Zhao Denglong and Zhao Xiaolv were the most worried because they knew the whole story.

When the two returned home, they didn't dare tell Maruko and Ran. They simply locked the front door and forbade either of them to go out.

The family's goat, rabbit, and two dogs were all brought into the house.

Under Zhao Wanzi's careful care, the little goat has grown quite large and looks very robust. Meanwhile, the group of rabbits are hopping and skipping around, all looking very happy.

He Tiantian secretly bought a lot of those long screws from the mall and installed them on her own wall.

If anyone dares to climb her yard wall, hmph, their hands will be pierced through.

The villagers who had been working in the fields didn't return home until it got dark. They estimated that in another day, all the crops would be harvested.

Now every household has a yard, and the harvested rice is piled up in their own yard.

Bringing the rice home is just the beginning; it still needs to be threshed, sifted, and dried. Only then can you see the snow-white rice.

In the tranquil and harmonious mountain village, smoke began to rise from the chimneys of every household. The air was filled with the aroma of cooked food.

The people of Peach Blossom Village, hiding in the back mountains, tried to smell the aroma of food wafting from down the mountain and ate the grass they had plucked.

At first, they thought the wild grass and vegetables tasted good, but now they suddenly don't.

"Damn it, the people in Changfeng Village are so damn lucky. Look at the chaos outside, and they still have food to eat!" Tao Yong grabbed a handful of grass and chewed it, unable to help but curse.

“Isn’t that right? If our little sister hadn’t told us secretly, who would have known!” Tao Qing chimed in.

These are two brothers, Tao Guihua's eldest and second eldest brothers.

Tao Guihua had previously sent out information about their village's situation: they had both water and food. Moreover, these past few days had coincided with the harvest season, and they had already found out in advance who had harvested their grain and where they had hidden it.

They were caught stealing water last time, but managed to escape and went back to live peacefully for a few days.

Anyway, my younger sister secretly provided them with water, and combined with the water they stole last time, it was enough to last them for a while.

But the temptation of this food is so great, who can resist it?

Tao Yong and Tao Qing discussed it and decided to take more than twenty people from their village. After traveling all day, they planned to steal some more grain to take back with them.

"Brother, we already alerted them last time. Will we be able to succeed this time?" Tao Qing asked worriedly.

The twenty-odd people behind him heard this and all looked at Tao Yong.

Tao Yong said confidently, "What's there to be afraid of! My sister has already given me a heads-up. My brother-in-law is one of the people on the patrol team, so we've all been in touch! He'll get the patrol team members out of the way, so be careful."

"Good! These days, the bold get rich, and the timid starve! I, He Dasheng, am not afraid!" a man stood up and shouted.

This undoubtedly gave everyone confidence that tonight's operation could only succeed and could not fail!

They came all this way, not just to eat a few handfuls of grass and go back.

As dusk settled, the last rays of the setting sun gradually dimmed.

After dinner, the villagers of Changfeng Village did not visit each other as usual. Instead, they kept their courtyard gates tightly closed and began threshing rice in their yards, the crackling sound echoing throughout the entire village.

I've been waiting for a long time tonight, but the moon still hasn't hung above the treetops.

After what seemed like an eternity, the sounds of threshing rice gradually subsided. Exhausted from a day's physical labor, everyone collapsed into bed and fell asleep almost immediately.

The village patrol team started working. Wang Dazhuang worked all day at the mine and came back in the evening to harvest rice.

It was his turn to patrol tonight, and before he could even rest, he grabbed a shovel and began to meet up with the rest of the patrol team.

Zhao Xiangnan and Zhao Xiangbei also met at the village entrance, both of them looking slightly tired.

Wang Dazhuang, on the other hand, looked quite energetic. "You two don't even have to work, so why are you so tired? Get up!"

Zhao Xiangnan, on the other hand, seemed nonchalant. In his view, he had been patrolling the village every day for so long, and nothing had happened.

He might as well go home and sleep early; he's exhausted after a long day of work.

Zhao Xiangbei glanced at Wang Dazhuang, and the two exchanged a look.

Once the others had all arrived, they began to patrol from one end of the village to the other.

The night was deep, and the sky seemed darker than usual tonight.

The twenty-odd people from Peach Blossom Village who had been hiding on the back mountain began to gradually walk towards the village under the cover of night.

As they passed by He Tiantian's bean sprout patch, Tao Qing curiously nudged Tao Yong, "Brother, what are these? Why are there so many that haven't been harvested yet?"

It was already dark, and Tao Yong couldn't see clearly.

He grabbed a bean stalk at random, and the hard bean pods pricked his hand.

"Damn it, what is this thing?" Tao Yong casually tossed it aside. This wasn't grain!

Tao Qing casually picked a bean pod, peeled it open, and chewed it. "Ptooey! Ugh! This is awful!" What is this stuff? It tastes terrible!

Who's out of their mind to grow so much awful stuff? It tastes like gibberish, it makes me want to vomit.

The others in the group also looked at it curiously, and one of them recognized it. "Brother, these are beans! I've seen them in the city, and people in the city like to eat them."

"What? Are city people's tastes so peculiar?" Even pigs wouldn't eat this disgusting food! Tao Qing thought to herself.

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