Aunt Liu Si's man also came back at this time. As soon as he entered the yard, he found that the atmosphere was strange.

"Li Zheng?" He lowered his burden in surprise, "Why are you here? Is there anything wrong?"

Aunt Liu Si quickly asked her eldest daughter-in-law to bring out a bowl of water and check if the supper in the pot was still hot.

"Why did you come back so late today? You've been back a long time ago. Today we didn't wait for you, so we ate first. I left some for you to put it on the stove."

"It's okay. When I sent it to the last family, my relatives came to their family, and it was delayed."

"It won't take so long for a relative to come, right?" After a few words, how could it be so tired?

Aunt Liu Si's man was not willing to talk about other people's private affairs, but just said vaguely: "This is someone's private affairs."

"Did you borrow food?" I was interjecting.

"How do you know?" Aunt Liu Si's man was surprised, "Li Zheng, have you also gone to Xiasan Village today?"

Lijia Village in Xiasan Village is very far away. If someone else is unwilling to give it away, if the family was not willing to pay more, he would not be happy to run that far.

If there is no one who goes along the way, I can only send one to one for a day, and it may be dark if I accidentally do it.

"Li Zheng, do you have relatives there?"

Although there are intermarriages in the ten miles and eight villages, he seems to have never heard of anyone in the Lizheng family marrying Xiasan Village?

"Didn't you say that it was delayed because of someone else's private affairs? What could force you to wait by the side? I can't think of anything else except causing trouble." There was something hidden in it. He had already had a hidden concern about the weather. How could it be impossible for people to pay attention to the movements of other villages when the people in the village carried the burden?

It’s just that this matter is done secretly, and few people know about it.

Nothing is without warning, but when it first happened, no one paid attention to it. From quantitative change to qualitative change, it takes a process.

Only when the trouble is too big will most people notice it.

Aunt Liu Si did not ask the man to continue asking outside, but asked the eldest daughter-in-law to bring the hot meal into the house, so she let her man enter the house together.

When the man didn't come back, she was not good enough to stay in the room alone, and was a lonely man and a widow, and it was easy to pass messages.

But now it’s different. Her man is back, and there are not only two people in the house. Even if you know, you will only think that Li is here to talk to her man about things.

He told his son that his daughter-in-law would have nothing to do and that she would have to work tomorrow, so she followed her into the house.

In the room, her man was already holding a bowl to eat.

She also specially brought a bowl of cooked chestnuts on the table. Although it was just for dinner, she couldn't let him watch his own man eat? With chestnuts, it was more comfortable to peel them or not.

After running for a day, Aunt Liu Si's man was already hungry and ate big sips. Soon he went down a cake and drank half a bowl of soup.

"Li Zheng, what the hell is going on?" He felt food in his stomach, and he spoke again.

"You have been out for so many days. Is this the first time you have encountered such a thing?" Li Zheng sighed.

He felt that this matter would not be hidden.

"It's the second time," Liu Si's man recalled, "I met another village before. The family was not very big, but some daughters wanted to go back to their parents' home to borrow food, but their parents' home refused to borrow, so they had a fight."

"It's not just that you have encountered this situation, but others have also encountered it when they go out, and it's basically happened in recent days, all of which are caused by borrowing grain. Whether it's a daughter who is married outside or a relative from a distance, they suddenly come to the door and say that the harvest is not good at home, the elderly and children at home cannot fill their stomachs, and find excuses for relatives to fill their stomachs."

"I borrowed grain as soon as the autumn harvest is harvested. I am either lazy or scoundrel," Aunt Liu Si's man looked disdainful, "Who is willing to have such a relative? Forget it once or twice, if there are too many times, who is willing to borrow grain? None of the food in any family is blown by the strong wind."

"Li Zheng, this matter is not true, right?" Aunt Liu Si was thinking about another thing and became vaguely worried.

If this is true, it would be a disaster!

"What's the matter?" Aunt Liu Si's man had no idea what they were talking about.

"The autumn harvest has not rained a drop of rain this year. It has been so hot. Just now, someone started to borrow grain. What do you think?" Aunt Liu Si glared at him.

"How do I know?"

"In previous years, there was no natural disaster that could not be caused by us. This year should be similar." The inside was not hiding anymore and said worriedly, "At that time, I will organize young people in the village to patrol to prevent the trouble of the slut. The year is not good, and everyone has a difficult life, so you have to be careful."

"What are you talking about? Why did you talk about natural disasters?" As soon as she tasted the taste of making money, Aunt Liu Si's man couldn't come back to her senses.

"It's just hot and rainy here. I don't know what's going on elsewhere. I discussed with the patriarch and sent someone out to inquire and will be back in the next few days." Li Zheng said, "Aunt Liu Si, don't go out to talk nonsense. You'll be more nervous. Let's wait for the people you inquired in a few days to come back. We can't make a lot of trouble here. We must be careful of man-made disasters."

Aunt Liu Si nodded: "I know this, I'm sure, don't worry, I will never talk nonsense. I've heard the elderly in the village inquiring. In previous years, when there was drought, our village also had water, and it wouldn't be a problem for only local people to eat. I'm afraid that disasters in other places will be serious, and people from all directions will come. We are so big, there are so many foods, and there are not enough people to share. Others are jealous of us, and we have food, so it's impossible not to cause trouble."

Aunt Liu Si's man finally understood: "Drought? Li Zheng, do you mean that there is a drought now?"

He experienced it when he was a child, but it was a bit long. I only remember that there were people everywhere at that time. Some family didn't keep the food, and they were stolen by others, and even caused a life.

At that time, he was taken to the mountains by his grandparents, hid it before he hid it.

It's strange to say that the mountain behind them doesn't even have a name, but no matter whether it is a disaster or not, it will always be so green and depressing.

Even in the year of disaster, many people broke in to survive, and it always looked like that, as if it had no end, and no one had figured out its appearance.

"At that time, will we have to hide in the mountains?"

When he thought of the disaster year, what he was conditioned was to want to survive and enter the mountains.

"No, there are all beasts in the mountains. If you go in, then you will have the chance to go in?" Aunt Liu immediately shook her head and said in awe. "The ancestors have left words for generations. They can only walk around the periphery of the mountain. They cannot enter the mountains at will. Once they go in, they will not be able to get out."

"It depends on what happened. If it is a disaster year, in order to survive, there will be a glimmer of chance of danger in the mountains. But if there are fewer disaster victims at the bottom of the mountain, it would be fine. If there are too many people in our village, they will not be able to withstand it." Aunt Liu Si's man said, "Lizheng, I think entering the mountains is a way. I remember when I was a child, I seemed to have escaped in the mountains."
Chapter completed!