Humans are truly recognized as creatures with strong adaptability. In just less than five days, most of the weeds and shrubs in Wanxi Village were cleared away. The village roads that were previously covered with weeds and vines and looked completely different from their original state have now been cleared away. There is almost no difference between them and the village roads before the animals and plants mutated.
But the potholes left by the grass and the black marks burned by the fire still remind everyone of the village road full of bushes, weeds and vines a few days ago.
At this moment, a large group of men were piling the cleared vegetation from the village onto a patch of open space near the village entrance. Previously, there was a pile of rocks. After the plants and animals mutated, the pile had become a pile of weeds. After being cleared by the men, it became the village's public burning ground. Any weeds and branches that were difficult to store and took up too much space were dumped here for collective burning.
This place is filled with smoke every day, and people are always dragging weeds and branches here to burn them.
The slightly better firewood that is suitable for burning at home is collected by the villagers and used as firewood for cooking.
After five days, the yards of many people's homes were already filled with piles of firewood more than one person high, and the same was true in Qin Suyun's yard. In fact, because He Zhennan, Pang Xiong and others were very strong and their family was large, the firewood they brought back was directly piled into four large piles. If it weren't for the fact that Qin Suyun's front yard was so small, the other party might have dragged back even more firewood.
After he stopped pretending to have lost his memory, He Zhennan's work ability increased dramatically. Although he had never seen much of the countryside before, he was now as good as the old hands in the village.
Qin Suyun looked at the four piles of firewood in the yard and rubbed her swollen arms. Even though she would take a drop of Jade Dew every night after returning home to relieve physical fatigue, she was still physically and mentally exhausted at the end of the day.
Qin Suyun put down the last bundle of collected firewood on her shoulder, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and walked into the house.
In the past few days, all the villagers, young and old, regardless of gender, have followed the village chief to clear the weeds and trees in the village. Now that the weeds and trees have almost been cleared, they can get busy with other things.
Qin Suyun tidied herself up and thought to herself, planning to go and take a look at her own land this afternoon and collect all the ripe vegetables and grains.
After a few days of experiments, everyone concluded that these grains and vegetables were edible, but the taste had become extremely bad, far worse than before the mutation.
Although the taste is not very good, the villagers also plan to collect this batch of grain first. No one knows whether those grains and vegetables can grow normally in the coming days. It would be terrible if no new grain grows for the whole year.
In order to ensure that they would not go hungry in the future, everyone decided to collect the food first, no matter how bad it tasted.
Qin Suyun was thinking about what tools she would need to bring to harvest the grain that afternoon when she heard Lu Liqing's crisp voice, "Xiao Qin! You're back! Come in and have a rest! I've boiled some water in the kitchen. Come in and have a drink! I'll cook dinner later!"
"Aunt Lu, you don't have to worry about anything. I can take care of these things myself later." Seeing Lu Liqing directly bring her hot tea, Qin Suyun hurriedly took the teacup and said politely.
"You're the same, kid. The village only requires men to work for one day, and we women only need to work half a day... Why do you work like Dongzi and the others for a whole day? There are so many mutated vines and weeds growing in the village. You must be exhausted pulling them out every day!" Lu Liqing said with some heartache as she looked at Qin Suyun's flushed cheeks and the sweat on her forehead that kept sliding down her icy hair.
Because they lived under the same roof, Lu Liqing and Qin Suyun became familiar with each other in just four or five days.
After all, they are all women, so it is easier for them to talk to each other on a daily basis. In addition, Lu Liqing deliberately made friends with them, so the two naturally became familiar with each other quickly.
Qin Suyun smiled and shook her head, explaining, "Aunt Lu, my home is quite far from the village center, and I'm the only one living here... Everyone is helping me clean up this road, and I always feel a little embarrassed, so I want to do more."
The day after the heavy rain, Zhao Xingguo found that the plants did not mutate again the next day, so he gathered all the laborers in the village, big and small, and began to clean up the village. However, the men were required to work for the whole day, while there were no such strict requirements for women, the elderly and children. Everyone was only required to work half a day every day, or even according to their physical requirements.
Wanxi Village is relatively united, and Zhao Xingguo has a high level of cohesion. Everyone doesn't even need to be urged, and they spontaneously start working diligently, clearing all the weeds and trees growing in the village.
Maybe some people were lazy at first, but after seeing that all these weeds and trees could be taken home and used as firewood, everyone's enthusiasm rose. In Wanxi Village, a backward place, there is no need to think about gas and natural gas. The most commonly used thing is firewood. Now that firewood has grown at the doorstep of their own yard, how can they let go of such a convenient thing?
