Traveling through time with billions of supplies to become a farmer's little fortune
Chapter 71 Starved to death
On the way back, I saw that the entrance of Wang's house was crowded with people.
"This old lady Wang is really confused. She is not really short of food now, so why would she starve herself to death?"
Aunt Qian's face was pale as she continued, "Po Wang's family still has food, and at worst we can eat tree bark and grass roots, but how can a living person really starve to death like this?
But Mrs. Wang was a stubborn person because she had escaped from a drought when she was young and she knew how terrible it was.
In order to save more food for his grandson, he didn’t eat a single grain of rice for four or five days.
Another person nearby also spoke up: "When my old man went in to help just now, he said that the stomach was flat when the dead were dead."
Another old lady in her 50s or 60s nearby said, "I saw Mrs. Wang some time ago. At that time, she was talking about drought and disasters this year.
If things go wrong, we will all die anyway, so why not die sooner and reincarnate sooner? "
"Aunt San, from what you said, the old lady of the Wang family is out of her mind, right? She probably didn't want to live anymore."
After hearing this, everyone was silent.
After a long while, a young man finally said, "Even if you don't want to live anymore, you should die with a full stomach instead of starving yourself to death."
"Alas, maybe the old man wants to leave food for future generations."
Because of this incident, the entire Taoliu Village became silent and people from every household came to handle Mrs. Wang's funeral.
When Su Muyao learned about this, she truly felt for the first time the pain that hunger brought to humans.
Whether it was because the old lady of the Wang family didn't want to live anymore, or because there was some trauma left by fleeing famine before, it led to the current series of events.
But Su Muyao silently swore in her heart that everyone in the village was very kind to her.
There is so much food in my space, I will never let tragedy happen again.
The drought must be resolved as quickly as possible.
Old Mrs. Su takes care of several little kids at home and doesn't allow them to go out.
People in the countryside were very superstitious at that time, and they were afraid of offending the spirit of Old Lady Wang.
The most important thing is that I am afraid that my little one will get scared and get hurt.
Until the next day, the women were still sitting at the door chatting, while the men were smoking cigarettes and bragging.
The children were laughing and playing in the village, and the cool breeze was blowing outside, as if all worries did not exist.
However, once you reach the entrance of the village, you will see the coffin in Wang Po's house, and all your worries will inexplicably come back.
As long as it doesn't rain today, something like this is likely to happen again.
Many elderly people feel like a burden.
Some families are aware of this and will keep a close eye on their elderly.
I’m afraid that one day if I’m not careful, something terrible might happen to the elderly people in my family.
When Old Man Su came to the village chief's house carrying Su Muyao, he saw the village chief's wife mending clothes with a needle.
"Your village chief didn't sleep all night yesterday, and he's still watching the sky in the fields."
Su Muyao didn't quite understand, "Grandpa, how do you see the celestial phenomena?"
"We just walked along the way and there was not a single cloud in the sky, which means there will definitely be no rain tomorrow."
Su Muyao nodded, she understood this.
When Old Man Su carried Su Muyao to the fields and found the village chief.
I saw the old village chief holding a book and muttering something.
Su Muyao vaguely heard something, "The wind comes from the west and goes to the south..., when the clouds get higher, it will rain."
Su Muyao really didn't understand any of these words, but when she leaned over to take a look, her face instantly filled with shame. This was such a thick old book.
He closed the book and sighed when the village chief noticed them coming.
"Oh, it's probably because there's no rain. What should we do? The crops are not fully ripe yet."
Old man Su said, "Brother, I have something very important to discuss with you, which is about digging a ditch that we discussed yesterday."
The old village chief nodded, but he couldn't guarantee how deep he would have to dig to actually find water.
Therefore, they dare not start blindly. If they fail to dig up water, it will bring a heavier blow to the villagers.
"Grandpa Village Chief, Little Wolf said that water was found on the mountain."
When the old village chief heard this, he looked at Xiao Fuxing excitedly.
But when I think about the water on the mountain, it would be so tiring to carry it down.
But it's good news that there is water, at least people won't die of thirst.
Then Su Muyao continued, "It seems that the water in the valley on the mountain has never been mined, so it must be very abundant.
If we can bring water from the mountains down to the rice fields, we won’t have to worry about storing grain this year.”
At this time, the village chief's son suddenly ran over and said, "Dad, something bad has happened. There is no water in our well."
When the old village chief heard this, the hand holding the pipe trembled.
There are only two wells in Taoliu Village. Once the well in this family dries up, the only well left will be the new well dug by Old Man Su's family.
It is certain that it will not last long. Once it dries up, even if there is water on the mountain, people can still drink some water, but there will be no harvest in the future.
It is impossible to survive by relying on the surplus food of each household. We will definitely have to eat tree bark and grass roots in the future.
The village chief's son who came over also roughly understood what they were talking about.
Although I know that Xiao Fuxing has some abilities, how come I don’t know when there will be water on the mountain?
However, when he thought of Xiao Fuxing's capable master, he did not say what he was thinking, otherwise his father might give him a meal of stir-fried pork with bamboo shoots.
After discussing with the old village chief, I plan to go over and take a look tomorrow.
After all, we have to handle the funeral of Old Wang’s family in the village first.
At this time, the villagers were talking about it. They heard that the people in the neighboring Liujia Village demanded a pound of cornmeal in exchange for half a bucket of water.
There is no water at all in the village next to Liujia Village. Now every household has to use a pound of cornmeal or half a pound of rice to exchange for half a bucket of water.
"The Liujia Village is really a piece of shit. They actually took advantage of the situation to rob people."
"His aunt, you don't know yet, do you? I heard that someone argued with Liujia Village and was driven out directly. They said that next time he came to exchange, he would have to exchange three kilograms for half a bucket of water."
The people around him were also angry. "It's okay for this person to not eat for two days, but if he doesn't drink water for two days, it will really kill him."
Almost every household in several nearby villages has run out of food.
They all go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables and make wild vegetable porridge to make a living.
Their village was the only one that was relatively good, as they not only earned some money from Xiao Fuxing.
The most important thing is that a lot of food was stored during the heavy snow several months ago.
But ever since then, the earth has been baked by high temperatures.
It has been several months, and everyone is now in a panic.
Especially what happened in Old Wang’s family yesterday made people even more uneasy.
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