Thanos's biological daughter in period fiction

Just when Xia Lijun felt he was about to faint, he finally saw the pool of water that Xia Jixuan had mentioned. Looking around at the exposed areas, he realized that this place should have been a large lake, but due to the drought, it had now become just a small pool.

The old man spotted the corn planted by the pond at a glance and excitedly struggled to get off Xia Jixuan.

When I broke open an ear of corn and found it full of plump kernels, tears of excitement immediately welled up in my eyes.

"There's hope! Our village is saved..."

Fearing that the old man was too excited and his body couldn't handle it, the two young men quickly helped him sit down on a rock by the pool.

"Dad, calm down. Let's see exactly how much stuff is here. I think we'll need to find several people just for this corn. And also, I need to go back down this road and see if we can make a way for a wheelbarrow or a flatbed cart. Dad, look over here, are these sweet potato vines? And this, this..." Xia Lijun was initially calm, but the more he saw, the more his composure crumbled, and he even started to stammer.

"Yes, yes, third brother, can you pry it open for me and see..." The old man's hands and feet were trembling because he was too excited just now, so he could only ask Xia Jixuan to do it.

"Alright, here you go. I just dug out a sweet potato. It's this big, I estimate it weighs about a pound. Can you take a look and estimate how many sweet potatoes are under here?" He couldn't estimate the yield, so he could only rely on the old man.

The old man grew increasingly excited as he calculated, and this excitement reached its peak when his son picked a large pumpkin weighing about 10 pounds. At that moment, he didn't care about his trembling hands and feet; he rushed over and hugged the large pumpkin to his arms.

"This can also fill your stomach..."

"Dad, please let go. This is what I'm going to show the captain. Xuanzi, please stay here with my dad. I'm going to find the captain. Don't worry, I'll be right back." Xia Lijun looked at Xia Jixuan. Although he was a little hungry, seeing so much delicious food, hunger couldn't stop him from moving forward.

Xia Jixuan was also a little worried, so he let the father and son stay there. He took out a piece of malt candy from his pocket and stuffed it into Xia Liguo's hand: "Brother Lijun, have a piece of candy to fill your stomach first. Don't worry, I'm here, I will protect the old man."

Xia Lijun didn't stand on ceremony. He took the candy, peeled it, and stuffed it into his mouth. He then carried the big pumpkin and ran all the way back to the village. When everyone returned, the first thing they noticed was the big pumpkin in his arms.

In an instant, a large crowd surrounded him. He was barely holding on by his last breath when the sheer number of people blocked his path. He could only sit on a rock, panting, his legs giving way. He held the large pumpkin tightly in his arms, not daring to let go for even a moment, afraid that if he loosened his grip, someone would snatch it away.

"Go, go, go! Someone quickly call the captain for me. Hurry up, I'm exhausted." Xia Lijun felt he couldn't run anymore and had to ask someone to run errands for him.

"Hey, Lijun, can you tell me where this pumpkin came from?" A woman in the crowd, who looked like a young married woman, swallowed hard as she looked at the big pumpkin. She wanted to know where it came from, and of course, she genuinely wanted to help by calling for help.

Although she hadn't heard Xia Lijun's reply yet, the young woman had already run to the brigade leader's house.

When the brigade leader learned that Xia Lijun had brought back a pumpkin weighing over ten kilograms, he threw away the half-bowl of wild vegetable soup he was holding, threw down the bowl and chopsticks, and ran outside.

Team leader Song Daguo, like the village chief, has been having sleepless nights lately. Those pumpkins, weighing over ten kilograms each, must grow in incredibly good soil. And if there's one, there's no guarantee there won't be a second, a third…

As soon as I arrived, I saw a group of people gathered around, so I quickly waved them away, saying, "Alright, alright, disperse, disperse..."

Xia Lijun had caught his breath and saw Song Daguo stuff the large pumpkin in his arms into his own: "Brother Daguo, quickly find a few to come with me to scout the route. We need to make sure the carts and wheelbarrows can get in tomorrow. There's a lot of stuff in there, dozens of these large pumpkins that weigh about 10 pounds each. There are also quite a few winter melons that are even bigger than these, I didn't count them carefully..."

"Dajun, can't we go and get these things back now?" Song Daguo wasn't considering safety at all; he just wanted to get the villagers something to eat as soon as possible.

“Hey, my dear brother Daguo, you need to be more careful. It’s pitch black in the mountains. If you dare to stay there, a wolf might bite you without you even knowing it. Go find a few strong men to cut up this pumpkin and give each of them a piece to eat before you continue on your way.”

“If we fix the road tonight, we can go into the mountains first thing tomorrow morning and bring the stuff back. If the road is impassable, carrying things back and forth will be exhausting, not to mention how we’ll be hungry. And there’s more than just these things in there; there’s a sweet potato field and some corn too. My dad said that with these things, no one in our village will starve to death this winter.” The weather here will get colder every day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it should snow in less than half a month.

There's not much to harvest this year, otherwise it would be harvest time right now. Snow is expected soon, and the village head and village chief are both worried about the lack of food.

In the dead of winter, people are hungry and cold. If no one dies, many more people might die.

"Alright, alright, I'll arrange it. Shujuan, go to my house and ask your aunt to bring the kitchen knife. Also, have my husband Huzi come along." He wasn't sure if it was appropriate for his wife to handle this kind of job that required her to be around the same size.

"Okay, Captain..." Everyone was very enthusiastic when they heard there was food.

If they hadn't known they were on a mountain, they would have already grabbed their weapons and started moving. These days, food isn't safe anywhere; it's only safe when it's in your own hands.

Song Daguo's wife, Tian Chunni, came running over. When she saw the giant pumpkin, she was immediately surprised, because she didn't think she had ever seen such a big pumpkin before.

After confirming the weight of each piece, she began cutting. As the daughter of a butcher, she had been selling pork with her parents since she was very young, so she knew exactly where to cut to determine the weight of each piece.

Soon, the pumpkin was divided into 18 pieces, not even counting the pumpkin seeds inside. After the pumpkin was cut out, the team leader carefully collected the pumpkin seeds one by one.

This was the first time they had ever seen a variety of pumpkin that could grow to such a large size. These seeds were especially precious, so the brigade leader couldn't bear to waste a single one.