Chapter 28: Food distribution is getting smaller and smaller
There was too much pork to transport back all at once, so the three men picked up a lot of dry firewood and branches on the mountain and tied the pork in the middle of the firewood.
It took four trips to complete the transportation.
At night, after everyone in the village had gone to bed, around nine o'clock in the evening, the parents of Xiang Cheng and the other two came together as if they had made an appointment.
There wasn't much food left in their house, and the child brought back a large piece of pork today, which really scared them.
After asking, they found out what was going on. They were no longer children and knew the ways of the world. They immediately cut a piece of pork and sent it to Xiang Yu.
"Take the pork back. I have already taken my share. Don't tell anyone in the village about what happened in the mountains."
The three families are well aware of the current situation, and they certainly won't be stupid enough to tell anyone everything.
"We won't tell. You should go to bed early and we won't disturb you." Several people looked at each other and left.
In a blink of an eye, it was time to distribute food. Due to the recent low temperature of minus 15 degrees Celsius, no one in the village went up the mountain to chop firewood, and it was rare to see people walking around in the village.
After opening the door, a gust of cold air hit her in the face and her head suddenly felt as if it was being pricked by needles. Xiang Yu immediately pulled up her scarf to cover half of her face and only then did she feel better.
There were people walking in groups of three or four on the road, all heading towards the village chief's house. When they arrived at the village chief's house, dozens of people had already gathered outside his courtyard.
Everyone gathered together, as if this would help reduce the cold, and chatted while shivering.
In the yard, the village chief, his wife, son and daughter-in-law, and three little grandsons were sorting supplies in wooden boxes.
"Are you done yet, village chief? We are almost freezing."
"Yes, it's been half a day, and it's not divided yet," several people shouted loudly, rubbing their hands.
"It's almost there..." the village chief replied vaguely.
After more than ten minutes, it was finally done. Everyone scrambled to be at the front of the line so that they could get their things and take them home quickly.
This time there are even fewer supplies, but last time we were still able to get a few fresh vegetables.
Xiang Yu looked at the food he had obtained, two bottles of more than 500 ml of drinking mineral water, two starch sausages, a pack of sauerkraut instant noodles, and three packs of compressed biscuits.
"Why are there only these? Aren't there any vegetables?" a woman in the crowd asked, "Weren't there vegetables last time? Why aren't there any this time?"
"Yeah, the food I got last time was enough to fill me up, why is it so little this time?"
"If you only have this much to eat for a week, how can you eat it? Just one compressed biscuit for each meal?"
"Oh my God, how can we live like this?" Everyone had a sad look on their face.
Xiang Yu took the things and left. It was already the second month, and it was already pretty good that he could still get these foods from the village.
In my previous life, when I was in college, it was in the city center of City A, where people gathered and it had the most concentrated number of low-rent housing buildings in the country.
Not only was the food distributed unevenly, but the little food that people did get couldn't be eaten.
Being robbed, robbing others, killing people, and eating people became very common phenomena later on.
"Xiang Yu, wait a minute," a voice came from behind. Xiang Yu turned her head and saw a person wrapped tightly running towards her.
"It's me, Xiang Ling," the person pulled off the cloth wrapped around her face, "Sister Ling, what's wrong?" Xiang Yu looked around.
"My father asked you if you want to go to the city with us to find food in the evening," Xiang Ling said, looking around and then lowered her voice.
"I have a radio at home, and it recently said that the snow may not stop for a long time, and the temperature will continue to drop."
"Two nights ago, my dad and my brother went to the town to look for food, but the supermarkets and kiosks in the town were looted and there was nothing left."
"We are going to go to the city tonight. I'm sure you won't have much to eat by yourself. Do you want to come with us?"
The two of them were standing side by side very close to each other, and Xiang Ling spoke in a very low voice, so the people behind them couldn't hear what they were saying at all.
"There are a few people," Xiang Yu said in a calm tone, as if he didn't care at all.
"My father and my brother, the village chief's son, and Xiang Cheng's parents," there are only six people in total. If Xiang Yu goes too, there will be seven people.
"What time do you leave?"
"Gather at my house at 8:30 tonight," several aunts came over from behind, and Xiang Ling walked away quickly.
"Xiang Yu, where did you buy this coat? It looks much warmer than ours," an aunt recognized Xiang Yu. She had been eyeing Xiang Yu's coat for a long time.
"Auntie, I just bought it at a street stall. It's not as good as you say. It looks warm, but it's actually not as good as the one you're wearing."
"You are just kidding. Do you really think that I don't know what's good?"
"Aunt, you eat more salt than I eat rice, so your eyes must be sharper than mine. Look at my material, can it keep me warm?"
As he said that, Xiang Yu folded up his sleeves. The aunt leaned over to take a look, then shook her head with a look of disgust on her face.
She had never seen this kind of material before, but it didn't look like it would keep her warm, so Xiang Yu put away the expression on her face.
The coat she is wearing is not a cotton-padded jacket, but a winter coat. It can keep out the wind and keep out the cold, and it looks thinner than a cotton coat.
After returning home, Xiang Yu put the things he received today into the space, and took a look at the vegetables and rice planted in the space.
The rice has all turned yellow and will probably be ripe in the next few days. Other vegetables are ripe for picking and they are all big and fresh.
With this piece of black soil, she will no longer have to worry about food in the future.
Next to the vegetable garden, Xiang Yu opened up another plot of land and planted some fruit seeds there: apples, pears, strawberries, blueberries...
After finishing the orchard, Xiang Yu picked some cabbages and put them in the pig feeding bowl, looking at the piglets that had already become plump and white.
Xiang Yu looked pleased, "Eat, eat more..., braised, steamed, roasted suckling pig..."
The chickens and ducks bought at the farmers' market have grown up and their yellow hair has faded. Xiang Yu picked some fresh corn to feed them.
The corn husks and stalks were chopped into sections and fed to cattle and sheep, with no waste at all.
Soon it was night. Xiang Yu packed up her things and carried her half-person-high compound bow on her back. Her compound bow had a power of dozens of pounds.
If you tune the short string, it will be even stronger and can even penetrate a fire gas tank. It is simply a deadly weapon. Carrying this makes her feel safe.
There were several packs of compressed biscuits, two bottles of water, a pack of instant noodles and luncheon meat, and an alcohol stove in the backpack.
Xiang Yu took a look at the remaining things in the room, and directly put the burning stove into the space, and also put away the rice in the corner.
The room was empty, nothing was left.
At 8:30 in the evening, Xiang Yu went directly to the next yard.
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