Shanhe Village, the backyard of the floating grain store, at six o'clock in the morning, I just came over with something, lit the lamp, and Zhao Donglai called out outside the door:

"The shopkeeper, everyone has arrived."

Well? So early?

I hurriedly opened the door, and saw more than 200 people standing outside the door, the youngest was twelve or thirteen years old, and the oldest looked seventy or eighty years old, crowding almost the entire courtyard, all looking at me expectantly.

This......

"There are so many people!"

"The shopkeeper, the tenants in the village are here, and I didn't expect to come so many at once."

"Okay, since everyone is here, let's eat first, and we'll talk while eating in a while."

To be honest, it was the first time I faced so many pairs of eyes looking into my eyes, and I was a little overwhelmed for a while, I thought that there would be more than 20 people at most, after all, how many people can be used to expand a cellar, that is, they can be used all, and now I can't put these people in here.

"Shopkeeper, I, I don't cook!"

Zhao Dong glanced at everyone, leaned over to me and whispered.

"Ah, I did, you can tell two people to go to my room and move to the empty house next door with tables and chairs to eat."

Considering that digging this cellar was really tiring, and these tenants were reluctant to eat, and there was no food at home, so I prepared a hundred steamed buns, eggs, pickles, and porridge early in the morning and brought them over, and swept away the two breakfast shops at six o'clock in the morning.

But look at these people in front of you, it's not enough!

"Huh? Be! ”

Zhao Donglai entered my room suspiciously, and then saw several large bags of steamed buns, eggs, pickles, and porridge in iron drums on the ground.

Zhao Donglai was stunned for a moment, but immediately understood, and immediately called a few people to go in and take them to the next room.

Watching everyone go to eat, I felt a little panicked, it seems that these people are here for this meal, and it is at this time that I really realized that at this time, more than half of the people in this Shanhe Village could not eat, and even when Zhao Donglai was starved of food for three days, I did not realize the seriousness of the food problem in Shanhe Village as much as I do now.

I stood at the door and saw Zhao Donglai counting the heads, counting the steamed buns, and seemed to find that the steamed buns were not enough, so I broke the steamed buns when I divided them, half of them per person.

These 100 steamed buns are definitely not enough, so don't go back and get a batch!

After a while, I appeared at the door of the side room where everyone was eating, and asked Zhao Donglai and a few young men to go to my room to get steamed buns.

When a few people arrived at my room and saw the steamed buns like a hill, they were almost speechless with shock, and they all stood there staring at the steamed buns, motionless.

Zhao Donglai seemed to be used to it, beckoning a few people to move quickly, but he secretly glanced at me from time to time.

When the last few bags were gone, I put my hands behind my back and wanted to go over and see what everyone was eating.

But when I appeared at the door, the lively and noisy room was instantly quiet, everyone put down their food, and those who were squatting or sitting on the ground immediately stood up respectfully and looked at me quietly.

"I'll just take a look, eat, eat, eat and work."

The crowd remained still, staring at me blankly.

it! Embarrassed!

"Eat, keep eating!"

With a calm look on my face, I pretended to be calm, still with my hands behind my back, and slowly turned around and walked out as if nothing had happened.

Am I so terrible?

Originally, I thought that I would be familiar in the future, digging holes and working with these old and young masters, drinking and bragging, but now when I look at this situation, I can't get rid of this cold fairy for a while.

A little sad, so when I went out, I stood not far from their window in a daze, and I heard the people in the room talking again.

"Brother Zhao, where did the shopkeeper get this steamed bun, even Wang Mantou's family can't make so many in the morning."

Finally someone asked.

"Shhhh......h

Zhao Donglai said in a low voice, followed by a chattering sound, I can imagine that when Zhao Dong said "coming down from above", he must have pointed his finger at the ceiling.

This product, net to me to render this image, this makes me how to get in a mess with everyone in the future?

Come on!

"Brother, I don't believe you when you say this, the gods still have to hire people to expand the vegetable cellar?" There is humanity.

I finally have a long brain, and I am secretly happy in my heart.

"It's hard to say, the gods in the sky are all doing their own duties, he may be a god of food!" Another person said.

