In the years of famine, in troubled times, the koi sweet wife is omnipotent

Half past two in the afternoon.

Xia Wanwan, Cheng Dayong and He Xiaofang finally arrived at the tent camp in Heping Village.

"Mrs. Gu! Are you living here?"

Cheng Dayong looked at the tent he had never seen before and was so shocked that he thought he was dazzled and quickly poked his eyes.

"Yes, that's right. I live here."

Xia Wanwan nodded and led them towards the camp.

"Sister Wanwan! Where have you been? We looked for you everywhere and couldn't find you. We thought you were eaten by a big snake, wuwuwu~"

When Li Dongmei saw her come back, she immediately ran over and hugged her excitedly, tears of worry coming out.

The red hidden on Xia Wanwan's wrist: "..."

Eat my master?

Even if you give me a mountain of gold and silver, I can't possibly eat my master.

"Didn't I tell you? I went to treat Brother Cheng from Linshui Village. Something unexpected happened today, so I was delayed. You don't have to run back and forth anymore. I picked them up today. From now on, he and his mother are our Heping people. Please bear with them in the future."

Xia Wanwan patted Li Dongmei's shoulder gently, then pulled Cheng Dayong and He Xiaofang over and introduced them to her.

"Brother Cheng! Aunt He! Hello, my name is Li Dongmei."

Li Dongmei walked up to the two of them and greeted them happily.

"Hello, my name is Cheng Dayong, and this is my mother, He Xiaofang. But she's blind and deaf, so she can't greet you. I hope you can forgive me."

Cheng Dayong introduced them while supporting his mother and apologized, "Because of my health, she didn't know it was me who was with her. She thought it was someone from the village who helped her out for treatment."

When Li Dongmei heard this, she looked at He Xiaofang with great heartache, then quickly reached out and helped her into the tent.

He Xiaofang was a little scared when she came to the unfamiliar environment, but when she thought of the people who came with her and the miracle doctor who treated her eyes, the uneasiness quickly disappeared.

"Sister Wanwan! We left lunch for you. It's steaming in the pot now. Go and eat it."

Li Dongmei looked at Xia Wanwan distressedly, then looked at Cheng Dayong and said apologetically: "Brother Cheng and Aunt He, please go eat together. I cooked a lot of lunch today, so there will be some leftovers. I hope you don't mind."

"As long as there's food, I don't care about leftovers. Sister Dongmei, you're welcome."

Cheng Dayong looked at the lively and lovely Li Dongmei and smiled happily.

After the villagers learned that Xia Wanwan had returned, they finally felt at ease to go out again, some picking mushrooms and some hunting.

"White rice? And with meat?"

When Cheng Dayong saw a pot of white rice and stir-fried green bamboo shoots with lean meat, he swallowed his saliva subconsciously out of greed.

This is white rice!

The people of Heping Village can actually eat white rice that even the generals cannot eat.

"Eat, Brother Cheng. I told you there's food in Heping Village. You don't have to worry."

After Xia Wanwan served He Xiaofang the meal, she saw that he was still standing there in a daze, so she came over and filled his cup with a spoon.

"Ok!"

Cheng Dayong hummed, looking at the dishes and meat on the table, he was reluctant to pick up the vegetables with his chopsticks.

He was just eating white rice when he suddenly burst into tears.

"Brother Cheng! Please help yourself and eat. Don't be polite."

Seeing that he was only eating rice, Xia Wanwan didn't notice the tears on his face and thought he was being polite. Then she took a pair of serving chopsticks and put a few pieces of meat in his bowl.

"Baozhu's cooking skills are quite good. She has only been learning from me for a few days and she can already cook such delicious dishes."

While eating the dishes cooked by Gu Baozhu, Xia Wanwan praised her from the bottom of her heart.

I have to say, Baozhu really has a talent for cooking. No matter what dish she makes, I only need to teach her once and she can make it taste almost the same.

When conditions improve in the future, I must let her open a restaurant in the city.

"Thanks."

Cheng Dayong looked at the meat in the bowl and burst into tears even more uncontrollably.

"Brother Cheng! What's wrong with you?"

When Xia Wanwan heard him crying, she immediately put down her bowl and chopsticks and asked what was going on.

Cheng Dayong cried louder and louder, and the more he cried, the more uncomfortable he felt. Finally, he couldn't hold back and burst into tears. "White rice and meat, when can the soldiers eat them too? That way, most soldiers won't die under the sword of the enemy due to malnutrition."

"..."

Xia Wanwan was stunned for a moment, then asked seriously, "Brother Cheng! Can you tell me what kind of food you eat in the barracks?"

"There's no food to eat. All they eat is tree bark and grass roots."

Cheng Dayong said with a sob, tears falling drop by drop on the rice.

"How could that be? Doesn't the imperial court collect grain every season? And the people have handed in quite a bit of grain. Where did it all go?"

Xia Wanwan felt angry. The people handed over so much food, but the soldiers had to eat grass roots and tree bark?

The only possibility is that corrupt officials have embezzled all the food.

"There's been a severe drought in the north for two years, and the harvest has been completely wiped out. Almost all the grain the court collected was distributed to the people. And since the border is right there, the general learned that many people had starved to death. So he distributed the grain the court had allocated to the military camp to the people as well. Now, the soldiers only get a little food every three days, and it's just rice soup."

When Cheng Dayong said this, he lay down on the table and cried bitterly.

After hearing this, Xia Wanwan fell silent and suddenly felt that the food on the table no longer smelled good.

No, she had to do something. If things continued like this, the enemy would perish without even invading.

After meal.

Xia Wanwan asked the village chief to gather all the villagers together again.

"Wanwan! Are we ready to go to the other side and build a new house?"

The village chief saw her gathering everyone together, thinking they were setting off to cross the mountains to build new houses, and asked with a look of joy on his face.

All the villagers were looking forward to the moment of building new houses, and happy expressions appeared on their faces.

Xia Wanwan shook her head and apologized, "I'm sorry everyone, we won't be building a new house for the time being because we have more important things to do."