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

Upon hearing this, Yun Mo unconsciously exerted force with his hands and broke a branch as thick as his wrist.

"The Hu people have such big hearts!"

"Master, we can reach Jiancheng by crossing these mountains. Do the Hu people want to take over Jiancheng as well?" The man in black widened his eyes in horror.

"How's things at home?" Yun Mo did not answer his question, but asked about family matters instead.

The man in black said respectfully, "Everyone in the mansion has been rescued, but the lady insisted on not leaving first and insisted on waiting for you, the master, outside the Sword City."

Yun Mo looked towards Jiancheng and hesitated for a moment, then turned and walked towards Xincheng, "Let's go!"

"Master, aren't we going to Jiancheng to join Madam?"

The man in black quickly followed.

"There are still many people gathered at the gate of Xincheng. The Hu people are coming soon. We can't let them die in vain under their swords."

Yun Mo's cold voice carried a hint of helplessness.

The emperor listened to treacherous villains and was incompetent. His father and brother had died fighting for the country. He had to think about his mother and the entire Yun family and didn't want to make unnecessary sacrifices.

In the mountains and forests.

Lin Yinan came back carrying the wild boar, causing a commotion among the villagers in the camp.

"Oh my goodness! Anan, how did you kill such a big wild boar?"

"This wild boar must weigh three hundred kilograms, right?"

"I'm afraid ordinary people can't hunt it."

"That's not true. Look at the arrow holes on the wild boar. If I gave you a bow, I'm afraid you wouldn't even be able to draw it."

Everyone was talking about it, their mouths watering.

The old lady rushed over after hearing the noise, pushed aside the villagers who were surrounding her, and shouted at the top of her voice, "What are you all doing here? If someone didn't know, they would think you were trying to steal my wife, grandchildren, and their prey."

Putting the wild boar down, Li Shulan wrung out a wet towel and handed it to her to help her wipe it.

Lin Yinan took the handkerchief from her hand and said, "Mom, I can do it myself."

Although she felt uncomfortable with the stickiness, she tried her best to endure it and just washed her hands and wiped her face roughly.

She turned to the old lady who was watching the wild boar and said, "Grandma, what are you going to do with the wild boar?"

The old lady's face was full of pain. She was a smooth talker who knew how to get by. "I've just asked your uncle to call the village chief. We can't finish such a big wild boar, and it's even more difficult to keep it in the hot weather. How about we keep a pig leg for ourselves and let the village chief take the rest? An Nan, what do you think?"

"Just do as grandma said. I think so too," said Lin Yinan.

The village chief came over quickly and the old lady told him her idea. The village chief clapped his hands and laughed, his eyes narrowed into slits.

"Okay! Okay! Then I'll chop the pork into pieces and boil a big pot of wild vegetable soup, so everyone can at least have a bowl."

Yu Suqin mixed in with the crowd and had not had a full meal for several days since she fled.

Although she also craved meat, she still spat with disdain.

"If you know she's going to hunt wild boars, you might think she's going to have a wild war. She's so dirty, how can she be the daughter of a scholar? She really disgraces the reputation of scholars."

Aunt Li next to her frowned and sneered, "I didn't ask you to eat it, why are you making such a fuss?"

The village chief has already told the villagers that the whole village will drink the wild boar meat soup together, and the villagers were immediately delighted.

Several men who knew how to slaughter pigs took the initiative to come out and do it.

The village chief then pointed to four or five women who were nimble and had good cooking skills, and asked them to be responsible for cooking the soup.

Aunt Li was among them. She took two steps forward and repeated to the village chief what Yu Suqin had just said to slander Lin Yinan.

Lin Yinan saved the only child in their family. When they settle down in the future, she will set up a longevity tablet for Lin Yinan and will not allow others to slander her like this.

"Village chief, it's unfair! It was that gossipy woman from the Li family who slandered me." Yu Su in the crowd immediately cried out for justice.

At this time, two or three villagers quickly stood up to testify against her.

"Village Chief, we can testify that what Aunt Li said is true."

Unexpectedly, even though they were usually very popular, as soon as Li Shulan and her daughter appeared, the villagers all sided with them.

"If you don't want to eat it, then don't eat it. Wild boar meat is tough and woody. What's so delicious about it?"

Yu Suqin was furious and left angrily with half a basket of wild vegetables on her back.

With strength in numbers, the villagers quickly slaughtered the wild boar and cut off the largest pig leg for Lin Yinan's family.

The aunties in the village were reluctant to throw away even the wild boar's internal organs and washed them clean with handfuls of wood ash.

The meat was chopped into small pieces and thrown into five large pots along with the pork bones, and then boiled with ginger.

Each family would also bring some wild vegetables that they dug themselves, there were all kinds of them, and when the pork soup became milky white, they would throw the wild vegetables into it.

Zhang cut less than two pounds of wild boar meat from Lin Yinan's family and cooked it into porridge with wild vegetables and corn. The children were all growing up, and they could not eat only wild vegetables.

Old Mrs. Zhao also served everyone a bowl of the village’s cooked meat soup.

"Mom, I want to eat meat soup too."

Yu Suqin's nine-year-old third daughter, Lin Chunfang, smelled the meaty aroma in the air, and her saliva flowed from the corners of her mouth and dripped onto her clothes.

Yu Suqin felt a lump in her stomach, unable to breathe.

So he raised his hand and slapped Lin Chunfang hard in the face.

"Eat! Eat! Are you the reincarnation of a starving ghost?"

Lin Chunfang's face immediately became red and swollen.

She opened her mouth and cried out without hesitation.

Lin Dongmei quickly pulled her away to avoid being beaten again.

"Mom, Third Sister is still young, why bother getting angry with her?"

Lin Qiutou glanced at her greedy little sister with disdain.

It would have been better if she didn't say anything. As soon as she said it, Yu Suqin immediately threw the wild vegetable soup in her hand to the ground.

"If you have the ability, why don't you go and kill a wild boar for us to eat? Why are you making sarcastic remarks here?"

Lin Qiutao was suddenly speechless. She held the bowl of wild vegetable soup and sat down to eat in silence.

As I ate the bitter wild vegetables, I couldn't help but cry.

She secretly told herself that as long as she could hold on until she reached Jiancheng, everything would be fine.

With their brother around, their family’s difficulties would be easily solved.

Unlike the depressing atmosphere at Yu Suqin's house, the children at Lin Yinan's house were chattering non-stop.

"It would be nice if I could eat meat every meal." Lin Yichun said after licking the bowl in his hand clean.

Her mother told her that if they left home, they might not even have enough food to eat in the future.

Lin Yibai ate slowly. He transferred half of the porridge in his bowl to Lin Yichun's bowl.

"Sister, Third Brother can't finish his meal, help him eat some."

Lu Changqing still pursed his lips and said nothing. Ever since he got upset, his appetite has become even less than Lin Yichun's.

He obediently gave some of the porridge in his bowl to Lin Yibai, poured some to Lin Yichun, licked the porridge that flowed out from the edge of the bowl, and started eating in small bites without saying a word.

"Thank you, Brother Changqing." Lin Yichun smiled sweetly at him and thanked him in a baby voice.

Seeing how friendly and respectful they were to each other, Lin Yinan rubbed Lin Yichun's fluffy little head.

"Chun'er, I will try my best to let you all eat meat from now on."

The children happily praised her one by one, and Lin Yinan enjoyed it very much.

After dinner, it was already dark.

Lin Shuo and Lin Yizhang built a simple bathroom near a water source using woven straw mats. While the women were bathing, the father and son watched from a distance.