Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

After walking about ten meters into the cornfield, Han Zhaozhao realized that something was wrong.

The corn here has been broken!

She remembered clearly that last night, the five of them started to pick corn in the middle of the field and had already gone more than a hundred meters deep into the cornfield.

But this trace...

She stopped, grabbed Niu Xiaoyun, and poked Xiao Sanzi who was walking in front of her.

"What? Zhaozhao, you..." Xiao Sanzi turned around and was about to ask in a low voice, but under the bright moonlight, he saw Han Zhaozhao with his index finger raised in front of his mouth, and immediately fell silent.

"Shh! Don't make any noise! ​​There are people here!" Han Zhaozhao moved closer to him and pointed at Niu Xiaomin and Niu Xiaolian in front of him.

The third kid is very clever!

After chasing for a few steps, they grabbed the Niu brothers and sisters. A group of people carefully examined the ends of the corn cobs.

"It's still leaking water! It must have been freshly broken!" Niu Xiaolian is the most attentive.

Niu Xiaomin's third son squatted down and checked the footprints on the ground.

"Those are adults' footprints! There are at least three of them!"

"Let's get out of here quickly and go to another place!" Han Zhaozhao made a decisive decision.

The five people did not hesitate at all. They crouched down, carefully tried to control themselves as not to make too much noise, and moved horizontally through the cornfield.

After walking for more than twenty minutes, they left the field and, under the leadership of Niu Xiaomin, crossed the high ridges and entered the next farmland.

"This piece of land is even larger, but there is no road up the mountain. To carry corn up the mountain, we have to go through the woods." Niu Xiaomin explained the situation.

Only when they went deep into the field did the children relax, slowly stop, and begin to discuss in low voices.

As soon as he said it, Han Zhaozhao knew which piece of land it was.

“It’s okay. The forest was just cut down two days ago. There are only tree stumps on the ground. It’s easy to walk even if there is no road.

When you two are carrying corn up the mountain, watch your step. It’s dark and it’s not fun to trip and fall.”

"Don't worry! We're used to walking at night in the past few months, it'll be fine!" This was not a problem. For Niu Xiaomin and Xiao Sanzi, they were already familiar with the ditches and bumps nearby.

"Then let's break up here!"

"Okay, let's pick them here! The corn cobs in this field are quite big and closer to the air-raid shelter!" Xiao Sanzi agreed with a smile.

"You guys do it first, I'll go around and see if anyone is blocking the area." Niu Xiaomin was more cautious. He threw down the sack and went around to observe the situation.

"Be careful!"

"Be careful, and come back and let us know if you find anything wrong!"

Han Zhaozhao and Niu Xiaoyun whispered instructions.

The third child was the most ambitious and had already started to crack the corn cobs.

It has been almost an hour since he left home, and he hasn't done any work yet. He is getting a little impatient.

Han Zhaozhao also started to work. She had pricked up her ears and listened carefully along the way. In a five-mile radius, besides them, there were only three other people working in the field. The surroundings were very safe.

Niu Xiaoyun followed Han Zhaozhao without saying a word, lined up with her, and started to pick corn.

Niu Xiaolian's heart was still beating wildly. The feeling of being a thief was so exciting and it was not something that ordinary people could do.

Looking at these three people, each of them was very brave, so she could only start working on the other side of Han Zhaozhao.

The three of them broke the corn and threw it into a pile, pushing it forward, leaving piles of corn on the field behind them.

After about 20 minutes, Niu Xiaomin came back quietly, "Just do your job, I didn't notice anyone around!"

Niu Xiaolianxin is still holding it! "Second brother, the people in the field just now were also here to pick corn? They are not bad guys who are causing trouble, right?"

"They are not bad people. They should be villagers nearby. They have the same idea as us. I found the baskets they brought in the field!"

I am here to steal corn! Niu Xiaolian felt relieved now. She felt that she was not alone anymore because she had someone to share the company with.

After Niu Xiaomin came back, he and Xiao Sanzi started to pack the fruits into bags and carry them up the mountain, while the three girls were picking them in the fields.

After working for more than an hour, the corns picked from the field piled up more and more. Niu Xiaolian saw that the two boys could not carry it all, so she also joined the transportation team carrying half a sack of corn.

Han Zhaozhao can finally cheat!

He broke off three and threw two into the space, waving his two little hands quickly.

In the cornfield under the night sky, the only sounds you can hear are "crunching" and "rustling"!

No one spoke anymore, everyone just worked silently, at an incredibly fast speed and with extremely high efficiency!

In one night, the five of them searched about two acres of land. According to Niu Xiaomin, they found enough corn cobs, one or two thousand kilograms.

After drying, there will be about five or six hundred kilograms of corn kernels!

They did their job skillfully. Each of them held a pencil sharpener and cut directly on the corn stalks or the corn cobs, tearing off the husk and leaving only the corn.

If you don't touch it, at first glance, you would think the corn cob is still intact!

Before leaving, Xiao Sanzi looked back and couldn't help laughing: "It will take a while for no one to notice that the corn is missing!"

This time they were more careful. Niu Xiaomin and Xiao Sanzi went to the main road to observe first, and found that the basket had disappeared long ago. Then they made two bird calls of "chirp, chirp" and asked the girls to leave quickly.

Walk in the dark, not the white; avoid the light when you see it!

The sky before dawn was very dark. In the suburbs, several children did not dare to turn on the flashlight and had to walk in the dark.

Fortunately, they had walked this road countless times in the past six months, and they knew all the potholes, stones, and puddles by heart.

He trotted back to the city at a very fast speed.

"Stop! What are you doing, guys? " A blindingly strong electric light shone directly into the faces of several children.

Just two blocks away from Shuijing Hutong, they were unlucky enough to run into a safety inspector.

"Hey, don't shine it into my eyes, I can't see!" Several children covered their faces at the same time.

"What are you doing? You're wandering around the streets in the dark. Are you spies?"

As they got closer, the flashlight deviated and the two groups met, and then they realized that they were actually a group of children.

The five children breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the people coming were two middle-aged men with red armbands on their arms.

"You are the spies! Have you ever seen a spy who was six or seven years old? Are all the spies dead or paralyzed? Do we have to use children?"

"Cough cough!" The two guys with red armbands kept coughing because of the third kid's scolding. They really didn't see it clearly just now. Who could have thought that in the middle of the night, a group of half-grown children were not sleeping at home, but strolling around the streets.

"Where are you from, and why are you wandering around the streets at this time?

Now we all eat in public canteens, and we don’t have to queue up at food stations to buy food. Don’t try to fool me, you have to give me a legitimate reason.”

One of the sturdy and serious men asked.

"We are from Jingshui Hutong. We heard that there is iron ore in Dongshan, so we went up the mountain to look for it. We got tired and fell asleep on the mountain..."

The third child told lies without thinking, and the other children all understood his lies and nodded in agreement.

"Yes, we don't have enough raw materials for the local blast furnaces in our street. We are worried that we won't be able to complete the task assigned by the higher-ups, so everyone is trying to find a solution."

"Just you? A bunch of kids, going up the mountain to look for iron ore? Just because bragging is tax-free, you can brag as much as you want?

If there is an iron mine near our capital, would it be your turn to look for it?

Go, go, go home, wash up and go to bed! Don't cause trouble for the adults, that's already helping!

Why don't you go home so late at night and dare to spend the night in the mountains? There are many wild animals in the mountains, so you are not afraid of any accidents!"