"Yes, it's really a god of food, I tell you, don't spread it, when the shopkeeper saw me on the first day, he gave me twenty oily, fragrant green onion cakes......"

This Zhao Dong is coming! I was so angry that the roots of my teeth itched.

"Brother Zhao, you have to find a way to keep our God of Food, with the God of Food, we won't be able to starve to death in any disaster year in Shanhe Village."

"Yes, we have to keep the God of Food......

"Uncle, in the future, as long as you are by the side of the God of Food, you will have white flour steamed buns and eggs to eat every day?"

A childish voice asked.

"You kid, it's not enough to eat one meal, even the god of food can't provide so many people with food every day!"

"Donglai, the red paper in front of your grain line is written to provide food, how many meals a day?"

"This, I don't know, I have to ask the shopkeeper for a while to know, eat first, eat first......"

Is this a complete incarnation of the god of food?

Suddenly, an idea came to me in my heart: since I am recognized as the god of food, it is better to make a plan and recognize this identity, so that there will be an excuse to dig a shelter like this, and even dig a tunnel in the back.

The god of food is good, the god of food, the god of food......

I pondered the new vest, and I was even a little complacent...... No, why do you always feel like you've heard the word "God of Food" somewhere?

I hurried back to my room, flipped out my notes "Mountains and Rivers", sat down at the desk and flipped through them frantically.

Got it:

"In March 1929, the god of food appeared in Shanhe Village, and the hungry people were able to eat enough, and the tenants ate meat every day, and the food was better than that of the landlords. Later, some tenants said that there was no such thing, and some tenants said that there was indeed such a thing, and those who said that there was such a thing listed the names of the dishes they had eaten one by one, and most of them were unheard of. It is impossible to determine whether it is true or false. Or the tenants are hungry, cold, and poor, and it is not known to imagine such a god of food to help the people. ”

This record is difficult to distinguish between true and false, and it looks like the tomb of Lian Colored Ink suddenly became Li Shu's tomb, some people remember, and some people forget.

I can almost be sure that the "God of Food" in this account is myself, but half of the people have forgotten about it, what is going on?

Could it be that someone originally wanted to erase everyone's memory, but when erasing the memory, something happened that made some people's memories still keep?

I can't figure it out, I don't want to, take one step at a time, the task at hand is to dig up this shelter as soon as possible, so that the whole village can survive the year of 1929 safely.

"Shopkeeper, everyone has finished eating, waiting for your orders."

I hurriedly stood up, opened the door and went out, and saw everyone standing neatly in the courtyard, but at this time, the eyes looking at me seemed to have an inexplicable closeness and warmth.

I was a little shy for a while under the burning of these two hundred pairs of intimate and warm eyes.

So, I felt that I really had to say a few words, and with this in mind, I spoke:

"Everyone, are you all full?"

"I'm full!" Unison.

"Okay, then I'll tell you about this one I'm going to dig...... I want to make this cellar as big as possible, and it is best to dig out the whole yard underneath, and also dig out the storage room under these houses, and connect it with a tunnel in the middle, and that's it...... Such...... Then, on my side, I have to open a passage to the outside of the village, which is open in ...... On the other side of the Black Duck River, after these are done, I will put food in it and fill it all! ”

I paused as I spoke, and observed the crowd, only to see that everyone was looking at me intently, and when I heard me say that I was going to put it full, their faces were full of joy, and they were smiling and looking at the people around them.

"Do you want to ask me why the grain is put in the ground?" I sold a pass.

"I'm afraid of Maozi grabbing!"

"Yes, I must be afraid that Mao Zi will rob us, Mao Zi will not only rob us, but also kill us."

"I'm afraid of Maozi robbing, I'm afraid of bandits, and there are soldiers who will rob ......"

"In case of a war, the soldiers will come to grab the ...... when they pass by"

……

Everyone is talking about it, and it seems that these tenants are quite bright-minded.

Listening to the big guys express their opinions, I am very sad: Mao Zi robbery, bandit robbery, soldier robbery, this is the life of the people in the Republic of China.

