Ma Qingshan was a little embarrassed. He squatted down and explained to his eight-year-old son, "Xiaojie! Dad brought you some dumplings! They're delicious! Not worse than that box lunch!"
"Many people in our village have run out of food at home. Give those lunch boxes to those in need first, okay?"
"Oh! I know! Mom! My dad said there are dumplings! I want to eat dumplings!"
Xiaojie nodded to his father as if he understood, and asked his mother for dumplings!
Ma Qingshan took the opportunity to leave quickly and went to the other side of the cave to find Xiao Feiniu to treat his arm.
"You...you're not going to eat dinner?"
Du Juan was angry, but now that he had said it out loud, it was over. Now he was worried about whether Ma Qingshan would be hungry.
"You guys eat! I ate a lot at noon and I'm still full now!"
Ma Qingshan replied from a distance. He knew that his wife had a sharp tongue but a soft heart.
When the village chief and his wife came back, Yan Zi and everyone else met them at the cave entrance. Later, the village chief had something important to say, so he gathered all the adults in the village around the big fire at the cave entrance.
Yan Zi had just turned eighteen, but in the eyes of the village chief and his wife, she was still a child, so they let her go back to her temporary residence.
After Yan Zi returned home, she cooked the little rice left in the house into rice porridge, thinking that she would have dinner when her parents came back.
Yan Zi knew that her mother had secretly gone down the mountain today, saying that she was going to find her father.
There was only a little rice left at home, and Yan Zi didn't want to eat it herself at noon, so she didn't cook.
It was Aunt Wu who lived next door who saw that Yan Zi had not eaten, so she asked her children to secretly bring Yan Zi a vegetable cake.
But I dare not let the people around me see it. Many families in the cave have run out of food during the day. You said it's just a vegetable cake, it's not appropriate to give it to anyone.
In fact, there were only a few vegetable cakes left in Aunt Wu's house. If the village chief's family had not always taken good care of the three of them, she would have been reluctant to give the vegetable cakes to Yan Zi.
Not long after, the fire at the entrance of the cave suddenly became lively, and those who had received food all happily went back to their own small areas to cook.
After the village chief and his wife had dealt with everything, they finally felt relieved.
Yan Zi came over with a smile, "Mom and Dad! Take off your raincoats and come over to warm yourself by the fire! I've cooked rice porridge, we'll have it tonight!"
"Wow! My Yan Zi has really grown up and become so sensible!"
After experiencing life and death, the village chief was happy and excited when he saw his daughter again.
"Yanzi! I remember there is only a little rice at home. Did you not eat lunch?"
The village chief's wife looked at the rice porridge with bubbles still rising from the pot, her eyes felt sore and crystal tears began to well up in her eye sockets.
I had such a good meal at Sister Qiao's house at noon, but I let the child suffer in the cave.
"Mom! I ate! Aunt Wu asked Ye Zi to bring me vegetable cakes!"
Yan Zi picked up two small bowls and scooped rice porridge from the pot for her parents.
"That's good! Thank goodness your Aunt Wu is here to watch over you! It's all mom's fault! Mom should have come back earlier!"
As the village chief’s wife spoke, she hugged Yan Zi and wiped away her tears.
"Why are you crying? There are so many people in the cave! Don't let people laugh at you. Didn't you bring some dumplings? Take them out and heat them up, and ask the children to send some to Old Wu's family later. We are not in the cave, thanks to her for watching over our Yan Zi."
The village chief said as he took off his protective suit.
You know what, this protective suit is really good. After putting it on, my clothes and hair inside were not wet by the rain.
It’s raining so heavily outside. If I wear an ordinary raincoat, my hair will definitely get wet!
"Look at my memory! Come here, Yanzi! See what delicious food mom brought you?"
The village chief's wife looked at her daughter and immediately burst into laughter and said.
"What's delicious? Mom, stop being so secretive and take it out so I can see it!"
Yan Zi is really a big kid. Her eyes light up when she hears there is something delicious to eat.
"Okay, okay, okay! Mom will get it for you right away!"
The village chief's wife thought the canvas bag Su Keke gave her was very nice and she was reluctant to give it to others.
She had just taken out the vegetables from the canvas bag to distribute to other villagers, and then she secretly took the canvas bag back.
Seeing Yan Zi's expectant eyes, the village chief's wife quickly took out a bag of potato chips from her canvas bag.
"Wow! Potato chips! Mom, I haven't eaten this for a long time! Where did you get these potato chips?"
"There's more, Swallow!" The village chief's wife then took out a large bag of dumplings from the canvas bag.
The big, plump dumplings in the transparent food bag made her drool. She really wasn't full after eating the vegetable pancake at noon.
Yan Zi is growing up, so she is prone to hunger. There are a lot of dumplings in this bag, at least more than 20.
"Mom! Where did you go today? And my dad, why didn't you come back yesterday? Why is your head still wrapped in gauze?"
Before, the village chief was wearing acid rain protective clothing, and the gauze on his head was not obvious. Now that he took off the protective clothing, the children were frightened by the several circles of gauze wrapped around his head.
"Yanzi! Daddy is fine! Mom and Daddy have met good people! These dumplings, potato chips, and the supplies we brought back were all sent by them. Daddy will take you to meet them when there's a chance!"
The village chief touched the gauze on his head and said as he sat beside the fire.
"Really? Then I want to meet those two kind people tomorrow. I want to thank them for saving my parents!"
Yan Zi held her father's hand and said seriously.
"Swallow! When the weather outside gets better, if they are still here, your mother and I will take you there, okay?"
The village chief added several branches under the iron pot and slowly spoke to Yan Zi.
"Well then! I really hope the weather gets better soon! It's still more comfortable to live in a yurt!"
Yan Zi said a little disappointedly.
While the father and daughter were chatting casually, the village head's wife had already served all the rice porridge in the pot and was now starting to heat up the dumplings.
Aunt Wu next door received three boxes of military rations today, so she was naturally very happy.
However, she was reluctant to eat such good things immediately, so she used an iron spatula to dig a small hole in the wall of the cave and hid the three boxes of rations in it.
In the evening, she and her two children still eat vegetable pancakes, and they can have enough vegetable pancakes for two meals.
The weather outside was not getting better, and the wind was blowing hard tonight. What would they do if they finished eating all the food?
Aunt Wu stared at the crackling fire and began to worry again.
Just then, Yan Zi, from the village chief's house next door, came over with a small bowl, smiling.
"Aunt! My mom brought some dumplings over. Here are some for you to try!"
"Sister Yan! Wow! These dumplings smell so good!" The two children were very happy to see Yan coming.
"Thank your parents for me! They never forget to share some of their good things with us!" Aunt Wu pulled Yan Zi to sit next to the fire on her side and let her play with the two children.
"Ye Zi! Xiao Hui! Can you please look at what this is?"
Yan Zi, who had just handed the small bowl to Aunt Wu, took out a bag of potato chips from her pocket.
"Wow! Potato chips! Sister Yan, can we have one?"
Xiaohui smacked her lips and stared at the potato chips in Yan Zi's hand.
"Of course! The three of us can eat together! No! Auntie, you should have some too, these potato chips are delicious!"
Yan Zi tore off a corner of the wrapping paper and gave one piece to Aunt Wu first.
"I don't need it! You three eat it!" Aunt Wu said with a smile.
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