I became a farmer in the apocalypse.

Jiang Li pulled up a small stool and sat down. "One million points! Why don't you want them?"

How many vegetables do I have to sell to earn so many points?

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yan became excited, "Then our family is going to become incredibly rich!"

He was so excited, he didn't know where to release it, so he suddenly rushed over, picked up Zhu Cuihua, spun her around, and shouted, "Zhu Cuihua! Our family is going to be rich! Are you happy?"

Jiang Li couldn't bear to look at her, so she looked away and silently lowered her head to eat.

night.

"Mom, wake up."

Liu Qing was asleep when she vaguely felt someone nudging her.

When I opened my eyes, I saw Wei Zhou standing at the head of my bed.

"Zhouzhou, what's wrong?"

"Mom, eat some steamed buns." Wei Zhou took out the steamed buns he had hidden during the day and handed them to his mother's mouth.

Although it was cold, it didn't affect our hunger at all.

Liu Qing didn't eat it herself, but first fed it to her sleeping youngest son, feeding him little by little with water.

"Mom, I took three, one for each of us."

Liu Qing bit into her steamed bun with tears in her eyes, glancing warily at the next room every now and then, afraid that Wei Dahai would come out.

The sound of Wei Dahai snoring came from next door, and at that moment, the snoring actually gave people a sense of security.

"Where did the steamed buns come from?" Liu Qing asked.

"I asked Sister Jiang next door for them." Wei Zhou opened the bag to show Liu Qing. "Sister Jiang gave me eight at once, Mom. We can eat them again tomorrow night, so we won't go hungry."

Liu Qing wiped away her tears, "Miss Jiang is a good person."

These days, you can see people kneeling and begging for food everywhere on the streets, but few kind-hearted people are willing to give them a bite to eat. Firstly, they are too busy to take care of themselves, and secondly, they are afraid of causing trouble.

Jiang Li was willing and dared to give, which showed that she genuinely wanted to help them.

"Zhouzhou, we can't go to the Jiang family to ask for food anymore. Everyone's points are earned through hard work, we can't rely on them."

Wei Zhou nodded. "I know."

He just didn't want his younger brother to starve to death; if he didn't beg, he really had no other choice.

"Where did you hide these steamed buns before?" Liu Qing asked.

"Inside the tree hollow."

Liu Qing tied the bag shut, took the steamed buns, glanced around, and whispered:

"Put the rest back and hide them, so your dad can't see them."

"Um."

The mother and son sneaked out of the house.

Liu Qing held up an umbrella, while Wei Zhou carried a steamed bun, and they walked in the dark towards the direction of the tree hole they had just left.

Passing by Jiang Li's safe house, Wei Zhou couldn't help but take a look, only to find several dark figures in Jiang Li's field.

He was startled, and his face changed.

"Mom, there's someone over there!"

Liu Qing followed the gaze and saw several furtive dark figures, seemingly holding tools, rummaging around in Jiang Li's vegetable garden. They didn't look like good people.

"Could they be trying to harm people?"

Wei Zhou's heart was in his throat.

The action looked exactly like burying a corpse.

Upon realizing this possibility, Wei Zhou's face turned pale.

"Mom, I'm going to take a look!" Wei Zhou shoved the steamed bun into Liu Qing's hand and ran over.

Liu Qing couldn't let him go alone, so she followed along as well.

The mother and son approached slowly, crouching down and hiding behind the lush mutated grass, secretly observing the people in the field.

Only when we got closer did we realize that there were actually several children.

"Quickly, dig them up! Dig up all these little seedlings!"

"Yes! Grandma said those three chili peppers from yesterday were all good ones that hadn't mutated, and they'll produce a lot more chili peppers in the future! And these eggplants will grow even more, so we can have eggplants to eat every day!"

"That's amazing! There was absolutely nothing here when we came yesterday, how did seedlings sprout overnight? I wonder what these seedlings will be?"

"Whatever it is, once we dig it up, it'll all be ours."

