"right."
Huo Mingchen asked, somewhat puzzled, "Why are you suddenly asking this?"
"Could you take me to see it?"
Cheng Shanshan suddenly realized that Lin Sheng, whom she had previously mentioned, would inexplicably catch a lot of fish.
She asked about his background, but he gave vague and ambiguous answers.
Thinking about it carefully, it was probably caught in the river?
Soon Huo Mingchen led her to the riverbank. The water there had become extremely murky due to the torrential rain and flash floods, and it was so deep that it was impossible to see the bottom when you went inside.
Huo Mingchen saw her getting too close and quickly pulled her back: "Don't tell me you want to go into the river?"
Cheng Shanshan coughed lightly: "I'd rather not go into the river. I'm not a very good swimmer. I just wanted to come and take a look."
Huo Mingchen breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this: "This river? Let alone now, even fishermen who were particularly good swimmers in the past dared not go into the water easily." As he spoke, he was still worried, so he used his body to block Cheng Shanshan before continuing: "I was thinking that since there was no food on land, I would go to the river to check, but after several attempts with a group of people, we could never dive deep enough, so we gave up."
After the torrential rain destroyed their crops, they tried all sorts of ways to find food, but now they are still trapped.
Cheng Shanshan considered it carefully: "What if we set a fishing trap?"
"A fishing trap?"
"right."
As Cheng Shanshan spoke, she picked up a branch from the ground: "The current is strong, and the fish will follow it. Although we can't go down, we can dig a channel to divert the flow here, making it into a gourd shape with a wide opening and a narrow exit, so that the fish can go in but can't come out."
After hearing her explanation, Huo Mingchen's eyes were filled with surprise: "We can give it a try." If they could really catch fish, then their immediate crisis would be solved.
As for Jiang Niangzi's matter, they decided to put it aside for the time being.
After all, since she had the ability to disappear into thin air with so much food, it was impossible for them to find her easily. Under such circumstances, it would be a waste of all their energy to investigate her.
When she got back, she made a point of checking on the growth of the cabbages. They now had three or four large leaves, and their lush green color looked exceptionally pleasing.
However, the people guarding the door were very wary of her arrival: "Although you are the governor's wife, the governor said that no one is allowed to pick the vegetables!"
"Yes, we will defend cabbage to the death!"
"...Do I really look like a pig that's rooting up cabbages?"
"ah?"
The two were taken aback.
They simply didn't know how to react.
Looking at the two of them, Cheng Shanshan couldn't help but exclaim, "Not bad, you two are very good." After saying that, she turned around and left.
The two of them suddenly felt a chill: "Why is it so cold?"
"Wouldn't she go back and whisper in the governor's ear, complaining about us?"
That evening.
Cheng Shanshan wanted to make her fishing trap clearer.
He specially drew a detailed design for Huo Mingchen.
Then, while waiting for him, she tidied up the vegetable garden and medicinal herbs in her space. Speaking of which, she was quite well-off now, with a constant supply of all kinds of lush green vegetables, and a storage room full of grain and daily necessities.
Of course, the most important thing is these herbs. In the past few days, she has had time to prepare a lot of medicine kits according to the prescription that Huo Mingchen taught her, thinking that she would be prepared for any eventuality.
During the process of getting ready, she wanted to eat something several times, since she hadn't had much food in her stomach for the past few days.
But after thinking about it, she decided to endure it for the time being. After all, during this transition period, she couldn't be too happy, or she might cause some unnecessary trouble. She could just let herself go hungry to cleanse her stomach.
As she pondered, she felt increasingly sleepy...
In a state between sleep and wakefulness, she didn't know how much time had passed when suddenly Bai Shi pushed open the door and rushed in: "Shanshan, wake up quickly and go outside to see what's happening, something terrible has occurred."
"What's wrong?"
Cheng Shanshan hadn't expected to sleep until dawn. She looked around and asked, "Didn't Brother Huo come back last night?"
"Little Huo is missing too?"
Bai stared wide-eyed, her eyes filled with fear.
These words instantly dispelled Cheng Shanshan's previous confusion, replacing it with a bad premonition. She quickly sat up and said, "Mother, what happened? Tell me!"
“There are many people crying outside, saying that their family members are missing.”
"I'll go out and take a look."
She didn't waste a moment and hurriedly went out the door.
When they got outside, there was a chorus of wailing and weeping: "My husband is gone, how are we going to live now?"
"Waaaaah, my son is so young. He has never left me before. It would be better to just kill me than to separate us like this."
"It would be better to just take me away. I'm the breadwinner of the family, I..."
Everyone had tears in their eyes and looked completely lost.
After looking around, Cheng Shanshan finally settled on an old woman named Wei Danding: "Grandma, can you tell me what's going on?"
"Can't you see? All the men in our Ping'an City have disappeared overnight." The old woman's hair was gray, and her eyes were exceptionally indifferent. "Now all that's left here are old, weak, sick, and disabled women like me, otherwise useless women."
"They're all gone?"
Cheng Shanshan glanced around.
Only then did I notice that everyone on the street was a woman.
The old woman's eyes held a cold indifference: "You might be wondering why I'm so calm. It's mainly because there are no other men in my family besides myself, so I'll just watch the show."
In just one night, the range of ages from eighty and ninety to two or three years old was affected.
All the men have disappeared. What's going on?
Cheng Shanshan suddenly remembered Cheng Shisi and hurriedly ran back home to look for him: "Mother, have you seen Shisi?"
Bai was immediately horrified: "You mean Fourteenth is also missing?"
"What should we do?!"
Aunt Dong stamped her foot, completely distraught: "Mingchen is gone, and all the men in the city have disappeared too! What on earth is going on?"
Bai looked at Cheng Shanshan: "Shanshan, what... what should we do?"
Cheng Shanshan frowned.
Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly heard a childish voice: "Sister."
"fourteen?"
The three of them rushed over.
Cheng Shisi was a little taken aback by the scene: "What's wrong?" When he came in, everyone looked at him with almost the same expression.
Cheng Shanshan hurriedly asked, "Where did you go last night?"
"I……"
Cheng Shisi was filthy.
He scratched his head, clearly unsure of what to say.
Just then, there was a knock on the door. When she opened it, she saw a group of people gathered around. As soon as they saw Cheng Shisi, they immediately reached out and grabbed him!
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