"Fourth brother, how's it? Is the chicken leg tasty?"
Yue Jiuyue asked Lin Chaobei jokingly.
"Mmm! So delicious!"
Lin Chaobei was holding a basin containing a whole chicken that had been specially allocated to him, and he was eating with gusto! After all, he had cried pitifully, yet he had indeed done something worthwhile.
Thinking back to Lin Chaobei's howl before, as if he had suffered some great injustice, saying things like "being both father and mother," those words made everyone in the family laugh until their stomachs hurt.
"Tsk tsk tsk! If I had known that feeding chickens and rabbits would allow me to eat all by myself, I would have gone and fed them too!"
Lin Chaodong clicked his tongue twice, looking at Lin Chaobei who was eating a bowl of chicken by himself. Because of his words, Lin Chaobei immediately stretched out his long arms to hug the bowl and protect his food, and he couldn't suppress the smile on his face.
I've never realized before that his fourth child is actually quite adorable; he's even more fun to tease than his youngest daughter.
"snort!"
Lin Chaobei rolled his eyes, then took a big bite of the chicken leg and chewed it exaggeratedly.
Lin Chaodong chuckled.
Is his fourth child only four years old? Otherwise, how could he be so childish!
"Little one, that's a whole bowlful! Can you finish it all?"
Xiao Man'er also chimed in, her big, bright eyes staring at Lin Chaobei as she asked curiously.
"This is nothing! Bring me another bowl, I can finish it all!"
Lin Chaobei proudly tossed his head back.
"But Grandma said that if you eat too much food, you'll get diarrhea because there's no oil in your stomach. Aren't you worried about getting diarrhea, little one?"
The little girl was extremely curious: Could there really be people who weren't afraid of getting sick?
Everyone: ...
I don't know how the other four people felt, but Yue Jiuyue had lost her appetite. She put down her chopsticks, wiped her mouth, and said:
"I'm done eating."
The group didn't take it seriously; Yue Jiuyue's appetite had never been large, and they were used to it.
After leaving the room, Yue Jiuyue went to the cellar by the back wall. Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, she bought a bag of wheat seeds from the mall. Then she poured half of the wheat from each of the two burlap sacks in the cellar and mixed the seeds in, waiting for everyone to pick out the seeds together.
That's all she can do. Of course, if there aren't enough seeds, she can do it again.
While Yue Jiuyue's family was busy slaughtering sand chickens, rabbits, eating meat, and selecting seeds, some of the people from Linjiagou Village went to Nanling to recruit men. They randomly picked two hilltops and started digging caves. The rest of the people began digging for Atractylodes lancea, also known as spearhead vegetable, all over the mountains. The elderly people stayed near the caves to boil water and cook spearhead vegetables.
Meanwhile, in the county town a hundred miles away, Magistrate Tang, who looked haggard and anxious, almost as frantic as Village Chief Lin, finally breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the sun rising in the east!
The torrential rain has finally stopped!
For the past two months, he has been unable to eat or sleep properly, and he has been anxious and stressed. Not only did he develop mouth ulcers and blisters on the corners of his mouth, but his face was also covered in countless pimples. He no longer has the image of a refined young master from the capital.
Of course, he doesn't have time to care about his image right now; once the rain stops, he can start flood relief efforts.
As for the previous two months, don't blame him for not being able to organize manpower for flood relief and rescue. Apart from the people in a few nearby villages who quickly fled to the county town when things got bad, he arranged manpower to rescue those further away. But for those even further away, by the time he sent people there, it was already too late!
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