When everyone saw Li Lanzhen munching on sweet potatoes, and then looked at the vines on the ground, they thought, "Oh well, Mom (Grandma) said it's okay to eat them, so it's okay to eat them."
"Mother, what is this? Doesn't it have a name?" Han Minghai asked her.
Since we don't grow sweet potatoes here, let's just call it sweet potato and potato.
"This one in the red leather jacket is called Sweet Potato, and this one that looks like a dirt doll is called Potato. What do you think?"
Li Lanzhen was a big fan, and Han Yinan immediately clapped and cheered.
"Grandma, you gave them such great names! One is called Sweet Potato, and the other is called Potato. They must taste just as good as their names suggest." As she spoke, she stuck out her tongue and rolled it around her mouth, then smacked her lips as if she were enjoying a sweet potato or potato.
Seeing her grandson's greedy look, Li Lanzhen said, "Yinan, go back and tell your second aunt to wash the sweet potatoes and potatoes clean and steam them all together. That's what we'll eat today."
Upon hearing that there was food, Han Yinan yelled and was the first to burrow into the ground, digging with both hands.
As long as it was edible, everyone started digging up sweet potatoes and potatoes.
They didn't even spare the seedlings; they cut them down and bundled them together.
If there's really no food, we can survive by eating sweet potato vines.
People who are terrified of hunger will bring home anything edible.
“Mingxiang, leave half for the village chief and the others. You carry these sweet potatoes and potatoes back to the cave. Go tell the village chief Yi Niangsheng to send people to dig them up.”
"Okay, Mother, be careful here."
Han Yinan and Gou Dan's baskets were full, and Li Lanzhen asked them to take some out because they were carrying too much, but none of them agreed.
"Grandma, how can you take things out of the basket that's already in it? I can carry it."
Upon hearing that some sweet potatoes and potatoes were to be taken out of the basket, Han Yinan immediately ran away and loudly refused.
Dog Egg came over, grabbed him, and ran off in a flash.
Li Lanzhen waited there alone, and when she saw saplings, weeds, and wildflowers, she collected them all and put them into her spatial storage.
These sweet potatoes and potatoes should last for a while.
Fortunately, there was a small stream here, though the flow was small, it was enough for their group.
The exposed riverbed of the stream is quite wide, and unless it is a severe drought, the stream has a large volume of water.
So when they saw the stream, they were all excited and bent down to drink to their hearts' content.
The men all disappeared that night, jumping into a stream and having a good bath.
The mules, donkeys, and oxen all moved to the riverbank and drank to their hearts' content!
"Lanzhen, I'm here. Thank you so much. You found food and were even willing to share it with us. Han Family Village thanks you."
Li Lanzhen saw the village chief arrive with more than a dozen men, each carrying a basket on their back and holding tools such as shovels in their hands.
They stood beside the sweet potato and potato field, not moving, but looking at Li Lanzhen with eager eyes.
Li Lanzhen looked at them, wondering what this meant. They came but didn't work, just stood there like wooden stakes without saying a word.
"Village chief, what are they doing? Hurry up and dig up sweet potatoes and potatoes. Carry them back as soon as you've dug them up. I don't know if there are any large animals here, let's finish this quickly."
Unexpectedly, as soon as Li Lanzhen finished speaking, the people standing on the side immediately began digging sweet potatoes and potatoes.
“Lanzhen, we’ve all been waiting for you to speak. As soon as you told them to dig sweet potatoes and potatoes, they started. Thank you. In principle, whoever gets the food first keeps it, and no one has any objections if it’s not shared. You’re very generous.”
Actually, after Han Mingjiang returned, he told the village chief Li Lanzhen that he had found something to eat in the mountains and asked them to go up the mountain to dig for it.
The people of Hanjiacun jumped up excitedly. The village chief asked each family to send one person up the mountain, and he didn't forget to tell the villagers to remember Li Lanzhen's kindness.
When Li Lanzhen saw everyone digging sweet potatoes and potatoes, she told the village chief that she wanted to go and take a look.
With many people working together, they dug up all the seedlings in no time. Just like them, they didn't leave any seedlings behind, tied them up, and carried them back.
Li Lanzhen wandered around the mountains but didn't see a single pheasant or rabbit. Frustrated, she went into the shop to see if any merchants had meat among their exchangeable items.
Since arriving here, I've been eating the soup made from the dried chicken that Xue Laohu gave me.
She really wanted to eat meat.
After checking the various items displayed in the mall, Li Lanzhen smiled. Sure enough, one merchant had meat, chickens, ducks, geese, and rabbits among the exchangeable items. The merchant could also request grain or grain seeds.
Li Lanzhen smiled and said, "Great! I have all of those. Today we can put some sweet potatoes and potatoes up for the vendors to plant; they can be used as seeds or eaten."
She traded ten catties of broken rice, fifteen catties of potatoes, and ten catties of sweet potatoes for pheasants, rabbits, and ducks, as well as about twenty catties of meat, which was clearly pork, and mostly fatty. Perfect, since everyone was eating meat today, rendering oil at home wouldn't attract too much attention.
Without hesitation, I redeemed the items with one click. The grains I had listed disappeared, and my inventory suddenly contained pheasants, rabbits, wild ducks, geese, and pork.
Li Lanzhen didn't want to wander around in the mountains anymore, so she wanted to go home.
I quickly descended the mountain carrying a basket on my back. When I arrived at the cave, I saw adults laughing and children playing.
It's probably because they were digging up sweet potatoes and potatoes.
But as they got closer, they saw wild animals on the ground: pheasants, rabbits, and bamboo rats. There were many of them, and the villagers all watched with longing eyes, because it was the game that Xue Laohu and his son had hunted, and they had the right to decide who owned the animals.
Xue Laohu kept only three pheasants and three rabbits. The village chief was to decide how to distribute the rest.
Li Lanzhen also brought out two pheasants and two rabbits.
Everyone stared at Li Lanzhen in surprise. She laughed and said that she was just lucky, like a blind cat stumbling upon a dead mouse.
Everyone looked at the village chief, feeling grateful to Xue Laohu and Li Lanzhen for their generosity.
As they were discussing how to distribute the spoils, they heard the children cheering.
When they arrived in front of a group of people, the children proudly recounted how they caught loaches in the stream.
The boys, seeing a stream and discovering fish in it, cut bamboo in the mountains and used bamboo baskets to lower into the stream last night. Sure enough, when they went to check today, they found half a basket of loaches.
I caught a loach, and the thought of having loach soup tonight makes me very happy.
Li Lanzhen also came over to take a look. There were more than a dozen loaches huddled together inside. They looked dark, but upon closer inspection, the loaches were quite large.
At this moment, Han Yuemei, who had found mushrooms outside the mountain, returned with more than a dozen girls.
Similarly, they chatter and boast about the mushrooms they've picked.
Li Lanzhen thought to herself that today's lunch would be very plentiful.
Indeed, the people of Hanjiacun were overjoyed. They hadn't seen meat for several years, and now that they were fleeing famine, they could finally eat meat again. How could they not be happy?
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