"Xiao Si, be good, come and drink all this water!"
Xiao Si was very obedient and drank it all in one gulp: "Mom, I want to sleep!"
"Okay, let's go to sleep!"
She took out a bed sheet, wrapped Xiao Si in it, and then tied it to her chest.
Tang's mother was a little worried: "Why don't you give it to your eldest brother? His back is too hot!"
"Mom, it's okay, let's get going, shall we?"
It wasn't until noon that everyone took a break.
"Look, there's still a pile of ash here. Someone is walking ahead of us!"
"Oh! Don't run into those people!"
Everyone was eating dry rations which tasted like chewing wax. They had only been walking for two days when they encountered this incident. The road ahead was destined to be difficult.
"Cheer up, we've finally found some water. Look, the leaves and bark around here haven't been stripped off, and there are still quite a few cicadas and birds singing, which means it's not too dry around here. This shows we're on the right track."
"If we stayed in Wanfu Village right now, we probably wouldn't even have water to drink or tree bark to eat!"
Everyone nodded, with a glimmer in their eyes.
"I wonder what's happening to the villagers?" Someone asked.
By this time, Wanfu Village was in chaos.
"Old Bai, are you really leaving?" The village head looked at the person in front of him with some reluctance.
The Bai clan leader had a bitter look on his face: "Old Wang, I can't just watch my grandchildren die tragically here!"
Chief Liu glared at him. "Just leave if you want to. Why are you still spouting alarmist rhetoric? What? Are you saying we want to trap our grandchildren to death here?"
The Liu clan leader shouldered the package and said, "Let's go! We have different paths, so we can't work together. We'll meet again if we're destined to."
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