Transmigrated to Famine Year: Supermarket Owner at Five and a Half

Song Tantian transmigrated to ancient times, becoming a five-and-a-half-year-old little sprout. In a chaotic, famine-stricken world, surrounded by danger, she immediately faced the immense change o...

Chapter Fifty-Four: Using the Same Trick Again

Today's harvest was quite good; a whole basket of herbs was collected. Song Tantan was very happy. When she got back, she didn't even have time to eat; she took the herbs out to dry in the sun.

"Eat first. Leave these herbs here; they won't run away. What's the rush?" Song Zhuiyan felt sorry for her when she saw her flushed face and sweat on her forehead.

"It's alright, it'll be dried in no time, it's done now." Knowing they were going to collect herbs, Song Zhuiyan had a wooden table, three meters long and a little over one meter wide, made in the yard to make it easier to dry the herbs.

Zhong Qingyi came over and called Ye Moxun home for dinner, but the latter said he wanted to stay at the Song family's house for dinner.

Everyone is short of food right now, and Ye Moxun always stays at the Song family's house for meals. Zhong Qingyi feels very bad about this, but he doesn't have any food to give to the Song family, so he can only hunt more game and send it over later.

Song Tantan's plan to have Azhu's children study medicine could not be carried out for the time being, because it suddenly rained heavily that night and did not stop until the next morning. The weather suddenly turned cold, and Song Tantan had to take out a down jacket from her space. In order not to arouse suspicion, she could only wear the down jacket inside. Fortunately, ancient clothes were very loose, so it was not noticeable that she was wearing it inside.

"Host, it will start snowing tonight and continue for at least four months. A snow disaster is imminent." The system suddenly became mysterious and somewhat smug, because it had predicted the snow before it even started falling.

"In just one day, where are you expecting everyone to prepare for the winter? With the snowstorm approaching, we need to stockpile food. Couldn't you have told us sooner?" Ye Moxun pursed his lips and left with a grim expression.

System: Waaah, if it hadn't been bound to the wrong host, its precognitive abilities wouldn't be so useless.

"Ah Xun, it's cold. You should stay home. Be careful not to catch a cold." Zhong Qingyi chased after him worriedly. They were supposed to go hunting today, but it rained heavily last night and the temperature dropped sharply. They only had two old coats at home, one was his and the other was Ah Xun's.

The only quilt we have is very thin. If it snows, how will we get through this winter?

"Uncle, go back now. Don't worry, I'll be back soon." Ye Moxun ran very fast and arrived at the Song family in the blink of an eye.

The fence gate was bolted. He knocked on the gate a few times, but no one came out to open it. He had no choice but to call out, "Tantan, come and open the gate, I need to talk to you."

Song Tantan was fast asleep, her little bottom sticking up in the blankets. As the weather got cooler, sleeping under the covers was the most comfortable thing to do. She could stay in bed all day, but there was always someone who would disturb her peaceful dreams.

"Tantan, go open the door, Xun is here to play with you." After feeding the pigs in the morning, Song Zhuiyan went back to bed to catch up on sleep. She and Song Tantan now sleep in separate beds, their rooms are next to each other, and the house doesn't really have any partitions, so you can hear them if you call out.

"Why don't you stay home and sleep a little longer in this weather? Why do you have to come to me? Will eating more make you stronger?" Song Tantan reluctantly put on her floral jacket. This rustic jacket wouldn't arouse suspicion if she wore it out, so she could wear it with peace of mind.

Waaah, there are still quite a few floral jackets in the supermarket. They were all bought by my scumbag dad's wife. No need to hide them, you can wear them out in public.

As soon as the door opened, Song Tantan grabbed her wrist and ran into the room. Seeing that he was hunched over and dressed lightly, she found a black down jacket at the supermarket and said, "You have to wear this underneath. I'll sew an old shirt on the outside for you later so that no one will suspect anything."

