Chapter 162 Planning to Find Lin Qi

Brother Tan had dinner at Lin Qi's place, and when he left, he took away two sacks of unhusked rice.

The next morning, Lin Qi and Xu Hexiao went to the planting area.

"How much rice do we have left?" Lin Qi asked. She hadn't deliberately stimulated the growth of rice in the past two days, but she stimulated the growth of grains, fruits and vegetables in the planting area every three days, and the rice grew accordingly. Excluding the rice they used for brewing wine, there should be a lot left. The remaining rice was stored in the large cave they had discovered before, together with the wine.

"There are still twenty jars. A large jar can hold three sacks of rice, which is about four hundred kilograms. Twenty jars means eight thousand kilograms." Xu Hexiao said.

"Take these 8,000 kilograms and hand them over tomorrow night. I will continue to induce labor today, so it won't be a problem to harvest twice today." Lin Qi said.

Xu Hexiao disagreed, "You still have to prepare vegetables for tonight, don't push yourself too hard."

"Then we'll harvest some vegetables," Lin Qi said. "As for vegetables, we'll get all kinds of greens and melons, and give Brother Tan thirty baskets. The upper limit of his truck is probably about that amount."

"I plan to go to Boss Mo's place tonight. He should be short of food as well. If I go there at this time, I might be able to find some treasures." Xu Hexiao said.

The situation has become even more serious in the past two years. Even wearing a jade bracelet seems to have become a crime. People who have good things in their hands either sell them or hide them.

Now is a disaster year, those things that cannot be seen in the light are not as important as a few kilograms of food.

"You go ahead, I'll transport the vegetables myself and just wait for Brother Tan." Lin Qi said.

Xu Hexiao knew Lin Qi's strength, but he couldn't help but feel a little guilty. "Whatever you need, I'll bring it back to you."

"Nothing. I'll take Brother Tan's car to the town. There's a drought at my home, so I have to mail some food back." Lin Qi said. Lin's father and mother asked her to mail less things. The strict inspection in the city was one reason, and another reason was that they didn't want her to continue supporting the family. They were afraid that her eldest brother and sister-in-law would develop big appetites, and that her eldest brother and sister-in-law would regard her mailing things back as a habit and a matter of course. They were also worried that if she mailed too many things, it would affect her relationship with Xu Hexiao.

But this year's drought made it difficult to buy anything even with money and tickets, so the situation was different. She couldn't bear to see her family go hungry, especially her nephew who was not even three years old.

"Then after I finish the deal with Boss Mo, I'll wait for you on the small road outside the town?" Xu Hexiao said.

"OK."

Brother Tan didn't expect Lin Qi to prepare thirty baskets of vegetables. He was a little embarrassed. "I didn't bring any ropes. If I don't use them to secure them, the baskets on top might fall down."

"I prepared some straw ropes, they're quite strong." Lin Qi showed Brother Tan the straw rope in her hand that was as thick as her wrist and pulled it.

Brother Tan quickly stopped her, "Take it easy. With your strength, you can even break the rubber rope."

"I know my limits." Lin Qi said, and started loading the truck.

"Where is He Xiao? Where did he go?" asked Brother Tan.

"Go find Boss Mo. In the past two years, his business with Boss Mo has never stopped. But Boss Mo has not had an easy time either. He has changed his hideouts several times." Lin Qi said.

"Boss Mo has many brothers and many informants. Unlike me, I work alone and I am not as well-informed as him."

"Brother Tan, you are too modest. You have expanded your business to the city and the provincial capital. Now you have gone from being a speculator to a temporary worker. If I were to say who is the best, you are still the best."

"This is just a coincidence, good luck. If it wasn't for the disaster year, and if I didn't know two capable people like you and He Xiao, I wouldn't have gotten this job."

“We are mutually accomplished.”

Lin Qi was going to town, so she became the one driving.

"Two years have passed, and your hands are still as good as ever. You drive more steadily than I do," Brother Tan praised.

"I have a good memory. Are you the only one using this car now?" Lin Qi asked.

"I guess so. Because I'm the only one who can get the food right now. Others have to go to other provinces. Several provinces in our province are experiencing drought. Apart from our own food reserves, the remaining food can only be shipped in from other provinces."

"So your car is available during the day?"

"You don't want to borrow the car?"

"Yes, borrow the car and go to Badong Farm to deliver some food. A round trip will only take a day."

Brother Tan fell into deep thought. Finally, he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay. As long as you can provide me with supplies for five consecutive days, I will lend you the car for a day."

"make a deal."

Lin Qi got off the bus in the town and walked towards Yu Mingbo's house carrying two bags of husked rice.

It was already eleven o'clock in the middle of the night, and Yu Mingbo tossed and turned several times in bed.

"It's so late at night, why don't you sleep?" complained the wife.

"I'm so hungry." Yu Mingbo said pitifully.

"I'm hungry too." The wife touched her belly. Her daughter-in-law was pregnant. Now the whole family depended on her. She, her husband and her son only ate half full.

"We can't go on like this. Even if the three of us are hungry, my daughter-in-law can barely get enough to eat. There is no meat or eggs, and even less vegetables. My daughter-in-law's belly is obviously six months, but it looks like four months." Yu Mingbo was very worried. His daughter-in-law finally got pregnant, but she didn't expect it to be hit by a drought. What worried him most was that the drought was still going on. The sky was clear every day, and it didn't look like it was going to rain at all.

During those years of drought, the children born would not survive!

"It's a little small. I'll get up early tomorrow morning and see if I can buy some meat. Even if I just buy two bones to make soup, that would be fine," said the wife.

"There is no pork for sale in the town these past two days, and I am not sure about tomorrow. I am thinking whether I should take a leave tomorrow and go to the Anliang Brigade to look for Lin Qi. Maybe Lin Qi has food and meat."

"This year there is a severe drought and many brigades have no harvest. Will Lin Qi have food and meat?"

"Food may not be available, but as for meat, Lin Qi can go hunting, so there should be a way—"

Boom boom!

The knock on the door interrupted Yu Mingbo's words, and Yu Mingbo and his wife looked at each other.

"The last time someone knocked on our door in the middle of the night was Lin Qi." Yu Mingbo's eyes were full of surprise.

"That's not necessarily true. Don't be so startled that you might scare the people outside." His wife reminded him and followed suit to get dressed.

Yu Mingbo had already stood up, put on a coat in a hurry and went out, "Is it Lin Qi? I have to go check it out."

Yu Mingbo trotted to open the door, and when he saw Lin Qi carrying two sacks on her shoulders, she was so happy that she almost laughed out loud.

"Come in, come in." Yu Mingbo invited Lin Qi in and quickly closed the door.

Lin Qi put the rice on the ground and when she looked up, not only Yu Mingbo, but also Aunt Yu, Brother Yu and Sister-in-law Yu had all come out of the room. The four of them had their eyes glued to the two sacks on the ground.

"This is husked rice. I'll give you one bag and ask Uncle Yu to mail the other bag to my brother's factory in Zhoucheng tomorrow. I'll write down the address for you later." Lin Qi said.