Send me to the countryside? Turn around and make you homeless!

He had already taken the things, and it would be too deliberate to return them. In addition, seeing Zhao Sanni's bright and eager eyes, Zhao Xiaosi finally held the candy tightly in his hand and did not say no.

"Sister Tan, do you want to eat eels and loaches? My brothers and I are really good at catching eels and loaches. If you want to eat them, I'll catch some and bring them to you tomorrow."

His grandfather said that the harvest was good this year, and after the double harvest, he would exchange his work points for money and send him to school.

His elder brother is already in the fourth grade this year and will be able to go to the village middle school next year. His elder brother said that scholars should not take other people's things for free. Sister Tan's things did not fall from the sky. Since he accepted the candy, he naturally could not accept it for free.

Zhao Xiaosi insisted on doing so, and Tan Yuan didn't say much, just told him to send it over.

For children growing up in the countryside, catching loaches and eels is a basic skill. Every summer, these wild game are abundant in the fields.

Especially after the double harvest, the fields are full of children with flashlights at night.

Each person is allocated a fixed amount of land every day. When everyone is harvesting and bundling rice during the day, they will more or less intentionally leave some rice on the ground.

At night, they would let their children go to the fields to pick up rice. Everyone had a tacit understanding and only went to the fields that their families had harvested during the day. Sometimes they could even pick up a whole basket of rice in one night.

It is at times like this that children would also pick up loaches and eels from the fields to improve the family's meals.

When Zhao Xiaosi heard that Tan Yuan wanted it, he was overjoyed. He felt that he had found a place to use his skills and that the candy was not taken in vain.

The fish fry is only as big as a fingernail. Although small, it tastes tender and is perfect for making soup.

For such a small fish, there is no need to even remove the internal organs from its stomach. Just rub the bottom of the pot with oil and throw the fish in to stir-fry. Add boiling water and start simmering. After a while, the aroma is everywhere and the soup is incredibly white.

It is a great dish to use for soaking rice.

These things were given to Tan Yuan alone by the Zhao family. Tan Yuan exchanged them for her own candies. Li Xiu and the others were actually not at all embarrassed to eat them, but... they really couldn't help but pick up their chopsticks.

"Yuanyuan, you don't have to plow the soil tomorrow. Just let me do it."

The tone of Nian Lin's words left no room for Tan Yuan to refute. After she finished speaking, she finished the last bite of rice in the bowl and went to wash the dishes.

......Li Xiu said that she was very panicked because Nian Lin had taken the lead in turning the soil. How should she repay him?

"Well...let's have noodles tomorrow morning. I'll take care of it."

The only thing she can offer now is the noodles.

Tan Yuan's chopsticks stopped in mid-air. This development of the matter was completely beyond her expectations. She thought that she couldn't keep the little fish alive by herself, and she couldn't finish it by herself, so it would be better to share it with everyone.

Now it was the three men's turn to be in trouble. Nian Lin had a good relationship with Tan Yuan and even said that she would help Tan Yuan hoe the fields. Li Xiu had noodles, which could be considered an exchange. But what about them...

I have nothing, and the three of them don't know whether to eat or not.

"Then... I'll go fetch water tomorrow."

"I'll go get some firewood."

“I…I…I’m going…”

After thinking for a long time, Lin Wei couldn't think of what else he could do. Finally, he finally thought of something and said something.

"Then I'll go do the laundry! Comrade Tan Yuan, do you have clothes to wash? I'll help you."

As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Dong kicked him hard under the table.

How could this lesbian let a grown man like him wash her clothes? Not only would it not be clean enough, but if someone saw her, it would be unacceptable to have mouths all over her body.

"Ahem, come with me to collect firewood. This mountain road is too complicated and I'm afraid of getting lost."

Whether it was washing clothes or collecting firewood, he finally had something to do, and Lin Wei felt a lot more relieved.

When she lived with the Zhao family in the past, everyone in the family wanted to pluck her out of her flesh so that they could suck her blood, but they still tried to coax her.

They were all strangers now, and she had voluntarily shared with them. Unexpectedly, there were also Grandpa Zhao and his grandchildren...

Although I was touched, I still had to continue harvesting rice.

We had to get up before five in the morning, make a bowl of noodles provided by Li Xiu, share some with everyone, and then go to work in the fields.

The rice at the foot of the mountain has almost been harvested, and now only the rice on the terraces remains.

Tan Yuan and several other newly arrived educated youth were assigned together. They planned to harvest rice first, which was the most tiring job. After harvesting, they would gather the rice and pile it together. When the time came, they would carry it together to the threshing ground, which would make it much easier.

"Did you hear anything?"

Li Xiu pricked up her ears. She seemed to hear some sound, coming from far away and getting closer and closer.

After hearing this, everyone stopped what they were doing and listened attentively.

Sure enough, there was a sound, like something flapping its wings.

Suddenly, a dark mass appeared in the originally cloudless blue sky, and it seemed to be approaching this side.

"what is that?"

The educated youth were all sent from the city to work in the countryside. They had never seen such a scene before, so they all looked up.

When the old man in the team saw this, he was so panicked that he could hardly hold the sickle in his hand, and said in a trembling voice.

"Th-those are...locusts!"

“The locusts are coming…the locusts are coming!”

When locusts pass through, not a blade of grass will grow...

This is absolutely true. Locusts, also known as grasshoppers, specialize in eating crops and vegetables in the fields, and even weeds are not spared.

Decades ago, Huaiyin Village suffered a locust plague, and the elderly who experienced that incident still remember it vividly.

It's so tragic! The crops that we planted with great difficulty were completely destroyed as they all went into the stomachs of the locusts. Not only that, the most terrifying thing is that once the locusts come once, they will come again in the following years.

I might not be able to survive by tightening my belt this year, but what about two years? Three years?

All the tree roots and Guanyin soil in this mountain have been eaten. People who have eaten Guanyin soil will be extremely skinny when they die, but their stomachs will be bulging, which looks very scary.

The memory of that time was too terrifying. Now seeing the huge swarms of locusts that even dyed the sky black again, the old man who had experienced it once turned black in his eyes. He used all his limbs to protect the rice he had just harvested under his body.

Every bit of food we can salvage counts. Who knows, at some point in time, this little bit of food might be all that's needed to survive.

They were filled with deep sorrow in their hearts. If this happened again, they might die.

Seeing them do this, others followed their example, protecting the rice tightly under their bodies and trying their best to save the food.

Tan Yuan couldn't describe the feeling in her heart. It was the first time she had experienced this scene in person.

In my previous life, Huaiyin Village also suffered a locust plague for two consecutive years...