Chapter 115: Food was stolen
The two women who made sarcastic remarks were the two daughters-in-law of Old Man Wu and his wife.
On that day, after the old couple was driven out of the house by their son, they were exiled with their daughter's family. The old Wu family was also in chaos for a while before they finally settled down.
When the Beirong army attacked.
Because Brother Ling was studying in the county, he got the news from his classmates in advance.
The whole family quickly packed up and left, becoming one of the first groups to escape from the north.
But even if it was earlier, escaping would not be easy.
Because they also brought several carts of food.
After the Shen family was exiled, their wheat fields had not yet been harvested.
Wu Laosan was a smart guy. He instigated Wu Laoer and others to sneak into Qianniu Village in the middle of the night and secretly harvest the Shen family's wheat fields.
Shen Fugui hopes to leave these to Zhao Lizheng so that he can distribute them to the elderly in Qianniu Village.
Upon learning that the Shen family’s grain had been taken away, Zhao Lizheng argued with Wu Laosan for a long time.
However, they learned from the other party that Shen Fugui's family took away the old man Wu and his wife, and also took away the filial piety money they gave to the two elders.
Now, these foods are provided to them by my sister's family.
Wu Laosan made his point confidently, and the Shen family had already left.
Looking at the bare wheat fields, Zhao Lizheng had no choice but to give up.
The Shen family's ten acres of wasteland were irrigated with water from the underground canal. With Shen Fuyou taking good care of them, the yield actually caught up with previous years, reaching nearly seventy kilograms per acre.
The Wu family snatched nearly 700 kilograms of wheat and were beaming with joy.
Due to the drought in the north, most areas have suffered poor harvests and food prices are soaring.
Wu Laosan suggested not to sell the grain for the time being, and wait until winter when food is scarce so that they can sell it at a high price.
Wu Laoer accepted it with pleasure.
Only Boss Wu did not comment on the actions of his two younger brothers, but his two younger brothers did not listen to him.
Until the Rong people attacked the north.
Wu Laosan hurriedly sold some of the grain and got dozens of taels of silver.
The family set off again with the remaining food and supplies, intending to make a high profit on the way.
However, along the thousands-mile-long escape route, various "wealth accumulation" phenomena frequently occurred.
At first, everything was fine when everyone had food to eat.
After walking for seven or eight days, the people had eaten all their food, and the Wu family, a large grain producer who set out on the road alone, began to be remembered by the people along the way.
At the critical moment, Wu Laosan came up with an idea and exchanged two bags of food for the opportunity to join a team of several hundred people.
The headman in the team looked at the food and said happily that he was willing to make a good relationship with it.
But the team's final destination is to go east.
Boss Wu was determined to go to Shu.
After careful discussion, Wu Lao Er and Wu Lao San decided to follow their eldest brother's ideas.
After separating from the team, Wu Laosan planned to use the same trick again.
Unexpectedly, they were talking to a village head in the team just one moment, and the next moment all their food was snatched away by the other side.
Even the dozens of taels of silver earned from selling grain were stolen.
Fortunately, Wu Laosan still had some small change wrapped around a special part of his body, so although it hurt him along the way, he was not left with nothing.
As happy as the family was when they got the food, they are as sad now.
What’s worse is that even their own food was stolen. It was truly tragic.
Along the way, Boss Wu didn't say anything about the second and third brothers stealing food from his sister's house.
Even when he was sleeping at night, he was alert and wanted to do his best to protect the grain.
Because, if I go to Shu and meet my parents and my sister's family, I can share the food with them.
But now there is no food, and no one knows where his parents and sister's family are. Wu Lao Da's wife, Li, knows what her husband is thinking, so she brought it up.
Unexpectedly, this made the second and third sons' wives very unhappy.
Liu Meiyu suppressed her nausea and swallowed the green and bitter wild vegetables carelessly. She complained to Wu Laoer, "It's all your eldest brother's fault. If he hadn't slept so soundly at night, how could our food have been stolen?"
Li glanced at Liu sideways.
Liu lowered her head guiltily, but she was still muttering to herself. It was obvious that even eating could not stop her from talking.
Throughout the entire journey, it was actually Boss Wu who was on guard.
The food was not stolen before because the head of the previous village was authoritative and could restrain the villagers.
In the middle of the night, there were often scoundrels who tried to steal their food. Boss Wu discovered them in time, and the head of the village also scolded a few of them, but that was all.
The food is being robbed now because everyone has eaten up the food they brought with them, and they are robbing whoever has food.
"I'm just a little sleepy," Boss Wu looked at his two younger brothers apologetically.
When he went to harvest the grain for his sister's house, he didn't give any permission. Now that he failed to protect the grain for his sister's house, Boss Wu felt very distressed.
"Ah," Wu Lao Er sighed and looked towards his eldest brother, his expression of blame obvious, "I'm really worried about not having any food to fill my stomach."
"Forget it, let's get to Shu and get down to business."
Wu Laosan also felt very regretful, but he knew that he could not blame his eldest brother.
It was also his fault that he trusted the old man who was leading the group too much.
But the other side has more people and more power. If they and their family don't join the other side's team, their food will be stolen by other people.
The three brothers pulled the cart all the way, but they didn't expect that they would end up helping others.
Wu Laosan was so angry that his heart, liver, lungs and kidneys ached.
The third daughter-in-law listened to the family's quarrels, swallowed a bowl of wild vegetable soup, and looked in the distance with flickering eyes.
On the other side, Zhao Lizheng and his group.
They walked slowly, and the old, weak, and sick people in the village followed them all the way. It was not until Zhang Xiaodi and others discovered the Rong people's scouts that everyone dared not slack off anymore.
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