The Rise of a Farm Girl

Chapter 30: Escape from Famine 5

After much discussion, no good solution could be found, and in the end the only option was to suppress the rebellion by force, so the village chief called all the villagers to gather outside.

The more than 200 people in the cave saw that the more than 500 people had gone out. They did not notice any danger, nor did they find anyone in the village, so they ran out of the village, thinking that the people inside had gone out.

But if you run out, you have to run fast, otherwise you will be caught and eaten.

The villagers were confused as to what was going on. Why were they running so fast? They were so exhausted in the cave.

After all these people ran away, the village chief said, Erya found food for us, everyone must protect the food, there are carriages in the mountain village.

We put all the food into the wagons and transported them down the mountain. Everyone guarded the wagons and from now on we ate together. When the food was finished, we would eat separately.

Everyone had no objection. After all, the grain had to be kept by themselves after it was divided. The key was to fear that it would be robbed by others. Now everyone worked together to protect the grain. It was very safe.

So everyone went back to the cave. Wang Jingru led some people with tools and went to the innermost part of the cave. They removed the stones one by one, revealing the food.

There were probably more than 50 bags, enough to fill two large carriages. In order to avoid being too conspicuous, three large carriages were used, with more than ten bags on each carriage. After covering them with oilcloth, no one would know what was inside.

Everyone went to the front to get food and cooked a few pots of rice. It was a mountain village as expected, the pots were really big, and cooking two large pots of rice was enough for several hundred people.

The village chief thought the big pot was very practical, so he said, "After we finish our meal, we can take the big pot with us."

The people also found a lot of water containers, and filled a lot of spring water from the mountain. They used all the containers that could hold water. They also harnessed two large carts and loaded them with water.

After everyone had eaten and drunk enough, they loaded up their things and started on their way. The team marched forward in a mighty procession. This time, every villager had a machete in hand. The people fleeing famine saw the team of several hundred people, all holding machetes in their hands. They were so scared that they hid far away.

The team drove slowly, and at night, they came to an open space, where everyone collected firewood, lit a fire, buried the pot, and cooked. As soon as smoke appeared, someone came to beg for food.

These people are all extremely vicious people, but they pretend to be kind on the surface. This begging child is also an extremely vicious person. In order to cover up their tracks, this group of people pretend to be pitiful and avoid sympathy. If that doesn't work, they will just rob.

This group of people did all kinds of evil. They killed countless people and robbed a lot of things. They just didn't rob the food directly because they were outnumbered and couldn't defeat them. That's all I can say.

Now they are on the road fleeing famine, and their food is hard to come by. If they give some food to this child, other refugees on the road will find it difficult to ask for it. They are not Bodhisattvas, so why should they be given food?

Moreover, food is so precious nowadays that they eat less at each meal and save more for their children. The life and death of others has nothing to do with them. Think about how hungry they were in the first two days and they didn't even have the strength to walk. Who gave them a bite to eat at that time?

The village idiot is coming, go away, stay away. The medicine you took is not good, you come here to ask for food, there is no food here for you, go away.

Er Laizi immediately pushed the child aside. When the child walked back to his team, those people pulled the child over and asked, "How is it? Did I tell you?"

The child shook his head and said, "Not only did he not give it to me, but the man also pushed me aside. I almost fell down because of him."

A tall and thin man came up from behind and said to the man with a big belly, "Brother, this group of people really don't want to drink when I toast you, so I have to drink for you."

Since you don’t want to come, why don’t we just rob it at night! The eldest brother waved his hand and asked the two to stay aside. He leaned against the tree and closed his eyes to rest.

After the villagers finished their dinner, they all looked around, looking for food if there was any, and leaving it alone if there was nothing. Wang Jingru was afraid that the villagers would be in danger. Now cannibalism has become very rampant, and they call people "two-legged sheep."

These cannibals now don't care about men, women, young or old, as long as they can eat. So everyone should go together in groups, never go in groups of three or two, because that is very dangerous.

The village chief also repeatedly emphasized that at least ten people should walk together, and men should walk beside them. In this way, everyone found some grass roots and wild vegetable roots.

Put them all together, wait for the morning, chop them into pieces, and mix them with the porridge to drink.

Wang Jingru found the village chief, and it seemed that things were not going to be peaceful tonight. The child who wanted to be eaten had eaten people before, and his eyes were red.

The people around the child were not good people at first glance. They might have eaten many people around here! Maybe they would have to rob food today.

