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Chapter 229 The poor little ones in times of famine

In the early morning, at the end of Hanjiawan Village, near the shabby yard near the mountain, a little boy walked out!

Mingyue carried a bamboo basket on her back, wore tattered clothes, and Wang Ying's gray cloth shoes. She locked the courtyard door and walked along the dirt road in the village to the seaside!

There is very little land in Hanjiawan that can be cultivated, and everyone relies on the harvest in the ground to survive. The harvest season is approaching, and the villagers go to the fields early to pick up the crops without being urged by the village chief.

Seeing a child wandering over, someone said, "It's Mingyue! I haven't seen you go out for a few days. Is your mother's illness cured?"

Mingyue saw that Aunt Qian was the most gossipy person in the village, and smiled, "Good morning, Aunt Qian! My mother is fine!"

Aunt Qian couldn't help but be surprised. Wang Ying fell ill after giving birth to the child. Mrs. Han hated her for killing her son and didn't care about the life or death of their mother and son!

Wang Ying earned work points during the day and cleared wasteland in the back mountains at night, growing some sweet potatoes to support her mother and daughter!

A few days ago, while at work, she vomited blood and fainted in public. The barefoot doctor in the village looked at her and said she didn't have long to live!

You haven't been out for a few days, you thought you were dead, but you're still breathing?

She hurriedly asked, "Your mother is so kind, so why don't you see her at work?"

Mingyue wrinkled her face and said, "Mom is so weak that she can't get out of bed and can't go to work. I'm just trying to ask the village chief for leave!"

Just as he was talking, the village chief came over with a hoe and said, "Uncle Village Chief!"

The village chief paused and said, "Oh, it's Mingyue. How is your mother?"

Mingyue looked pitiful, "I'm very ill, I can't get out of bed, and I won't be able to work in the future!"

The village chief frowned, "If you can't go to work, you won't get any food at the end of the year. What will you eat?"

Don’t blame other people’s reality. After all, in this era, every family is hungry and full. Everyone is hungry and looking for food everywhere. How can they care about other people’s business!

Mingyue sighed old-fashionedly, "My mother used to work hard to support me, but now that I've grown up, it's up to me to support her!"

Aunt Qian couldn't help but laugh and said, "You are a little baby, but you still support your mother. How can you pick up a hoe or dig the ground?"

Mingyue puffed out her chest and said, "I'm young and can't earn work points, but I will work hard to find something to support my family!"

The village chief sighed, "It's better to discuss it with your grandma and your third uncle. After all, you are a family and you must always help each other!"

Mingyue had no intention of looking for that family, so she waved her hands and said, "It's okay, I will definitely be able to support my mother!"

He waved his hand at the village chief and left with the bamboo basket on his back!

Aunt Qian said with emotion, "Wang Ying will have three advantages and two disadvantages. What will he do if he leaves such a little baby behind?"

The village chief hummed, "He is a son of the old Han family. No one else cares about him, but Mr. Han always has to take care of it. I will ask him later!"

Aunt Qian curled her lips and said, "I am disgusted by Mrs. Han's virtue!"

"Okay, there is still a lot of work in the fields, so stop chewing other people's tongues!" The village chief waved his hand and led everyone to the fields!

Mingyue dragged her cloth shoes out of the village, walked for more than half an hour, and finally arrived at the shore!

The cliff on the west side of Hanjia Bay is more than ten meters high from the sea level, and the turbulent seawater is beating against the rocks!

Mingyue looked down and saw that the jagged rocks below were covered with oysters!

Hehehe smiled, isn’t this a ready-made delicacy?

As long as you are close to the sea, there will be something. Unfortunately, the wind and waves are strong at the bottom of the cliff. When a wave comes up, even a cow can be swept into the sea. Who dares to take the risk!

In recent years, there have been many people who have died because of their pursuit of the sea, including the original owner’s own father, Han Laosi!

At first, he insisted on marrying Wang Ying, but was kicked out of the house by Mrs. Han. In order to support his wife, he came here, but he was swept away by the wave and died miserably!

