Wang Zeran glanced at Suxue, who was wide-eyed and speechless, and shouted loudly: "Third boy, go get the basin, let's collect the grasshoppers to eat."

This time there is no need to catch grasshoppers one by one, just collect them in piles in basins. The three boys responded and went to find the basins happily. Before entering the cave, they did not forget to tell Mrs. Wang who was hiding behind the crowd.

Shouting, "Milk, I want to eat something stewed in oil, something stewed in oil."

When the other families saw that the Ye family was collecting grasshoppers, they were not to be outdone, and they snatched them away and pretended to be cruel.

Everyone knows that the road ahead will be even more difficult, and it will be a luxury to eat multigrain rice mixed with wild vegetables, because the wild vegetables and leaves have been eaten up by locusts.

Therefore, every family will be more economical in eating food. There are so many grasshoppers now, so they can eat them as if they are rice. It will be difficult to have such free meat meals in the future.

Everyone told themselves in their hearts that what they were eating were either locusts or grasshoppers that were common in the fields, so they felt more at ease eating this way.

The big-headed wife fried the baskets of grasshoppers in a pot until they were dry, and put them in empty grain bags to eat on the road. Only when they were fried well could they be stored for a long time.

Niu Zhixin informed everyone: Rest in the cave tonight, then hit the road tomorrow morning, and then go to the county seat of Yi County.

Si Sheng and Niu Zhixin have analyzed that the scope of locust transit should not be small. Even if there is no banditry in this area, after a drought and then a locust plague, it will definitely be difficult for the villagers to live in the same place, and there will inevitably be a large number of people fleeing.

Under such circumstances, it would be very dangerous to rest during the day and travel at night.

Aren't you afraid of encountering bandits and bandits when traveling during the day? People have gone out to flee, what else can bandits and bandits steal in the village?

Si Sheng once thought boringly in his heart that if he were the bandit leader, he would definitely change his strategy and move his team to a wealthy place like other deserters.

Of course, in retrospect, the six families did not dare to be careless when they were on their way during the day, and they still had to be alert at all times to attacks by bandits and bandits.

At dawn the next day, the team of six families set off.

When everyone left the cave and walked onto the road, they didn't meet anyone, not even a refugee. After walking for more than ten miles, the situation changed a little when they passed a village.

There are people in this village, but the expressions of these people all look a little dazed and sad. Some are standing in front of their homes looking at the street, some are coming out of their homes carrying large and small bags and getting ready to hit the road, and some are standing together in groups talking.

What.

Seeing a group of them passing by from a distance, the villagers stared blankly until the group disappeared from sight. They would soon be like this group of people, dragging their families and being displaced.

Just as Si Sheng guessed, after passing this village, there were suddenly more deserters on the road. They were in groups of three to five, and in groups of seven or eight, supporting the old and young, dragging their families and families, and walking along the road.

Go towards the county seat.

The six families walked very fast, passing groups of fleeing people from time to time, leaving them behind.

During the lunch break, Da Sheng cut some hay on the roadside, chopped it into small pieces with a knife, and fed it to the animals. The animals worked hard along the way, and the feed they could bring had been eaten up long ago. He could still feed them yesterday.

They had some green grass, but now they can only eat hay.

Da Sheng has been farming with Mrs. Wang since he was a child, and has always been the main labor force of the Ye family. He knows very well what livestock means to farmers, so he cherishes the mules and cows in his family very much, and does not want to see them suffer.

Dasheng grabbed a handful of hay and brought it to the cow's mouth. He stroked the cow's back distressedly and said, "Old man, if you hold on for a few more days, we will soon reach the county seat. We will give you the best food when we arrive in the county seat.

feed to eat.”

The Ye family’s lunch consists of dry noodles, wild vegetable soup, and dry-roasted grasshoppers.

As usual, Mrs. Wang personally distributed the mixed dry food to everyone. Si Sheng only got a small half, and others even less.

In the wild vegetable soup that everyone had, there was only a small chopstick-head of wild vegetables, which Yongan and the others dug up before the locusts attacked. Fortunately, they took them into the cave with the fish and were not destroyed by the locusts.

Of course, everyone can enjoy the grasshoppers fried without oil.

Suxue looked at the dry food in Dani and Erni's hands. She felt like she could bite her fingers in one bite. She wanted to do something. When she looked up, she saw that Niu Heng was also holding dry food in his hand, eating while eating.

Walking this way to the Ye family, Suxue's head was so big that she had to hold her forehead.

Niu Heng was frightened by locusts yesterday. He came back and took the medicine given by Gu Shi. After a good sleep, he felt fine when he woke up. The only sequelae left behind was that he often ran to Ye's house whenever he had nothing to do.

When he came to the Ye family, he didn't talk much to Suxue. He just stayed around Suxue and played with the children of the Ye family.

The Ye Niu family turned a blind eye to this, but the third boy and Yong An were happy to have another big brother to play with.

Only Suxue felt unhappy every time she saw him. As long as he was around, Wang Zeran would also get angry at her inexplicably and speak in a weird and arrogant way, which gave Suxue a headache.

So when she saw Niu Heng walking this way, Suxue found an excuse and stayed away.

After dividing the meal, Mrs. Wang felt regret again. She had made such a miscalculation. She really regretted not adding wild vegetables to the meal a few days ago. She only focused on eating cabbage. Now that the cabbage is almost finished, there is no wild vegetable to dig.

Already.

Mrs. Wang only blamed her own miscalculation, but she didn't think that if she ate the cabbage with such enthusiasm, the last few remaining ones would be a little bad. If she really had eaten wild vegetables in front, the saved cabbage might be gone.

If everything is broken, then Mrs. Wang will regret it even more.

The one who feels most distressed now is the big-headed daughter-in-law. Seeing a few boys drinking the mixed dough without any wild vegetables, the big-headed daughter-in-law's heart is bleeding. She can't bear to eat this kind of food.

The big-headed daughter-in-law turned to look at the barren slopes with only dead grass and bare woods, and sighed. Apart from grasshoppers, what else can be mixed with food to eat?

In the midst of suffering, the six families hurried on with all their might. Everyone told themselves countless times in their hearts, endure it, walk fast, and walk faster again. Once they get out of the locust-stricken area and the bandit-infested area, everything will be fine when they reach the county town.

On this day, the six families set off in a hurry before dawn again.

Yesterday was the day when the six families walked the most since they fled famine. Si Sheng made a preliminary estimate that they walked about fifty miles. There were so many people supporting the elderly and the young, and they were walking on mountain roads. The speed was indeed not slow.

.

Today everyone's walking was obviously not as fast as yesterday. There was no energy left to walk. Everyone was full of water, and you could hear the "thumping, thumping" sound of water in your stomach while walking.
Chapter completed!