The Rise of a Farm Girl

It is not easy to travel in the mountains. Although the plants on the mountain are all withered and yellow, there are still green places and potholes where the trees are not dead.

In the mountains, not all trees are dead in densely wooded areas. Even in drought years, the trees are dense and the ground is always moist without sunlight. There are also many mosquitoes.

Moreover, not all animals in the mountains have died out. The animals in the deep mountains will also come out to look for food. There are no small animals living in the deep mountains. There are only tigers, lions, leopards, blind bears, and jackals.

There was originally no road in this mountain. It might be that people who had recently fled famine went up the mountain and walked on the mountain, trampling out a path.

But it was still relatively difficult to walk on. The villagers walked with one foot deep and one foot shallow. There were a lot of mosquitoes and poisonous insects on the ground. After walking for half a day, the son of Carpenter Wang in the village was bitten by a poisonous insect on his foot. At first, a big bump appeared, and it soon became red and swollen.

The child was only five years old and was crying loudly in pain. Carpenter Wang hurriedly comforted his son and picked up the child. Crying is not allowed in this deep forest, it will attract large wild animals.

The five-year-old child stopped crying after being frightened. But what should he do with his foot being so swollen? He quickly found a village doctor, whose name was Jia Quan, who moved to the village later.

Doctor Jia came over and saw that it was a poisonous insect bite. Doctor Jia quickly found some detoxifying herbs nearby, crushed them and applied them on the wound, and then wrapped it with a rag.

Doctor Jia saw that this was not going to work. He told everyone to tie their trouser legs and cuffs tightly and to tighten their belts to prevent mosquitoes from getting into their clothes, trouser legs and cuffs.

Everyone hurriedly did as they were told. As they were in a hurry, there was no way to make mosquito repellent packs, so they could only do so when they rested. As for the mosquito bites on their feet, there was nothing they could do.

As they walked along the way, some people's shoes had already worn out, so they made straw sandals, but those straw sandals could not protect against mosquitoes, let alone poisonous insects.

After rolling up their sleeves and trouser legs, everyone continued on their way. They had food to eat and had more strength to walk than the other refugees, so they walked very fast and gradually caught up with the people in front of them.

Although they caught up with them, they couldn't overtake them. The path they had created was so wide that if they wanted to pass these people, someone had to lead the way. No one was willing to lead the way, so they could only follow these refugees.

It was almost dark, and it was very dangerous to travel at night as the nocturnal animals would be out looking for food, so the village chief saw a large open space ahead and let everyone rest there.

This open space was very large, and it might have been cleared by the people fleeing famine. Or it might be that the land was originally open and without trees, and there were traces of fire on the ground.

As soon as they said take a break, everyone quickly divided the work and cooperated. They found some wood nearby, started to build a pot and light a fire, unloaded some water from the horses, put the brown rice into the pot, and cooked it inside the pot first.

The women and children in the village were digging wild vegetables nearby, while the young people in the village were guarding the food, because not only people from their village were resting in the open field to escape famine, but dozens of other people were also sitting in the field.

There is relatively more food in this mountain, but it has also been dug up by the groups that fled there earlier.

But this is much better than the roads outside, where there are only grass roots and wild vegetable roots on both sides of the road.

There are also wild vegetables here, although there are fewer of them, but there are many people here, so if we all look for them together, we can still find a lot.

They picked them carefully, shook off the dirt, tore them into pieces and threw them directly into the pot. Water was still quite precious, and it was good enough to have this water to cook porridge.

The water they brought from the village had long been consumed, so Wang Jingru found a small puddle and released water from the space! Otherwise, the villagers would have been unable to cook.

The other refugees were jealous when they saw that there was water and food in this village. It was very difficult to escape here, without water or food. They had to walk along the mountain road to get some wild vegetables, which they ate directly.

They barely avoided starvation and thirst. Some people were jealous and had already made up their minds to steal some food in the middle of the night.

There were probably more than 30 other people fleeing famine. Although they were not traveling together, they were divided into several groups. It was difficult for a person to survive on the road. He would either be eaten or killed.

Since the end was only death, the villagers picked up more wood because the fire could not be extinguished in the mountains. Not to mention the villagers, the few refugees picked up a huge pile of firewood.

The only way to be safe in the mountains is to build a few fires. Maybe they didn't walk far in the mountains and didn't know the dangers at all, so no one was afraid.

Three groups of people were hired to take turns guarding at night. That's how it was. The 30-plus people acted as if they had discussed it beforehand, and they all took action in the middle of the night.

