Lu Qingqing prepared four dishes and a soup for lunch.

She is deft and quick.

After a while, four dishes and a soup were neatly placed on the stone table.

Fresh spare ribs stewed with wild mushroom soup, lean meat braised with sweet potatoes, bamboo shoots fried with lard, spicy fish head with chopped pepper, and there was only a little bit of dried purslane left, so I cut two pounds of pork belly and made a great soup dish.

There was a stove next to the dining table. The gurgling hot steam from the stove prevented the freshly cooked dishes from getting cold quickly. The dishes were still hot until everyone took the last bite.

The family ate around the stove and they were sweating without realizing it.

In this kind of weather, it is very good to sweat and drive away the cold.

But the sweat started to smell as it flowed, because they hadn't taken a bath since the famine broke out.

After the snow fell, the weather was cold and no one was sweating, so they didn't feel smelly.

Now that they were sweating and hadn't taken a shower for a long time, they suddenly released the smell of rotten eggs, which instantly filled the entire cave.

Fortunately, everyone was full.

They all dispersed one by one, and the smell slowly faded away until it disappeared.

Second Uncle and Second Aunt are both people who cannot sit still. Yang Liuqing took a break for a quarter of an hour after finishing his meal and then went to continue digging the back door. Lu Yaoyao followed closely behind.

Lu Hu glanced at them and asked Lu Qingqing what she was going to do in the afternoon.

Lu Qingqing was just about to take a rest in the afternoon, but the moment she looked up, she saw a group of disaster victims returning with their bags hurriedly passing by outside the cave.

This group of disaster victims are the ones to whom Land Rover provided the wild yam land!

They passed by the cave carrying baskets full of wild potatoes, but no one came over to express their gratitude.

Well, what an ungrateful bunch of people!

However, Lu Qingqing did not need their thanks, nor did she regret telling them about the wild yam.

After all, a hungry person can do anything.

If they become popular among these disaster victims, I'm afraid they won't be able to go far in the future!

Lu Qingqing glanced at them quickly and said:

"Uncle, let's take a break and go out to find something to eat."

"Okay." Land Rover grinned.

Now we don’t have to farm and wait for three or four months of rice harvest to make a living.

Lu Hu felt that it was a pleasure to go out and find ready-made food every day.

There are indeed a lot of wild sweet potatoes in Xifeng Mountain.

Lu Qingqing and her group, together with the disaster victims living on the mountain, went out early and came back late every day. It took them more than ten days to dig up all the wild sweet potatoes on the entire mountain.

Now, every disaster-stricken household has a lot of wild sweet potatoes in their hands.

They won't starve to death this winter.

Days passed in the blink of an eye and it was December 15th.

The back door of the cave was also dug through on this day. The back door was not very big and could only accommodate an adult.

Going out from the back door, there is a dense forest that stretches as far as the eye can see.

Lu Qingqing went out from the back door to explore the road. After walking out of the dense forest, there will be a downhill road that is only wide enough for one person to pass, extending all the way to the foot of the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, there is an official road that leads out of Lancheng and heads to Mingzhou.

In fifteen days, the new year will be here.

After the New Year, the temperature rises at the beginning of spring.

They were about to set off from this road, but not to Mingzhou, but to Yongquanzhou.

However, Lu Qingqing didn't expect that before they even set off, their entire family was almost wiped out forever on Xifeng Mountain.

After the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, the usually quiet Xifeng Mountain suddenly became lively.

As we have entered the new year, the disaster victims have begun to prepare for the New Year.

Now that we are fleeing famine and our home is no longer there, many complicated and tedious preparations are no longer necessary.

But some customs cannot be abandoned.

For example, wearing new clothes and a new hat and having a good meal are all necessary after all.

At this time, the victims living in the sheds and the other eleven caves went down the mountain one after another to the market to purchase goods.

Some victims who still had money on them would use it to buy it.

If they didn't have money, they would carry freshly dug wild potatoes to the market to exchange for what they needed.

In short, no matter how poor they are and have nothing to eat, in order to welcome the arrival of the New Year, they will try their best to buy a decent set of New Year clothes for their family.

Lu Qingqing stood at the entrance of the cave, watching the endless stream of disaster victims going up and down the mountain, her ink-black eyes darkening inch by inch.

What a bunch of idiots!

You can go down the mountain without any cover, without any fear of being targeted by bad guys!

"Qingqing, how about you and Zheng'er take Yaoyao with you to the market to take a look?"

Yang Liuqing stood beside Lu Qingqing at some point and saw her staring at the disaster victims who were going to buy things. She thought she also wanted to go down the mountain to the market. After thinking about it, she proposed to Lu Qingqing.

But Lu Qingqing shook her head. She had no desire to go to the market at all.

He just fell into silence as he watched the disaster victims going out to buy things.

As she watched, she realized something was wrong.

The group of disaster victims going down the mountain to the market to buy goods have been walking back and forth for three days.

During these three days, no one had any intention of attacking them.

Lu Qingqing found this matter very strange. She quickly thought about it and figured it out bit by bit.

The disaster victims in Lancheng were not allowed to go out to make a living, and their food reserves had long been used up.

Otherwise, she and her cousin wouldn't be targeted when they went to the market.

The victims were coming down the mountain to buy things, making such a big noise. Logically speaking, they should have been targeted a long time ago!

but none!

For three consecutive days, not a single disaster victim was targeted for robbery!

Lu Qingqing had all kinds of guesses in her mind!

Are all the disaster victims in Lancheng dead?

This is impossible!

Have they all changed and become good people?

Impossible!

Could it be that the imperial court sent relief grain?

The imperial court has long since stopped caring about their lives, so this is even more impossible.

Neither this nor that, Lu Qingqing let out a breath of foul air in annoyance.

At this moment, her eyes flashed and she thought of a possibility.

Unless, there are other people targeting the victims, and these people are feared by the victims!

Who are the disaster victims afraid of?

Bandits and soldiers.

But if it was really the bandits and soldiers who were targeting these disaster victims, why didn’t they take action yet?

Lu Qingqing thought about it carefully and soon came up with the answer.

Maybe these people wanted to do something big and didn't want to act so quickly and alert the enemy.

Thinking of this, Lu Qingqing quickly told everyone about this idea.

When everyone heard this, they all showed worried and uneasy expressions.

The frozen snow has not melted yet, and the New Year is approaching again.

If a group of bandits came to rob things at this time, their cave would be so well-defended and so eye-catching!

They will definitely be the first ones that group of bandits will rob!

Lu Hu thought for a moment and quickly said, "We can't just sit there and wait for death. After dinner, Zheng Er and I will go out for a walk."

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