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The village chief and his comrades were reluctant to put the sweet potatoes and potatoes into the fire to roast.

After washing everything, cut it into small pieces and cook it into soup in two large clay pots.

Cooked some fresh seafood in a small clay pot.

Li Lanzhen saw fish, shrimp, clams, squid, and sea cucumbers, quite a variety.

The village chief's wife smashed a piece of washed ginger with a stick and threw it into the ceramic pot used to cook seafood.

Li Lanzhen saw that they probably didn't have an iron pot, so they used clay pots to cook rice and fish.

But these pottery jars all have wide mouths and big bellies.

After two quarters of an hour, the sweet potato and potato grains gave off a sweet smell.

The pot where seafood is cooked also exudes the unique aroma of seafood.

Li Lanzhen was relieved. She was really afraid that the seafood would smell fishy after being cooked. If it tasted like that, she didn't know whether she would still eat it.

Now it seems that there is no need to worry.

Fresh ingredients, with simple cooking methods, can make a delicious dish.

During this dynasty, the sea water was not polluted, the seafood in the sea was not polluted, and even the air was fresh.

So just boil it in water and it will be delicious.

Li Lanzhen didn't eat the sweet potato soup, she only scooped a bowl of seafood soup.

I took a sip of the soup first. It was delicious. The spicy wild ginger added freshness to the seafood and suppressed the fishy smell of the seafood. I felt warm after taking a sip.

The village chief gave each family a bowl of the two cans of sweet potato and potato soup.

Every household in the village came with a bowl in both hands and went home happily.

Li Lanzhen discovered that the village chief's family had quite a lot of people, more than a dozen.

There are three sons and two little daughters.

The two sons have already started their own families, and the grandchildren include three boys and two girls.

Both adults and children are dark and thin.

It feels like a layer of skin is stretched tight around the bones.

The sweet potato soup was distributed to the families in the village. There was not much left. In this big family, the men got most of the soup, the women got half a bowl, and the children got even less.

From this we can see that the village chief is quite fair and unselfish.

Li Lanzhen was eating while observing them. She saw the village chief hesitate to speak several times.

She didn't say anything either. Since she didn't ask, this question must be a bit troublesome.

She didn't want to cause trouble, she just wanted to bring some dried seafood back to Youzhou Prefecture.

By the way, if you can help them a little, then help them.

Li Lanzhen ate two bowls of seafood soup, then washed her own bowl with water and put it in her backpack.

Several women went to clean up the dishes, and the children should have gone out to play in the village.

Only the village chief and his two eldest sons were sitting there.

Li Lanzhen sat quietly. The village chief's daughter, a little girl of about twelve or thirteen years old, brought five or six dried squids and roasted them on the stove.

After a while, the dried squid gave off a sweet and fishy aroma.

After roasting the dried squid on both sides until golden brown, she brought out a stone and a short wooden stick as thick as her arm.

Place it next to the fire pit, put the roasted dried squid on a stone and beat it gently with a wooden stick.

After a while, the roasted brown dried squid was beaten loose again.

She handed it to Li Lanzhen with a smile.

"Auntie, eat it, it's delicious!"

Li Lanzhen took it with a smile, tore off a piece, put it in her mouth, and chewed it slowly.

The unique sweet taste of squid is rich and chewy.

It is much fresher and more delicious than the packaged dried squid you buy in supermarkets nowadays.

Li Lanzhen took out a dozen pieces of maltose from her pocket and handed them to the girl.

"Here, take it and eat it with your brothers, sisters, and nephews."

Li Lanzhen was clearly watching the little girl swallowing her saliva, her bright eyes glued to the maltose and unable to move away.

But he did not reach out to take it, but looked up at the village chief.

The village chief smiled kindly, "Go ahead, just take it if your aunt gives it to you."

When the atmosphere calmed down, the village chief finally spoke.

"Girl, I want to tell you something."

Li Lanzhen looked up at him without saying a word.

He continued, "Our fishing village is very poor, and the seafood we catch in three days can't be exchanged for much food.

There are only two villages nearby, including ours, and there is another village. You see, it's just over the mountain behind us. Life in their village is even more difficult than in ours.

