Fleeing from famine! A rough hunter has a fox husband

Chapter 104: Exchanging Food for Water

Qin Ruan kept talking about them just now. Yang Huan wanted to agree several times, but was always drowned out by Qin Ruan's voice.

This guy is really fierce and they can't afford to offend him at all.

Shen Nuo saw that they had no ill intentions, so he thought he could recruit them into the team.

Now that we have come out of the mountains, we must expand our team so that we won’t be robbed easily.

Lin Yuanshan walked in with a few men.

"How is it? Is there any water?"

The other men who came in were also very excited; they finally found water.

"Yes, there is some. Now let's pump up the water and drain it down."

Qin Yan now fetched up another half bucket of water.

Seeing a bucket of water here, the men immediately became excited.

"Let me do it. I'm strong."

"I can do that too. Let's fetch water together."

Seeing that they were so impatient, Qin Yan handed them the bucket and reminded them:

"Be careful not to spill the water."

"Don't worry, this is our life."

Li Shi threw the bucket into the well and heard the bucket fall into the water with a "plop".

He calmly swung the well rope twice, and when he felt the bucket was filled with water, he immediately asked the man next to him to turn the handle of the wheel.

The only sound left in the room was the sound of the wheel, and soon they had drawn up half a bucket of water.

"Great, great, there is water, and the water is clear."

The water that was pumped up was clear, which proved that the well had not yet reached the bottom and that we could continue to draw water.

Qin Yan told Qin Liang about the situation inside the house.

Other villagers also began to look for places to set up camp and rest.

It was getting dark soon.

Shen Nuo also quietly took out some sweet potatoes and shared them with Yang Xu.

"We don't have much food, so we'll give it to you first, just as if it were to exchange for water."

Qin Ruan also went out to get some wild vegetables and sweet potatoes. He didn't give as much as Shen Nuo, but in Yang Xu's eyes, they were all life-saving things.

"We also want to change the water with you, so these are for you."

The other people in Yunzhu Village also knew about this more or less, so they all wanted to exchange some water with Yang Xu's family.

They didn't make any loud noise, and in the eyes of others, they were just stopping by Yang Xu's house for a while.

Everyone in Yunzhu Village asked the men to fetch water, and of course, they also had to provide food for the Yang family.

After all, this is someone else's water, and they are not yet at the point of robbing others.

If the Yang family were some unforgivable bad people, they would have robbed them, but they were not bad people and they took the initiative to exchange water for food with them.

They can choose not to change, but they cannot steal other people's things.

When it was completely dark, the man from Yang Xu's neighbor's house came to Shen Nuo holding something.

I only heard him ask Shen Nuo cautiously:

"Well, little brother, we have some water left at home. Can we exchange it for some food with you?"

Their family ran out of food a few days ago and had been eating tree bark for several days. The children in the family started complaining of stomachaches this afternoon.

Yang Kai and the others didn’t know what was going on and were extremely distressed, but there was nothing they could do as they had nothing to eat.

He was thinking of escaping to the south with them tomorrow. His family had a well, but it was not easy to tell others.

He heard a little bit of what was happening on Yang Huan's side when he got closer.

So I went home to get some water and tried to ask Shen Nuo and the others.

Shen Nuo had been paying attention to this family for a long time. There were also several men in the family, as well as women and children.

However, Shen Nuo did not take the initiative to ask them.

But he deliberately spoke a little louder when talking to Qin Yan.

Sure enough, after hearing this, the family hesitated and wanted to come over to ask.

As if he had some concerns, Shen Nuo was not in a hurry.

This time, they finally couldn't help but come over.

Shen Nuo curled his lips, then quickly restrained himself and turned to look at Yang Kai:

"Do you have water too? I'll ask the others if they want to switch."

After he said that, he went to ask Qin Ji first, their family had not yet gotten water.

After hearing this, Qin Zuo immediately came over to talk to Yang Kai. At first, Yang Kai did not admit that he had a well, probably because he was afraid that it would be robbed by them.

Qin Ji asked his husband to bring him some food.

Yang Kai had no choice but to take them to get water.

They are all honest farmers. After collecting people's grain, they can't really not give them water.

Shen Nuo also followed He Fang into Yang Kai's home.

The layout of their house is almost the same as that of Yang Huan's house next door.

As you enter the room, there is a dining table with a small oil lamp on it, and next to it is a long wooden bed.

There is a place like a patio at the back, and the well is here.

There are five men in Yang Kai's family, all young men, a few half-grown men, and three women.

"These two are my sisters-in-law, and this one is my wife. We all went out to find food at night, and that's how we escaped the earthquake."

It turned out that the fields of the people in Yangjia Village were far away from their homes, and they happened to go out to the fields at night to dig wild vegetables and grass roots, and thus they accidentally avoided the earthquake.

The earthquake happened to occur at night, and many elderly people, women and children were sleeping in the house.

Therefore, in many families, only these men who escaped the disaster are left.

"Come and get some water. The wells here are similar to the ones at Yang Huan's place. You can just fetch water yourself."

“Wow, wow, wow… Dad, my stomach hurts…”

The child on the bed over there woke up at some point and started crying again, holding his stomach.

Shen Nuo looked over and saw that the little boy looked to be only three or four years old and was very skinny.

But his stomach was bloated as if he was full.

The woman nearby hurried over, held the child in her arms, fed him water, and then rubbed his belly with her hands.

"What's going on here?"

Qin Ji and others also noticed that there was something wrong with these children.

"Several children have not been able to relieve themselves these past few days. I think it's because they ate the bark."

The young woman rubbed her baby's belly as she spoke, and she couldn't help wiping away her tears.

Shen Nuo couldn't help but frowning as he looked at the child who was crying so hard.

"The bark is somewhat toxic and difficult to digest. It might be okay for an adult to eat it, but the child is too young."

Qin Ji went over to check the child's pulse:

"I'm a doctor, maybe I can take a look at it for you."

"Doctor? Then doctor, please take a look at my child, wuwuwu..."

The woman could no longer hold back her tears and started crying along with the child.

Yang Kai stood aside, looking at a loss, and he had no other choice.

After the locusts passed through, they couldn't even find green leaves.

At night, we went to the fields and hills to dig up grass roots, but these things were quickly dug up by other victims.

They had no choice but to use the tree bark.

If he had known that the bark contained poison, he would not have given it to his children.