"There is no way for our village to exchange food with others!" Chen Huiqin, the wife of Yang Muliu, the village chief of Sanyang Village, said worriedly.
Yang Muliu took a puff of his dry cigarette and said, "Tomorrow, I will go to Liuye Village to ask Lu Cheng for directions."
Yang Muliu's two sons said, "Dad, you have to be more polite. That Ercheng is the person we admire the most!"
Yang Muliu laughed and said, "You two, don't I understand? Well, I will be polite to Ercheng. He is a tiger-fighting hero. Not only do you two little brats admire him, but I, an old man, also envy him!"
You know, the most ferocious beast here is the tiger!
The next morning, Yang Muliu came to the waist-high courtyard of Lu Cheng.
He knocked on the door of the courtyard and said, "Ercheng, are you home?"
Lu Cheng knew the sound of Yang Muliu as soon as he heard it.
“I am here.”
"It's great to have you at home, Ercheng."
Yang Muliu was so excited that he didn't dare to move.
"Village Chief Yang, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Lu Cheng was thinking, I just distributed the taro yesterday, and Yang Muliu is here so early in the morning?
Is this 녦놆 acting on the news?
Yang Muliu rubbed his hands together and said, "I really need you to find a way to give the people of Sanyang Village a meal."
Lu Cheng?
look!
He was right. If Liuye Village was destitute, the nearby Sanyang Village, which was hit hard by the disaster, would come looking for trouble.
"Village Chief Yang, what difficulties do you have? Let's go to the village chief and have a chat to see if there is any way to solve it together?"
Yang Muliu said, "Ercheng, I won't go to your village chief first. I will come to ask you privately first. Is there anything you need? We can look for it in Sanyang Village. How about exchanging it for taro? It won't be too much, but 200 kilograms a week will be enough.
Is it okay if the food we exchange is within your acceptable range and does not affect your food supply?"
Lu Cheng?
Two hundred kilograms?
If the people of Liuye Village shared the 200 kilograms of taro they brought back, each household in Sanyang Village would receive about 3 kilograms of taro.
If it is cut into small pieces and cooked into taro and wild vegetable soup, it would be enough for each family to eat for several days.
However, if Sanyang Village were to share 200 kilograms of food, the entire village would definitely not agree.
Moreover, this taro was dug back by Lu Cheng and his guards after much hard work in the depths.
Most importantly, I carried it back at the risk of being attacked by wild beasts.
Lu Cheng!
Not only is he cruel, but at this time, whoever has the strength will have a good meal.
There were no hunters in Sanyang Village, and no one risked their lives to go deep into the village, so why should they get 200 kilograms of taro for free?
"Village Chief Yang, we risked our lives to carry these taro back. If I rashly promise you anything, I'm afraid I will be letting down the members of my guard team.
I am also sorry to the villagers of Liuye Village who have watched me grow up. I need to discuss this matter with the village chief and the villagers. "
Yang Muliu said with a smile on her face: "Well, it should be, it should be, then I will go back and wait for your news."
After Yang Muliu left, a hint of coldness flashed in Lu Cheng's eyes.
Speaking of mutual help, it is a traditional virtue of the Chinese people.
But he also said, if a man does not work for himself, he will be punished by heaven and earth!
Think about this winter?
The winter of the third year of the reunion was especially hard to endure!
If we distribute the food now, and someone in Liuye Village dies of hunger, who will be blamed?
In the years of natural famine during this time, we have to rely on a little bit of strength to get through it.
If the food is dispersed, will everyone die together?
Why don't you be a little more wolfish and just take care of your own village?
Lu Cheng chose the latter!
After the grain was distributed, the villagers of Liuye Village took away a portion of it for their own benefit.
The villagers of Liuye Village sent their male members to dig taro in the deep water, risking their lives.
No matter what, they will not let other villages share the fruits of their labor for nothing.
Lu Cheng didn't sleep either, so he hurried to the village chief's house.
"Village chief."
"Hey, Ercheng is here, come in and sit down."
"Well, just sit in the yard for a while."
"What's up?"
"Well, the village chief of Sanyang Village came to me just now and asked us to give them 200 kilograms of taro a week, and they are willing to exchange it for other items."
Chen Guifu's eyes turned cold and he said, "This Yang Muliu! He knows how to take all the food! Why should we give them food?"
Lu Cheng nodded, "I didn't agree either. I'll discuss it with the village chief."
"How do you plan for Ercheng?"
"Village chief, you should make the decision on this matter."
Chen Guifu shook his head: "Ercheng, you have the most power in this matter. The one who took the risk to lead the guard team into Shenzhen is you. If you were not leading the way, I'm afraid that the guard team would have gone into Shenzhen~"
The village chief didn't dare to say the word "no reply".
Lu Cheng said, "In this way, we will not give away any of the taro. As for the taro seedlings, if the people of Sanyang Village and the surrounding villages do not mind, the village chief will decide and give some to each village."
Chen Guifu said: "Oh! There is still a 20% chance. We have helped them, but we still have not lost a single taro!"
“In Liuye Village, taro sprouts are just a common pickled vegetable.
But in other villages, it is food for survival!"
Mr. Chen Guifu was impressed by Lu Cheng's words.
"Ercheng, this is really great. If the taro seedlings are distributed to other villages, we will have done a good thing!"
"Yes, that's the arrangement. I'm going to go back and rest."
"Okay, I'll go tell Zhou Sanxiang and the others about the taro seedlings in the farm and tell them not to let people from our village take them. I'll go talk to the village chiefs of several villages and ask them to send people to get the taro seedlings."
"Well, then I'll trouble the village chief to contact them one by one."
“It should be.”
Chen Guifu also understood that the villagers in these villages all ate grass roots and tree bark.
The trees around here are often stripped of their bark.
But there is still no way to solve everyone's food problem.
Now give them some taro seedlings to eat, and Lu Cheng from Liuye Village will be their savior!
Chen Guifu did not take credit for Lu Cheng's work. He told the heads of every village that it was Lu Cheng who led the team to dig, and the decision was his.
Lu Cheng also showed his kindness by giving them some taro seedlings to eat.
The village chiefs of Sanyang Village, Yangshu Village, Meiliu Village, and Fengxiang Village all had tears in their eyes.
The village chiefs of the four villages brought their people and dragged back some of the divided taro seedlings in the field on ox carts.
Zheng Hui said to Luo Xiaomin: "Luo Xiaomin, you worked so hard to get those taro seedlings back, but in the end, Lu Cheng gave them to other villages as a favor?"
Luo Xiaomin's eyes tightened slightly and he said, "You don't know, Lu Cheng is a man who kills tigers. If he wants to give it, then give it. I have no complaints."
Zheng Hui said angrily: "Don't you think it belongs to us?"
Luo Xiaomin rolled his eyes at Zheng Hui and said, "I didn't see you eat a single bite of the taro seedlings? Now that Lu Cheng has given them away, you're angry again?"
"What are you doing? Am I wrong? I don't want to eat it, but I'd rather throw it in the toilet than give it to them!"
Lu Cheng happened to hear Zheng Hui's vicious behavior outside?