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

Chapter 20: You still want to eat meat every day. What kind of sweet dream are you having?

Old Mrs. Ye curled the corners of her lips. With so much oil and sugar added, even a piece of mud would taste good.

However, the eldest son's wife sent food over again and again when we were short of food, but never mentioned moving back. What bad idea was she planning?

The old lady stopped Ye Xiaofang who was about to leave and asked, "Has your mother said anything to you these days?"

"Yes!" Ye Xiaofang said, counting on her fingers, "Mom said that she wanted us to have enough food to eat, and that she wanted us to live in a new house, and that she wanted us to eat meat every day..."

The old lady's eyelids were twitching. It turned out that she wanted to move back home!

You actually want to eat meat every day. What kind of sweet dream are you having?

When they lived together before, there was chaos every day. If the eldest son's wife doesn't change her bad habits, she will never allow the eldest son to move back!

Ye Xiaofang ran back quickly to have dinner.

Xiao Hui was telling Jiang Wan about Zhao Meihua next door: "She is very hardworking. She helped to dig a lot of wild vegetables, chopped all the firewood for the family, and fetched water for the family..."

Jiang Wan didn't know what to say.

In ancient history, whenever there was a famine, people would sell children, and some would even eat their own children.

She didn't want such a cruel and inhumane thing to happen to her.

Jiang Wan lowered his head and quickly finished his dinner, then took the lotus balls to the headman's house again.

It was already dark at this time. Night is when wild beasts come out, and villagers generally do not go up the mountain at night. As soon as the sun sets, Old Man Ye brings his children and grandchildren down. Fortunately, there are not many people wandering outside in the village, and the group of people returned to Old Ye's yard safely.

A group of people were so tired that they collapsed on their chairs, with thick calluses on the palms of their hands.

Old Mrs. Ye quickly gave the children a snack and steamed an extra steamed bun for each of them. After they had eaten and drunk their fill, the group of people finally came back to life.

Old Man Ye took a puff of his pipe, stood up and said, "I'll go find the head of the village."

Old Madam Ye scolded angrily, "You are so tired, can't you go tomorrow?"

Li's eyes twinkled, "Yes, Dad. Let's take a rest for a night and go to the headman tomorrow morning."

Old Man Ye shook his head: "I can't feel at ease, I must make it clear."

He put on his straw sandals, pushed open the gate, and walked towards the headman's house under the sparse starlight.

As soon as I reached the door, I heard a familiar voice coming from the yard.

"This morning I went up the mountain and saw a dry pond. I dug with a shovel and found this thing. It was white and clean. I don't know what it is, but it looks edible. I dug some and took it back to cook."

Jiang Wan said methodically, "Chop it up, coat it with buckwheat flour, and fry it in a pan. I wonder how delicious it will be."

"You can eat it directly after stewing it in a pot. It tastes similar to sweet potatoes, so I wondered if it could also fill your stomach like sweet potatoes?"

The village head looked suspicious and asked, "Mother Dahe, where did this thing come from?"

"There are a lot of them on the mountain, about four or five acres." Jiang Wan said, "They are all in the thick soil. I estimate that there are more than a thousand kilograms."

The headman's wife's eyes lit up: "More than a thousand kilograms, so every household can have nearly a hundred kilograms. Although it's not as filling as corn, at least we won't go hungry for half a month..."

The village head tasted a lotus root ball, which was filled with a lot of oil and was more fragrant and delicious than meat. If there really were thousands of kilograms of this thing, what would Lotus Village have to worry about?
He looked a little doubtful: "We have this thing in Lotus Village, why has no one seen it before?"

“This is a jade shoot!”

Old Man Ye walked in. The village head and Old Man Ye were cousins. Old Man Ye was a few years older. He said with a firm look,

"I saw it decades ago. There are a lot of bamboo shoots in the south. They can fill your stomach. But I heard that they were specially sent as tribute to the capital. I don't know why we have them in Lotus Village too."

Jiang Wan was extremely surprised. He didn't expect that Old Man Ye had actually seen this thing.

It turns out that in this era, lotus root was called Yusun, which sounds like a beautiful name.

Lotus root is rich in starch and can indeed replace staple foods for a short period of time, but it is not as filling as staple foods.

The head of the village looked impatient. He said quickly, "I'll go change into a pair of straw sandals and go up the mountain to take a look later."

The village head's wife disagreed, "It's already so late, there are wolves on the mountain, can't we go tomorrow morning?"

"I can't wait until tomorrow morning. This is a matter of filling my stomach!"

The village head hurried to change his shoes, and his wife had no choice but to light torches and go up the mountain holding the torches. The wolves did not dare to approach.

Old Man Ye looked at Jiang Wan and praised: "Mother Dahe, I misjudged you before."

When he discovered a large area of ​​bamboo shoots, he knew they were edible, but he still came to tell the village head as soon as possible. It turned out that Dahe Niang was not as selfish and greedy as he imagined.

He used to think that the third daughter-in-law was a good woman, but when faced with the huge temptation of food, her character was revealed.

Jiang Wan coughed and said, "There are only seven people in our family, including a little one and a pregnant woman. We can't dig up all these bamboo shoots..."

The most important thing is that she has a mall trading system, and a handful of wild vegetables can be exchanged for several kilograms of rice. Her family will not starve even in a famine, but other people cannot.

She never thought of herself as selfless, but at least she would not compete with a group of hopeless people for life-saving food.

The head of the village came out holding a torch, followed by his five sons. Old Man Ye went back and called his second and third sons. It was not that dangerous for a group of nine men to go up the mountain at night.

The night is dark.

The chirping of insects and birds is endless.

When she first arrived here, Jiang Wan couldn't fall asleep at all. But she had gotten used to it in the past few days. She fell asleep peacefully and woke up naturally at dawn.

Early in the morning, the head of the village gathered all the people in the village, except the elderly, children and pregnant women, and asked them to gather under the big locust tree in the middle of the village.

Many people who are well-informed already know what is going on.

"I heard that food was found deep in the mountains."

"It seems to be similar to sweet potatoes, called bamboo shoots, and it can fill your stomach."

"I go up the mountain three times a day, how come I didn't notice this treasure on the mountain?"

The village head stood on the high ground and coughed. Everyone present automatically quieted down. Matters related to food were the top priority.

"It's not raining, and there's nothing to do on the ground. Everyone should put down their work on the ground and follow me up the mountain!" the village head said loudly, "Take everything in your home that can hold food, and all the laborers who can work, go together. We must dig up the food in the shortest possible time!"

Someone asked, "How do we divide the food we dug out?"

"We have to take as much as we dig," the village head said seriously, "but we are a family in Hehua Village. There are some elderly, weak, women and children in the village who have no labor force, and we can't just watch them starve to death."

(End of this chapter)