Chapter 170 Grapes
"You don't feel tired." Liu Yinyin felt a little sorry for the man.
I left home early this morning and was busy in the mountains all day. When I came back I had to take the prey to the county town to exchange for food.
We have been walking all day.
Gu Cheng said in a relaxed tone: "Don't worry, it's okay."
As long as I can help the villagers get food, it doesn't matter if I'm a little tired.
Their whole family lives in the village. Only when the villagers live in peace can their family live in peace.
Not long after finishing his meal, Gu Cheng went out again.
A bicycle could not carry 500 kilograms of prey, so Gu Cheng and Liu Mingyuan had to pull a cart to the county town.
This time, I don’t know when I can come back.
When Gu Cheng was about to leave, he told his mother and daughter to go to bed first and not wait for him.
As night falls, the sounds of frogs and insects have become much less frequent due to the drought in the past two years.
The night was peaceful and quiet.
I don’t know how long it had been, but Liu Yinyin was woken up from her half-sleep.
Gu Cheng is back.
Liu Yinyin looked at the time and it was already past ten o'clock.
After a busy day, Gu Cheng's face was full of fatigue and his clothes were dirty with sweat and dust.
Liu Yinyin handed him a towel and said, "There's hot water on the stove. Go take a shower first. I'll make you a bowl of noodles."
Gu Cheng's eyes softened and he said, "Okay."
After a whole day of hard work, he was indeed hungry.
The weather was hot, so Gu Cheng didn't use hot water and took a cool shower directly in the yard.
He is in good physical condition and is only a little tired at the moment.
Liu Mingyuan was different. After following him for a whole day, he was so tired that he almost fell to the ground on the way back.
Liu Yinyin picked a handful of vegetables in the yard and quickly cooked him a bowl of vegetable and egg noodles.
At night, the couple slept in each other's arms.
Liu Yinyin rubbed her body against his chest and asked him, "Have you replaced all the prey?"
Gu Cheng nodded: "I exchanged them all for food. I got 2,250 kilograms of dried sweet potatoes."
Five hundred kilograms of meat is the gross weight. One kilogram of meat can only be exchanged for four and a half kilograms of dried sweet potatoes.
As for why they were all replaced with dried sweet potatoes... This was Liu Changquan's request. If they were replaced with fine grains or coarse grains, the quantity would definitely not be so much.
In times of famine, people don’t care so much. Having a few more mouthfuls of rice is better than anything else.
Liu Yinyin was silent for a moment. Two thousand two hundred and fifty kilograms of dried sweet potatoes sounded like a lot.
But... this is the food supply for the entire village. When you calculate it, each person only gets a few kilograms.
But it's better than nothing. The village also raises rabbits, and there are ways to exchange them for food.
There are wild vegetables to pick on the mountain... So, the villagers will suffer a little, but they will not run out of food in the short term.
Moreover, according to Liu Changquan, having tasted the sweetness, he will definitely go hunting in the mountains again in the future.
Gu Cheng didn't care much about this: "It's just a stroll around the outer edge of the mountains. If he wants to go, he can go."
However, if you go a few more times, the prey will definitely become less and less.
Liu Yinyin considered and said, "I...if it works, I would also like to grow some sweet potatoes in the mountains."
It is actually a bit unreliable to grow sweet potatoes in only one place.
If we are discovered, we will be in trouble.
Gu Chengcheng said, "Next time when we have time, I will take you to the mountains to plant crops."
That being said, Gu Cheng only had one day off a week as he had to take the villagers to the mountains to hunt.
He will have time when he has time, but he doesn't know how long he will have to wait.
Liu Yinyin thought that it would be better to go to the mountain and plant it by herself, so there would be no need to find a secluded place.
When digging wild vegetables, it's just like sowing wild vegetable seeds...
Whatever, she doesn't have much time to take care of it anyway.
The rest depends on luck, and you can grow as much as you can.
The more Liu Yinyin thought about it, the more she felt it was feasible. It wasn't expensive for her to smuggle sweet potatoes into the system.
The next day, Liu Yinyin followed Gu Cheng to the county town and brought half a basket of eggs to exchange for food.
The village exchanged for a batch of food. On the way, she saw that the villagers' faces looked happier.
This time there was no need to exchange other supplies, so Liu Yinyin did not go to Aunt Zhou.
He went straight to find Aunt Li with the basket on his back.
Half a basket of eggs weighs a little over 15 pounds.
Eggs are also a hot commodity. At Aunt Li's place, one pound of eggs can be exchanged for one pound of fine grain, or two pounds of coarse grain.
Huang Xiaoyue wanted coarse grains, so Liu Yinyin chose to switch to cornmeal.
Aunt Li weighed out thirty-two kilograms of cornmeal for her.
After exchanging things, Liu Yinyin went straight back to the village carrying the food.
Liu Yinyin sold the other half basket of eggs to the system, and also smuggled thirty kilograms of cornmeal out of the system.
This operation resulted in an additional price difference of about a hundred yuan.
If I wasn't afraid of being suspected, it would actually be more cost-effective to use the system to exchange materials.
Sixty-two kilograms of cornmeal. Liu Yinyin asked Huang Xiaoyue to come and get it after dark.
Thinking about planting sweet potatoes, Liu Yinyin went up the mountain with a basket in the afternoon.
When digging wild vegetables, if there is no one around, Liu Yinyin will dig a hole and bury the sweet potatoes in the ground.
She bought several buckets of water and placed them in the system warehouse. When she needed to water, she would sneak some water out.
Whether sweet potatoes can be grown depends on fate.
Time flies, and two months have passed in a blink of an eye.
The reality is cruel. In the past two months, there has been no sign of rain.
The drought in the land became more and more serious, and the land gradually dried up and cracked, forming deep cracks.
Most of the crops planted during the spring plowing season did not grow, and the few that did sprout had their leaves dried up by the sun.
The fields are so dry that there is obviously no hope for this year's crops.
The situation in other villages is not much better.
This year...is destined to be another uneasy year.
July has arrived and the weather is getting hotter.
The sun scorched the land mercilessly, making people restless and anxious.
At home, Liu Yinyin fanned herself back and forth with a fan in her hand, but she still felt hot.
In this weather, even if you don't do anything, you can't help sweating.
Liu Yinyin looked at the time. It was already past five o'clock, and the sun was still shining brightly outside, as if it was going to scorch the earth.
I fed Gu Yanyan a glass of water. It was so hot that Liu Yinyin didn't let him go to Liu's house to play. It's better for children to be careful.
Many people in the village have suffered from heat stroke, and some have even been hospitalized in serious cases.
Not long after, Gu Cheng came back from get off work. The man was sweating from riding a bicycle.
He brought back a bag of grapes: "My colleagues in the factory helped me buy them."
Due to the dry weather, the supply of fruits by the supply and marketing cooperatives this year has decreased significantly.
This bag of grapes weighs at least two kilograms, and the price is not cheap.
Having not eaten grapes for a long time, Liu Yinyin said with a smile: "I will hang the grapes in the well first and take them out to eat after dinner."
By the time I rode my bike home, the grapes had gotten a little hot from the sun. They would taste better if I hung them in the well for a while.
"Eat!" When Gu Yanyan saw the grapes, he ran over with his short legs and couldn't wait to eat them.