Li Lanzhen entered the yard and the yard instantly became quiet.

At this time, a hearty man's laughter interrupted everyone's silence: "Hahaha, dear relative, you are back. Thank you for asking your daughter to go back and call us. We have come to find you with our family, and are ready to escape the famine with you."

Li Lanzhen knew from her memory that this was Xue Lao Hu, the father of her second daughter-in-law Xue Nizi. He was a hunter and looked strong, worthy of being a hunter who had been in the mountains for many years.

She also smiled and greeted everyone: "Why thank you? We are all family. Besides, your daughter is worried about you. I also thought that I didn't know where I would end up and whether I would be able to come back. So I helped your daughter to fulfill her filial piety."

Li Lanzhen saw her eldest daughter-in-law's parents, both of whom were honest farmers. Her mother was rather thin, while her eldest sister-in-law was a talkative and lively person.

She walked forward, greeted Li Lanzhen and said with a smile, "Aunt-in-law, our whole family really thanks you for asking your brother-in-law to come to our house and call us to escape the famine together.

No one in our village wanted to leave their hometown, except for a few families who had relatives or children in other villages or cities.

My parents-in-law and my elder brother Yue Niang are worried that they may never see my sister again after fleeing the famine. I am really lucky to have such a good mother-in-law like you."

Li Lanzhen laughed inwardly: Well, good mother-in-law, who was it that jumped up and down in front of my eldest daughter-in-law and called me the worst evil mother-in-law in the area.

With a smile on his face, he said, "Okay, it's good that you're here. Let's all find a place to rest."

He turned to look at his eldest daughter-in-law who was standing at the kitchen door looking around. When she saw him looking at her, she immediately lowered her head.

"Big brother's wife, are all the dry food ready? Have you cooked dinner?"

"Mom, the dry food is ready. I, I haven't made dinner yet. I turned all the food you gave me into dry food." As he said this, he did not forget to look at Li Lanzhen's face.

"Okay, you take a rest. I'll cook dinner with the second son's wife. We also need to make pancakes and boil water in the evening."

As he spoke, he walked into his room to look at the two backpacks.

Sitting on the bed and taking a break to catch her breath, Li Lanzhen used her consciousness to check the supplies in her space, and she was shocked by what she saw.

"What's going on here?"

The space is filled with quilts, cotton jackets, and cotton trousers, all made of blue and army green coarse cloth. They look so much like the things found in the labor protection store of the era in which I lived. Look, there are also rubber shoes and rubber-cotton shoes, and there are quite a few of them. However, it looks like they have been in stock for a long time, but the quantity is sufficient.

There were also two piles of cotton sticking out, which looked like the backlog in the warehouse. They were yellow and some had been soaked in water and then dried, now sticking together.

What does it matter? These are all treasures. It’s autumn now, and I don’t know if I can find a place to live in winter. Even if I do find a place to live, where can I find cotton in a short time?

Looking again, the big stone mill hanging in the mall is gone. This merchant is really sincere and gave so many winter supplies.

Looking again, there is a half barrel of brown sugar next to it. It is probably in bulk, weighing about 5 kilograms.

There was no homespun cloth, but there were several rolls of oilcloth, so many that I couldn't even hold them all with my arms around them.

There is also black plastic sheeting, which is great and has many uses. The dried ginger slices are packed in two black garbage bags, weighing about ten pounds. It's such a luxury to give so much.

Hey, there are two small wooden jars filled with fine salt. I didn’t ask for table salt. Is this an extra addition?

Hahaha, there are more than a dozen large and small wooden basins and barrels, which are super worth it! Thank you so much to this merchant! No matter where you are, I wish you a long life.

She browsed the mall again and saw a window that actually needed oilcloth. There were three chicken feathers on the message. Could it be a chicken feather letter?

Well, I can give him a roll of oilcloth.

She told him that the materials she needed to exchange were food, just food or bran.

As a result, it was gone in seconds!

