Shi's Residence in the Town.

Around noon, Uncle Li and his family of four, who were guarding the house, were sitting around a table eating.

There were no dishes on the table, only a bowl of porridge mixed with brown rice in front of each person.

In recent years, natural disasters and man-made calamities have occurred one after another, and the price of grain on the market has become increasingly outrageous. There are also purchase restrictions, and every time we queue for half a day, we can only buy ten kilograms of grain.

Those in the town with any savings had long been depleted. Poor families couldn't afford grain and could only survive on grass roots, tree bark, or even clay. Starvation deaths were commonplace.

Given the current food shortage, even landlords are running out of grain. Many people have seen that the wealthy Qian family in town has started selling off their servants in order to reduce food consumption.

Although Shi Guang left some food for the family when he passed away, Uncle Li was a frugal man and worried that there wouldn't be enough to eat, so he changed the family's meals to two a day, one at 10 a.m. and one at 3 p.m.

In such times, Uncle Li was extremely content that his family could still have two meals of thick porridge a day.

This is all thanks to their masters; otherwise, their family would have ended up like everyone else, living off their savings and then having no choice but to accept their fate.

But the two younger children in the family are used to eating good food since they were young, and they find it difficult to swallow plain porridge.

Xiao Miao frowned, forced down a small mouthful, put the bowl on the table, and asked, "Father, the eldest young master and young mistress have been gone for almost half a year. Shouldn't they be back soon?"

Every time the two masters come back, they bring lots of delicious food. I really miss the days when the masters were at home.

Li Yong also looked up at his father with bright eyes, hoping to hear good news.

He liked to go out whenever he had free time. He knew that his family was already much better off than others because they could eat rice porridge, but this stuff didn't give him any strength. It just filled him up with water, and he always felt the urge to go to the toilet. After a few urinations, his stomach would be empty again.

Where can you find unlimited rice and noodles?

Furthermore, he still had a letter that someone else had given to the young master that he hadn't delivered yet. When the young master wasn't there, the person said he would come back in a few days to retrieve the letter.

So he also hoped that the young master could come back soon.

"Who can say for sure?" Li Dashan gulped down half a bowl of porridge in a few mouthfuls and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.

Aunt Li stopped drinking her porridge and asked in confusion, "It's so chaotic outside now, why does the young master still keep taking his wife out? Isn't that dangerous?"

"Master, when the two of them come back next time, you must persuade the young master."

"Do you think I haven't tried to advise him? But it's up to the young master to listen! Alright, the young master isn't a child anymore. He's grown up and has a family. He knows what he's doing. We just need to do our job and take care of this family for the young master."

"I just hope that the eldest young mistress will get pregnant with a little boy soon, then the two of them might stop running around outside."

Despite saying this, Aunt Li couldn't help but wonder. The eldest young mistress had been married for more than three years, and there was still no sign of pregnancy. Could it be that there was something wrong with her health?

Suddenly, she remembered that when she was guarding the house in the county, the daughter-in-law next door hadn't had any children for the first few years. Just when her husband's family was about to divorce her and find another wife who could bear children for their son, she suddenly got pregnant and gave birth to a big, healthy boy with her first child.

Perhaps the eldest daughter-in-law is in the same situation.

*

Because they were stopped by several groups of passersby begging for food along the way, it was already 1 p.m. when Shi Guang and Lin silently drove the mule cart home.

Speak of the devil and he appears.

The Li family was overjoyed to finally welcome their two masters back, especially when they saw the cart full of rice, flour, vegetables and fruits.

The grain that Uncle Li had stockpiled before was only a few thousand catties, and it had long been eaten up. Later, Shi Guang brought it back by mule cart, and each time he would only bring back three or four hundred catties.

Lin Momo and Shi Guang estimated that the Li family of four had almost finished eating the grain from last time, so they brought back another cartload.

"Young Master, here is a letter for you."

Li Yong quickly handed the hot potato-like letter to his master, saying, "The messenger said he would come to pick it up in three days, which is tomorrow."

It has to be said that the young master's return was quite coincidental.

Shi Guang was completely bewildered. He took the letter, glanced at the envelope, and saw "To Brother Guangyao" written in regular script. He immediately connected the letter with a certain person.

Li Dashan and his family unloaded the truck.

Shi Guang and Lin Momo stepped into the main courtyard, went back to their room to rest, and read the letter.

"What did that kid Zhu Rui write? It's been so long, I thought he'd forgotten about us," Lin Momo asked casually as she took off her outer garment.

Although more than two years have passed, they didn't know many people to begin with, so it wasn't hard to guess who wrote the letter.

Shi Guang placed the letter he had read on the table and laughed, "What else could he write? Just the same old stuff. He said he's already been promoted to centurion in the army and is encouraging me to join him."

The two laughed it off and didn't take it to heart.

*

Night falls.

That night, Shiguang was unusually well-behaved; he didn't tease his wife, but simply held her tightly in his arms.

Once she calmed down, Lin Momo's mind was filled with images of being surrounded by people begging for food earlier that day, and she was overwhelmed with mixed feelings.

If she had no food on hand, that would be one thing, but since there was still a batch of looted food lying in the space, they should do something about it.

Having made up her mind, Lin Momo broke the silence in the room: "If the people can get through this winter, things should be better next year. Shi Guang, why don't we release some of the grain we have on hand?"

The three years of natural disasters should be almost over. Although war has begun, at least the fields can be used to grow food. As long as the land is not affected by the war, there will always be some harvest.

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