The whole village is starving, but I have a full warehouse of meat in the mall

Chapter 2 Exchange for Rice
Purslane is also known as the longevity vegetable. It can relieve fever and stop bleeding, but most people feed it to pigs and chickens.

Now that there has been a long drought, purslane is growing most vigorously, growing in patches on the ridges of the fields.

Jiang Wan was squatting on the ground, wanting only to dig wild vegetables, when suddenly a sharp voice reached his ears.

"Which shameless woman is stealing my food rations?"

A gust of hot wind blew, and a figure appeared in the rice field.

"Oh~ I was wondering who it was, it turned out to be a girl from the Ye family."

Aunt Zhao gritted her teeth in hatred. Their two families were neighbors and they would quarrel whenever they had the chance, but she had never been able to defeat the scoundrel Ye family in scolding them. Today, she finally found the handle on them.

"Everyone, come and judge for me. The eldest sister of the Ye family stole my family's food rations. How can so many people in my family survive?"

As she shouted, all the surrounding villagers gathered around.

The land in Lotus Village was clearly divided, and since they were all familiar with each other, they could tell at a glance that Jiang Wan was standing on the ridge of the Zhao family's field.

This morning, the eldest sister of the Ye family was beaten up and had a bloody head. They talked about it for a long time and now started pointing fingers again.

"Are you planning to steal the Zhao family's food rations to support your mother's family?"

"Sister Ye is too shameless. It's a famine and everyone is having a hard time. Yet she is still doing such sneaky things."

"If you steal chickens and dogs today, you should steal people tomorrow. We are all widows anyway. Are we lonely? Hahaha..."

Jiang Wan gritted her teeth. She was so addicted to digging wild vegetables that she ran to Zhao's field without noticing.

She patted the dirt on her hands, picked up a few wild vegetables and threw them away: "I'm old now, I can't even tell the difference between wild vegetables and rice."

Looking at the pig fat and vegetables on the ground, the villagers were speechless for a moment.

They call purslane "pig fat vegetable" and they only dig it up and eat it when they are almost starving to death. In their minds, it is no different from tree bark.

Aunt Zhao was still unconvinced, "You don't even have a chicken at home, why are you digging up pig fat and vegetables? I think you just want to take the opportunity to steal my food!"

Jiang Wan sighed in a pretentious manner, "It hasn't rained this year, and the rice fields at home are almost dying. So I just found some pig fat vegetables... I see that all the brothers and sisters-in-law don't like these pig fat vegetables. I think there is still a lot of surplus food at home, why not give me some first..."

She had an innocent look in her eyes, and her wounds were not treated, so she looked very pitiful.

The villagers' eyes almost popped out of their heads. Has Miss Ye changed her personality? ?
But when they heard that she wanted to borrow grain, the villagers who were watching immediately dispersed.
Unless they are crazy, they will not give away their own food rations.

"Bah, you still want my family's food rations? Dream on!!" After saying this, Aunt Zhao glared at her, turned around and went home.

Jiang Wan picked up the wild vegetables that he had thrown away before, and then squatted on the edge of his own field to dig wild vegetables.

It was noon, the time when the sun was at its hottest. Jiang Wan's forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat. From time to time, a gust of hot wind blew past, and he instantly felt chest tightness, shortness of breath, and difficulty breathing.

She didn't know how long it was until the system prompted that she had gained five kilograms, and then she stood up.

I exchanged five pounds of purslane for twenty copper coins, and spent another ten copper coins to buy anti-inflammatory tablets in the mall.

There was still a big hole in her head waiting for her to fix.

Jiang Wan walked towards home and just as he was about to open the door, he heard a voice coming from the yard.

"Brother, Huhu is really delicious. Can we drink it every day from now on?"

"Eat your meal. Eat whatever mom says. It's not your turn to make a fuss here."

Jiang Wan pushed the door open and walked in, and saw a group of people gathered in the yard. They were the original body's four sons and one daughter.

The eldest son, Ye Dahe, is sixteen years old this year. As people in rural areas generally get married early, he married Gu Xiaohui from the neighboring village last winter and started a family early.

The second son, Ye Erhai, is fifteen years old this year. He has been climbing trees to pick eggs and going to rivers to catch fish since he was a child. He is also the smartest one.

The third son, Ye Sanshu, is fourteen this year and the tallest among the children, half a head taller than the eldest. The fourth son, Ye Sishan, and the youngest daughter, Ye Xiaofang, are twins, a boy and a girl, eleven years old this year. Both are dark and thin, and it is obvious that they are malnourished.

Especially Ye Xiaofang, her exposed wrist was as thin as a hemp rope.

At this moment, she was holding the broken bowl and licking the residue carefully.

Jiang Wan never thought that such a small amount of wild vegetable porridge would be divided into six portions, and everyone looked so enjoying the meal.

Only at this moment did she truly realize how poor this family was.

Seeing her standing at the door, several children came up to her to take credit.

Ye Dahe: "Mom, I'll get you a bowl of water."

Ye Erhai: "Mom, I found two bird eggs today. I will give them to you to replenish your body later."

Ye Sanshu: "Mom, I chopped two bundles of firewood and brought them back."

Ye Sishan: "Mom, I filled the water tank at home."

Ye Xiaofang: "Mom, my sister-in-law and I went to the back mountain to dig up a lot of wild vegetables."

Jiang Wan pursed her lips, her expression unrecognizable.

The eldest child of the Ye family is only sixteen, which would be the age for high school students in modern times, but now he has already become the pillar of the family.

Even the youngest girl took on the work within her ability.

[Ding——I caught pure natural shepherd's purse, 25 coins per pound.]

Jiang Wan glanced sideways and saw a bag of wild vegetables on the ground, which were dug up by his eldest daughter-in-law and youngest daughter.

She worked hard for a whole morning, but her efforts were not worth even a pound of shepherd's purse.

I'm so tired...

Jiang Wan picked up the wild vegetables and walked towards the kitchen. It was called a kitchen, but in fact it was just a shed made of branches.

The five people who stayed there looked at each other, wondering why their mother was acting so abnormal today.

Especially since my mother was very angry at my uncle's house this morning, they had already prepared themselves to be scolded.

Jiang Wan bought some shepherd's purse, and then he opened the store and found that rice was 3 wen per pound. He bought six pounds at once, and had 22 wen left in his pocket.
She walked out with three pounds of rice and threw it on the dining table in the yard.

"This is white rice?!"

"It's so white! Mom, where did you get such good rice?"

Dahe County has been relying on government aid since last year, but the government has distributed the cheapest corn, not white rice.

Even if there was no locust plague in Dahe County, the villagers would exchange the white rice for corn after the autumn harvest. After all, one pound of white rice can be exchanged for two and a half pounds of corn, which not only fills the family's stomach, but also allows them to eat for a long time.

Not to mention such good white rice, it would not be a problem to exchange it for three pounds.

Jiang Wan said casually: "I originally planned to use this rice to honor your grandfather."

After these words came out, the hearts of the people around her sank.

They had long known that A-niang often gave money to her grandfather's family, but they didn't know that it was such good stuff as white rice.

Not only have they never tasted white rice since they were young, but that beast from the Jiang family even beat their mother!
"Over the years, I have given them many good things. If it weren't for the fact that my family was broke, I wouldn't have come to collect the debt. But who would have thought that your uncle would beat me up so badly that I was bleeding."

Jiang Wan pretended to close her eyes and looked as if she was heartbroken.

(End of this chapter)