After returning to the rural life, life is getting better day by day.

Ji's father planted a few acres of land, and with the help of Liu Zhan, he cultivated intensively, and in addition to meeting the needs of supporting his family, there was still a lot left.

Ji's mother planted a vegetable garden in the small courtyard, originally wanted to raise some chickens, ducks and geese, but she was worried that it would be bad for children, so she did not raise them, and planted some eggplants, cucumbers and tomatoes in the small yard, and on the northeast corner of the wall, planted some leeks.

Leeks are nutritious, not only delicious, but also very good for the body, it is said to have the function of nourishing yin and nourishing the skin, in short, Ji Ran loves to eat.

I have food and vegetables in my house, and I can basically be self-sufficient, and I don't need to buy anything outside at all.

Just go and buy some seasonings and meat once in a while and come back.

Eating the pollution-free green vegetables that I grow, the taste is really unusual.

The life of the family is getting better day by day, and Su Su and Yusheng are also growing up day by day.

Although the children are still very naughty, especially Su Su, since they came to the countryside, they have become a lot more skinny, and if they are not careful, they will run out to play, fortunately, Ji's mother is keeping an eye on her, otherwise, she may run away one day.

Yusheng is still well-behaved, but I don't know if he will become as naughty as Su Su when he grows up, but he is still very young, and after feeding, he wants to sleep.

The little guy slept very soundly during the day, but at night, he cried and made trouble, and he had to coax him to fall asleep for half the night, which seriously affected Ji Ran's rest.

Ji Ran was very anxious, thinking that the child was sick, and took the child to the hospital to find out that the child was not sick at all, and the reason why he made trouble at night was because he slept too much during the day, and it was enough for the child to sleep ten hours a day, no more than thirteen hours at most.

After getting the doctor's guidance, Ji Ran was relieved, and no longer let Yusheng sleep so much during the day, at noon, Ji Ran held Yusheng to play in the yard, and when the child had played enough, he was tired of playing, and he was honest when he went to bed at night.

Sure enough, in the days that followed, the little one slept very quietly at night, and never cried or made trouble anymore.

Half a year later, the village was electrified and the network was re-covered.

It's just that many people can't afford to buy mobile phones, because when the disaster broke out, the social economy was seriously damaged, and now the country is still in a state of financial shortage, and materials are extremely scarce, so even with the Internet, many people can't afford to buy mobile phones and televisions.

You have to start all over again slowly.

In the whole village, only one has a TV, and it is still a very old plasma TV.

Every night, the villagers would crowd into the house to watch the news, and only through the news could they learn about today's major events in the world.

Although Ji Ran wanted to see it very much, but Ji's father and Ji's mother resolutely did not allow it, only Liu Zhan and Ji's father were allowed to go to see it, and the two of them couldn't go both, when one went, the other had to stay at home.

On this day, after Liu Zhan had dinner, he went to watch the news.

After returning, Liu Zhan, as usual, relayed the news to his family, as if he were making a report.

In the past, I didn't think the news was very good, but now the news broadcast has become a hot program, and what the family is looking forward to most every day is waiting for Dad Ji or Liu Zhan to tell the content broadcast in the news.

"Today's news said that our country's power system has been basically restored, and factories in major cities do not need to restrict the supply of electricity, but for remote mountainous areas like ours with low electricity consumption, we still have to control the use of electricity, and after 10 o'clock in the evening, there will still be power outages.

HB has a major famine, due to the drought, many farmland grains have not been harvested, ± is organizing various departments to condolence and comfort, and at the same time from all over the country to coordinate relief food, relief to the disaster area, ± agree to the temporary resettlement of the victims in nearby provinces, hoping that the local ± can respond positively and make a difference. Liu Zhan relayed one by one.

"Hey, now is the time of food shortage, why do you say HB is causing disaster again?" Mother Ji said distressedly.

"During the disaster, the water conservancy facilities in the farmland were destroyed, and now the drought and flood are coming one after another, and the grain grown by the farmers is not harvested, and the country is about to suffer a big loss." Father Ji sighed and said.

"HB is one of the important granaries in the north, and now there is a famine, but I am afraid that in the future, we will not have a good time here." Liu Zhan said worriedly.

"± have agreed to temporarily resettle the victims in nearby provinces, which shows that the situation is more serious than expected, so let's prepare as soon as possible." Father Ji said precautionarily.

"Dad, how do you prepare?" Ji Ran asked suspiciously.

"Save some grain, dry the vegetables, and store them in the cellar, so that you don't have to meet emergencies when you get them." As he spoke, Father Ji walked to the small courtyard and carried a bag of grain to the cellar.

Liu Zhan then followed.

Although Ji's father did not experience the Great Famine, he heard from his elders about the Great Famine of the last century, at that time, it was more than ten years after the end of World War II, when the two superpowers of the East and the West were fighting each other, the international situation was very tense, and people were worried that the third world war was about to break out, so all countries began to actively prepare.

Because World War I was from 1914 to 1918, and shortly after the end of World War I, World War II 1939-1945 took place.

In order to meet this world war, our Celestial Empire made sufficient preparations in advance, because a large amount of steel was needed to make guns, and at that time, our steel production was seriously insufficient, and it was not enough to even make weapons, so we put forward the slogan of smashing pots and selling iron to make iron and steel.

A lot of farm tools were handed in, and a lot of guns were built, but the awaited Third World War did not come.

However, during the large-scale steelmaking process, in order to respond to the call, many young and middle-aged people in the countryside went to the factory to make steel, resulting in a serious shortage of rural labor, coupled with natural disasters, which led to a great failure in the grain harvest in the coming year.

It is said that the grain received at that time was not enough for the peasants themselves, but they still had to feed the workers in the cities, so a large amount of grain was transported to the cities, leaving only a small amount of grain for the peasants.

There was simply not enough food to eat, and before the next year, there was a great famine, and almost every family starved, and even starved to death.

Ji's father's eldest uncle starved to death during the great famine.

(End of chapter)