After half a quarter of an hour, Lian’er finally emerged from the darkness.

When Mrs. Qian saw her, she picked up the fire stick and tried to hit her again. The village chief next to her scolded: “Qian, that’s enough. Since you bought her, you should give her food. You didn’t give her food, but you beat her. You can’t blame her for stealing Bao’er’s!”

Mrs. Qian threw the fire stick heavily: “You are too nosy. Do you think this is still in the village? Now there is no village. Don’t show off in front of me!”

The village chief was so angry that he fell backward and pointed at Mrs. Qian: “You, you——”

Aunt Liu couldn’t stand it anymore. She stood up and stood in front of Mrs. Qian with her hands on her waist. “Even if you don’t treat my husband as the village chief, he is still the cousin of your family!”

“You dead bitch, you dare to talk back when your elders speak?”

Gu Fei’s eyes sparkled as she listened to her, and she clapped her hands hard to cheer for Aunt Liu.

Aunt Liu looked at her, smiled at her, turned to look at Mrs. Qian, and snorted again: “Our Gu family has been kind for generations, I don’t know why we married such a wicked woman like you!”

Gu Rong also clapped his hands vigorously beside her, and Hu Zi clapped his hands when he saw his father clapping.

Mrs. Qian was embarrassed. She knew that she was no match for Aunt Liu, who was invincible in the village, not only in quarreling but also in fighting.

She had to sit down angrily.

The old lady was angry watching from the side, Mrs. Qian was her niece. She felt like she lost her face when she heard what Aunt Liu said.

However, she weighed it and realized that she was no match for Aunt Liu, and she would only suffer if she quarreled.

Mrs. Qian didn’t beat Lian’er again. It was getting late, so everyone stopped.

After several days of travel, they entered Xishan County.

When they stopped for lunch, there was a village on the official road, but at noon, there was no smoke from cooking over the village.

Old Zhang came over and said to Gu Zhang, “Second brother Gu, let’s go to that village and see if we can get some water.”

Gu Zhang nodded, called Gu Qing and his uncle together, and walked towards the village.

After a while, a few of them were wandering around.

Gu Rong asked curiously: “Have you found water?”

Zhang Laoda’s face turned pale, and he shook his head: “Where is there water? There is no one in every household.”

“If there is someone, it’s dead!”

They just entered a house with the door open and wanted to ask, but when they walked to the door, they saw an old man lying by the door, who seemed to have been dead for a long time.

When they turned to the next door, they saw a dead, skinny woman holding a baby on the kang.

Several people did not dare to go further and quickly retreated.

At 5 p.m., the convoy stopped in a small town.

There were almost no people in the town. Some houses had locks on their doors, while some were just left open.

Gu Zhongxi said, “There is no need to stay in the inn tonight. There are plenty of houses here.”

Everyone looked around, and at this time a person came out from the alley next to them.

The man was pushing a wheelbarrow with a large steamer on it. He seemed a little surprised to see the large group of people. He suddenly pushed the wheelbarrow closer and said: “Would you like some meat buns? I have some freshly steamed meat buns here. They are only 30 cents each.”

Gu Zhang stood up and waved his hand quickly: “Brother, we can’t afford it. By the way, is there a well in this town?”

The man smiled and nodded: “There are several wells, but only the one at the end of this street has water. That well is deep.”

Gu Zhang hurriedly thanked him and planned to call a few people to fetch water from there.

At this time, Bao’er started to make a fuss again: “Mom, I want to eat meat buns!”