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

After Huang Changyuan finished speaking, he asked everyone to pack their bags quickly. Huang Ping also left with Liu Daming and dozens of other young people. However, he was worried about his family, so he forced Huang Hai to stay and look after his family despite Huang Hai's objection.

After the villagers were ready, they walked quickly under the leadership of Chen Qiang. No one complained about the hot weather. They were all thinking about going faster and faster. Arriving one minute earlier would buy one minute of time for General Xie. It would be best to set a trap to catch all the bandits.

Chen Qiang was one step ahead of everyone and rushed forward as fast as he could. On the one hand, he was leading the villagers behind him to the right path, and on the other hand, he was searching for traces of bandits to avoid encountering them.

The mountain road was rugged, but it also concealed everyone's tracks very well.

Huang Changyuan led the remaining people in the village to walk along the mark made by Chen Qiang, and whispered to those around him: "Everyone, be quiet and try not to make loud noises. Men, please look after the elderly and children at home. If you really can't keep up, walk slowly. Don't rush and ignore your health."

"Village chief, don't worry, we all know it," a deliberately lowered voice whispered from behind.

Now everyone knows that this is not a place to escape famine, as one could lose their lives if they are not careful. What's more, everyone is going there with the idea of ​​leaving their lives behind. Unlike fleeing famine, no matter how hard or difficult it is, there is always a way to survive. But if there is a way to survive, who wouldn't want to live?

What the village chief said before is indeed the best of both worlds nowadays. Just hope that what you want to do will succeed, otherwise all sacrifices will be meaningless.

After walking for about half an hour, Huang Changyuan raised one hand high, and everyone stopped in silence.

At this time, Chen Qiang suddenly jumped down from a nearby tree. Seeing everyone coming, he looked serious. He walked to the village chief and whispered, "The bandits are three miles away from here. They are resting there. I think they want to attack the government post at night, so they are not in a hurry. I found a cave ahead. It is big enough to accommodate the villagers. There is a place not far from the cave that is very suitable for setting a trap."

When Huang Changyuan and his companions arrived, Chen Qiang had already familiarized himself with the surrounding environment. After everyone had rested for a while, he led everyone to the cave. Although this place was three miles away from the bandits, it was not safe enough, so it would be safer to go to the cave.

The location of the cave is very hidden and you won't notice it unless you look carefully.

After bringing all the villagers into the cave, Huang Changyuan began to arrange people to prepare for what to do next. Everyone knew that time was tight, so no one spoke. Everyone sat on the ground and listened attentively to the village chief's arrangements.

"Chen Qiang and Liu Dong, you lead the others to dig the traps, and the rest of you come with me to find some branches. We will sharpen them and bury them in the traps," Huang Changyuan said, looking at the elderly, weak, women and children. "Just now I saw a bamboo forest not far ahead. The women also came with me to make some bamboo sticks."

Everyone responded at the same time.

Huang Changyuan and the rest of the people picked up a lot of thick branches and bamboos from the forest. The bamboos were sharpened into short pointed shapes. The branches were much longer than the bamboos, and they were placed aside after being sharpened.

Starting with the cave, Chen Qiang, Liu Dong and their men dug dozens of traps of varying sizes within a two-mile radius. They then buried cut bamboo and branches into the traps, and finally dragged vines and weeds around them to cover them.

"Okay, we have done what we should do. The rest is up to God," Huang Changyuan waved his hand and walked back to the cave first.

As night falls, the chirping of insects and birds becomes particularly noticeable, and the breeze rustles the trees.

The villagers in the cave felt nervous and gripped their weapons tightly, with veins bulging on the back of their hands. Hunters such as Chen Qiang and Liu Dong sat at the entrance of the cave, listening carefully to the movements outside, waiting for the signal from the person in charge of watching on the big tree outside the cave.

'Cuckoo'

'Cuckoo'

Two dull sounds suddenly rang out, and Chen Qiang and Liu Dong looked outside the cave in surprise.

But in an instant, everyone heard the howling and noisy sounds outside. Huang Changyuan nodded slightly towards Chen Qiang and Liu Dong, and the two of them hurriedly got up and walked out, quietly, even their breathing became much lighter.

In the darkness and silence, there was a "gulp" sound, and someone suddenly swallowed.

After about a cup of tea, Chen Qiang came back with his men. He glanced at the people in the cave, walked up to Huang Changyuan and said in a deep voice, "Village Chief, those bandits really chose that road to go down the mountain, but there were too many of them, and even if they stepped into the trap, they didn't lose many people. What do you think we should do next?"

Huang Changyuan was silent for a moment. "What happens next is not something we can interfere with. I know you all want to rush up and fight them, but you have a family and children. If you rush up now, you will just die in vain. So, the young and strong who are willing can follow the bandits to the official post station at the foot of the mountain, and then act according to circumstances. As for the old, weak, women and children, they can stay here. There are many wild animals on the mountain, so we can plant some vines to block the entrance of the cave."

As soon as Huang Changyuan finished speaking, all the remaining young and middle-aged men in the village stood up and expressed their desire to go to the official post station at the foot of the mountain with Chen Qiang, and then say goodbye to their families.

A group of people followed the bandits from a distance and went down the mountain.

-

"Bah, big brother, we are so unlucky today. Why are there so many traps in this deep forest?"

The bandit leader who was called Big Brother glanced at his younger brother and said in a deep voice: "It's not our bad luck, I'm afraid someone did it on purpose."

The younger brother suddenly stared, looking around and said, "Did you do it on purpose? Who did it?"

Seeing that the other brothers were looking at him, the bandit leader suppressed his anger and said, "You all know that this is a deep forest. We just walked this road yesterday. Were there any traps then? If you hadn't left, I would have suspected that there was a traitor among us. Otherwise, how do you explain those traps?"

The brothers looked at each other and then came up to the bandit.

"Brother, you said that no one would know what we were going to do today, so you deliberately set those traps to make us retreat."

"I also think this is not right, brother. Why don't we not go today? It's better to be safe than sorry."

The bandit leader snorted and laughed: "What are you afraid of? There are so many of us, and there are not many people at the official post at the foot of the mountain. Most of them are the elderly, the weak, women and children. Killing them is as easy as cutting vegetables. Besides, only our brothers know what we are going to do. How can anyone else know? I think those traps were set by other bandits."

Thinking of the bandits they had encountered looking for trouble some time ago, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and were no longer as nervous as before.

"Haha, we killed those little bastards in a few moves. There are only 20 to 30 of them left. They probably know they can't defeat us head-on, so they came up with these shady tricks."

"That's right, a bunch of bastards. After we finish this big deal, we'll go back and kill them all."

The bandit leader also nodded: "We really can't let them go. We just lost so many brothers for nothing. Someone has to hold a memorial ceremony for them. Everyone should cheer up. The people in the official post station are all fat sheep. After this job, everyone can rest for a few years."

After saying this, he thought of the officials at the official post station. If it were in the past, they would not dare to reach out their hands to those officials, but in this year, if they don't reach out their hands, their brothers will have no way to survive. He gritted his teeth and had to do this one thing. In order to avoid being repaid in the future, he had to kill those people.