When Zhou Yang came back, everyone in the village had already gotten up and everyone gathered at the entrance of the village.

There are adults and children!

But both adults and children were all dressed in ragged clothes and unkempt, and looked like a group of refugees from a distance.

At this time, these people were standing there holding various strange-shaped containers, probably waiting for the soldiers to deliver water!

After the water convoy arrived at the village entrance, the soldiers did not immediately divide the water, but saw Sriguleng blowing the whistle in his hand first.

"Beep beep"

The piercing whistle suddenly broke the tranquility of the village, and those villagers who were not waiting here rushed over with buckets or basins.

This is the first time that Zhou Yang has a relatively comprehensive understanding of the people in the village. These people are mainly middle-aged and elderly, with more men and fewer women.

But there are also children, but they are generally younger, probably born after coming here.

Regardless of whether they are adults or children, they all have disheveled faces and stagger when walking. Malnutrition seems to be etched on their faces!

While the soldiers were distributing water to the villagers, Zhou Yang returned to his parents' shack.

As soon as I entered the door, my mother Ye Lifang asked nervously: "Where have you been running so early in the morning? It's really worrying!"

Zhou Yang smiled and said: "I didn't sleep well at night, so I got up early!"

"Why are you not at ease?" Ye Lifang asked hurriedly.

"There are too many snakes, insects, rats, and ants. I had a battle of wits and courage with these things last night!"

Before she finished speaking, Li Youwei said with a smile: "You are as pretentious as your girl. Aren't you just a few mosquitoes and mice? What's more!"

Zhou Yang was about to speak, but suddenly he saw Bao'er's eyes in Li Youwei's arms were red, as if he had cried.

"What's wrong with Bao'er?"

"It's okay, I just got bitten by a mosquito and it's a little itchy!"

As soon as Li Youwei finished speaking, she heard Bao'er say aggrievedly: "Dad, the mosquitoes here are too bad and bite Bao'er, let's go home!"

Zhou Yang frowned and said, "Does it itch badly?"

He knew that some people were particularly sensitive to mosquitoes and would feel very itchy and uncomfortable after being bitten.

"It's okay. Mom rubbed some leaves of ash green on her. That thing will detoxify her!" Li Youwei said.

Zhou Yang said softly "Hmm", and then suddenly asked: "Mom, where is my dad?"

"I'm sending food to the main kitchen!" Ye Lifang sighed and said with a look of distress on her face.

Food is definitely the most important thing for everyone in this era. Even Ye Lifang, a generous and cheerful person, feels a little uncomfortable when she thinks that her son and daughter-in-law have to share their food with others.

"Mom, Dad also said that it would be inappropriate not to take out the food, so don't feel bad!" Zhou Yang comforted him immediately.

"Mom understands the truth, but in my heart"

The mother did not say the following words, but Zhou Yang understood what she meant.

Just as he was talking, his father Zhou Yawen opened the door and walked in, holding a half-sized enamel basin in his hand. He didn't know what was in it.

After seeing Zhou Yang, he immediately said: "Hurry up and eat!"

Only then did Zhou Yang see that the basin was half filled with porridge!

However, the appearance of this porridge is really sad.

Looking from top to bottom, there is a shadow above and a shadow in the basin. Apart from a few pitiful grains of rice, there is really nothing else visible.

Even this thing is not as good as the mixed vegetable soup last night to stave off hunger!

Zhou Yang was about to speak when he saw his father take out a few cooked potatoes from his pocket, and then said to Zhou Yang: "Your Uncle Feng gave these to you!"

My mother said with some discomfort, "Humph! I only exchanged a few pounds of potatoes for a few kilograms of grain, and I am still making you happy!"

"Before I went to deliver food, Old Feng didn't know that Xiao Yang had brought us so much food. He also dug these potatoes out of everyone's rations. This favor is ours!" Zhou Yawen said in a deep voice.

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After hearing this, Ye Lifang stopped talking, but her face still didn't look good!

Li Youwei immediately smoothed things over and said, "Mom, don't be angry, let's eat quickly!"

"Um!"

Afterwards, Ye Lifang took the bowl of porridge from Zhou Yawen's hand and shared it with everyone.

Knowing that her son, daughter-in-law, and precious granddaughter would definitely not eat this, and fearing that they would not be able to adapt to it, Ye Lifang immediately took out a few pieces of the chicken cake that Zhou Yang and the others had brought yesterday, and distributed them to everyone.

Zhou Yang was not polite, took it and started eating it!

After all, this porridge, which is no different from water, is really not very hungry, and he still has very important things to do today, so it is impossible not to eat full!

After a simple breakfast, Zhou Yang immediately asked: "Dad, what are you doing later?"

After a moment of silence, Zhou Yawen sighed and said, "Go to the slope in the distance and take a look. If you can pick up as many leaves as possible, do your best!"

In normal times, they would be very busy.

When farming, of course you have to till. After planting, you have to hoe the fields and carry big manure buckets to fertilize. Not to mention in autumn, it is really busy during the harvest time.

Therefore, there is almost no free time throughout the year except in winter.

But this year, everyone has taken some time off early.

It’s not that everyone is lazy, it’s just that they really don’t know what to do in the fields.

When you talk about weeding, the weeds in the ground are either dead or pulled back and eaten by people as vegetables. There aren't many at all.

Fertilize, there is no fertilizer!

If people don’t have enough to eat, they will have less poop!

Besides, the crops in the fields are almost dying of drought, so why waste all the effort?

So during this period, what the more than two hundred people in the village did every day was actually digging wild vegetables and raking tree leaves to prepare for the next great famine!

"How about you walk around with me in the morning?"

"Return to what?"

Zhou Yang immediately said: "In the morning, I followed the soldiers to the water source on the other side of the mountain. I saw a spring there. Normally, there should be underground water here!"

"Now as long as we find the location of the underground water veins and dig a well, we might be able to solve the crisis in the village!"

Zhou Yawen frowned and said: "People from the county have already been here and said that the underground aquifer here is too shallow and there is no way to pump out water!"

"Just believe whatever they say. Based on my preliminary survey of the topography here, there should be no shortage of groundwater!" Zhou Yang said.

"You kid still understand this?" Zhou Yawen asked in surprise.

"I just understand it a little bit!"

"Well, since you want to go for a walk, I'll go for a walk with you!"

But then Zhou Yawen reminded: "But don't have too much hope, it's really hard to describe here!"

"Um!"

Zhou Yang didn't say much. Although he believed in his intuition and judgment, this kind of thing still requires evidence after all.

Therefore, after not inspecting the terrain here on the spot, Zhou Yang decided not to jump to conclusions easily.

ps: Yesterday, I spent a whole day applying for my niece's application, and the final result was very good, so my brother celebrated it in the evening and kept working until the early morning. I was delayed in coding, so today's update may be a little later! Sorry for that.
Chapter completed!