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

53. Planting

After a long day, Su Jinru took a shower and dried her hair in the space before leaving.

She went to Anran's room, filled a large basin with hot water from her spatial storage, and gave Anran a bath.

Then I changed the water and gave Anxin a bath.

Then the mother and her two children lay in bed wearing clean, soft pajamas, and Su Jinru told the two children a story.

On this day, Su Jinru told the story of the Emperor's New Clothes.

Every time Su Jinru tells a story to her two children, she asks them to discuss the story afterwards.

An Xin asked in bewilderment, "Is the emperor that stupid? Doesn't he even know if he's wearing clothes or not?"

An Ran: "Because he doesn't dare admit that he's not smart."

An Xin: "He's just not smart!"

An Ran: "That's why he got scammed! He doesn't need others to tell him whether he's smart or not; he doesn't even believe in himself, just like he doesn't even believe he's wearing clothes."

The two children would discuss things on their own, and Su Jinru usually wouldn't participate. Only when they brought it up themselves would she ask them to share their opinions, and she would analyze it from different perspectives.

Therefore, the two children can learn many lessons from each story.

Su Jinru was too tired today, so she didn't check the homework anymore and let the children go to sleep.

The next morning, Su Jinru got up and entered the space. She saw that the rice had been dried, so she put it into the mill and used a rice milling machine to grind the rice into rice.

This yield is higher than before. Four mu of land yielded a total of 3,750 jin of rice, which is 150 jin more than before.

Including the previous grain reserves, there are a total of 5,900 catties of rice.

Su Jinru plans to sell 5,800 jin and keep 100 jin for herself.

Including the previous income, the sweet potatoes and potatoes totaled two thousand and eight hundred jin.

I kept 100 jin for myself and sold the rest to the production team for seed planting.

The reason farmers suffer from disasters is that they cannot be self-sufficient and rely on others for relief. However, other places are also suffering from disasters, and everyone is struggling to survive. Everyone wants to rely on others, but how can that be reliable? Relying on oneself is the only way.

Su Jinru stepped out of the space; the two children were already awake.

Su Jinru gave each of them a boiled egg, a roasted sweet potato, and a cup of soy milk for breakfast.

The two children ate breakfast and then studied on their own.

Su Jinru went back into the space.

Yesterday we harvested the rice and the sweet potatoes from the fields. We also turned over the soil to dry it, and burned the straw from before as fertilizer.

With food shortages, Su Jinru might leave the land idle for even a day.

So early this morning, after breakfast, she started planting the soil and sweet potatoes.

By the time the sweet potatoes and potatoes were planted, it was already noon.

She had to take her two children to the production team's communal canteen for meals.

Others arrived at the cafeteria entrance early to wait for lunch, since they only ate one meal a day, and it was just porridge. They were starving.

For Su Jinru, going to have this meal was quite a troublesome thing.

She has to do her own makeup, and after doing her children's makeup, she has to change their clothes. When she gets back, she has to remove the makeup and change clothes again.

However, it's better than being suspected by others, even if it's a bit of a hassle.

However, in the past few days, the two children have gotten used to it and now cooperate obediently every time they go out without complaining. The three of them get ready and each takes a bowl with them when they go out.

When we arrived outside the communal canteen, there were noticeably fewer people gathered there than before.

Perhaps it was Jin Gui's words yesterday that had an effect.

He promised to provide food for everyone and asked them to stop coming to watch.

Because fewer people from other production teams came to watch, the people of the third production team relaxed, especially the militiamen, who had been guarding the area day and night for the past few days, fearing that something might go wrong.

Jin Gui didn't come today; it was San Bao, the new captain of the Third Production Team, who was maintaining order.

Accountant Xu is registering the number of people.

Zhang Jihong's husband and child each got their own food and drank it in public. Zhang Jihong's husband said he would get his wife's portion for her to take home.

He was given a good scolding by Sanbao.

"Didn't we say yesterday that Zhang Jihong and Li Xiaodan wouldn't get any rice porridge for three days? Let's starve them for three days and see if they dare to talk nonsense again."

“It wasn’t easy for Jin Gui to get this little bit of grain. He begged and pleaded with everyone he could to get it. Instead of thanking him properly, you’re gossiping behind his back. You can’t control this woman, but our production team can.”

"You won't die from starvation for three days. Just drink more water and hold on. Let's see if you dare to gossip again."

Zhang Jihong's husband was so rebuked that he dared not say anything more.

Originally, Li Xiaodan's husband also wanted to bring some rice porridge back for his wife, but after hearing Zhang Jihong's family being scolded like that, he dared not say anything more.

Jin Gui is now a great benefactor of the Third Production Team, and the other members naturally stand on Jin Gui's side, casting contemptuous glances at them.

The two men were furious and went home to berate their women.

You can't afford to offend anyone, but you have to offend the team leader—oh no, he's the township head now.

Moreover, my family still has food to eat, all thanks to the precious person who gave us that.

The two women were so hungry they were dizzy and had been scolded by their husbands. They regretted saying that much yesterday.

Su Jinru took the rice porridge and went home with her two children. She let the children play by themselves and then went back into her spatial dimension.

She started by irrigating the paddy fields, using the system to mix the soil into muddy water, and then using the system to pull up the seedlings.

The transplanted seedlings were then planted in the paddy fields using a rice transplanter.

After finishing the work, Su Jinru was exhausted. What should have been two days' worth of work, she had completed in one day.

After coming out of the space, both children said they were hungry.

Su Jinru told them to play a little longer while she went to cook.

She went into the kitchen and prepared a simple chicken soup with rice, then called the children over to eat. Only then did she come to her senses.

She completed the planting of sweet potatoes and potatoes and the transplanting of seedlings in one day, finishing what would normally take several days in one day, which gave her a great sense of accomplishment.

The next day at noon, after going to the production team to collect rice porridge, Su Jinru arranged for her two children to play at home by themselves, locked the door, and went to the county town.

Upon arriving in the county town, Su Jinru planned to find a house, a house to store grain.

Su Jinru explored every corner of the county town. Finally, she found a relatively remote but easily accessible place within the town.

There was an empty room outside a family's house. It used to be used to raise livestock, but in those days, people couldn't even get enough to eat, let alone have enough to feed livestock. So the room became a place for them to store miscellaneous items.

Su Jinru knocked on the door.

A man in his forties said impatiently, "Stop banging. If you keep banging, I'll beat you up."

Su Jinru was annoyed: "Big brother, you didn't even ask me what I wanted to do before you started beating people up."