Chapter 103 Supplies

If there were any...she would really like to buy some vegetables to eat.

There’s no way. The supply and marketing cooperative hasn’t had any fresh vegetables to sell for several days.

Aunt Zhou had this thought in her mind, but she didn't say it out loud.

It's not a good idea to bring this up when we've just met. Let her see how the situation is before we talk about it.

Liu Yinyin saw Aunt Liu off and looked up at the rain.

When Gu Cheng left in the morning, he told her that if it didn't rain too heavily at noon, he would come back for lunch.

The rain now is not as heavy as it was in the morning, and I don’t know if he will come back?

Liu Yinyin went into the kitchen, cut some vegetables, cooked a small piece of salted wild boar, stewed a pot of salted meat and vegetable rice, and boiled some mushroom and tofu soup.

The food I made for Gu Yanyan was millet, vegetable and tofu porridge.

At about 12:10, Gu Cheng came back.

Living in the county town, I can ride my bike home in just a few minutes after get off work.

Gu Cheng was soaked all over, and his clothes and pants were covered with mud and sand.

Liu Yinyin took a dry towel from the bedroom and gave it to him: "Did you help drain the water this morning?"

Gu Cheng took the towel and wiped his face: "I took people to move the sandbags."

There is a river outside Xin'an County. Now the river water is overflowing. We have to move sandbags to block it quickly, otherwise the river water will rush into the city.

Liu Yinyin asked worriedly, "Is everything going to be alright?"

She was worried that the water level in the county would rise and she wouldn't know where to hide.

Gu Cheng took off his dirty clothes and said calmly, "The county should be fine for now."

But it is only temporary. Some places are already experiencing flooding. We have no choice but to move to a safe place.

Liu Yinyin said helplessly: "If the rain continues like this, all the crops in the fields will be destroyed."

In fact, there are still some sweet potatoes, potatoes, peanuts and other crops in the fields that have not been harvested yet.

But if it keeps raining, the sweet potatoes in the fields will surely be soaked and rotten, and the villagers will really have no way to survive.

The canteen was just established last year. Some places wasted food and let the villagers eat their fill. Now, these places can no longer afford to eat.

If there is no harvest from the fields this year, we will have to wait until we go hungry.

The situation in Liujia Village was relatively better. Liu Changquan had always been quite stingy and had never made it easy for the villagers to eat.

Therefore, Liujia Village should still have a lot of food stored.

However, I don’t know how long it can last.

Gu Cheng: "I will go back to the village in two days."

You can't just live in the county and sit back and do nothing. You have to take care of your parents, your mother-in-law, and visit your home.

Liu Yinyin hummed and urged him: "Go take a shower and change into clean clothes, and then we'll have dinner later."

It has rained heavily recently, so Liu Yinyin has been washing clothes more diligently than before. Fortunately, summer clothes are thin and easy to wash, otherwise her hands would have been worn out by rubbing them.

While eating, Gu Cheng saw tofu soup on the table and asked her, "Did you go buy tofu?"

Liu Yinyin shook her head and told him about what happened when Aunt Zhou from next door came to her house that morning: "She insisted on giving me two pieces of tofu, and I gave her a large cabbage in return."

The salted meat and vegetable rice is very fragrant, and drinking a sip of tofu soup is so refreshing!

Gu Cheng buried his head in his meal, and after a while he said, "Tomorrow there will be several supply trucks coming to the county town, I will go buy some vegetables then."

There are so many people in the county, we can't cut off the supply.

Liu Yinyin's eyes lit up when she heard this. She was excited in her heart, but she pretended to be calm and said, "You are so busy, you don't have to go buy it. There is nothing missing at home. I will tell Aunt Zhou later and ask her to bring some meat back."

Even if there are supplies in the city, how many people are there in the county? They will definitely have to line up to grab things.

Gu Cheng still has to go to work, so he doesn't have time to queue.

Moreover, some people might not know this news yet. She did not hear Aunt Zhou mention this in the morning.

This way, when Liu Yinyin goes back and tells Aunt Zhou the news, she will definitely be happy.

It's just a matter of bringing her something, Aunt Zhou shouldn't refuse.

Most importantly, she wanted to smuggle some things out of the system, and if she let Gu Cheng go to buy groceries, she would have no chance.

After thinking for a while, Liu Yinyin said, "You will be going back to the village in two days, and you can bring back some vegetables then."

As for meat, I can bring a rabbit back later.

Gu Cheng glanced at Liu Yinyin, thought for two seconds, and said, "That's fine. The factory has been really busy these past two days."

For some reason, Liu Yinyin always felt that there was something deep in Gu Cheng's eyes when he looked at her. Her heart tightened, and she couldn't help but reflect: Did she reveal something?

However, Liu Yinyin thought about it over and over again but still couldn't figure it out. She had actually been quite careless for such a long time.

Many things are done by relying on Gu Cheng to ignore everything and do what one wants.

However, in reality, if Gu Cheng paid a little more attention, he would find that...what she did could not stand up to scrutiny at all.

Also, the excuses she often made didn't hold water.

Thinking of this, Liu Yinyin felt a little guilty. She glanced at Gu Cheng and was relieved to see that there was nothing unusual in his expression.

No matter what, she believed that Gu Cheng would not do anything to hurt her.

After dinner, Gu Cheng cleaned up the dishes.

In the afternoon, Gu Cheng went to work. While Gu Yanyan was still taking a nap, Liu Yinyin went next door.

"Auntie, are you home?" The door of Aunt Zhou's house was not closed. Liu Yinyin poked her head out and called out at the door.

"Yes!" Aunt Zhou was washing clothes in the yard. When she heard the noise, she wiped her hands on the apron around her waist.

He stood up and waved, "Yinyin, come in and sit down."

"No need, Auntie." Liu Yinyin didn't go into the house, but stood under the eaves and talked to her, "My son is still sleeping, and I have to go back soon. I came here just to talk to you about something."

"What do you want to say?" Aunt Zhou asked curiously.

Liu Yinyin told her that the supply and marketing cooperative would have a batch of supplies to deliver tomorrow.

Sure enough, Aunt Zhou's eyes lit up all of a sudden.

She asked excitedly, "Really?"

Because of hail and heavy rain, the supply and marketing cooperatives had no meat or vegetables for several days.

"It should be true." Liu Yinyin was not 100% sure, so she said, "Auntie, you can also ask people."

Aunt Zhou groaned and said in a mysterious voice, "How can you tell others about this? Of course, the fewer people who know about it, the better. It's okay. I'll go and check it out tomorrow."

If more people knew about it, they wouldn't be able to grab the good stuff.

She has nothing to do at home anyway, so she can go and queue early tomorrow.

Liu Yinyin followed suit and said, "Auntie, can you bring me some meat?"

It's not convenient for her to take the children to buy groceries on rainy days.

"Okay, if the supply and marketing cooperative has meat tomorrow, I will definitely buy it for you." Aunt Zhou immediately nodded in response.

Liu Yinyin gave her the money and the meat coupons first.