Chapter 28 The Deserted Village
Without going to bed in the morning, Zhou Yunshu received a reply from Du Laozhuang and others.
They agreed to implement the unified distribution method proposed by Zhou Yunshu.
In fact, they were already shaken after Zhou Yunshu explained it to them. Instead of waiting for it to be snatched away by others, it is better to give it away as a favor.
Another point is that when Zhou Yunshu left, Wei Zhong also expressed his thoughts. If their team really fought because of the water infighting, he would definitely take his people away.
When the news came out the next morning, there was indeed a lot of discussion in the team.
There are also voices of opposition, but not many.
After all, most people in the team didn't have much water left, and those who had more water offered to share, so how could they refuse?
Those who originally opposed it gradually stopped speaking out after seeing the water produced by Zhou Yunshu, Du Laozhuang and others. In fact, they were a little fed up with being stared at while drinking water every day.
It's just a matter of agreement, but who will take care of the water and who will distribute the water becomes a problem.
"Since this idea was proposed by Mr. Zhou, how about letting Mr. Zhou be responsible for taking care of it and distributing the water?" Wei Zhong took the initiative.
Du Laozhuang originally thought that as the leader of the entire team, he should be the one to do this matter, but Wei Zhong had already said it, especially after he finished speaking, many people agreed with him, so he had to give up and nodded in agreement.
Zhou Yunshu did not refuse. Since she was asked to be in charge, she would take on the responsibility.
As her status in the team grew higher and higher, she began to think about whether to take the team directly to Haizhou.
The entire team had about two hundred people, and with those following behind them, there were about two hundred and sixty people.
After Du Lao Zhuang finished talking about the unified management and distribution of water, several families who had been following them took the initiative to donate their own water in order to completely join Zhou Yunshu and their team.
Du Lao Zhuang, Zhou Yunshu and others had a brief discussion and did not refuse. As for the others who followed them but had no water, that was not something they could do about it. After all, they were not kind-hearted people.
There's only so much water, and once it's divided, it's gone. Even if all the water were collected and poured into buckets, there would only be seven buckets of water.
Seven buckets of water can only last more than 200 people and the livestock with them for two days at most if they drink sparingly.
This amount of water was only enough to moisten everyone's throat, so they had to find a water source within two days, otherwise they would die of thirst in Luzhou in a few days.
During this time, someone came to ask Zhou Yunshu if she would accept the urine they had collected with great effort. Zhou Yunshu was silent for a moment and just told them to deal with it themselves.
After the decision to uniformly distribute water was made, the conflicting opinions in the team became united again.
They now have only one goal, which is to find water and survive.
The walking speed in the morning was much faster than yesterday, and each person was given two sips of water again during the lunch break.
When Zhou Yunshu was distributing the water, she reminded everyone in the team not to save it, and not to think about not drinking it themselves and saving it for their parents, children, or family members.
Because once someone collapses due to lack of water, the burden will be left to his family, which is not worth it.
So even if it is for the sake of your family, you must drink the few sips of water you get every day.
An hour after setting off in the afternoon, everyone finally saw a village.
The team stopped. Zhou Yunshu, Du Laozhuang, Wei Zhong and others stood at the front of the team, looking at the village in front of them, which seemed to be completely deserted. Someone looked at Zhou Yunshu habitually and asked, "Do you want to go in?"
Zhou Yunshu looked at the village and slowly exhaled, "We have no choice but to go in."
Regardless of whether there is a trap inside, they have no other choice and must go in to survive.
Wei Zhong turned his head and looked at Zhou Yunshu and said, "I'll take people in to investigate."
Zhou Yunshu nodded and watched Wei Zhong and twenty young men quickly move towards the village.
She sat on the shaft of the cart wearing a straw hat. Although the sun was very strong, she could still feel a slight coolness.
Zhou Yunshu held her hat with her right hand and looked up at the sky, hoping it would rain in the autumn.
More than half an hour later, Wei Zhong brought his men out of the village. Zhou Yunshu knew there was no good news just by looking at his face.
As expected, Wei Zhong said, "The village is empty and all the wells are dead."
After Wei Zhong finished speaking, the only sound left in the sunlight was the sound of the wind blowing up fallen leaves and dust, revealing an unspeakable despair.
"Then let's keep going."
"good."
Before leaving, Zhou Yunshu stood on the shaft of the cart and briefly explained to the people in the team the situation of the village that Wei Zhong and his men had just discovered.
"Although this is an empty village, the villagers haven't been away for long, which means there must be a large city nearby."
"Everyone, hold on a little longer. Once we get to the city, we'll have a good rest and drink some water, okay?"
"good!"
Zhou Yunshu listened to the determined voices of the crowd following and slowly sat down from the shaft of the cart. It is better to have hope than to have no hope.
After she sat down again, she said to Wei Zhong, who had been looking at her, "Let's go."
"yes."
Perhaps God heard Zhou Yunshu's voice, and when the sun set, everyone finally saw the tall city wall.
The moment they saw the city gate, everyone's tears were about to fall.
The county town in front of us is called Anshan County, and behind it is the famous Anshan Mountains in Luzhou.
Perhaps because Anshan County was the only relatively large city nearby, a lot of refugees gathered outside the city gate. There were about six or seven hundred of them, all huddled at the city gate.
Zhou Yunshu felt a little uneasy when she saw the large crowds of refugees gathered at the city gate.
It wasn't just because of the way they looked at their group of people like they were looking at prey, but also because of the hatred and madness in their eyes.
Zhou Yunshu thought, if not everyone in their team was armed, if not their condition did not look much better, otherwise the luggage they were pulling alone would be enough to keep the refugees in front of them from rushing towards them.
But even if they did not move, Zhou Yunshu did not dare to let her team get too close to the refugees on both sides of the city gate.
Wei Zhong came to Zhou Yunshu's side and looked at the soldiers in armor and holding long swords guarding the city gate and said to Zhou Yunshu, "There is water in the city."
Zhou Yunshu nodded, she saw it too.
The officers and soldiers did not look like they had no water to drink. The soldiers defending the city had enough water to drink, which showed that the water resources in the city were still sufficient.
But when Zhou Yunshu glanced at the people outside the city gate, she always felt that there was a kind of calm before the storm, a calm that revealed suppressed madness.
"Want to go into town?"
Zhou Yunshu turned to look at Wei Zhong, who had been asking her about everything without her noticing, and said, "Let's go into the city."
If they don't go into the city to get water, these people won't be able to leave Luzhou.
All she could hope for now was that her intuition was wrong, or that if something really was going to happen, it would happen after they had replenished their supplies and water and left Anshan County.
Just when Zhou Yunshu and Wei Zhong were about to go to Du Laozhuang to discuss how many people should enter the city, Du Mazi, Du Xiaoliu and others pushed each other and looked at Zhou Yunshu stealthily.
Zhou Yunshu looked at Du Mazi and the other three speechlessly.
Wei Zhong waved his hand, and his men pushed the hesitant Du Mazi and the other three forward.
Zhou Yunshu looked at the four people and asked, "What's the matter?"
Du Mazi and the other three looked at each other, and finally Du Mazi stepped forward, looked at Zhou Yunshu and said, "Mr. Zhou."
"When we were just about to pee along the city wall, we saw several people digging the wall."
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