There was an extra sack of wheat bran, half a sack of corn grits, and a small amount of sweet potatoes and potatoes mixed together, filling half a bag.

Li Lanzhen sat up and took out the big knife, coarse salt, 10 eggs, and a big wooden barrel that could hold ten kilograms of water from the basket. She took out the white flour, corn flour, and rye bran, mixed them together, and filled more than half a bag and two and a half bags. Of course, there was more rye bran in it, which looked black, and it should be even darker if made into pancakes or cooked into porridge.

Soybeans and black beans were also mixed together and filled up half a bag.

She carried a large bag of black flour with five eggs in it and went out to ask her two daughters-in-law to prepare dinner.

"Second daughter-in-law, come and make dinner. Cook some porridge and beat an egg into it. Cook the remaining four for your eldest sister-in-law and the children. They will eat them on the way tomorrow.

After the meal, you can make pancakes with the remaining flour and take them with you tomorrow.

Oh, when you cook, bring the food from the two families as well, otherwise you won’t be able to eat it.”

After saying that, he ignored it and went to see how the cart that the second brother Han Mingjiang was repairing was doing. With such a large family, how could they get by with just a mule cart?

When we arrived at the backyard, it was quite lively, with everyone talking about the big blue mule they had just bought.

"Third brother, you and mother are so lucky that we bought such a good big blue mule. Now it will be easier for us to escape the famine." The second brother, Han Mingjiang, looked at Han Mingxiang with envy and said with his mouth wide open.

There were two donkey carts nearby, with two donkeys tied to one side, eating grass. The big blue mule in his family was tilting its head back and neighing.

He looked with disdain at the two donkeys chewing hay happily in his big eyes, and was secretly proud of the fact that his mistress gave him the best dry food - soybeans, and he drank mountain spring water, and he was very happy.

The eldest daughter-in-law's elder brother Zhang Songshu saw Li Lanzhen and smiled innocently: "Aunt, this mule is really rare."

After talking for a while, a few people returned to the front yard as there was still a lot of work to do.

Everyone packed up their own things, and the children packed up their own things, made a small bag, and carried it on their backs tomorrow.

"Big brother, set the table quickly and have dinner. After dinner, go to the well and draw up all the water. Boil it and let it cool down. Take it with you on the road tomorrow. Don't drink unboiled water. There are bacteria in it. If you don't listen and drink cold water, I will leave whoever gets diarrhea on the road without any care."

Everyone was stunned. What did it mean to ignore the bacteria and just leave it on the road? Who could tolerate this? Li Lanzhen's scare really worked. From then on, the three families stopped drinking raw water.

Seeing that Li Lanzhen was having dinner at home, the Xue and Zhang families all tried to avoid it. Unexpectedly, Li Lanzhen called them over and said, "Both families, come over and have dinner together. We are ready. Everyone will have food. After we have eaten our fill, we will pack up and leave tomorrow morning."

Xue Nizi filled a bowl of thick black flour porridge for adults and children, and added a bowl of salty water from pickled vegetables. Whoever wanted to eat it could scoop a little with a spoon and pour it into the bowl of porridge to drink.

After dinner, Xue Nizi and Zhang Yue Niang started to work. The other two families also set up stoves in the yard and started to prepare dry food.

Li Lanzhen scooped two bowls of black noodles for each of the two families and asked the two daughters-in-law to take them back to their parents' homes. Both families were very grateful to Li Lanzhen, and they were also wondering in their hearts how their mother-in-law had become so nice.

"Yinan, come and give this bowl of black noodles to Goudan's family. Tell them to pack their things and come here before dawn to escape the famine together."

"Hey! Thank you grandma. I will tell Goudan. Second uncle also made a cart for Goudan that a child can push to carry things."

So, just after the hour of Chou the next day, Li Lanzhen, with her children, grandchildren and in-laws, raced at full speed in the direction the village chief and his companions had gone.

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