Cheng Mingyue paused as she walked back, her heart beating wildly, and she turned to look at Mingyi in disbelief; only to see Mingyi smiling at her, with a frivolous brow, which was a sign of contempt for her.
It sucks to feel looked down upon.
"Cheng Mingyi, I hate you."
Mingyi tilted her head mischievously, pretending not to understand.
Cheng Mingli pulled her sister, "Enough is enough, don't tease her too much and it won't end badly; if she really goes crazy, she will be beaten at most, but you will be pestered to death."
According to Cheng Mingyue's temperament, it is really possible to do this; knowing that there is no way to make her happy, then it will annoy her to death.
Mingyi trembled, quickly turned sideways to avoid Cheng Mingyue's gaze, and reached out to help her brother get the washed medicinal materials.
"Brother, give some to me and we can quickly send them to dry; dry them in the shade at night and then expose them to the sun during the day." Don't bother her.
"You don't care when I'm being teased, and you're not afraid of being scratched twice."
Mingyi snorted, she just wanted to make Cheng Mingyue angry. She didn't have the innocence that an eight-year-old child should have. If it weren't for her family's pampering, she would definitely have a gloomy temper now.
Children who are sunny and cheerful look pleasing to the eye, but children who are full of negative energy become more and more uncomfortable in their hearts.
She is so willful.
Who made Cheng Mingyue act wantonly in the past? There were many times when she was angry with the original owner.
"Stay away from her. No matter whether she is good or bad, don't get too close." Cheng Mingli preached softly.
Mingyi tilted her head and looked sideways, "Why did brother say that?"
“A dog can’t change its habit of eating shit.”
Mingyi: Eh.
nausea.
"Brother bad guy, you actually use foul language. Where is your gentlemanly upbringing?"
Cheng Mingli chuckled lightly and said nonchalantly: "A gentleman's etiquette is for a gentleman. My brother was indeed a bit pedantic in the past. However, he has figured out that he should use the right etiquette for certain people in the future."
Mingyi smiled and strode forward holding the medicinal materials.
It’s good if my brother understands.
Not everyone in this world deserves to be treated as a gentleman, and it does not mean that they are divided into three, six or nine, but living in this world and wallowing in the world of mortals; it is right to be sincere to others, but the prerequisite is to know how to protect yourself.
If you can get it done once and for all, why procrastinate.
Cheng Mingli smiled slightly, knowing that his sister was constantly guiding him. Fortunately, he did not disappoint his sister's guidance.
Spread a black cloth, put the medicinal materials on it, and place it at the edge of the wheelbarrow.
After dinner, everyone in the Cheng family went to bed one after another.
It is another sunny day. The early morning sunshine shines on the earth through layers of clouds. The early morning sunshine is warm and not dazzling.
Mingyi and Mingli woke up from their sleep, and the sounds of arguments kept coming to their ears.
"No, how can we be sent back to our place of origin? It took a lot of effort for us to get here. Is there any way to survive when we return to our place of origin? There are conscripts on the road, and we have no food or water. They, the officials, want us to go back and die."
"Every household has a large family, old and young, so how can we go back and die."
"Those officials are so inhuman. We have a family of three to four hundred people, and they just want to send us away without saying anything."
"We can't leave, clan leader, village chief, we can't leave; we can only wait to die if we go back! How about we go into the mountains? There are so many of us living in the mountains that we are not afraid of big cats and wolves."
"I can't go back anyway!"
They pay attention to fallen leaves returning to their roots, and that is under the innate conditions for living; if they can't survive, who will pay attention to these things.
The clan leader raised his hand and pressed down. Seeing that everyone was quiet, he spoke slowly, "Don't get excited, there is a way to survive. Tomorrow morning at the latest, if we don't leave, officers and soldiers will come to send us out of Shuzhou. Let's discuss it now." Should we go into the mountains or take a detour to other places?”
They have only two ways to go, one is to go into the mountains to be self-sufficient, the other is to continue moving forward and find a place willing to take in refugees.
Everyone was speechless for a while. Whether they entered the mountain or continued to find a way out, there were uncertainties.
Mingyi listened for a while, then lay on the wheelbarrow and talked to her brother, "You can go into the mountains to hide temporarily and see if the next drought will be severe."
"It shouldn't spread, right?" He said uncertainly.
Mingyi couldn't say this. Heaven had already revealed the news to her that natural disasters would come. The only thing that could prevent natural disasters was for the people to unite as one and overcome the difficulties with willpower and willpower.
Only when people's willpower reaches a certain level and humans make changes to satisfy Heaven can this disaster be stopped.
However, she found that people in this world did not have this awareness. Without the constraints of cause and effect, they were more or less unruly.
Even her brother Cheng Mingli used to only respect Confucianism, the way of a gentleman, and act according to dogma. In fact, in many cases, he did not have his own opinions. Such people are most likely to follow the crowd.
Without her conscious or unconscious guidance, my brother would have been able to see his future when he grew up.
Her father is open-minded and has advanced thinking, but it is precisely because many of his ideas do not conform to Confucianism. There were ideological cognitions and collisions when studying Confucianism, and so far he has only been given the name Tongsheng.
"That's hard to say. Before we came here, we saw signs of drought in the Shuzhou border area. We have been here for more than half a month. Who knows what the situation is in the Shuzhou border area."
Maybe the drought has already spread.
Cheng Mingli was thoughtful. After a long time, the clan leader and the others had finished their discussion, and then he raised his head and asked, "Sister, how do you know so much?"
“Think more, see more, talk less.”
Cheng Mingli: Sorry, he may be a younger brother.
My sister could understand it if she took a closer look, why didn't he understand it?
"Okay, I won't ask anymore. Then why does sister think we should go into the mountains?"
Mingyi turned to look at the lush green mountains, "We don't know how to take the next road. Our family cannot leave the clan and act alone for the time being; since we want to go with them, they must suffer enough and experience enough. Only then will you be willing to continue fleeing, right?"
It was not easy to settle down. They didn't have to travel for half a month. There was a shortage of food and drink, but they couldn't survive.
As long as life can go on, who wants to continue to escape?
The road ahead is uncertain, and there is no end in sight. It is inevitable to worry; when worried, one will hesitate to move forward. This is a common problem for ordinary people.
"Oh, I'm still too young. It will take many years for me to grow up. Sister, I can't study now. Officials don't accept refugee resettlement. I don't have anywhere to study."
Mingyi shook her head, there was nothing she could do about it; she couldn't rush into the county office and threaten the county magistrate, right?
You cannot threaten the county magistrate, but you can go to the county seat to see if it is true.
Cheng Dazhu, Cheng Yuanxi and others came back and told the clan leader's decision to wake up early tomorrow morning and go to the mountains; they would live in the mountains first, and then think about the next path if they really couldn't survive.
Cheng Yuanxi was unwilling. His son had delayed his studies for a long time. If they were not picked up here, they should move on. They should find a suitable place to settle and then send his son to school.
