Don't panic in a famine, I live in the mountains with my golden finger

Xu Yuan dug the hole whenever he had time these days, and finally dug it to a depth that was ten centimeters deeper than he could stand. There was enough space for one more person, so Xu Zhi also came down to help.

There were some major changes at the upper entrance. Xu Yuan specially made dirt steps for easy walking, so the opening was a little bigger. Xu Zhi watched the hoe slowly walk down the steps. After entering the bottom of the pit, the space was not smooth, a little stuffy, and a little dark inside. He used a torch to light it. His sister was digging, and the space inside was slowly getting bigger. There was nothing but mud around.

Xu Zhi was a little worried, "Sister, there is only this mud on top, will it collapse?"

"Don't worry. I'll need some bamboos to fix it. The place we dig out here will probably be the corner of the yard. I'll go up and dig a hole outside the yard to let in some air, and then dig another hole to the outside." Xu Yuan felt that he had been in the cave for too long and his breathing was a little difficult. He had to go out and relax.

"Well, sister, you go up and get some fresh air first, I'll clear out the dirt."

"Leave it there for now. I think we're almost outside the yard. I'll go up and dig a hole. Stay out of here for now. Just watch and see if there's any movement."

Xu Yuan walked up with the hoe on his shoulder. Unexpectedly, someone came to the yard and said, "Girl Yuan, are you free today?"

"Uncle Wang, Uncle Liu, or Uncle Chen, what are you doing?" Unexpectedly, it was Uncle Wang and the other two outside the door, driving a bullock cart. Many Japanese confectionery products came out of the pavilion, and the pavilion was surrounded by strings of peppers.

"Xiaoduo, let's wash our hands, otherwise we might accidentally touch them in our eyes." Guozi pulled Duo, who was about to run out, to a water vat not far away. They took the sieve that blocked the bamboo tube, and the water instantly flowed into the wooden basin.

"Why are you dressed like this, Yuan girl? Did you go digging mud?" Uncle Liu noticed that there was a lot of mud on Xuyuan's body and she was carrying a hoe, and asked in confusion.

"Yes, I'm digging a cellar, so..."

"So are you guys going to... Zhuhou Village?"

"Well, we're going to take them home."

When Xu Yuan saw Uncle Chen, who rarely got together with Uncle Wang and Uncle Liu, appear at his doorstep, it was not difficult for him to guess what was going on.

Uncle Wang was surprised: "When did you start digging the cellar? Why didn't you ask us for help? How long can you finish digging by yourself?"

"It's okay. Everyone is busy with farm work. I just dig when I have free time. I dig slowly. I'm not in a hurry. The cellar is not big, so it will be done soon."

"Really? Let me see what it looks like." Uncle Wang was worried that the cellar dug by Xu Yuan was not appropriate. What if it collapsed by accident?

At this time, Guozi and Xuanyue came out and greeted the three people outside the door.

"Uncle Wang, if you're worried about those kids being too shy, take a lot of Japanese sweets with them. It'll help them keep themselves entertained on the way."

"Sister, where are you going?" Many people never expected that they could come out to watch the fun and also go out to have fun.

"Zhuhou Village, ask your brother Daquan if he wants to go home with his family."

"Oh. Isn't it a good thing that Brother Daquan can see and reunite with his father and mother?"

Manyu looked very happy, but at the same time felt a little disappointed. It was unlike him, he had no father or mother, and he didn't even know what his mother looked like.

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As the space in the cellar was limited at that time, after Xu Zhi came up from downstairs, the two old men, Grandpa Wang and Grandpa Liu, went down. The depth of the space was just enough for them to stand up straight. Grandpa Wang touched the wall of the cave and found it was very hard.

"The soil here is a bit hard. Yuan girl is really amazing. She dug out such a large space quietly. It's no different from what we dug, which is like digging a trap. The entrance is also placed inside the house, so it will be convenient to go down when the weather gets cold."

"Yes, indeed, but this kind of thing should still require some bamboo poles to stand upright, which still requires some effort."

Suddenly, there was a thumping sound from above, and Uncle Wang and Uncle Liu quickly moved away from here and came to the cave entrance. After a while, the mud above quickly fell off, light came in, and four heads popped out from above the cave entrance.

"It seems that the location is just right, right in the center." Xu Yuan stuck his head down from the cave entrance and looked inside the cellar. Now it would be much easier to transport the soil up.

The cave was suddenly not so dark or stuffy anymore. Uncle Wang and Uncle Liu could see everything clearly at a glance and were very satisfied. Then they walked up.

After visiting the cellar where they made their wishes, the three of them headed for Takego Village with lots of Japanese sweets.

"Grandpa Liu, after you meet Uncle Zhushan, will you leave here?" Guozi sat next to Grandpa Liu and asked cautiously.

Many people were also listening attentively.

Uncle Liu shook his head and said, "No, I would be reluctant if I couldn't see you guys anymore."

Many people were happy to hear that Uncle Liu would not leave, but they thought of something, "Won't you miss Brother Xiaoyu? Uncle Zhushan?"

"As for them, I can just ask them to move in with me."

"Really? That's great." Guozi and Xuanyu were very happy. The two little kids bared their teeth and started laughing foolishly.

"Silly boy."

When the three heard this innocent and simple laughter, they couldn't help but curl their lips.

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Zhuhou Village

"Dong'er, you still don't tell me what you have been doing recently?" Ye Qiu'er took a piece of burnt talisman paper and slammed it on the table.

Ye Maner, who was standing behind him, knew that she could not get a word in, so she shook her head and went into the house. Grandma was now in the west of the village, chatting with her good sisters, which was a good thing. Otherwise, if Grandma knew about it, I would not be able to stand here obediently.

Ye Dong'er hung her head at this time, standing aside and being scolded, her little hands tightly grasping the corner of her clothes.

"Sister, I know I was wrong. I won't go next time."

"You have a next time?"

Ye Dong'er waved her hands quickly, "No, no, no, I won't go there anymore."

Ye Dong'er knew that her eldest sister would suddenly wake up unconsciously when she was asleep, usually once every five days. She would walk around the house for a while and then go back to bed. Once, she got up in the middle of the night, stood by her grandmother's bed for a while, and then went back to her own room. She almost died from the fear of her grandmother.

The symptoms started after she fell from the tree last time. It was suspected that she had bumped into something unclean. Grandma even went to the mountain to find some miscellaneous grass leaves to boil water for my sister to take a bath, and she also fumigated the entire house with grass.

After the eldest sister woke up, she was still the same as before and still loved reading storybooks. Unexpectedly, one day she started writing storybooks, and then she suddenly became very famous and earned a lot of money. It was the first time the family had seen so much money since Dad fell ill and passed away.

In the past, our family was poor and my father was a teacher in the village. We had no food to eat after the previous one, but my eldest sister never had such symptoms. Now that we are well fed and warmly dressed, we didn’t expect this to happen. We went to see a doctor, but no problems were found.

Ye Dong'er was very surprised, but there was nothing she could do.

But one morning, when he woke up, he saw his eldest sister lying in the house with a knife in her hand, which was covered with blood. He was really scared, fearing that one day the knife in his eldest sister's hand would fall on his family.

He was about to run out to find out the news, fearing that some family in the village had met with disaster, but he did not expect that the outside of his house was marked with strange things, the gate was damaged, and there was blood on the ground.

It seems that it was not the eldest sister who ran away, but someone else who ran into the yard and wanted to do something wrong, and was met by the eldest sister who was sick, and then blood was seen. Then the next day, news came from the village that several corpses were seen.

Such a coincidence certainly couldn't have happened by chance.