Traveling through ancient times to survive

The noise of Zhao Chengchuan getting up startled Zhao Qing. She opened her eyes and prepared to get up, but Zhao Chengchuan stopped her and said, "Don't get up. You worked hard all night. You and your brother should rest. I'll go help your Uncle Li."

Zhao Chengchuan carefully closed the door and went next door.

"Brother Li, my family has almost finished moving. Mei Niang can handle the remaining small items by herself today. Since your family is small, I came here to help you."

"That's great. I won't be polite to you, brother." Li Wu was packing his luggage. When he saw Zhao Chengchuan, he immediately smiled.

"How many of your children slept in today? That's really rare." The two chatted while busying themselves.

"They were exhausted yesterday, so I let them rest today." Zhao Chengchuan answered without raising his head, while still moving his hands.

"Oh, I want to ask Heng'er to go play with Deyan and the others," Li Wu didn't let Li Heng take action. Li Heng was unwilling, so Li Wu wanted to get Li Heng away.

Li Heng was helpless: "Dad, I'm much better now, don't worry."

Since practicing the body-refining techniques taught by Zhao Qing, Li Heng's body has recovered quickly and is now fully healthy again. Uncle Li has worked tirelessly for the survival of the two of them, and now that he is well again, he naturally cannot stand idly by.

However, Li Wu still habitually worried about Li Heng's physical condition and always looked at Li Heng with an old perspective, treating him as a fragile porcelain doll.

In addition, Li Heng had been pampered since childhood, and Li Wu was very sad to see him fall to the point of suffering with himself in a small mountain village. Li Heng's hands were used to write and stir up trouble, not to do rough work!

"I think my nephew is getting better. He is so kind, so don't reject his kindness."

Zhao Chengchuan doesn't think that scholars should completely ignore mundane affairs. If children are not allowed to do anything, they will grow up to be nerds who know nothing but studying hard. Zhao Chengchuan has personal experience of this. The old house has already ruined a scholar.

The snow melted faster today. Seeing that the situation was not good, the village chief ordered all training in the village to be stopped and everyone to move up the mountain to avoid the flood.

All day long, every household went up the mountain to grab a good spot. The more people there are, the more disputes there are. You occupy a larger spot and take away my space. I don’t want to live next to your house. Why should your spot be better than mine? And so on. There were all kinds of conflicts.

"You shameless bastard! This is the floor I swept at home, why do you take it over?"

"Hey, who is as bold as you! Just sweeping the floor is yours?"

"You are blind! This is the place my family has set their eyes on, get out of here!"

"Who do you think you are! You said that if you set your sights on something, it has to be yours? Even bandits are not as domineering as you!"

"You are the bandit! Whoever comes first owns the property. Is there a problem with that?"

"You only have a few people in your family, yet you take up such a large space. You must give some space to my family."

"Why!"

The noise was incessant and the village chief was given a headache. They were still quarreling at this time. They were totally nonsense and had no idea what was important. They were just a bunch of idiots!

"Shut up, everyone! We still have plenty of time, right? Have you finished setting up the shed? Or have you finished moving the things?"

The villagers quieted down, and before they had even had a cup of tea, an elderly woman complained to the village chief: "Village chief, please give us some justice. Zhao Yuanmu's family occupies such a large area that my family has been squeezed out so much that there is no room for us to move."

Sun Xiaocao cursed: "Bullshit! This place that my family occupies was built by our whole family with great effort. You want to get it for free just because you have such a good mouth? Dream on!"

The old woman was right: "Your family is too greedy. You have more land than the other two families. If everyone is as selfish as you, what will happen to the people behind you?"

Mrs. Zhao chimed in: "My brother Cheng is a scholar, he is different from you guys, so of course he has to occupy a place all to himself."

The old woman's daughter-in-law laughed loudly: "What's the difference? Doesn't he have two noses and two mouths?"

Mrs. Zhao was furious: "You better keep your mouth shut! You can't make fun of a scholar like me!"

"That's enough! You just keep quarreling over trivial matters! If you put the energy you put into quarreling into building the shed, you could have built it long ago!"

The village chief criticized everyone before offering a solution.

"Don't argue about whose land is bigger or smaller. Take my land as the benchmark, and no one is allowed to exceed my land."

The village chief's family is large, with more than 20 people in total. There is no family in the village with a larger population than the village chief's.

The village chief had just solved one problem when another trouble came knocking.

"Village Chief, his house is too close to mine. It's inconvenient to go in and out."

"Village chief, it's not that I want to get so close, but the terrain behind is low, what if the water comes up? I don't want to sleep in the water the moment I open my eyes."

"You have a point," the village chief thought. "For safety, everyone should try to squeeze together and endure for a while. We are all from the same village, and it would be bad if something happened to anyone."

As night falls, the temporary shelter is not yet complete, so everyone will rest in their own homes tonight.

Zhao Qing and his two sons took advantage of the night to move the grain and medicinal herbs from the cellar up the mountain. They first wrapped them tightly with two layers of oilcloth, and then moved them into the cave one by one and sealed the exit with large stones.

The moon sets and the sun rises, the rosy glow pierces the darkness, and the villagers in the mountain village become busy, some go up the mountain, some cook, and some pack up.

All of Zhao Qing's family's belongings have been moved into the mountains. Zhao Chengchuan locked the door, and the family officially moved to the mountains to live.

"Chengchuan, is your family preparing to go up the mountain now?" Aunt Wang, who was busy next door, exclaimed in surprise when she saw this.

"Anyway, the things have been moved up, and it will come sooner or later. And I'm worried that the weather will suddenly rise to a very high level like the night of the cold wave. I won't feel at ease if I stay at home."

"Chengchuan is right. After my family moves the remaining belongings up the mountain, we plan to stay on the mountain and not go down." Li Wu agreed deeply with what Zhao Chengchuan said.

"I heard you all! Hurry up! You little bastards have been slacking off all day long. Hurry up! We must fix the shed today!" Aunt Wang's face changed, and she turned around and yelled at her sons who were listening with their ears pricked up and moving a little slower.

In the entire village, except for the families of Zhao Qing and Li Wu who could afford to cover their sheds with tarpaulin, the rest of the families used wood and mud to make roofs, so the speed of setting up the sheds was much slower than that of the two families.

The villagers near the three families who heard the three people talking changed their expressions instantly. They became anxious and moved their hands quickly. When the people next to them asked the reason, they were shocked and started to panic.

The news spread quickly and soon the whole camp was in a panic. No one was in the mood to argue and everyone buried their heads in work, fearing that they would be flooded if they were too slow and their belongings would not be moved out.