Natural disasters in books: I stockpiled goods to escape famine in ancient times

Because Dahe Village had just been settled and no houses had been built yet, everyone sat on the grass. They surrounded Song Shiwei and talked about family matters and what had happened since they separated.

Zhang Wu sat at the outermost seat, along with Li An and Wei Xiong. Neither of them said anything about leaving, but instead sat quietly to the side and listened to what everyone said.

According to what the women said, after everyone separated from Song Shiwei, the group continued to take the mountain road. The journey was definitely much slower than taking the main road. In addition, there were many disaster victims heading north, some of whom were smart people. They all knew that taking the mountain road was safer and could help them find water and food, so they were bound to meet them.

The people of Dahe Village had suffered a lot on the way to Zhending. They almost couldn't leave one town. If it weren't for the officials and Shen Yan and Xie An to take care of them, many women and children would have been lost in the village.

Later, when everyone saw the victims, they would take a detour as far as possible, which wasted a lot of time. During this period, they spent several days looking for water and their food was almost gone. It was only because Shen Qianxue led everyone to find wild food in the mountains that they did not become as skinny as other victims.

Everyone said the same thing, that without Song Shiwei and Queen Zhang Wu, their lives were in dire straits. They dared not sleep too deeply at night for fear of being attacked by a pack of wild beasts.

One time, when the villagers were camping in the mountains at night, they were suddenly attacked by a leopard. Caught off guard, two men and a child in the village died, all of them died from having their necks bitten off by the leopard. Liu Daming also injured his arm, which has not yet fully recovered. This morning, he followed the village chief and others to the city to find a doctor.

Listening to what everyone said, Song Shiwei remained silent and did not speak.

Among them, there was a woman whose husband died at the hands of a leopard. After so many days, she was no longer as sad as she was at the beginning. She had two children and an elderly person at home. The woman was very strong and chatted with everyone, and did not avoid the leopard attack.

"Hey, why is it so lively?"

The people of Dahe Village who had gone to the city to settle their household registration came back in a mighty procession. Because of the crowd, Song Shiwei and Zhang Wu were not visible. From a distance, they could see the women of the village gathered together and talking. It was quite lively.

Liu Daming, Huang Hai and other young men came over pushing several carts full of things. Huang Changyuan had a thick stack of documents in his hand. He was originally planning to come back and tell everyone before going to look for Wei Xiong, but when he got here, he happened to see Wei Xiong there too, so he immediately walked over with the documents, smiling.

As he walked like this, he naturally saw Li An and Zhang Wu beside Wei Xiong. Huang Changyuan had never seen Li An before, and as for Zhang Wu, Huang Changyuan was stunned where he stood, his hand holding the document trembling slightly, and he looked at him straight with squinted eyes, as if he couldn't believe it.

Zhang Wu smiled and stood up: "Village Chief, long time no see."

Huang Changyuan took a few big steps to Zhang Wu, and after confirming that he was there, he raised his other hand and patted Zhang Wu's back vigorously: "Good, good, good, I finally see you. Why are you the only one here? Where's Xiao Song?"

Huang Changyuan looked around and made sure that Xiao Song was not there, and his doubts grew even more.

Zhang Wu's smile widened, and he pointed at Song Shiwei who was walking over and said, "The master is here."

Song Shiwei smiled at Huang Changyuan and said, "Village Chief, I'm just dressing like a woman again, so you can't recognize me?"

Huang Changyuan stood there in a daze. The people who had just returned from Dahe Village were dumbfounded. Liu Daming, Huang Hai and others stared at Song Shiwei with their mouths and eyes wide open.

The crowd fell silent.

"What? Brother Song is a woman?" Liu Daming let go of the cart and rushed to Song Shiwei with disbelief on his face.

Song Shiwei let everyone look at him, and nodded with a smile on his face: "It's not appropriate to call me big brother anymore."

Liu Daming glared: "What's that name? Sister Song? That doesn't sound good. I still think Brother Song sounds better."

"You idiot, you are embarrassing me. Get out of here," Liu Dong stepped forward and pushed Liu Daming's head back. Then he turned to look at Song Shiwei, smiled and nodded, "The girl is pretty good too. I thought Xiao Song was not strong before, but she turns out to be a girl."

Huang Changyuan came to his senses and agreed: "Xiao Song is good-looking, it would be safer for her to pretend to be a teenager and go out. You have seen what those good-looking girls are going through in this world. If you ask me, Xiao Song is more foresighted."

"Yes, yes, Xiao Song has a sharp mind."

"Xiao Song looks blessed like this."

Everyone agreed. Huang Changyuan took Song Shiwei aside for a brief greeting. Finally, he realized that Wei Xiong was still here and walked up to him with an apologetic look on his face.

"Village Chief Wei, I'm so sorry. I just ran into an old friend who I lost, and I was so excited that I didn't have time to say hello to you."

Wei Xiong didn't look unhappy at all, and smiled and waved his hands: "I understand. After all, we've been apart for so long, it's normal to be excited when you suddenly meet. Have you signed all the documents for settling in?"

"It's signed. The documents for purchasing the land are also here," Huang Changyuan hurriedly handed a thick stack of documents to Wei Xiong.

"Then I'll take it back and write it down. I'll send it to you tomorrow. Then you can discuss when to build the house. There are no empty houses in the village. If so many of you want to have a place to live soon, you'd better build the house as soon as possible."

Huang Changyuan nodded repeatedly.

Wei Xiong was not a person without foresight. When he saw that all the victims had returned, he prepared to leave without saying a word.

Li An also looked at Song Shiwei at this time: "Girl, I'm going to go to Village Chief Wei's house first, you guys can chat slowly, just call me when you want to leave, no need to rush back."

Song Shiwei smiled and nodded: "Okay, thank you for your help."

After Li An and Wei Xiong left, everyone here was their own people. Before, the women pulled Song Shiwei to talk, but now the men pulled Zhang Wu to talk. Since it was already clear that Song Shiwei was a woman, it would not be appropriate to pull her to talk, so it would be the same to just pull Zhang Wu to ask, since they were together anyway.

Huang Changyuan asked Liu Dong, Chen Qiang and others to set up tents and distribute food, while Huang Hai, Liu Daming and others took Zhang Wu to talk under a tree not far away.

Although Song Shiwei had a smile on her face, there was still a distant aura around her. Everyone was very excited when they first met, but now that things have calmed down, they dare not say anything else for fear of upsetting her.

Song Shiwei noticed the unnatural looks on their faces and understood what was going on. He himself didn't like to talk much and came here to see what the people in Dahe Village were like. Now many people were doing their own things and Song Shiwei had some free time.

Huang Changyuan walked up to Song Shiwei at this time, stopped one meter away from her, and said with a smile: "I just heard from Xiao Zhang that you arrived in the northern border a long time ago, and now you have settled down in the neighboring desert village. This is good. I just wanted you to settle down here with us."