At this time, the village chief saw Lin Jinyue and the others coming out, so he walked up to Lin Shucheng and asked, "Do you want to go together? We don't know how long we can hold out, but with more people, at least we can take care of each other, and we can put personal grudges aside for now."
Lin Shucheng knew that the village chief had good intentions, so he declined, saying, "We won't go to the north anymore. There will be chaos there sooner or later, so we won't be together."
Lin Youcai was stunned. "If not in the north, then where?"
Lin Shucheng: "We have discussed it and are ready to go to Lingnan."
As soon as he finished speaking, someone in the crowd said, "You're going to Lingnan? There's a lot of miasma and poisonous insects there. If you're not careful, it could cost you your life!"
Seeing that everyone was trying to persuade him not to go, Lin Shucheng said, "But apart from Lingnan, there is nowhere else to go. Tiezhu said that the current situation is not good, and it would be difficult to survive in the capital."
When Lin Xueqing heard the down-to-earth name "Iron Pillar", the corners of her mouth twitched.
This name is really...
Tiezhu is the only educated person in their village. Everyone in the village thinks that being educated is amazing. After hearing what Lin Shucheng said, the chattering villagers suddenly quieted down.
Lin Xueqing was afraid that they would die in the north, so he recited the words his sister taught him: "Now Prince Jing and Prince Ning each occupy a piece of land, and they are eyeing the capital covetously. Sooner or later, these two will attack the capital. If the current emperor is capable, we can escape to the capital and settle down. But now the emperor is incompetent, the treacherous ministers are in power, and they bully the people. Sooner or later, Prince Jing and Prince Ning will attack us.
Prince Ning and Prince Jing are not good people. Wherever they go, they are like locusts passing through, burning, killing and looting... If you want to be safe, Lingnan is the safest place. It is difficult to attack, there is miasma, and it is close to the sea. If they attack, my family can always take money and food and take a boat to a nearby island for refuge."
These words made some people feel a little excited: "From this point of view, Lingnan is a good place."
But they still have doubts: "But the miasma and those poisonous insects and snakes..."
Having said this, the Lin family didn't say anything more.
Lin Jinyue was about to leave, and added: "Grandpa Village Chief, don't worry about it, take the uncles and aunts away as soon as possible, all the people in Nan'an County have left."
They have done their best and told us the pros and cons. What they do next is entirely up to them.
Before the village chief could speak, the grandfather of the little girl, Lin Youliang, was upset. "When did a little girl like you have the right to speak? What nonsense are you talking about? You want us to go to Lingnan, do you want to kill us too? Youcai, we can't listen to him, hurry up and go north!"
Lin Jinyue rolled her eyes and said, "I didn't ask you to do this. It's just that the village chief asked, so we just answered."
How could Lin Youliang have ever suffered such humiliation?
The little kids in the house, let alone the girls, even the boys didn't dare to talk back to him like that. They immediately got angry and were ready to come over with their crutches to hit him.
Lin Xueqing and Lin Shucheng immediately protected Lin Jinyue behind them.
Lin Shucheng even pulled out a machete from his suitcase and stood in front of Lin Jinyue, his eyes gleaming: "Let's see who dares to bully my daughter?"
They have been living a comfortable life in the system space these days, with full meals every day, but they are not someone they can defeat those people in front of them who can faint from hunger at any time.
Boss Lin pointed at his nose and cursed: "You unfilial son, you have no respect for your elders, I will break your legs!"
The scene became noisy for a while.
The village chief Lin Youcai quickly stepped in the middle to act as a peacemaker: "Alright, alright, let's stop arguing at this critical moment. If we anger the nobles in the city, they might chase us away."
Lin Jinyue was too lazy to argue with the Lin family members, so she asked her brother to put down the backpack, which turned out to be a large box of multi-grain cakes!
Everyone's eyes lit up when they looked at the multi-grain cake, and Lin Youliang almost snatched it away!
