Today's dishes are still extremely bland. There are even very few wild vegetables in the soup. In order to survive, everyone can only eat these few things and go back to lie motionless in the cave to avoid physical exhaustion.
Lin Rui drank the wild vegetable soup in one breath. It had a bit of a grassy smell, but it wasn't too difficult to swallow.
It was impossible to fill his stomach with just a small bowl of wild vegetable soup. After he finished drinking a bowl of wild vegetable soup, he did not feel full. Instead, he felt that the soup was sloshing in his stomach.
The old village chief's wife dragged her frail body to Lin Rui and said, "Brother Lin, the village chief wants to see you."
Lin Rui nodded: "Okay, I'll go right away."
He'd been thinking all day about how to reunite with the Major General, but he'd fallen off a cliff in the middle of nowhere. Besides Chu Wu, no one in the Xing army knew where he'd fallen from. Would they think he was dead? The Major General and San Liang were starting to head home.
Oh, by the way, I don’t know whether the young general has escaped. If I have done so much but still failed to save him, I guess he will have to live in a small space in his own mansion before Yishu Pass is broken.
He was currently staying in someone else's cave. Since the old village chief had invited him, he had no reason to refuse. He stood up, dusted himself off, and walked to the entrance of the old village chief's cave.
The old village chief struggled to get up to greet Lin Rui, but Lin Rui quickly supported him and said, "No, no, there's no need to bother. If you have anything to say, just tell me."
After hearing Lin Rui's words, the old village chief breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at his skinny grandson and the villagers, then looked at Lin Rui with hope: "Brother Xiaolin, how are you going to get back to Huangmo Pass?"
Isn't this puncturing the heart and lung tube? If he had any idea, he would have died long ago.
Lin Rui shook his head and told the truth: "To be honest with you, Village Chief, I'm completely unfamiliar with this place and I really can't leave."
The old village chief said, "I do have a way to leave. It requires taking a detour of more than ten miles along a narrow road, which will lead to the only connection between Huangmo Pass and Yishu Pass in the north."
Lin Rui's eyes lit up: "Do you really mean what the village chief said?"
Walking more doesn’t matter, as long as I can get out of this nightmare-like Yishu Pass.
The old village chief nodded and said, "If the distance wasn't too long and the weather wasn't too cold to travel, I would have taken the villagers and grandchildren to Huangmoguan to find a way to survive, even if it meant death."
"I just have a request..." The old village chief hesitated to speak.
Lin Rui hurriedly said, "Just tell me. As long as I can do it, I will never refuse."
Seeing Lin Rui's straightforward answer, the old village chief said, "I wonder if we can leave with you and go to Huangmoguan to find a way out."
"Of course you can." He looked at these adults and children who were so thin that they were just bones, and doubted whether they could really get out of the territory of Yishu Pass?
I look so weak now that it seems like it would be difficult for me to even walk out of this cave!
"Can your bodies really hold up?" Lin Rui asked.
The old village chief seemed to have considered this issue long ago: "A tree that is moved may die, and a person who is moved may live. Life in Yishuguan is extremely frightening. We are already buried up to our necks in the earth, but my grandson and the children in the village are still young. We must find a way for them to survive."
After saying this, he looked at Lin Rui with embarrassment and expectation: "Brother Lin, if no one in our village can make it on the road, please, if you can ensure your own safety, please help me."
The village chief also knew that he had little friendship with Lin Rui, and the village had not done him any favors. Instead, it was Lin Rui who saved Hanbao and allowed him to survive. How could he dare to repay the favor? In times of danger, people should first consider themselves. If these children in the cave did not find a solution, it would only be a matter of time before they starved to death.
When I woke up this morning, I found that the villagers in the cave had buried two newborn babies. The cave is almost extinct, and all the edible wild vegetables around have been dug up. If we don't find a way, we can't just starve to death here.
As a normal and rational person, Lin Rui certainly did not want to take this group of old, weak and sick people on the road, but the current situation was that there were hunters everywhere in Yishu Pass, and if they were not careful, the whole village would be wiped out. He could escape, but he was unfamiliar with the place, so how could he get out of the pass, how could he find the young general's troops, and how could he return to Huangmo Pass.
Now that he was separated from the Major General's men, he could only find a way to escape on his own.
I really miss the modern navigation map. It covers everything within the Dragon Kingdom.
Everyone has selfish desires, and the old village chief is no exception. Although he apologized to Lin Rui, he actually kept the route to Huang Moguan a secret. He supported his weak body and asked the villagers to pack up and leave, and he would not reveal a single word to Lin Rui.
When he first came here to escape the famine, Lin Rui thought that his people could be called old, weak, sick and disabled. Now that he saw these people, he deeply understood the weight of this idiom.
I'm afraid he can't even walk a kilometer in a day. Is it right or wrong to leave with them? He can take care of his own safety. If he encounters hunters, he can escape. If he can't escape, he can retreat to the space.
These people prayed that they would not encounter hunters, otherwise...
As if it weren't for the rain, it never came. Before he could finish his thought, someone in the village shouted in fear: "Here they come! The hunters are coming this way!"
Upon hearing this, the old village chief and the people in the cave all struggled to get up in fear: "How could they come?"
Someone cast a hateful gaze at Lin Rui, pointed at him and shouted angrily: "It must be him, it must be him!"
"Why were we hiding here without being discovered before, but the hunters followed him? I will never believe him even if he says he has nothing to do with the hunters."
After hearing this, many people in the village looked at Lin Rui with suspicion and hatred, and even the old village chief became hesitant.
Seeing this, Lin Rui couldn't help but retort, "I harmed you? I brought the hunter here to you? If you had used a little brain when you ate, you wouldn't say such ridiculous things. Did you see the clothes I gave to the fool? That was a robe made of the most luxurious silk and satin given to me by Major General Huang Moguan."
"With just this robe, I could buy all of you to work like slaves for me. I gave the robe to Han Bao, and Han Bao's aunt also cut off half of the robe. Ask her to tell me if my claims about silk and satin were false."
Everyone looked at Auntie Silly, who nodded hesitantly, "Yes, it's really a good fabric, very smooth. I've never touched such a precious fabric in my life. I can't imagine how comfortable it would be to wear it."
"Instead of doubting me, why don't you think about whether your foolish gambling father revealed the location of the village when he owed a huge debt and used his wife's life to pay it off. He was so addicted to gambling that he would even sell his wife when he lost everything, let alone you villagers!"
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