The guard shouted when he found something wrong and called all the villagers. In the chaos, a few of the 30 people grabbed two handfuls of food and ran away.

The villagers were not vegetarians. Food was their life. Without food, they would lose their lives. So they were not polite and just picked up their machetes and started hacking.

Although they had never killed anyone, they had already become numb after fleeing from famine and had seen too many dead bodies. They were no longer afraid of killing.

The villagers worked together and quickly brought down the 30-odd people. On this road of fleeing famine, where the strong prey on the weak, there is no such thing as you pity me and I pity you.

In order to survive, every grain of food was very precious. Although the man who was robbed of the two handfuls of food had been hacked to death, he still held on to the two handfuls of food tightly.

The village chief said, forget it! Pack up and leave quickly. This area has a strong smell of blood. Are you afraid that it will attract large animals?

The villagers were very upset. They had finally found a good place to rest, but now they had to move forward in the middle of the night. The key point was that the mountain road was difficult to walk on and it was very dangerous.

Wang Jingru said, it is very inconvenient for the village chief to walk in the mountains in the middle of the night, and it is easy to encounter large wild animals. I think it would be better to throw these 30 people into the bottom of the valley in front and cover the blood with soil.

The village chief thought about it and realized that this was the only way to go. Otherwise, there were many elderly people and children in the village, and it was really unsafe. The young men started fighting again and threw everyone into the valley.

Someone had just been killed here, so the children were afraid to sleep, and the adults didn't want to sleep either. Fortunately, it was dawn in a few hours, and everyone waited until dawn, cooked some porridge, and ate it quickly.

After everyone packed up, they continued on their way. There was no mood to talk and laugh anymore.

Last night was a wake-up call for them. Even though there were dozens of people fleeing famine around them, they could not be careless.

They cannot rely on the fact that their team has hundreds of people and not be afraid of being robbed by others.

There is a saying that goes, "When a dog is desperate, it will jump over the wall!" Not to mention the hungry people, people die for money, birds die for food, but that is in normal times.

On the road of fleeing famine, a piece of silver is not worth a piece of wild vegetable cake. If you eat the wild vegetable cake, you can live, but can you eat silver? If you eat it, you will die.

This time when they met people fleeing famine, they were more careful.

After a day's journey, the village chief found a piece of open space for everyone to rest. Everyone was busy cooking. The village chief's eldest daughter-in-law, Tao Hong, found the village chief and said that her father had little food left and could not survive until tomorrow.

After tomorrow, we will all eat separately! Each family will look for their own food and eat whatever they can find! The village chief nodded and said, "I understand."

They were very happy to have enough food for so many days. If they hadn't found food in the mountain village, more than half of them would have starved to death.

When it was time for dinner in the evening, the village chief announced that we would only have one day’s supply the next day, but the day after tomorrow everyone would have to find their own food, and each family would eat their own food.

After hearing this, everyone started to make their own plans, thinking that they would have to dig more wild vegetables tomorrow. People are selfish, so it would be better if they could eat together.

If they eat separately, they will naturally have to find more food for themselves. Besides, there is nothing else now, only wild vegetables.

The next day we continued our journey. Today was the last day we had dinner together. By the evening, we cooked porridge with all the remaining food. Not everyone had a portion, but everyone was full.

Everyone was full and satisfied. They didn't know how long they hadn't eaten a full meal. But then they started to worry about their future life.

But no matter how sad you are, you have to welcome a new day. On the second day, everyone got up earlier than usual because they all had to get up to look for food.

Every family was looking for wild vegetables. Each family only had two bowls of water. Because there was not much water left, once the water was used up, it would be gone. They had to find another water source before they could drink water.

The two bowls of water each family was given were not to be drunk. Each person in each family only drank a small sip and ate the wild vegetables they found. The rest of the water was put into the water bag.

They used to cook and eat together without quarreling, but now they are separated and fighting while digging wild vegetables. Erlaizi's mother is a fierce woman, and when she fights with Old Lady Wang, it's like a tit-for-tat.

Zhao Lai Di, I tell you, this whole area belongs to me. Zhao Lai Di is Old Lady Wang. Er Lai Zi's mother is Yang Er Ya.

Old Lady Wang spat on the ground, "Pah, Yang Erya, which piece is yours? This is not dug in your field, this is on the mountain, whoever digs it owns it, but Yang Erya is used to being aggressive, she has set her eyes on the wild vegetables in this field, and no one can compete with her.

