circumstances.

Especially for Aunt Bai, disgust is inevitable.

In this situation, she was able to appease and suppress her trouble-making biological mother and make her father treat her and her siblings kindly. She is indeed a capable person.

Su Rong always treated her stepmother with respect, treated her father with respect and admiration, and treated Su Ci and her sisters with just the right balance of intimacy and politeness. She never quarreled with them and had been like this since she was very young.

Su Ci smiled. Her attitude was no different from before. When the other party greeted her, she smiled back in response.

She is not the original owner, so she will not ignore others intentionally or sneer at them. Doing so will not bring any benefits other than making the other person appear more generous and dignified and making her father more compassionate.

But that's all.

Su Ci glanced at Su Rong, who was wringing clothes with her sleeves rolled up in the sunlight. The former heroine didn't have any special skills, so she didn't need to be particularly vigilant.

The two of them greeted each other from a distance. She smiled, glanced at him, and walked straight past him without stopping.

…

Su Ci arrived neither too late nor too early. The men in the front yard had just finished talking about migration.

"We have to leave. We are out of food and water."

It was a severe drought that day. Even the large group of northern barbarians that the military towns were supposed to defend against had already migrated away. The food supply in the Yunbei granary was tight, and the higher-ups could only raise a limited amount of food, so they could only take care of more important places. They really couldn't allocate any food to the dozen or so border military towns.

The instruction from above was to "raise funds on the spot", but after two years of severe drought, looking around, except for the mountains in the east where some green can be seen, everything else is yellow and brown. People in nearby villages and towns who could escape had already run away, so how could the funds be raised?

If you don't leave, you will just wait to die.

There were not many soldiers stationed in this military town, only about three or four thousand, but the situation was quite complicated. There were many people who were demoted and exiled to the border like Yang Yanzong. Some of them came to monitor him, and some even wanted to take the opportunity to get rid of Yang Yanzong. In addition, there were also officers from the original military town.

This military town belongs to the sphere of influence of the Fourth Prince, and the commanding lieutenant is his man.

All in all, they are a group of ambitious people and they will not just sit there and wait to die.

It is true that unauthorized removal and abandonment is a crime, but it can be a minor or major crime. In this special case, if someone is capable, it won't be a big problem if they do something about it.

Just survive first.

To be honest, Su Ci admired her lover very much. He actually came over despite the situation. It would be wrong to say that he had no true feelings at all, but this secret transaction was extremely harmful to the woman. If it was discovered, she would be basically finished.

The man is basically not hurt. It's just a romantic affair, provided that the man doesn't ask for repayment.

It has nothing to do with love. Being cuckolded is a great shame for men.

Okay, Su Ci was not interested in delving into the truth or falsehood. Anyway, she definitely couldn't let anyone know about this. There was a rapist who was her mortal enemy in the military town, and she definitely couldn't go with them!

Su Ci pushed the door and entered the main room carrying a basket and a cloth bag. When she heard voices, she stood outside the curtain and did not go in.

"...There are still 800 soldiers and horses in the town. It should be able to hold out for about ten days...When we get to Pingzhou, we'll see what happens then."

"Pingzhou is farther from Hanzhou, so the drought there should be alleviated a bit."

"I'm afraid the Liang guy will cause trouble, so we have to be careful on the road..."

"And the nephew of the Fourth Prince, the town is so dry that food and water are almost gone, I wonder why he came here?..."

Everyone frowned, looking at each other and discussing. Yang Yanzong, who had been leaning on the back of the couch and listening, finally spoke, "Okay, go pack up. Pack up tonight and leave at the beginning of the morning tomorrow."

The hundred households notified each household one by one, asking Yinzhong to gather at the foot of the east mountain outside the town. The entire military town was leaving. They had no food in stock, so they had to follow the large group no matter what.

"yes!"

When everyone heard the footsteps, they knew that Su Ci was outside, so they responded without delay and immediately got up and went out.

Su Di's face was still a little pale, but his steps were quite steady. He rubbed the top of Su Ci's head lovingly as he passed by.

Su Ci blinked at him and smiled.

A male voice with a hint of indifference came from the inner room of the tent: "Come in."

Here we come!

Whether it will succeed or not depends on this moment.

Su Ci immediately adjusted her expression, put away that playful smile, looked at her nose and her heart, picked up the basket on the ground and went in.

…

With the delicate and light steps that are unique to women, the girl in a green fine cotton skirt turned around the curtain and walked into the inner room. She lowered her head slightly and placed the rattan basket and cloth bag on the table. She bowed slightly to him and called out in a somewhat reserved manner, "Young Master."

Unlike Yang Yanzong's two younger brothers, the girls in the Su family were a little intimidated by him and always called him the eldest master.

