"Xiuer, take this pot of water and use it to wipe Xiaocao's body every morning and evening." Because of Gouwa's situation, Li Rouniang was also worried about Xiaocao. Although Xiaocao was currently only sleeping in a daze, she was much smaller than Gouwa and her health wasn't good. She was really worried that Xiaocao wouldn't make it.
She hoped that nourishing the grass with this sacred spring water every day would help it get better.
Xiuer took the pot of water and nodded. Gouwa's death had made everyone's atmosphere heavy, especially those with children at home. After all, although the children were somewhat better after being examined by the old doctor, they were all more or less listless, and their families were paying extra attention to them.
Zhao Youtian also ordered that the children not be allowed to gather together to play during this period. Although Zhao Dahua's words were not pleasant, they did resonate with everyone to some extent.
Gathering in groups at this time is indeed not a good way to prevent cross-infection.
Zhao Youtian breathed a sigh of relief when he learned that his son, Zhao Xiaopang, was out of danger and was back to his energetic self, which made the couple feel a sense of relief.
Erni recovered quickly. Children are restless, and soon she was playing with Xiaopang again.
Da Ni's health has improved, and she occasionally goes to visit Da Ya to play together.
Xiaoshan and Sanni have always been very healthy, perhaps because of the nourishment from breast milk and spiritual spring water. So even though they were affected by the plague, they were not greatly affected, which made Old Man Mo breathe a sigh of relief.
Only Xiuer's little grass was wilting every day, but to Xiuer's surprise, the grass was getting longer and longer when it was awake. Today, it didn't sleep drowsily all day. It seems that wiping its body with this water is a good method.
After Gouwa passed away, his parents were depressed every day.
“Chief, we’re not leaving. We’ll stay here with Gouwa. His father and I plan to build a small hut around here, eat as we please, and live like this, one day at a time. If we all leave, my Gouwa will be scared.”
After settling Gouwa's funeral arrangements, Gouwa's mother said firmly.
You Tian's wife wiped away her tears, putting herself in Gouwa's shoes. She could understand Gouwa's mother very well, but she was afraid that if the couple stayed, things wouldn't turn out well either.
After all, there's no village or shop in sight, and no food. How long can we last?
“Gouwa’s mother, I completely understand how you feel right now, but think about it, Gouwa is a filial child, and he wouldn’t want his parents to be here with him. If you’re really worried that Gouwa will be lonely in the future, then I promise you, once we find a place to settle down, we’ll come back together and bring Gouwa to our new place to be buried in the ancestral grave,” Zhao Youtian said.
Gouwa's parents couldn't stop crying when they heard this.
Li Rou Niang happened to be holding Xiao Shan nearby and overheard all of this, and she was also very saddened.
At this moment, Xiaoshan suddenly pointed at Gouwa's mother's belly and shouted, "Little brother!"
"Xiaoshan, what did you say?" Li Rouniang asked, holding Xiaoshan in her arms.
"Little brother, Auntie has a little brother in her tummy."
By this time, Xiaoshan could already speak a relatively fluent complete sentence. Li Rouniang was very pleased. He spoke much faster than Sannier, and Xiaoshan was just luckier than the other children. This time, Xiaoshan was the lightest and recovered the fastest, as if he were protected by some kind of luck.
Perhaps it was because General Mo's entire family was loyal and righteous. Even Heaven couldn't bear to extinguish their last line of descendants.
"Sweetie, Xiaoshan, what do you think is in Auntie's belly?" Gouwa's mother was also surprised. She went over and excitedly asked Xiaoshan, clutching her belly.
Xiaoshan repeated: "Little brother, there's a little brother in my tummy."
"Dogwa's mother, you're pregnant again! No, no, you must have gotten pregnant in Zhao Family Village! How come you didn't notice all this way?" Zhao Youtian's wife rushed forward and grabbed Dogwa's mother's hand in surprise.
Gouwa's mother then realized that her period had indeed stopped for two or three months. She had only thought that it was because of the New Year and she was busy before the New Year, so she hadn't paid attention. Then, something unexpected happened during the New Year. She had been hungry and cold all the way and slept in the open. She thought it might be due to the environment. Could it be that she was pregnant again?
She touched her belly and burst into tears.
"Dogwa's mother, for the sake of the child in your womb, you must keep going!" Li Rouniang also stepped forward to persuade her.
Dogwa's father stepped forward and pulled Dogwa's mother aside, saying, "Honey, Dogwa has already left. Perhaps he was afraid we'd be lonely, so he had his younger brother guard us for him. The clan chief also said that once we're settled, we'll come back to bring him home. What do you say?"
Gouwa nodded with tears in his eyes, and Zhao Youtian breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhao Hulu was excited to hear that Xiaoshan could tell whether a woman was carrying a boy or a girl. The village elders had said that some children with a bit of spirituality could sense, even at a very young age, whether a pregnant woman was carrying a boy or a girl.
So he pulled Zhao Dahua over and asked Li Rouniang to hold Xiaoshan and help him see if Zhao Dahua was carrying a boy or a girl. Zhao Dahua was extremely nervous. But she didn't dare to resist, afraid of giving herself away.
"Little Shan, tell Grandpa, is this auntie carrying a little brother or a little sister?" Zhao Hulu asked Little Shan with a smile.
Xiao Shan glanced at Zhao Dahua, then hugged Li Rouniang tightly without saying a word.
"Uncle Zhao, I'm afraid the child is just young and might have just gotten lucky once. It's not necessarily that accurate," Li Rou Niang said, trying to make amends. She was different; her son, Xiao Shan, was believed by others to have some special abilities!
Zhao Hulu was somewhat disappointed, but upon reflection, he realized that the child was too young to be taken seriously.
Seeing that Zhao Hulu stopped pestering her, Li Rouniang secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
The group continued onward, but their food supplies were dwindling. They barely managed to survive on a little food mixed with wild vegetables each day.
They had almost finished eating the food in the space. Dahe and Erhe sometimes thought about going hungry, but Li Rouniang resolutely refused and insisted on watching them finish the food.
If you get starving at this time, wouldn't that be even worse?
Even so, three days later, the entire team ran out of food.
Relying entirely on water is not a viable solution.
Zhao Youtian wondered if he could find some wild vegetables or tree roots to fill his stomach, so he mobilized everyone to dig for wild vegetables and tree roots.
Women, children, and the elderly stayed behind.
Li Rouniang was also worried. After all, no one knew what the next city was, where it was located, or how far it was. But based on the distance between Jiangcheng and Chicheng, it was another two days' journey.
Adults might be able to endure it, but how could children possibly?
The elderly in the line gritted their teeth and refused to eat, while the children cried out in hunger. The woman secretly wiped away her tears; they had nothing to eat either. Such a difficult world.
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