It's hard to say how important the children she picked up were, certainly not more important than Taohua and Zhaodi. After all, they were blood sisters who grew up relying on each other.
It's just that Taohua and Zhaodi followed Zhang Yu and the others to escape, so they had a good chance of surviving. However, the oldest of the six children in the cave was less than eight years old. If she were here, there would still be a slim chance of survival, but Without her, how could they survive in this barren mountain?
She picked up those children because she was soft-hearted, but she couldn't let Zhang Yu and the others pay the price for her soft-heartedness.
"Forget it, sister, I can survive. You tell me where you are going. When the disaster is over, I will find you after I have placed them."
"Second sister!" Zhao Di hugged Cao Ya tighter, "Just come with us. Our family is rich and we can give money to Uncle Zhang and others to help us buy food."
"Yes, yes, we have money. The adults say that if we go further, we can definitely enter the city. As long as we can enter the city, we can buy food." Taohua said quickly.
But Cao Ya still refused, "If you have money, keep it and buy more food to eat more. Besides, you need money everywhere you go. If you can spend less, save it."
"Chen Caoya!" Taohua raised her voice abruptly, "I still don't care about eldest sister anymore. Don't you listen to eldest sister's words?"
After talking about it, she started crying again. As soon as she cried, Zhaodi, who was still sobbing, immediately started crying again.
Cao Ya has one head and two heads, but at this moment Zhang Xiaoshan said: "I don't even dare to say that I can survive if I live in this mountain for a long time."
In addition to the threats from wild beasts, snakes and insects, if you accidentally get sick or injured, you will have no choice but to suffer pain and torture. Either you are lucky enough to survive, or you have to wait for death to come.
"Yes, Cao Ya, when you picked up those children, you also thought that they would all survive, right?" Chen Song also began to persuade Cao Ya, "I know what you are scrupulous and worried about, but we don't have what you imagined. So embarrassed, you can take a look. Although Taohua, Zhaodi and Xiaoshan have lost weight, they are not as skinny as other refugees. We can afford to have more mouths. Now I am trying to persuade you in a good voice, If you still refuse, then we will have no choice but to force you and even tie you up and take you away."
Zhang Xiaoshan put down the backpack very cooperatively and took out the rope from it.
If it was a stranger, they would definitely not care about it, but it happened to be Cao Ya, a miserable girl. If they really wanted them to ignore her and let her fend for herself, they really couldn't do it.
Cao Ya glanced at the rope speechlessly, hesitated for a long time, and finally agreed, but also put forward a condition, "You don't have to worry about our food, I will take them to find food."
Chen Song understood that this was her bottom line, and nodded happily. The most important thing now was to take them with her. As for what will happen on the road, who knows, she can also persuade her later. No matter what happened, Ping'an and Xiaoshan were preoccupied with finding food as soon as they rested, so just let Caoya and the others follow Li Ping'an and Zhang Xiaoshan to find food.
Even if you can't find anything to eat, you can still drink water to fill your stomach.
Next, Cao Ya called the six children out of the cave and took out all their belongings. They were all children who were abandoned by their families. What they had, one pot and two bowls, was what the Taoist priest had given Cao Ya. They took turns eating. In addition, there are some wild vegetables, a few bird eggs and some dry firewood.
The six children were of different heights. While waiting for Zhang Yu and Li Ping'an to return, Caoya introduced these children to Taohua and Zhaodi. The oldest was less than eight years old, the youngest was only five years old, and only one was not a picker. Yes, her parents wanted to exchange her for a child. She escaped, met Cao Ya, and joined Cao Ya's team.
They are all female dolls. The first person who can be ruthlessly abandoned by their families is a girl. It's not that there are no boys, but the abandoned boys are basically sick. Adults have no choice but to abandon them. Caoya can't cure their illnesses even if they are picked up by Cao Ya, so they can only watch those boys die and find a new one. Dig a shallow hole in a remote place for them to bury.
They had no idea. Cao Ya told them that they would escape with the adults, and they agreed without thinking. In this world, the only one they can rely on is Sister Caoya. They will go wherever Sister Caoya goes. Even if Sister Caoya sells them, it doesn't matter. At least they can have enough to eat, which is better than being abandoned in a place with no one. Where you know, it's better to fend for yourself.
They were abandoned by their families, but they never thought of giving up on themselves. Before, they had no choice but to earn one more day if they could live for one day. Now they can think about it more broadly. If they can live one more month, they will earn one more month and one more year. Year.
When Zhang Yu and Li Ping'an came back, the sun was almost over their heads. They were lucky enough to catch a nest of rabbits, two pheasants and a dozen pheasant eggs.
Li Ping'an was still not satisfied with this, and said with regret: "That was a flock of pheasants. There were more than a dozen pheasants, but I only had time to shoot two to death. The others all ran away. What a pity!"
If they are all caught, each family will get one and there will be extra.
"I told you that you didn't study hard at first. If you could shoot an arrow, Meng could have shot one! What a shame now?" Zhang Yu stared. Li Ping'an is smart. He learns things quickly, but he can't bear the hardship. .
"Even though I can shoot, I don't have any extra bows and arrows." Li Ping'an complained. Swords and swords were not allowed in the Dajing Dynasty, but bows, arrows, spears and other long-handled weapons, as well as armor, were strictly controlled. Zhang Yu also registered with the county government because of hunting needs. In order to own a set of bows and arrows, a lot of money was spent on it.
Zhang Yu is the only one in the entire Xiaochen Village. Even if he learns archery, it will be useless.
"Okay, okay, don't be sorry. I'll call a few people to come over later and see if we can catch them all." Zhang Yu actually felt sorry. It was not easy to encounter a group of pheasants along the way. His heart bleeds if he catches a few more.
Zhang Xiaoshan also felt it was a pity, but when he saw four adult hares and six or seven rabbit cubs in the basket carried by Li Ping'an, his eyes suddenly lit up.
Li Ping'an asked: "Are you interested?"
"Aren't you talking nonsense?" Zhang Xiaoshan rolled his eyes. He only eats so much every day. How can he not be interested when he sees a bunch of meat?
"Then let me show you enough!" Li Ping'an put down the backpack and patted Zhang Xiaoshan on the shoulder, "I'll leave it to you to carry, you have to watch it carefully."
After glancing at the unknown children and some things on the ground, he knew that Caoya and the others were following them, so he smiled heartily and said: "Caoya, you are also lucky, you just happened to catch up, let's go, Have a good meal today, feel full and have a good rest, so you can hit the road tomorrow!"
That's right to say...
Zhang Yu twitched the corner of his mouth and kicked him with a black line on his head, "Stop talking nonsense!"
Li Ping'an got kicked and chuckled, "We are all like this, what should we worry about? The Lord of Hell was stunned when he saw us. Where is hell?"
"..."
Then you can't talk like this.
However, everyone knew that Li Ping'an was used to having no taboos in private, so they simply ignored him.
