Afterwards, the village chief specially selected several strong laborers and told them to go to the village to look for a well to see if they could find a source of water to replenish the limited water that everyone had left.
After receiving the order, the strong laborers began to search everywhere in the village.
But after searching for a while, they found that the well in the village had dried up and even the stream in the nearby mountains had stopped flowing.
Now everyone understood. No wonder the people in this village fled the famine so early. Without water, how could they survive?
In desperation, everyone could only rely on the water they had packed before the journey to barely survive, hoping to reach the next place with water as soon as possible.
Finally able to stop and rest, Yao Qingshuang breathed a sigh of relief, quickly found a relatively quiet corner in the open space where the crowd gathered, and slowly sat down.
She frowned, rubbing her aching legs with both hands, and couldn't help muttering, "Oh, I've been walking all day. Even my normally strong body can't take it anymore."
Su Wenfei limped to Yao Qingshuang's side, sat down slowly next to her with a look of grievance on her face, frowned and started to act coquettishly towards Yao Qingshuang: "Mom, my feet hurt so much!" Her voice was full of discomfort.
On weekdays, the chores she does most at home are cooking and embroidery.
When cooking, she is busy at the stove, and when embroidering, she sits there quietly.
But now, to escape the famine, she had to keep on walking. After walking for a whole day, she felt as if her feet were not her own. Every step she took felt like she was stepping on needles. The pain was unbearable.
Yao Qingshuang felt distressed when she saw her little daughter like this.
Thinking that this child has followed me all the way here and is only complaining of being tired, he is pretty good and not too pampered.
She patted Su Wenfei's hand gently and comforted her, "You probably have blisters on the soles of your feet. I've picked them out for you. They'll be healed tomorrow. Don't be afraid. I'll take a look at them for you right away."
After hearing what her mother said, Su Wenfei bit her lip, slowly bent down, reached out and slowly took off the pair of cloth shoes that were originally clean but now covered with dust.
As the shoes came off, a smell mixed with sweat and dust emanated.
I saw that the soles of her small feet had formed several large blisters because of walking non-stop for a long time throughout the day.
Those blisters are swollen and shining with a layer of bright water. They look very painful, as if each blister is telling the hardship of the journey.
Yao Qingshuang hurriedly searched carefully in the bag she was carrying, which was not big but contained many small items, and finally found a thin needle.
She gently wiped the needle on the corner of her clothes a few times, and then carefully popped the bulging blisters one by one, her eyes full of concentration and heartache.
After exposing the truth, she gently told Su Wenfei to squeeze out the water inside, and said seriously: "Girl, if you don't do this, the blister will never heal. We still have such a long way to go, and it will be even more difficult to go on."
Su Wenfei endured the pain, nodded gently, and began to deal with the annoying blisters according to her mother's instructions.
Su Wenfei frowned tightly, with a bitter look on her face. She carefully squeezed the blisters on the soles of her feet, and couldn't help but shed tears.
The tears rolled down from her eyes like beads that had broken off the string, and fell to the ground with a plop.
Yao Qingshuang looked at her like this and felt neither amused nor helpless.
Just now I thought that my little daughter was not too delicate since she could walk until now before complaining of being tired. I didn’t expect that she would become delicate just after she started to treat a blister.
She shook her head helplessly, but couldn't help but whispered comfortingly: "Okay, okay, girl, it will hurt for a while, don't cry, ah."
Su Wenxuan held on to her family's wobbly ox cart with both hands, and walked over with a slightly tired but determined step.
She called out to Yao Qingshuang, "Mom, let's have dinner together. This will save both time and water."
She thought to herself that since everyone was short of everything while fleeing famine, it would be easier if everyone ate together.
"Okay, then let's put the food together." Yao Qingshuang responded, but she was secretly worried in her heart.
She knew that the food at home was not much to begin with, and after walking all the way, it was almost gone.
I have to find a way to get some food out of the supermarket space, otherwise how will I live in the future?
Li Zhaodi, who was watching from the side, couldn't help but roll her eyes when she saw that the amount of food on the Zhou family's ox cart was even less than her own.
I kept muttering to myself, this sister-in-law is really smart. What do they mean by eating together? Isn't it obvious that she wants to use our Su family's food to feed them? Humph, she is really calculating.
But if she really wanted to stop it, she didn't dare. First, the family had not been divided yet, and her mother-in-law was the head of the family, and she had the final say; second, her eldest sister-in-law was very aggressive and would often teach her younger siblings a lesson, so she was afraid of her.
"Mom, how much food do you think we should cook for dinner?" Li Zhaodi asked with a worried look on her face. She knew very well that the little food they brought with them was really not much. If they didn't eat it frugally, they would probably run out of food in a month since they had just walked a short distance. What would they do then?
Yao Qingshuang frowned slightly after hearing this and thought for a while before saying, "Let's cook the usual amount. We've all been through a lot on this journey, and if we don't have enough food, how can we have the energy to continue on our journey?"
She had already made a plan in her mind. After all, she had that magical supermarket space with a lot of food stored in it. Later, when no one was paying attention, she could secretly take some out, so that everyone could have enough to eat.
"Mom, there is not much food at home." Li Zhaodi said hesitantly again. She was still uneasy. She always felt that it was a waste to cook according to the usual amount. After all, food was the key to whether the family could survive.
"It's okay. We can buy food if we pass by other towns. We must eat now. Only when we are full can we have the strength to continue walking. Otherwise, how can we travel on this journey of fleeing famine?" Yao Qingshuang made the final decision in a firm tone. She didn't want her family to lose the energy to keep moving because of worries about food.
Yao Qingshuang arranged all matters in an orderly manner. She handed the cooking task to her two daughters-in-law, and reminded them to be careful and not waste the limited food.
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