Except for women, the elderly and children, all the male villagers on the grassland followed the village chief down the mountain.
Today they went down mainly to check on the crops planted in the fields. If they could still salvage some of them, it would solve everyone's urgent problem.
The group of people came in a grand manner. Putting aside other things, the sun came out and the haze in everyone's hearts dissipated.
The villagers also brought some vegetable seeds from the cave.
As long as there is no strong wind, they will rebuild the yurt and plant rice and vegetables. After working hard for half a year, life will get better.
But when they arrived at their own fields, they were all dumbfounded. The originally square and angular farmland had now turned into a big river.
"Village...Village Chief! All our fields are flooded."
"What can we do? Everyone depends on these crops for their livelihood!"
"Oh my God, God is blind! He is trying to kill us!"
A few villagers who were emotionally fragile choked and wiped away their tears.
Village chief Wang frowned, but suddenly his eyes lit up when he looked at the watery farmland in front of him.
He remembered that many villagers, like his family, planted radishes. Radishes grew deep in the soil and would definitely not be blown away by the wind.
"Everyone, stop howling! If anyone has planted radishes before, let's go down and dig them up together. Maybe the radishes are edible."
After the village chief finished speaking, he was the first to roll up his trouser legs, test the depth of the water and then step down.
The water in the field was only ankle-deep, but the soil below was flooded and turned into extremely soft mud.
The village chief sank into the mud as soon as he stepped down, and the water on the surface of the mud reached his knees.
At first, the other villagers were afraid to go down, but later they saw the village chief walking in the field with one foot deep and one foot shallow and nothing happened.
What made them even happier was that the village chief actually found a big white radish in the mud under the puddles.
"Wow! The radishes are really still there! I grow radishes at home, too!"
"My family, I have radishes at home too!"
The villagers who were still standing on the sidelines watching now rolled up their sleeves and trouser legs and rushed down to the fields.
Everyone bent over and groped back and forth in the mud on the ground with their hands, and many of them touched radishes.
"Ah... I found a radish! It's still fresh and edible!"
"I found some carrots too! I can have some light carrot soup tonight."
"At least I don't have to go hungry. Radishes are better than wild vegetables!"
A group of people groped back and forth in the flooded farmland for more than an hour until everyone's small bamboo baskets were full. The village chief then asked everyone to carry the radishes to the cave first.
After we returned to the cave and had lunch, we went down to the fields to dig radishes. These radishes would go bad if they were soaked in water for too long, so we had to dig them out quickly.
When everyone else was carrying baskets and walking up the mountain, the village chief said he was going to see a friend, and then he carried a basket of radishes and walked towards the main road.
He wanted to go to the place where Su Keke had parked her RV. He wondered if they were still there. If they were, the village chief wanted to give them this basket of radishes as a token of his appreciation.
However, to his disappointment, there was nothing but branches and fallen leaves on the ground where the RV was originally parked.
"It's been so stormy these past few days, it's normal that they're not here! Alas! I just don't know if I can meet them again in the future? I hope good people can live a peaceful life."
The village chief walked around the area and then stood there silently for a while at the place where the villagers were buried.
At this time, he seemed to have an RV on the other side of the road.
"Could it really be them?"
The village chief hurriedly walked forward and sure enough, on the other side of the cement road, Su Keke and Grandma Qiao’s RV was parked there.
Moreover, the two of them were drinking tea and basking in the sun comfortably.
Seeing such a peaceful and tranquil scene, Village Chief Wang felt like he had entered another world.
A world without natural disasters and those hateful Sakura people.
"Uncle Wang! Why are you standing so far away?"
Su Keke stood up from her chair and waved to the village chief with a smile.
"Xiao Su! Sister Qiao! Is it really you? I just went to the place where you parked your car. Why did you move here? Did the wind and rain in the past few days have any effect on you?"
The village chief said as he walked towards the RV.
"Our car has excellent wind resistance. Except for the extra branches on top, everything else is fine."
"Uncle Wang! What are you carrying?" Su Keke asked.
"These are radishes! It's a rare sight that these radishes haven't been blown away by the strong wind. I led the villagers to dig them up in the fields this morning, and I wanted to give you some to try. They're grown by myself, so they taste really sweet."
The village chief put down the basket on his back and said with a smile.
"Village chief, please sit down! Have a taste of the tea I made!"
Grandma Qiao took out a small cup and poured a full cup of Pu'er tea for the village chief.
Su Keke gave her chair to the village chief, and she went back to the RV and took out an outdoor chair from the space.
By the way, she also went to the room to get the peaches and red apples that she and Grandma Qiao had picked in the morning. Each one was juicy, big and fresh, and looked especially delicious.
Su Keke washed four or five and put them on a plate. She held a folding outdoor chair in one hand and a plate of fruit in the other.
When the village chief saw this, he quickly put down the teacup he had just taken a sip from and ran over to help get the outdoor chairs.
"Village Chief! Come and try the peaches and apples we grew ourselves. They are so sweet!"
Su Keke said.
"Your peach is bigger than my fist! It's really good quality!"
The village chief didn't hesitate to pick up a peach and took a bite.
"Mmm! So sweet! So fresh and juicy! What a good peach! Where are these peaches grown? Aren't you all on the way?"
The village chief took another bite and asked in confusion.
“Hahaha! We have a piece of land somewhere else that hasn’t been affected by the disaster yet.”
"There are a lot of vegetables and fruits planted on that piece of land. We hired people to look after it. Sometimes when we stay in a place for a month or two, we will call the satellite phone and ask them to send fresh vegetables and fruits over."
"Look, as soon as the strong wind passed, they delivered a lot of vegetables and fruits. Village chief, you are lucky today. Ask all the villagers to come and take some back to taste."
Grandma Qiao explained for Su Keke.
"There is still such a good place?"
The village chief secretly sighed in his heart, the life of the rich is really good! Even in the end of the world due to natural disasters, they still have enough food and drink.
But he also thought that he and the villagers were very lucky to have met such caring people like Xiao Su and Sister Qiao.
"You guys should eat too! It would be embarrassing for me to eat alone."
The village chief raised the half-eaten peach in his hand and said to Su Keke and the others.
"Okay! I'll have an apple to whet my appetite! Then we can have lunch."
"I...I want to use Uncle Wang's radish to make pickled radish. I haven't eaten pickled radish for a long time."
"Uncle Wang! Can I take two of your carrots?"
Su Ke was afraid that the village chief would not accept the vegetables and fruits he was going to give him, so he asked the village chief for two big radishes.
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