The two old ladies had nothing to say to each other, and they immediately started fighting. You pulled my hair, I pulled your clothes, you scratched my face, I slapped you, you punched me, and he kicked you.

They were fighting so fiercely that finally the village chief stepped in and told them to stop it. But both of them were so angry that no one cared whether they were the village chief or not.

There was no other choice but to let the sons of the two families pull their respective mothers to separate the two.

Even after they broke up, they were not idle. They cursed each other, "You shameless Yang Erya, if you hadn't gotten into Wang Changfu's bed that year, you would not have been able to marry him."

Zhao Laidi, you are not a good person either. If you hadn't intercepted her, you would have been able to marry Wang Changxi. Originally, Wang Changxi was meant for your cousin. But you even stole your cousin's man. You are nothing at all.

Wang Jingru's mouth opened wide. It turned out that the older generation had such a big melon to eat. Her cheap grandmother was really bold. She actually snatched her cousin's man.

Er Laizi's mother was even more unrestrained, and she went straight into bed.

The two kept arguing, and finally the village chief got angry and said, "If you two keep arguing, I'll kick both of you out of the team." The two stopped arguing. But neither of them gave in, and the two glared at each other fiercely.

In the morning, the two quarreled and ended up packing up and moving on. This time, the village chief separated the two families, and the two families were far away from each other. The village chief didn't have the time to take care of this matter, and he had to mediate between them on the way to escape famine.

They continued on their way in silence until the lunch break, when everyone looked for something to eat. Wang Jingru and her family just pretended to eat the biscuits, hiding their mouths from others and covering their mouths with their sleeves.

At night, everyone was still busy, but in the middle of the night, a woman's loud scream was suddenly heard. Everyone sat up at once and hurried to the source of the sound.

But when they got there, they were all dumbfounded, because there was a group of monkeys on the tree, who had just snatched the hat of a young wife in the village. The hat was also made of straw, because she was afraid of getting hot while traveling, so she made a straw hat.

When the monkeys saw the hat, they jumped down from the tree and snatched it away. That's why the villagers came. The monkeys jumped back and forth on the tree, all trying to grab the hat and play with it.

The monkey had nothing left to play with, so he stared at the people below. The people then became alert and tightly guarded anything that could be taken away by the monkey.

The bag was too heavy for the monkeys to carry. Since they couldn't grab anything, they just jumped and screamed on the branches.

There was a big monkey standing on the top of the tree. No one else noticed it, but Wang Jingru had already noticed it. It seemed that the monkey was the monkey king!

But it was hard to see clearly. After all, there were only a few fires on the ground, and it was good enough to see clearly under the light of the fire.

The village chief told everyone not to sleep, as they couldn't hurry on their way. So everyone gathered together and guarded the things tightly.

The people and the monkeys just stared at each other, and after a while, the monkeys left. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and sat together, no one daring to move.

Everyone stayed together and no one dared to close their eyes. When daybreak came, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. But it was too early for everyone to relax.

Everyone was preparing to find wild vegetables to eat, and the monkeys returned. Wang Jingru saw the monkey king again. The monkey king was behind the monkeys, and it seemed that everyone was following his instructions.

Seeing that the monkey seemed to have gained intelligence, Wang Jingru tried to fill a bowl of spiritual spring water from the space. When she took out the spiritual spring water, the monkey king instantly jumped down from the tree, scaring the villagers so much that they tightly protected the things in their arms.

But the monkey king didn't care about their broken things at all. When he came to Wang Jingru, he didn't dare to snatch them directly for fear of spilling the spiritual spring water.

Wang Jingru asked the monkey king, "Do you want the water in my bowl?" The monkey king nodded, and Wang Jingru gave him the water without any nonsense.

After the monkey king drank the water, he licked the bowl, feeling that he had not had enough, and then returned the bowl to Wang Jingru. Wang Jingru did not dare to ask for another bowl of water in front of all the villagers.

Because water is very scarce now, tell the monkey that he has no water now. Wang Jingru said to the monkey king again, lead your people away! We are just passing by here and will leave soon.

The monkey nodded, then left reluctantly. He jumped to the top of the tree in a few jumps, and then called out to the group of monkeys behind him. When the monkeys heard the monkey king's call, they quickly followed him away.

The villagers breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing the monkey leave, everyone was very anxious, afraid that the monkey would come back soon. Everyone quickly packed up their things and stopped eating wild vegetables.

After packing up, they no longer walked as slowly as before. It was as if a dog was chasing them from behind, and they walked very fast. Soon everyone left here, but the monkey group did not really leave. The monkey king led the monkeys to follow them.