A Husband Who Traveled Through the Famine and Developed a Chronicle

Liu Yunzhai, named Zhai, is actually a village.

There are 42 households in the village, with a total of 380 people. After being taken over by bandits, the population of the village is less than 50 people.

In addition to the villagers in the same cellar as Bai Xia, many people were also found in the cellars of other houses.

Li Xiuyuan found the genealogy of Liu Yunzhai in the ancestral hall. The people in the village were surnamed Liu, and they were all members of the Liu clan. They lived in seclusion, married only in the village, and never intermarried with outsiders.

Liu Dadao was an accident.

He was originally the grandnephew of the head of the Liu clan. He lost his father and mother as a young man. The village was too poor and there was no one to help him. He disappeared not long after.

He lost his parents, disappeared as soon as he disappeared, and the villagers didn't care about it. Unexpectedly, after 20 years, he came back.

Not only came back, but also brought back hundreds of people, and immediately occupied Liu Yunzhai, arresting the old and the young in the village.

At first, the villagers yelled at him, scolding him for not being a human being, for robbing the villagers of food, and then...

"What happened afterwards? Old man." Li Xiuyuan handed over a bowl of water. The gray-haired old man lowered his eyelids, recalling the days when Liu Dadao came back.

"There are seven or eight hundred people in the village. The food in the village is getting less and less. He no longer feeds everyone. The old patriarch is getting old and starving to death at home."

"That bastard is not a person. After the death of the old patriarch, they...they..." The old man was about forty years old, with gray hair, long beard trembling with his lips, snot and tears streaming down his face, and the next words came again. Can't tell either.

Li Xiuyuan and Bai Xia looked at each other, patted the old man's shoulder comfortingly, got up and left the house.

This is the only original villager who was not tied up, and the other villagers were still tied up and thrown in the ancestral hall.

Fortunately, the ancestral hall in Liu Yunzhai was big enough to accommodate hundreds of people, so that those villagers could be housed.

Even though they have mountains, rivers and houses now, there is still a big problem that has not been solved.

In the old house in the village, there are still about [-] man-eating demons tied up. These people cannot be killed or released now, and they will be a trouble after all.

The main reason was that there were no blacksmiths among the refugees, and they didn't have anyone who could lock up this group of bandits, so they didn't dare to let them go easily.

Otherwise it would be a huge disaster.

"Miss Bai, Master Li"

Bai Xia and the others were worried, when two refugees suddenly called out, and saw that they were carrying a heavy wooden box with carved flowers on the outside, which was out of place with Liu Yunzhai.

"What is this?" The two stepped forward.

"It's all books. We thought that everyone was illiterate, so we simply moved them here. Do you see if there are any useful ones?"

The two refugees opened the box, and a box of neatly stacked books appeared in front of them.

Li Xiuyuan stepped forward to pick up one, the cover said Encouraging Learning, and picked up another one, but it was about medical skills.

Inside a box, there are many miscellaneous and miscellaneous books, including several military books.

As if he had found a treasure, Li Xiuyuan immediately picked up the books and ran to the room he chose. He carried the books and quickly filled the cabinet in his room as if he was not tired.

Bai Xia casually picked up a book and opened it, and only managed to recognize a few characters after guessing. The ancient characters were too complicated, not any kind of characters she had ever seen.

"Are there any books related to farming or crafting here?"

Li Xiuyuan wiped the books cherishingly and shook his head.

Bai Xia was a little disappointed, but she didn't want to give up easily.

"Are there any of these refugees who know how to build stoves?"

When Li Xiuyuan was on the road, he did a census of these refugees, and recorded the skills that each person was good at. If he wanted to get those bandits to do things right now, he had to restrain them first.

Bai Xia first thought of modern handcuffs and shackles, but they don't have so much iron, so they can't make those things.

The next best thing to do is to make wooden flails, because there are carpenters in the refugee team, and there are mountains and forests around, so there is no shortage of wood.

However, wooden flails also use iron.

If there is no iron, then find a way to melt the big knife, turn it into molten iron, and then make ironware.

But first of all, there must be a furnace, a high-temperature furnace that can melt iron.

"Have"

They are all farmers, and most of the earthen stoves at home are built by themselves, so there are many people who know this craft. Bai Xia told Li Xiuyuan her thoughts, and Li Xiuyuan's eyes lit up.

Picking up the book, according to Bai Xia's request, after thinking about it, he drew the shape of a stove with a charcoal pencil.

In the book, there is a picture of an ordinary farmhouse's stove for cooking, Bai Xia looked at it and shook his head.

"This won't work, the temperature won't go up"

Cast iron furnaces are different from ordinary furnaces. To melt iron into molten iron, it needs to reach a high temperature of at least 1000 degrees, which is difficult for ordinary furnaces to meet.

"I'll think of another way"

"Actually...we don't have to come up with our own ideas." Li Xiuyuan hesitated, not daring to look directly at Bai Xia.

Bai Xia glanced at him, feeling a bad premonition in her heart.

"Needless to say, I'll go and see how Ms. Wu is doing. These books may belong to someone else. If so, you have to return them."

Bai Xia ran away, and finally found a place to stay. She wanted to rest for a while, but she didn't want to be tired.

Even if Li Xiuyuan stretched out his hand, he couldn't call back Bai Xia who was determined to leave. It was very uncomfortable for him to be stuck in his heart.

After Bai Xia left Li Xiu Yuan's room, she was deeply relieved.

Before Li Xiuyuan said it, she knew what he was going to say.

He just wanted to say that there must be cast-iron furnaces in the mine.

But where is the mine?An important place in the government, unless she is tired of working, she will go to the mine to find a stove.

She walked slowly to Miss Wu's room, reached out and knocked on the door, but no one opened the door after knocking several times.

She patiently knocked a few more times, but still no one opened the door.

After hesitating for a moment, Bai Xia raised his foot and kicked the door, kicked it twice before kicking the door open.

"Miss Wu"

As soon as the door opened, she saw Miss Wu lying on the ground, Bai Xia hurried forward, the steamed buns she brought were on the table, unmoved at all.

She went up to check and found that Miss Wu had passed out.

And look at the symptoms, very similar to starvation dizziness.

Bai Xia helped him to lie down on the bed, turned around and left the room.

He found a stove to boil a pot of porridge, brought it into Miss Wu's room, helped her up, blew the porridge cold and fed her a few mouthfuls.

After taking two bites, Miss Wu woke up, her eyes drooped to catch a glimpse of the porridge in Bai Xia's hand, she rolled her eyes and opened her mouth to vomit.

Shocked, Bai Xia quickly flipped over an earthen jar to catch it.

Until he vomited everything he ate, and passed out again.

Bai Xia was dumbfounded.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door, Bai Xia called in, and Li Xiu Yuan walked in.

Glancing at Ms. Wu lying on the bed and the situation at the scene, she instantly understood.

"Bai Xia, Miss Wu must be suffering from anorexia."

Hearing this, Bai Xia opened her mouth and wanted to yell at him, you are not a doctor, how do you know that he has anorexia.

Unexpectedly, Li Xiuyuan's next words made Bai Xia shut her mouth, and she was speechless for a while, looking at Miss Wu on the bed, her face full of worry.