When Xiao Youran looked up, she suddenly realized that she was surrounded by children. She recognized several of them: Siwa, Shitou, Xiaoshan, and Cui'er was also on the outside with Tiezhu in her arms.

Xiao Youran didn't answer for a moment, and the corner fell silent.

Suddenly, someone's stomach rumbled.

The youngest, Yun Tianjiao, patted her belly and said cutely, "I'm not hungry, I'm not hungry, Xiao Liu isn't hungry!"

Yun Manyan waved to him and said gently, "Little Six, come to your big sister's. Go to bed early tonight, and you won't be hungry if you're asleep."

Yun Tianjiao hummed twice, nodded, kicked off her shoes, climbed onto the bed, and crawled over to Yun Manwan.

Xiao Youran felt hungry; she hadn't eaten dinner yet, and she didn't know how long it would take for the food in the carriage to be brought up.

Looking around at the group of children, she finally resisted the urge to reach into her sleeve for food.

After some hesitation, I took out two boxes of chocolates, each with 24 pieces.

The children around them all had their eyes shining with envy.

Stone and Fourth Brother rushed forward, their eyes burning with fervor, "Chief!"

Xiao You Ran: ……

She'd completely forgotten that she still had a gang!

She opened the box and handed it to Yun Manwan, indicating that she should distribute it to the children.

"The Yun family will come first, followed by the Gai gang!"

Yun Tiankuang found it amusing and took the other box, starting to distribute them as well.

Then... a lot of unfamiliar kids rushed over, shouting, "Boss! Boss! I'm from the Gai Gang too!"

"I am!"

"Boss, please take me in!"

Hearing the endless shouts, Xiao Youran sighed, took out two more boxes, and distributed them all to the children.

She wondered how the Gaibang had suddenly grown so large.

And so the night passed.

The next morning, Xiao Youran crawled outside and found Su Shi, "Mother, I'm so hungry!"

Madam Su's expression was not good. "Little Youran, last night when our guards went down the mountain to unload the food from the carriages, four of them were discovered by the Western barbarian soldiers. In order not to expose us on the mountain, they simply drove the carriages away. I don't know... whether they are safe now..."

She said with concern.

Xiao Youran was startled, "We've been discovered?!"

Madam Zhou nodded, "The guards that Young Master Wen gave us are truly loyal to their master. We were able to safely reach Yunjia Village from Wufeng County thanks to them!"

Xiao Youran sighed, "I hope they can all live well."

She didn't know which four guards they were, nor could she make a wish in the little notebook.

She stood up. "Mother, let's go outside and take a look."

Mrs. Su took her hand and said, "Okay."

Once outside the cave and around the mountain wall, there is a huge open-pit coal mine pit.

Many people built several stoves with stones at the bottom of the pit and put large pots on them to cook breakfast.

This big pit is a good place, right behind the mountain, which blocks the rising smoke and fumes from being too noticeable, and it's not immediately apparent to those below the mountain.

Just then, the two heard arguing nearby. It was an unfamiliar voice. "They kept saying they brought food, but what happened? Not a single grain of rice, and now there are more than a dozen mouths to feed! We can only drink a mouthful of porridge a day! At this rate, we won't last two days!"

Yun Laoqi's voice rang out, "Old Zhao, when you came to seek refuge with us, you didn't bring a single grain of rice. You've put in a lot of effort these past few days, but you can't decide who gets the food!"

Old Zhao choked for a moment, then continued, "Although we didn't bring any food, our men have caught quite a bit of wild game these past few days! This mountain isn't big, and we've been startled, so it'll be even harder to find wild game if we go any further down! But what can they do here? Four weak women and a dozen guards! Don't even think the guards can hunt wild game; look at them, each one of them is arrogant and acts like they're living ancestors! And then there's the group of old, weak, women, and children from Tian Kuang's family—they all came with nothing but mouths to feed! You shouldn't have been so soft-hearted as to accept them!"

Yun Laoqi said angrily, "Old Zhao, your Zhao Family Village was starving for the first half of the year. If it weren't for Tian Kuang's family building houses and instant noodle workshops to give you a way to survive, many people in your Zhao Family Village would have starved to death! Now that foreign enemies are invading, you just stand by and watch them die?! Old Zhao, you can't repay kindness with enmity like this!"

"How could I be repaying kindness with enmity? We're barely able to take care of ourselves right now! If this continues, we'll all starve to death! We're skilled hunters, and we've turned these two mountains upside down these past few days, but we haven't caught much game!"

Yun Laoqi insisted, "Anyway, as long as I, Yun Laoqi, am here, everyone in the Tian Kuang family, including those dozen or so guards, will have something to eat!"

At this moment, Xiao Youran took Su Shi's hand and walked out from behind the stone wall. "Grandpa Clan Chief, we will have food."

As soon as Yun Laoqi saw Xiao Youran, he grinned kindly and said, "Little Fu Bao, don't worry, there will be food!"

Su nodded to them, "Clan chief, we will take care of our own food, so there's no need for you to worry about it."

There's no way around it, she's a doting father, and that's just how confident she is in her daughter's words.

The other old man nearby sneered, "How are you going to solve this yourselves?"

Xiao Youran said with a grin, "That won't trouble Grandpa Zhao! But... we'll have lots and lots of food, so people from Zhao Family Village, don't ask us for food!"

Old Zhao snorted again, "Impossible!"

Xiao You Ran then pulled her mother along and walked into the distance.

Su couldn't help but ask, "Little Youran, do you... have any way of finding food?"

"Hunting!"

“But…” Su said worriedly.

Xiao Youran pushed her mother into the cave, saying, "Mother, go and keep my great-aunt company. I'll take the guards and go hunting!"

Su: ...

In less than an hour, when Xiao Youran emerged from the deep mountains with a dozen or so guards, each of them carried one or two pheasants on their shoulders.

The people cooking thin porridge in the pit were all excited!

Xiao Youran directed her guards to carry over two large trees, dividing the pit in two. "From this day forward, the people of Yunjia Village will be on the left, and the people of Zhaojia Village will be on the right! I don't care how you divide your food, but the food that my guards and I find will only be given to the people of Yunjia Village!"

The people of Zhao Village immediately erupted in excitement. "What? Why? The food we got from hunting a few days ago was all shared with the people of Yun Village!"

"That's right! Without the game we hunt, how many days will this little bit of food last?"

"Why can you eat the prey we hunt, but we can't eat the prey you hunt?"

Faced with these questions, Xiao Youran smiled and turned her gaze to Old Zhao, "Grandpa Zhao, didn't you say that my mother, the people we brought, and I can't eat your food? And you can't eat the game we hunt either, right?"