The snow finally stopped after five days.
"Oh my god, this is weird weather. It's going to be scorching hot again."
Tang Youyou waved her hand: "This is God giving us time to rest. We will set off early tomorrow morning."
Old Man Tang nodded in agreement. "The snow has melted today, making the mountain roads slippery. I'm sure it will be dry by tomorrow morning. It's a good time for us to prepare tomorrow's food today."
What they didn't know was that the Liu family was waiting for them below.
"Chief, how about we wait another day? This mountain road is a bit slippery."
"That's right. There are no road signs ahead, and no one has walked here. They are still behind us."
Chief Liu thought for a moment and shook his head: "Yesterday, those people were still eyeing us covetously. We can't wait any longer. Tell them to walk slower and find a hillside to rest."
"Patriarch, what do you mean..."
"Right! Get everyone ready with stones. If those people dare to get close, just throw them!"
"Hiss!" Everyone gasped.
The patriarch always treated people with a pleasant expression, but today he was unusually harsh and stern, which showed that the group of people had really angered him.
Clan leader Liu sighed, "We've never met before, yet they keep provoking us. Right now, food is a lifeline to us. Why are they still forcing us when we can't even protect ourselves?"
He waved his hand and walked forward with the stick.
The next day, Tang Wu's scream woke everyone up.
"Is it a wolf? A tiger?"
"Where is Tang Wuren?"
Butcher Zhang rushed out of the cave with a dagger in his hand, looking around but couldn't see Tang Wu.
"Where is this kid shouting?"
When Tang Youyou saw this, his heart skipped a beat: This kid must have gone to check for food!
As expected, Tang Wu came running over, panting, pointing in the direction of the food and shouting, "Food...food...all...all gone."
"Clang!" Butcher Zhang's dagger fell to the ground.
"What the hell? All gone? Not even a bag left?"
Tang Wu nodded repeatedly.
Butcher Zhang slapped his thigh and said, "It must be the soldiers who have come to carry away the grain. Oh! I should have carried more grain earlier! I don't know how expensive grain is out there."
"Carry more. If we're caught carrying too much, do you think we'll end up in jail?" Tang Youyou's words were like a bucket of cold water poured down.
Yao Cuihua also agreed: "We still have more than 2,000 kilograms of food, enough for us to eat all the way to Nanzhou. Don't be too greedy."
Old Man Tang reminded everyone: "Don't think about it, eat some dry food, let's hurry up and try to reach the official road as soon as possible."
Everyone started to move, but unexpectedly they ran into the group of men from before, and there were also many children and women on the other side.
Looking at the rocks on the ground, everyone frowned slightly. Was there a ground dragon turning over here?
The men looked at them with some fear, and then looked at the cart pushed by Tang Youyou with greedy expressions.
"Brother, what should we do? We can't attack from above, and there's this woman behind us!"
"What are you afraid of? They are just a few men. There are so many of us. We can catch them off guard."
He looked around and said, "Get more people to trap this woman. This time we won't steal food, we'll steal people first."
"Great, brother, you're really smart. You can trade people for food when the time comes!"
"Catch the kids! If they don't obey, give them a slap in the face!"
The Yu family and their companions protected the children behind them.
The men rushed over, but the people on the higher slopes shouted: "It's them!"
Then a group of Liu's men rushed down with sticks.
The men panicked and had to run away.
"Get away from me, or I'll make you look for your teeth on the ground!"
"Bah! A bunch of cowards!"
"If you dare to follow me again, I'll chop you into pieces and feed you to the dogs!"
The Liu clan members were all extremely vicious, but they turned around and looked at Tang Youyou and his group with a friendly expression.
"Hehe! I finally got you guys, let's go!" said a man as he was about to push Tang Youyou's cart.
"No, I can do it myself!"
A group of people escorted them up the slope, and this scene greatly stimulated the men who had been there before.
"They are actually in the same group!"
"Bah! I'm going to follow you!"
"What should we do? They are so cruel. They have so much food, why can't they share some with us?"
"You evil-hearted thing, you shall not die a good death, wuwuwu..."
While people were sighing on one side, the Liu family members were very happy on the other side.
Clan leader Liu bowed deeply, startling them.
"Brother Liu, what are you doing? This is really frustrating for these kids."
Clan leader Liu waved his hand and grasped Old Man Tang's hand: "You are our clan's great benefactors. You deserve this gift. You deserve it."
Old Man Tang was confused and looked at his daughter, who nodded slightly.
"Why are you saying all this? Let's hurry up and get to Nanzhou sooner. Who knows if this awful weather will change again!"
Clan leader Liu looked at him gratefully without saying anything else, and his favorable impression of them increased again.
The large group began to march, with Tang Youyou and his group in the center.
The weather returned to its previous hot state, but the good news was that we didn't encounter any danger along the way until we reached the official road three days later.
“Squeak…”
The official road was in a state of desolation, with starving people everywhere and a foul stench. Many people could be seen gnawing on corpses and catching mice.
“Ugh…Ugh…”
Everyone was stunned by this scene and immediately started vomiting.
Someone shouted, "Cows... children... lots of children..."
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