For three days, a team member disappeared from the farm every day. The family members just thought that the team members had gone out on a mission, but they didn't know that in the interrogation room behind, after being interrogated one by one, Liu Chuchang arranged for people to send them to the imperial capital.
The list of names obtained from them would also be sent back. People began to be arrested secretly in various parts of Northeast Province. Officials were taken away every night, causing panic among officials everywhere.
"Ayi, now that everyone on the list has been cleared, the farm is safe." Liu Chuchang hadn't slept for three consecutive days. He was tense every day, fearing that Su Jin would be plotted against.
Now that it was over, he relaxed completely.
The farm's family members and elderly people went into the mountains to pick mountain products during the day, and some family members took their children to collect firewood. There was very little coal in the supply and marketing cooperatives, and even if there were coal tickets, most of them were exchanged for grain tickets to buy grain.
Lu Shiyi and Su Jin were about to enter the mountain when they met Liu Chuchang who had returned at the side door.
"Go back to sleep quickly, and come with me to find Hu Zi at night." Lu Shiyi arranged for Hu Zi to go to the black market. The grain transfer between the north and the south stabilized the grain prices in the black market. The officials above turned a blind eye for the sake of their own performance.
There were only coarse grains in Liu Chuchang's kitchen, and the food supply in the capital was also very low. His family even called to ask if they could get food here.
"Okay, I'll buy some food for my family and send someone back to Beijing in a couple of days, and bring the food back with me." Liu Chuchang looked around and saw that there was no one around, so he immediately told Lu Shiyi.
Lu Shiyi rolled his eyes at him and said that he was not afraid of being arrested by the Pigeon Committee for speaking about this matter in public.
"Go back to sleep quickly and come home for dinner tonight." Lu Shiyi instructed Liu Chuchang, holding Su Jin's hand and going out the side door into the mountains.
Su Jin heard from Wang Dahong and the other two that the villagers were worried that all the mountain products would be picked, so the whole family went out into the mountains to pick them for three days. Every household had little food in stock, so they pinned their hopes on winter hunting during the winter off-season.
More big game animals came down the mountain during the autumn harvest this year, so even if we go back into the mountains for winter hunting, the results probably won’t be good.
"Ayi, go back and order a few more wooden boxes for growing vegetables in the room. I'll pick all the vegetables from the vegetable garden and make them into pickles later. I'll grow fresh vegetables in the room." Su Jin wanted to find an excuse to take things from the space.
Lu Shiyi nodded, and Su Jin placed two wooden shelves in the guest room specifically for vegetable boxes. Those two rows of wooden shelves were enough for a family of three to eat vegetables in winter.
"Wife, I remember there is a chestnut forest not far from the waterwheel. The villagers don't like to eat chestnuts, saying that they can't replace food and are troublesome to handle." Lu Shiyi took Su Jin's hand and walked over, and the two of them sent Hanhan to the two elders.
Su Jin followed Lu Shiyi to climb the mountain. When setting up the waterwheel, Lu Shiyi led the team members to build a flat road into the mountain to facilitate Wei Lao and the repair team to enter the mountain.
"Ayi, this road is so smooth, smoother than the mountain road leading into the village." Su Jin followed Lu Shiyi, who was carrying a bamboo basket, and reached out to grab a hiking stick. "Let's go into the mountains to exercise in the morning and pick more mountain products. I see there are some pine cones on the road."
Su Jin wanted to pick up more mountain products and take some out from the space. According to Lu Shiyi, he couldn't let some people get hold of him.
"Wife, in addition to pine cones, we also found wild sweet potatoes next to the chestnut forest we went to." Lu Shiyi led the team members into the mountains, looking for edible things everywhere.
There is little food on the farm, and the team members eat a lot. By the time the mountain is blocked by heavy snow, there will probably be very little stored meat.
"Ayi, are you still going winter hunting this year?" The two walked all the way to the water source and didn't see many footprints of wild animals.
"Let's go winter hunting!" Lu Shiyi said firmly, "If we don't hunt in winter, we can't guarantee the winter meat supply. If the mountain is closed, the food from the foot of the mountain won't be transported up, and the canteen will have to rely on the meat from the winter hunt to fill the gap."
Su Jin looked in the direction of Lu Shiyi's finger. At 2 o'clock on their right, there was a large chestnut forest. Chestnuts were still hanging on the trees, like green thorny balls.
The two of them walked over, Lu Shiyi took Su Jin's hiking stick, and smashed the chestnuts on the tree, knocking them down one by one.
Lu Shiyi squatted on the ground picking chestnuts, while Su Jin moved the space and collected a lot of chestnuts from the chestnut tree in the middle of the dense forest, and prepared to let Lu Shiyi transport two baskets.
"I took a small bamboo basket." Lu Shiyi took Su Jin's bamboo basket from inside, and the young couple squatted on the ground and smiled at each other.
"It would be great if a pheasant could come, so we can eat chestnut chicken." Su Jin likes to cook delicious food, and looking at chestnuts reminds her of sugar-roasted chestnuts and chestnut chicken.
As soon as he finished speaking, several colorful pheasants ran out from the dense forest. Lu Shiyi picked up a stone and threw it at them, and a pheasant responded.
"Leopard, come down quickly and catch the pheasant!" When Lu Shiyi stood up, he shouted directly to the secret sentry.
After a few gunshots, the fleeing pheasants fell down.
Su Jin looked at the tree where the secret sentry appeared, and was glad that he had collected the chestnuts inside the chestnut forest. If he had touched the chestnuts outside, the other party would definitely have seen it.
"Bull Lu, I'll take over the watch from another place." Leopard scratched his head. "You take these pheasants back first. The smell of blood is a bit strong."
Su Jin quickened the pace of picking chestnuts, while Lu Shiyi went around to the other side of the water source and carried away the escaped pheasants.
"There is a big prey here, don't act rashly. There are only two sentries, to prevent being targeted by the big prey." Lu Shiyi warned the leopard.
The secret sentries are all members of the Divine Sword team. Generally speaking, they will not be in danger. Lu Shiyi would think that these people are stupid if they push themselves into danger for a piece of meat.
"Yes!" Leopard agreed.
While waiting for Lu Shiyi and Su Jin to carry the bamboo baskets, he walked towards the farm with seven pheasant legs tied on a horse in his right hand.
The leopard watched the two men disappear from its sight, immediately cleared the ground, and climbed up another tree to guard.
Lu Shiyi entered the farm through the side door, and the family members looked at the pheasant in his hand and were surprised.
"Minister Lu, did you kill this pheasant?" The family members saw that the pheasant was almost bloodless and there was a small hole on its head.
"Only one was shot by me, and the remaining six were shot by the secret sentries. Send the six pheasants to the canteen, and you can have a snack tonight." Lu Shiyi explained to the family members. The young couple walked to the kitchen squad, took away a pheasant without a bullet hole in its head, and handed the remaining six to the squad leader of the kitchen squad.
The fat squad leader looked at the six pheasants with his eyes narrowed into slits. These six pheasants were just enough to make a meal of chicken stewed with mushrooms. If more vegetables and mushrooms were added, each family could have a bowl.
After the autumn harvest, the team members did not see any large prey while patrolling the mountains. Even the food in the canteen was bacon, and no one had any oil in their stomachs.
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