I'm wearing it, but I'm still suffering.

Although the village chief knew what he said was true, he still held on to the hope and asked, "Is it confirmed? How many kilograms of grain did you buy this time?"

"We have a large family, so this time we bought 400 kilograms of coarse noodles and old rice. If you plan to buy them, it's best to do it early. If the price really goes up later, we will have to buy them no matter how expensive they are. Wouldn't that make us feel even more sorry for the money?" Liu Yingcai said to the village chief earnestly.

The village chief nodded and replied, "Okay, I understand. I'll go back and discuss this with my family."

After saying that, he was still thinking with a worried look on his face, wondering whether he should tell the villagers about this. Then he heard Liu Yingcai continue: "Also, only a few people know about this now. If you want to tell the villagers, you'd better be careful with your words. Although some people have no food at home and are hesitant about whether to buy food, they can still survive by digging wild vegetables. Also, they think that the fields should be harvested in more than a month. How many people are willing to pay a high price for food now!"

He heard it, and he hesitated even if he went to buy food and stockpile it now, let alone the less affluent families in the village. They would be even less likely to spend their meager money on a possible increase in food prices. Furthermore, some families' potatoes were already bearing fruit, and it would probably be ready to be harvested soon. Thinking of this, he began to hesitate.

Seeing that he looked deep in thought, Liu Yingcai left without disturbing him.

The next morning he heard the villagers discussing that the village chief told those who had extra money to go to the town to buy some grain to store, saying that the drought might not end until someday, and they were afraid that the drought would continue this year and that the grain would not be able to grow. Then the price of grain would rise again, and it would not be cost-effective to buy more.

"I knew he would tell the villagers. With his kind nature, it would be strange if he didn't tell others after knowing it!" Grandpa Liu lamented the village chief's character at home.

"Okay, we don't care what he wants to do. As long as he doesn't tell anyone that our family bought a lot of grain, it's fine." What Grandma Liu is worried about now is the people in the same village. What if they find out that they have extra money and have bought hundreds of kilograms of grain, and then they come to borrow grain from their family?

Finally, the villagers found out about their family’s grain purchase.

Although it was not the village chief who said it, after the village chief asked them to buy food, and Liu Laogen said in the village that their family carried several bags of things back home, people started to think of food.

"Mrs. Yuan, it's not that we don't want to lend you money! It's just that there are so many people in our family, and we have been out of food for half a month. We have been living on digging wild vegetables and bamboo shoots for the past half month. The children are so impatient that they have to use the money that was originally intended for marrying their eldest grandson's wife to buy food first!" Grandma Liu complained to Grandma Yuan who came to borrow food today.

"Because of this, our eldest grandson's wedding has to be postponed again. I don't know if it can be done after the autumn harvest this year. Sigh!"

"By the way, Sister Yuan, no one in your family is looking to get married right now. Why don't you lend me some money so I can arrange my grandson's marriage first? Then you'll have one more person to call you Grandma Yuan, right?"

Liu Xiaoxiao watched her grandmother talking with increasing enthusiasm and almost wanted to laugh out loud.

Looking at Grandma Yuan, who had originally come to borrow some food to take home to make ends meet, she saw that she had not been able to borrow any food, and was almost frightened by Grandma Liu's appearance of wanting to borrow money. She quickly stood up and said, "Sister Zhang, since your family is in such a difficult situation, I will not lend you any food! Besides, my family also plans to follow the advice of the village chief and go to the town to buy a small amount of food to make ends meet first, so we don't have any extra money to lend you. Well, I still have to go back and discuss the purchase of food with my family, so I won't sit here anymore! See you later."