The wails of grief and despair echoed throughout the wilderness, making even the wind crawl.
In the carriage, Li Jialan and Fang Huiwen tried their best to cover the ears of the three children. The crying was too sad and they subconsciously didn't want the children to hear it.
Xixi was also nestled in Zhou Yunshu's arms. She smelled the familiar smell around her and asked, "Daddy, why are they crying?"
Li Jialan looked at Zhou Yunshu who had not plugged Xixi's ears, and wanted to take Xixi over and plug her ears together. What if the child had a nightmare?
"Because they lost their loved ones and felt sad, that's why they cried." Zhou Yunshu hugged Xixi and explained to her seriously.
Xixi nodded her little head, "I know, Xixi will cry when she is sad."
"Dad, are we going to help them?"
Zhou Yunshu shook her head and said to Ji Nancy, as well as to Yuan Li, Yuan Yi and Yuan Ruo, who were secretly looking at her: "We can't help."
The children were kind, and Zhou Yunshu was very pleased.
But in such a year when natural and man-made disasters are everywhere, Zhou Yunshu would rather they be more cruel.
"Remember, you are young. Being able to take care of yourself is the best for yourself and your parents and elders. You don't need to worry about anything else."
"If someone asks for help from children as young as you, it only means that they have ulterior motives and are not good people. All you have to do is follow the adults closely, understand?"
Ever since the refugee riot, Zhou Yunshu and the others have not dared to let the child out of their sight. No matter where they are, there must be at least two adults watching the child.
The four little ones nodded in unison after Zhou Yunshu finished speaking.
After walking for such a long time, even Yuan Ruo, who was originally the most squeamish, became obedient and sensible.
"Where did you learn the Analects of Confucius?"
Perhaps because of Zhou Yunshu's question, Li Jialan and Fang Huiwen had already removed their hands from the children's ears.
Yuan Li said: "Confucius said: Learning without thinking leads to indifference; thinking without learning leads to peril."
Zhou Yunshu looked at Yuan Yi beside Yuan Li, "Do you still remember what it means?"
Yuan Yi said generously: "What Confucius means is that it is not advisable to read without thinking. Otherwise, you will be confused because you cannot understand the meaning of the book and cannot reasonably and effectively use the knowledge in the book; if you blindly fantasize, It is not advisable not to carry out actual study and research, it is like building a house in the air without a foundation, it will collapse at any time.”
Zhou Yunshu smiled and nodded. Yuanyi was the most gifted in reading among the younger generation of the Zhou family. He even inherited Fang Huiwen's talent for photographic memory. If he takes the imperial examination in the future, he will definitely achieve great success.
Although his twin brother Yuan Li was good at studying, he was more talented in martial arts.
"Yuan Yi is right." Zhou Yunshu said and turned to Yuan Ruo. After meeting his aunt's eyes, Yuan Ruo couldn't help but shrink into Li Jialan's arms.
"Yuan Ruo, please draw inferences based on what I just said that you are children and cannot help strangers. If an uncle tells you that he is too hungry now, what will you do?"
Yuanli, Yuanyi and Xixi looked at Yuanruo in unison.
Yuan Ruo thought for a while and said: "He is the big bad guy! Let Chunque beat him!"
Zhou Yunshu smiled, "Why?"
Yuan Ruo's pretty little face frowned. He thought for a while and said matter-of-factly: "He is an adult. Adults will not ask children for help."
That's what my aunt said just now.
"What if a child is so hungry that he can't survive and wants to ask you for help?"
Yuan Ruo shook his head again, "I'm not his father or mother, his elder."
After saying that, Yuan Ruo retracted into Li Jialan's arms. He suddenly thought that his great-aunt and maid were not his parents, and his eyes turned red again.
"Good boy."
Yuan Ruo looked up and sniffed at Li Jialan who was touching his head lovingly, but his aunt and grandmother were his relatives and elders.
"Yuan Li."
"Aunt...didn't uncle just say that we are young, so it is already good to take care of ourselves." Yuan Li said decently: "We don't know if our food can support us out of Luzhou, we can't give it to other people."
Yuan Yi frowned, and when Zhou Yunshu looked over, he said, "But that's a human life."
He looked at Zhou Yunshu longingly and said, "I can give him half of my food."
Before Zhou Yunshu could speak, Yuan Li looked at his twin brother and said, "What if there are a few more children? Do you still want to share your food with them? Do you have enough to eat yourself! If you are hungry, I won’t care about you!”
"But……"
"No, these grains are not yours. They were bought by my uncle and mother. Do you know that you are not qualified to give them out?"
Yuan Li's tone became even fiercer when he thought about how some children in the team secretly asked Yuan Yi for pastries and ate all his pastries.
Fang Huiwen looked at her younger son who was aggrieved by being scolded by her eldest son, and quickly stopped him: "It's just a hypothesis, Li'er, please don't be cruel to your brother."
Yuan Li turned his head angrily and muttered in a low voice, "A loving mother often loses her son."
Although the atmosphere in the carriage was a little awkward at this time, no one cared about the sounds outside.
Zhou Yunshu smiled and waved to Yuan Li, and Yuan Li came to Zhou Yunshu's side.
Zhou Yunshu said: "I think Li'er is right."
As soon as Yuan Li's eyes lit up, he knew that his aunt thought the same as him.
"Rescuing people is a good thing, but it depends on time, occasion and place."
Yuan Li nodded his little head, "That's right, if it were still before, I wouldn't have any problem with how much you save."
But now the Zhou family is no longer the famous Zhou family before.
His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all died in the battlefield. Now he has become the eldest male in the Zhou family, so Yuanli feels that he must take good care of the women and children at home.
Yes, but the five-year-old little one has already taken the initiative to shoulder the responsibility of revitalizing the Zhou family in the future.
Zhou Yunshu saw that Yuanyi had listened and stopped talking.
No matter how much you talk about it, it’s not as good as actually experiencing it once.
"In addition to studying the normal courses tomorrow, you can complete today's discussion as a homework."
The junior Zhou family plus Xixi have four children in total. Zhou Yunshu and Fang Huiwen do not want to relax their studies even if they are on the run.
Yuan Li and the others nodded. Zhou Yunshu looked at Xi Xi who was about to fall asleep in her arms and said, "Xi Xi wants to do it too."
"I know, daddy." As she said that, she rubbed Zhou Yunshu and fell asleep directly.
When I woke up the next morning, the dead people in the team were cremated, and their ashes were put into jars and carried with them by their families.
Because several people died from the cold this time, Zhou Yunshu took advantage of the situation and explained various measures to pay attention to hygiene and prevent infection.
If it had been before, few people in the team would have cared about it, and would have even considered it a troublesome waste. However, after someone around them died of illness, they took the initiative to take it seriously.
Nothing is as important as life.
Even though there are still patients in the team, there is no rest for the journey.
However, in order to improve the resistance of everyone and to prevent the team from being slowed down by sick people, Zhou Yunshu took the initiative to teach Wu Qin Xi to the people in the team, so that she could practice it openly with her family.
Of course, this set of exercises was not taught by Zhou Yunshu in vain. After that, all the firewood of the Zhou family was wrapped up by people from Dujia Village.
In addition, Du Laozhuang wanted to give Zhou Yunshu fifty taels of silver on behalf of Dujiacun, but Zhou Yunshu refused.
She really wanted to have some boundaries with Dujiacun, but the boundaries couldn't be too obvious.
Not to mention that if she took the money, it would become a matter of course for her to teach the people of Dujia Village Wu Qin Xi, so there would be no kindness to her.
She doesn't lack these fifty taels. What she lacks is the awe and gratitude of the people in this team.
