kingnovel Chapter 1279 Extra Zhou Su 2
Chapter 1279 Extra Zhou Su 2
They didn't dare stop and kept walking until dawn, then they found a secluded place in the woods to hide.
"We can't travel during the day. They'll spot us from a distance. We have to move at night, sleep, and then travel at night."
Everyone was asleep, but Zhou Su couldn't sleep. He felt that these people didn't seem like good people, so he didn't dare to sleep.
But it’s also dangerous outside. As I thought about it, I couldn’t help but fall asleep.
They fell asleep, and when the man woke up, he found that all the children he had worked so hard to find were gone. He could only curse and look for them along the way. After two days of searching, he found nothing.
He had no choice but to give up. "Forget it. In troubled times, there are plenty of children. Instead of wasting time on them, it's better to find another one. Let's go. I don't believe that I can't find such a good one again."
Zhou Su and his group walked north for three days, hiding during the day and moving at night. When they saw no one chasing them, they finally believed that they had gotten rid of the man.
Without danger, the children felt relieved.
Through conversation, several people learned that Zhou Su still had family, but he had lost them, and they couldn't help but envy him.
"It's great to have family. I don't have any family. They're all dead. I'm the last one left in my family."
"Me too. When my father died, he told me to go find my aunt who married far away, but he didn't tell me where my aunt was before he died."
Another one was lost by her family. She asked Zhou Su, "Are you sure you weren't lost by your family? Otherwise, how could you get lost when you're so young?"
She was abandoned by her family. They disliked her because she was a girl and were unwilling to take her away.
Zhou Su shook his head and said loudly, "No, my mother, sister, and brother love me so much. I got lost on my own."
At that time, he saw a silver ingot on the ground and walked over to pick it up. However, before he could pick up the silver, it was scattered by someone and he lost it by himself.
"That's right. You're a boy, small, and you eat very little. Your family will definitely not be willing to throw you away."
These children have long accepted the fact that they have no family, and they remain calm when talking about it, without showing any sadness or sorrow at all.
Little Zhou Su didn't want to be looked down upon, so he could only hide his sadness deep in his heart and dared not show it.
He also worked actively during the day, digging wild vegetables and grass roots, and even looking for water sources. In these matters, he was much more experienced than the older children, especially in finding water sources. He could always find them accurately. The same was true for finding wild vegetables. He could eat all kinds of wild vegetables. It seemed that there was nothing he dared not eat.
In this way, no one of the children would starve to death when they were together, and they might even live better than if they were living with men.
Sometimes they can even dig up some edible roots, which are delicious when cooked.
Zhou Su had such ability and quickly gained the right to speak. He was young and soft-hearted, and he couldn't help but take the children he saw alone on the roadside with him. As a result, the team became larger and larger.
Half a month passed, and the team of just a few people grew to a team of eighteen people.
There are both older and younger children, but the majority are younger children.
Everyone eats and lives together. Although they eat more, having more people still has its advantages. At least the adults passing by don't dare to attack them casually, so it is much safer.
Zhou Suli is small but knows a lot, and is better than anyone else at finding food. Although he is not the leader here, he is the most popular one.
It is all thanks to him that so many people can get together.
It would be nice if days like this could continue forever.
But the weather kept getting colder, and my thin clothes could barely keep me warm during the day, but not at night.
They still have to go north, but many people don't go north.
"The north is getting colder and colder. It's not even winter yet. If winter comes, how can we survive? I'm not going there. I want to go to the capital. I heard that the capital is full of rich people, so there must be a way for us to survive. In winter, as long as we can beg for two sets of clothes, even a single steamed bun a day, we can survive this winter. I'm not going to the north."
There are many people who have this idea. Zhou Su wanted to go to the north because his family was in the north, and he went to the north to find his family.
People like them have been abandoned by their families, or have no one left at home. When they go to the north, they can only become beggars. What beggars fear most is winter, and the winter in the north is even colder. How can people like them survive?
At this time, their team already had more than twenty people.
More than half of the people are leaving. Winter is too hard for them!
If you can't get through it, you will die!
There were only a few people left. They felt that the capital was too far away. Anything could happen on such a long journey, and they would most likely not be able to reach the capital alive.
Although the north is cold, its biggest advantage is that there is no war.
They had been wandering for so long, and almost everyone they met who went to the North said the same thing.
In times of war, human life is worthless, let alone people like them. Anyone they meet on the road can take their lives. There are too many accidents. It is better to go to the north.
"When my father brought us out, he said he would take us to the North. I want to go to the North!"
"I also need to go!"
Zhou Su was not the only one who went to the north.
In this way, the group was divided into two groups, one group went to the capital to a warm place, and the other group went back to the capital.
Later, this group of people dispersed on the way to the capital for various reasons. Some died, some left, and some joined Daya and others. Later, they provided important clues for Zhou Guo to find Zhou Su.
The rest continued north.
At this time, there were eight people left in the team.
There were not many people in their teens, most of them were five, six, seven or eight years old, and Zhou Suli was the youngest among them.
Several people went north together. They encountered many forks in the road, but fortunately Zhou Suli learned some methods of identifying directions from Zhou Guo, so although there were many twists and turns, they really did head north slowly.
At this time, in addition to fighting against the increasingly cold weather, they also had to find ways to find food.
Winter is bleak. The further north you go, the less green there is, let alone wild vegetables.
Most of the time they can only eat grass roots or even tree bark. If they are lucky, they can pick up some wild mushrooms they know from the forest and pick up a big bag, enough to eat for several days.
Zhou Su was getting thinner and thinner, just like everyone else, skin and bones. Fortunately, he still had some salt with him. They had bought a lot in Yunli County, and everyone in his family had some with them, for fear that all the salt would be lost.
This is where the benefits come in. Not only do the wild vegetables taste better with salt, but they also gain strength, so they can run faster when they encounter problems.
They're just kids, and no matter how capable they are, things can go wrong.
Even adults can’t stand eating grass roots, tree barks and wild vegetables every day, let alone them.
They were so greedy that they found some unfamiliar wild mushrooms in the woods, boiled a few bamboo tubes, and the fragrance filled the air.