After expressing their gratitude, the village chief surveyed the villagers with a stern expression. "Regardless of who instigated you to neglect catching locusts, now that Wan Yatou has brought back the rice, it has truly been distributed to everyone."
If you don't want to go hungry eating tree bark in the second half of the year, hurry up and call your family to go to the fields to catch locusts!
The villagers were so flustered by the village chief's words that they nodded in agreement and rushed home to grab their tools to catch the locusts.
The village chief is right. If we don't catch the locusts soon, we'll be eating tree bark and going hungry in the second half of the year.
I should have known better than to listen to others' instigation. Seeing how much rice Aunt Wang and Aunt Li's families received, I felt incredibly envious.
We should hurry up and catch the locusts so we can exchange them for a few more kilograms of rice.
As for the one or two pounds of rice, one family member can take it.
In the blink of an eye, the villagers who had been surrounding Old Jiang's house dispersed, leaving only one person from each household to line up with a cloth bag to receive rice.
Aunt Wang, Aunt Li, the village chief, Zhang Guilan, and several others quickly took the rice they had received home and put it away so they could rush to the fields to catch locusts.
Jiang Wanwan was worried about Qi Zhao's injuries, so she handed over the task of weighing the rice to Jiang He, Jiang Xun, and Jiang Liu.
In the courtyard, Grandma Jiang and the other adults had already started making mosquito coils. Seeing Jiang Wanwan enter the courtyard, Grandma Jiang's eyes darted around, and she felt more and more that she needed to keep an eye on her eldest granddaughter to prevent her from being taken away by those glib-tongued wild boars.
She's just a young girl, she's too young to understand things, so as her grandmother, I have to keep an eye on her.
Hmm, the more Grandma Jiang thought about it, the more she realized it made sense. She quickly put down her work and hurried over to Jiang Wanwan. She grabbed Jiang Wanwan's arm with a serious expression and said, "Wanwan, did you bring a wild man—oh, no, a young man—home?"
Jiang Wanwan didn't hide it, since her family would find out sooner or later anyway.
It's good to tell your family about this so that the whole family can take precautions and be more vigilant.
"Grandma, we can talk about everything after dinner. Could you please get me a basin of hot water and a towel?"
"Okay, Grandma will go right away." Seeing her granddaughter's serious expression, Grandma Jiang guessed that this matter was not simple.
She had only taken two steps when she turned back. "Oh, right, Wan-ya, that wild boy is over at the woodshed. I had Da-jiang carry him there."
My precious granddaughter's bedroom is not a place where just any random man can enter.
Jiang Wanwan nodded. That was fine too, as she was worried about getting her bedding dirty.
She took a step and walked towards the woodshed.
At this moment, Jiang Jiang was busy in the woodshed. He cleared out a large space in the woodshed, stacked several bricks at both ends, placed a few planks on top of the bricks, laid out a mat, and put in a pillow. A simple bed was set up.
It seems the family all knew there was a person in the sack.
"Brother, please help me put the people inside onto the wooden plank bed."
"Okay." Jiang Jiang quickly untied the sack and easily lifted Qi Zhao onto the bed.
"The water's here." Grandma Jiang came in carrying a basin of hot water.
She placed the hot water on the floor and quickly scanned the person on the bed.
Yes, he's quite tall.
Um, he's too thin, like a bamboo pole. How can someone like that protect his granddaughter?
Grandma Jiang shook her head repeatedly; she did not agree to this marriage!
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