Chapter 90 Grab the Food
Gu Weidong and the others came back stealthily in the middle of the night.
When he came back, the dog next door started barking. Gu Weidong didn't dare to move and stayed in bed for a long time. When the dog next door stopped barking, he sneaked back home and called Liu Guizhi.
As soon as Liu Guizhi woke up, she saw a dark figure under the moon in front of the kang and was so scared that she almost screamed.
Fortunately, Gu Weidong was quick to cover his mouth and whispered, "It's me—"
After he said this, Liu Guizhi finally realized that this was not a bad guy, but her man.
Liu Guizhi: "What's going on?"
Gu Weidong lowered his voice and said, "We've got the food, but I don't dare go into the village during the day. We have to wait until night to slowly transport it home. I'll have the two boys hide in the mountains first, and hide the food in the mountains as well."
Liu Guizhi nodded vigorously: "Okay, okay, then let's slowly transport it back home?"
Gu Weidong: "Go wake up Fubao and Shengtian, and then go to the kitchen and get a piece of steamed bread. We still have some lard that we didn't eat before, right? Dip the steamed bread in some lard, and if the neighbor's dog starts barking again, throw it to shut it up."
Liu Guizhi nodded vigorously again.
Gu Weidong: "Let Fubao stay at home and help us open the door. Shengtian will be on the lookout nearby. If there's any movement, he'll meow like a cat. Come with me, and we'll slowly move home."
Liu Guizhi nodded vigorously again.
Late in the night, Gu Weidong must have gotten a lot of food, all of which could be eaten. Liu Guizhi's heart beat faster just thinking about it.
When Nie Laosan's family also started to get food, she felt that what Fubao said was absolutely true. Others also knew that there would be a famine and a shortage of food, so her husband had to find a way to get food.
During a great famine, the only way to avoid starvation was to store food.
Now the men have got the food.
Liu Guizhi didn't dare to delay and ran to wake up Fubao and Gu Shengtian first. When they woke up, Gu Weidong was taking cornmeal cakes from the kitchen and stuffing them into his mouth in big and small bites. He had been running around for the past few days and had not had enough food and drink. He was exhausted and hungry.
He desperately stuffed a few mouthfuls of cornmeal pancakes and almost choked. After staring and swallowing hard for a few mouthfuls, he stuffed a few more cornmeal pancakes into his arms. After that, he gave some instructions to Fubao and Gu Shengtian, and then took Liu Guizhi and secretly went to the southern mountains under the cover of night.
Fubao and Gu Shengtian looked at each other, one stayed at home to provide support, and the other ran out to keep watch.
At this moment, all the dreams and getting married were out of the question.
Food, food, that is the most important thing!
Fubao stood there thinking for a while, then quickly ran back to the house and cleaned under the kangs in several rooms, as well as under the tables, in the kang beds, and in the cabinets.
After the grain is brought back, it cannot be hidden in the hut outside, otherwise it may be seen by others. It also cannot be hidden in the cellar, as the cellar will get damp and the grain will easily spoil.
So after thinking about it, I can only hide it in the room where I usually sleep, where no one will notice it.
In this way, if the incident of eating from the rich that her mother mentioned happens, the grain may not be seen by others.
After cleaning up, Gu Weidong, Liu Guizhi and the others still hadn't returned. Fubao couldn't help but feel worried, so he could only stand at the door with his head tilted up and look outside.
It was midnight in May. The moon had long since disappeared. The sky was quiet and dark, and everything outside seemed covered with a veil of darkness.
Her new house is located in the southwest corner of the village. There are no houses blocking the view in front of it, so when you look south from her gate, you can see the mountains and forests in the south at a glance.
The mountains and forests in the distance are no longer the familiar green fields during the day. At night, due to the reflection, some are bright and some are dark. The light and dark in the distance are transformed into a strange picture in the night.
The crickets in the weeds beside the yard chirped crisply, and from the depths of the distant forests there was the occasional cry of a crow, a sound so eerie that it made people who moved at night feel a chill down their spines.
Fubao took a deep breath, leaned quietly against the door, and stared at the quiet night in a daze.
Gu Shengtian was only twelve years old and was already worrying about whether he could get married in the future, but Fubao had never thought that far ahead.
She didn't dare to think about what the future would be like. Now she only hoped that her family would be safe, that they would not starve, and that they could survive the unbearable days of hunger in her dream.
As she was thinking, suddenly, she heard the dog next door barking a few times.
My heart tightened at that moment.
Living next door is Chen Youhui's family. Chen Youhui is Chen Youfu's cousin, but he is greedy and likes to take advantage of others. If the dog makes a fuss and wakes up Chen Youhui's family, and they find out, it will be a big trouble.
