Zhong Xiu got on the carriage, pressed the small button, and a bright house appeared before her.

Even though he had seen it many times, Zhong Xiu was still shocked by the things in front of him every time he came in.

She would pinch herself secretly every time, fearing that everything in front of her was just an illusion.

[It is five o'clock in the morning now. What can I do for you, Master? ]

Zhong Xiu didn't come back to his senses until he heard Xiaowei's voice.

She signaled Xiaowei not to say anything and went to see her precious daughter first.

But I saw that my daughter had already gotten up.

She stroked her daughter's furry head and said softly, "Did Mom wake you up?"

"No, mother, I'm already up." Lin Ke rubbed Zhong Xiu's hand with his head.

"Since you are already up, mother has something to discuss with you."

"What's the matter?"

"Now, we have to flee the famine. If it were just our family, we could use these magical things given by your master.

But now we have your aunt's family, and your grandpa's family will be here later. If we do anything unusual, they will definitely notice it.

Mom doesn’t want other people to know that you had these adventures. Human hearts are hard to predict, and Mom doesn’t want my dear to take even the slightest risk.

So when we escape from the famine later, we should just be like everyone else and not do anything out of the ordinary."

Then he touched Lin Ke's face lovingly, "It's hard for my dear baby. He could have enjoyed himself, but he had to suffer with us."

Lin Ke hugged Zhong Xiu and acted coquettishly. With such a good mother, what else could the couple ask for?

"Mom, my master has already thought about this matter for me. He gave me ten pills. Anyone who eats them will not reveal my secret, and they can also enhance a person's physical fitness. That's it..."

"What is it? You kid, why didn't you tell us about this good thing? Take it out and give us one to eat, so that we don't have to worry every day."

"After eating it, if anyone wants to betray me, their body will explode and die."

"Silly child, is this why you didn't tell us about this pill?

Your master has thought very carefully for you. You must know that you must always be on guard against others. Even your parents and brothers may inadvertently expose your secrets.

With this, we can save a lot of worries and no longer have to worry about accidentally bringing disaster to you.

Besides, don’t you have faith in our family? You have to believe in us.”

"Mom, you're so nice!" Lin Ke turned into a clingy little creature again, clinging to Zhong Xiu's body and refusing to get off.

After the mother and daughter stayed together for a while, Zhong Xiucai patted Lin Ke's little butt and said, "Okay, it's almost dawn, let's go out quickly and take Xiao Shitou out with you, so that your aunt and the others won't notice anything unusual."

"Mom, I have something to discuss with you."

"What else?"

"There are ten pills in total, so I want to tell my grandparents and aunt about it, so that we don't have to avoid them all the time on the road. Would it be better if there are more people to cover for us?"

Zhong Xiu was stunned for a moment when she heard her daughter say this. It was obvious that she had not thought about this matter yet.

But I also think that what my daughter said makes some sense.

So she smiled and praised him, "My dear is really thoughtful. We will discuss this matter with your father and your grandmother later. Darling, let's go out first."

Lin Ke slept for a while in her parents' room. When she woke up, Old Lady Jiang called her into her room and said the same thing to her as she did to Zhong Xiu.

Lin Ke told Old Lady Jiang about the pill again, but she didn't expect that she would have the same reaction. She couldn't wait to take the pill.

Even Guo Bao in the space sighed when he saw this scene, saying that the family the host met in this life was really nice.

Just after finishing my meal, I heard a knock on the door.

Lin Ke went to open the door, only to find that the people who came were her grandparents.

Grandpa stood straight with his hands behind his back, while grandma carried a small basket.

Lin Ke called out obediently, "Grandma and Grandpa."

When Old Man Zhong saw his granddaughter greeting him, he nodded seriously.

If you ignore the upturned corners of his mouth, you might think that this old man doesn't like the girl in front of him.

Wang Daya glanced at her old man with a paralyzed face, hugged Lin Ke, and said happily:

"Oh, our dear baby, you are completely fine now. I didn't believe it when your father said you were fine before. But now that I see you standing here in high spirits, I can finally let go of my worries."

"Grandma, I'm all right now. If you don't believe me, just look."

Lin Ke said this and broke free from Old Lady Wang's arms, turning around a few times in front of her.

"Okay, okay, okay, our dear baby is fine, fine, fine."

At this time, Xiao Shitou rushed over, and the old lady was surprised again, which relieved Lin Ke's embarrassment.

It’s true that I have a girlish heart, but not much.

After the three families exchanged greetings, they got down to business.

Lin Heng shared the latest news with everyone, and it was this news that made them decide to leave tomorrow.

It turned out that Manager Zhang said that the boss brought the latest news that their Yongning Prefecture was going to start compulsory conscription. All men between the ages of 15 and 50 were eligible for conscription, and the official document would be sent out in ten days at most.

If someone wanted to use silver instead of soldiers, each person would need at least 100 taels of silver.

You have to know that an ordinary farmer may not even be able to save one or two taels of silver a year.

100 taels of silver per person, isn't this going to cost someone's life?

Their family is still okay, but there are so many men in my father-in-law's family, I'm afraid they will all be conscripted to go to the battlefield.

Once on the battlefield, these unarmed civilians will be destined to be cannon fodder.

From ancient times to the present, there has been no battlefield without the tragic scene of bones covering the plain.

So the three families did not hesitate any longer and planned to leave tomorrow, and quickly.

Lin Heng thought that if he wanted to go faster, he would have to buy a few more horse-drawn carriages, mule-drawn carriages or donkey-drawn carriages.

Now they have two mule carts, but there are 28 people, big and small.

What's more, they had to pull things, so they had to buy at least four more mules.

As for the car, there is a cart at home, and my father-in-law's family also has several carts. I asked my second uncle to nail a shed for it overnight to provide shade.

Seeing this, Old Man Zhong took out another 60 taels of silver.

These people were mainly from their family, so of course they had to pay for the mules.

Lin Heng quickly stopped his father-in-law.

He still has more than 400 taels of silver, how can he let his father-in-law pay for it!

When Li Song and Lin Wan saw this scene, nothing could describe their feelings except shame.

Thinking about how I have no money now and my family has to rely on my eldest brother-in-law's family for support.

Li Song didn't know how to repay this kindness, so he could only decide to eat less and work more in the future.

After some argument, Old Man Zhong paid thirty taels of silver and asked the second son to be responsible for modifying the cart, and Lin Heng paid the rest.

After discussing everything, Lin Heng prepared to go for a walk in the mountains to see if he could hunt some more prey so that his family could have a good meal at noon.

Lin Ke wanted to go with him, but Old Man Zhong and others were against it.

Finally, old man and his wife Zhong were called into the room by their daughter, saying that they wanted to have a private conversation, while Lin Wan was called into her room by old lady Jiang, also having a conversation between mother and daughter.

Li Yan and Tongtong played with the wolf cubs with Xiao Shitou, while Li Song was responsible for watching them.

Lin Ke took the opportunity to sneak away with Lin Heng.

The two first went to the mountain spring they had visited last time and collected all the spring water stored there.

Then they walked a little deeper inside and actually found a lot of pheasants and rabbits.

But I really didn't see any large prey.

Lin Heng thought his daughter was a fairy, so those large wild animals didn't dare to come out.

Only Lin Ke knew that this was not the case.

The big trees told her that many large wild animals had migrated away to larger and deeper mountains.

Animals are more sensitive than humans, so a terrible disaster is bound to happen next.

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