Chapter 023 Chapter 23 "Divine Food from Heaven"

Most of the area around Xiaotian Village is mountainous, with poor soil and unsuitable for planting. In addition, there are too many rocks and vegetation on the mountains, so not all places can be cultivated into fields. Only some places with more fertile land are planted with crops. As a result, the fields are very scattered, looking like pieces here and there, unlike on the plains, where you can see fields of crops everywhere.

It was also inconvenient to water the mountains. People had to carry a shoulder pole to the water pit in the valley to fetch water. The mountains were not like the scenic spots of later times. There were no roads in many places. People could only carry water down to the relatively flat places. There were weeds all around, and it was impossible to see the road under their feet. If they stepped into a pothole, they would sprain their ankles.

This is not farming in space. In space, because of the bonus, Lin Yue hardly felt tired. Now it is different. There are only a few cows in the village, and farming still depends on manpower. After a day, adult men are rarely not tired. Although Lin Yue's strength has become very great, it is not easy.

She has been through this world for so long that she sometimes felt that this world was not so real before. But after doing farm work for so long, she is now clear-headed.

She deeply understood why people who made mistakes were now sent to the farm. Physical labor is indeed the best way to temper a person's will.

When Lin Yue came to work, she brought a piece of wood and a few sticks. When she got to the field, she used them to build a simple wooden table, and installed fences around it, like a small bed. Occasionally, when it was inconvenient to carry the child, she would put the child on it, so that she didn't have to worry about the child being bitten by insects in the grass. Fortunately, she was strong now, and she didn't feel tired carrying these things back and forth on such a long mountain road every day.

However, she also heard from the old people in the village that a young wife put her child to sleep on the ground while working, and a snake got into the child's mouth. The snake went around in the stomach and couldn't find a place to get out, so it killed the child alive. Lin Yue felt horrified after hearing this, so she would not let the two children out of her sight unless there was no other way.

Because she had to fetch water today, Lin Yue put the two little ones on the small wooden bed and asked Sister Jin's youngest son Liu Shiliang to help look after them. She herself carried two wooden buckets and went to the nearby valley to fetch water.

Going west along the col, there is a narrow mountain stream. The mountain walls on both sides of the mountain stream are all rocky. The ground and the rock walls are covered with a kind of vine called "thorny cow egg". As soon as you hear the name, you know that this kind of grass is very difficult to deal with. If you are accidentally pricked by it, you will be bloody in an instant.

There is also a kind of snake living in this mountain valley, called "wind-tailed snake". It is very fast and seems to be able to fly on the grass. It is also said to be poisonous.

So even though this place is still on the outskirts of the mountain, people in the village walk around here. Occasionally in the summer, if there are children catching fish and shrimps in the creek here, they will be scolded by the adults.

Lin Yue took advantage of the fact that no one was around and secretly walked towards the mountain.

The thing she feared most in her two lives was snakes. She took advantage of the fact that the weather was not that warm yet and the snakes had not yet left their holes, and she had prepared herself mentally for several days before she dared to come here.

Lin Yue stopped three or four meters away from Shanjian. She looked around and made sure that no one was coming, then she stretched out a hand towards Shanjian.

In just a moment, crops began to grow on the four or five acres of land in front of me. There were potatoes, peanuts, and corn, all of which were about to mature.

She took a quick look at the farmland she had created, turned around and left in a hurry.

Lin Yue was not worried that others would not notice the abnormality here. The weather had just turned warmer and there were not many dense plants in the valley. Suddenly there were so many crops, including corns more than two meters high. This strange "wild crop field" would definitely be discovered.

However, it would be better to leave the limelight to others. Lin Yue didn’t want to be noticed, so he quickly left this “crime scene”.

Sure enough, before long, the crowd going to work began to make a commotion.

Liu Shiliang and four or five other children were too young to help in the fields, so they just ran around in groups, and no one listened to the adults' shouting. As a result, just now, these naughty children came back crying and shouting that they saw a lot of corn and sorghum.

At first, no adults took their words seriously. That was how it was in those days. Children were left to grow up on their own, and no one cared about what they said. Finally, a few parents were annoyed by their children, so they picked up a stick and chased them all over the mountain to beat them. They were led by the children to a valley, and only then did they discover a field of "wild crops".

The children felt very proud and told everyone about it. They were like heroes who had won a battle, with their chests puffed high and proudly showing off their achievements everywhere. Some adults had wanted to keep it a secret, but now they couldn't.

This incident quickly spread throughout the entire production brigade. After hearing about it, the brigade leader and the village party secretary dropped their work and immediately rushed over with their men.

Zhang Zhiqiang took a few young men and carefully checked this "strange" farmland. They found that there were no other problems except for more weeds. Moreover, the crops in this field were getting better. He was overjoyed and immediately issued a notice to harvest the crops the next day. He also arranged a team of ten people to guard the field that night. However, he did not expect that the patrol work would be so popular, and the number of people had to be reduced to 25 in the end.

The next day, before dawn and before the team leaders struck the gong, the entire village came to the valley entrance of the West Mountain early, carrying their farm tools.

