After the frail beauty went to the countryside, she went crazy with scientific research.

Chapter 307, Episode 0329: Anything Happens

However, the amount of relief grain distributed was limited, and the distribution to the communes was very slow. Some people had already starved to death before the relief grain even arrived.

At this moment, Lu Guihua poked her head out from the main room and asked, "Does Comrade Lin remember Old Wang from our village?"

Lin Yuexi thought for a few seconds before she remembered who this old Wang was.

He also has the surname Li, and Li Dayou should call him uncle, although he is four or five years younger than Li Dayou, so he is of a higher generation.

Li Dayou had a great-uncle who had seven daughters but no sons. Even now, many people feel insecure if they don't have a son. They have a bunch of reasons, like "no son, no one to see you off in your old age" or "no one to take care of you in your final days." Anyway, no matter how bad things are in the family, they still need to have a son.

Old Wang was the son that this uncle suddenly picked up one day.

Fortunately, Old Wang is a good person. He is not only filial to his parents, but also always supports his seven older sisters as he grows up. He is also kind and has a good reputation in the village.

However, he was a very low-key person and rarely went out except for work. Lin Yuexi had almost no impression of him.

Seeing that Lin Yuexi was interested in listening, Lu Guihua immediately grinned and came out, shooing Li Dayou to the kitchen, and plopped down on the bench where Li Dayou had just been sitting.

When we came out, we didn't forget to bring a plate of fruit.

"Old Wang's youngest daughter-in-law is from Xiayang Village. Her family was so hungry they could barely walk, so her brother-in-law crawled all the way to our village to beg Old Wang's family for help."

Old Wang is kind, but he's not without principles. Between his own family starving to death and helping others, he'll naturally prioritize his own family.

Moreover, at that time, everyone was starving. Although their village had stockpiled some grain, given the situation, even without Li Da saying anything, no one dared to eat too much. Similarly, everyone who went out looked pale and thin.

If people find out that Hero Village has no shortage of food, they might very well launch a multi-village attack.

But the in-laws' situation was really too tragic.

Although this in-law was from Xiayang Village, they were all of good character. However, they were somewhat unfortunate. They only had a widowed mother who was blind, and their eldest son, Liu Xin, was in poor health and had been taking Chinese medicine since childhood. When he was in his thirties, a woman who had fled famine was willing to marry him, but she ran away because she thought his family was poor as soon as she gave birth to the child.

Xiayang Village was in chaos at that time. The brigade leader and his men, along with more than a dozen strong men from the village, controlled the entire village. Any family that had a little food would be robbed.

Old Wang's in-laws weren't unwilling to go up the mountain to look for food, but even if they did, it would be useless; they couldn't protect it.

"Well, to tell you the truth," Lu Guihua said with a sigh, a mixture of reproach and sympathy.

He grabbed a handful of sunflower seeds for Lin Yuexi, and then grabbed a handful for himself, cracking them open as he spoke: "If Erban hadn't gone up the mountain so early that day, Liu Xin might have been dead. The person lying at the foot of the mountain was ice cold. Erban was terrified at the time, thinking that the person was already gone."

She suddenly lowered her voice with a serious expression, "Those villages around us that were short of food were in chaos during that time; all sorts of things happened."

She was too embarrassed to explain it too clearly in front of Lin Yuexi, and only hinted at it.

Back then, it was a dark time. The company couldn't control it, because it wasn't just one place that was in chaos, but almost every brigade was in chaos.

If it weren't for the fact that they could still find food in the mountains, they would all be forced to flee the famine.

But the food available on the mountain is always limited, and wild vegetables don't just grow back immediately after being picked. So everyone's search area kept expanding, and then, as one person crossed the line and another crossed the line, conflicts between the various brigades increased, and fights between brigades with weapons were not uncommon. This was just the surface; the situation was even more chaotic within each brigade. Theft and robbery were frequently heard of. At first, it was quite shocking, but later we became numb to it.

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So when Erban saw a skinny person lying on the ground and touched him, finding him cold, his first thought was that this person had probably gotten some food and then not only been robbed but also murdered.

"After rescuing Liu Xin, we learned that the Xiayang Brigade had completely lost control. The villagers were all trapped inside. Except for those who couldn't go up the mountain, everyone else had to go up the mountain every day to look for food. But even if they found food, they had to hand it over to the brigade."

"Those who found food were given a small, palm-sized mixed grain pancake each day."

"If we don't find food, the whole family will go hungry all day."

"If there are any hidden ones..."

Lu Guihua spread her arms and gestured, exaggerating in her tone: "A whip this long with barbed metal pieces, how could someone be so ruthless as to actually lash someone?"

At the time, they didn't quite believe what Liu Xin said. They thought he was exaggerating. What era are we living in? How can there still be such lawless people?

Moreover, it was the village head of Xiayang Village who personally led the effort!

“My husband, Lao Li, thinks this matter is too important. If it’s true, those people are acting like bandits. If he doesn’t know, he’ll let it go, but if he does know and doesn’t care, he’ll feel uneasy.”

At this moment, Li Dayou, who was in the kitchen, peeked out and met Lin Yuexi's gaze, which seemed to have seen through everything. He immediately gave a guilty smile.

"Comrade Lin, you must have lunch at my house. I've already killed the chicken. After lunch, I'll take you to see the newly built factory in our village this afternoon."

Lin Yuexi didn't stand on ceremony and nodded with a smile, "Uncle, even if you hadn't said anything, I would have stayed at your house for lunch anyway, because I'm so glad I did, since I'm so glad I did, because of your and Aunt's cooking skills."

Don't let Li Da's rough and clumsy appearance fool you; he's actually a great cook, a skill he supposedly learned from a fellow soldier in the mess hall when he was in the army.

After Lu Guihua was taught how to cook, Li Dayou rarely cooked anymore.

If he cooks himself, it means that this person is someone he respects.

Whether she was telling the truth or not, Li Dayou found her words amusing and immediately broke into a wide smile before turning back to the kitchen to continue her work.

Lu Guihua was secretly pleased. Comrade Lin had mentioned her in his words, which meant that even though Comrade Lin was someone they could no longer reach in terms of status, he still hadn't forgotten her, this country bumpkin.

He immediately became much more relaxed in his speech, unlike before when he was only casual on the surface, but in reality, he was still very reserved.

"Let's continue. Old Li was also thinking about the villagers. At the time, many people in our village knew that we had bought grain on the black market. Old Li kindly reminded everyone on the mountain, but this reminder caused trouble. Some people with a conscience would help keep it a secret, but some people without a conscience told the villagers that everyone in our village had hoarded grain."

The people of one village knew that their village had stockpiled grain, and gradually all the surrounding villages found out. As the rumors spread, they spread until it became known that the people of their village could eat white rice every day and that their village granaries were so full that they couldn't finish eating it all.

Fortunately, the people of Hero Village are united and ruthless enough, so even as the rumors became more and more exaggerated, no one took any hard line. Most of them tried to play the victim, while a small number tried to cheat.

Everyone tried their best to drive the people out, but since they were all hungry and looked filthy from lack of food, fewer and fewer people came to the village for help. After all, as long as you are diligent, you can always find something to eat in the mountains.

Going to the Hero Village and getting beaten up is less safe than going up the mountain.