Rebirth of an Old Farmer: Escape from Famine with Children and Grandchildren

No matter what, it's good to replenish energy.

In the past, Sun Wan had tried to plant a few plots of land and harvested a lot of new crops that were not widely circulated in the local area at that time, such as sweet potatoes and potatoes.

The villagers were not surprised by this, but just thought it was a benefit given by nature.

The other two sacks contained corn cobs, which made Sun Wan curious: Why give whole corn instead of processed corn flour?

Do you want to eat the whole corn?

The last package was only half full and was filled with a variety of different seeds;

This puzzled Sun Wan: since the buyer requested a lot of crop samples, why did he also want these seeds?

They clearly already have the seeds themselves.

No matter what, you can't guess what the other person is thinking anyway, so as long as you have what you need on hand, that's enough.

I guess the system itself doesn't know what's going on.

Sun Wan didn't worry about the seeds for the time being and placed them in a corner of her storage space.

She plans to wait until her life is stable in the future and she owns her own land before carefully studying what these unknown seeds are.

What is a little disappointing is that this time only various food crops were brought, without any cotton or items such as cotton-padded clothes and quilts needed for the winter.

Therefore, the most urgent thing is to find some valuable items such as calligraphy and paintings, antiques, jade, gold and silver utensils, and then use these things to exchange them at the shop that specializes in providing labor protection supplies.

While she was thinking about it, she suddenly remembered that a merchant seemed to have expressed interest in ordinary stones.

This place is full of various rocks. Maybe you can just pick up a few and give them to the other party to test the waters and see if you can exchange them for some practical supplies?

Even if it's just a small amount of cotton, it would be fine!

Sun Wan couldn't help but laugh out loud at the thought that there were merchants in this interstellar mall willing to accept ordinary stones as commodities.

"Hahaha," she thought to herself, "It's not a rare gem like Yuhua Stone or a valuable item like jade. Even such an ordinary stone can be traded? This is really strange, but also surprising."

No matter what, as long as the other party is willing to accept it and can get something beneficial from it, it's fine.

With this mood, Sun Wan soon fell into a dream.

Sun Wan woke up when the first rays of dawn appeared in the sky.

At this time, the wife of the second son in the family had already started busy work, preparing to boil water to make wild vegetable soup for breakfast.

A bowl of wild vegetable soup so clear that you can see a human face reflected at the bottom, plus two crude but fragrant wild vegetable pancakes, constitute today's breakfast.

Whether adults or children in the family, everyone was given the same two wild vegetable cakes; in order to ensure that the several males in their prime had enough energy to replenish their energy, an extra cake was added as extra supply, especially for young people with strong physiques like Zhang Kun.

Li Lanzhong couldn't help but smile bitterly at this situation. "With so many kids at home, if they keep eating like this every day, an old man like me will definitely go bankrupt."

While enjoying the simple but nutritious meal, everyone heard the good news from Zhang Lao Hu: they only needed to walk five more miles to reach Yongkang City.

After passing two smaller county towns, you will officially enter the territory of Youzhou.

After hearing this news, everyone became extremely excited because they finally had the opportunity to find a suitable place to settle down and end this long-term nomadic lifestyle.

Sun Wan wanted to go into the city to do some shopping. She was thinking about all the things in the city, so she asked tentatively, "Father-in-law, are we planning to go into the city?"

Zhang Lao Hu replied, "We don't know the exact situation in the city yet. After all, the situation outside is constantly changing. We'll find out once we get closer."

Su Yousheng said, "Mom, I heard from the village chief of Dongjiazhuang that the gates of this city have been sealed and refugees are not allowed to enter. However, it is said that the city is very prosperous and there is plenty of food, but the price is very high, so high that people can't afford it."

Sun Wan thought about it and decided to give it a try no matter what. She took out some food that she usually didn't want to eat from her storage space and put it on the mule cart. She also considered whether it was possible to get a more formal cart to carry more things.

Everyone in the village was thinking this way, hoping to get into the city and exchange the wild vegetables and mushrooms they had for some food or other necessities, even if it was just a little bit.

Especially the chestnuts they had collected with great effort, they were reluctant to eat them themselves, thinking that they might be able to exchange them for more food or other necessities such as salt and medicine after entering the city.

Everyone ate breakfast in a hurry. Many people didn't even light a fire to cook. They just ate a few bites of dry biscuits and set off.

This is a rare good day, after all, food shortages are the norm.

The people in Dongjiazhuang had almost no food left. Food was constantly discarded and stolen along the way, and they could only fill their stomachs by digging wild vegetables and tree bark from the roadside.

They picked up stones and smashed the bark and grass roots hard, turning these rough things into a paste, which they fed to children or the elderly.

Those who are strong and have good teeth just chew the bark or grass roots to fill their stomachs.

This feeling of hunger has been with them for a long time, and everyone is trying to endure it, looking forward to new hope.

Sun Wan watched a skinny child swallow a black object, which must be some kind of grass root.

She saw the child stretching his neck very long before he could swallow it. The painful look made Sun Wan feel very uncomfortable.

At this moment, she didn't know what to do and was hesitant.

Should we give them food to help them?

What is the reason behind such actions?

No clue at all.

Moreover, it is unwise to give alms without any reason.

She was still far from figuring out how to support these people.

The crowd in Sujia Village moved slowly, as if time was stretched out.

When the sun rose to the top of our heads, we could finally see the gate tower of Yongkang City. It stood in the distance, as if welcoming these tired souls.

The place is occupied by a vast plain, surrounded on three sides by mountains, which are tall and steep, reaching into the sky.

Li Lan couldn't help but wonder if the catastrophic flood had also flowed over the other side of the mountain?

Did the people there suffer the same hardship?

Of course, in addition to the outline of the city, their sight also included the dense crowds on both sides of the official road outside the city gate. People gathered there to seek shelter, hoping to get a temporary respite from this ruthless fate.