Seeing this, Chaoge took out his dagger without hesitation and glanced at the group of people viciously.
At that time, Zhou Dong and his son happened to be returning with the men from the village, carrying hoes and backpacks. The group of people from Ulala scared the refugees so much that they quickly fled.
But some refugees refused to give up in order to survive. Even if they did not try to snatch the yams that Chaoge and his men wanted to dig out, they also wandered around the area, looking for yam vines, intending to do it themselves.
More and more people came, and Chaoge had to take care of the three-year-old Leng Xiaoran, fearing that he would roll down the mountain again, while also digging, so naturally he couldn't move fast.
Glancing sideways, she saw Leng Furong digging the soil in a gentle manner. She shook her head helplessly and said, "Big sister, watch over my little brother and don't let him roll down the mountain. I and my big brother will do the digging."
"good!"
Leng Furong dropped the branch and led Leng Xiaoran to her side. Although she promised Chaoge, after protecting Leng Xiaoran, she continued to dig the soil.
“This, this yam grows vertically?!
How deep is this? How come I have dug almost two feet deep and there seems to be more below? "
Leng Furong wanted to cry but had no tears. When she thought back to the snow-white yam she had eaten, she felt that she was so ignorant.
And because of the drought, the soil was hard, and the yams grew vertically and were bottomless, which made her really desperate.
"Second sister, I'll help you."
Leng Xiaoran, who had picked up a stick from somewhere, stood beside Leng Furong, picked up the stick, bit his lower lip, and dug with all his strength!
Chaoge glanced to the side and found that Leng Xiaoran had several yam vines tied around his waist, and the other side of the yam vines was tied to a big tree nearby.
She felt amused and sad at the same time, but she did not blame Leng Furong.
Chaoge was also very pleased that he could enjoy wealth and glory and remain strong in poverty.
"This is how yam grows. We have no choice but to work a little harder, and we can still have a good meal tonight.
We have to hurry, there are more and more people around here, we might as well dig up all the roots before we get a few."
The singer dug the soil quickly with his feet, not daring to stop for even a second!
Although she had not done much heavy work and did not have much strength, these yams were the only food they found after entering the mountains for half a day, so she had to use all her strength.
"You guys dig up tree roots to eat! You can't eat this, it makes your mouth numb!
It’s better to eat other tree roots than this!
I thought you had found something good, but you acted so mysterious. You ignored everyone who asked you about it, as if you were afraid that we would snatch it from you. You are so petty!"
Chaoge finally dug out a whole yam. Just when he was about to dig out the next one, a couple and their children came over, each holding a hoe and a sickle in their hands, as if they wanted to dig together.
They went up the mountain later and saw everyone digging in the soil. They watched curiously for a while, thinking that they had found food. However, after watching for a long time, they discovered that they were digging tree roots.
I wanted to join in, but the tree root couple recognized what it was at first sight.
After chatting with Chaoge for a few words, Chaoge had no time to pay attention to them. Unexpectedly, this man started to mock them!
"Hey, I also think this thing looks familiar. Now I remember that this thing is indeed inedible. Not only does it make your mouth numb, but it will also make your hands itch for a long time if you touch it!
Oh, what a waste of my time and energy! "
Finally, some of the refugees who blindly followed the trend succeeded in digging out the yam. They had not discovered it before, but when that person reminded them, many people also reacted.
Chaoge ignored their sarcasm and thought about it carefully. It seemed that ordinary people really didn't know that yam was an edible plant.
It seems that only wealthy families know about this kind of thing as a medicinal herb and food supplement.
This is even better. There will be fewer refugees competing with her for the yams. After a burst of joy in her heart, she continued to dig out the next yam!
"Sister, I dug it up!"
Seeing that Chaoge didn't bother to pay attention to the refugees who were mocking her, Leng Furong didn't say anything either, but just kept working hard.
She was so excited that she thought she could successfully dig out a yam soon, but she accidentally used too much force with her hand and broke the yam directly!
Wild yam can grow more than one meter tall, and due to the drought, although this piece of wild yam miraculously survived, it did not grow fat.
But despite this, it was still long, but not thick enough. Leng Furong accidentally broke one of them and was very angry, feeling that all her previous efforts were in vain!
“It doesn’t matter, half is half, this thing is easy to store and can be kept for quite a while.
Keep digging, don't waste time.
We are different from them, we have no food at all, they can’t eat, but we can!”
After hearing the sarcastic remarks made by the refugees, many of the villagers brought by Zhou Dong stopped digging.
They didn't want to waste their energy and make a bunch of inedible things that would harm their families.
But seeing that Chaoge and the others were still digging without being disturbed by the outside world, Zhou Dong did not stop either. He took Zhou Daqiang and swung the hoe to work hard, not caring whether the yams were broken or not. The broken ones were put into the backpack.
More and more refugees gathered here to watch Chaoge digging yam. Some people knew that this thing was numb and dared not eat it, but some refugees had little food left, and seeing Chaoge digging, they didn't care and started digging too!
No matter whether this thing is edible or not, since someone is digging it, they will dig it!
After all, they had no choice. There was nothing to eat. There were only a few big trees left in the mountains. The smaller trees had all died, not to mention wild vegetables.
Whether it can be eaten or not, we’ll have to dig it out first. They don’t believe it anyway, and Chaoge and his men don’t even want to live anymore.
Some people feel even more helpless and think that even if this thing cannot be eaten, it cannot be given to others for free.
Among the refugees, everyone has their own thoughts.
Some people were undecided whether the yam could be eaten or not. They were also afraid that there might be other edible things on the top of the mountain and that they would be preempted by those who had climbed the mountain first, so they remained hesitant.
When those refugees who had given up saw that Chaoge was determined to dig, a few of them became tempted again.
Chaoge didn't expect that. She was worried that thousands of refugees would snatch the yams from her, but she didn't know that most of the refugees didn't know the value of the yams and were cowardly.
If it were her, between the choice of starving to death and being poisoned, she would rather choose to be poisoned to death than give up this thing that she didn't know whether it could be eaten or not and miss it.
It took less than two quarters of an hour to dig up all the yams around.
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