readsfreenovel Chapter 160 Quarrel
Chapter 160 Quarrel
At this time, snowflakes began to fall from the sky and everyone stopped what they were doing. The people in Yunjia Village were as happy as everyone else at first, looking at the snowflakes falling from the sky and believing that there would be a good harvest next year.
The village chief looked at the snowflakes falling from the sky. At first he was smiling, but soon his smile fell.
As the head of the village, he thinks more than anyone else.
He thought about how everyone was fleeing from famine and had just lost a large amount of food and their luggage. Now they had no place to shelter from the wind and rain and had to sleep in the wild. It was snowing, which meant that the weather was about to get cold.
Let’s not talk about food for now. In such cold weather, many villagers still have thick clothes and quilts.
Without thick clothes and quilts, how can we endure such cold weather?
Thinking of this, the village chief immediately asked his son Weiye to go to the villagers and count whether anyone had quilts or thick clothes.
According to statistics, almost half of the people in the village had their quilts taken away by others during the riot.
As for thick clothes, everyone could barely find one to wear.
The village chief came to this conclusion and knew that everyone could not delay here. Even if they had a place to shelter from the wind and rain, they would not be able to hold out for long without a source of food.
What's more, they now lack even quilts and thick clothes to keep warm, so staying here is not a solution. So he gritted his teeth and gathered everyone in the village to talk about his thoughts on the problem.
As soon as he asked this question, the villagers who were happy that it was snowing immediately faced reality. They knew that the village chief was right, and worry appeared on their faces.
[It’s finally snowing, the disaster year is about to pass, but can I live to see that time? ]
"We have no food, no shelter, and it's snowing. It won't be long before the temperature drops. It's not a good idea for us to stay here tonight. My suggestion is that we travel at night to see if we can find a place that can shelter us from the wind and rain."
The people in Yunjia Village were starving and walking for a whole day. They were extremely tired and didn't want to move anymore.
But what the village chief said was indeed a huge problem they were about to face.
I don’t know if I can survive the snow and wind tonight by staying here.
But everyone followed the village chief's advice and traveled at night. If they could find a place to shelter from the wind and rain, they could live another day.
Needless to say, the choice between the two is to choose the path that can save your life.
So everyone took a short rest and asked the people whose turn it was to prepare dinner. After eating, they lit torches and continued to move forward under the cover of night.
The snow had just fallen, and the surrounding air gradually cooled down from the scorching heat. In addition, everyone had been traveling all night, so the current temperature was still within an acceptable range for the Yun family villagers.
As time went by, the air became gradually colder and many villagers took out their thick clothes and put them on.
In the dark night, on the bumpy curves, one can see a group of people from Yunjia Village, many of them walking in the darkness with torches in their hands.
If you look closely, you can see that the people in this village are dressed really strangely. I even saw a few country men walking around wearing women's thick cotton-padded jackets, which obviously didn't fit them well and the buttons couldn't be buttoned.
There were also women walking around wearing men's cotton-padded jackets, which were loose enough to wrap the men inside.
Everyone is divided into families, and the existing thick clothes are distributed to them, and then they are shared with other people in the village. After this round of distribution, there is enough thick clothes for everyone to wear.
However, as a native villager, in this turbulent era, each family's clothes were patched up with patches. These thick clothes and quilts had been worn and used for who knows how many years, and the cotton wool inside had long been clumped into balls.
If I were hiding indoors with firewood to keep warm, I could still hold on, but now it's drafty outdoors, how long can these unwarm clothes hold on? ?
There are even poorer villagers who only have one thick cotton-padded jacket per family. When it snows in winter, they hide at home and light a blazing fire to keep warm. They only wear the only thick cotton-padded jacket in the house when they go out.
After walking for several hours, they finally saw traces of a village, but when they got closer, they saw that the village and its surroundings were full of people.
They could see people camping out around the village, gathering around the piles of fires that had been lit to keep warm.
Because there was nothing to cover them, they couldn't sleep at all. They just stood there in the thick clothes they had, stamping their feet and shivering.
When the people in Yunjia Village saw the situation of these people, they all thought of themselves, and what would happen if they had not listened to the village chief and set off overnight.
Then they will be like the people in front of them, except that other people's luggage is still well preserved and they are wearing thick clothes, while they can only put together clothes randomly to keep warm.
So many people from Yunjia Village came over with torches lit. Of course, those who were sleeping outdoors in the village saw them all, and they all stared at the people from Yunjia Village.
At this time, everyone in Yunjia Village turned their eyes to the direction of the village chief. They thought that if they walked forward and found the village, they would be able to find a place to shelter from the wind and rain.
Little did I know that the first village I encountered was already occupied by other people, and there were still many people outside.
What time is it now? So many people are fleeing famine. It is snowing now and everyone will look for a place to hide. It is impossible for them to find a place to shelter from the wind and rain.
They didn't know what to do at this time. After a long journey during the day and such a long journey at night, they were very tired.
But when they thought about the problem that the village chief had explained to them before, they were caught in a dilemma.
Of course the village chief understood that given their current situation, if they stayed they would have to sleep outdoors. Didn’t he see that so many people in front of him couldn’t sleep?
What he meant was to keep moving forward. It was cold at night and he would not be able to sleep if he stayed, so he might as well keep moving forward!
When the temperature gets high during the day, you can find another place to rest so you won’t be too cold to sleep.
This proposal caused the people of Yunjia Village to split into two teams. One team really couldn't stand it anymore. Anyway, the situation was like this, if they continued to walk forward or stayed here, their chances of survival were 50-50.
Especially the elderly, who really can't walk anymore, and some filial children will carry them forward, but they look at the children's tired figures and don't want to drag them down, so they think about staying.
Some people who are usually lazy and like to eat can be slow to do farm work, let alone now?
After walking for a whole day, he really didn't want to go on.
So the team started arguing again.
But the village chief insisted on moving forward, so he discussed with those who wanted to stay and distributed a portion of the collected food per person.