Wei Zhou clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, saying:

"They're stealing Sister Jiang's vegetables! They're even taking the newly sprouted seedlings!"

Seeing that the men were digging more and more enthusiastically, Wei Zhou angrily rushed forward, shoved one of them to the ground, held him tightly to prevent him from escaping, and shouted:

"Sister Jiang Li! Come out quickly! Someone's stealing your vegetables!"

Seeing this, Liu Qing hurriedly ran over and grabbed the other child's hand tightly.

"Jiang Li! Come out quickly! Someone's stealing your vegetables!"

Even if the siblings were sleeping like logs, such a commotion should have woken them up.

Jiang Yan jumped out of bed, pushed open the iron door of the safe house, and rushed into the vegetable garden. Jiang Li also put on her clothes and followed closely behind.

When Jiang Li came out and saw Wei Zhou and Liu Qing hugging several children, and then looked at the trampled and dug-up seedlings in the ground, her face turned cold.

"Were you the ones who stole my vegetables yesterday?"

Chen Man shoved Liu Qing aside and tried to run away.

Jiang Yan rushed over and grabbed him by the collar, pulling him back.

A child who is only fourteen years old is naturally no match for Jiang Yan.

Jiang Yan dragged him over and threw him hard on the ground. "Run, keep running?"

"Caught red-handed and still trying to run? You think you're so tough!"

Jiang Li looked at the three children. One was fourteen or fifteen years old, about the same age as Wei Zhou; another was about ten years old; and the third looked to be seven or eight years old.

"Whose children are you?"

The three of them lowered their heads, their faces flushed, and stiffened their necks, remaining silent.

"If you're not going to talk, then stand there. None of you are going home!"

At this moment, the eldest brother, Chen Man, raised his face and angrily said, "What do you care which family we belong to? What do you want?"

"What do I want to do?" Jiang Li laughed. "I'd like to ask you what you want to do. You stole a lot of eggplants and peppers from me yesterday, didn't you? You wouldn't even let such small things go—"

"You guys weren't satisfied after stealing once, so you came back a second time! It's never going to end."

Jiang Li's gaze fell on the things they had brought.

There was a bunch of tools, a snakeskin bag containing the small eggplants and chili peppers they had stolen, and several mature plants that they had dug up, which they seemed to be preparing to take away as well. There were also some plastic boxes to hold the seedlings that had just been dug up.

They're really well-prepared! They've thought of everything! If Wei Zhou hadn't discovered this, her entire vegetable garden would have been dug up today!

Jiang Li was furious. "Where are your parents? Do they know you're out stealing vegetables?"

Chen Man: "It's just a few vegetables! So what if you stole them? Who told you not to watch your vegetable garden while you slept? Even if we didn't steal them, someone else would!"

Jiang Li laughed angrily, "What do you mean? You're so young and already talking about victimhood? So it's my fault that you stole the vegetables I grew? Just because I grew vegetables doesn't mean I shouldn't sleep? Does it mean I have to stay up all night with you guys?"

At this moment, Liu Qing couldn't help but say, "Jiang Li, these children seem to be from the Chen family."

The Chen family's plot is number 76, which is more than a mile or two away from here! It's quite far away, so Jiang Li has never seen them before, but Liu Qing has, so she has an impression of them.

"It seems to be a family of six, with the son and daughter-in-law bringing the mother-in-law out to farm. The landowner's name is Wang Cuili."

Jiang Li looked at the children and said in a deep voice, "Come on, take me to see your parents."

Chen Man, Chen Pi, and Chen Hei left reluctantly.

On the way to the Chen family's house, we encountered two soldiers on night patrol.

"Where are you going so late at night?"

Jiang Li showed some consideration and didn't mention the child stealing vegetables, only saying, "We need to see the owner of plot number 76 about something."

"Be careful, watch out for mutated animals."

Jiang Li nodded, brushed past the patrol soldiers, and walked to the door of safe house number 76, where she knocked.

Soon, a middle-aged woman's voice came from inside the door:

"Is Chen Man and Chen Pi back? What good stuff did they bring back this time?"