Quick Transmigration: Cannon Fodder Female Supporting Character Reaches the Pinnacle of Life

After Qiu Tong finished speaking, Tao Ge was still in a daze. It was only after Qiu Tong kept calling him softly that he snapped out of it.

"Zhao Di, you weren't lying to me, were you? Why didn't you keep it for yourself?"

Qiu Tong raised an eyebrow and asked teasingly, "Why would I lie to you? I'm leaving soon, and I can't take anything with me. I might as well leave it for the villagers so they can get through this difficult time."

But you can't tell them that I left these things behind.

"You can't tell them where the things are stored. You know the nature of some people in the village; if they know the location, they'll definitely try to steal them."

Tao Ge understood who Qiu Tong was referring to; there were only a few people in the village who were dishonest.

Moreover, no one can predict what a person might do when they are starving.

Tao looked at Qiu Tong with a complicated expression, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated, unsure how to ask the question.

Qiu Tong seemed to understand what his eyes were trying to convey, and explained directly: "I have indeed been stockpiling food, but you don't need to know why I did it."

As long as you understand that this food and water were painstakingly saved up by me, not stolen, you can eat without worry.”

Brother Tao mustered his courage and asked, blushing, "Then why didn't you take it out to help everyone sooner?"

Qiu Tong sneered, "Why should I help them in advance? Who are they to me? They have hands and feet, why don't they go and stock up on food themselves?"

And don't try to morally blackmail me here. They've been talking badly about my family behind my back, and the fact that I'm still helping them is already an act of kindness on my part.

Remember to watch your mouth and don't say anything carelessly, or you'll regret it.

Actually, Brother Tao still wanted to ask why she had stockpiled food in advance, but seeing how assertive she was now, he knew she wouldn't tell him, so he didn't continue asking.

Qiu Tong taught him how to find the storage location of those supplies and then handed him a necklace.

This is certainly not a necklace, but an access card with a hole punched in it and strung on a rope for easy carrying.

Tao was so shocked by Qiu Tong's words that he couldn't close his mouth, but he didn't dare to ask any more details. After the warning he had just received, he knew that no matter what he asked, the other party would not answer.

It would be better not to ask anything at all, lest these hard-won supplies be lost.

When they finished talking and came out, Aiguo, Fuguo, and Jianguo had already packed their things and were standing obediently in front of the gate waiting.

Wang Shaoyu was still in front of the gate, while everyone else was outside. The reason Wang Shaoyu was near the gate was because he was fulfilling his promise and repairing the gate, putting the fallen gate back in its original position.

Seeing Qiu Tong and Brother Tao come out, he just finished roughly securing the door.

The wooden door had been in disrepair for many years, which is why it suddenly collapsed when Wang Shaoyu knocked on it.

Wang Shaoyu didn't have any tools, so he could only keep the wooden door in place and come back to repair it later when he had the chance.

Qiu Tong didn't mind, because she knew that this matter couldn't be blamed on Wang Shaoyu; she had known all along that the sect was on the verge of collapse.

It can only be said that Wang Shaoyu was unlucky, as he happened to be there at the very moment it collapsed.

When the villagers saw Qiu Tong, that Platoon Leader Wang, his three younger brothers, and Brother Tao all walk out of the gate, and then saw that Platoon Leader Wang was doing something on the gate, the gate suddenly stopped.

Then I saw Qiu Tong, Platoon Leader Wang, and Brother Tao talking to each other for a while before they left.

The villagers rushed forward and crowded in front of Brother Tao, bombarding him with questions.

Some villagers, unwilling to give up, continued to follow the soldiers, carrying valuables in their hands. It was clear they had gone home to pack these items while Qiu Tong and the others were talking inside.

Wang Shaoyu ignored the villagers following behind him; let them follow if they wanted, as it was none of their business if anything happened.

The road belongs to the government; they are free to go wherever they want, as long as it doesn't interfere with their mission.

Among the fleeing crowd were Aunt Yang's family and Shu Yi. They could no longer stay in the village and were preparing to escape the famine.

The village had no water or food, and if they stayed any longer, they would starve to death sooner or later. They hadn't had the courage to leave on their own before.

Now that someone is leading them, they naturally hurry to pack their belongings and follow.

Shu Yi watched Qiu Tong's retreating figure with resentment the whole way. Why could this village girl leave with Platoon Leader Wang and the others, while she had to sneak behind like a refugee?

I was the one who took a liking to Platoon Leader Wang first. This Tang Zhaodi is really like what Aunt Yang said, a fox spirit reincarnated, who likes to steal other people's men.

