In the past few days, Lin Jinyue has come up with a lot of ideas, and they are all useful. For a while, no one will look down on her because of her young age.
According to Lin Xueqing, Lin Jinyue also reads books regularly and has a photographic memory, able to understand things after reading them only once. For a time, everyone thought that Lin Jinyue was a reincarnation of a deity.
There's a saying in the village that Er Ya is a lucky star. Otherwise, how could Lin Lao San have broken off his marriage for Er Ya and suddenly have a better life? While other families were starving, her family was able to eat meat.
Look at them before they separated their households, Er Ya was tormented, and the Lin family never had a good life.
What's more, Er Ya also helped them fill their stomachs, and her family could find wild eggs every day, while other families couldn't.
Therefore, many people firmly believe the rumor that Lin Jinyue is a lucky star.
They planned to leave early the next morning, so only the children could get some sleep that night, as the adults were all busy preparing provisions for guarding the mountain.
Of course, Lin Jinyue, being a child, couldn't rest; she had to keep an eye on things. She even brought out all the grain her family had stored outside the farm space.
Everyone knew how the mountain guard's grain was made; it turned out that rice had to be added to it. It turned out that the taste of rice they had tasted earlier wasn't an illusion; Lin Laosan's family had been secretly subsidizing them all along.
And what about families who educate their children:
"From now on, you must listen to your third uncle and your sister Er Ya. They are the ones who gave you children your lives, understand?"
"If you survive, study like crazy. If you become successful in the future, do you know what you should do?"
The little baby's clear voice rang out, "Be good to your older sister, Er Ya."
Lin Jinyue, who was drinking water, almost choked. What does it mean to be filial to her?
She's only eight years old!
However, Lin Jinyue couldn't stop smiling. Everyone was grateful and appreciated her family's kindness; they had received quite a few gifts from her family in the past few days.
Some families brought her pickled radishes, while others, like Shi Tou, gave her bird eggs and chicken eggs that they had painstakingly collected.
This is also why Lin Jinyue was willing to risk being punished by being sent to guard the mountain's grain supply for them.
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Everyone was busy for the first half of the night, but they did it quickly. In just over an hour, all the things were ready. They were spread out on the ground to dry overnight, and then each household would receive a portion early the next morning.
Everyone could rest for more than an hour in the latter half of the night, but Lin Jinyue and her family went into the space where time flowed faster, allowing them to sleep for a few more hours.
Upon entering the space, the group saw several rabbits and pheasants in the once barren farm, instantly washing away their fatigue.
Lin Shucheng joked, "In my past life, you and your brother were both successful. All my buddies' kids relied on their fathers' connections, but you two didn't, which made me feel worthless."
Then he sighed and said, "I never thought that I would be even more useless after coming to ancient times. I still have to compete with others for daughters. In the future, I can still compete with others for daughters."
Lin Jinyue laughed: "Haha, you should have said so earlier! If you had said that my advisor blocked my graduation thesis back then, I should have relied on my father's connections!"
Jiang Yun glared at Lin Shucheng: "How can you put so much pressure on the child? Get up and straighten up, don't let your daughter suffer. Look, other children are sleeping, but our daughter still has to work with us. She's still growing."
Lin Shucheng hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, I will definitely not let my daughter get tired in the future."
The next day, Lin Jinyue was woken up by a pat before she had been asleep for long: "Yueyue, get up, don't go back to sleep."
Lin Jinyue remembered that she had important business to attend to today, so she struggled to get up. On the road of fleeing famine, there were no time for formalities.
Avoiding the patrolling troops under Prince Jing's command may only be the beginning.
Everyone remained quiet throughout the journey, afraid of disturbing anyone.
The night was quiet, and they could hear conversations coming from a nearby tent.
Dozens of people held their breath.
When Lin Jinyue heard those voices, she almost revealed the secret space and hid her parents and brother inside.
Only after confirming that the other side was merely conducting a handover and had not discovered their group did they tiptoe away.
Once they had gone a little further, the group took advantage of the darkness and ran forward until they were completely exhausted.
The sky was already beginning to lighten with the first hint of dawn.
The people of Linjia Village escaped safely, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
To their surprise, they continued walking for about half an hour. As dawn broke, someone in the crowd shouted, "Look! There's a fire over there! Someone's setting the mountain on fire!"
Lin Jinyue and the others looked behind them and felt a chill run down their spines.
Good heavens, if we had left any later, we would either have been burned to death or been forced to come out because we couldn't stand the thick smoke in the mountains and would have been captured by Prince Jing's men.
Lin Jinyue broke out in a cold sweat.
I had long heard of Prince Jing's cruelty, but I never expected that he would set fire to a mountain for the sake of fifty or so refugees.
Everyone remained silent throughout the journey.
After crossing the main road, Lin Shucheng led the group into the woods.
Lin Jinyue's feet were blistered from walking all the way south from Nan'an County, but she didn't say much, as it wasn't convenient for them to rest at the farm at the moment.
They found a place to rest that night. When Lin Jinyue took off her shoes, Jiang Yun felt heartbroken. Her feet were covered in blisters, and some of them had burst and were stuck to her socks.
Jiang Yun applied the medicine and bandaged her up. Lin Jinyue gasped in pain when the medicine was applied.
Jiang Yun was heartbroken.
She said, "Let your dad carry you tomorrow."
Lin Jinyue shook her head: "Mom, our family has it tough. Dad and my brother are very busy. They carry so many things and they are very tired."
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