Chapter 96 Heavy rain?

There are also pumpkins. A lot of pumpkin seeds were planted in the yard this year, but the pumpkin harvest this year is not as good as last year.

In total, we only got a dozen small pumpkins.

Like the watermelons, Liu Yinyin picked them all and piled them in the sundries room.

Liu Yinyin was a little worried. The weather was too dull and it looked like it was going to rain.

well!

This terrible weather is really hard to understand. It doesn’t rain when it should, and the autumn harvest is almost here.

If it rains at this time, what difference will it make to taking the lives of the villagers?

After picking the melons in the yard, Liu Yinyin cut a small cantaloupe and gave a piece to Gu Yanyan.

The little guy now has six teeth and can eat most foods.

Gu Yanyan sat in the stroller, holding half a cantaloupe in his two chubby hands and chewing it happily. From time to time, he looked up at Liu Yinyin and called out unconsciously, "ma...ma..."

The pronunciation was not very clear, but Liu Yinyin's heart softened as she listened to it. She pinched his little face and said, "Yanyan, call me mom, mom..."

Gu Yanyan laughed loudly, waved the melon in his hand, and danced with joy, shouting “Ahhhh…”

Liu Yinyin played with him for a while, looked up at the sky, and was about to push the cart to the kitchen to cook.

Gu Chengcheng came back from get off work.

When Gu Yanyan saw his father coming back, his big black eyes suddenly brightened up and he dropped the melon in his hand.

With an excited look on his face, he opened his little hands towards Gu Cheng and babbled.

Liu Yinyin patted his little butt and said unhappily, "You little heartless one."

She accompanies the little guy every day, but Gu Yanyan seems to be closer to his father.

Every time he sees Gu Cheng coming back, the little guy is so happy.

Gu Cheng parked his bicycle and took out a large bag tied to the back of the bicycle and gave it to Liu Yinyin.

Then he bent down and picked up Gu Yanyan: "My dear son!"

Gu Yanyan rubbed his head against Gu Cheng's arms, looking extremely affectionate.

"What is it?" Liu Yinyin was holding the bag. The bag was quite big, but not heavy. She curiously opened the bag and took a look. "Where did you get it from?"

What Gu Cheng gave her was a bag of dried wild mushrooms.

There has been no rain this year, so there haven't been many wild mushrooms growing in the mountains.

"I exchanged it with someone else." said Gu Cheng.

Liu Yinyin asked him, "Have you changed your food again?"

During this month, Gu Cheng exchanged food with others twice, but the amount was not much. He only exchanged about 300 to 400 kilograms of food in two times.

Including the previous time, the houses in the compound had stored almost a thousand kilograms of food, which was a lot.

This year, in most parts of the province, and even in many parts of the country, crops are generally not growing well, and the harvest this year will definitely be greatly reduced.

In some places, due to drought, the crops in the fields were directly sunburned to death, and no grain was harvested.

At this time of year, food is hard to buy.

Gu Cheng shook his head: "It's getting harder and harder to exchange food. This time I only got some dry goods."

Liu Yinyin uttered an "oh", but she was not disappointed. "It's good enough to be able to exchange for dry goods. The food at home is more than enough. It doesn't matter if I can't exchange for anything."

Gu Cheng nodded. The stored food was indeed enough to last until next autumn harvest.

While Gu Cheng was taking care of the children, Liu Yinyin went to the kitchen to cook.

Stir-fried lotus root, steamed sea bass, and the staple food is cornmeal steamed buns.

The fish and lotus roots were given to her by Li Chunfang. The fish pond at her mother's home was almost dry.

Before the autumn harvest, we quickly collected the fish and lotus roots in the pond and distributed them to the villagers for their health.

Otherwise, after being vegetarian for so long, the villagers would not have the energy to harvest in autumn.

However, there were not many fish in the pond, and there were few lotus roots either.

This morning, Li Chunfang brought her a sea bass and two lotus roots.

Liu Yinyin originally wanted to exchange it with eggs, but because there were not many things, Li Chunfang did not take her eggs, saying that they were given to her to eat.

Liu Yinyin accepted it and thought about giving her something else next time.

I steamed a bowl of egg custard for Gu Yanyan.

During the meal, Gu Yanyan sat on Gu Cheng's lap and ate chicken and egg custard by himself. The little guy's appetite was getting bigger and bigger now.

A bowl of egg custard was not enough to fill her up, so Liu Yinyin picked up a few pieces of fish belly meat with chopsticks and made sure there were no fish bones.

Put it in Gu Yanyan’s bowl.

The sea bass that Li Chunfang gave her was quite good, without many bones, so Gu Yanyan could eat some.

The village will have the autumn harvest tomorrow, but it has little to do with Liu Yinyin. There is no elder at home to help take care of the children, so Liu Yinyin can only take care of them at home by herself.

Besides, she was too embarrassed to go.

Liu Yinyin did not go to work in the fields this year. Given her situation, she would not be able to get any food rations during the autumn harvest, not even per capita rations.

But if Liu Yinyin goes to work now, the village should give her a share of the rations.

In Liu Yinyin's current state, it would be embarrassing for her to share the village's food.

So, she simply gave up and stopped going to work, and did not plan to spend money to buy work points.

It’s not that there is not enough food at home, but the harvest this year is not good, so she doesn’t share her food with the villagers.

At night, the temperature suddenly dropped and a strong wind blew outside. The howling wind made the windows creak.

It also confused the villagers' hearts. Tonight, many villagers could not sleep.

The autumn harvest will be tomorrow. If it rains now, the few crops left in the fields will be destroyed!

If there is no harvest this year, how will we survive the next year?

Oh my God, there is really no way for us to survive.

The villagers were all praying, praying that it wouldn't rain.

Liu Yinyin was worried and couldn't fall asleep at night. Not long after, a sharp sound of gongs and drums was heard from the village.

It was a quiet night, and Liu Yinyin was able to hear a few words despite the commotion.

It seems like...the village chief called on the villagers to hurry up, because the village needs to harvest food overnight!

In this kind of weather, we can't wait any longer.

I really can't wait any longer. Since there are signs of rain, if I wait one more minute, I will lose one minute of time to save the crops in the fields.

Gu Cheng got up without saying a word, put on his clothes, and went to the village to help collect food.

Liu Yinyin followed him and got up. She also wanted to go, but she couldn't care less at this moment. Collecting food was more important than anything else.

It’s okay to let Gu Yanyan lie in bed alone for a while.

"You stay at home, I'll go." Gu Cheng didn't stop buttoning his clothes while talking to Liu Yinyin, "Be good, don't go. Yanyan will definitely cry if she is alone at home."

I don’t know when I will be able to come back, so I can’t leave Gu Yanyan alone at home for too long.

Otherwise they won't be at ease outside.

Liu Yinyin was just impulsive, but now that she has calmed down, she realizes that she was not thoughtful enough.