Send more people to come over and chop them with knives. The village chief nodded and said, I can see that too, these people not only have blood on their bodies, but they are also fat and strong. If they didn't eat human flesh, they wouldn't be so fat.

The village chief immediately called together 50 young men to take turns to guard the night. They were all armed with swords. They dared not sleep, because if they fell asleep, the food would be lost and the whole family would starve.

It can be said that the lives of the whole family were in their hands. In the first few days, they experienced the pain of having no food and water.

Wang Jingru didn't even unload the carriage, but stayed in it. He was afraid that there would be an emergency and it would be troublesome to harness the carriage when he was on the road. He was afraid that the horse would not be able to bear the carriage every day, so he specially dripped spiritual spring water into the water.

At night, when the villagers were all asleep, the group of people took action as expected. They had drugs, and although they could not knock out hundreds of people from outside, they could follow the wind direction and knock out as many as they could.

Wang Jingru was a martial artist, and he knew it as soon as the other party took action. How could the drug knock out the villagers? The tall and thin man walked towards the vent with the drug, and Wang Jingru followed closely behind him and put the man into the space before he took action.

Wang Jingru has no intention of keeping these people. She plans to get rid of them all. If these people are not eliminated, they will be a disaster if they are kept.

Wang Jingru took the drug she got from this person and sneaked to where the dozen people were. These people were still discussing the division of labor in the near future. Who would collect the things, who would move the food, who would keep watch, and where to retreat. The discussion was very detailed.

If they hadn't met Wang Jingru, a martial artist, they would have really understood their tricks. All the villagers in this village would not be a match for these people.

Wang Jingru did the same thing and lit the smoke in the wind. As they were talking, the boss was very alert. As soon as he smelled the smoke, he covered his mouth and said, "Oh no, this is smoke."

But it was too late. The boss fell down after he finished speaking, and the others also fell down.

Wang Jingru released the person in the space and knocked him unconscious, then went to call the villagers. Those young men were holding knives and ropes. They wanted to tie the person up with the rope. Wang Jingru asked, what for?

Send him to the government? Hurry up and kill him with a knife. The village chief was also very scared because they had never killed anyone before.

Wang Jingru said that there would be many murders in the future. If you don't kill me, I will kill you. Do you want to be killed or kill others?

Of course they didn't want to die, so these people were ruthless and took knives to randomly hack at people. Wang Jingru said that you can kill people like this, you will only make people suffer, when will you be able to kill people.

After that, Wang Jingru took the knife and demonstrated it to them. She cut the neck with the knife and the man died. They were all stunned. A good girl killed someone with a knife, as easy as cutting melons and vegetables.

And she is very clean and neat. Such a person is too scary. The young men in the village are so scared that they keep shaking their heads. If she were to marry them, they would not dare to marry her.

If Wang Jingru knew what they were thinking, she would definitely say that they were overthinking and that she didn't like them at all. You guys are just a bunch of cowards, there's no way you can marry me.

The young men in the village also imitated Wang Jingru's actions and cut their necks with knives. They were covered in blood and screamed in fear. Wang Jingru shouted loudly, "Shut up! Are you afraid that others will not kill you?"

The young men were holding knives, their calves were shaking, their hands were trembling, they were stuttering when they spoke, and I was bleeding. I bled a lot.

After killing everyone, they hurried back to change clothes. Wang Jingru curled her lips. It was hard to survive on the road of fleeing with such a thing!

Wang Jingru found two older men and dug some soil to bury the body. These people changed their clothes and packed up, and set off at night. They were so scared that they were afraid to eat beside the body, let alone sleep.

The village chief could only gather everyone together and set off, and then hurried forward, and stopped to rest after driving for a while. After all, traveling at night is very dangerous and not safe at all.

The people didn't care about that anymore, they all leaned together to rest, the village chief re-arranged the people to keep watch, the young men who killed people hadn't recovered yet, so they changed a group of people. The rest of the people just sat down and fell asleep!

At daybreak, the women in the village got up first, and they had to collect firewood to cook porridge. When the porridge was ready, they got up and started eating, and then set off on their journey.

They didn't know how long they would have to walk, but they knew that they were in the north and the place they wanted to go was in the south, which was very far away and could not be reached in a few days.

There were also some coups in the court. It was heard that the son of King Xiaoyao had started a rebellion. It would be good if you succeeded in the rebellion, but you failed. They fled all the way and heard the news when they passed Fuyuan County.

In fact, this matter had nothing to do with them, but this group of people were running in this direction. They were planning to run south, perhaps to hide in another country.

