Famine Bride: Marry into the best in-laws and win

Xu Manyue nodded. "Yes, it's true. Although the water that flowed out is not much, it is enough for the remaining dozen or so families in the brigade to drink."

In fact, there was no water in this well originally, but a few days ago, Mrs. Shen's health improved a lot.

In accordance with Xu Manyue's wish, the system directly gave her a special reward: a well.

However, this well also has limitations. The daily water output is only about three buckets. For more than a dozen households, there is basically no need to worry about drinking water.

She couldn't do much else, and this was one of the few things she could do for the team.

Soon, it was night.

After finishing her meal, Xu Manyue took half a roasted rabbit she had made, some sweet potatoes and two pounds of cornmeal that the old lady had put in a basket, and headed towards the cowshed.

It was already dark now. The cowshed was some distance away from the Shen family, about seven or eight minutes' walk.

Ever since he took charge of feeding the brigade's cows, Uncle Yang has been living in the cowshed with the cows, fearing that someone would steal them.

During the famine, many people wanted to take advantage of the cow, but they were all stopped by Uncle Yang.

Unexpectedly, he later killed the cow with his own hands and distributed the meat to everyone. How can one not admire him?

Soon, Xu Manyue walked to the cowshed, knocked on the door, and called out softly, "Grandpa Yang, it's me."

Old man Yang in the house had been waiting by the door for a long time. When he heard the voice, he hurried to open the door, "Man Yue, you are finally here."

Xu Manyue put the basket in her hand into the house, "Grandpa Yang, this is something my mother-in-law asked me to deliver. There is half a roasted rabbit in it. Eat it while it's hot."

Old man Yang's tears immediately flowed, and his heart felt sad and numb.

But he still returned the basket and said, "Manyue, your family is large and you have several growing children. You can take it back. I have plenty of food here."

There are still some sweet potatoes and cornmeal left that I secretly gave him during the last full moon celebration, so he can still ask for more.

After all, every household is not rich now, and food is extremely precious in this famine year.

Xu Manyue stuffed the basket of vegetables into his room and said, "Grandpa Yang, have you forgotten that when I was starving, you secretly gave me food several times."

"How can I be ungrateful now and watch you suffer?"

"Besides, these things were sent by my mother. You know her. If you didn't accept them, she would definitely come over in person tomorrow."

Grandpa Yang raised his hand and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his rough fingertips, choking with sobs.

"Man Yue, you are a good child, and your mother-in-law is kind-hearted. I, an old man, will always remember this kindness."

He didn't expect that the little kindness he showed at the time would save his life in this year of famine.

Seeing that he was willing to accept the things, Xu Manyue finally breathed a sigh of relief and turned to talk to him about the other two things that he was most concerned about.

"The well in the back mountain is actually producing water. I estimate that relief food will arrive in a month."

Old man Yang's lips moved, his eyes lit up instantly, and he was extremely excited.

"If this is true, then there would be no need for everyone to flee the famine."

But the next second, his eyes dimmed again and he squatted on the ground with his hands on his head.

"Alas, the current situation is probably the same everywhere. There are disaster-stricken areas all over the country. Even if we can get some relief food, it won't be much."

"But there's no end in sight for this drought. I don't know when we'll be able to eat enough and not starve to death."

Xu Manyue was silent.

This is indeed a problem.

At this moment, she remembered the packet of seeds rewarded by the system.

At the beginning, the system gave a bag of wheat seeds, and later rewarded a bag of corn seeds.

Two months ago, she secretly planted a corn behind the old house without watering it. She didn't know how it turned out now.

It seems I have to find an opportunity tomorrow to go and take a look secretly.

Early the next morning.

Xu Manyue got up. It was not her job to cook or do housework today, so she went out directly. The other people in the Shen family had not gotten up yet and did not notice that she had left.

When we got to that place, we saw a small corn seedling popping up.

She was shocked and quickly bent down to check the leaves of the corn seedlings. The leaves were slightly yellow and not as tall as normal corn seedlings.

But it did grow in this arid area without any fertilizer or water.

If you fertilize and water the corn properly, it will definitely grow better.

In this way, maybe we can really grow food in this famine year with this small bag of corn seeds.

Xu Manyue suppressed her excitement, quickly watered the corn seedlings, and added some fertilizer, intending to wait a few days to see how things went.

But the next second, she calmed down again.

This small bag of corn seeds is a special reward from the system. It only weighs a few taels. Even if the seeds are useful, they are not enough for planting.

This is another problem facing us.

Unless, these seeds are used for breeding.

Xu Manyue thought for a moment and decided to conduct the experiment first, and deal with other matters after the test results came out.

Moreover, this matter cannot be made known to other people, otherwise, it will be difficult to explain the origin of the seeds. Everything can only be done slowly.

On the way back, Xu Manyue kept thinking about this matter and didn't pay much attention to the road ahead.

Suddenly, a child's weak cry was heard.

She looked up and saw Xu Mingyue holding a child and secretly putting him at the gate of the Shen family. After putting the child down, she hurried to leave.

It was early in the morning and few people in the Shen family were awake, so naturally no one noticed.

Xu Manyue's face changed drastically. She ran up and quickly stopped Xu Mingyue, pointing at the child standing at the gate of the yard.

"Wait, what do you mean? You gave birth to a child and then left it at the doorstep. Do you want us to raise the child for you?"

I don’t know what this person is thinking. They don’t get along with her at all. She doesn’t think that they will be soft-hearted when they see the child and help her raise the child, right?

After Xu Mingyue was stopped, her body stiffened. She bit her lips and turned away to avoid looking at her cousin.

The Lu family had secretly fled the famine several months ago, and Lu Huaiyuan disappeared without a trace.

She had nothing left and could not support two children.

A few days ago, Xu Shanping was so hungry that his whole body was swollen and he died in bed in the middle of the night; Old Man Xu did have some savings hidden, but because she gave birth to a child, those things were almost gone.

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Xu Manyue dragged her to the gate of the Shen family and threw her in front of the child. "You gave birth to this child, you can take her away. If you don't take her away, I will throw her away."

Xu Mingyue panicked instantly. She no longer cared about her face. She directly grabbed Xu Manyue's hand, knelt in front of her, and tears couldn't stop falling.

"Sister, I'm sorry. I was the one who wronged you back then, but the child is innocent, and it's a boy. Please have pity on the child and take him home to raise."

"Although I was wrong, the child is innocent. Brother Huaiyuan has always had you in his heart. You two had such a good relationship back then. How could you bear to let his child starve to death?"

"Sister, Sister Manyue, please raise this child as your own son. I really have nowhere else to go."

Xu Mingyue cried and begged with tears and snot.

Now she really has no other choice, otherwise, she wouldn't have thrown the child in front of the Shen family's door.