There has been a severe drought for three years. The government's "grain release" is a scam, and behind the fake seals is a trap to catch people and eat them.
Shen Yan led hundreds of refugees to save lives in front of the Heartbroken Grass, saw through the fake notices, and found a way to survive on the Black Wind Ridge.
He knows medicine, can detect water, and can distinguish soil and salt. A scholar has become the leader of the refugees.
When the troops broke up and robbed the camp, he scared the enemy to flee with the sound of "Black Wind Village"; surrounded by wolves, he lit fires to form a wall and survived until dawn; he scraped soil from the saline-alkali land to boil salt, and dug out corn and coarse salt from the cellars of deserted villages.
He said: "The government doesn't give people a way to live, so we will grab one ourselves."
On Heifeng Ridge, he planned a stockade, built passes, and erected watchtowers, turning the barren mountains into a bandit's nest that could be defended and cultivated.
Officials will come again and the food will run out. Can they survive this winter?
——Climbing mountains, falling grass, and staying alive.