However, the strength of the elderly, children and women cannot be compared with that of adult men, so most of the former are busy for the whole morning or the whole afternoon.
Among them, the villagers who are used to doing farm work are generally stronger and are more adept at clearing away the weeds and trees that have grown.
Those who had rushed over from the city earlier, as well as people like Lu Liqing and Qiu Jiayue, seemed to be working very slowly. In less than a day, they were exhausted and breathless, with pain all over their bodies.
So Lu Liqing and her colleagues only worked half a day every day, and spent the rest of the time going home to rest, do laundry and cook.
Qin Suyun and Qiu Jiayue have essential differences in physical fitness. In addition, the road from the village to her home is often cleaned and is very troublesome. Hers is the only household here. Qin Suyun really can't bear to watch others help her family with the work, so she can only bite the bullet and do it herself.
"Hey, kid, why are you so kind-hearted? Aren't Dongzi, Xiaopang, and the others all men? They live here too, so just let them do the work! Why do you, a girl, have to work so hard?! You should learn more from Jiayue in this regard! She works outside for an hour or two every day and then comes back to rest, so she doesn't get tired herself. Dongzi and the others are grown men with a lot of strength, so they should do more!"
Lu Liqing patted Qin Suyun's arm, clearing away all the dust on her arm, and stood up. "Xiao Qin, I'm telling you, if you have any problems in the future, just call Dongzi and the others! If Dongzi and the others refuse to do it, tell me later and Aunt Lu will criticize them! Lun time is almost here, you rest here for a while, I'll go cook!"
"Thank you, Aunt Lu... I understand." Qin Suyun smiled and nodded at Lu Liqing. She knew that the other party meant well and did not refuse or say anything more, but she did not care in her heart. She had a long and hard time in the future and she could not rely on others for everything.
It might seem hard now, but she has the Jade Dew in her hand. As long as she sleeps at night, nothing will happen when she wakes up the next day. She can also make her body stronger, so what's wrong with that?
However, Qin Suyun felt that there was no need to talk about these things with others.
However, in recent days, because she was very busy, she handed over the lunch and dinner cooking to Lu Liqing and Qiu's mother. She took out her own rations in advance and gave them to them, eating from the big pot with everyone.
To some extent, this did relieve her of a lot of burden.
If she hadn't had the other person help with cooking, she probably wouldn't have had as much time to clear the bushes and weeds.
These days, Dahei and the others don't go out. After dinner every day, they stroll in the yard to digest the food, and spend the rest of the time resting in their room.
After a while, the people living in the Qin family became familiar with Dahei and the others. Even though Dahei and the others were tall and looked scary, at least they would no longer be scared when they went to the bathroom at night.
Lunch time soon arrived. Qin Suyun sat at the same table with everyone else, eating the food in her bowl. She did not raise any objections to the stir-fried cabbage on the table that tasted very strange. However, whether it was Qin Suyun or He Zhennan and others, they always picked up their chopsticks the least often when eating these mutated vegetables.
After stir-frying, the emerald green cabbage exudes a unique fresh fragrance of cabbage. However, when chewed, it has a faint astringent taste and even a fishy smell of soil. In short, it tastes very strange.
If it weren't for the purpose of supplementing vitamins, I'm afraid everyone would rather eat meat.
In the past two days, He Zhennan and his companions also hunted a mutated wild rabbit. This mutated wild rabbit was huge in size, but the quality of its meat had not changed at all. It even tasted slightly better than the one before the mutation, and the meat was more tender.
Everyone naturally enjoyed eating these meats more, especially He Zhennan and the others who had consumed more energy. They couldn't stop eating the spicy rabbit dish that Qiu's mother had cooked today! Pang Xiong was even sweating profusely from the spiciness, but he didn't put down his chopsticks.
"I heard that you can clean up the entire village today? What do you plan to do after the cleanup? Does the village chief have any new instructions?" At the dinner table, Lu Liqing broke the quiet atmosphere at the table.
Everyone has been busy these days, and coupled with Qiu Jiayue's last incident, the atmosphere among everyone is not as lively as when they first met.
Dongzi put down his chopsticks, wiped his mouth, and replied to his mother, "The village chief doesn't have any other new instructions for now, but this afternoon, about forty or fifty people from Meng Changlong's group will be leaving. They plan to go home and check on the situation."
Meng Changlong and his group had said they would leave a long time ago, but various things kept delaying them, and it was not until now that they decided to leave after such a long time.
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