After the people left, Jiang Nian gestured and said, "Yue, Yue, Shu."

"I've given them the books. The village chief's family are all good people. I just hope they can live longer. As for the others, it all depends on luck."

However, she also left some room for maneuver and did not tell them where she lived. Apart from Jiang Nian, she would not trust anyone completely.

Patting the eldest cub's soft head, he said, "Let's go see how many of the little rabbits are still alive and take good care of them. We wouldn't want a few more to die on the way to the city."

The pregnant female rabbit had just given birth to six rabbits the day before. Adding the previous ones, there were now four adult rabbits and ten baby rabbits. She had killed the pheasant and made it into cured chicken.

It rained heavily for ten days in a row. The water levels of the two rivers in the village overflowed, and the paddy fields were connected into one. Unharvested rice from someone's house floated everywhere. The boundaries between the fields were indistinguishable, and it looked like a vast ocean.

The villagers had not seen smiles on their faces for a long time, and the wrinkles on their foreheads were getting deeper and deeper. Looking at the moldy food and cracked walls, they heard cries every day, and the whole place was devastated.

On the eleventh day, the rain subsided and the sky showed signs of clearing up. The villagers wanted to laugh but didn't dare to, and wanted to cry for fear of disturbing the God of Heaven.

On the twelfth day, the sky was completely bright, with only a drizzle left.

Jiang Yue and the others packed up their things, locked the gate, and planned to take the usual shortcut out in their mule cart. However, the heavy rain had left the path littered with mud, gravel, leaves, and paper. Jiang Yue naturally didn't have the leisure to clean it up, so she decisively changed her route and passed through the village.

Many people were repairing their houses, and they stared at the two people when they saw them driving by.

Eugene Hua also forced the lazy Jiang Dajin out of bed and fixed the leaking roof.

Seeing Jiang Yue and the other person passing by, he spat, "A little bitch and a living devil, now their house must have collapsed and they are looking for help! Ha, how long can those two thatched houses last?"

The more she thought about it, the happier she became, as if she had really seen the scene of the two people's house collapsing.

We will not take those two people in unless, unless they send the mule cart over.

God knows, when I saw that they could actually afford a mule cart, I was really envious! That living devil was a mute, saying he was a hunter, dressed in rags, and that money must have been paid by the little bitch.

She said that with Jiang Er and his wife being so smart, why wouldn't they leave some private money for their only daughter? It was a pity that she didn't find it.

Bah! He only collected three taels of silver and kept that little bitch for three years, but in the end, he didn't even give her any betrothal gifts! Her son has no money to marry!

Jiang Dajin had no idea what his wife was thinking. He climbed onto the roof, his legs weak, and yelled at the people below, "What are you doing! Hold the ladder properly! Don't tilt it!"

Jiang Yue no longer took Eugene Hua seriously. She let them curse her behind her back, thinking they were all jealous bastards.

When passing by the village entrance, the village chief's family also went out together to repair the house and rebuild the chicken coop.

Hearing the sound of the mule cart, he looked over and smiled.

Jiang Yue nodded to everyone, and without getting out of the car to greet anyone, he walked straight towards the provincial capital.

The village chief watched the mule cart go away and knew that they were capable and not the same kind of people as his family.

He called a few adults into the house and looked at his wife, "Is the dry food ready?"

The village chief's wife was in a gloomy mood and said, "It's done."

Then I heard the man instruct the children, "Pack your things today and set out early tomorrow morning before daybreak. The eldest and third sons go ahead and explore the route, while the second son stays home to repair the house."

Li and Wang looked at their husbands, feeling apprehensive. They were heading deep into the mountains, and who knew what was in there, with venomous snakes and ferocious beasts...

My eyes get red just thinking about it.

The village chief spoke again, "The food we have now is only enough to survive for half a year. Don't even think about having enough to eat. We still have to pay taxes! What if there's military service..."

The village chief's wife grabbed his arm tightly and gritted her teeth. She definitely couldn't let her son go to serve. In previous years, ten people went, but only one and a half came back, and the other half were always carried back!

"The eldest is strong, the third is clever. You two have memorized most of the medical textbooks. Go explore the route first these two days. Move quickly and stealthily. The second is steady and the backbone of the family. We have to repair the house before the next rain. The daughters-in-law also need to clean up the house. We can't let rats and mosquitoes destroy our life-saving food!"

"Yes, Dad!"

The village chief had always been fair in his management of the household, and after he had spoken frankly, no one felt any resentment. Going into the mountains was dangerous, but how could life at home be easy?

Li and Jiang went back and forth to check their men's clothes, shoes, dry biscuits and water, fearing that there would be no clean water to drink in the mountains.

Little Tiger didn't know what was going on, he just felt that his mother seemed very sad. He was a little kid and felt uneasy, so he kept circling around his father.

Jiang Shan picked up his son and said, "Hutou, Dad has to go to work tomorrow and won't be back for two days. You have to help Mom and Grandma with the work at home, okay?"

Tiger Head nodded, "Okay! I'm a man now! I have to work!"

He didn't know how long two days was, and thought it was the same as before. His father worked to earn money by driving a mule cart to pick up passengers, and the children in the village all envied him.

The next morning, before daybreak, Jiangshan and Jiangsan carried their backpacks, tied their clothes tightly with ropes, and headed for the back mountain with sickles in hand. If anyone saw them, they would say they were going to cut grass because their mules were so thin from hunger.

Several women looked at the two men's backs, tears streaming down their faces.

The village chief leaned against the wall, feeling upset. He was afraid of sending his two sons away at once!

Jiang Yue came here and saw that the fields along the road were flooded. The natural disaster was not just a problem in the nearby villages and towns, but also in the county town and the prefecture.

Everyone's face was numb, and they were cursing God and their family. They were upset and always needed a vent.

The road was muddy and slippery, so the two had to walk slowly. It took them five hours from dawn to dusk to reach the gate of the city.

Today, the city gates weren't as bustling as usual. Those entering and leaving the city had to line up for a more thorough inspection. It was just getting close to dusk, so more people were leaving.

"Take out your household registration. Where did it come from? What are you doing in the city?"

Jiang Yue gave them the household registration, "We settled down in the capital. We went to visit relatives in the countryside before, but were delayed by the heavy rain on our way back to the city."

When the guard heard that he had a home in the capital, his expression relaxed a little. He opened the car door and was shocked to see a live sheep tied up inside and two cages. "What's in the cages?"

Jiang Yue lifted the cloth covering the animals. "There are many wild animals in the countryside. They were worried that we would have no food when we got to the city, so they caught a few rabbits for us."

The guard raised an eyebrow and returned the household registration to her.

Jiang Yue slipped a small silver coin over and said with a smile, "Excuse me, sir, we haven't been back to the city for a long time. I wonder what the rules are for entering and leaving the city now?"