The sturdy man originally wanted to grab the old lady's son and beat him up, but the old lady's son was so sensible that the sturdy man did not beat him even though he was itching to do so. He even felt a little sympathy for him, thinking that his life must have been difficult for the other party in the past few decades with a mother like him.
The situation here was at a stalemate. Zhao Xingguo and Zhao Zhengde, who had just returned to the village after moving some supplies, saw this scene when they came out.
Zhao Xingguo frowned and shouted at the crowd, "What are you doing?! Why don't you quickly bring the relief supplies back to the village? Why are you wasting time here?! We still need to distribute the supplies later!"
Zhao Xingguo had a loud voice, and the onlookers immediately dispersed. Many people led Zhao Xingguo inside, "Village Chief, please come and see what we should do about this matter."
As this man spoke, he told Zhao Xingguo the whole story of the family of five from beginning to end, and pointed to the direction where the other family of five had originally come out of the bushes.
Because of the earthquake, a large gap had been created in the village, which was originally surrounded by mountains on three sides and had only a narrow path leading to it. The five people had come from that direction. Zhao Xingguo glanced at the family of five, frowned, and retracted his gaze. He said to the others nearby, "Don't just stand there. Hurry and carry these relief supplies to the village. We'll be distributing the supplies soon, so they need to be sorted out quickly!"
"Okay, village chief!" The crowd was stunned and hurriedly listened to Zhao Xingguo's words. They directly carried the scattered relief supplies to the village and no longer looked at the family of five.
"No! You can't take all these things away!" The old lady was startled and quickly stood up from the ground, holding on to the two rescue bags she had already set her eyes on! The two children next to her followed suit and followed the old lady to grab the two rescue bags and not let go.
"Old lady, which village are you from? You should go back to your village now. There will definitely be supplies distributed in your village... The higher-ups have issued a notice before, saying that planes will go to every place to distribute supplies to the victims. You will definitely get them if you go back to your village now. These supplies are sent to our village from above, old lady, you'd better not worry about it... If you are really hungry, our village will not stand by and watch you die. We will give you some food later and you can leave." Everyone was a victim of the earthquake, and they were all stranded in the world. Zhao Xingguo didn't want to make things difficult for the other party, but the other party asked them for a rescue package right away, which was too embarrassing.
Zhao Xingguo had just seen this when he was moving supplies. Many of these dozens of packages contained cotton clothes, and there were only about a dozen or so pieces of food and water.
There are more than 400 people in their village. The food in one rescue package is enough to sustain the lives of nearly 40 people. Even though each rescue package looks quite large, according to his estimation, one rescue package can only provide food for about five or six days at most.
There were only about ten food rescue packages in total, and the other family of five wanted the two of them. Isn't this too greedy?
He didn't want to care about the friction between the old lady and the villagers just now. It was just a verbal dispute and no bloody conflict occurred. So many things happened after the earthquake, and the rescue and relief work in their village has not been completed yet. He really didn't want to waste time.
Zhao Xingguo didn't want to waste time, but the old lady didn't think so. She stared at Zhao Xingguo fiercely and said unreasonably, "No, these two large bags of relief supplies were grabbed by my grandchildren first. These relief supplies sent by the country belong to whoever grabs them first! What my grandchildren grabbed should naturally belong to our Sun family!"
These two large bags of supplies are all food! Not to mention an earthquake, even on a normal day, this much food would cost thousands of dollars!
How could she bear to let go?
"Yes, Mom... Youqin still has two handfuls of rice. I'll make porridge for you and Xiaobao later. Don't be sad." The old lady's son tried to persuade her, but the old lady pushed him away. She pointed at her daughter-in-law's empty schoolbag and shouted, "Two handfuls of rice! Two handfuls of rice won't fill my grandson up by himself. Get out of my way! My grandchildren grabbed these relief supplies first, so they belong to me!"
Like the other villagers before him, Zhao Xingguo also noticed the pink satchel carried by a frail woman nearby. It was a shriveled little satchel, clearly empty of food. He frowned, his expression somewhat relaxed.
When the old lady's son saw that Zhao Xingguo's frown seemed to relax a little, he suddenly showed some joy in his eyes, but he pretended to continue to persuade his mother, asking the old lady not to covet these supplies anymore. He had heard many people say that the people in Wanxi Village are soft-hearted and do not respond to hardship.
Seeing that the villagers in front of him, including the other village chief, were swayed by his plan, he knew that if he added more fuel to the fire at this time, they would be able to drag away at least one and a half of the large supply packages!