I was thinking, could you also buy the seafood from their village and exchange it for food?"

After saying that, the village chief looked at Li Lanzhen expectantly.

Li Lanzhen thought for a moment and nodded.

"Okay, but the prerequisite is that all their dried seafood must be exactly the same as yours, clean and hygienic, and then you can exchange food with them.

You are in charge of the quality. If any of them fail to meet the standards, I will not accept them all.”

After Li Lanzhen finished speaking, the village chief's two sons straightened their bodies and looked at the village chief seriously.

The village chief also sat up straight and spoke to Li Lanzhen solemnly.

"My dear sister, don't worry, I will ensure the quality of the dried seafood.

Moreover, the people in our village are not the kind of people who would cheat or deceive. They all know that this is food that they are going to eat, so they clean it up very cleanly.

And they are all freshly caught seafood, cleaned and then dried in the sun.”

During the night rest, the village chief let Li Lanzhen and the dark and thin girl sleep together.

There was no bed or wooden planks. The floor was probably covered with thatch, and on top was a rattan mat, which was fortunately soft.

The next morning, Li Lanzhen did not eat at the village chief's house.

She said she wanted to go out and take a look.

Let the village chief seize the time and collect all the dried seafood that can be exchanged for food with him and put them in their home.

Weigh the weight and calculate the amount of food to be exchanged.

Li Lanzhen did not go to the beach. He wanted to give them sweet potatoes and potatoes so that they would have seeds to harvest more food. He wanted to go to the mountain behind to take a look.

Since you want to help them, go and see what the soil on the mountain is like.

Is it possible to grow sweet potatoes and potatoes?

After climbing up the hillside, you can see pieces of reclaimed wasteland with some vegetables planted on them.

There are radishes, cabbages and several other vegetables that I don’t recognize.

The plants weren't growing well, so she grabbed a handful of soil and took a look.

Even if sweet potatoes and potatoes are grown on such land, the yield is not very high.

But there is always a kind of food that can bring them a little hope.

"Auntie, auntie."

Li Lanzhen squatted on the ground and grabbed a few handfuls of soil. She looked around and thought, then she heard a childish voice calling her.

He stood up and turned around, and saw two children in front of him.

A boy about ten years old, and next to him, clinging tightly to his thighs, was a little girl of two or three years old.

The two children are so thin, they look like big-headed dolls.

The eyes are not big, but they are very black and bright.

The boy was holding a few things in his hands. When he saw Li Lanzhen looking at them, he said timidly.

"Aunt, there are only my sister and I in our family.

We can’t catch much seafood, and we don’t have much dried seafood at home.

But without food, my sister had nothing to eat.

Can I use this thing to exchange for food with my aunt?"

He said that he held those things in both hands and held them high up to show Li Lanzhen.

He said eagerly, "Auntie, it is sweet. If you peel off the outer skin and bite it hard, sweet juice will come out."

When Li Lanzhen heard what he said, an idea flashed through her mind.

She picked up the four or five red and black sticks in the child's hand, which were about as thick as the child's arms, and took a closer look.

Oh my god! It's sugar cane!

I walked around Taohuayuan Valley, Xishan East Mountain, and even the nearby mountains several times but didn't see the sugarcane.

I actually found it here!

She squatted down, took out six pieces of maltose and handed them to the little girl.

The little girl's eyes lit up, her lips moved, and she was about to grab the candy with both hands, but then she pulled her hands back and looked up at her brother.

The little boy grabbed two pieces of maltose from Li Lanzhen.

"Thank you, auntie. Two pieces are enough for my sister. You can eat the rest."

After saying this, he stuffed one piece into his sister's mouth, and for the other piece he took out a leaf from his body, wrapped it up and put it away.

Li Lanzhen put all the remaining maltose in his hands.

"Leave it for your sister to eat slowly. You can have a piece too."

"Aunt, this is not called sugar cane, it's called sedge. It's sweet!"

"Herb?! How can something so sweet have such a weird name?"

Li Lanzhen didn't know, all she knew was it was called sugarcane!