In this field, the crops grew like weeds in a mess, with no regularity at all, and because they grew too densely, it was very difficult to harvest them. But at this time, no one would complain about the trouble, and everyone was eager to show off their talents.

After the beginning of spring, few people are not hungry. Seeing so much food, many people can't help licking their lips, their eyes are full of desire for food. However, no one dares to have bad thoughts at this time, and no one hides food.

The reason was that there were only about 20 people assigned to harvest the crops, and the rest of the villagers were standing by the fields and on the hillsides watching! Being watched by so many people, not only did everyone not dare to play any tricks, but they also had to act as openly and honestly as possible, for fear of accidentally angering the crowd and letting this group of people tear them apart.

This piece of farmland is truly magical. The weather has just started to warm up and crops have just started to be planted in the fields. Except for wheat, no one has ever heard of crops growing in winter and maturing in April.

Rather than calling it "wild crops", everyone felt that this piece of land was more like the "divine food" given to the Xiaotian Villagers by some gods who saw that they were starving and pitiful and gave them life.

It was also said that this mountain was the lair of the wind-tailed snake, so later on some people secretly worshipped the Snake Goddess at home.

After Lin Yue knew this, she felt very relieved. There was nothing wrong with providing it, as she was most afraid of snakes.

Zhang Zhiqiang was used to being cautious, and he issued a gag order early on, not allowing anyone to tell anyone about this matter. He made it clear that if anyone told anyone about it, not only would he lose his share when food was distributed next time, but his entire family would also lose their share.

In this era, the words of the production team leader were sometimes more effective than those of the emperor, and everyone was afraid that other villages would hear the news and come to borrow food, so even the women who were most loyal to their parents did not dare to say a word.

The crop yield in Lin Yue Space is very high, but no matter how high it is, it is still only enough to feed four or five acres of land. There are nearly five hundred people in the village, and there is not much food to be distributed to them. If they eat sparingly, it can only last about a month.

However, with this food, everyone could wait until the vegetables in their private plots were harvested and then wait until the new food was distributed in June, so at least no one would starve to death.

As for the future, Lin Yue remembered that the situation seemed to have improved in 1963, and everyone's life began to gradually get better.

Later, she realized that she had taken it for granted. There had not been any major natural disasters in the region in the past few years. The famine in recent years was mainly due to policy errors, a problem that existed throughout the country. Later, the policy was adjusted, and the lives of people across the country became better, but the people living in this land faced a greater test.

However, this is something that happened later. At this time, Xiaotian Village was very lively. The grain had just been distributed, but some people were still dissatisfied and encouraged everyone to go deep into the mountains to find out if there was any "magic grain". They were stopped by the village elders and the team leader.

Dacang Mountain is a continuous mountain range. The people living in the nearby villages all know that there are wolves in the deep mountains. In the past, there have been cases of wolves coming down the mountain to disturb the village. After being repelled several times by everyone, they were scared and never dared to come down the mountain again. They kept to themselves and the villagers living at the foot of the mountain.

Moreover, during famines in previous years, some people could not bear the hunger and went deep into the mountains to look for food, but few people returned safely.

After these painful lessons, it became a consensus among everyone that people should not go into the mountains, and anyone who brought this up now would naturally be scolded.

After the affairs in the village came to an end, Lin Yue went back to Donglinjia Village to bring some food back to Xu's father.

Father Xu had saved her life before, and everyone in Donglinjia Village knew about it. She went to visit Father Xu without hiding from people, and went there openly with a basket of wild vegetables.

Lin Yue now had a small stone mill that could grind corn into flour. Others thought that she gave wild vegetables to Xu's father, but in fact she gave corn flour and potatoes.

Wild vegetables are also good things. Now is the time when there is a shortage of food. The grass on the mountain has been almost turned over by people. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find wild vegetables. She can give wild vegetables to her lifesaver at this time. In the eyes of others, he is a grateful person.

But Mr. Xu lived alone after all, and Lin Yue was afraid of gossip, so he didn't stay long. He put down his things and left.

As for Uncle Lin's house, she didn't even go in. Anyway, she was already married, so she wasn't afraid of what others would say.

Yeah, that's double standards.

After returning to Donglinjia Village, she realized that life in other villages was even more difficult than in Xiaotian Village. She even saw people peeling tree bark to eat on the road, and there were also many people in the village suffering from edema.

Lin Yue felt helpless. She did have some food in her space, although not much, but she could save more people. But if she chose to save people blindly, the consequences might be something she couldn't bear. If she was discovered or attracted the attention of the people above, she didn't know whether others could survive until the harvest, and she herself might not live to see that day.

For this purpose, Lin Yue specially consulted with Xu's father. She took out some food and asked Xu's father to occasionally help the children in the village.

Father Xu knew that Lin Yue received the subsidy from Zhang Yuandong and mistakenly thought that she had been to the black market, but he did not say anything to blame her.

He was a famous red capitalist in Rud, who donated almost all of his wealth during the war. The promising people who came from that era were all people who cared about the world. He was pleased with his daughter's actions at this time and gave almost all of his money to Lin Yue.

Lin Yue couldn't bear to refuse his kindness, so he left him enough money to live on, and kept the rest. In the days that followed, he worked even harder to grow crops in the space and secretly sent them over.