"They're not letting people survive, are they? There's drought in the north, and here we are, suffering from frost." The old soldier sitting on the ground muttered softly.
Lu Qiqi smiled faintly and said goodbye to Zhang Weiguo and the others. She still needed to rush back to check on her family.
When Lu Qiqi returned to the cabin, she saw everyone sitting in the main room, looking dejected and listless.
Seeing everyone's ashen faces, Lu Qiqi roughly guessed what had happened.
When Madam Lu saw that Lu Qiqi had returned, she immediately stood up and walked towards Lu Qiqi.
Lu Qiqi, whose wrist was being held tightly by Madam Lu, said, "Auntie, we're not in a hurry, you can talk slowly."
Mrs. Lu has a minor quirk: when something urgent happens that she feels she can't get over, she feels like she has a fishbone stuck in her throat and can't speak. This was the case when Lu Dahai was injured last time.
"Seventh girl," said Madam Lu, "all our crops are dead!"
Lu Qiqi asked, "What about the seeds that haven't sprouted yet?"
Lu Dahai sat in his chair and sighed, "They were all frozen. The frost not only killed all the crops that had grown, but also all the corn seeds that hadn't even sprouted yet."
Lu Qiqi then noticed a handful of corn seeds on the table.
Lu Qiqi walked to the table and saw that the corn seeds were still covered in mud, so she knew that these were seeds that had been planted in the ground and dug up by Lu Dahai and the others.
Lu Qiqi picked up a corn seed and saw that the sprouting core was completely black!
These seeds were damaged by the cold and won't sprout at all!
It seems this family will also have no harvest this winter!
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