My best friend is living a famine-stricken life; you're going crazy, I'm farming.

After having breakfast early the next day, everyone started packing their things.

Bottles, jars, tables, chairs, benches, and large iron pots were the hardest to move; I don't know how many trips I made to deliver them into the mountains back then.

Xiao Yuanshan said, "I'll send your things to the city first. I'll be coming into the mountains often in the future, and I'll take mine myself."

Xu Dazhu's family lives together, so it's not convenient for them to move things. They only contributed money and effort at the beginning, and now they can only take clothes and bedding. The family can carry them all with a little effort, so there's no rush.

Yang Fenglan was very moved.

Over the past six months, we've developed a revolutionary friendship.

Two days later, a large group of people came down Nanshan Mountain carrying their belongings. The children were still young, but they helped carry some light clothes and other items.

Besides pots, pans, bowls, and farm tools, there was also leftover grain.

Since we had to move everything down the mountain anyway, we took everything we could.

We set off in the morning, stopping frequently along the way, and didn't enter the city until around dusk.

The city is still unstable. As soon as it gets dark, the city gates close, and we can't get out. So everyone can only light lamps and help Yang Fenglan tidy up her new house.

The room had also been vandalized, but since there weren't many things, it was cleaned up in no time.

Lin Cuiniang gathered some scrap wood that was no longer useful and made some simple pancakes. Everyone filled their stomachs and squeezed together to spend the night using the bedding they had brought from the mountain.

The next day, Yang Fenglan planned to go back with everyone and help them move their things, but Xiao Yuanshan and Xu Dazhu insisted that it was not necessary, as it would be too much trouble to go back and forth.

In fact, the group was quite grateful to her for advocating that they go into the mountains to escape the famine; otherwise, they would not know what their situation would be like now.

In the end, Yang Fenglan didn't insist. She let the children stay and go back to get their things. Since they were going to pretend to be returning from famine, they would go back from Qingyang County.

We'll come back to pick up the children and distribute the food later.

No one had an opinion.

Zhou Jingyi and Xu Yingying also went back to Nanshan to get their things.

Yang Fenglan, along with Zhou Jingwei, Xu Chunsheng, Xiao Ning, and Xiao An, tidied up and cleaned the shop at home.

If the tables and chairs are still usable, repair them and keep using them. If the shelves that were smashed are propped up, wiped and washed, they can still be used.

Because of the extreme shortage of firewood, Yang Fenglan kneaded the dough and steamed two days' worth of buns at once, eating them whenever she was hungry.

She was a single mother with four children, and she didn't go out; she stayed home and worked the whole time.

After two days, the messy house was restored to a presentable state.

The people who went into the mountains have also returned.

The adults carried their clothes and bedding on their backs and entered the city before the city gates closed at dusk.

Yang Fenglan had leftover steamed buns, so she gave them to everyone to fill their stomachs, and then they just lay down to sleep.

When Yang Fenglan got up, Zhou Jingyi had already washed the stone vat clean and carried several buckets of water.

Yang Fenglan divided the remaining grain, seasonings, cured meat, dried vegetables, etc. into three equal portions, one for each family, and let Xiao Yuanshan and Xu Dazhu take them away.

After dividing the flour, Yang Fenglan scooped two large bowls of flour into a basin and said, "Let's have dumpling soup this morning to celebrate that we made it down the mountain alive."

"No, thank you," Xu Dazhu said. "We've come back from fleeing famine; we'll have to go home hungry."

While speaking, he instructed Lin Cuiniang, Xu Yingying, and Xu Chunsheng to change into their dirty and tattered clothes.

Xu Dazhu said, "In order to look presentable when I go home, I don't wash my sheets and blankets all winter."

Lin Cuiniang teased him, "Now you've finally found an excuse for your laziness."

Xu Dazhu's family didn't eat.

Xu Dazhu even felt that his clothes weren't dirty enough, so he rolled around on the ground a few times.

Lin Cuiniang pulled Yang Fenglan aside and talked for a long time.

Xu Yingying gave Yang Fenglan a big hug, "Take good care of our business, I'll come and help you often."