The host of the quick travel is lacking in virtue for eight generations

Chapter 374 The hero's stumbling block on the road to escape from the famine 25

Of course, that’s all later. Now they are preparing to change route.

They walked back for more than ten miles along the original route, turned right at a big fork in the road, passed two villages on the way, and found a sauce jar in one village with some dried bean paste in it, which they scraped out.

They had filled their water tanks before and had not refilled them. There was a well with water in the village they passed by, but it smelled very bad. They didn't know if there were any animal or human corpses in it.

It was nearly twenty miles, and plus the time spent wandering around the village, it was already two or three o'clock in the afternoon when we entered the mountains.

The reason they had to find the way into the mountain was because they were pushing a cart. If they just climbed up directly, they wouldn't have to find the way.

Unexpectedly, not long after we went up the mountain, we saw a lot of traces of people walking by, including ashes from fires, hay on the ground, and excrement...

"This was obviously left here not long ago. Should we take a detour? We might run into someone if we follow this mountain road."

Xiao Yun looked at Gu Lanzhang and said.

"No, it looks like there aren't many people. I guess they are one or a few people who have the same idea as us and are also planning to cross Yazui Mountain to Fanyang County. They have already gone half a day ahead, so we may not be able to meet them."

Okay, there aren't many traces, probably no more than ten people. As long as they don't cause trouble, even if we meet, we can just treat them as fellow travelers.

However, this mountain road only goes halfway up the mountain. It was trampled out by nearby villagers who went up the mountain to chop firewood, hunt, and pick wild fruits. There is no road further up.

Now there is a road that has just been paved by the person in front, but his sense of direction seems to be not very good, and he soon deviated a little to the south.

They were not going to chase after the bandits, so they took out the machetes they had snatched from the bandits and cleared their own way.

This knife is different from the ones in the hands of officers and soldiers. The ones in the hands of officers and soldiers are longer and thinner, suitable for chopping people on the battlefield. This one is more like a hatchet, which is good for chopping branches and firewood.

There are five knives in total. Except for the two daughters, everyone else has one, so they save on kitchen knives.

The forests here are not dense, so the journey was peaceful. I didn't even encounter a rabbit, and of course I didn't find any water.

Before dark, we found a relatively flat open space and built a temporary shed using branches and straw mats between four trees that were at the right distance from each other.

They hadn't been into town, so they hadn't had a chance to buy anything. They didn't have any oilcloth or anything like that. Since it wasn't raining, they could just hang up the bed curtains they had torn off earlier to keep out the mosquitoes.

The main thing is to block the windy south side more tightly, and use a wheelbarrow to block the north side, and build two fires on the east and west sides, which can be used for cooking and driving away wild animals.

In the evening, we still had yam and chestnut cakes and mutton soup. We couldn’t even find any wild vegetables on this mountain.

After dinner, the father and his two sons went to study the Bagua stick technique. Xiao Yun took his two daughters to sew leather. The sheepskin and rabbit skin that had been used before could be sewn together. The weather here gets cold very quickly, so they can be worn soon.

Of course, there were not enough vests for each person, so they had to focus on the three girls and Gu Lanzhang first, as the three boys were stronger than them.

“Ah-ah—”

Xiao Yun put down the needlework in his hand and looked at the Gu Mingyue sisters, "Did you hear any sound?"

Gu Mingyue was finishing up and bit off the thread in her hand before shaking her head.

Gu Mingxing was struggling with the thread that was tangled in the wool. Hearing this, he put down the leather in his hand, tilted his head and listened for a while before saying, "No, what sound did mother hear?"

"I'm not sure, maybe I heard it wrong."

Xiao Yun knew that their hearing was not as good as hers, so it was normal that they didn't hear it. She said something perfunctorily and then sent a message to Xiao Lin: "Ask these trees if there are any wild animals around?"

Although the fires on both sides were bright, the flames kept flickering, and coupled with the smoke, sewing was actually very straining on the eyes. Xiao Yun simply put down the leather in his hand, rubbed his eyes and said, "Let's do it tomorrow during the day. It's too hard on the eyes."

"I can't even see where this black leather is tied, and it's tangled with the wool." Gu Mingxing was the first to respond and quickly handed the leather in his hand to her.

Gu Mingyue had finished one side and was about to sew the other side, but after hearing what her mother said, she felt uncomfortable in her eyes, so she didn't try to be brave and rolled up the leather and put it in the backpack.

At this time, Xiao Lin also found out and replied to Xiao Yun: "Someone in the south encountered a wild boar. We wanted to work together to catch the wild boar and eat its meat, but we didn't expect to encounter a wild boar with a particularly large head. We didn't catch the pig and were injured by the wild boar. The donkey was also scared away.

What you just heard should be the sound of the donkey. The donkey was startled and ran straight to the west from a distance. "

When Xiao Yun heard the donkey's eyes lit up, he thought that if those people couldn't catch up, then it would be an ownerless thing. It was exactly the direction they were going, so they could use it later.

Donkeys can carry much more things than sheep. I had been thinking of catching a wild donkey in the desert before. Now that there is a tamed one that can be used directly, that would of course be even better.

Although wild donkeys are easy for her to tame, it is better not to expose her special features if possible.

Of course, the premise is that those people did not catch up with the donkey. If they did, it was someone else's after all, so it was not impossible for her to snatch it from others, but she had to maintain her image in front of her cheap husband and children.

He asked Xiao Lin to let the plants help keep an eye on that area and give advance warning if anyone or a wild boar came over. Although Gu Lanzhang and his two sons would take turns to keep watch at night, they were still prepared for any unexpected event.

I don’t know if what I wished for came true, but the people and wild boars didn’t come, but the donkey came. The donkey ran forward for a long time and finally calmed down, then started to run back.

It wanted to go back to its original owner, but was lured here by Xiao Lin, who could see through Xiao Yun's thoughts.

How did it do that? It was simple. It used some water in the space to pass it to nearby plants. The donkey licked the water from the roots of the trees and came over.

When Xiao Yun was woken up, the donkey was already chewing the straw mat beside their fire.

If Xiao Lin had not told him in advance that it was a donkey, Xiao Yun would have been frightened by the black creature with its big white teeth bared.

He glanced at his third son who was sleeping soundly against a tree and rolled his eyes, thinking what an unreliable kid.

He didn't make a sound to wake him up, for fear of scaring the donkey away, but instead pushed Gu Lanzhang beside him.

They slept together at night, with the couple in the middle, Gu Lanzhang's two sons on her side and her two daughters on her side.

Gu Lanzhang woke up suddenly, looked around, and saw that only his wife was sitting there, so he was about to ask what was wrong.

Xiao Yun covered his mouth and whispered in his ear: "Don't make a sound, there is a donkey on the left side of the shed~"