When Grandma Qiao was teaching them how to dehydrate clothes, Aunt Wu introduced that the young daughter-in-law was named Liu Fang. Now the small wooden houses built by their two families lived side by side, and they were the closest neighbors.

"Have you had breakfast?" Su Keke asked as she took another corn and ate it.

"No... I haven't eaten yet! Everyone is short of food now, so it's okay to skip breakfast!" Aunt Wu said carelessly.

Liu Fang felt a little embarrassed. She looked at the big and fragrant corn in Su Keke's mouth, and her own stomach was actually rumbling.

I hope Su Keke and the others didn’t hear it, otherwise it would be so embarrassing!

Since the strong wind, the weather has gradually returned to normal, and their village chief led the villagers on the grassland down the cave.

At that time, everyone had reached the end of their rope. If they didn't go down the mountain, they would starve to death in the cave. Therefore, most people were not afraid of meeting those Sakura people again.

People are starving to death, so what's there to be afraid of? The worst that can happen is that we can just fight them.

Unexpectedly, the villagers went down the mountain very smoothly this time. It was as if those Sakura people had suddenly disappeared. Not even a single shadow was seen. The mountain village returned to its former tranquility.

Now that the yurts were gone, the village chief led the villagers to the mountains to cut wood and build cabins.

Rice seedlings and vegetable seeds have been sown in the farmlands, and life is gradually getting back on track.

But at the moment, everyone is indeed short of food. Wild fruits from the mountains, green grass from the grasslands, and wild vegetables from the ravines are the villagers' daily meals.

Even this is not enough to feed the people in the two villages, and the grass on their grassland is almost being pulled out.

Nowadays, adults basically only eat two meals a day, and it’s enough as long as they don’t starve to death.

"It's not okay to skip breakfast. Come on! Just eat with us."

After listening to Aunt Wu, Grandma Qiao took out the remaining corn and bean paste buns in the kitchen and asked the two of them to eat some in the living room of the RV.

"No, no! How can we eat your food!"

Aunt Wu and Liu Fang waved their hands quickly. They were hungry, but they could bear it. Other people's food must have been hard-earned, so they couldn't take it.

"No need for anything! Don't be polite to us!"

Su Keke stuffed a still-hot bean paste bun into the hands of Aunt Wu and Liu Fang, "Eat it quickly! Although this bean paste bun is a frozen food from the supermarket, it tastes good after heating!"

Aunt Wu and Liu Fang held the steaming bean paste buns in their hands, and their hearts felt warm too. Then they each took a bite of the bean paste bun given by Su Keke. It was really fragrant and sweet.

"You guys can get some when you're full. Coco and I are full!"

When Grandma Qiao saw that Aunt Wu stopped eating one red bean paste bun, she asked her to get a few more.

"Sister Qiao, one is enough for me! Thank you!"

Seeing that they had taken off all their clothes, Aunt Wu and Liu Fang wanted to go back to the grassland first.

They also invited Su Keke and Grandma Qiao to visit their newly built cabin.

Grandma Qiao went to the kitchen and got two bags, put the four corns and six red bean paste buns that she had steamed that morning but had not finished eating into them, and asked them to take them back for the children.

Aunt Wu and Liu Fang pushed for a long time but failed, so they had no choice but to thank him several times before they waded across the stream with their belongings and dry clothes and walked towards the grassland.

Su Keke asked Aunt Wu to tell Village Chief Wang to come to the RV to look for them when he has time, but she didn't say what it was specifically about.

The matter of delivering supplies to the villagers still needs to be discussed with their village chief, and let the village chief distribute the boxes of vegetables they brought.

Seeing the looks on Aunt Wu and Liu Fang's faces, Su Keke felt that she should give them some more potatoes. Potatoes have a high starch content and can definitely fill them up as a staple food.

Moreover, the vegetables she grew in her space could not be harvested all, and giving some more to the villagers in need would not have any impact on her life or that of Grandma Qiao.

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On the grassland, there was originally lush green grass, but now the villagers have pulled it out until only the grass roots are left.

During the past ten days, the three meals a day of seventy or eighty villagers basically depended on these green grasses.

Village chief Wang stood outside his cabin, sighing repeatedly as he looked at the barren grassland that no longer looked like it used to.

The fastest time for rice to be harvested is three to four months. Although the time for vegetables is shorter, it still takes one to two months.

There are so many people in the village! How are they going to survive for the next two or three months? Even if they eat grass every day, there is no grass for them to eat.

That’s it. The village chief of the neighboring Niujia Village even came to borrow food from them, but where did they get any food?

There are many wild fruits on the two mountains behind Niujia Village, but the villagers there say that they don’t have enough to eat, so there is no room for the villagers on the grassland to pick them.

"Old Wang! Stop sighing! We can get through this. As the saying goes, things will work out when the time comes. Go back to your room and have some wild vegetable porridge. I just cooked it for Yan Zi."

The village chief's wife came out of the newly built wooden house and saw that the village chief was frowning and sighing from time to time. She advised him to be more open-minded about everything.

"Alas! Why are our lives so difficult? Although there are no earthquakes here, there are various small disasters all the time. We have just recovered a little this year, but we are back to the time before liberation."

Just as the village head and his wife were standing outside the wooden house, sighing helplessly, Aunt Wu came towards them with a red bean paste bun and a corn.

She went home to hang up the clothes, gave the red bean paste buns that Su Keke had given her to each of her two children, and then came to find the village chief to give Su Keke a message.

The corn and bean paste buns wrapped in a plastic bag in Aunt Wu's arms were for the swallows at the village chief's house.

Yan Zi is a child who usually takes good care of Ye Zi and Xiao Hui in her family, so Aunt Wu will always save a portion of any delicious food for Yan Zi.

Just as she reached the door, she saw the village chief and his wife standing there talking.

Aunt Wu told the village chief about the message Su Keke asked her to convey.

When the village chief heard this, the gloom in his heart instantly dissipated by more than half.

Su Keke and the others must have something important to tell him at this time.

Maybe it was about those Sakura people who suddenly disappeared.

"Wu sister! Where do you think Xiao Su and the others are? I'm going to meet them right now!"

The village chief seemed particularly excited and almost grabbed Aunt Wu's hand to ask her to lead the way.

"Their RV is parked right next to the creek where we get water."

Aunt Wu had just finished telling where Su Keke and the others were when the village chief left in a hurry.

"Is the village chief so anxious?" Aunt Wu was stunned and said to herself.

"Sister! Come in and sit for a while! He is also worried about the livelihood of the whole village!"

The village chief's wife smiled at Aunt Wu and warmly invited her to sit inside the wooden house.

"Oh!" Aunt Wu didn't care too much. She said "oh" and followed the village chief's wife into the house with the things in her arms.