Chapter 114: Master Jiang's Guidance

After knowing that it was not a matter of life and death, Mr. Jiang blew the whistle to set off.

On weekdays, people in Qili Village love to watch the excitement. However, no matter how much they love to watch the excitement, they will immediately start queuing up after hearing the whistle, waiting to enter the main road.

Shen Qing looked at the villagers' well-trained reactions and knew that it must be the rules that Mr. Jiang had set for the entire village on the road two days ago.

The people in Qili Village were silent and waiting in an orderly line, while the people in Shili Village were in chaos. Zhou Dashan was sweating profusely and running around anxiously to coordinate.

Shen Qing: .....It's really hard for Zhou Dashan, a farmer.

Leading a team is not something that anyone can do right away, especially when they are all acquaintances, and many of them are older than Zhou Dashan, so it is not easy to manage them.

We soon arrived at Shen Qing's house. She had a lot of cars and they had already discussed how to sort them last night.

The boss and his men drove the ox cart in front, and the donkey cart carrying people followed behind.

Donkeys are faster than cows, but nowadays they are a group, and one or two fast ones are useless, and most of the carts behind are pulled by people. People are faster than cows, but their endurance is far inferior to that of cows. The further back they go, the slower they are, so speed does not matter, and safety is the main priority.

Shen Qing was behind the ox cart, followed by the double donkey cart of Huo Bing, Guan Li and others, and then the Guan family's cart, so they could look after each other.

Since the two families did not need manpower to pull the carriage, Jiang Xiangxi and Guan the Carpenter were free. One of them held a knife on each side to guard, while keeping an eye on all directions and paying attention to whether the people in the carriage had any instructions.

As each household entered the main road, the team spread out like a small snake, swimming along the dirt road.

After a while, the people of Qilu Village saw Zhou Dashan wiping his sweat and running quickly to the front of the team.

Zhou Dashan found Mr. Jiang Er and asked breathlessly, "Uncle, can the team stop for a while and let the villagers go to Yangcheng to replenish some food and other things? They don't know how many days it will take to reach the next city. This place is right at the gate of Yangcheng. Wouldn't it be a loss if they don't go?"

In fact, it was the Liu family that was making the most trouble, but there was nothing we could do. We were from the same village and had been friends for decades. We couldn't just abandon them, right?

Especially there was a woman with a twin body inside, who would make a lot of noise if she wasn't given food, giving him a headache.

There is really no other way, so I can only come to Mr. Jiang for advice.

Mr. Jiang gave a decisive answer: "No."

There is no room for negotiation.

Zhou Dashan stood there in a daze, not expecting that his reasonable request would be rejected.

Zhou Yan was so disappointed that she said angrily, "Brother, is it Wang Chuntao who is causing trouble? Why do you care about the Liu family?"

Besides, if you satisfy their demands today, won't they raise them again? What if they raise them again next time? Do you want these 300 people to wait for their family?

Besides, if his family brings it up, wouldn't other families also bring it up? Will you agree then?!"

Zhou Dashan rubbed his hands nervously, with more and more beads of sweat on his forehead. He murmured, "But Wang Chuntao is pregnant, and she won't leave unless she can eat.

The two old men are now scared and are clamoring to go to the city to buy food. If I’m not allowed to go, they will say that I, the new village chief, don’t care about their lives and want to make the Liu family extinct.”

The flood in their Shili Village was much more serious than that in Qili Village. The washed-away adobe bricks killed and injured several people, including the former village chief, who was temporarily elected and had no experience in managing people!

Before I became the village chief, I could speak and act as I pleased without worrying too much. But after becoming the village chief, I felt an invisible sense of responsibility and pressure, always afraid that I would not do well enough and cause unnecessary losses.

Besides, they really couldn't survive without food, and there were two lives at stake, so how could he not agree?

Mr. Jiang looked at the anxious Zhou Dashan and said, "We have only been out for two or three days. The Liu family has no food, but other families in the village still have some.

Trading with each other not only saves time but also reduces the weight of other people, killing two birds with one stone.

As for the Liu family, if they're unwilling and insist on going to Yangcheng to make the purchase, that's fine too. You said the next city is Zheng County, which will take about four or five days to reach. Just have them meet up there as quickly as possible."

Zhou Dashan opened his mouth and wanted to say that it would take four or five days to get there, and three of the four members of the Liu family were old and weak. Could they arrive safely?

Then he thought that Master Jiang was giving him some advice!

I say this because it is unsafe and there is no guarantee whether you can arrive!

If they were afraid, they would naturally not cause trouble. If they were not afraid, he could not be considered a bad person. After all, he told them to meet in Zheng County, and it was not his fault that they could not meet on time.

"Thank you, uncle. I know what to do!"

After expressing his gratitude, Zhou Dashan hurried back without stopping.

As they were far away from Shili Village, they couldn't hear what Zhou Dashan said when he returned, but the team continued to move forward, and people from Shili Village behind them also joined in.

Mr. Jiang's second master Zhou Yan understood that the Liu family did not go to Yangcheng alone.

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The weather was cool in the early morning, and the team was full of energy after a whole night's rest, so they moved forward very quickly. As the sun rose higher, the fireball hanging in the sky became more and more dazzling, their clothes got wet and dry, and the team's progress became slower and slower.

Mr. Jiang would leave the team from time to time, wait by the roadside, check the situation behind the team, and then adjust the speed of the front in time.

Shen Qing lay in the carriage, closing his eyes and taking a comfortable nap as the carriage swayed, getting up from time to time to drink a few sips of water to replenish his water.

Rich people use water bags, while poor people use gourds. When the gourds are young, they are used as vegetables. Later, when they are old, they are used as ladles and to hold water. However, their family has little land and cannot afford one for each person. When she purchased supplies before, she stocked up a lot of water bags, and now they are all in use.

Each person had two, one for boiled water and the other for tea. The man added dried plums and sugar to the other, which made the sour and sweet taste like homemade electrolyte water and could quickly replenish lost water.

In fact, the authentic method uses lemon and sugar, but lemon is only available in the south, and the mall does not have a fruit category, so let's use dried plums instead.

Before the second water bag was almost empty, we finally heard a whistle from the front, and then the second child's voice came from outside the car: "Mom, it's time for lunch. I'll go find a seat first."

"Okay." Shen Qing sat up, lifted the car curtain and looked at the sun in the sky. The sun was shining brightly, so it should be around twelve o'clock.

She looked up and saw that the place chosen by Mr. Jiang for lunch break was very good. It was in the woods beside the river, which met her needs for collecting firewood, making fire, getting water, cooking and also for seeking shade.

Shen Qing discovered that their family's location in the front row also had a big advantage, which was that they could choose a place first!

Jiang Xiangxi was the first to find a shady open space near a water source.

The eldest, third and fourth brothers unloaded the animals from the cart frame, fixed them to trees, took out sickles and bamboo baskets and went to the river to cut fresh aquatic plants.

Jiang Xiangxi found a bucket from the cart and went to the river to fetch water.

Spread straw mats by the river, build a stove and cook in the rain.