After finding a place to camp, the Lu family was truly safe. After treating their injuries, Lu Lanchen called his brothers, Lu Zifeng and others together.
"As everyone has seen, this journey of fleeing famine is extremely difficult and fraught with danger. What we encountered today will likely be repeated in the future. We have already reached the capital of Kunzhou Prefecture. It looks like it will be very difficult to enter. We have enough food for now, but further south is the plains, so we need to conserve water and food. After all, there are no mountains there, so we can at least find something to eat."
Upon hearing this, everyone nodded in agreement with the patriarch and expressed their willingness to take care of the food and water.
Lu Zifeng was on guard that night. He had special abilities and did not feel tired. Many members of the Lu family were injured today, so he volunteered to be on duty.
The next day at dawn, the Lu family set out on their journey. They had baked the pancakes for the next few days, boiled the water, cooled it, and packed it up.
For three consecutive days, everyone walked under the scorching sun. Several elderly people in the tribe fell ill from heatstroke, so they had to be put on mule carts. As a result, some children had no place to sit and could only walk like adults.
Lu Zifeng raised his left hand to cover his eyes and looked into the distance. There was not a single tree in his sight, and the wheat in the field had dried up because it had not rained for a long time.
The family has run out of water, and if they don't find a water source, someone might die. However, looking around at the existing river channels, the silt has become extremely dry and hard.
Lu Zifeng didn't dare to ask the team to stop. He knew that if they stopped, some people might never be able to stand up again.
The team walked until dark and finally stopped in a small woods. There must have been too many disaster victims gathered in Kunzhou Prefecture, so after coming out of Kunzhou Prefecture, Lu Zifeng and his team did not encounter too many disaster victims. Only a few people were traveling with the Lu family, but they always kept a distance and did not get close to the Lu family.
The Lu family was about to run out of water, and Lu Zifeng felt that the water problem needed to be solved quickly. He planned to go out himself tonight to see if he could find a water source.
After dinner, when the Lu family was resting, Lu Zifeng said something to Lu Lanchen and then walked forward until he could no longer see anyone. Lu Zifeng then used his speed ability to run quickly forward. Fortunately, there was no one on the road at this time. If there was anyone, they would only feel a gust of wind blowing past.
Lu Zifeng ran for hundreds of miles in one breath and finally saw a stream in front of him. The stream was not very big, only about one foot wide, but it was enough for the time being. Lu Zifeng took out the prepared buckets and started to draw water by himself. He did not stop until all three buckets were full. There was no way he would stop, because he only had three empty buckets, and this amount of water was just a drop in the bucket for the entire Lu family.
Lu Zifeng was a little worried. First, he didn't have many buckets and couldn't carry much water. This place was hundreds of miles away from the camping site. Second, he couldn't say where he got the water.
After thinking about it, Lu Zifeng decided to go back first. This little water could at least allow the family to survive for another day.
Returning to the vicinity of the camping site, Lu Zifeng carried three buckets of water out of the space and carried the buckets back.
Lu Lanchen was just worried that Lu Zifeng hadn't returned yet, when he saw Lu Zifeng coming back with a bucket in his hand.
"Brother Feng, have you found water?"
Lu Zifeng shook his head. "Grandpa, we only found this little water. It's not much, but it's enough for us to use tomorrow. I'm afraid it won't be enough for washing, it's just enough for drinking."
"This is already very good. With this little bit of water, we can continue on our journey. Alas, this vast plain is worse than a place with mountains and forests. Where can we find water or food?"
They set off again the next day, and for three days in a row, Lu Zifeng went out to find water at night. Lu Lanchen might have noticed something unusual about Lu Zifeng, but he never asked about it. Instead, he covered for Lu Zifeng. This made Lu Zifeng very curious, and he finally chose to ask.
Who knew that after hearing Lu Zifeng's question, Lu Lanchen burst into laughter.
"Brother Feng, you are the Qilin of our Lu family. Of course, this is my own perception. If our Lu family wants to be strong, we still need young people like you. I am very pleased with your performance now. I have seen that you take the family seriously. I don't care what you have. As long as it is good for the family, I am willing to die even if it means letting an old man like me die."
"You should know why your great-grandfather came from the prosperous Huzhou to the borderland of Bingzhou. Let's not talk about revenge for now. We also need to develop and grow stronger, right?"
Lu Zifeng looked at Lu Lanchen with a smile.
"Grandpa is very wise. You should know that my martial arts are very fast. This is something that no one in this world can learn, and only I can do it. That's why I can travel 800 miles at night and find water. But I need you to keep this secret for me. If it gets out, our Lu family will be in danger of being wiped out."
Lu Zifeng was not exaggerating. If someone knew that Lu Zifeng could travel 800 miles during the day and at night, then someone would definitely covet Lu Zifeng's martial arts. At that time, the Lu family would be Lu Zifeng's weakness. However, what Lu Zifeng had was not martial arts but his own special abilities. He had no martial arts at all, so in the end the Lu family would be in danger.
Lu Lanchen naturally knew the serious consequences of this, so he never told anyone else about Lu Zifeng's abnormality. Moreover, when some clan members had doubts, he even distorted the matter.
In this way, under the cover of Lu Lanchen, they walked for another five days and finally saw the mountain range in the distance.
According to the map, this mountain range is the Pulao Mountains, which stretches seven or eight hundred miles from east to west and about two hundred miles from north to south.
In the evening, the Lu family finally arrived at the foot of the Pulao Mountains. The drought here was no longer noticeable. There were green mountains and clear waters everywhere, and the crops in the fields were growing well. This made the Lu family members who had experienced the drought and saw only withered and yellow crops very happy.
Lu Lanchen has been secretly discussing with Lu Zifeng the final destination of the Lu family these days.
Finally, they chose Luzhou in the south as their place of settlement, because Luzhou was not far from Huzhou, only more than 300 miles away. Their Lu family was an independent clan and would have no relationship with the Lu family of Huzhou in the future.
After discussing with his brothers, Lu Lanchen decided to settle down in Luzhou.
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