There was a gloomy mist in the sky over Graphite Village, and the villagers' lives were getting poorer and harder day by day, and there was no smile on everyone's faces. When the cold winter came, every household had no food in stock, and they tightened their belts to get by, the elderly were so hungry that they could only lie in bed, and the young children were waiting to be fed. What Xing Youyou sees every day is suffering and suffering, if she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, it would have been really hard to imagine the life of rural people in this era. Every evening, when she sat in her eldest brother's arms and began to learn to read and write, she could always see the villagers helping the old and the young to pass through the path behind their houses to dig wild vegetables and hairy roots deeper on the slope of the village.

Some are sisters with younger brothers, some are grandmothers with grandchildren, and the wild vegetables in the maple forest by the river have already been dug up, and only by going deeper into the mountains can there be some harvest. Xing Youyou found that more and more people came to the mountains to dig wild vegetables every day, and many times they had to rush early, and if any piece of land was found to have something to eat, it would be dug up in a blink of an eye.

Every time I look at the villagers passing by, I feel very uncomfortable, in the cold winter, many people's cotton clothes are full of holes, and the straw stuffed into the clothes can be seen from the outside of the holes. The clothes were not cotton, they were all straw, some people didn't even have shoes on their feet, their toes were red and swollen and cracked one by one, and some of the scars were still dripping with pus.

Some of them would even stop and whisper to her that there was a place with lush wild herbs, and invite her to go with her, which made her always cry and secretly wipe it away by herself, for fear that her brothers would worry.

"Little sister. Xing Youliang still found out, found the traces of tears in her eyes, called her gently, hugged her in distress, sat on the stone bench and patted her back.

"Maybe we can help. ”

Xing Youyou raised his head and looked at the doting eyes of his eldest brother, expecting him to continue.

"We have a secret realm, we still have a lot of fish, let's change half of the area to potatoes and sweet potatoes, isn't it faster?"

Xing Youyou was a little shocked in her heart, what the eldest brother was thinking coincided with her, and she had been thinking about how to use the secret realm to help the people in the village for the past two days. They harvested wheat last month, because it was a dense seed, they harvested five or six catties more than the previous waves, they saved to eat and now there are about twenty catties, and now the new wave will not be harvested until next month, and she also plans to plant potatoes and sweet potatoes where vegetables are grown. Because they are big and can fill their stomachs, and most importantly, the growth cycle of potatoes and sweet potatoes is much shorter than that of wheat, and it takes more than three months in the outside world, and it is estimated that they can be harvested in a month in the secret realm.

Even if you have this idea, but Xing Youyou's heart has not become sunny because of this, although the graphite village is not very big, but there are more than 200 people, and in the secret realm, you can only harvest less than 30 catties in two months, even if you are dense now, it is not more than 40 catties at most, even if you add potatoes, sweet potatoes are only about 60 catties, but it is only a drop in the bucket, far less than two hundred people to eat. In addition, there is another problem, along with hunger comes edema, she must find some way to get some corresponding medicinal herbs to cultivate in the secret realm.

"What's the matter, nerd, why are you looking at your eldest brother like this?"

Feeling the tenderness in the eldest brother's hand, Xing Youyou smiled, his eyes were crystal clear, and his curled eyelashes blinked gently like the wings of a butterfly flapping gracefully. The backhand used his little short paw to protect the eldest brother, buried his head in the eldest brother's arms, and the whole head kept arching back and forth in his arms.

"You little pig~" Punishment Youliang laughed.

"You two are so crooked. A nice voice came into Xingyouyou's ears, causing her to turn her head to look at where she had come from.

At the entrance of the backlit courtyard stood a slender figure, with slightly natural curls in her hair, which was even more brown in the sunlight. The curls stretch naturally on the forehead, just at the center of the eyebrows, slightly covering the eyebrows that match the hair color. The pupils under the eyebrows are black and large, and the slightly curved corners of the mouth bring out the smile on the eyebrows in the eyes, which is pleasing to the eye.

"Why did you come up at this time?" Xing Youliang helped his sister to stand up straight.

"Looking for you to dig wild vegetables, it's not easy to find something to eat in this weather, and there is no other way than digging wild vegetables. ”

"There are so many people at this time, even if we find it, it is easy to be robbed, why don't we go early tomorrow? ”

"Field?" Zhang Xiaochuan quietly put away the smile on the corner of his mouth, as if he didn't care,

"Alright then, we'll go back tomorrow. ”

"Brother Chuan~" Xing Youqian heard the voice of his favorite Brother Chuan, and ran out of nowhere, showing off the bamboo dragonfly that his eldest brother had made for him yesterday.

"Don't pester your Brother Chuan, go down and ask Brother Tian Ye to wait for dinner in Qingfeng Valley, and casually go to Aunt Li'er's house to tell Aunt Li that Brother Sichuan will have dinner at our house today. ”

The night fell, the field on the kitchen table was washed after the food was washed, the table was wiped and still refused to get up, and he kept his hand on his chin, although the light was not bright, but it could still be seen that the skin on his face was very good, white as fine porcelain, his hair was black and shiny, his lips were thin, his small nose was slightly upturned, and his eyes were not very big under the thick eyebrows, but the eyelashes were so long, casting a beautiful arc under the eyelids, and I saw that the eyes were now leisurely half-closed, as if they were about to fall asleep, but suddenly yawned,

"I'm sleepy, I want to go to sleep on the kang. ”

"Okay, then you go back and get it. ”

"It's too late, I'm going to sleep on your kang. After saying that, it was like walking in his own home, and he went straight to the room where the punishment was fed.

Xing Youliang shook his head, and began to pour water into the pot again, preparing to boil some water for Xing Youyou to take a bath, this sister just loves to be clean too much, wasting water.

"Xiaochuan, it's late now, do you want to go back? Seeing that no one answered, he turned his head and saw the back of Zhang Xiaochuan discharged from the hospital, and said strangely,

"Why don't you leave without saying a word? What's the matter today???? Youqian, you come to light the fire, I'll go tell Principal Jiang. ”

When Xing Youliang came back, he saw Zhang Xiaochuan sitting in front of the stove with Xing Youyou,

"Aren't you leaving?"

Zhang Xiaochuan took Xing Youyou's cold little hand and roasted the fire by the stove door,

"I'm going to tell my mother to sleep at your house tonight, so she doesn't have to worry. ”

There was a black line at the end of the sentence, and he was stunned,

"Okay, so we can get up early tomorrow. ”