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

Chapter 4 The old lady loves you grandchildren very much.

That night, she tossed and turned and finally fell asleep.

The crowing of a rooster awakened the sleeping Lotus Village. The sky was just getting brighter and the thin morning light enveloped the village.

Farmers get up very early and go to the fields to weed and kill insects before the sun comes out. This marks the beginning of a busy day.

Jiang Wan didn't sleep well that night. It was a hard bed with reeds and straw under the sheets. He felt uncomfortable everywhere while sleeping. Fortunately, it was summer now. If it was winter, it would be really terrible.

The lower-class peasants simply couldn’t afford cotton, so their quilts were stuffed with straw and reed fluff…

In Lotus Village, which is neither north nor south, there is no custom of heating the kang, so one really needs to be righteous to withstand the severe cold...

Jiang Wan felt that the burden on his shoulders was very heavy. Not only did he have to fill his stomach, but he also had to get at least six large quilts before winter came.

She sat up and got out of bed.

Everyone in the family was busy. The eldest daughter-in-law was washing clothes and tidying up the yard. The eldest was getting ready to go out to the fields. The second was getting ready to fetch water. The third was going to chop wood. The fourth and fifth were carrying bamboo baskets to dig wild vegetables.

These children are really sensible. I don’t know why the original owner chose to side with her mother’s family.

"and many more!"

Jiang Wan frowned and said.

She turned and walked into the inner room, opened the bag of rice that Old Lady Ye had sent yesterday, inside was two kilograms of slightly blackened corn. This rice was obviously left over from last year and was already a little moldy. Eating moldy food would probably cause stomach upset. It was okay to eat these when she was poor, but she had the conditions now, so why should she let the children suffer?

She poured out the rice in the bag and opened the mall to buy corn. Corn is actually millet. Millet in modern shopping malls is more expensive than rice, costing four cents per pound.

Although rice is cheap and delicious, its origin is difficult to explain.

She looked at the balance in her hand and found that she had 22 cents left. She gritted her teeth and bought five kilograms. In the end, she had two copper coins left.

Jiang Wan walked out carrying the bag of corn: "Have breakfast first and then go to work."

Gu Xiaohui recognized the bag. It was sent by her grandmother last night. She opened the bag and was immediately shocked.

It’s not like the old lady had not secretly donated food in the past, but it was either hard steamed buns or blackened buckwheat or cornmeal. Their family had never eaten corn with such a beautiful color!
"The old lady loves you grandchildren very much." Jiang Wan said calmly, "Let's cook porridge for two meals each day."

She really couldn't swallow all the rice, mainly because corn porridge is very nutritious and good for the stomach.

This large group of children haven't had a full meal for a long time, and they have some stomach problems to some extent, so they need to be taken care of slowly.

Gu Xiaohui was stunned. She picked up the rice bag, which was about five pounds. If five pounds of rice were cooked into porridge over two days, everyone could have at least two bowls!
After having a full meal last night, she thought she would be hungry for a month, but she didn’t expect her mother-in-law to become so generous!

She didn't ask any questions and went to the kitchen with the rice bag to cook porridge.

Ye Dahe put down his hoe and went to help his wife.

Ye Sanshu and Ye Sishan licked their lips and gathered around the stove.

Only Ye Erhai frowned slightly, thinking to himself, is mother not going to live anymore?

All the food at home has been eaten up, so what’s left?

Forget it, just eat it. If you don’t eat it, it will be a bargain for the Jiang family!
If we eat it all, we'll all starve to death! The sky was bright with morning glow.

The rice porridge was bubbling and overflowing from the gap in the broken pot, and the aroma of corn spread.

Ye Sishan's saliva flowed down, he swallowed it with a sip, and then it flowed out again.

Jiang Wan wanted to get something to wipe the little guy's saliva, but she found that there was no towel to wipe his mouth at home. She tried to wipe it with her clothes, which were very dirty. She tried to wipe it with her hands, but she couldn't make such a big sacrifice... Forget it, she just pretended she didn't see it.

After a while, seven bowls of corn porridge were served, and most of it was still left in the broken pot, so you could keep adding more after you finished eating.

The family finished their porridge with a chuckle, then sat on their chairs and sighed with contentment.

If this is a dream, they hope it will continue forever and they would rather never wake up from the dream.

"Now that you're full, get ready to work." Jiang Wan said, "Dahe, go check the situation in the fields. Erhai, go fetch water. Bring back two more buckets today. It's a hot day, so you should take a bath. Sanshu, go chop wood." Ye Sishan burped, "Mom, what should I do?"

"Sishan, Xiaofang and Huiniang come with me up the mountain." Jiang Wan stood up. "We can't just eat the staple food. We have to find something to serve as a side dish."

Gu Xiaohui was a little surprised.

Since she came into the family, her mother-in-law has never done any work. Going up the mountain to dig wild vegetables is her and Xiaofang's job.

She opened her lips but swallowed back what she wanted to say.

What if her mother-in-law wanted to watch her work? She didn't let her mother-in-law go with her, as if she was trying to be lazy.

A family of seven went out together and split into several groups.

At this moment, the sun has slowly risen, and more and more people are busying around in the village.

Jiang Wan saw many experienced farmers standing on the ridges of the fields, sighing at the sight of their fields, and some even kneeled on the ridges to pray for rain.

As soon as she saw the sky, she knew that it would not rain in the short term, and the crops in the fields were probably...

All the way up the mountain, all the wild vegetables in the woods on the roadside had been dug up, and many women with children had to go deeper into the mountains.

[Ding! Found natural pollution-free gray vegetables! ]

The most common plant on this road is the gray grass, which has strong vitality and is everywhere in the woods.

[Ding! Found natural wild torch mushroom! ]

[Ding! Found natural wild torch mushroom! ]

Jiang Wan glanced at the floating panel and instantly locked onto the location of the wild mushrooms.

She pushed aside a clump of weeds and saw a few clusters of yellow chicken mushrooms and three or four green mushrooms hidden under a large leaf.

Although it didn't rain, there was enough moisture on the mountain, and mushrooms naturally grew out of the layers of rotting leaves.

She picked the mushrooms and put them in her backpack. Then a notification sounded in the mall:
[Ding! One pound of natural wild torch mushroom, worth 33 coins, are you selling it? ]

【Yes! 】

[Ding! 15 taels of natural wild greenhead, worth coins, are you selling it? ]

【Yes! 】

Jiang Wan felt his pocket was heavy.

These wild mushrooms are much more valuable than wild vegetables. She sold just a little bit for 50 cents, and she had a place to buy her big quilt.

"Mom, what did you find?"

Ye Sishan leaned over, but saw nothing.

Jiang Wan said naturally, "There are a lot of leaves here, it's cool and humid, and mushrooms usually grow there. Look around."

There are many mushrooms growing in this vast forest, but most of them are poisonous. Several decades ago, a family in the village ate a kind of white mushroom with a white stem, and the whole family was poisoned to death. Since then, people in the village will step three steps away when they see mushrooms. They will pick common mushrooms, but they dare not touch those that are slightly unfamiliar.

Jiang Wan has mall tips, so he is not afraid of picking poisonous mushrooms.

The three of them walked deeper into the cave.

Ye Sishan shouted excitedly: "Mom, there are so many mushrooms!"

Jiang Wan glanced at the panel. This was the common milk fungus in Lotus Village. It was edible and the system indicated that it was 13 cents per pound.

She smiled and said, "Sishan, you are awesome!"

Ye Sishan’s eyes widened, it seemed like this was the first time his mother praised him!
(End of this chapter)