Qian Lanfang squeezed through the crowd, "Girl, are you kidding me? This mud, you can't possibly eat it, can you?"
Nanzhi smiled and said, "Auntie, you can't eat mud, but the stuff inside the mud can fill your stomach."
"What good stuff could possibly come from a black, smelly pond?" Nankai muttered.
Don't think he doesn't know that the bottom is full of old silt, dirty and smelly.
Li Xunfang took a step forward, and Nankai was pushed so hard that he stumbled and almost fell into the mud.
"Girl, please teach us what's in here."
Nankai snorted coldly.
Nobody cares whether he's unhappy or not.
Although he was Nanzhi's father, the villagers didn't indulge him.
His treatment of Nan Yatou was obvious to everyone in Taile Village.
Nanzhi took off her shoes and socks, revealing her clean, white feet, and dug them into the mud.
Nankai: "What kind of behavior is this? How can a woman take off her shoes and socks in public? This is outrageous."
He was speaking when the village women's gazes shot straight at him, like knives scraping his bones.
Although Nankai University was dissatisfied, it kept quiet.
Zhao Hui felt ashamed.
"Father, you should just stand there and not say anything. Wenxuan and I are enough here."
Nan Wenxuan nodded.
Since my mother passed away, things at home have gotten better and better. Now, whatever my wife says goes.
Nan Qun, feeling resentful, turned and left.
Nan Wenxuan: "Dad, don't go too far. It's not safe around here."
Fearing something might happen to her master, Wu Nanshuang also took off her shoes and socks and followed her downstairs.
As soon as I stepped out, the pungent, fishy smell hit me right in the head.
"Master, even if there's something in here, can we eat it after taking it out?"
Nanzhi rolled up her sleeves, reached her hands into the mud and groped around. After a short while, she pulled up a stick as thick as an arm.
Like a child's lotus root arm, segment by segment.
Nanzhi washed it clean with the clear water from the pond. "Look, this is lotus root."
"Wow, it's so thick!" Qian Lanfang exclaimed. "If we dug up more of these, wouldn't it be enough to eat for a long time?"
"One section is bigger than a potato."
Nanzhi smiled and said, "Everyone, hurry up and dig. I'll teach you how to eat it when we get back."
Zheng Xinghai hurriedly called out, "Hurry up, hurry up, dig quickly!"
After teaching the villagers of Nam Gyi, I dug up a few more stalks myself, and then I felt a pain in my back.
Once ashore, I sat down on the side.
Anyway, with Wei Guo, Wei Min, Wu Nanshuang, and the others around, she can do some other things.
Wu Yingqiu followed the villagers of Taile Village up the mountain and hid behind a big tree.
Turning my head, I saw everyone in Taile Village busy at work.
They secretly sneak out of their own village to dig for food, while carrying the backs of several other villages.
Wu Yingqiu certainly wouldn't let such a good opportunity slip by.
One by one, lotus roots were dug out, plump and white, very appealing.
In no time, they had dug up dozens of kilograms.
In half an hour, they had dug up a lot.
Just as everyone was getting into the swing of digging, a large number of people suddenly appeared around them.
"Hey, why is someone from Tai Le Village eating alone?" Chen Hai from Xing Hua Village said.
When Zheng Xinghai looked up, he saw that the riverbank was densely packed with people from the other three villages.
Carrying hoes, they looked like troublemakers.
Zheng Xinghai threw away the lotus root in his hand.
"So it was you guys."
Wu Yingqiu squeezed out, "Look, you didn't believe me when I said they were hoarding food. This pond is so big, there must be a lot of stuff in it."
She pointed to the things in the hands of the villagers of Taile Village, "Look, this is the evidence."
Wu Nanshuang was furious. "So it turns out it was you, the troublemaker, who found this place. Are we supposed to share what our village found with you?"
Wei Min chimed in, "Why don't you distribute the stuff to us?"
"that is."
Before Wu Yingqiu could speak, the village chiefs of the other two villages, Wang Zhi of Wangjia Village and Chen Hai of Xinghua Village, disagreed.
Wang Zhi: "That's not right. These things are growing here, and there's no sign indicating whose property they belong to. Does that mean we can't dig them up?"
Zheng Xinghai looked grim. He had initially sent them along to rescue more people, but unexpectedly, disagreements arose before they even reached their destination.
"We agreed that each village would manage its own affairs. Now that our village has found something good, you all want to steal it. What kind of logic is that!"
Chen Hai: "Old Zheng, I don't like hearing what you're saying. We're family. You find something good, but you don't even tell your brothers. What kind of logic is that?"
Zheng Xinghai didn't want to talk to these barbarians.
The resources they discovered were then brazenly seized by the other party.
Before long, people from other villages had already gone down to the river.
The villagers of Taile Village dared not speak out against their anger.
Some even went so far as to grab the lotus roots that the children had just dug up.
The arguing woke up Nanzhi, who was sleeping in the tree.
"Village chief, what's wrong?" Nanzhi asked.
As soon as she came out, Wang Zhi and Chen Hai shut their mouths.
As officials personally appointed by the emperor, few of them dared to act recklessly.
Zheng Xinghai's face was dark, but the moment he saw Nanzhi, his expression brightened instantly.
"Nan girl, go and rest. Leave this to me."
Nan Zhi reached out to interrupt Zheng Xinghai, "Village chief, they're right. This place is unclaimed, let them dig."
Anyway, there are so many lotus roots that their village can't dig them all up, and everyone has already dug them up to a similar extent.
"Master, why should we give up the place we found to them?" In Wu Nanshuang's view, this group of people were just there to rob us.
Nanzhi casually pulled an apple out of her pocket and took a bite.
If these people were to collectively rebel, their small village would have no chance against them.
It would be better to retreat wisely and figure out a solution later.
“Two village chiefs, we can give you the land, but these things are what we dug up, so you can’t take them.”
The southern branch's expression carries a warning.
Wang Zhi and Chen Hai exchanged a glance.
"You're too kind, Professor Nanjing. We'll have them return your things right away."
Finally, the villagers of Taile Village carried their belongings and left.
Qian Lanfang is someone who can't keep a secret.
"These shameless people, what kind of logic is it to snatch things by hand? I curse you all to have sons without an anus! May your ancestors for eight generations jump out at night and beat you up, you brainless bastards."
When Nanzhi returned with her team, the villagers looked angry.
Wu Nanshuang: "That damned Wu Yingqiu! It's all her fault!"
“Alright,” Nanzhi comforted, “Let’s pack our things and go fetch water.”
"Is there really water?"
Zheng Xinghai exclaimed excitedly, "As expected, Nan girl is a lucky person. We all benefit from your good fortune."
You should know that everyone's water reserves have long been used up these past few days.
Nanzhi's suggestion saved everyone's lives.
Grandma Nan said cheerfully, "Village Chief, our Nan Zhi has always been a well-behaved child since she was little..."
......
Nam Gyi certainly doesn't lack water, but just to make it look like they were bringing two buckets.
Filling the container with water is much faster than digging up lotus roots, and before long, the villagers of Taile returned home laden with their harvest.
What they didn't expect was that as soon as they returned, the village chief notified them to set off immediately.
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