Yang Yanzong nodded slightly: "Sit down."

He was leaning against the couch, with his right hand flat on the table without moving, but with a slight movement of his fingers, he was able to control it as he wished.

The man is the breadwinner and the woman is the homemaker. In the past, the three girls of the Su family only had a very vague shadow in his mind, including the fiancée his father arranged for him. This was the first time he noticed her.

She had a decent appearance, was well-behaved and looked very clever. I vaguely heard that she liked to study medical books in her early years, but I thought it was just something a girl would read casually. I didn't expect that she actually had the skill of reconnecting tendons.

Su Ci smiled shyly, agreed, sat down, washed her hands, opened the linen cloth, took out the splint and cotton rope, and began to fix his right wrist. She said softly: "It will take a month to fix it. After the tendons are healed, you can slowly resume movement."

"Um."

Of course, Su Ci's innocent and well-behaved appearance was just an act. She had the skills, but her father was also hit, and Yang Yanzong was the one who made the decision, so it was useless to convince her father about the matter.

She deliberately did not take out the splint, just to wait for the second trip and leave some time for the men to discuss.

She arrived just in time.

Su Ci tied the last knot with the cotton rope, cut it, and said "OK", but her face showed a look of wanting to say something but stopping.

Yang Yanzong saw it and asked, "What's the matter?"

Su Ci hesitated for a moment and asked softly, "Do we have to go with them? Would the southeast be better?"

What she just heard was that the large army gathered at the western foot of Dongshan Mountain and headed into the mountain towards the east.

Su Ci cut the cotton rope, washed her hands, tidied the table, opened the rattan basket, took out the jar of glutinous rice, the millet bean cakes, and finally the plate of large rhizomes.

They had very little food, and there were not many millet cakes, but the roots appeared for the first time, in large quantities, filling a whole plate, and they looked like they were edible.

Yang Yanzong's eyes immediately fell on the roots of the plate.

This is called Pueraria lobata.

It is edible, with plenty of starch and very filling, but the vines are very thin and difficult to identify, especially after they have died. Most people cannot even recognize them, let alone eat them. Nowadays, many things have not been discovered to be edible.

Su Ci said softly, "I found this in the mountains. When I was hiding in the mountains, I saw herdsmen digging it up and eating it. My sister and I went to the mountains to dig it up yesterday."

"There is also pampas grass. There will be water under the pampas grass. There may not be much water in the east direction, but the southeast direction is much better."

She felt Yang Yanzong's gaze move to the top of her head. This man's gaze was very oppressive. Su Ci was not afraid, but the skin on her back seemed to be able to feel this oppressive force, and the hairs on her back stood up silently.

Hey, what a dangerous man with a strong aura.

Su Ci complained like this in her heart, but when Yang Yanzong looked up at her, she gave a slightly nervous and shy smile.

Yang Yanzong picked up a piece of kudzu root, took a bite and chewed it twice, then threw it down, "Akang, go get Lao Er to come along!"

…

Yang Yanzong actually got up and went downstairs.

His injuries were more serious than Su Di's, not only on his tendons but also on other parts of his body. His face was pale with a slight flush.

Su Di arrived at the military town a few days earlier than him. He had just recovered from a serious illness, but he actually got out of bed directly and followed Su Ci's line of sight and pushed open the west window facing the Dongling Mountains.

I don’t know what the scientific name of the fleabane is, but it belongs to the same family as the sphagnum parviflora. It looks inconspicuous and is no different from the weeds that grow all over the mountains. But it has one characteristic: it is foreign.

This is a kind of wandering grass. Whenever there is drought and there is no water in the land, it will pull its roots out of the sand and roll into a ball. It looks no different from a dead grass ball and is blown away by the wind. When it is blown into a puddle again, it will revive and extend its roots again to take root by the water, grow and reproduce very quickly.

In other words, every place where puff grass grows is at least a puddle of water. If you find those that are half yellow and half green and dig deep, there is a high probability that you will dig up shallow groundwater.

It was finally dark, and under the cover of night, Yang Yanzong took Akang, Yang Erlang and Su Ci into the mountains.

Akang and Yang Yanxin dug vigorously with shovels. After perhaps an hour, they dug more than two meters deep, but they became more and more excited as they dug.

The last shovel was inserted into the mud and dug up heavily. Under the moonlight, a muddy stream slowly seeped out from the dark bottom of the pit and gathered into a small puddle at the bottom of the pit.

Yang Yanxin climbed up in two or three steps, wiped the mud off his face, and was surprised and excited: "Brother, water! There is really water!!"

Su Ci blinked when she heard that, and the corners of her lips curled up quickly.