"Dad! Wake up! Why did you abandon us like this?"
"Woo woo woo—Dad, open your eyes and look at us!"
After breakfast, the village chief stood under the eaves and sighed in the direction of the crying.
In Jiangshan Village, people died of starvation and freezing every two or three days. Countless people dared not close their eyes, fearing they would never wake up again.
Jiang Shan pulled his father into the house. It was windy and snowy outside, so they had to come in. They didn't dare to light a fire to keep warm, so the whole family huddled together.
The mountain was covered with heavy snow, and there was not much firewood to be collected, so we had to save some for cooking.
"Dad, how is Dazhu, who was injured the day before yesterday?"
The village chief shook his head and said, "The man died this morning."
He let out a long sigh. Dazhu was the pillar of his family. He survived starvation and freezing to death. However, he was bitten by a wild beast while collecting firewood. When he was rescued, the wild animal had already run away, and there was a big hole in his stomach.
This is the time when even if people stop catching wild animals, wild animals will eat people.
Everyone was shocked. This was the third person in the village who was bitten by wild animals coming down from the mountains.
Jiang Shan clenched his fists, his brow furrowed. They had hoped to go to the foot of the mountain, at least to dig up some firewood, dry it, and at least use it for cooking. But now the wild animals were no longer in the deep mountains, they had all run to the front mountains. They must have been forced down to forage by the heavy snow.
"Village chief, village chief!"
Someone knocked on the gate.
The village chief looked around, wondering whose family had died and who had come to inform him. But there was no point in informing him; he could do nothing but cry. The heavy snow had blocked the roads, and he couldn't even leave the village.
He asked the eldest brother to open the door and didn't want to move.
Jiang Dajin and his wife ran into the main room and shook off the snow on their bodies.
Unexpectedly, it was this couple. The village chief frowned and asked, "It's so cold, what are you two doing here?"
Jiang Dajin was so hungry that he was just a skeleton. His clothes were leaking. His teeth were chattering. "We want to ask where Jiang Yue is."
The village chief's face was cold. "You, as the uncles and aunts, don't know, how would I know where it is?"
"Aren't you on good terms? I even heard from the villagers that you helped that kid..."
When Eugene Hua saw the village chief glaring at her, she swallowed the word "bitch".
Jiang Shan was annoyed, "Why are you looking for Jiang Yue?"
When Jiang Dajin heard this, he became even more certain that they knew Jiang Yue's whereabouts.
"After all, we are the closest relatives in the world. Although there was a misunderstanding before, we still care about her. It's so cold, I don't know how they are doing..."
Eugene lowered her head and said, "I will admit my mistakes when I see them."
The village chief shook his head. "No matter what you think, we really don't know where they went."
The village chief's wife hated the couple, but seeing their sunken cheeks, dark circles under their eyes, and their loose waistbands, they looked pitiful.
"I'm not lying to you. Jiang Yue just said she was moving away. She didn't tell us when she would come back or if she would come back."
His sons all shook their heads and said they didn't know. Judging from their expressions, they must be telling the truth. Jiang Dajin was extremely disappointed and had no choice but to pull his wife back home.
Eugene Hua still had the energy to curse loudly after she left the village head's courtyard.
Jiang Dajin felt desperate. The food at home had long been exhausted, and the only remaining grains were borrowed by his wife after she went back to her parents' home and made a scene.
What should he do?
The heavy snow blocked the mountains and roads, covering everything. The house collapsed, leaving only one and a half rooms. My son was so hungry that he couldn't get up.
If Xiao Jiangyue knew about this, she would definitely feel very happy.
"Da Jiangyue" was cooking with Jiang Nian in the kitchen at this time, making up for the cooked food consumed some time ago. However, this time, Jiang Nian was the one in charge of the cooking.
Jiang Yue began to teach him how to cook some simpler and lighter meals.
People are now in a state of unrest, and we cannot provoke the masses wantonly.
In Shuntian City, the government requisitioned countless greenhouses, and announced that vegetables and meat would soon be available in the city. This was intended to appease the people.
That's right, now all the vegetables and meat in the city are gone. Only the grain shops are suppressed by the government and continue to sell grain at high prices, raising the price by five cents every day. They only sell one stone a day and close the shop after the sales are completed.
Jiang Yue still slept until she woke up naturally and then went to the grain store to queue up. If she got in line, she would buy. If she didn't, she would go home with an empty basket. This way, everyone would think that her family was also short of food.
However, she discovered a major anomaly.
Logically, the heavy snow had blocked the roads, but more and more people were entering and leaving the city, simply walking, completely ignoring the waist-deep snow.
Those who go to find firewood are normal, but those who insist on going out without any firewood are abnormal.
When he came back, he held his chest tightly, as if he was afraid that no one knew he had a treasure.
Jiang Yue also noticed that many people had enlarged stomachs. They looked pale and thin, their hands and feet almost skin and bones. Initially, she thought it was constipation from not eating vegetables for a long time.
But this is also a little weird and indescribable.
Until one day, when she was queuing at the grocery store, she heard people chatting behind her.
"Oh! I have to queue every day, and I don't know how long it will take!"
"Even if I queue up, I can't buy much food, not even enough to feed my children."
"The price of food is going through the roof. I might as well use the money to buy some more satiety pills!"
The man quickly covered her mouth, "Shh! Have you forgotten what the master said? Don't mention this outside!"
"Oh, yes, yes, I was wrong. I won't say anymore."
Jiang Yue remained calm. While talking to Jiang Nian, she turned around and looked at the two people. They were two middle-aged women with sallow complexions and peeling lips, but their waists and abdomens were obviously bulging.
She turned back.
Now I know where that weird place is!
These people had gentle expressions, and even had a faint smile on their faces. They were no longer as anxious to grab food as they were a month ago, and they no longer cursed when they couldn't buy food. They accepted it calmly.
She thought it was because they had no choice but to accept the reality, but now she realized that it was because they had eaten something called satiety pills.
What the hell is this? And where did this master come from? He sounds like a charlatan.
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