"Of course you can! I brought this basket of radishes over for you, just take them!"

The village chief put the half-eaten peach into his pocket, stood up from his chair and went to get a radish from the bamboo basket for Su Keke.

Su Keke picked two big radishes and went back to the RV to make pickled radishes.

"Coco! Do you know how to do it? Do you want to leave it for me to do later?" asked Grandma Qiao.

"No need! I learned a lot of dishes from you before! Just let me show off." Su Keke said, sticking his head out of the RV window.

In fact, what Su Keke meant by "before" was her previous life. Others might not understand this, but Grandma Qiao understood it as soon as she heard it.

"Okay, okay! Let you show off! When you're done, let the village chief have a taste of your cooking."

Grandma Qiao smiled happily and continued to pour another cup of tea for the village chief.

"Sister Qiao! I won't try it! I have to go back. I still have to lead the villagers to dig radishes in the afternoon."

The village chief took a few bites of the peach in his hand, drank the tea that Grandma Qiao had just poured for him in one gulp, and then planned to get up and go back to the cave.

"Village Chief, it's already noon, why don't you stay and have lunch with us? You have to go down the mountain to dig radishes in the afternoon anyway!"

Grandma Qiao said hurriedly.

"Yes! Uncle Wang! Try my cooking today!" Su Keke was cutting radish slices in the RV while chatting with the two people outside.

"How can I come here to eat for free every day? I really have to leave, otherwise my wife will be worried! I didn't tell her that I came here!"

The village chief explained with a smile, "Sister Qiao! Keke! I'm leaving first!"

"That's fine! If you really don't want to eat, we won't force you to stay! I'll ask Coco to get you some fruit and bring it back to the children."

"Koko! Take the fruit back to the village chief!" Grandma Qiao shouted to Su Koko in the RV.

"Okay!" Su Keke quickly put down the kitchen knife in her hand, went to the room with a plastic bag, got a large bag of fruit and brought it to the village chief.

"No... No! I really can't accept these fruits. You guys specially sent them here. They are too precious!"

The village chief waved his hands repeatedly and almost tripped over the radish basket he had placed on the ground when he turned to leave.

"Village Chief! You don't consider us your friends! If you don't accept these fruits, we are embarrassed to take your radishes. Take this basket of radishes back quickly!"

Su Keke and Grandma Qiao pretended to be angry. They lifted up the basket of radishes from the ground together and were determined to return it to Village Chief Wang.

"My radishes are not good stuff! They are not as precious as your fruits!"

The village chief frowned and hurriedly pushed the radish basket towards Su Keke and Grandma Qiao with his own hands.

"Village chief, let's stop pushing the issue back and forth. We'll take the radishes, and don't refuse these fruits. Just think of them as gifts for your wife and children."

Grandma Qiao asked Su Keke to take out all the radishes in the basket and put the big bag of fruit in. She returned the bamboo basket to the village chief because he had to go dig radishes in the afternoon.

There was no use for them to keep the bamboo basket, so they just let the village chief take it back.

Seeing that he couldn't refuse the fruits, the village chief had to take the bamboo basket and said goodbye to Su Keke and the others again before leaving.

…

Over at the ruins of Niujia Village, Zuo Zhi and his dozen men dug carefully for most of the day and actually found some useful things.

Five iron pots, thirteen stainless steel bowls, some chopsticks and spatulas, three kitchen knives, etc.

"Team Leader Zuo, we have searched everywhere around here, there should be nothing else useful."

One of the men spread out his hands, his body covered with sand and dirt. He pointed to a nearby circle and spoke to Zuo Zhi.

"Okay! Then let's go to their farmland and take a look. Hopefully, there will be some crops there."

After Zuo Zhi finished speaking, his men took off their outer coats, wrapped up the pots and pans they found in their coats, and tied them around their waists.

In April this year, the temperature is close to that in May and June of previous years. Except for the few days of heavy rain when it was a little colder, these cherry blossom people did not feel cold even if they were naked when the sun was out.

Just when Zuo Zhi was about to lead his men to leave Niujia Village, he saw from afar a lot of people coming down the mountain behind. They looked like villagers hiding in the mountain.

"Team Leader Zuo, someone is coming! Should we leave or wait and see if these people have any more hidden supplies?" asked the subordinate.

“Let’s find a place to hide first. Even if they have no supplies, we can ask them to lead the way to the farmland. It will take us some time to find the farmland by ourselves. Maybe some of them are flooded, which will make it even more difficult to find the specific location.”

"Yes! Team Leader Zuo!"

Zuo Zhi and a dozen of his men found a broken wall that could still hide people and hid there, waiting for the villager to fall into the trap himself.

"Dad! Brother! Have you seen anyone in our village?"

Reiko said to her family as they walked down the mountain.

"No!" Her brother Qiangzi narrowed his eyes and looked hard in the direction of Niujia Village. There should be no one there.

"My eyesight isn't very good! If there is someone this far away, I can't see him! Lingzi, why don't you stay at home? Qiangzi and I will go down to take a look. Look at which family in our village has girls going down the mountain with them? They are all grown men!"

Lingzi's father didn't agree to let Lingzi go down the mountain with him. After the storm, no one knew what the situation was like down the mountain.

If there really is someone down there, and if it's one of those Sakura people, it would be very dangerous for Reiko to go down the mountain.

"Dad! I'm brave and have a lot of ideas. My mom said she feels relieved if I look after you!"

"Besides! What's wrong with a girl? Can't I still work in the fields with you guys?"

Lingzi is a pretty girl but her personality is like a boy. When she was little, she liked to follow him and Qiangzi, and did many things like robbing bird nests and catching loaches on the ground.

"Dad! It's okay! I'll protect my sister!" Qiangzi patted his chest and pulled his sister down the mountain.

"Slow down, you two! Runners, be careful not to fall!" Lingzi's father shouted as he chased the brother and sister from behind.

"Dad Lingzi! You are so lucky! Both your son and daughter are so filial. Unlike my two kids, they can't even be pulled down the mountain. Without my old bones, they would probably starve to death."

Villager Lao Zhang pulled Lingzi's father and asked him to slow down because children's legs and feet were very fast.

"Mr. Zhang! Your two sons are so well behaved. They are nothing like my two siblings. When they were little, they were like flying monkeys, jumping around everywhere."

"Look at my Lingzi. She's already old enough to get married, but she still likes running around. Who would dare to marry her in the future?"

Surprised Dad slapped his thigh and complained.

"I think Lingzi is a pretty good girl, but my two kids are still young, otherwise I would definitely pat my chest and become your in-law!"

"Hahaha! This is a great relationship!"

The two of them chatted idly like this, and their pace slowed down a lot. Qiangzi pulled Lingzi, and the two siblings had already run to the front of the team.