The coast near Hanjia Bay is very dangerous. Two miles downstream, there is a roundabout. Only during the high tide on August 15th every year, the water rises, barely allowing the village's broken boat to enter the sea for fishing!

At other times, no one from the Hanjiawan villagers dared to come to the beach to seek a living!

The sea breeze in the early morning was cool, and there was no one nearby. Mingyue looked at her small body, and then at the huge waves below, and she was not excited!

I walked to the shore, picked up a handful of dogtail grass, made a straw man in twos and twos, bit off my index finger and smeared it with blood!

As she silently recited the method, the little straw man in her hand fluttered to the ground, and in an instant she looked like him!

After making a stand-in, Mingyue took out the rope from the basket, tied it around the stand-in's waist, and lowered it along the cliff!

The double is just like the real person, but he is light and drifting in the waves!

The bright moon seems to be fishing, sitting on the top of the cliff, watching the waves recede, and busy controlling the avatar to work!

Using the only broken kitchen knife at home, I quickly shoveled the oysters and brushed them! Large pieces of oysters fell into the bamboo basket!

When the wave rolled up, Mingyue quickly pulled up the rope with quick eyes and hands to prevent the substitute from being swept away by the wave!

When the waves receded, I put the stand-in down again. The stand-in worked tirelessly. There were so many oysters on the rocks that they quickly filled a large bamboo basket!

Mingyue carried the bamboo basket ashore and put the shelled oysters into a separate space!

The substitute worked tirelessly and unknowingly, after working for a short while, there were three to four hundred kilograms of oysters piled in the space!

The straw double was about to fall apart. The bright moon stopped, the rope was tied up, and the straw man was thrown into the sea!

Carrying a small half basket of oysters and dragging on my cloth shoes, I walked back, complaining as I walked, even if I didn’t have anything to eat, I didn’t even have any tools!

Seeing the treasures in the sea, there is nothing you can do!

With a small body of five years old, carrying a big bamboo basket on his back and wearing ill-fitting shoes, he wandered back to the village!

I walked quickly to the door of my house and saw the village chief, Aunt Qian and the Han family who love to watch the fun, taking pictures of the front door of his house!

"The door is still locked on all sides of the house. This little kid Mingyue is really weird!" Aunt Qian pouted!

Mrs. Han slammed the door hard and shouted, "Wang Ying! You damn bitch, open the door quickly!"

The wooden door was smashed with a loud bang, and the captain frowned, "Okay, I didn't notice the lock on the door!"

"Third brother, go look for me and see where that little kid Mingyue has gone!"

Han Laosan was impatient and asked his eldest son, Han Mingfu, to find him!

Han Mingfu was ten years old. He drank a bowl of porridge in the morning and was dragged by his father to fuck him for a while. He was already so hungry that his heart was pressed against his back. How could he want to move!

He rolled his eyes and said, "Dad! I'm already hungry and out of energy. Where can I go to find him?"

"You damn kid, hurry up if I tell you to go!" Han Laosan shouted.

Aunt Qian shouted, "Look, that's not the bright moon!"

Sure enough, at the end of the dirt road, a small figure appeared, and Aunt Qian came to greet her.

"Mingyue, where have you been? What are you carrying?"

Smelling the fishy smell of the sea, she looked over and exclaimed, "Oh, where did these come from?"

Others gathered around and were surprised to find that there were oysters in shells under the bamboo basket!

The village chief asked, "Mingyue, where did this come from?"

Mingyue said seriously, "I am too young to work, and my mother is seriously ill, so I always have to find something to eat. I shoveled this from the rocks at the beach!"

Aunt Qian exclaimed, "You are so bold, baby, you are not afraid of being swept away by the waves and dying without a burial place like your father!"

Mrs. Han said with a dark face, "Stop talking about my wife, let me see!"

She squeezed up, pulled off Mingyue's bamboo basket, and carefully pulled it out. She found that the oysters were quite big, weighing more than ten kilograms by visual inspection, and she was secretly happy!

"How old are you? If you can get these, you must have stolen them!"
Chapter completed!
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