Chapter 22 Stay or Go
Hearing they were about to leave, some people stamped their feet anxiously: "Village Chief, where are we going? Can we please not leave?"
Lai Fu hadn't responded yet when the villagers, who had nearly finished their food, started cursing, "If you don't want to leave, stay here as long as you can. Yangliu Town is full of dead bodies. Are you comfortable living here? Anyway, my family is going to move on and beg for food in the next county."
"My family doesn't want to leave either."
"But my family wants to leave!"
All of a sudden, quarrels broke out everywhere. No one was willing to back down, and everyone was venting the frustrations they had been feeling for the past few days.
Lai Fu said with a serious face: "Okay, it's okay if we don't leave. If everyone can accept that all the food should be put together and managed in a unified manner, we can distribute the food evenly according to the number of days and stay a few more days..."
But before he could finish his words, some people turned around and left.
In the final analysis, they just want everyone to hand over grain, which is impossible.
Just like that, a quarrel was quickly settled.
Ding Rong, who was standing aside, narrowed his eyes and thought about this. In fact, his family was the least willing to leave, and the food in their home should be able to last for a while. In this case, why should they suffer that hardship?
No one knows whether he is dead or alive after leaving Yangliu Town.
However, after hearing Lai Fu's proposal for everyone to pay grain, Ding Rong immediately pretended to be stupid and did not move forward.
He wouldn't hand it over. He has plenty of grain at home. Wouldn't it be stupid of him to hand it over and have it confiscated?
But he also wanted to stay, but the problem was that it would be very dangerous if only his family stayed. If he wanted to stay, he had to persuade a few other families to stay together.
Just when Ding Rong was thinking about this matter, Ding De, the second son of the Ding family, also thought of the same thing as him.
It’s just that the boss Ding Rong is good at hiding things, and he looks like he has no idea what to do.
So, Ding De walked up to him and asked quietly, "Brother, will you stay?"
Ding Rong glanced at him and said, "I haven't thought about it yet."
"What are you thinking about? Look at how nice the houses are in this city. Let's find a clean one and live there. We can take care of each other, right?"
"It's a bit dangerous for us to be alone! If we encounter someone who wants to rob us, we won't be able to defeat them."
"Don't worry, I'll go and make appointments with a few more."
“…Alright!”
In this way, the task of instigating everyone was quietly transferred to Ding De's shoulders. Seeing that his brother really went to talk to other neighbors, Ding Rong smiled with a bit of pride.
…
Ding Xiaodie lay by the window on the second floor and could see the situation downstairs clearly.
After waking up this morning, she continued looking at the map.
We definitely can’t take advantage of the benefits in the lotus pond. Dabao and Erbao explored it very carefully yesterday.
There is still one place we haven’t visited yet, and that is the mountains surrounding Yangliu Town.
There are trees on these mountains, but the leaves have almost all been eaten up, and the bark has not been completely eaten because the bark is too hard and astringent, and eating too much will cause bloating.
I heard that some people were bloated to death, and then gradually no one dared to eat that kind of tree bark anymore.
Ding Xiaodie thought that she could go up the mountain to take a look.
They were able to catch a rabbit when they were in Lizipo, so maybe there were some in the mountains of Yangliu Town as well. Besides, the two places were not too far apart.
But right now, she is a little worried about the instability of the villagers' morale.
Ding Gui, who had nothing to do, went upstairs and saw his daughter's little body lying on the windowsill looking down. At that moment, he suddenly felt that his daughter was not cute at all in such a small body.
He suddenly felt very uncomfortable.
If the daughter was in the body of a person of the same age as her, she would be stronger and better able to protect herself. In this chaotic era, she can only survive by relying on herself.
Hearing the noise, Ding Xiaodie turned around and saw her father's eyes were red. "Dad, what's wrong with you? Are you hungry?"
She thought that if she was hungry, she could just eat porridge, since her mother could cook it anyway.
Ding Gui shook his head and changed the subject, then stepped forward and said, "See? The villagers are not united at all, like a pile of sand. How about we..."
When he thought of his daughter's safety, he actually wanted to leave.
It is better to escape with your own family than to follow the rest of the village. This way you may be able to reach the capital faster.
But Ding Xiaodie shook her head: "We can't go far on our own. Have you forgotten what you said? These days, the nomadic tribes of Modu are in chaos. If we leave the main group, we will be worried all the time."
In fact, Ding Gui had also thought about this, but he was confused for a moment and only wanted to reach the capital as soon as possible.
At this time, he nodded and said, "That's right, but the villagers are not united. If this continues, this place will become uninhabitable. I don't know what they are thinking."
Some families next door could smell the odor and had to move overnight, having to live on another street.
Ding Xiaodie took out a map and pointed, saying, "I want to try my luck in the mountains. Even if we want to continue moving forward, we need to have some food."
Yes, once we set out, it would be a bit strange to suddenly take out a bag of food from the space.
If you want to make preparations, make them now so that you won't be suspected when you're on the road.
At this time, the space was willful and would not let anyone in no matter what, so naturally the only option was to use the trick of self-rooting.
Ding Gui said, "I'll go with you."
He really changed the salt last night, and put some salt in the millet porridge today. He tasted the saltiness in his mouth, and he felt more vigorous when he walked.
So the father and daughter went downstairs. They wanted to go to the mountain to explore.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Ding Gui walked out of the house, he was stopped by Ding De and asked, "Old Third, are you going to stay? If you stay, you will be in the same group with us."
"If we're in the same group, what good will that do?" Ding Gui had seen these people acting suspiciously upstairs earlier.
Now they are trying to recruit him to join their gang, but it is obvious that these people want him to join their gang because they think the original owner is cowardly and easy to bully.
After he stayed, he asked Ding Gui to do odd jobs every day.
Unexpectedly, Ding Gui asked such a question out loud!
Ding De said with an embarrassed look on his face: "What benefits do you want? We all have our own food to eat, and we can live one day at a time. Why do you still want benefits?"
Ding Gui then asked, "Then why should I join you?"
"you……"
Ding De was choked and speechless for a long time. What's wrong with this stupid head? He's really thinking fast today.
After rolling his eyes, Ding De set his sights on Xiaodie again. He knew that although the third son Ding Gui was usually quiet and careless in socializing, there was one thing he cherished the most: this daughter.
Sometimes Ding Gui would listen to what Xiaodie said.
So, Ding De immediately said with a smile: "Xiao Die, do you think Second Uncle is right? Ask your father to take you and your mother to stay with us. We are a family and we can take care of each other."
Ding Xiaodie's eyes sparkled: "Uncle, can you provide us with food if we stay here?"
“…”
Ding De immediately frowned speechlessly. Both the father and the daughter were going against him today. It was really outrageous!
(End of this chapter)
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