"What are you two talking about? Are you so happy?" Wan Hongmei came over with a bowl in hand.

"Mom, my father said that he was going to study and practice calligraphy." Yuntao hurriedly shared this happy event with her mother.

It’s a good thing that her dad is motivated and wants to study!

Wan Hongmei was not as happy as Yuntao, but instead carefully thought about the feasibility of this matter.

"Can you do it?" Wan Hongmei looked at her man in confusion.

The two of them had grown up as childhood sweethearts and knew the basics. Since graduation, Yun Huachun rarely read books.

I read newspapers every day, but this is different.

"It's okay if you don't! The scholars here are given money and don't have to do corvee labor. You have to practice it if you don't want to. If you study more, you don't need to be a high official." Yun Huachun made the final decision.

Whether it was in their time or here, reading is a good thing that brings no harm to one's family and ancestors.

"That's fine, but if you're traveling during the day and studying at night, can you handle it?" Wan Hongmei was worried about this.

"If you have a long journey, buy a carriage if there is one."

"If you have a horse, it's best to buy another one. This will save you two the trouble of walking." Yun Huachun elaborated on his plan.

He had already thought about buying horses and carriages.

Donkeys are specially used to pull carts. If you want to pull a carriage, one horse may not be able to pull it, so a family needs at least two.

"If you want to buy it, if you don't have enough money, you may have to sell some of your jewelry."

Wan Hongmei's jewelry includes three pieces of gold that the couple bought when they got married, as well as gold locks and other items given by family members when Yuntao was full moon.

It's not a lot of gold, but you can get it if you scrape it together.

"Sell! All sold!"

It wasn't that she was reluctant to use gold, she just lamented that there was too little gold at home.

"If I had known earlier, I would have exchanged the money in the bank for gold bars." Wan Hongmei also sighed.

"Mom, it's always happy to be a contented person. The most important thing is that our family is reunited and healthy." Yuntao comforted her.

The girl's round eyes rolled, and her mind carefully searched for valuable things in the room.

She remembered if there was anything else of value, but she would leave it to that time.

After taking a break at the tea shop, the villagers seemed to be much more energetic.

I don’t know if it was because I met the noble man who was still resting in the inn, and I felt that I was much more stable along the way.

"We won't have to rush so hard later." Yun Huachun announced the news.

The desperate rush of the past few days was suggested by Yun Huachun, and with the stimulation from the barbarian spies later on, the journey became even faster.

Everyone was still worried about what he said.

"Is there really no need to rush like this? What if the barbarians come and kill us?" someone in the village asked.

This is a problem that everyone is worried about.

"You still have to run away. It's getting hot. It's bright early and dark late. Just find a place to rest before it gets dark. It will still be dark by then."

"Always rushing like this is not only unbearable for people, but also makes the mules paralyzed by fatigue. Don't be happy if you don't have to travel like this. We also have to think about food issues..." Yun Huachun said.

After hearing this, the surrounding area became even quieter.

In any house that doesn't have seven or eight mouths, both adults and children need to eat.

For a house with a large number of people, hundreds of kilograms of food have been lost, and I don’t know how many days it will last.

Everyone packed up their things and got ready to leave.

Yuntao helped her mother pack things, and the old man from the tea shop stumbled forward to add a fire to the stove.

"Old man, why don't you pack up and come with us?" Yuntao came forward and said.

There are people fleeing all around, but this old man is the only one who is still staying here. The barbarians will attack him sooner or later, and if he stays here, he will definitely die.

The old man looked at Yuntao with his cloudy eyes and shook his head.

"At my age, where can I go if I leave here?"

"Come with us, at least to a safe place. Then you can open a tea shop."

"Your son must still be alive. When the barbarians come and the war is in chaos, it will be difficult for you to find your son..."

"How about you hide the letter somewhere and leave a code for your son so that he can come to you when the time comes." Yuntao's mind was spinning rapidly, thinking of ways to persuade the old man to leave.

The old man's expression did not change at all, and he calmly added a ladle of water to the teapot.

"My ancestors have lived here for generations. I have lived here since I was born, more than fifty years ago."

"I can't walk anymore."

No matter what Yuntao tried to persuade him, the old man just made up his mind not to leave here.

Yuntao didn't know what to do, or what to do to change everything.

"Daughter, don't think about it, let's go." Wan Hongmei took her daughter's hand and led her away.

Just like the old man said, if he leaves here, he has nowhere to go.

Leaving is a choice, staying is also a choice.

The people in their village fled together, and the people in the village watched as everyone around them left, guarding their houses and fields.

Because without these things, they are like rootless duckweeds, floating without support and nothing.

Yuntao felt depressed for several days because of this incident, until they arrived at the first town.

This town is much smaller than Yuntao imagined, and there are no signboards on the streets.

There are only a few shops, and most of them are farmers squatting on the street with their burdens, looking at the pedestrians around them with longing eyes.

Because the group of people in Shigang Village was too large, it brought them a lot of expectations.

"Visitors passing by, please take a look at my dishes..."

"My eggs are so fresh."

Yun Huachun ran back from the front of the team in the opposite direction, walked to his family and said, "Someone asked just now that a pound of grain has increased to eleven cents."

"I'm afraid the price of food will be more expensive in the future. I want to buy some. What do you think?"

The original price of grain was only three cents per pound, and it had increased several times, but I couldn't help but buy it.

"Dad, will we rest here for a while?" Yuntao asked.

"You can rest for half a day."

"Then how much food should we buy?"

Yun Huachun said nothing and counted with his fingers.

Three hundred pounds.

"I'll put a hundred pounds in the car and eat slowly when the time comes," Yun Huachun said.

In addition, he also wanted to buy something else. People can't just eat food.

He saw that there were still people selling pickles, chickens and ducks on the street, so he could store some in the space when the time came.

If the electricity at home is used, the worst case scenario is to turn on the air conditioner and blow it to keep it fresh.

When everyone was resting, the Yun family went to the only inn in the town and asked for a room.

"Yun Huachun still takes his wife to stay in an inn?"

The people in the village were sitting and resting in an open space not far away, dumbfounded as they watched the family's actions.

Shi Fang also frowned.

People in the village go home in the dark to save money when going to the market on weekdays. Even when relatives come, they don't have the luxury of staying in an inn.

I have been running for my life these days, and everyone is living in the wilderness.
Chapter completed!