But Lin Shucheng was standing there with a machete, ready to chop off his hands at any time, so Lin Youliang and his family didn't dare to do anything.
Lin Jinyue felt a little uncomfortable seeing her father looking so fierce.
After a while, she looked at the village chief and the others. "My mother found some herbs in the mountains and exchanged them for food. Thank you, village chief and everyone else, for giving my family food. These cakes are for you."
A multi-grain pancake is quite big. If you use it sparingly, it is enough for one person to eat for two days.
Lin Jinyue went to the ground one by one, one for each person.
These cakes are not expensive. You can buy one for one cent in the system mall. Lin Jinyue has some change in her hand now, so she could give them more, but that would be too conspicuous.
Lin Jinyue doesn't want to be targeted yet.
After the fifty people in Linjia Village had been given out, the box cakes were gone.
When Lin Youliang and his family stared at Lin Jinyue eagerly, they became furious when they learned that there were no cakes left.
Lin Youliang asked in disbelief: "What about ours? Your own grandfather won't give it to us?"
Lin Jinyue said, "Pah!" "Are you going to sell me off to your grandpa? Did you know he was my grandpa when he was young? If I remember correctly, you have already severed ties with my father. Why are you trying to claim kinship with me now?"
These words do not give any face at all.
Lin Jinyue was being sarcastic. If it were any other kid, he would have been beaten with a bamboo stick.
It's really too outrageous.
But Lin Shucheng and the others still spoiled Lin Jinyue, as if if they dared to bully Lin Jinyue, he would fight them with a knife.
Lin Youliang and his men were angry but dared not speak out, and were really afraid that Lin Shucheng would chop them with a knife.
No one dared to show up.
Seeing that his daughter was about to be irritated by these people, Lin Shucheng didn't want to stay here any longer, so he said to the village chief, "We're leaving first."
They had food on them, and there was plenty of food at the gate.
After they left, several people from Linjia Village at the city gate started discussing.
Village chief Lin Youcai hesitated for a long time, and finally said: "What Tiezhu said does make some sense. If we lose half our lives and go to the capital, and end up being forcibly conscripted, or Prince Ning or Prince Jing attacks us, won't we be busy?"
"Let's not talk about whether there will be war or not. Can we make it to the capital alive? In just three days, many of our fellow villagers died because they were bitten by poisonous snakes..."
"I'm afraid it will get more and more chaotic in the future. Like Tiezhu said, although the south is a wild land with miasma, Prince Jing and Prince Ning don't think highly of it and won't bother to attack it. Maybe there is still a glimmer of hope."
As they talked, they were basically all moved.
Everyone has been away from home for a month and has suffered a lot during this month. There were more than a hundred people in a village, but now there are only about sixty left.
It was thanks to Lin Laosan’s wife that she helped collect herbs to save people, otherwise there would have been even more deaths.
They knew very well the importance of the doctor. If Tiezhu's words were heard again, the capital would be in chaos, and only Lingnan would be able to survive.
Someone in the crowd said, "Mother Tiezhu knows some medical skills, why don't we ask them to take us with them?"
Lin Youliang had just been scolded in public by a junior and felt humiliated.
Seeing the villagers praising their family, she felt unhappy and said in a sour tone, "Are they so kind as to take you with them? Besides, what can a barefoot doctor's daughter do? Didn't she kill people before?"
Lin Youcai's face suddenly turned ugly.
If they hadn't kept blaming Jiang, causing her to be afraid to seek medical treatment, how could so many of their people have died later?
Even more ridiculous is Lin Youliang's family. His eldest grandson Tiezhu just had a fever and dizziness, but he refused to let Jiang treat him and kept him there until both of them fell into a coma.
As soon as they left, Tiezhu and Tiezhu's mother were cured. Many people in the village regretted it. If their relatives who were bitten by poisonous snakes had treated Tiezhu's mother, there might have been a chance of survival.
Lin Youliang's family is stirring up trouble again now. How can the village chief feel comfortable about it?
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