No one told Silang about Xiao Zhou's matter.
After all, Silang was only two or three years old. He wouldn't understand profound truths and would only think that everyone had abandoned his mother.
It's better to lie to them first.
But what child doesn't miss their mother?
Now that things seemed to have settled down, Si Lang immediately thought of Xiao Zhou Shi.
Aunt Chi forced a smile and said, "Sir, your mother has taken your brother back to visit your maternal grandparents. They won't be back for a while."
"Well, they've been gone for a long time."
Silang was somewhat disappointed.
Speaking of their hometown, Aunt Li and Aunt Chi sighed, "I wonder how things are back home now."
"Who knows?"
——
Many villagers in Dahe Village had already believed the Chi family's words and wanted to move away.
Even if they hesitated, the government later forced them to move, and many people moved away.
But a few families still secretly ran back.
After all, who would willingly leave their homeland?
Therefore, when the earthquake struck, Jinyang City still suffered considerable casualties.
More than a dozen people died in Dahe Village alone.
Including Chi Yongyuan's son, daughter-in-law, and grandson!
They're all dead!
Only Chi Yongyuan and the old lady were left!
Later, another flood occurred, and government officials came to rescue them.
Under these circumstances, they couldn't take anything else, except for some money; they couldn't take any food or anything else.
After the natural disaster, other places were fine, but those places that were flooded were still uninhabitable.
Therefore, under the arrangement of the government, the villagers of Dahe Village were eventually relocated to other places that were not flooded.
The government did not provide any compensation for farmland, houses, or shops.
After all, there's no way to compensate for it all.
It's good to be able to go back to where you started; what belongs to someone should still belong to that person.
In cases like Dahe Village, all we can do is watch helplessly.
However, in order to appease the people, the government decided to lease land to them free of charge according to the number of people in each household.
Each person gets five fen of land and can farm it for free for five years.
No taxes need to be paid during the five-year period, and the land will be returned to the government after five years.
As for housing, it was simply a straw house.
Those like the village chief of Dahe Village who escaped early are in a better position, as they brought their own belongings with them. Although they lost their land, at least they no longer need to spend money on necessities.
But for people like Chi Yongyuan and his wife, they have to buy everything.
The seven taels of silver in the house were quickly spent.
"That damned Chi Yongcai, he's lost his conscience! If it weren't for their curses, would God have caused both earthquakes and floods? If it weren't for these natural disasters, how could my son and grandson have died?"
Now, Chi Yongyuan's wife does the same thing every day: eat, sleep, and scold Chi Yongcai!
In her opinion, it's all Chi Yong-jae's fault!
Everything was fine until the Chi Yongcai family started yelling about natural disasters! That's when the natural disasters actually happened.
"May they be struck by lightning! What a bastard! I'll wait and see, I'll wait and see their retribution!" Chi Yongyuan was filled with hatred.
...
The Chi and Li families searched the mountain and brought back not only a lot of firewood, but also a lot of game.
When they came down the mountain, the villagers of Meihua Village were in an uproar!
The characters of Li Mingfan, Chi Sanhe, and others are simply too unique!
Li Mingfan was seen holding three incredibly fat pheasants in one hand! He also had four more tied around his neck with straw rope!
The pheasant flapped its wings, trying to fly away, leaving Li Mingrong covered in pheasant feathers! He looked quite disheveled.
Chi Sanhe, on the other hand, tied up countless rabbits with straw ropes, then wrapped the ropes around his body several times!
From a distance, Chi Sanhe looked as if it had been overrun by rabbits!
Rabbits were hanging all over his body!
Little Wu lifted up his shirt, revealing a bunch of mushrooms and wild vegetables inside.
The one from Leshan was carrying two ginseng roots! But he hid them in his clothes, so no one saw them.
The villagers of Meihe Village were stunned.
Who are you? Which village are you from?
How did you manage to hunt so many prey?
Li Mingfan replied with a smile, "We just moved here today. Our family was affected by a natural disaster and we had to flee here."
"I don't know what happened to these pheasants and rabbits, but after we went up the mountain, they kept bumping into me! My legs went numb from all the bumps! They all passed out too."
Everyone: ...
"Yes, these rabbits are the same. They went crazy and ran madly up the tree in front of me, only to run into it and kill themselves! If I don't pick them up, I'm afraid I'll be letting down God and the rabbits, and I'll be punished."
Everyone: ...
(Rabbit: You're too kind, grandpa.)
It's sour!
It's so sour it's sickening!
"No, I want to go up the mountain to take a look too."
The villagers of Meihe Village are quite kind-hearted; they didn't say anything sarcastic or try to rob anyone. Instead, they all went home to get their weapons and prepared to go up the mountain.
Li Mingfan and the others happily went back.
When they returned, Chi Dashan also happened to come back.
Everyone was overjoyed to see so many pheasants and rabbits.
Everyone was stunned, especially when Leshan quietly took out those two long-looking ginseng roots.
"My God, how much is this worth?"
"Haha, God is really good to us."
Chi Sanhe exclaimed, "I think our family's luck has been absolutely fantastic ever since we had my little sister!"
"That's right, my daughter is so lucky." Old Man Chi laughed heartily.
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