Liu Fangmei was almost a head taller than Hu Zi's mother, so in such a crowded and noisy place, she had to bend down to hear what Hu Zi's mother was saying.

"Something's happened to the Song family over there again..."

"What happened? What could possibly happen to them now?" Liu Fangmei asked cooperatively. She knew that Hu Zi Niang wanted to talk about Song Dazhi being arrested again, so she quietly moved closer to Hu Zi Niang.

"That Song Dazhi was reported for having illicit relationships with women. No, no, those people said he's a scoundrel..." Tiger's mother's disgusted expression amused Little Moon's mother, who was standing next to her.

"Meizi, let me tell you something funny. At first, we didn't understand what those policemen meant. Then someone shouted from the top of the wall, 'It's just two men, you know?' Suddenly all the sounds around stopped, like everyone had gone dumbfounded. You didn't even look, it was really hilarious..." Xiaoyue Niang wanted to laugh again when she thought about what happened that day, after all, it was a once-in-a-lifetime scene.

She was completely bewildered at the time. As a country woman who had married into another village from a small one, she had never seen much of the world and was truly stunned when she first heard such a thing.

"No way, I've never heard of anything like this before..." Liu Fangmei was also a little dumbfounded. She hadn't drugged him back then.

They just put a sack over someone's head and knocked them unconscious. How could something like this happen? Liu Fangmei was a little dumbfounded. She looked at her two sons, who seemed completely innocent. They were too young to possibly understand what had actually happened...

It's hard to say, just like he said yesterday, that other people might go after they leave. After all, it was only 9 p.m., which isn't really that late.

How many unexpected things might happen during this time is none of their business.

The mother and her children were short-sighted; after fighting for a while, they heard the old village chief's voice from the drying ground and quickly stopped.

The old village chief came to report on the final quantity of sweet potatoes harvested yesterday, and to discuss how to distribute the grain, since there really wasn't much left.

This is everyone's emotion; they were all outraged when they heard they still had to pay grain taxes. They already had so little left; if they had to pay more, how were they supposed to survive?

The threshing ground erupted into chaos, so no one could hear what the old village chief was saying. Left with no other option, the brigade leader had to bang his iron basin loudly. After several bangs, he finally managed to quiet everyone down.

"Everyone, please listen quietly until the old village chief finishes speaking..."

After the captain spoke, they dared not say anything more, though they still looked full of resentment.

“Our village doesn’t grow any real grain, and the higher-ups know that. They’ve ordered us to hand over the grain based on the weight of the sweet potatoes. We’re a little better off here, at least we can still grow some sweet potatoes. In many places, let alone sweet potatoes, even the roots and grass have been eaten.”

"The document from above tells us to demonstrate our spirit of unity. The grain we hand over is to be given to the surrounding villages that have suffered crop failures as relief. I've discussed it with the brigade leader. When we ran out of shields, God gave us a chance. I hope everyone can demonstrate the spirit of unity and friendship to save lives..." The village chief was actually conflicted. He didn't want to teach, but he had no choice. The order came from above, and he had to teach.

In the end, everyone agreed to the village chief's idea of ​​handing over sweet potatoes. Of course, this time, the grain delivery was not picky; good and bad were both handed over. In fact, there were very few bad sweet potatoes grown in their village.

The spoiled sweet potatoes were all picked out and prepared to be cut into strips and dried. The village chief quickly laid out the final harvest from the previous signing ceremony, telling everyone how much grain they had to hand over as public grain, and saying that although it pained him, there was no other way. Once the label of "unity and friendship" was attached to them, they were morally blackmailed.

This is because they had the things that Xia Jixuan found on the mountain beforehand; otherwise, they would never have been able to listen to the village chief speak so calmly.

The next day, the village chief and the brigade leader ordered all the able-bodied men in the village to quickly pack up the grain and hand it over. He was genuinely afraid that the villagers would change their minds, and the sooner they handed it over, the sooner he could feel at ease.

Of course, the old village chief had another concern: as mentioned above, there were many places nearby where no water was available and no harvest was achieved.

They delivered the goods directly, and then distributed the rest to individual customers, thus avoiding the crisis of the food being too concentrated and all being snatched up at once.

Of course, now that the harvest is over, village patrols should be arranged. While we're at it, we should also send people out to find out how many villages had a completely failed harvest this autumn.

We still need to be careful, otherwise we'll be devastated if we get robbed.

The old village chief was very decisive; as soon as he returned from the meeting, he sent people to investigate the surrounding area. However, even those villages that had harvested grain were very cautious.

So after a whole day of searching, they only found out that two villages had no harvest at all. Of course, there were also many villages that grew drought-resistant crops, but they hid them well, so they couldn't find out which ones had a harvest.

After returning, the old village chief learned about the situation and held another village meeting to make arrangements before the patrol team went home.

Actually, ever since the autumn harvest began, the old village chief hasn't been able to sleep at night, always worried that someone would come and steal the harvest. The reason they hadn't arranged patrols before was mainly because everyone was busy harvesting and too tired; if they arranged patrols, they were afraid the villagers wouldn't be able to get to work in the morning.

Of course, the old village chief didn't say he wouldn't patrol. Instead, he would take a flashlight and walk around the village every two hours. His son was worried, so he would follow him.

After the autumn harvest, the village officially had a patrol team, but Liu Fangmei didn't know that because no adult men in her family participated in the patrol, so no one notified her.

It was only today, at the village-wide meeting, that Liu Fangmei learned about the village's patrol team.

However, this wasn't unrelated to her; the main reason was that no women joined the patrol team. Her two sons were only 10 years old, and although they were stronger, they weren't within the patrol team's selection criteria.

After the village meeting, they went back home. Liu Fangmei wanted to ask the village chief for leave after the grain tax was paid to go visit her family in the army.

Each family visit leave lasts about half a month, during which time he can take the children to the seaside to replenish their seafood supplies. She just doesn't know if anyone has discovered that place after all this time; if they have, she doesn't plan to stay there for long.

She has too many secrets; she can't use them if there are outsiders present.

When Liu Fangmei returned home, she told her two sons about her trip to visit relatives. The two sons felt that leaving at this time was not appropriate, since there were still crops planted on the mountain, and if they needed to be harvested, they wouldn't be able to leave.

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