It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 263

After two days of hard work, Jiang Yan and her team finally secretly moved everyone to a place in the woods outside Fanggezhuang Village, near the village road.

The locust plague had just left, and there was no grass or leaves left. The trees were bare from top to bottom. If you glanced over here, you would definitely find a group of people lying there.

Moreover, the restraints on their limbs have been untied. As long as anyone wakes up and tries to move a few inches outward, he will definitely be discovered.

Jiang Yan rubbed her stiff arms. Although those men were thin due to hunger, they were adult men after all. It took her a lot of effort to drag and carry them all the way and avoid the crowd.

Fortunately, the troubles of the past few days were finally gotten rid of.

Zhou Huan, carrying a bamboo basket containing Jiang Yan's treasured swords and bricks, walked briskly through the bare woods.

Before going out today, they saw two white clouds growing on the back mountain. Although they were small and thin, they were significantly larger than the very thin and long wisps that were blown away by the wind the day before.

What does this mean? There's a greater chance of rain!

Huang, the magistrate of Rongcheng County, also comforted himself in this way.

He was forced to walk out of the county government gate and stand in front of the crowd, pointing one hand at the irregular white spots in the distant sky, while loudly comforting the people gathered below the steps:

"Fellow villagers, do you see those clouds? Although the Grand Historian's prediction of rain in the fortnight didn't come true, they weren't entirely wrong. There are clouds in the sky, and clouds mean rain!

This county magistrate knows that you are having a hard time, but if you can bear it a little longer and help each other with your neighbors and relatives, you will be able to endure until the rain falls soon."

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On June 16, Jiang Yan only had eight bamboo tubes left with water.

Jiang Lu took most of the water from Jiang Yan with a guilty look on her face. If the three of them had not moved to the village, and if they had not stored enough water earlier, Jiang Yan would not have been thirsty with them for most of the time.

Jiang Yan turned her eyes away. She had persuaded Aunt Jiang Lu several times and even offered to exchange water for food before she accepted the offer. Now, her throat was burning with anger and she couldn't say any more words of persuasion.

Late at night on June 18th, Jiang Yan, who was so thirsty that he couldn't sleep, tossed and turned on the kang for a long time. Finally, he took out the bamboo tube and took a sip.

She lay on her side, and before she could savor the wonderful feeling of her lips, teeth and throat being wet again, she heard a familiar voice.

Jiang Yan woke up the two people who were sleeping beside her, then quickly walked out of the house and found that a fire had been lit again not far away.

That direction and distance...it's unlikely that there was a riot in the county town.

"Our village is over there!" Zhou Huan ran out in his straw sandals, having spotted the key point without needing to be reminded. "How did it catch fire? There's no water to put it out now!"

Jiang Yan felt her heart tightening. "It can't be a simple fire. There's no wind, but it's burning such a large area, and it's spreading in every direction. Someone must have broken in."

"What should we do? My grandparents are still in the village." Zhou Huan's eyes turned red with anxiety, and Zhou Xun even picked up a stick and prepared to rush out of the village.

Jiang Yan grabbed Zhou Xun and said to Jiang Lu, "If it's gangsters or someone else who's doing this, there must be quite a few of them. If you rush over there, you might run into them head-on."

"What about my grandparents? What about the people in our village?"

Jiang Yan ignored him and quickly analyzed, "Hezhou Village is not far from the mountains. If the attackers come along the official road, the villagers can hide in the mountains. It will be less easy to be caught in the mountains.

If someone sneaked into the village from the mountains, the villagers would still have a chance to escape to the county town. As long as they were not frightened, with so many people in the village who could resist and escape, they would always find a way to survive.

But if they really sneak into the village from the mountains, Dongshan Village is not far from Hezhou Village, leaving us very little time to respond. We must hurry and leave."