Mo Lan walked with them in the woodland, and it didn't take long to arrive at the place where the sweet potato seedlings grew, Mo Lan originally thought that the sweet potatoes in the woodland were planted by them, but only after looking at the direction of the vines did he understand that they also grew naturally, and several people saw that Mo Lan did not speak, and their mood instantly became depressed, yes, the village chief is still a child after all. Mo Lan felt their emotions and comforted them: "Don't worry, since rice can be grown, and this sweet potato is also grown in the soil, why can't we grow sweet potatoes?" ”

A few people were stunned, they also wanted to plant sweet potatoes, but no one would plant them, and the village chief still thought it was too simple.

Mo Lan looked at the one-meter-long sweet potato vine and thought to himself, although he didn't know when to plant sweet potatoes, it seemed that it should be too late to plant now, and at worst, it would reduce the yield by a part.

After seeing the sweet potato, he turned around in the woodland again, and Mo Lan's eyes lit up as he walked, isn't the plant in front of him a chestnut tree, in her previous life, her favorite food was chestnut!

"Have any of you ever eaten this?"

"Village chief, you are greedy again, the things that grow on this tree are full of burrs, there are them in the forest and in the mountains, no one eats them, if you like it, I will pick a few for you to play with when they grow, but don't cry when you prick your hand."

Mo Lan felt speechless for a while, how could he say that he was greedy again. Mo Huaiqing, the old village chief, said that the land here is barren, but the requirements for the soil of chestnuts are not high, and they have not eaten chestnuts when they look like they, and they are not picky, at this time it is in late spring and early summer, and they will be picked and eaten in autumn.

However, at present, the rice jars in most villagers' homes are almost bottoming out, and it is the most difficult to endure when the green and yellow are not connected. On the way back, the group heard a few women crying quietly by the waterhole, and Mo Lan didn't know why, so he stepped forward.

"Auntie, what's going on? Don't worry, talk slowly, and find a way together when you encounter difficulties. Tell me about it."

After the woman finished speaking, Mo Lan felt a little embarrassed, because these women all came to the river to wash clothes, and chatted while washing clothes.

"Aunts, wipe away your tears, if you encounter a problem, you have to solve it, there is always a way. In this case, please inform the people in the village, I will hold a meeting for you tomorrow morning, arrange the next things, and deal with the days ahead. ”

The villagers here are very simple, listening to the village chief saying that they will have a meeting tomorrow morning, they should all go tomorrow, Mo Lan looked at them without perfunctory meaning, so he was relieved to go back.

Thinking that at the moment, they were afraid that only the mountains could fill their stomachs, so they turned their direction to the mountains.

Early the next morning, Kan Haomei shouted outside the house:

"Village chief, village chief, are you up, I'm Kan Haomei!"

Mo Lan ate breakfast, and as soon as he cleaned up the sparks next to the stove, he walked out.

"Sister Haomei, it's so early"

"Village chief, aren't you going to have a meeting today, my father and mother are waiting, I'll accompany you"

In this way, the two went to the place of the previous election together. When he got there, all the villagers had arrived, which made Mo Lan's face hot.

"Uncles and aunts, I invite you to come today because I have something to say, at the moment, many rice tanks are about to bottom, and the rice in the field is not yet ripe, so I have an idea to let everyone fill their stomachs first, there is no food at home, and the ground is not yet ripe, but there are in the mountains, I know that there are wild beasts in the mountains, and everyone occasionally goes to the mountains only in the marginal places, and they dare not go deeper, but there is food in the depths of the mountains, I want to hear your opinions."

"Village chief, the beasts in the mountains run faster than us, and if they want to eat us, we can't run away."

"Village chief, there will be big insects in the mountains, I've seen big insects as thick as my wrists, it's scary"

"Village chief, there are pheasants in the mountains, they can fly very high, we can't catch them at all"

"Village chief, the road in the mountains is not easy to walk, last time Second Uncle Mo fell into the ditch while walking"

"Village Chief......

Mo Lan stretched out his hands and pressed them down, signaling quiet. Looking at the eyes of the crowd, there are worries, excitement, eagerness, and hesitation.

"Ladies and uncles, the mountains are indeed dangerous, but are you willing to go deep into the mountains so that you don't go hungry? That's what I want to hear. In this way, you can think about it, the station where all the villagers are willing to go to the mountain to find food, and the station where they don't want to go, and then we will make a decision."

The bustling crowd was divided into two teams after a while, and those who were willing to go to the mountains were basically adult men and half-grown children, and those who were unwilling to go were basically the elderly, weak, women and children.

"Well, now there are a lot of people who are willing to go to the mountains, so we are divided into two parts, those who are not willing to go to the mountains are responsible for making dry food and meals, and they must let the people who go to the mountains have enough to have the strength to find food; If you are willing to go to the mountains, go home and prepare baskets, shovels, shovels, sickles, ropes, whatever you have with you, and we will go to the mountains later, and most importantly, please remember that I am the head of the village, and you must listen to me wherever you are. We are a family, if there are east-facing and west-facing members of the family, then this family is not far from being scattered, since I did not refuse to be the village chief at the beginning, please ask my uncle and aunt to believe that I can make everyone live a good life. Okay, let's go back and prepare! Adjournment"

Mo Lan's sudden release of momentum made the villagers feel majestic, and no one was struggling, and they were all ready to go.

Mo Huaiqing, the old village chief sitting on the side, nodded excitedly, pulled Mo Lan and said:

"Mo girl, today's decision of yours has fulfilled my wish twenty years ago, twenty years ago, we had a drought here, and more than half of the villagers starved to death, at that time I wanted to lead the villagers into the mountains to find food, but I hesitated again and again but did not go, I was afraid, I was afraid that if there were casualties in the village, the population of the village would be even less."

Mo Lan looked at Mo Huaiqing, who was in tears, and comforted him:

"Grandpa, I also know that there is danger in the mountains, but if you don't go to the mountains to fight, you can only go hungry, and now the food has not been harvested, and many uncertain things do not happen, if they happen, we are afraid that there will be many people in the whole village who will not be able to survive. Don't worry, I'm leading everyone into the mountains, I don't plan to fight with wild beasts, I plan to dig some deep pits, make traps, the mountains are so big, as long as you dig a pit where there is dung, there will always be beasts that don't have long eyes to fall into. ”