During my escape from famine, I survived by eavesdropping on the whispers of food.

Uncle Li, holding a pen and paper, said to her, "Alright, that's all arranged. We've calculated it out; there are four elderly people and three strong men. The three strong men all have wives and children, and they all live in one room, so we don't need to worry about that. Overall, we've made our decision..."

"In terms of labor, we only have these three strong men and three women. Overall, we probably only have about eighty or ninety people working. I didn't include the other elderly people in that group."

Qin Shuang's eyes were deep as she said, "Those elderly people are not very mobile, and it's really inconvenient for them to keep coming back and forth with us. Let them stay in the back. We'll take care of things in the front."

Uncle Li nodded. "So, what do we do next?"

Qin Shuangshuang thought for a moment and realized that the current environment of the house was still somewhat poor, so everyone should get up and clean the house thoroughly.

Then Qin Shuangshuang said to him, "Let's wake everyone up, clean the house first, and then they can take care of tonight's meal."

Uncle Li turned around and shouted, "Everyone come out quickly! Anyone who can work, come out! Let's clean this house properly and cover the eaves properly too!"

We'll stay here tonight.

Everyone inside was overjoyed and responded, "Okay, okay, we'll come out right away!"

In an instant, the whole house was filled with laughter and cheerful chatter. Uncle Li called on everyone, "Now, let's start assigning tasks. Men, go up to the roof, and women, stay on the ground. Clean all these houses thoroughly."

The kitchen and backyard both needed to be cleaned. Qin Shuangshuang watched as everyone got busy. Just as she was about to start, an older woman hurriedly came over and said to her, "Don't bother. Leave these things to us. Go play with the elderly people in the yard, Shuangshuang!"

Qin Shuangshuang thought of herself, after all, she was also a source of labor, and said to her, "Auntie, don't be afraid, I can manage on my own."

Seeing that Qin Shuangshuang was so willing to work, her aunt could only nod and say to her, "Alright, then you can get to work."

Qin Shuangshuang went to the backyard at this time. What she was most curious about was the location of the main house. After all, as a food blogger, she had very high requirements for the kitchen.

When she went in, she saw that there were only a few broken jars in the kitchen, and the stove looked barely usable, but it looked like the broken piece needed to be repaired.

Qin Shuangshuang thought she could find some things to repair the stove. She was very familiar with repair work, as she used to help her family members back in her hometown.

Qin Shuangshuang thought that there was nowhere to fetch water nearby, and the only place where she could drink water was a well that she had dug down on the mountain.

If that well exists, everyone's drinking water problem can be solved.

It was snowing today, so the snowmelt was probably frozen by now. If we could find something to store it, it would be fine. Qin Shuangshuang then started cleaning in the kitchen. Not long after, she found a cloth bag near a broken jar.

The cloth bag was covered in dust, and you couldn't tell it was a bag at all.

Qin Shuangshuang only glanced at one corner of it, and then hurriedly used the wooden stick in her hand to remove some of the dust on it.

Before she could even get close, she heard a crackling sound coming from inside.

"What's going on? What's going on? Why does it feel like a light is shining on my face? It's making my handsome face incredibly bright!"

"Our faces are naturally yellow-skinned; we're from the Central Plains, after all!"

"Can you please stop making so much noise? I just want to sleep, and you're making so much noise that I don't even want to sleep!"

"Are you still sleeping? The sun is already up! It's been so many months, the sun is finally out! I thought it wouldn't come out!"

beans?

Qin Shuangshuang then looked at the bag and saw some golden things inside. She opened it and, as expected, there was a bag of soybeans inside. She was surprised that there were still soybeans in the bag.

Qin Shuangshuang was instantly delighted. The soybeans still looked like they contained some impurities and bad stuff, but there were still some usable parts.

There's no one around now, so she might as well put this thing into her spatial storage first.

Then, it carefully threw the thing into its spatial storage. It poured out the soybeans from the bag and spread them all over the ground.

Qin Shuangshuang was overjoyed to discover that the soybeans could heal themselves in no time, as she had originally thought that this space could only be used to remove the poison from food.

Unexpectedly, it has such a wonderful use.

This made her overjoyed. If she encountered bad food in the future, she could put it in her space to purify it properly, thus removing all the inedible food.

Qin Shuangshuang looked at the beans. If she could grow some seedlings from these beans in the future, there would be more and more soybeans, and then they would have plenty of food to eat.

After Qin Shuangshuang exited the space, she started cleaning the house again, which was indeed exhausting.

Fortunately, there was snow nearby, and Qin Shuangshuang had someone boil some of the snow in advance to melt it properly.

They had brought several pots with them when they arrived, worried about what they would do if they didn't have any pots at their lodgings. Now that they had lit a fire in the pot, which contained snow water, the aunties watching from the side were overjoyed.

They all expressed their gratitude to Qin Shuangshuang, saying, "Shuangshuang, thank you so much. If it weren't for you, I guess we would still be wandering around like those refugees, busy looking for food nearby."

"That's right, thank you so much. It's a good thing we didn't listen to Qin Dafang's lies and leave with her. If we had left with her, we might not even have a hot soup to drink right now."

Qin Shuangshuang smiled and said, "Don't worry, our lives will get better and better."

Just as everyone was cleaning up the house, a series of footsteps sounded outside the door, and it turned out to be Uncle Li, leading a group of uncles behind him.

Qin Shuangshuang said to them, "What's wrong? You look like something's wrong?"

Uncle Li was in a bit of a predicament when a burly man behind him spoke up, "Shuangshuang, there are a lot of people waiting for you to come out outside."

Qin Shuangshuang asked curiously, "Who is it?"

The burly men hesitated, and so did Uncle Li.

Qin Shuangshuang knew then that some uninvited guest had arrived.

She pushed through the crowd and went outside.