Chapter 716 Escape 21
A few days later, the large team fleeing from the village came back.
Geng Dalin, who was weaving baskets in the yard, heard the noise and thought it was an outsider entering the village to steal things. He quietly climbed up the wooden ladder, poked his head out of the yard wall, and looked outside.
Seeing that the villagers were back, he shouted excitedly, "Mother, mother, the village chief and the others are back, the villagers are back."
"Master, the villagers are really back. ”
Sun Chunfeng threw down the half-weaved vegetable basket, eagerly opened the courtyard door and ran out.
Soon, she came back again, shouting, "Mom, mom, the villagers are back, they are all back."
"I know, it's just the villagers who are back. What are you calling me?" Yuan Chun came out of the house, and Lao Zhu's family, who lived to the west of Geng's house, happened to pass by the door.
Yuan Chun shouted loudly, "Big flower girl, didn't you go to escape the famine, why are you back?"
The Zhu family then discovered that the gate of the Gengjiadu courtyard was open.
Mrs. Zhu said, "Sister Geng, the commune is going to distribute relief grains, so we are going back to the village. You... are you back early?"
"We have been back for almost half a month, and my legs and feet are weak. Well, we can’t walk a long way, so my second brother and his wife The five children are all filial, so they come back with me, an old man."
Yuan Chun paused, and then asked with a blank look on his face, "Big flower girl, what did you say about the commune hair just now? What happened to the relief food? ”
Zhu The old woman told her excitedly, "Sister Geng, it's a pity that you came back too early and missed the good things. We found the water source halfway through the escape. The lake was full of clear and bright water. Those few young men in our village who are good swimmers saw I just jumped into the water, hey, I didn’t mind washing and drinking at that time.”
“Later, we went to the next county town, and the officials there told us that the state had distributed relief grains. Let’s go back to the village to get it.”
"No, we are all back." "Sister Geng, you have lived in the village for these days and you haven't heard any news?" Mrs. Zhu asked.
Yuan Chun shook his head, "Our family hasn't gone anywhere, we haven't gone out. Even if there is news, we can't hear it."
"We need to distribute relief food. Yeah, that's great. In order to conserve energy these days, , I didn’t move much, hey, I’m hungry...”
Yuan Chun rubbed his overstuffed belly and said, “Big flower girl, you must have had a lot of things happen after you have been away from home for so long. If you are busy, I won’t waste your time.”
Sun Chunfeng also hurriedly stepped forward and closed the courtyard door with a bang, blocking the Zhu family's eyes from looking at them.
In fact, after eating meat and rice every day, everyone in the family, old and young, has glowing faces and gained a lot of weight. They don’t look like hungry people at all.
Old Mrs. Zhu opened her mouth and wanted to tell Sister Geng that her eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law were struck to death by lightning. Seeing that the door to Geng's courtyard was closed, she swallowed the words that came to her mouth.
"Forget it, let others tell the Geng family about such an unlucky thing." Mrs. Zhu muttered and took the Zhu family back to the yard next door.
When Yuanchun returned home, he told Sun Chunfeng, "Let's cook some rice porridge for dinner. Don't stir-fry. Just mix it with garlic and black fungus and add it to the porridge."
Stir-fried vegetables have a smell. If someone smells that the Geng family cooked vegetables during the famine, the Geng family will definitely become the target of public criticism.
If you don’t worry about scarcity, you will worry about inequality.
The Geng family could still eat well during the famine, which is simply hateful.
It is better to do less than to do more.