Qin Suyun frowned. After drinking the jade dew, the sensitivity of her five senses increased rapidly. Although she was standing more than ten steps away, the smile that flashed in the eyes of the old lady's son just now was clearly in her sight.
The earthquake has just occurred, the state machinery is still running, and money is still exercising its original function.
Therefore, even Zhao Xingguo probably did not think that in the face of disaster, someone would come and deceive them for the relief supplies worth a few thousand yuan, and stage such a big drama.
Qin Suyun took a few steps forward and walked to the village chief's side, reminding him, "Village chief, everyone is still waiting for us in the village. Let's send these things back first... There's not much supplies here, and the entire village will probably use them up in a few days. Everyone's food was buried underground in the earthquake, and I don't know if it can be recovered. If we lose these foods, I'm afraid some people will starve..."
"I think the old lady looks healthy, and her children are filial. She is very blessed and will surely live a long life." Qin Suyun's heart moved, and she said to the five people opposite with a smile, not affected at all by the old lady's previous cursing.
"That's right, I will definitely live to be a hundred years old and see our eldest and second sons get married and have children!" The old lady smiled proudly at Qin Suyun and the others, the corners of her mouth almost splitting to the back of her ears.
"Village chief, look at the old lady's voice and the spirit of those people opposite. They are much more energetic than many other elderly people in our village... As for the old lady's spirit, I'm afraid there are few young people in the village who can match her, don't you think? I saw Jinsheng and Yinsheng this morning and they were much more embarrassed than the old lady and the others." Qin Suyun turned her head and smiled at the village chief and several villagers next to her.
Qin Suyun's smiling voice fell into the eyes of the village chief and several villagers, and immediately made them frown.
The old lady's son's heart skipped a beat and he thought to himself that something was wrong.
As expected, when the old village chief heard what Qin Suyun said, he looked at the spirits of the old lady and her family of five across from him. They didn't look like people who hadn't eaten for a day or two and were suffering. They were clearly more energetic than his two sons!
Zhao Xingguo's face was as black as the bottom of a pot. He didn't intend to say anything more to the family across the street. He waved to the villagers who were watching nearby, "Da Zhuang! Call a few strong women over and ask them to help take care of the five of you. You guys should hurry up and deliver these two large bags of relief supplies to the village. The others are still waiting for dinner today."
Several villagers who had originally sympathized with the old lady's family across the street had now changed their expressions, thinking that their previous kindness had been in vain, and no longer thought about distributing the relief supplies.
Hearing Zhao Xingguo's call, other people in the village came quickly. Six strong village women came forward immediately and pulled the old lady and her grandchildren off the rescue bag with a forced smile, regardless of how the three people were screaming. The old lady's son and daughter-in-law were stopped by other villagers just as they were about to step forward, and they were unable to move at all outside.
There is strength in numbers. In just less than ten minutes, the two large bags of food that the old lady had been holding on to were all delivered to the village.
Zhao Xingguo was kind-hearted enough to ask someone to take out ten packs of compressed biscuits and seven or eight bottles of water from the two large bags of relief food and put them on the ground. He waited until the villagers carried the two large bags of relief supplies over the ridge and walked into the village before he let the family of five go.
"Oh my god, old woman, I don't want to live anymore! What can you do with such little food? It's not enough for one person! Oh my god! These are obviously supplies from above, why do people from your village have the right to monopolize them? Oh my god, old woman, I don't want to live anymore!" The cooked duck flew away again. The old lady felt so much pain in her heart, liver, spleen and lungs. At this moment, she finally reacted to what Qin Suyun had just said.
But all the food was taken away by these wild people in the mountains. What should they do?
"The relief supplies sent down from above are distributed according to the number of people. Old lady, your family is not from our village, so you should hurry back to your original village. Your village will definitely have this batch of relief supplies, so don't worry about the things here... There are more than 400 people in our village who need to eat, and there is only so much food. It is impossible to just give you two big bags. So let's just leave it like this." The matter had been decided, and Zhao Xingguo didn't want to say anything more. These ten bags of compressed biscuits were enough for the other party's family of five to eat for two or three days. Zhao Xingguo made the final decision to the old lady: "If you think the food is not good enough or too little, just leave it here. People in our village don't mind the lack of food, and we will pick it up and take it home later."
In the face of such a major natural disaster, they would not panic unless they had food in hand.
So, a large group of people in the village did not go to see the family of five, but excitedly walked back to the village with the relief supplies sent by the higher authorities.
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