After saying that, she went into her space to wash up. When she came out, she brought out a pot of hot chicken soup, a plate of cooked shrimp, and three bowls of rice.

"Auntie, come and eat quickly, or it will get cold." The food will cool down quickly in the cool weather, so it should be eaten while it's hot.

Song Zhuiyan quickly came over wearing a floral jacket. She haphazardly tied her messy long hair into a ball and leaned softly against the quilt. Song Tantan, taking advantage of the fact that the supermarket sold quilts, extravagantly took out four floral quilts: one to put underneath, one to cover herself with, and two to use as backrests.

"Such extravagance! Tantan, could you give me two quilts? No, three, my uncle wants one too." Ye Moxun asked her for something.

"Why do you need so many quilts?" Song Tantan asked, her head buried in her food, without even looking up.

"It's going to start snowing tonight, and this snow will last for four months. It's freezing cold, and I'm not very healthy, so two quilts might not be enough."

"The system notified you? Is a snow disaster approaching?" Song Tantan looked up, her movements slowing down as she drank her soup.

“Well, we two families are manageable, but what about the others? We can’t just watch them freeze. They might not survive and could even freeze to death, especially the elderly and children.” Ye Moxun shook his head with a solemn expression.

"If I had known, I would have put more quilts and cotton-padded jackets in the cave last time." Last time, some clothes and quilts were put in, but the quantity was small, and many families did not get any.

However, there is a way. Song Tantan felt that this matter was not difficult to solve. "Let's find another cave and put food and warm clothes in it. It seems that we will be busy again today."

It started snowing tonight, so naturally we had to find a place to put our things today. Otherwise, if the snow got too thick, we probably wouldn't even be able to leave the house. Song Tantan quickened her pace of eating.

"I'll go look for them. You all stay home and don't wander off." Song Zhuiyan quickly finished her meal and headed out.

"Okay, we won't wander off." Song Tantan readily agreed; she had other things to do.

After the meal, she led Ye Moxun to find Zhong Qingyi, and then called a few strong men from the village. She then led them to the entrance of the road into the deep mountains. "Uncle Zhong, you can stay here. Please work hard and make sure to dig the pit deep and wide."

"Why do we have to finish digging today? Can't we come back and continue digging tomorrow or the day after?" Ah Zhu also came along. Although he was small, he was not to be outdone and carried a hoe to help. It was too cold, and doing more work would make him sweat and less likely to catch a cold.

At this moment, Ye Moxun looked up at the sky with an inscrutable expression and said in a low voice, "I have recently observed the celestial phenomena and predicted that there will likely be heavy snow soon. When the snow closes the mountain, the villagers' food supply may become a problem."

Huh? Ye Moxun can also observe celestial phenomena?

"Ah Xun, if we can't find food after a heavy snowfall, do we think we can catch prey by digging big traps here?" One of the burly men looked bewildered.

"Half a jin of rice. Those who are willing to help dig can dig, and those who don't will not get any when the prey is caught." Song Tantan was carrying a cloth bag filled with a lot of old rice. There was nothing she could do; the supermarket had plenty of old grains and rice.

Now food is more precious than anything else. With half a jin of rice as wages, everyone worked very hard and dug for a whole day. They actually dug a big and deep pit. Song Tantan had people lay branches on it, and then covered the branches with dry grass until it was no longer noticeable.

As darkness fell, she had important matters to attend to. Song Zhuiyan led her to a cave a little far from the village, a place no one had ever been before. The cave was neither very big nor very deep, but none of that mattered. What mattered was that it could hold a lot of things.

Ye Moxun hadn't slept until very late. When he heard someone knocking on the door, he quickly jumped out of bed to open it and saw Song Tantan and Song Zhuiyan carrying large and small bags into the house.

"Where did all this food, quilts, and cotton-padded coats come from?" Zhong Qingyi was startled when she saw the things on the ground as she came out with a torch.

"Shh, we found it, don't make a fuss yet. Let's go back and get some more grain first." Song Zhuiyan made a shushing gesture.