Most of the villagers started eating only one meal a day.
Everyone was so hungry that their faces were pale and their bodies were thin. Their eyes lit up when they saw something to eat. What's worse, some people even started to have inappropriate ideas.
Shitou walked around his yard several times and felt relieved when he saw nothing unusual. This was the life-saving food for his whole family.
"Brother! What are you doing?" Qin Qing asked hurriedly when he saw Shitou walking around the yard nervously as soon as he came back.
Shitou looked up and saw his lovely sister leaning against the door.
With her fair skin and bright eyes, anyone who sees her would think that she is a girl who has been pampered.
Shitou's heart skipped a beat and he thought to himself that something was wrong.
He rushed into the kitchen with a look of haste, and when he came out he went straight to the bewildered Qin Qing. Before she could react, he smeared all the black coal dust on her face.
Qin Qing was caught off guard by this act.
After reacting, he quickly dodged the clutches of the stone, but the latter came closer with an anxious look on his face.
"Little sister, don't move..." Shitou looked anxious.
"What are you doing? I don't want to play this game." Qin Qing was really at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
Shi Tou was stunned for a moment. "What game?" He finally realized, "No, listen to me..."
Shitou explained in detail what had just happened at the village entrance to his sister, and at the end he added, "If you go out like this, you'll get into trouble sooner or later."
Qin Qing suddenly remembered what happened that day. No wonder, but when she looked at the black coal ash in Shi Tou's hand again, she still felt disgusted.
"I understand, but there's no need for this. I have my own way."
Qin Qing looked at the stone meaningfully.
After the others came back, Shitou told the story again, and it really attracted everyone's attention.
Qin Zhilin praised him repeatedly, saying, "You have grown up, and you see things in a detailed and comprehensive way, like a little adult."
Shitou was so happy that he almost lost his way.
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The next morning, Qin Qing got up a quarter of an hour earlier, applied dark foundation, and added some concealer.
By the time she leisurely sat down at the table, the vegetable pancake in Goudan's hand almost fell to the ground.
He looked at Qin Qing with a dull expression.
"Little sister, what happened to you?" Could it be that you met some dirty creature? Why did you look like you had been drained of all your energy after just one night?
Even Zhu Lihua and Shitou looked over with concern.
Qin Qing smiled cunningly.
"How is it? Is it realistic enough?"
It was like a shadow of her former self, with her cheeks sunken as if she had been hungry for several days. If it weren't for the relaxed smile on her face, they wouldn't have believed that this was the lovely little sister.
"Little sister!" Shitou swallowed hard and said with difficulty, "You look hungrier than the old man at the village entrance..."
The old man at the head of the village was an elderly widower with no children. He was the first to be persecuted in the famine and had long been out of food.
He was so hungry that only bones were left. On weekdays, he had to hunch over and go from house to house begging for food to avoid starvation.
Qin Qing looked exactly like him.
Goudan looked up at his sister, thought for a moment, and then said, "Isn't this too exaggerated?"
Zhu Lihua nodded in agreement.
"That's why I feel more at ease when your sister goes to school. After all, people can tell whether your family is eating well or not just by looking at your face."
Goudan looked as if he had suddenly realized something, and immediately put down his bowl and chopsticks and rushed into the kitchen.
It took him a while to come out covered in dust.
He looked like two completely different people from before.
Qin Qing and others: "..."
It happened quite suddenly.
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