"If we don't flee the famine, are we just going to stay here and wait to die?"
"Lu Yanzheng's son, say something! Why can't we go flee the famine?"
"Yes, you tell me, our village has nothing to eat now, and all the crops in the fields have died from drought. Are you going to feed us?"
"..."
Jiang Qinyu stared blankly at the dark mass of people below the grass platform, her face full of confusion, a jumble of images flashing through her mind.
Good heavens! She's time-traveled!
She had just inherited her scumbag father's chain of supermarkets and was preparing to live a carefree life, so how did she end up transmigrating?
Fine, she'll wear it, but why make her wear it in a famine year when there's not even enough food to eat?
Seeing everyone below staring at her, Jiang Qinyu opened her mouth, but a mechanical voice suddenly rang in her mind:
[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have successfully activated the portable supermarket system!]
Jiang Qinyu was jolted awake, her heart filled with joy—she actually had a system!
Having figured out the whole story, Jiang Qinyu stopped dwelling on it and said, "Why run away? We have nothing to eat or drink. Are you trying to hasten your death by running away? I'm not leaving!"
"Oh, look at her tone, does Old Man Lu still have some grain stored up?" someone said sarcastically.
Upon hearing this, the original owner's mother-in-law, Chen, immediately retorted with her hands on her hips, "Who? Who said that? Yesterday, that group of people from Qinggang Mountain came and robbed all the grain stored in our village. My house is at the entrance of the village, and we were the first to be robbed!"
Jiang Qinyu recalled the scene from that time. The Lu family was indeed the first to suffer. If it weren't for the fact that the original owner's cheap husband had built a small cellar in their house and stored some food, the Lu family would probably be as anxious as ants on a hot pan right now.
Lu Yanzheng was conscripted into the army on the day he married the original owner of the body. Now, six years have passed and there has been no news of him. The villagers are saying that he died on the battlefield long ago.
"Alright, alright, stop arguing," the village chief disliked women arguing the most. He frowned and looked at Jiang Qinyu, asking, "Lu Yanzheng's wife, why didn't you let everyone go and escape the famine?"
The woman reacted the most strongly when she heard that they were going to flee the famine. She actually ran to the grass platform and loudly told everyone that they absolutely should not go to flee the famine, which was very different from her usual dignified and quiet image.
Upon hearing this, a complex expression flashed across Jiang Qinyu's eyes.
Just a quarter of an hour before she transmigrated, the original owner of this body was reborn due to heatstroke and dehydration!
Fortunately, the memories of her rebirth were also in Jiang Qinyu's mind, so she wasn't speechless when the village chief questioned her.
"Village chief, I know that everyone is short of food at home right now, and we've seen that several neighboring villages have fled to escape famine, so we're feeling uncertain."
But the Great Viet has been suffering from drought for three years, and we are on the frontier. Even if we were to flee now, let alone whether we could survive, could we possibly compete with the refugees along the route from the Northwest to Jiangnan?
In the original owner's previous life, everyone in this village went to escape famine, but they were robbed by other refugees not long after they set off, and more than half of them were killed or injured. Later, they encountered bandits and war, and not a single person from Dingshui Village survived.
Jiang Qinyu's words silenced everyone.
After three years of severe drought, the imperial court had long since run out of grain reserves. For the past six months, people from all over the country had been heading to Jiangnan, which was known as the granary of the Great Yue. If they were to go now, they would probably die on the way before even reaching Jiangnan.
A little thought reveals that the food and water available on the road are limited, and people are treacherous. No one can guarantee that nothing will happen on the road. Can they possibly rob others?
But what else could they do but flee? Stay in the village and wait to die?
"So you mean we shouldn't run away?" The village chief was in a dilemma. The whole village was waiting for him to make a decision. With so many lives on his shoulders, he dared not make a decision lightly.
Jiang Qinyu glanced at everyone, then looked up into the distance, "Fleeing the famine now is definitely not the way to go..."
Before she could finish speaking, the voice that had just said the Lu family had food rang out again, "That's hilarious, as if you can find food to feed us."
Jiang Qinyu glanced at the person who spoke. It was Granny Wang, who had some disagreements with the Lu family. She understood, but now was not the time to argue with her.
Jiang Qinyu continued, "If we tighten our belts, our original food supply can last for at least another two months, right?"
"So what? Those grains have already been stolen by those bastards from Qinggang Mountain!" The village chief's brows furrowed into a deep frown.
Jiang Qinyu sneered, "Then let's go and snatch it back!"
Given the current situation in Dingshui Village, let alone fleeing the famine, even staying here wouldn't last more than a few days. Without food and water, how can they survive?
Thinking of the mechanical voice that had just echoed in her mind, Jiang Qinyu felt a little more at ease. After all, she was someone with a cheat ability.
Although she didn't know what this "golden finger" was all about, she preferred to stay here rather than flee the famine in complete darkness. A familiar environment was better than wandering around aimlessly.
"Rob? Lu Yanzheng, are you out of your mind? In all the surrounding villages, who would dare to rob the bandits from Qinggang Mountain?"
"Yeah, there's not a soul on the road, and we can't even find any help. How are we supposed to rob someone?"
"Why are you all listening to a widow like her? Women are all short-sighted and don't know anything. What does she know? I think we should hurry up and pack our bags and head out to escape the famine. Maybe we can catch up with the people from Xiahe Village who left yesterday. If we talk to them nicely, we might have a chance to survive if we go together..."
Jiang Qinyu was speechless upon hearing this; this guy was simply an idiot!
In their previous life, the original owner and his companions were used as cannon fodder by the people of Xiahe Village and pushed in front of the thugs!
Besides, what's wrong with a widow? Did she eat his rice?
After mentally ranting for a moment, Jiang Qinyu took a deep breath and interrupted them, “Our village has a total of 56 households, nearly 100 young and middle-aged men, and 70 or 80 women over the age of 18.”
The bandits on Qinggang Mountain number only a little over two hundred. We're not that much of a disadvantage in terms of numbers. As long as we plan well and are willing to risk our lives to catch them off guard, we'll definitely be able to take it back!"
If it weren't for the fact that she couldn't remain untainted in this chaotic world, Jiang Qinyu wouldn't have bothered to waste any more words on these people.
Her analysis caused an uproar among the audience.
"What? Women are going to steal too? Aren't you pushing us women into a fire pit?" It was Granny Wang who said this again.
Immediately, someone chimed in, "Yeah, yeah, what can women do? They'll only be a hindrance. We don't want them to drag us men down with us..."
"Li Tiezhu, what did you say? Say it again!" Some hot-tempered women would immediately explode when they heard their husbands say that they were no good.
Just as the commotion below was reaching its peak, a small, thin figure scrambled to Jiang Qinyu's side, tugging at her sleeve anxiously, "Auntie, hurry, hurry and save Pan'er! Uncle Lu has sold Pan'er!" [New book is here! Please support it! If you like it, please vote and follow along! Love you all~]
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