281 Refuse to endure hardship
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Moreover, even if it is these people she wants to protect, she should always have the ability to protect herself, she may be able to save it for a while, but she can't save it for a lifetime! One day in the future, she will still leave Xihe Village and go somewhere else, and she can't take the whole village away at that time, right?
Zhou naturally didn't know what Lin Yuxiu was thinking, she just felt that she was really tired from experiencing this scene, and she didn't feel anything before, but now her limbs are weak, and after a while, she fell asleep in a drowsy way.
Lin Yuxiu covered Zhou's with a thin quilt, and then went out to leave.
Back home, Lin Yuxiu felt like she had collapsed, although today's matter was handled quite well, but in the end it was still thrilling, if one was not careful, someone's torch fell, I was afraid that a catastrophe would happen today.
Since she was tired, Lin Yuxiu said to the Huang family's sister-in-law and went to sleep.
The gossip in the village has just begun to circulate, but some people say that Zhou's belly is evil, and some people oppose it, in short, it is just some gossip, and it can't set off a storm.
In the blink of an eye, another three or four days passed, and in the past few days, it has rained a little bit, although it cannot resolve the drought, but it has more or less allowed some people to have a little excess water at home.
But as long as the drought is not truly alleviated, the life in the village is so miserable, but fortunately, no one has died of starvation.
There was no starvation death in Xihe Village, but the news came out that there were already villages in the vicinity that had starved to death of several families.
Lin Yuxiu was very sad to hear this, but she knew that now was not the time for her to be soft-hearted. Therefore, when she heard, she assumed that she had not heard.
However, she also knows that at such a time, she is afraid that someone will soon start to rob the house. The village of Xihe, which is more affluent than other places, will definitely be targeted.
Obviously, this problem was not only thought of by Lin Yuxiu, but also by the old people in the village, and by Li Zheng, who held an emergency meeting and divided the men in the village into six teams to patrol the outskirts of the village day and night.
Some people naturally feel that this is a redundant thing, but some people feel that it is necessary to do so, after all, there are so many villages around, and only the people of Xihe Village can still have enough to eat. It's strange not to be the target of public criticism!
"Oh, why is my sack of grain missing, and which one of the thousand knives actually stole my grain?" And the day after the patrol team in the village began to patrol, a sack of grain in the village Aunt Wu's house disappeared overnight.
The people in the village have been patrolling outside the village all the time, and they have not found anyone in the village, and the food of Mrs. Wu's family is indeed missing, and the atmosphere in the village is immediately wrong.
"Yuxiu, did you say that someone has already targeted our village?" The fifth aunt came to Lin Yuxiu with some trepidation.
Lin Yuxiu smiled and said: "Fifth aunt, what are you afraid of, there are a lot of people in your family, I am afraid that I can't protect you?" Although Lin Yuxiu's words are narrow, there is some truth in it.
There are a total of six people in the fifth aunt's family, only she and Xiuzhu are women, and the other four are men, so they naturally have enough ability to protect the food and people in the family.
"Where am I afraid of my family, I am not melancholy in the village. If you're really being targeted, what's the matter? The fifth aunt glanced at Lin Yuxiu, and was obviously a little dissatisfied with Lin Yuxiu's words.
Lin Yuxiu said with a straight face: "I don't think this matter has anything to do with people from other villages, but I suspect that this thing is done by the inner ghosts." ā
Not every household in the village has food to eat, and a few families who did not listen to persuasion did not have food, but at such times, it is difficult to borrow food. So, stealing is probably the best way to go.
However, this man is not sure, after all, there are several families in the village who are short of food.
"Yuxiu, do you mean that the food in Aunt Wu's house is still in the village?" The fifth aunt didn't want to believe that there was such a person in the village.
"I think so, if it's someone from outside, can it still not be discovered?" Those dozens of strong men patrol all day long, and if the people outside want to come in, they must have great skills. What's more, now that the people in the village outside can't eat or drink, how can they do this without knowing it?
"Then we must catch this person, if we can't catch it, we won't even be able to eat and sleep in the future." The fifth aunt said with some excitement.
But Lin Yuxiu didn't think so, in her opinion, it was better to be blocked. Stealing food proves that there is no food at home, and if he can get food, generally speaking, this situation should not happen.
On the second day, Lin Yuxiu put news outside, saying that he wanted to dig another deep well in the village, and hired people to use grain, and a strong laborer could exchange three catties of grain a day, and if three catties of grain were placed in normal times, it would be a matter of a few cents, but now when the grain has reached fifteen wen, three catties of grain will wait for forty-five wen.
There are many families in the village who come to Lin Yuxiu to do this, and after Lin Yuxiu chose again and again, he decided on a few people.
These people, without exception, are all people that Lin Yuxiu has learned about before, and there is no food at home, as for those who still have food at home, Lin Yuxiu will not consider it for the time being.
The people in the village also knew that Lin Yuxiu was changing ways to help these people, although they regretted that they couldn't get this food, but they still didn't say much.
"Lin Dajin didn't go?" Uncle Nineteen also knew about this, but he still felt a little annoyed.
Lin Dajin's family has long been out of food, and he sent ten catties of food for his father's sake.
In this case, he still refused to make efforts to exchange for food.
The village now has a limited supply of water every day, and although it is not as sufficient as before, it is enough for the family to eat and drink.
However, although every household saved some grain at the beginning, it was not much, especially at this time, and no one was willing to take out their own grain to others, and it was obviously impossible for Daikin to live on others.
"You don't care, wait for the next time you come to the door, you will say that our family will run out of food." The third child of the nineteenth uncle's family said with a frown.