"So, what can we do?"
Several times when wild boars came down the mountain, they were actually calmer than when they came, but the thought of countless outsiders about to invade their home made them uneasy, even though they knew there were people guarding the village entrance.
However, thinking of the village entrance, Su Hong immediately thought of Jian Dan's little courtyard.
"Simple. Why don't you move back here too? There are still rooms available."
Your place is too close to the village entrance, and besides, you can't fight off so many people. I've heard they're all unreasonable and don't listen to reason. It's too dangerous for you to live there alone."
Others also tried to persuade them.
"Yes, yes, your place is too close to the village entrance. If, if someone really comes, your place will be too conspicuous."
Ling Weidong and the others also tried to persuade her.
"Why don't you move here first, and then go back once you're sure it's safe?"
Jian Dan didn't expect that their target would shift to her so quickly. She hadn't thought about that. Not to mention whether she was afraid of being surrounded and attacked, she wondered if she would be safe in the educated youth compound if that really happened.
"No need, no need. Jixiang and the others will be back in the next couple of days. I'll leave them here to keep me company."
"But,"
"Don't worry, would I do something I'm not sure of? If anything happens, I'll definitely come to you immediately."
"All right!"
Jian Dan felt that they were in that panicked, unsure-what-to-do state before something big happened. She had no experience with this, but she remembered that Liu Aiguo had specifically told her to go back and organize her things, and not to leave any valuable grains or the like on the surface. She roughly understood the villagers' mentality.
"The villagers all rushed back home just now. I heard them saying they were going to hide their grain and stuff. Why don't you pack your things too?"
In case—and I mean, in case things really do turn out badly—we'll at least have some savings, right?
"I...they're not really going to storm into the village and rob us, are they?"
The boys looked at each other.
"What's uncertain now? There are people patrolling at the village entrance, but no one can guarantee anything. And not all those who flee famine are good people, are they?"
The villagers are more experienced than us, so they must have their reasons for doing this. We don't have any better solutions anyway, so we might as well just follow the villagers. Even if nothing happens, it won't make a difference; it's just changing where we store the grain. What do you think?
......
They were all at a loss for what to do, but when someone offered a suggestion, they felt reassured and readily agreed.
"Ah, yes, yes, yes!"
"Okay, okay, then... I remember there's a cellar in the room too?"
This was originally a landlord's house, so it's normal for it to have a cellar, right?
Jian Dan didn't pay any more attention and slowly walked back. The incident happened so suddenly that the adults went back to hide their things, and the children were also kept at home by their parents. The village became quiet for a while, and from the educated youth compound to her doorstep, she didn't run into a single person.
Only Old Han and his men were left at the village entrance, nervously staring in the direction outside the village. Even just looking at them from afar made their eyes hurt.
"Ugh! What's going on? Can't we ever have a peaceful life?"
Despite her complaints, she knew that this was a product of the times. Low productivity was one aspect, but the increasingly intense activities, movements, and increasingly frenzied suppression and persecution meant that leaders were only concerned with vying for power and profit, and those below them neglected even the most basic agricultural activities.
Thinking about all this, Jian Dan was once again grateful that she had been assigned to this place. The villagers were simple and honest, and Cheng Jin and the others were protecting her. If she had been in another place, things might have already descended into chaos.
Although she wasn't afraid, she was most afraid of trouble, and even now, she was already starting to worry about the trouble that might arise.
When she got home, she packed away everything that was visible, leaving only some necessities. She also put the frozen meat, dumplings, and dry food that were outside into a large vat, so that she could store them in her spatial storage if anything happened. She couldn't let those people benefit from them.
It wasn't that she was reluctant to part with the meat; in this situation, everyone was starving, and if they suddenly saw meat, they would probably lose all reason.
After thinking about it, he decided to put some coarse grains in the cellar, so that if Cheng Chao came over, it would be plausible on the surface.
The atmosphere in the village was tense. Even the meeting that Cheng Jin and his group were holding wasn't much better. All the village officials and heads of various units were looking ashamed and didn't object or say anything.
Providing assistance is a given. Putting aside the requirements from higher authorities, these are all impoverished people, and they are not heartless. They will not hesitate to lend a helping hand if possible.
However, based on the information just now, there were already quite a few people who arrived at the commune from the main road alone. There were also those who took side paths that they didn't know about, and who knows which village they might have already entered by now. Just thinking about it made them feel heartbroken, headache-inducing, and liver-ache-inducing.
"Secretary Lin, can you give us a plan? What are we supposed to do?"
"If someone really comes to the village, I can feed one or two people, one or two meals a day. But if there are many people, like the whole village or a family, what am I supposed to feed them?"
"Yes, Secretary, it's not that we don't want to help. You know what our situation is this year. After that heavy rain, none of the crops in the fields were harvested. If it weren't for Lao Liu and his team setting up that cooperative, some people in our village would be starving to death by now."
This is not an exaggeration. After a heavy rain, crops soaked in water and in hot weather can spoil in three days. This happened a few years ago when people were starving and ate the spoiled grain, which led to the disaster.
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