Chapter 161 I’m Starving

It was already late, without even time for breakfast, so Gu Cheng went to change into clean clothes and go to work.

Liu Yinyin packed a box of cornmeal steamed buns for him in a lunch box and asked him to take it to the factory to eat.

Not long after Gu Cheng left, Jiang Cuihua came over.

She came to tell Liu Yinyin that the piglet had been caught.

Liu Yinyin gave her the money, and the price of piglets did not increase much this year.

Jiang Cuihua grumbled, "We can hardly sell the piglets anymore. If we raise the price any further, no one will buy them."

The villagers were poor to begin with and could not afford to raise a few piglets.

The weather is dry again this year, and the villagers are worried about the poor harvest, so they dare not raise pigs.

People are having a hard time finding food. Don’t let the pigs starve to death. That would be a waste of time.

This is not a scare tactic.

well!

Jiang Cuihua sighed: "You don't know because you haven't been to work, but two rivers in the village have dried up again. If God doesn't rain again, the crops in the fields will probably dry up."

The water in the river can no longer support the villagers' daily fetching of water for irrigation.

The ground is already dry. If you don't water it, how can crops grow?

I'm afraid all my work will be in vain this year.

Liu Yinyin nodded and continued, "The water level in the well at home has also dropped."

Liu Yinyin's family is actually fine, as they have only one well for their own use. However, many people in the village use the public well, where the water level has dropped even more dramatically.

There are five public wells in the village, and there are long queues of people fetching water every day.

I heard that Liu Changquan has restricted everyone's water usage.

Because some people are worried that the well water will dry up, they secretly store water at home.

Now that things are like this, how can the villagers have the courage to raise pigs?

Jiang Cuihua felt a little regretful. If her daughter hadn't needed help, she would have been too lazy to raise pigs.

Raising pigs is not an easy task. Cooking pig food and cleaning the pigpen both require water, right?

But now that things have come to this, we can only take it one step at a time.

If that doesn't work, just hand the piglet back.

Liu Yinyin was also sighing when she heard this. No wonder Liu Changquan suddenly came to their house last night and asked Gu Cheng to take them to the mountains to hunt.

I'm afraid...there isn't much food left in the village. If there's no harvest this year, it won't last until next autumn.

Liu Yinyin paused and said to Jiang Cuihua, "Mom, I plan to take some salted meat to the county town to exchange for food. Do you want to exchange it?"

The Liu family also pickled fifty kilograms of salted meat.

Liu Yinyin mainly wanted to help the Liu family exchange food. She herself was not in a hurry. From what Gu Cheng said, there were other ways to exchange food.

He had an idea, so Liu Yinyin was too lazy to bother.

Jiang Cuihua said without thinking: "Exchange! Exchange as much as you can."

At this point, pork is not as important as food.

Not eating meat will make you full, but not eating grain will starve you to death.

Liu Yinyin nodded, there was no need to rush to change the salted meat.

She has a system. At worst, she can just sell the salted meat to the system and then smuggle food out of the system. This is much easier.

Because the river dried up, not many people in the village went to work today. Everyone was busy going up the mountain to dig wild vegetables.

Jiang Cuihua didn't go to work either. She hadn't been working in the fields much recently.

I have to stay at home to take care of my grandson.

Speaking of her grandson, Jiang Cuihua could no longer stay. She slapped her thigh and stood up to leave: "I have to go back and take your nephew to the village chief's house to borrow milk."

No matter how hard Mrs. Liu tried, she just couldn't produce any milk. Jiang Cuihua had given up completely.

Liu Yinyin said hurriedly: "I'll go with you. I have something to do at the village chief's house."

She had to go to the village chief's house to report what happened yesterday.

After thinking about it, Liu Yinyin brought over a piece of salted meat.

Li Chunfang had given her many gifts in the past.

Liu Yinyin's little nephew, whose full name is Liu Zhiwen, is nicknamed Huzi.

As the name suggests, the little tiger looks chubby and very cute.

Although Mrs. Liu had no milk, Jiang Cuihua was not afraid of the hard work and ran to the village chief's house several times a day for fear that her grandson would be hungry.

Thinking about this, Jiang Cuihua couldn't help but feel a little worried: "To be honest, I'm now... a little afraid that your third sister-in-law will get pregnant."

It is normal for a newly married couple to have children.

But the conditions do not allow it. It is really not suitable to have children during famine years.

Being an adult is not easy, and the children you give birth to will suffer with you.

If she were to encounter a situation like that with Liu Ersao again, Jiang Cuihua would not want to live anymore.

Liu Yinyin didn't think so: "Maybe they don't want to have a child so early."

If the couple had a good relationship, they might not have had children so early so as not to disturb their world of two.

Jiang Cuihua: "It would be nice if it were true."

Anyway, she would not urge them and just followed the wishes of the two young people.

When the two arrived at the village chief's house, Li Chunfang was washing diapers in the yard.

Her youngest daughter-in-law gave birth to a daughter of a concubine, but Li Chunfang already had several grandchildren, so she did not favor boys over girls.

On the contrary, she quite liked her granddaughter.

Jiang Cuihua carried her grandson into the house to ask for milk.

Liu Yinyin did not follow in. She was talking to Li Chunfang outside.

"Auntie, this piece of meat is for you to eat." Liu Yinyin gave the meat in the basket to Li Chunfang.

She deliberately picked a big one, which weighed at least two kilograms.

Li Chunfang couldn't refuse such a big piece of meat. She asked, "Did the village chief go to your house to look for food yesterday?"

Liu Changquan was not at home at the moment. He was busy working in the fields, and he couldn't stay at home.

Liu Yinyin nodded: "I came here to tell you about this matter. Gu Cheng said yesterday that if the villagers want to go up the mountain to hunt, he is happy to help."

Upon hearing this, Li Chunfang said with gratitude: "If the village hadn't had the help of you two, I don't know what would have happened to it."

She understood that the people in Liujia Village were also having a difficult time during this period, but compared to other villages, their situation was much better.

In Li Chunfang's hometown village, it was said that someone was so hungry that he ate Guanyin soil, and ended up eating his stomach and dying.

Li Chunfang felt a chill in her heart when she thought about people starving to death.

Her parents' family was not having a good time either. Two days ago, Li Chunfang asked her eldest son to send 50 kilograms of potatoes over there.

There's no other way. Her parents are old, and we can't let them go hungry.

Now, there is not much food left at home. Thinking of this, Li Chunfang can't sleep well at night.

"Yinyin..." Thinking about this, Li Chunfang couldn't help but ask, "Can you buy cheaper food?"

Li Chunfang knew that there was a black market in the county, but the food on the black market was too expensive. She bought a batch of food, but she couldn't buy much food with several hundred yuan. It was really a waste of money.

Country people work in the fields all year round and can't save much money.

But Li Chunfang's family is large and the demand for food is great, so...she urgently wants to buy some more food.