Through the troubled times and famine, I just want to farm peacefully

Chapter 111 The Road to the South is Blocked

"Little sister, have something to eat. Grandma Zhao added dried meat to today's wild vegetable porridge. It's delicious. Your wound will heal faster if you eat enough." This was Chunni's voice.

This morning, there was dried meat in the wild vegetable porridge. Maybe because Old Mrs. Zhao felt sorry for her, there was a lot of dried meat in Lin Yinnan's bowl.

Lin Xiaomei is so young, and without medicine for a broken hand, she may not be able to survive by just enduring it.

Lin Yinan finished the rice in the bowl in no time.

Lin Xiaomei didn’t know how long she cried. Her voice was hoarse and she was in severe pain. She kept hitting the stretcher with her good hand.

"It hurts! It hurts so much! Sister, I don't want to live anymore! It hurts so much that I'm dying!"

Lin Chunni quickly held her down, trying hard to hold back the tears that were about to flow. Sister Anan said that her face must not be exposed to water after applying medicine.

She begged in a crying voice, "Little sister, please don't do this. I won't let you die!"

Lin Yinan lifted the curtain and walked in, holding a painkiller needle and a small porcelain bottle in his hand.

Lin Chunni's eyes flashed with joy, as if she had seen a savior.

"Sister Anan, please come and see my little sister. She is in so much pain!"

Lin Xiaomei's face turned pale, and beads of sweat appeared on her forehead due to the pain. She stretched out her hand to Lin Yinan and cried, "Sister Anan, it hurts! It hurts so much!"

Lin Yinan walked forward, took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat off her forehead. His eyes were gentle and he comforted her softly, "Be good! Don't be afraid. I'll give you an injection and it will stop hurting immediately."

Lin Xiaomei felt as if she was bitten by an ant suddenly in the lower back, and she shrank back.

"Don't move! It will be fine in a moment."

After a moment, Lin Yinan put away the needle, covered it with her sleeve, and put the used painkiller needle into the space.

After pulling Lin Xiaomei's clothes together, she handed Lin Chunni a small porcelain bottle.

He instructed, "If she starts to feel pain around dinner time, give her a pill of the medicine inside. Starting tomorrow, give her one pill each morning and evening."

Lin Chunni shook the bottle and found that there were only a few pills in it. "What if I finish it?"

"It contains enough for ten days. She will have to bear it by herself after finishing it. But by then, she won't be in so much pain."

"Okay! I've got that. Thank you, Sister Anan." Lin Chunni thanked her solemnly, then put the small porcelain bottle close to her body.

After Lin Yinan went out, she squatted down and looked at her sister who was slowly calming down.

"Little sister, how do you feel?"

Little Sister Lin turned her head, her face still pale, "Sister, I don't seem to be in so much pain anymore."

Lin Chunni quickly held the bowl and said, "While it doesn't hurt, I'll feed you."

"Well, I need to get better soon."

After leaving the tent, Lin Yinan saw Chun Ni's mother wiping her tears silently with her sleeves, with two boys standing beside her.

"Anan, thank you!" Chun Ni's mother bowed to her excitedly.

Lin Yinan quickly turned aside and changed the subject, "Aunt, hurry up and pack your things. We have to leave soon."

As soon as the sun came out, all the snow that fell yesterday melted.

The road is very difficult to travel on after the snow melts. It is muddy and the wheels of carts often get stuck in the mud. It takes a lot of effort to push the cart out.

There were many people in the team and many carts, so the progress was very slow.

Frozen bodies appeared on the official road from time to time. Their causes of death varied, and there were men, women, old and young. They were all thinly dressed, and some even had no clothes at all. It was unknown whether they took off their clothes because of the cold or if they were hallucinating and took them off themselves, or if they were stripped of their clothes by others.

Refugees passing by would go forward and look through the bodies, trying to find something useful on them.

The team walked for five consecutive days, and the temperature rose every day.

The corpse on the roadside was gradually rotting, and was covered with green-headed flies of all sizes. Maggots were faintly surging under the black and swollen skin, and dark red liquid was constantly flowing out, emitting bursts of unpleasant stench.

They didn't dare stop to rest during the day, and only stayed in a place far away from the official road at night.

Lin Yinan asked his family to take out a cloth and cover his face to cover his mouth and nose.

She herself wore a mask inside and a veil outside.

Looking back at the villagers and many secret guards who were not wearing masks, Lin Yinan caught up with Lin Yiheng in two steps.

"Brother, the corpses on the roadside are exposed to the hot sun every day. If people smell the rotten smell too much, they will get sick at the least, and be infected with the plague at the worst. Go talk to Doctor Lin and the Yun family and ask them to cover their faces with cloth, so that they can be infected with the corpse poison."

Without saying a word, Lin Yiheng went to tell the clan leader and the Yun brothers.

When they stopped to rest at night, the village chief would beat the gong to remind everyone not to take off the cloth towels they had been traveling during the day and to boil the water before drinking.

When this team of several hundred people, with their faces covered, walked onto the official road again, they attracted the sidelong glances of countless refugees.

A clever person quietly stepped forward to ask, and when he learned that this could prevent contracting the disease, everyone followed suit.

The team marched for another two days, but was blocked by a large crowd of refugees in front.

To be on the safe side, the Yun brothers asked the team to stop and rest in an open space with few people, and asked several secret guards to investigate.

Yun Er and Yun Qi came back soon. When the Yun brothers heard the seriousness of the matter, they called all the men in Linjia Village to discuss the matter.

Lin Yinan followed behind Lin Yiheng and listened.

Yun Mo recognized her at a glance through the crowd. During this period of time, she had been carrying a cloth towel when resting on the road. Miss Lin stayed in the camp and did not come out. He had not seen her for several days.

Yunye caught a glimpse of him in a daze, clenched his fists and coughed twice at his lips.

Yun Mo came back to his senses, glanced at everyone, and slowly spoke, "Ahead is the only way to go south - Lingbei River. As the weather warmed up, the ice and snow melted, causing the river to surge and the bridge to be washed away, blocking the most important road to the south. That's why a large number of refugees gathered here."

"Is there no other way?" The patriarch's brows were twisted into a "川" shape, with a look of sorrow on his face.

Yun Qi hesitated for a moment and said, "Then we need to go upstream and downstream to see if we can get around it."

After thinking it over carefully, Yun Mo said to Yun Ye, "Second brother, you stay in the camp. I will personally lead people to look for it."

Finally, Lin Yinan followed Lin Yiheng and the others to Lingbei River.

Looking at the rushing river, Lin Yinan's heart completely sank.

The river was wide and the current was fast. Even if they had a boat, their team had too many people, horses, carts and supplies to cross.

More and more refugees gathered by the river. Looking at the surging water, some of them completely collapsed and knelt down by the river, crying loudly. Some people were so desperate that they jumped into the surging river.

Unable to bear watching any longer, Yun Mo decided to walk upstream along the river bank.

"Young Master, are you going to the South?" A voice sounded behind everyone.

Lin Yinan turned around and was suddenly startled by the person in front of him. He subconsciously pulled the hem of his clothes.

The man in front of me was short and fat, with a belly that looked like a seven-month pregnant woman. He was so fat that he didn't even have a neck. He had a fat head and big ears, a face full of flesh, and only two slits for his eyes. I didn't know where this man came from. He had been on the run for so long, but he was still so fat.

He was surrounded by five or six guards and several servants.

Without anyone to protect him, he is just a walking piece of fat meat!

Seeing everyone stop, the man continued, "I know a way to go south."