Shu Yi didn't know where her confidence came from, but she felt that Wang Shaoyu was hers.

Qiu Tong naturally sensed the jealous gazes behind her and probably guessed whose they were.

She's a clown; we don't need to pay too much attention to her. Instead, we should think about how to persuade the leaders of the agricultural department to use her methods to grow crops.

Qiu Tong has been busy these days, thinking of solutions every day on how to get crops planted in various disaster areas.

She had the relevant knowledge, but she was afraid that the old fogies in the Ministry of Agriculture wouldn't agree to her approach.

Her methods were the culmination of wisdom from later generations. In that impoverished era, they were ahead of their time, and there were bound to be people who disagreed with her approach.

Another problem is the seeds. She doesn't have a complete set of seeds, and she doesn't know if the seeds she wants are still available in this era.

If not, she would have to find or cultivate the seeds herself to get them.

The seeds that Qiu Tong was looking for were all seeds of drought-resistant crops.

Her idea was simple: to use the 21st-century South-to-North Water Diversion Project to alleviate the drought in most parts of the north.

The floods in the south are severe, so a large number of people are organized to go to the flood-stricken areas in the south to build dikes and reservoirs and transport the water to areas with severe water shortages.

However, due to the backward technology of this era, the problems of water transportation and transportation were difficult to solve.

There's also typhoon weather, which is really difficult to deal with. Even with 21st-century technology, it's impossible to prevent typhoon disasters.

Typhoons of level 10 or higher cause severe damage to affected areas.

We can only try to minimize agricultural development in typhoon-prone areas to reduce losses.

But in those days, almost every household was a farmer, and not letting them farm would be their death sentence.

Qiu Tong has many ideas, but these require strong support from the national government to be realized; she can't just do whatever she wants.

Therefore, her only option is to let her strength speak for itself.

First, use some drought-resistant seeds to grow a batch of crops that can provide enough food, then people will believe what she says.

On their journey, they encountered some people fleeing famine, all of whom were in a sorry state.

These refugees had no choice. Like Tangjia Village, they were cut off from water and food, forcing them to leave their homes and seek a way to survive elsewhere.

In those famine-stricken times, no one cared about letters of introduction or being arrested. As long as they could have enough to eat, they were willing to be arrested.

But the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is harsh. In the county town, if someone is found to be without a letter of introduction, they will be driven away, and they won't even be given the chance to go to jail.

Just kidding, food is so precious these days, the government doesn't have the resources to feed so many people in prison.

Seeing so many people like this along the way, Qiu Tong felt pressure for the first time. She now carried the weight of many lives on her shoulders, a burden she had never felt before.

Wang Shaoyu and his group would go to each county town and get some dry rations from the local commune, then ration them and share them.

In reality, everyone is starving, but there's nothing we can do. There's a nationwide food crisis, and having anything to eat is already a blessing.

They also drank water sparingly, each filling one canteen with their military supplies, and that's how they survived a long journey.

Qiu Tong secretly fed her three younger brothers some homemade jerky so that they could have a little bit of food.

Otherwise, if the child only has half a whole-grain steamed bun for each meal, he/she will not be able to stand it.

Even though they weren't getting enough to eat, she wouldn't spoil them too much or give them any special treatment.

She couldn't protect them forever, nor could she raise them into clueless, useless people; doing so would only harm them.

At first, they weren't used to eating coarse grain steamed buns and complained to her. It was then that Qiu Tong began to take their education seriously.

She may have spoiled them too much before, which is why they can't bear any hardship.

Although they only complain to themselves, the very fact that they have this thought proves that they have been spoiled by themselves.

That won't do, which led to Qiu Tong's series of outrageous actions later on.

Aside from giving them a few extra pieces of jerky at each meal, I didn't do anything else for them.

They drank as much water as Battalion Commander Wang gave them, and Qiu Tong didn't give them a single extra drop. She did the same herself because she wanted to set an example for the children.

Qiu Tong already knew Wang Shaoyu's name and that his official rank was battalion commander, not platoon leader.

This was all told to her by Qiao Youming, a young man with a crew cut; you could tell from their names that they were from the city.

Children from rural areas don't usually have such elegant names; only highly educated people in the city can afford to have such names.

The rest of the team members came from rural backgrounds, so their names were much more down-to-earth.

Down-to-earth names like Er Gou and Da Niu often come out of Wang Shaoyu's mouth.

As a superior, he frequently assigns tasks to his subordinates, so it's hard for him not to know their names.