But another person on night duty said, "Yes, there is a way."
The speaker was Lin Fugui's younger brother, Lin Erhu. He said, "I think there's a half-hour handover time before dawn these days. We can use that time to run away, but there will be some risks."
That night, no one could sleep; they had to prepare to leave.
Everyone has accumulated quite a bit of supplies here. Black beans and pine needles are enough to last them for half a month, and they can find more black beans as they go. In short, there is hope for them to survive.
Wild fruits, radishes, and other vegetables are not convenient to take with us.
Only two or three households have their own handcarts, and they have to be pulled by manpower. If they were to take all these things with them, it would be too tiring, and the food they have wouldn't be enough to replenish the energy they've expended.
Moreover, some fruits don't keep for long.
Lin Jinyue then approached the village chief, saying, "Grandpa, you see, it's inconvenient for us to take these things with us. Why don't we all pool our rice from home and not worry about whose grain it is? We can make a kind of 'mountain-guarding ration' using radishes and share it equally among everyone."
Lin Youcai looked troubled.
Lin Jinyue continued, "Grandpa, nearly two hundred people from our village fled the famine together. More than fifty went north, and now only sixty or so remain. Nearly a hundred have died. It's because we didn't work together. If we had worked together and supported each other, we could have survived anywhere."
Hearing this, Lin Youcai was somewhat moved, but he didn't say anything. Lin Youxi then arrived and handed over all the radishes in his house, as well as a small bag of brown rice, which they had exchanged with the villagers for medicinal herbs.
Next, the other families also handed over their surplus grain and radishes, though the grain was not much.
Everyone immediately said, "From now on, we all need to stick together as one, and we'll all listen to Er Ya!"
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