Reborn before the famine, kicking away the scumbag's family and living a carefree life.

50. Appointment

Cao Yunhua quickly finished a bowl of chicken soup and rice, but still felt unsatisfied.

Su Jinru's space still contained rice, chicken soup, and chicken, but she couldn't let Cao Yunhua eat too much, as his stomach couldn't handle it.

When Cao Yunhua left, Su Jinru gave him twenty catties of rice and some sweet potatoes.

"Sister, grain is quite expensive these days. You must have spent a lot of money to buy this grain, right?"

“We’re all family, so let’s not stand on ceremony. A healthy family is something that money can’t buy. If you ever run out of food, come find me.”

Cao Yunhua was tall and a militiaman in their production team. He had a gun and carried thirty pounds of grain on his back with ease, without fear of being targeted by others.

After seeing Cao Yunhua off, Su Jinru took out some water from her spatial storage and gave it to the two children to wash their faces and hands.

Anxin: "Mom, I don't like putting on this yellow mud. It's too ugly. I like to wash my face clean, put on perfume, and look pretty."

“Look at those other kids outside. They’re so thin and pale from hunger because they don’t have any food. You and your brother have good food every day. You’re all fair and chubby. If you don’t wear makeup and people see you, they’ll say you’re eating something delicious and you look so pretty. They’ll be jealous.”

An Xin blinked her long eyelashes.

“I know, they will be jealous of how beautiful my brother and I are. They will attack us, hurt us, and destroy us.”

Su Jinru had explained the meaning of the word "jealousy" to her daughter before, and she remembered it.

"That's right! So we need to make ourselves look ugly, like them, then they won't be jealous of us anymore. Even if we make ourselves look ugly, it's a protective coloration for us."

An Xin tilted her little face up.

"Mom, when will we no longer need to wear camouflage when we go out?"

"Once the famine is over, everyone will have food and become beautiful. We won't need to wear camouflage when we go out. Instead, we'll need to dress ourselves up beautifully."

“When will the famine end? I don’t like wearing this camouflage either,” An Ran said.

"More than two years later."

An Xin: "Two more years! That's too long."

Anxin: "Mom, I don't want to go out anymore. I have to dress up ugly and put on camouflage before I can go out. It's too much trouble to go out."

An Ran: "Me too, I don't want to go out."

"Mom doesn't want to go out either. Mom wants to look pretty too, but if we don't go out to get rice porridge, people will say, 'If your family doesn't go out to get rice porridge, do you have something delicious at home? We're going to go and steal all your delicious food.'"

Anran: "Mom, why do we have to take other people's things just because we don't have them?"

"Didn't I tell you before? It's because of jealousy!"

An Ran: "Jealous people are terrifying."

Su Jinru: "You two study hard, and in the future, leave this place and go to a place where everyone can have enough to eat and everyone can wear beautiful clothes. Then you can eat whatever you want and wear whatever you want, and you won't have to worry about others being jealous of you, attacking you, hurting you, or destroying you."

An Xin: "Then I must study hard and go to a place where there is no jealousy."

Su Jinru wanted to say that there are jealous people everywhere, but the child was too young to understand so much, so she gave up.

The morning's study tasks were completed, and the two children spent the afternoon playing with a ball in the yard.

Previously, Su Jinru didn't allow them to engage in activities that caused too much noise. However, now that some people in the team were able to eat, the atmosphere in the village was no longer so oppressive, and it was normal for the children to make a little noise.

Su Jinru entered the house and then the spatial dimension.

The second crop of rice has ripened, and Su Jinru plans to harvest it in the next couple of days.

After the harvest, combined with the previous grains, she had more than 5,700 jin of rice in her space.

More than 800 jin each of sweet potatoes and potatoes.

She can sell this grain to the township and solve the disaster relief problem for the entire township.

The next day at noon, when Su Jinru took her two children to collect rice porridge, county government leaders arrived and announced some news in public.

From this day forward, Jin Gui, the captain of the third production team, will be responsible for catching locusts during the previous locust plague, which protected the crops and saved the collective three days' worth of food.

Now, at this critical moment of famine, Jingui once again did everything he could to buy grain for the production team, saving everyone's lives. Because of Jingui's outstanding performance and his wholehearted dedication to everyone, he is a promising young cadre. In order to allow him to make greater use of his intelligence and talents, Jingui was exceptionally appointed as the mayor of Daben Township.

I believe that after becoming the mayor of Daben Township, Comrade Jingui will lead the people of Daben Township to overcome difficulties, fight against disasters, and get through the crisis.

The leader asked Jingui, "Comrade Jingui, are you confident that you can lead everyone through this famine crisis?"

Everyone thought it was precious.

Jin Gui is now in a difficult situation!

The leader suddenly bestowed such a high praise upon him, asking him to publicly declare that he would lead the twelve production teams of Daben Township, with more than 2,600 people, to solve the problem of feeding them. This was a very arduous task.

To put it simply, he was told to find a way to buy food to help the villagers and prevent more villagers from starving to death.

Jin Gui knew that being the township head was no easy task. Where could he possibly get grain? At this time, getting any grain was as difficult as ascending to heaven, and he didn't have three heads and six arms.

The fact that Su Jinru was able to buy this little bit of grain for the third production team was all thanks to her help in making the arrangements.

This is practically a windfall.

Such luck is not something you can have all the time.

He can't brag about this in public.

Jin Gui said with difficulty, "Thank you for your appreciation, leaders, but I am not as capable as you think. I may be barely qualified to be a production team leader, but I am afraid that I would delay everyone's progress and disappoint you if I were to be the township head."

The leader patted Jin Gui on the shoulder.

"Comrade Jin Gui, don't be modest! We believe in you."

The leader then addressed the onlookers: "Today, we have not only people from the Third Production Team, but also people from other production teams in Daben Village. Do you believe in Jingui? Do you believe that he can lead our Daben Township out of hunger and out of difficulties?"

Everyone said in unison, "We believe that Jin Gui can get us food."

County government leader Chong Jingui said, "Look, everyone trusts you, so don't let them down."

The county government leaders' intentions were clear: they were forcing Jin Gui to agree!

Now that things have come to this, Jin Gui is forced into it and has no reason to refuse.

He could only grit his teeth and say, "I'll do my best."

"Comrade Jin Gui, speak louder."

Jin Gui could only shout, "I will do my best to keep everyone from starving to death."