As Yun Mo spoke, he felt even more guilty and uneasy. All the suffering that Anan was experiencing was caused by him.
Looking at the busy people in the camp, Lin Yinan became emotional and murmured, "I wonder what the situation is over there?"
Yun Mo looked at her, his gaze firm, "It's better than these days on the road, don't worry! I'll take care of everything!"
When she got back, Grandma Zhao had already cooked the porridge. Lin Yinan thought she wouldn't be able to eat it, but the porridge with minced meat and wild vegetables was so fresh and sweet that she ended up eating two more bowls.
Yun Er cut off half of the wild boar meat he had hunted and gave it to the Lin family.
The more Grandma Zhao looked at Yun Mo, the more she liked him as her grandson-in-law.
After two days of trekking through the intermittently rainy and sunny mountain forests, the team finally emerged from the rolling mountains.
There were also a few scattered refugees on the road, and the further they went, the more people there were on the road.
Finally, the entire wasteland was filled with people fleeing south.
At this time, they also entered—Nandu County.
After traveling for several days, Lin Yinan realized that these refugees fleeing to the south were almost all from aristocratic families.
These powerful families had large entourages with a large number of people and a considerable amount of supplies. Their entourage included horse-drawn carriages, mule carts, and oxcarts, some carrying people and others carrying loads of grain and supplies.
The servants carried heavy loads, and the travelers all carried large bundles on their backs.
dignitaries usually sit in carriages, with guards carrying knives protecting them at the front, back, and sides of the procession.
Lin Yinan had seen several spacious carriages filled with women adorned with jewels. One woman, noticing Lin Yinan's curious gaze upon their group, rolled her eyes at her disdainfully and slammed the carriage window shut.
During their rest periods, they never stepped out of the carriage; when they needed to use the toilet, servants would bring the chamber pot in and out.
Lin Yinan truly admired how they could manage to eat, drink, and relieve themselves in such a small place.
She also saw many small families traveling alone, who would eventually find a group to join and continue their journey south together.
Some teams even have more members than them.
Lin Yinan was stunned by the massive scene of people fleeing famine. She suddenly remembered reading about the "southern migration of the elite" in her history books, but there was no record of it in the history books of the Great Yan Kingdom she had traveled to.
While she was still in a daze, a small disturbance broke out in the line, and they stopped in their tracks.
Yun San hurriedly spurred his horse forward to investigate, and the guards and villagers quickly went on alert, craning their necks to look ahead.
Grandma Zhao looked for a long time but saw nothing. She muttered to herself, "I wonder what happened up ahead?"
Lin Yinan leaned back calmly in the carriage, gently stroking her belly as she comforted her, "Grandma, don't worry, Yun Mo is watching over you, everything will be alright."
The children couldn't sit still and wanted to go down and play, but Lin Yinan strictly forbade them.
Just kidding, there are so many people, and the child is so young, you might never see him again in your lifetime if you turn around.
About an incense stick's time later, the group continued their journey.
Yun San rode back on horseback.
"Yun San, what happened up ahead just now?" Lin Yinan couldn't help but ask curiously.
"It was a small family that came to seek refuge."
Are there many people?
Yun San warily eyed the refugees around him and shook his head, saying, "There are only twenty or thirty people."
Lin Yinan sighed inwardly, feeling that talking to Yun San was exhausting, with only one question to answer. Yun Er and Yun Qi were much more interesting.
"Yun Mo agreed?"
Yun San rolled his eyes. He was puzzled by the Third Madam's behavior of calling her master by his full name. Shouldn't a woman call her husband or sir after marriage?
He stammered, "They offered a generous sum of money, so the master agreed."
Lin Yinan understood; it was as if the other party was paying for safe passage and protection on the road, which she thought was very reasonable.
Before long, the village chief rode his horse around the procession, banging a gong to remind everyone to keep a close eye on their children and not to leave without permission.
Just now, during the brief pause, a child went to relieve himself, and the careless parent didn't follow. The child was almost kidnapped. If it weren't for the bodyguards who happened to be nearby, in the vast sea of people, there would be no chance of finding him.
The children in the carriage were so frightened that they dared not utter a sound and sat obediently.
The hardships they endured along the way will remain etched in their hearts until the day they die.
There was a knock on the car door. Lin Yinan opened it a crack and saw Lin Yiheng sitting outside. The bodyguard had been replaced by him for some reason.
"Brother, what's wrong?"
Lin Yiheng gripped the reins with both hands, his eyes fixed ahead, and said without turning his head, "I heard from Wu Xingwang that the further we go, the scarcer the water becomes. We need to find a way to store water."
As soon as Wu Xingwang mentioned it, he thought of his sister's online space.
Upon hearing this, Lin Yinan thought for a moment. She had hundreds of gallon buckets filled with purified water in her space, all of which she had hoarded during the apocalypse.
After the water resources there were contaminated by radioactive materials, before each mission, she would go to the supply supermarket to exchange her points for water or food and store them in her storage space for emergencies.
There were also two 15-ton water tanks filled with water, which she seized during a mission to raid a bandit hideout.
With so many people in the team, this amount of water is far from enough.
"Are there any towns nearby? Let's go buy some water bags, large water tanks, and wooden buckets to fill with water," Lin Yinan said, frowning.
She needs a water tank to put in plain sight, so that it will be convenient to take the water out of the space later.
Grandma Zhao frowned as she thought of the large water vat in the kitchen, saying, "We bought it, but where are we going to put it? That thing is so heavy."
“We’ve bought it. We need to make room for it no matter what. Grandma, with so many people and horses at home, they won’t be able to reach the south without water.”
Having survived in the apocalypse for over a decade, Lin Yinan was not about to experience the feeling of having no water to drink.
Lin Yiheng's voice came over, "Wu Xingwang said there's a town in the valley ahead, let's go check it out."
"We'll get more forest buckets and water tanks then."
Lin Yiheng, standing outside the car, nodded solemnly; A-Nan's meaning coincided with his.
The town is located in a very remote area, and not many people know about it.
When the group stopped to rest again, Wu Xingwang led Yun Mo and others, along with several villagers from Linjia Village, into the town to make purchases.
Their goal this time was to buy more water bags and earthenware jars to store water, and also to buy some grain from families who hadn't bought any last time.
The group soon arrived in the town in four horse-drawn carriages.
Outside the town, a dozen strong men with broadswords stood guard, demanding a tael of silver to enter. There were dried bloodstains on the ground, indicating a fight had taken place not long ago.
Several bloodied corpses lay in the nearby weeds, covered with greenbottle flies.
Yun Mo glanced around with a deep look in his eyes and gestured for Yun Er to pay.
Yun Er took out his money bag and readily handed over the silver to everyone.
The members of the powerful Shi family who were following behind them also grumbled and handed over the silver. They had originally been following Lin Yinan's group, and when they heard that there was a town, they wanted to come and buy some things. Before they could even buy anything, they had already given away dozens of taels of silver.
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