inspire-indiana Chapter 166: The Widowed Mother in Famine 8
Chapter 166: The Widowed Mother in Famine 8
A minute later, there was no one alive except a few people in the village.
Thermal weapons are still powerful.
Nan Xi put away the pistol, turned around and left.
The villager who was lying on the ground in the middle of the dojo carefully got up and looked around, but it was completely silent and he could hear nothing.
They were so scared that they ran back home and left the village at night. This was too scary, so they decided to flee from the famine.
Nan Xi quickly returned to the mountain and met Lin Xuan who came to find her on the way.
"Mom, where have you been? I don't know what happened in the village just now. Thunder and lightning went off."
Nan Xi said: "I just went to check it out because I heard some noise. Nothing happened. I'm back now, right?"
"Oh, let's go back now."
Zhao Kangping was on guard duty and was relieved when he saw the two men come back.
The next day, Nan Xi went to the foot of the mountain again. This time, Lin Xuan and Zhao Kangping also went with her. They were shocked to see so many dead bodies.
After the two of them calmed down, Nan Xi took out firewood and burned the corpses in the Taoist temple in the fire to prevent the stench from causing an epidemic.
This time they went down the mountain to get their luggage. The three of them walked to the Zhao family's cellar, and Nan Xi secretly put the things into the cellar.
"Brother Zhao, the luggage is all inside."
Zhao Kangping went down to check and found that his luggage was still there. He secretly rejoiced, tied up everything and carried it up the mountain.
In the following days, the two families were very busy. They got up early and went to bed late every day to work together to cut trees and build houses.
With the sound of saws and axes, logs were neatly stacked aside.
Li Cuiyun and Liu Wan'er were not only responsible for preparing meals, but also for everyone's daily life, washing clothes, collecting firewood, digging wild vegetables, sewing and mending...
Grandpa Zhao and Grandma Zhao take care of the two younger ones.
Seven days later, the six cabins were finally built!
The wooden house is built with wood and bamboo, and the roof is covered with thatch, which can both keep out wind and rain and keep the room ventilated.
Although the entire wooden house is simple, it has everything needed. Although it looks ordinary, it is quite comfortable to live in.
All the furniture that Nan Xi had collected before came in handy now, and the two families worked together to move the furniture into the new house.
Although the process was somewhat tedious and difficult, everyone's face was filled with happy smiles.
Li Cuiyun and Liu Wan'er were busy for most of the day, preparing a large table of dishes to celebrate the housewarming.
The table was filled with various delicacies, including braised pork, steamed fish, stir-fried vegetables, mushroom soup, etc. Although the ingredients were limited, every dish was delicious.
Everyone sat around the table, eating hot meals and chatting.
Li Cuiyun said: "Look at this house. Although it is not as big as a mansion, it is comfortable to live in and feels like home."
Liu Wan'er also nodded: "Yes, from now on our two families will live together and take care of each other, how great!"
Lin Ya was also very happy. She also had her own room. Although she lived with her younger brother Lin Le, she had her own bed.
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The continuous drought has made the earth extremely dry. There is not a cloud in the sky and the sun is mercilessly scorching the earth.
As the food supply became less and less, Nan Xi decided to look for more. Eating only meat was not enough, she had to eat some carbohydrates.
The deep mountains are still green and there are many plants. Nan Xi wants to find starchy foods such as yam and kudzu root.
Yams usually grow in sunny places, so Nan Xi started looking for them on the mountainside. Soon, she found a large patch of vines, which looked like there were dozens of them. Now she had food.
Nan Xi called Lin Xuan and Zhao Kangping and asked them to dig up the yams. She then started looking for other food.
After careful searching, I found chestnuts, kudzu root, and yam...
In her free time, Nan Xi took Li Cuiyun, Lin Ya, Liu Wan'er and the children to pick wild fruits and dig wild vegetables, and stored a lot of food.
Zhao Kangping only thought that Nan Xi's hunting skills were taught by Lin Jin, and he did not doubt it. However, he envied Lin Xuan's great strength.
Zhao Kangping was very grateful to Nan Xi. He knew that without the Lin family, he would not be able to protect so many people in the Zhao family by himself. Without Nan Xi's help, he would not be able to get enough food.
He had nothing and could only do some odd jobs for the Lin family to repay their kindness.
From then on, all the firewood for the Lin family was picked up by Grandma Zhao and Zhao Shitou. Nan Xi declined several times, but they still delivered it.
Grandpa Zhao was a carpenter. Now that he was feeling better, he wanted to help out, so Nan Xi asked him to make furniture in preparation for moving in the future.
Although the village at the foot of the mountain has been abandoned and uninhabited, due to its special geographical location, pedestrians still often pass by in a hurry, and several waves of bandits have also come.
These bandits often travel in groups, wandering around looking for prey, and one of their targets is prey in the mountains and occasional travelers passing by.
There were several times when bandits went up the mountain to hunt wild animals and encountered Nan Xi and others. Although these bandits were numerous, they often lacked organization and training, and their combat effectiveness was uneven.
Nan Xi, Lin Xuan and Zhao Kangping, relying on the practical experience accumulated from living in the mountains and their familiarity with the terrain and environment, were always able to skillfully use the terrain advantages to defeat the bandits one by one.
After a fierce battle, the bandits had only one outcome: their bodies were buried in the mountains.
Gradually, Lin Xuan and Zhao Kangping's practical experience improved. They gradually learned how to stay calm in battle, how to judge the enemy's weaknesses, and how to counterattack quickly.
These experiences made them more calm when facing danger, and their courage grew a lot.
Now facing the robbers, the two men have increased their confidence and are sure they can fight.
Nan Xi's strength gradually improved. One day, she suddenly had an idea and remembered that she used to be a national teacher, and praying for rain was her specialty.
Nan Xi took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and began to communicate with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
As spiritual energy gathered, the wind and clouds suddenly changed, the clouds became thicker and thicker, and the sky began to gradually darken.
After a while, dark clouds gathered, lightning and thunder appeared, and a heavy rain poured down.
The rain moistened the dry land and revived the withered crops. The nearby mountains also came alive in the rain and became greener.
The fields suddenly came alive and were no longer as desolate as before.
The rain only covered the fields of Shanghe Village and the hills behind the village. Nan Xi's spiritual power was not enough, so she could not take care of a larger area.
Most of the fields in the village were abandoned, but some crops still survived.
At the end of October, Nan Xi took people to dig drought-resistant crops such as peanuts and sweet potatoes. The plump peanut pods were hidden under the green leaves, and the red sweet potatoes were turned out from the soil one by one and piled up like a small hill.
It was a good harvest.
Grandpa Zhao was secretly astonished. Although the crops were not much, the base was large, so the two families' shares seemed to be particularly large.