This shout broke through the barrier of the rain, and the villagers of Banpo Village, as well as people from Hongya Village and Qiaojia Village, braved the rain to come to Laojun Temple.
"Where is he? How did Laozi appear?" Village Chief Jiang was the first to arrive, and he asked Jiang Qinyu excitedly.
More and more people gathered behind him. When Jiang Qinyu saw that Village Chief Qiao from Qiao Family Village and Village Chief Hong from Hongya Village had arrived, she pretended to be excited and pointed behind the statue, saying, "Behind the statue of Laozi, there is a lot of rice and flour, as well as oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar..."
Before she could finish speaking, several village chiefs had already rushed behind the statue.
Immediately afterwards, three excited and choked voices came from behind.
"Our ancestors have eyes! Lao Tzu has shown his power!"
"Did the gods really appear?"
"So much rice, and it's all polished rice and wheat flour! We finally have something to eat!"
These words drove the people behind to push forward like madmen, and soon more people were kneeling and weeping in worship.
"Thank you, Laozi, for sending the grain!"
"Thank you, Laozi, for protecting us!"
"Waaaaah... My little calf can finally drink rice porridge..."
Before the chaos began, Jiang Qinyu cleverly hid to the side. Now, seeing everyone so excited and happy, she felt very uncomfortable.
The mother and daughter-in-law standing by the door stared in disbelief at the scene.
"Mother, she...she really got it?"
"It seems to be true, but... could it really be that people weren't sincere enough in the past?"
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were both in a state of existential crisis and nearly became withdrawn, so they didn't dare to go up and confirm.
But the men in their family went to see for themselves, and when they came out, they excitedly told the two of them, "It's true! There really is a lot of rice and flour. The rice is pure white, without a single impurity in it. It's better than any rice I've ever seen before!"
Nowadays, even the rice that ordinary people eat is mixed with a lot of husks and bran. However, due to the shortage of resources, many families do not separate these out. They just rinse the rice and pick out the stones and small soil particles before cooking.
Liu, the clerk, squeezed out from behind the statue, his eyes shining as he ran to Jiang Qinyu, so excited he was almost incoherent, "Madam, you really succeeded!"
Yesterday, my wife said that her previous prayers were ineffective because her heart wasn't sincere enough. Now that she's succeeded, does that mean her sincerity moved the gods? How truly sincere must she have been?
Jiang Qinyu smiled and said, "The fact that Lao Jun sent us so many things shows that everyone here is a good person, and he couldn't bear to see us die in this natural disaster."
Liu, the clerk, was obviously excited, and the others were no less so, except for Meng Tianze.
Meng Tianze looked at the things behind the statue of Laozi with suspicion. He had seen this kind of rice and flour before; it was the grain that his younger brother and sister-in-law had mentioned buying in the prefectural city.
Because the quantity was small, not many families in Dingshui Village received those items; only a few families who had contributed the most and had the best reputations received them.
He squeezed through the crowd, came to Jiang Qinyu, and looked at her, hesitant to speak.
"Brother Meng, what's wrong?" Jiang Qinyu asked upon seeing this.
Meng Tianze hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said, "It's nothing. It's a good thing that my sister-in-law was able to receive a blessing from the gods."
Yes, his sister-in-law is no ordinary person, so what reason does he have to doubt her? Besides, she did a good deed, so there's no need for him to voice his doubts; wouldn't that just cause trouble?
Just then, Village Chief Qiao suddenly shouted, "What are you doing?"
"These things were bestowed by Laozi, so of course we should move them to our village's ancestral hall and distribute them to everyone!"
Hong, the village chief of Hongya Village, immediately said, "No! These were obtained for us by Madam; they should be distributed among Hongya Village and Qiao Family Village!"
“Yes! This was obtained by the lady. Your village already has grain, how can you come and try to take it from us?” the villagers from both villages shouted.
Village Chief Jiang was displeased upon hearing this. "Village Chief Qiao, Village Chief Hong, you're not being fair! You've been eating our village's food these past few days. Laozi is a deity worshipped in our Banpo Village, so if he's bestowing food upon us, it's naturally a gift to us!"
“But it was the lady who begged for this grain! She’s not from your village!” someone immediately retorted.
The two sides started arguing fiercely, especially the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who were jumping around the most.
"It should have been ours to begin with! The temple is ours, the gods are ours, so why isn't the grain ours?"
"Exactly! You're dreaming! You see something good and claim it as your own, without even knowing whose territory this is!"
"Get out, you outsiders! All of you, get out..."
Seeing that the situation was about to get out of control, Jiang Qinyu suddenly shouted, "Enough!"
She really didn't expect that they would argue when there was no food, and now that there is food, they will still argue.
“Madam, this is what you begged for, you be the judge!” Upon hearing her voice, Village Chief Qiao immediately stepped forward and said.
Village Chief Hong also came over, "Yes, Madam, we all came here because we listened to you. Now we have no home, no belongings. Are we not even going to give us a bite to eat, which was given to us by the gods?"
Jiang Qinyu said coldly, "I begged for these things, but not for any one or two villages, but for all of you!"
She looked around and finally looked at Village Chief Qiao and Village Chief Hong, saying, "You two villages came here to take refuge. The villagers of Banpo Village never let you go hungry before. Now that you have begged for food, shouldn't they also get a share?"
For her, as long as these people didn't go hungry, her goal was achieved. However, she overlooked the fact that rice and flour in the system were considered luxuries for people in this era, so it was understandable that they would be scrambled for them.
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