It is also possible that King Xiaoyao is colluding with other countries. But at this moment, the rebels are conscripting men along the way in order to expand their ranks. Being a rebel is not a good thing. Being a rebel soldier is also a rebel.

They were just ordinary people who didn't want to be drafted. They didn't want to become rebels and go to another country to survive. So when the people who fled heard this, they were all terrified.

After hearing this, the people wanted to flee to the mountains and did not dare to take the main roads. They heard that the rebels were very cruel and would kill them directly if they did not agree to surrender.

It is said that they killed the elderly and children they met on the road, fearing that they would reveal their whereabouts. The imperial court was also trying its best to hunt down this group of people.

But these people were too cunning. Clearly, tens of thousands of troops were defeated and only 10,000 or 20,000 were left, and they still escaped in scattered groups.

But there is one thing, they are all heading in the same direction, so this also caused panic among the refugees. I don't know when I met this group of people.

Not only the village chief was scared, but the villagers were also more scared. The village chief found Wang Jingru and said, "Er Ya! What do you think we should do? Should we still follow the main road?"

Wang Jingru said, "Village head, I can't say for sure whether this group of people went into the mountains or walked on the main road. This is a matter of life and death, I dare not make a decision."

How about you hold a meeting and decide, and everyone raises their hands to decide. If most people take the mountain road, we will take the mountain road, and if most people take the main road, we will take the main road.

The village chief nodded and said this was a good method. In fact, he couldn't decide which way to go. Hundreds of lives were at stake. If he took the wrong path, everyone would blame him.

The village chief hurriedly called everyone together, stood in the middle of the crowd, told everyone what had happened, and asked everyone to vote by raising their hands. The villagers all wanted to take the mountain road, they were really afraid that Xiaoyao Wang would pass by on horseback and capture them.

The villagers all raised their hands to indicate that they wanted to take the mountain road, which created a problem as the carriage could not be used anymore. They could only lead the horses and load the bags of grain onto them.

What the horses couldn't carry was carried by people, who took turns carrying it. Wang Jingru couldn't bear to part with her own carriage, so she unloaded the horses and took them away.

Wang Jingru said to her mother, "Mom, you and Dad lead the horses forward, I will put away the carriage and then catch up with you." Yu Wenjiao understood what her daughter meant, nodded and said, "Then you should be more careful and don't let others find out."

Wang Jingru nodded and said, "Don't worry, mother!" After that, she stood there, waiting for the villagers to go up the mountain. There was no one at the foot of the mountain. Wang Jingru looked around again and found that there was really no one, so she put the carriage into the space.

There are dozens of horses in Wang Jingru's space, all of which were bred from the horses collected from Mr. Liu's family. Wang Jingru also put the remaining carriages into the space.

The space is now very prosperous. Hundreds of bandits are busy day and night. They have little time to rest. They have built many small wooden houses with the trees cut on the mountain. These people have gradually formed the scale of a small mountain village.

But the crops matured too quickly. There was too much land, so the crops had to be harvested before the current crop was finished. These people were exhausted and sweated profusely every day. Wang Jingru also set up an activity area for them, and they could not go anywhere else.

There is a lot of food in the space now, and it has accumulated to millions of kilograms. This is because Wang Jingru was lazy and didn't grow food before. There are also a lot of vegetables, such as the common cabbage, radish, and potatoes, each of which has a stockpile of about hundreds of thousands of kilograms.

This is also thanks to the compression function of the warehouse. Everything that enters the space warehouse will be compressed from a very small volume, and when it is taken out, it will suddenly become a lot.

Otherwise the warehouse would not be able to hold it all, and the warehouse is divided into many areas. The biggest benefit brought to him by this space upgrade is that there is more spiritual spring water, forming a small well, so he can drink the spiritual spring water freely.

Wang Jingru put the things into the space. Now he was on his way and had no time to watch what was happening in the space. Wang Jingru walked quickly up the mountain. The mountain was trampled into a path. It seemed that many people had gone up the mountain before them.

He hoped that there really were no rebels on the mountain. If he encountered them, he would not be afraid, as he could ensure the safety of his family of three. Since the space could now allow people to enter, he could take his parents into the space.

The three of them were safe, but the villagers were not safe at all. If she could save their lives, Wang Jingru would try her best to protect them. After all, she grew up in this village, and some of the villagers were unruly, arrogant and unreasonable. The rest of the villagers were still very kind.

He was also very kind to Wang Jingru's family, so Wang Jingru had some feelings for the villagers. If it wasn't for the deep feelings, Wang Jingru would help them so much along the way.