"That's right!" I answered:

"I just want to prepare enough food for everyone to survive the famine, and then put it under here and hide it, no one can snatch it away! In case we are occupied by Maozi or by the bandit army in the future, we will hide at home and take food out of the ground every day to cook and eat, so I also hope that everyone can dig a tunnel from their own homes and dig with me, so that we can go underground when we get food back in the future. ”

"This is a good solution, just do it!"

"That's a great idea!"

"Yes, that's it."

……

Seeing that everyone had no doubt about my explanation, I was relieved, in fact, what kind of food was to hide, but in case the war spread to this mountain and river village, these people could have a place to hide.

Seeing that everyone had no objections, I took out my blueprints.

It is said that it is a design drawing, but it is just a few strokes to repair a few rooms in this cellar, and a few passages are simply expressed.

"This is a drawing I drew of this cellar, whoever has experience in this can take a look at it, give some opinions, and say good things will be rewarded."

At first, no one dared to move, until Xu Laosan stepped forward and took the drawings first.

This Xu Lao San is in his twenties, very tall, about 1.9 meters, thick eyebrows and big eyes, but his face is sallow, habitually frowning, his face is angular and angular, and his facial features are three-dimensional.

Xu Laosan was wearing a thin cotton jacket and cotton pants, and his wrists and ankles were exposed, just like wearing cropped sleeves and cropped pants. The clothes and trousers were covered with patches, and there were still many places showing black and yellow cotton, and the shoes on his feet were also tattered. People are extremely thin, and at first glance they are chronically malnourished.

If you look at everyone in front of you, you basically have this face: sallow or pale, haggard, frowning, always with a sad countenance, always worried about life.

Xu Laosan took my drawings and looked at them and said:

"It's so easy to collapse, you have to dig and do support at the same time."

Well said, you can see the problem at a glance.

No wonder Zhao Donglai resented Xu Laosan's ass for abducting a pound of rice without moving the nest, and praised him for digging the vegetable cellar well.

"What do you think of this support?" I asked.

"Or erect a column, and when digging the hole, it is necessary to add a fishing net cover, and the top is fixed with a straw mat, and the bottom is separated by a meter or two of a pillar on top, and the two walls must be topped with wood to avoid collapse. But there are not so many straw mats and wood, and the trees in our village are all from Lu Yunshan's family. Xu Laosan looked at the drawing and said.

"The straw mat is easy to do, the aquatic plants on the other side of the Black Duck River can be woven straw mats, I can weave them, and I can weave dozens of them a day." A very old tenant said.

"It is not okay to pile up the pillars and the two walls with adobe, make adobe first, and then stack the adobe with adobe after finishing, anyway, the soil is there, and my bricklayer lives well."

"Then how about ventilation after that?"

"Drill holes in the ventilation holes, and this holes are a bit ......."

……

Listening to Xu Laosan and the villagers talking about it, they are already starting to make an excavation plan, and I feel very relieved.

At this time, I suddenly remembered something and glanced at the crowd - no, Jiang Lianyang did not come.

It seems that he has gotten rid of his status as a tenant and will buy his own land after the beginning of spring.

It's still a little regrettable, after all, in those days when the autumn wind was bleak, I looked forward to his bowl of soup every day, and those days when it was icy and snowy, he came over several times a day to see if I got up, and when he saw me get up, he immediately came over with food.

I once told Jiang Lianyang that my name is Luo Fusheng, and this floating grain store is open again, and he must have heard the news, and it is estimated that it will be embarrassing for him to come to see me now.

But if he comes to see me, and my face changes completely, I will be sure that I am not the one who lives in the ruins next to his house, and that he will not lose face.

I'll forgive him this time, and it's not impossible to start getting along again as a stranger.

It's just that I still want to know one thing, what he dug out of the gray master's hole really only had four oceans and sixty catties of grain?

"Shopkeeper, we're almost ready to excavate now, you see if it's okay to change it like this here, and here."

Xu Laosan didn't know where to find a pencil head and drew awkwardly on the paper.

"Okay, okay, then you can start digging, you don't need so many people at first, just leave a few young and strong ones to do it first, and the rest are made of straw mats or adobe, or if you want to go home and dig from your own cellar, go get them first, and come back at noon to eat, and there will be meat at noon."

Amid the cheers of the crowd, I slowly walked out into the street with my hands behind my back.