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

Zhang Wu was the first to notice the movement in the carriage, and hurried forward to lend a hand. While carefully helping Song Shiwei down, he whispered, "Master, there are more and more people. Do you think we should move to another place?"

Song Shiwei frowned as he looked at the crowds of people here, and shook his head gently: "It's extremely hot right now, it's not realistic to change places, just bear with it."

Zhang Wu added: "It's too hot in the carriage. How about I set up a tent for you? You can't leave for a while. You can go into the tent and rest. It's better than being outside."

The two of them arrived early and chose a location at the very back, so there was still space to set up a tent, which was more comfortable than sitting outside and being stared at by everyone.

Song Shiwei glanced at the sun above his head and nodded slightly: "Put up your tent as well, just a little closer, and move the carriage a little further in."

"it is good."

Zhang Wu went to set up the tent and move the carriage. Song Shiwei took advantage of the cover of the carriage to feed the horses water and food.

While Zhangwu was setting up the tent, other families who were more diligent also went to the forest to find dead branches and leaves to build simple tents. Although they did not look beautiful, they provided shade and relieved the summer heat to some extent.

After the tents were set up, Song Shiwei put a large block of ice in both tents, and tied the curtains after the two entered the tents. Without the heat wave sweeping in, the temperature in the tents dropped quickly. After taking a sip of the iced drink, the whole person felt cool from the inside out.

Zhang Wu didn't say anything when he saw the ice. He had already guessed something in his heart, but his guess was too shocking, so he didn't dare to think too much about it, for fear of revealing it in front of others.

The two of them slept comfortably in their respective tents for a while, and it was not until Huang Ping came to find them that they woke up slowly.

Zhang Wu saw the ice in the tent melting into water. Instead of inviting Huang Ping in, he took the initiative to lift the curtain and walked out. As soon as he went out, he saw Huang Ping, Liu Daming and others standing outside the tent, several of them holding weapons in their hands.

"This is what you are doing?"

Without waiting for Huang Ping to speak, Liu Daming spoke loudly: "We really can't rest, so we called a few brothers and prepared to go to the forest to have a look. It would be good if we can hunt a rabbit. If we are lucky enough to find a water source, then we don't have to worry."

Zhang Wu looked helpless, feeling the heat scorching his skin, but he still advised kindly: "If you go out in such hot weather and get heatstroke, it will not be worth it. If you really want to hunt, you might as well wait until the sun goes down a little."

Several people said they could accept it and would not joke about their bodies.

Liu Daming saw that Zhang Wu didn't want to go, so he smiled and walked up to him and hooked his neck, "Brother Zhang Wu, don't worry so much. You look about the same age as us, why are you frowning all the time? This is not good. We can't sit still anyway, so we might as well find something to do. Besides, there's no sun in the forest. If you don't want to go, just wait here for our good news."

Zhang Wu glanced at Song Shiwei's tent, thought for a moment and said, "I'll go with you, but I'll have to trouble the villagers to help me look after my son."

"Don't worry about that. The village chief uncle told everyone when we came out," Liu Daming patted Zhang Wu on the shoulder and grinned, "Then we'll go to the woods and wait for you. Come find us after you pack up."

Zhang Wu responded with a "OK".

As soon as the others left, Song Shiwei came out and looked at Zhang Wu: "Take the bows and arrows in the carriage. If you are not used to using them, you can use crossbows."

"Master, rest assured. I know. I will go early and come back early."

Song Shiwei nodded softly.

This time, the few people came back after two hours, with empty hands. Not to mention water, they didn't even catch a pheasant, which made them feel a little depressed.

However, after resting here for a few hours, the sun was not as hot as it was at the beginning. In addition, there were too many disaster victims and there was a lot of friction. After discussing it, everyone decided to set off immediately.

Zhang Wu folded up the tent quickly and put it away. This time, with the officials leading the way, the two of them drove the carriage in the front. Taking into account that the Shen and Xie clans were traveling on foot, the speed was reduced a lot. Fortunately, there were no disaster victims blocking the road, so they covered some distance in a short time.

The group had rested for a few hours before, and then they continued on their journey. Apart from the heat, they were not too tired, except for some waste water. Fortunately, the villagers' water was enough to last for two days if they drank it sparingly. Therefore, they did not stop until it was getting dark, and they arrived at a village.

The village was deserted and everyone's initial hope of seeing the village was instantly shattered.

Huang Changyuan immediately asked people to go in and investigate, but found nothing except many empty houses, and the small river in the village had already dried up.

There was no other way. It was too late. They could only choose to rest here for one night and continue their journey early tomorrow morning. However, there was worry on everyone's face.

In this weather, if we run out of food, we can eat wild grass and tree bark, but if we run out of water, people will not be able to bear it under such a scorching sun within a day.

Huang Changyuan was also anxious, so anxious that blisters appeared on his lips. However, he had searched all the places he needed to look for, but the rivers everywhere were dry and cracked. He could only sigh.

Although Song Shiwei is not short of water, he cannot drink it openly under such circumstances.

Too much hatred.

In the evening, when everyone had finished resting, Huang Changyuan called everyone together. Seeing the sadness on everyone's faces, Huang Changyuan sighed and said, "I called everyone here because I want to discuss something with everyone. Some people in our village can still keep their water for two or three days, but some people's water has run out. Not to mention tomorrow, even tonight they can't keep it. We are all from the same village, so we share the good and the bad. I have a suggestion. Why don't you all take out the water from your homes and pool it together, and then divide it equally among each household. In this way, every household will have water. When we set off tomorrow, we will send more people out to find water. What do you think?"

Huang Changyuan was responded by silence.

Those who had no water at home were fine and agreed with the village chief's proposal; but those who still had water at home for a few more days were not so happy.

Huang Changyuan did not urge them, but just waited quietly for everyone to make a decision.

"Village chief, we listen to you. We will do whatever you say," Chen Qiang, whose family's water could last for two more days, was the first to respond to Huang Changyuan.

Liu Dong also began to respond: "Village Chief, you brought us here. We agreed to follow your arrangements along the way. We will do whatever you say. We have been neighbors for generations. If there is any difficulty, we should help each other and overcome the difficulties together."

After these two people spoke, the others began to agree, and then went back to fetch the buckets from their homes.

Huang Changyuan turned his back and wiped his eyes: "Okay, okay, Dongzi is right, as long as we unite, there will be no obstacles that we cannot overcome."

The water from all the households in the village was poured together, and more than ten buckets of water were collected, which were then divided equally among each household. In this way, the water problem was temporarily solved, and they could survive for at least one more day. One more day meant a better chance of survival.