Chen Xuanxuan felt particularly speechless when she heard her third sister-in-law start to brag that her son was friends with the sons of officials in the county.

She had to admit that her family's conditions were not bad. In Chenjia Village and Gujiagang area, life was acceptable.

However, compared with the sons of officials, her family's background was far worse.

In the eyes of those people, their whole family might just be born in the mud.

Sometimes Chen Xuanxuan really felt that her sister-in-law was not broad-minded enough. There is no need to talk too much

if there is no point in talking. Feeling that she had nothing to say to these sisters-in-law, Chen Xuanxuan shut up and became even more silent.

The two of them had a meal at Chen's house and slept for another night. Chen Xuanxuan originally planned to stay here for a few more days. However, things never go as planned. Just this night, another incident happened in Gu Yanzhang's family.

Although an old man likes to gossip and often finds fault with her, he is a very hardworking and simple person by nature.

Early this morning, as usual, after having breakfast, he hurried to the swampy land upstream of Xiaoyue River.

There are 100 acres of fertile land that his family has worked hard to open up.

Relying on these 100 acres of fertile land, the Gu family can have a bumper harvest every year. They have also accumulated more than a thousand kilograms of grain.

Although Gu Yu'an had already lent out all the piles of grain, he believed that he would have to collect the lent grain back sooner or later.

Thinking that next year would be the last year for his family to rent the government farmland, Gu Yu'an, walking on the mountain road, was secretly thinking about how to use the precious land resources...

He had to plant more soybeans.

The beans at home were not enough.

Well, he had to plant more sorghum...

That stuff was drought-resistant and could survive in saline-alkaline land.

Gu Yu'an had a nice idea. However, when he walked to the edge of his own field, he saw that his field had actually begun to crack.

The little water that was originally in it had been dried up.

These plants cannot live without water.

If they have no water, they will dry up and be damaged. Until they cannot mature, the grain production will be greatly reduced.

Gu Yu'an ran over in shock and carefully checked his own field.

He found that the water in his field was drained artificially. He slapped his thigh and cursed loudly, "Who is so unlucky that you dare to do such a wicked thing that harms others and does not benefit yourself?! You don't release the water in your own field. Why do you come to drain ours? You stinky bastards, don't let me catch you!"

Gu Yu'an cursed while holding a bucket and running to the river to fetch water.

However, after going to the river, Gu Yu'an saw the familiar group of people, who were also fetching water there...

"Hey, what happened to you?"

The person who was asked this question by Gu Yu'an sighed and said, "Hey, don't mention it. I don't know which wicked guy stayed up late at night and drained all the water in our fields."

Now, their fields are planted with grain. It is almost the harvest season. But during this period, the fields still need water.

If that wicked guy did that,... and they didn't come to check regularly, they would not have a good harvest of grain in those few days.

Grain is the lifeblood of the grassroots farmers.

It concerns their survival and their food.

After being tricked so hard, the people of the Gu family gathered together. They all hated the person who played a dirty trick in secret.

Some people even said, "Don't let me catch him. If I catch him, I will kill him with my own hands..."

On the second day that Gu Yanzhang and Chen Xuanxuan continued to stay in Chenjia Village, the situation in the land upstream of Xiaoyue River suddenly became serious.

Although the people of the Gu family who contracted this land have sent a large number of people to patrol here at night.

However, more than a hundred strong men still did not catch the thief who stole water and dug a pit last night. As a result, the land they had worked so hard to open up became more and more dry and cracked.

"What is going on?"

Hearing the question from the clan leader Gu Yuxi, some people frowned and remained silent. As

they were old and experienced, they had seen more than the average young people. At this moment, they had already vaguely felt that the problem with this piece of land did not seem to be man-made.

Thinking of the natural disasters and man-made calamities they had experienced in their lives, they were very worried.

What should they do?

Only some people with a sense of worry would tell the women in the family as soon as they returned home. They told them to grind some grain into flour and make more bread.

Only by making more noodles can they run faster when they encounter an emergency.

They don’t have to worry about being starved to death on the way.

Some elderly people left their hometowns and escaped when they were young.

They saw with their own eyes that those who brought rice with them had to eat it raw because they had no firewood to burn and no pots to cook.

Eating too much raw rice will make people’s stomachs particularly uncomfortable. All elderly people, as long as they eat a few more mouthfuls of raw rice noodles, will feel pain all over their bodies within ten days or half a month.

In the area of ​​Gujiagang and Chenjiacun, a kind of food called "fried rice noodles" is actually popular.

This traditional fried rice noodle is very simple to make.

Just put the rice or ground sorghum flour or wheat flour directly into a large iron pot and stir-fry.

No oil is needed, just some salt.

If you have the conditions, you can also add some dried red dates.

Stir-fry the rice or noodles repeatedly, and after they are cooked, you can directly rinse them with hot or cold water and eat them.

For Chen Xuanxuan, this way of eating is still relatively fresh. She thinks it is delicious and fragrant.

Today, seeing old lady Liu, she started to make a big bowl of "fried white noodles" for her again. Chen Xuanxuan was very happy.

"Mom, this thing is still very delicious. I am getting more and more addicted to it..."

Old lady Liu listened and nodded with a smile, "If you like it, you can eat more."

"You don't need to be polite here."

Gu Yanzhang, who was eating hard, saw that Chen Xuanxuan was eating very happily, and he said seriously, "Wife, after we go back, I will cook for you every day. I guarantee that you will stop eating until you are tired of it."