"It's good to go out for a stroll, otherwise there will be no share of all the delicious food."

The old man looked at Zhou Yan and said, "Xiao Yan, give your grandfathers a bowl of the glutinous rice that you reserved for Xiao Liu and me."

"Hey, do you have any glutinous rice left?"

Zhou Yan reached out and took the basket behind him, and brought out a few bowls of glutinous rice: "Grandpas, try it. It's not completely glutinous rice, so don't worry about indigestion." After all, it was a dessert made for the old man, how could it be made entirely of glutinous rice.

"Haha, Xiao Xiao and Xiao Zhou are so thoughtful!" said an old man, unable to hide the envy in his eyes.

Zhou Yan then poured them some fruit wine.

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When he returned home that afternoon, the old man explained the reason for his recent situation. It turned out that the agricultural environment across the country was poor, with some areas experiencing total harvest failure. Although they had secured tens of millions of tons of grain from the islands ahead of time, no one knew how long this situation would last.

"To prevent chaos down below, the work-for-relief program must continue, so the people don't go hungry. But food is limited, so starting in May, we've discussed and decided internally to reduce supplies for us first. If the environment gets worse next year, we'll start reducing supplies in the cities. The famine of more than a decade ago is still fresh in our minds! We don't dare to gamble!"

Zhou Yan was silent. The source of their food supply had been the incense offerings from the past thousand years, but now, almost all the incense offerings had been collected.

"Grandpa, can I trust you?"

"You are my grandson. And Xiaoyu is the 'mother' of my great-grandson."

"The way we get food is related to the incense offerings from the past."

"Incense?"

"Yes. Incense for the God of Land, the God of City, the God of Mountain, and even the Dragon King is acceptable. Xiao Yu was injured in a land temple in Shencheng, and by chance, he inherited the legacy. As his partner, I enjoy some special treatment. But if we want to grow food, we must use incense. This incense can be understood as the power of faith. It's not something that can be accumulated casually. If a land temple or a city god temple is prosperous, it will take thousands of years to accumulate tens of millions of incense. The incense we obtained before was obtained in Henan Province and Jin Province through this method. These are two major provinces with thousands of years of history."

"This time, the incense you collected was not ideal?"

Zhou Yan nodded. "Yeah! Actually, we did collect some. But during the Ghost Festival, we were teleported to 1942, and we used them all up. I think this happened because Xiao Yu and I changed something. That's why we were summoned."

"If that's the case..." Old Master Zhou frowned, "Then the next time will be in 1946 or 1947."

"Yeah." Zhou Yan nodded. "That's what I guessed too. I'm afraid that if we can't do something in that time and space..."

Old Master Zhou was silent. He wondered if Zhou Yan knew that the consecutive heavy fogs had affected almost the entire country, even covering half of the land in neighboring countries.

“Is it okay to burn incense in a temple?”

Zhou Yan looked at him: "I don't know, we haven't tried it."

"Tomorrow I'll take you around the city. If possible, I'll talk to them. Let them offer incense in exchange for food."

Zhou Yan looked at Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu nodded.