Many people are envious, mainly because the news has spread throughout the village that the mother and her children are incredibly lucky.
You can find things by simply going beachcombing; sometimes it's a large yellow croaker, sometimes a sea cucumber, and sometimes a crab.
Sometimes it's other kinds of fish, you can find all sorts of things, once I even found half a basket of prawns.
It's prawn season, but prawns this big aren't always available. They managed to collect more than 20 in one go, which they can exchange for over 200 points at the purchasing agency.
The main thing is that each pair of prawns is about half an arm's length.
Even when fishing at sea, you might not catch one this size.
But they ended up picking it up.
People can only envy them, and everyone envies the mother and her children for their good fortune, so they secretly follow them from time to time.
Wherever they go, others go, but no matter how others follow.
He clearly dug something out with the first shovel, but when others next to him tried to take advantage, they couldn't dig anything out at all.
At first, people thought it might be luck, but later they realized that this kind of luck was not something that ordinary people had.
This woman and her children can dig up things anywhere with just a shovel, but it's useless for others to even try to steal them.
We should have been able to dig up seventy or eighty large yellow croakers, but as soon as someone went up to grab them, they immediately became just one.
No one knew what to say. It was a bit strange, but it was also clear that the other person wasn't acting strangely at all.
The shovel strikes are random; you can't say that continuing like this is a problem, can you?
It can only be said that their luck was just not good enough.
After several attempts to intercept the bids proved futile, everyone gave up.
A month has passed in the blink of an eye, and this month has been filled with typhoons and torrential rains.
The situation on the island is not optimistic; supplies are running low.
Although every household has stored food, vegetables, fruits, and seasonings all need to be supplied by boat, but the island has basically been cut off from supplies for the past month.
At this moment, every household is worried. Looking at the windy and rainy weather outside, everyone knows that besides being able to eat food, they will also run out of food.
Even during this time of year when people go beachcombing, I don't dare go anymore. The wind is too strong, and even if I get to the beach, I won't find anything.
Everyone was worried because some families didn't even have any food left.
More importantly, there is not much fresh water on the island, and it is practically impossible for that small well to supply the entire island with drinking water.
Fresh water is usually brought in by boat, but now that the transport ships aren't coming, it's basically like everyone's water supply has been cut off.
Each household stored only a pitifully small bucket of water.
The problem is that the strong winds and heavy rain outside are still continuing, and who knows how much longer we have to endure it?
Everyone looked up at the sky and sighed.
He Cuihua was anxious. She looked out from outside the courtyard. The rain was heavy, making the doors and windows whistle.
Thank goodness this house is built of stone.
If it were a thatched hut, it would be doomed.
The couple built this house by quarrying stones on the mountain.
Half of it was made of loess, and the other half was made of stone.
So his house looks unremarkable, but it's actually much sturdier than other people's houses.
But even if it's sturdy, it's no use. He Cuihua is anxious because there's only a small half-bucket of fresh water left in the house.
If you put it in a bowl, it's half a bowl for each person.
She has tried to reduce the amount of water each person can drink to only three times a day, and each time they can only drink two small sips.
The problem is that even this can't hold out. If there's no water tomorrow, the water supply will be cut off.
Running out of food might last for two days, but if water is cut off, people really can't hold on.
Just when she was extremely anxious, someone braved the wind and rain to knock on the door and tell her that someone from her family had to go to a meeting in the village.
At this point, everyone must think of a way. Although the wind and rain are heavy, people still have to save themselves.
He Cuihua had no choice but to go out wearing a raincoat, and told her children to close the doors and windows tightly.
Braving the wind, we arrived at the team leader's house. As soon as we entered, everyone was already there. The house was packed, with only one person from each family present.
Moreover, it was mostly men who came; women like He Cuihua were not common.
When Uncle Liu saw He Cuihua, he sneered. He didn't expect his sister-in-law to be able to hold on. But he wondered if she could hold on after the New Year.
Anyway, the supplies won't be delivered this month.
Nobody has any; each household is truly at the mercy of fate now.
The production team leader coughed.
"I called everyone here today because you can see that it has been raining for almost a month. If this continues, every household will run out of water."
The spring on the mountain is no longer in use; the water it produces is far from enough for drinking.
Because the springs have now started fighting.
There have been deaths almost every day for the past two days.
At this point, everyone is getting restless. I've gathered you all here to discuss this.
We are planning to form three suicide squads.
We dispatched three ships, one at a time, to try and get help from the other side.
As long as we can get vegetables and water up here, the people on the island won't starve. In this situation, we have no choice but to save ourselves.
The crowd fell silent upon hearing this, as no one wanted to go out to sea in such weather.
They were all seasoned veterans; the old fishermen naturally knew that going out meant facing a near-certain death.
Obviously, no one wants their family members to risk their lives to do these things, because they might very well die at sea once they get out.
But if they say they won't go, how can they face eating the vegetables and water that others bring them?
This has become a difficult problem to solve.
The production team leader sighed.
“I know what everyone is thinking. Everyone is worried that someone in their family will die and no one wants to take the lead. How about we draw lots?”
I've got everything set up. Everyone come up and grab the character. Whoever grabs the correct character will have to send one male member from their family onto the boat, regardless of age. I don't care who you send, but one person has to come.
If any family doesn't produce this person, don't blame me and the entire production team for being ruthless towards you. We'll just kick you out of the village.
He Cuihua was anxious; the production team leader's words seemed to be a wake-up call for her.
Once you're driven out by the people in the production team, you're basically doomed.
But their only male heir is Da Bao, who is not even five years old yet. What if he gets caught?
But he also knew that the decisions made by the production team left them no room for questioning.
Everyone agreed to the idea of drawing lots, and the matter was settled. Soon, the box for drawing lots was brought out.
It was filled with neatly folded little slips of paper; whoever went up would grab one.
If the note contains characters, write the name directly on the blackboard.
If it's a letter, then there's no need to leave the name on the blackboard. That's how the names of the three suicide squad members were determined.
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