Su Keke and Grandma Qiao were squatting far away. They didn't dare to rush forward as they didn't know the situation. These Sakura people looked like they were not easy to deal with.
After a while, these people found a lot of beef, mutton and some dairy products from the herdsmen's homes.
There was also one who was particularly good at searching. He actually found out the foals hidden under the beds and the yaks covered with blankets that the herders had hidden.
"That's all we have at home, please leave some for us!"
"I beg you, we really have nothing left at home! Wuuwuwu...what are we going to eat if everything is taken away?"
"Ah... I can't live like this anymore! Is there any justice in the world?"
The herders cried and begged, and the more they thought about it, the more aggrieved they felt. They just wanted these Sakura people to leave a little food for them. The adults could go without food for a few days, but the children could not!
These people from Sakura Country don't understand the language of Huaxia Country, and even if they do, what can they do? If they still have compassion, why would they come out to rob?
After searching all the yurts, these people drove away in their pickup trucks.
"Aunt Wu! How could you hide this yak in your house? Who can't see it with the blanket covering it?"
"Oh! They came so suddenly that I couldn't find their place for a while! Woo woo woo... This is the only yak I have at home. How am I going to live from now on?"
After the Sakura people left, many herdsmen who had been hiding gathered together and began to discuss countermeasures.
"Little Flying Cow, where is the pony you just rode? Where is it hidden? How come you haven't been discovered?"
Someone curiously asked the young man who had just returned on horseback to report the news.
"I went up to Zangshan! That mountain, the one with the steepest slope."
The young man pointed to the mountain where Su Keke and the others had come down.
"That mountain is full of cliffs. Where can your horse hide?"
After hearing what the young man said, the herdsmen became even more interested. At this moment, they had forgotten that their homes had just been robbed.
Even Aunt Wu, who had just burst into tears because her yak was stolen, quickly stopped crying. She wiped the tears from her cheeks with her sleeves and immediately came over.
Seeing that all the uncles and aunts were so interested, the young man stopped hiding it. He raised his eyebrows and said with a bit of pride, "Aren't there still a lot of trees on the cliffs? My dad and I have been trying to find a place to hide things these past few days. But the grassland where we live has a panoramic view and there is no place to hide things, so we thought of hiding it on the mountain."
"We have to find a mountain where anyone with a discerning eye can see that nothing can be hidden. So my dad and I chose a mountain surrounded by cliffs. We thought that if we hid on that mountain, the Sakura Country people would definitely not be able to find us."
"But the mountain was really steep, without even a decent mountain road. My dad and I only climbed a little bit up. We put food in wooden boxes and tied them to the tree trunks with ropes."
"My dad and I carried the foal and tied it to the tree. My dad is still hiding over there watching the foal. Our foal would definitely cry out if it was tied to a tree without anyone familiar around it. In order to prevent that place from being exposed, my dad had to squat there."
"Well! Now those people have left. I don't think they will come back in the next two days. I'm going to put our horses down first."
After the young man finished speaking, he walked out from among the herdsmen surrounding him.
"Xiao Fei, take us with you! We still have some food stored at home, and I want to find a place to hide it."
"I'm going too!"
"Take me one, and I'll go too!"
Aunt Wu felt bad when she saw that everyone else had gone. All she had left were a few bags of rice and the yak hidden under the blanket.
Now the rice and flour have been snatched away, and the yaks are gone, so there is no rice for lunch.
The man in his family went to work at a construction site outside with several other men from the grassland, and he never came back since the natural disaster outside.
Several families went out to look for it, but there were earthquakes and tsunamis outside. The people from the grassland couldn't find their way out and returned disappointed after a few days.
During this year, their grassland also suffered from natural disasters of varying sizes, such as extreme cold and extreme heat.
Now it's finally over, green grass has grown on the lawn, and everyone thought that good days were coming, but then these damn Sakura people came.
"Mom! I'm hungry! Have you made lunch?"
The five-year-old daughter was still ignorant. When those people came to steal things, Aunt Wu covered her eyes and protected her in her arms, so she was not frightened.
"Mom! Let me help you cook. Don't be sad. Without the yaks and food, we can only eat wild vegetables. There are a lot of wild vegetables in the mountains. Haven't we eaten them before? I'll go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables now."
The eldest daughter is twelve years old. She is not tall and has a sallow complexion, which shows that she is malnourished. She is very sensible and usually helps Aunt Wu cook and take care of her younger sister.
"Yes! Ye Zi, it's my fault that I made you suffer with me. Take your sister to play inside. I'll go to Aunt Qin's house next door to borrow some rice. We'll have rice porridge for lunch."
Seeing such a sensible daughter, Aunt Wu quickly put away her sad heart.
She told herself that no matter how hard it was, she had to raise her two daughters, and that their father would definitely come back in the future.
There are natural disasters everywhere now. The child’s father may be hiding somewhere. Their family will be reunited after the disaster is over.
People on the grassland knew that life was not easy for the mother and her two daughters, so they often helped them.
Take the stolen yak for example. It was a calf born to the village chief last year. He said they had too many yaks so he gave one to her.
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Su Keke and Grandma Qiao's feet were numb from squatting. Seeing that all the Sakura Country people had left, they just wanted to stretch their legs and feet, but those herdsmen came towards them in twos and threes.
The leader seemed to be the young man who had galloped on the pony. Su Keke and Grandma Qiao had no choice but to use the space to dodge to the grass on the other side.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they left the space, they ran into Aunt Wu who was going to her neighbor's house to borrow rice.
"You... who are you? Why are you sneaking around here?"
When Aunt Wu walked out of her yurt, she saw two people dressed strangely looking around. She wondered if these were the Sakura people coming again.
"Hello! We are just passing by! Don't be afraid!"
Su Keke and Grandma Qiao turned around and saw an aunt in her thirties or forties standing in front of her yurt, staring at them with a look of vigilance and panic on her face.
Su Keke tried her best to act approachable, and Grandma Qiao also looked very kind with a smile on her face.
"Aren't you in the same group as those Sakura people?" Aunt Wu asked vigilantly.
"No... of course not! We speak Chinese and are Chinese just like you!"
Su Keke quickly stated that she and Grandma Qiao were both Chinese, hoping to get closer to each other.
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