After hearing this, Zhang Tao's eyes widened a little. Putting aside other things, when did Huan'er learn to make earth mines? It seemed that Yun'er was indeed in Huan'er's hands, so this was good.

He glanced back calmly, then turned around and continued talking to the two men.

"Then I think I know where Yun'er is. Don't rush to look for him. He's very safe now. Don't mess around. Have you prepared the dry food? Is there enough water inside Jianmen Pass?"

"There's still plenty of water inside Jianmen Pass. A few days ago, a lot of water suddenly appeared in the well that had dried up. Water is no longer a rare commodity. Food is a little short of us, but it's not too much either. It's just more expensive to buy, so we collected the food. We only drew water after the well water appeared, so we didn't spend any money."

An Er lifted the curtain of the carriage, and saw it was filled to the brim with food, with almost no place to step. Although there were so many things, they were actually only enough to feed them for a few days. In order to make it easier for the Zhang family to eat, An Er and his men prepared almost all the dry food, so it would not last for more than a few days.

Zhang Tao called for people to move the things away. After seeing that everything in the carriage had been moved away, he took out the silver bills and continued talking to the secret guard.

"You can take this carriage with you later. We have people from the Liu family following us, so we can't use a carriage at all. Take these banknotes and go ahead to prepare some dry food for us. The other two of you will split up into two groups. One of you will ride a horse and rush forward. Once you get to Wucheng, you can stock up on food for me. Also, I remember that my wife owns a five-story house in Wucheng. Please arrange for someone to clean it up in advance. The weather is bad. If we don't do well, we may stay in Wucheng for a while. If you don't have enough money, you can go to the shop owned by the old lady to get it."

"Yes, old man, we're leaving first."

An Er took the silver bills from the old man's hand, and he and An Qi drove away in a carriage.

Zhang Tao was wearing dark blue patched clothes. He stood with his hands behind his back, watching the carriage going away. He looked up at the sky and sighed softly.

"You don't have to worry about Yun'er. You know Huan'er's abilities. Yun'er will be fine. Now let's worry about ourselves. The well in Jianmen Pass suddenly gushed out water. I'm afraid the weather is going to change. I just don't know when it will change, so let's prepare in advance."

After Zhang Tao finished speaking, he returned to the team without waiting for his son to answer.

Now, the people of the Wang family ran back to the small house where the hunters had rested before. They were sitting in the house to rest. Because they were worried that the people behind them would catch up with them, they did not dare to sleep directly. Instead, they sat there and started to eat. Because they were scared, they did not dare to light a fire directly, so each person had a pancake with pickles in it to fill their stomachs.

After dinner, they discussed their next route. Going forward, they saw a small town ahead. They wondered if it would be like Jianmen Pass, heavily guarded. They didn't dare enter directly, so they had to plan their route carefully to avoid a similar situation to Jianmen Pass, which had left them terrified.

Now, unless they can find the Zhang family directly, they will never appear in front of other people so easily again. However, the mountains are not connected, especially after they stepped into the south, the mountains here became very small, and the mountains are no longer continuous.

Although it is still a bit dry, there is green in some places. This proves that after they enter the south, the water resources here will be more sufficient, and it is even possible that the south will return to green within a few days.

As they walked in the mountains, they could sometimes see dried-up springs slowly gushing out water. Although the flow was not large, it was enough to prove that the weather in the south had begun to slowly recover, and even that the water supply would soon be sufficient.

But the other conditions were not very good either. The farmlands were just like those in the north, basically all dried up and cracked by the sun. The crops in the fields were all gone, and they had no choice but to start over and replant, but the time had passed and they didn't know if the crops would still come out.

Even if there were some water sources on the mountain, they had no way to carry it down to irrigate the fields. After all, the journey was too long and it would be too slow to carry it. In addition, the places with water sources were almost occupied by various wild beasts. They did not dare to go up the mountain to find those water sources. If they were bitten to death by wild beasts, they would really die. It would be better for them to stay at home and guard their own wells, so that they could live longer. The main reason was that even if there were many men in the family, they could not withstand the hardship of taxes and labor service.

The climate in the south is suitable and they can grow two crops a year, so every household has a lot of surplus food. The people here hardly move anything, and those who are forced to go deeper are those who have little land and cannot afford the labor service and taxes.

There are more landlords in the south. Those who do not own land basically rent land from landlords. They have to pay 60% of their land to the landlords as rent and 30% as taxes. Now even a chicken has a chicken tax. Who can bear it?

The court set up all kinds of clever rules to require the people to pay taxes. If they didn't pay the taxes, the men in the family would be forced to do labor service. The men in every family were the pillars of the family, so they had no choice but to leave with their families. Not only did they have to pay taxes on chickens, but even the farm tools in the house had to be taxed. If they didn't pay, the taxes would be taken away. It was simply crazy.