It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 264

Jiang Yan would take risks for the people of Dongshan Village, but he would not do so for the people of Weizhou Village.

After she finished speaking, she no longer cared about Jiang Lu's family and ran back to the house to pack her luggage.

Both food and water must be brought along. The food that cannot be taken away is placed in the cellar, covered with wooden boards, and the large water tank is moved on top to cover the edges.

Leave a little bit of newly harvested corn this summer that is so dry that it can't be shriveled any further in the jar to divert attention.

Using his feet to disperse the traces of movement, Jiang Yan grabbed his self-defense weapon and quickly walked around the house.

There was a hen squatting in the corner, dozing off after being listless for a few days.

Jiang Yan grabbed the hen's wings, pinched its sharp beak before it could scream angrily, and then put on a bamboo gag.

She only had this one chicken, and even though it was so short of water, she still insisted on keeping it and not killing it for meat. How could she bear to throw it away to add to other people's dishes?

Less than half a cup of tea later, when Jiang Yan walked out of the house, Jiang Lu's family had already packed their luggage and were waiting at the gate.

There were many of them and they didn't have much stuff to begin with, so they packed up faster than Jiang Yan.

I don’t know how they discussed it, but in the end the three of them had to follow Jiang Yan and flee to the back mountain.

……

In less than two quarters of an hour, Jiang Yan and his companions heard the sound of a group of people walking below and the occasional very low shouting.

They were walking halfway up the mountain, while the group of people with bad intentions were walking at the foot of the mountain. The straight-line distance between the two sides was no more than twenty meters.

Jiang Yan pulled Jiang Lu and Zhou Huan as close to the mountain as possible, while he himself leaned forward slightly, silently counting the shadows elongated by the bright moonlight.

Ten, eleven... until no one appeared and angry shouts were heard from the village.

There were nineteen people in total who sneaked into Dongshan Village.

Perhaps because they found the village empty and no one resisted, these people did not set fire to the houses.

Jiang Yan only saw sporadic lights of fire wandering back and forth in the village, and after a moment, darkness returned.

The sky was quietly turning pale. The place where they were currently staying was very unsafe during the day. People with good eyesight could probably see anything unusual even from the village.

It was not time to gamble on luck yet, so Jiang Yan led the way deeper into the cave.

After entering the familiar Tiankeng Mountain, Jiang Yan picked a relatively smooth stone to sit on, and then said, "Let's hide here for two days and see what happens."

Although the cave was requisitioned by a mountain stronghold of unknown name and the entrance was locked and no one could enter for refuge, there were still some arrangements outside the cave.

There is only one easy-to-walk mountain path left. As long as they hold it, they will have a great advantage whether they are fighting the enemy or retreating.

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In Dongshan Village, a man with an accent distinct from that of Rongcheng County and the surrounding counties banged on the door. "Brother, are we still leaving?"

The village is full of empty houses with no one living in them. Although most of them are covered with thick dust, every household is basically equipped with large furniture, so there is nothing to worry about when living there.

"Let's go." The bearded man called "Big Brother" opened the door with a gloomy expression. "Without water, no matter how kind the people are, they can't stay in this village."

"Yesterday we deliberately traveled a lot of mountain roads, thinking that with fewer people, we could get more. But we never expected this village to be so poor, and all our efforts were in vain."

Last night, the bearded man was looking forward to opening the big jar hidden in the corner by layers of wooden boards and straw mats. What he found was a shallow layer of millet with more shells than the inside.

He grabbed a few handfuls, but couldn't pick out a single plump one. Even without the drought, with such poor farming standards, it's no wonder the crops only look shiny.

The brothers had big appetites, and the food they robbed was no longer enough to eat. After searching the yard, apart from the little food in the jar, there were only a few jars of pickled vegetables with black and white hairs placed at the foot of the wall.

Thinking that he was bound to be extremely hungry, the bearded man took advantage of the fact that the team in the yard had not yet gathered, picked up the bricks piled nearby, and smashed the big jar into pieces with one blow.