As she was thinking, the dog next door stopped barking and instead began to howl, as if content. Soon, she saw two figures approaching in the darkness. They were carrying a bag of food, stooping and running home at a brisk pace.
She immediately recognized that this was her second brother Gu Yuehua and her mother.
He immediately opened the door and whispered, "Come in quickly and put it here."
After Liu Guizhi and Gu Yuehua put down the food, Gu Yuejin and Gu Weidong soon arrived, each carrying a bag of food.
Fubao whispered, "Put it here first. I'll slowly drag it into the house, and then you can move the other things."
Liu Guizhi thought about it, nodded, and went to move with Gu Weidong and the others.
After they passed, Fubao tried to carry the food on her back, but she found it was too heavy and she couldn't carry it.
There was no other way, so she had to slowly drag herself into the house. When she encountered a threshold, she would lift the front half first, move over, and then lift the back half.
When she finally dragged all the food into the house, Gu Shengtian poked his head in.
He rubbed his hands proudly: "I just fed the dog half a steamed bun, and the dog stopped barking!"
Fubao called out to him, "Brother Shengtian, please help me hide these grains!"
Gu Shengtian ran in and saw that Fubao had already cleared the place where the food could be hidden. This made it easy, so the two of them moved together, and soon they hid it.
After hiding, Gu Shengtian looked outside and ran out to keep watch, while Fubao continued to be responsible for meeting them at the door.
Gu Weidong took out two hundred yuan and collected all kinds of coarse grains at different prices, with the highest being 1.4 cents per catty of sorghum and the lowest being 1.2 cents per catty of soybeans. He didn't spend the last two hundred yuan, and probably collected seven or eight hundred catties of grain.
He borrowed a flatbed truck and pulled it to the foot of the mountain with his two sons under the cover of night. Each bag of grain weighed about 100 kilograms, and the family made three or four trips back and forth. Finally, they managed to transport about seven or eight bags of grain home before dawn.
Fubao never expected that he could get so much food. Assuming that one person eats 30 kilograms of food per month, his family consumes 180 kilograms per month. These more than 700 kilograms can eat for more than four months.
Combined with the existing food at home, even if the family has no more food income, it will be enough to eat for seven or eight months.
Looking at so much food, I finally felt relieved.
Everyone was exhausted and out of breath. Gu Weidong brought his two sons, munching on cornmeal bread and drinking boiled water, and whispering about how he was collecting grain outside.
There are naturally many hardships involved. You have to be careful when trading on the black market to avoid being caught. How do you hide the grain after collecting it before collecting other things? How do you transport so much grain back without attracting attention? It's all tearful to talk about it.
However, in order to ensure that his family could have enough food, Gu Weidong tried his best, and with the help of his two sons who were also smart, they finally managed to secretly transport so much food back.
When Liu Guizhi thought of Nie Laosan's family, she naturally mentioned that Nie Laosan's family also hoarded food.
Gu Weidong frowned when he heard this: "We have to be more careful, otherwise something bad might happen."
Liu Guizhi thought of what Fubao said and felt that both the man and Fubao were right: "Yes, but be careful."
Gu Weidong thought for a moment and said, "Yuejin, Yuehua, you haven't been to school these past few days. You've been running around with me, and I'm afraid others will suspect us. Tomorrow, you should carry your food and sneak out to the commune to go to school early in the morning. Don't let anyone know you haven't been there. And Fubao and Shengtian, you should go to school as usual. Be careful in school and don't let anyone see you."
Gu Shengtian and Fubao naturally nodded repeatedly. What happened that night was too shocking. They would never forget it in their lifetime. They knew to keep it a secret for the rest of their lives.
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Gu Weidong went back to his room to rest for a while before dawn, and got up early in the morning.
He was not in the production team these days. He just told others that he was not feeling well. He walked around the street and coughed a few times, making people think that he was really sick. So the matter was fooled. As for the two children, Gu Yuejin and Gu Yuehua, they waited until night and sneaked back to the school in the commune. Even Chen Youhui's family next door didn't know that the two boys had returned home.
Liu Guizhi hardly went out for the past two days. She was busy hiding food everywhere at home. Finally, she had no place left, so she thought of a way to dig a hole under the kang at home. She dug a big hole, wrapped the food in plastic cloth, and then covered the hole with soil. Only then did she feel completely at ease.
With these foods, I can put my mind at ease.
Liu Guizhi finished her own business and went to test the waters with her sisters-in-law. It turned out that Miao Xiuju had mentioned it to her sons, but she hadn't given them too many details. But would they believe it? They didn't believe it at all!
In fact, no matter what conflicts and rifts there were in the past, they were all sisters-in-law and had once been a family. Liu Guizhi hoped that everyone would be well and not go hungry, but looking at the situation, she thought that it was everyone's fate and could not be forced. If she forced others to do anything, it would only make them hate her, so she didn't say anything.
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