Qian Shulan kept walking forward, carefully at first, but then she found that there was no one there, so she stopped walking so cautiously.
"Da Shuanzi? Xiao Lihua?"
Qian Shulan shouted as she walked.
It was not until I walked to their cafeteria that I discovered the clue.
The door was tightly closed. But it was not locked from the outside, and it was obviously locked from the inside. Qian Shulan was a little worried about the two children, so she tried to push the door open with her hands, but found that she couldn't push it open even if she used all her strength.
Qian Shulan was just about to find something to push the door open when she saw a little head popping out from the side path.
"Grandma Qian?" a little girl shouted in surprise.
Qian Shulan turned around suddenly and saw Xiao Lihua running towards her.
Although the child is as thin as a carrot, her face looks very energetic.
Soon she came running over, "Grandma Qian, were you calling me just now?"
Qian Shulan nodded, "Where's your brother?"
Xiao Lihua took her hand and walked towards the alley they had just come from. "My brother is in the cafeteria on the east side of the village."
Qian Shulan followed her a few steps away and looked back at the cafeteria they had just visited.
She suppressed her doubts and followed Xiao Lihua to the canteen in the east of the village. This canteen was bigger.
But the room was full of people, all sitting on straw or corn stalks, and when they saw her come in, they all stared at her eagerly.
So many people, so many pairs of eyes, dragged their tired steps towards her at a constant speed. Their speed was very slow, but their staring eyes made Qian Shulan step back unconsciously.
At this moment, Dashuanzi came in holding a large pottery jar.
Seeing Qian Shulan was there, he was stunned for a moment, "Grandma Qian, how did you get in?"
Qian Shulan didn't bother to answer his question. She was frightened by the looks in these people's eyes.
Dashuanzi hid her behind him and placed the big clay pot in the middle of the cafeteria.
Hundreds of people rushed over like a beehive to grab it.
Da Shuanzi shouted, "It's cooking in the pot behind the canteen, hurry up and get it."
So everyone started walking towards the back of the cafeteria with heavy steps, a little faster than before.
After everyone left, Qian Shulan was a little dazed, "Where are your stepfather and mother?"
When she asked this, Dashuanzi couldn't help but have red eyes and a sore nose. He shook his head and said, "They were beaten to death by those refugees. They died last night."
Qian Shulan was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to comfort him, "They?"
Da Shuanzi wiped away his tears and said, "I just used the shovel in the team to dig a hole and bury them."
Qian Shulan didn't know how to comfort him. She looked at Xiao Lihua with a worried look on her face. "She?"
Da Shuanzi shook his head. "She hid in this cafeteria and didn't go out."
Canteen? Qian Shulan suddenly remembered the canteen she had just visited. She pointed in the direction she had just visited. "Which canteen is that?"
Da Shuanzi wiped away his tears and said, "On my way back, I sneaked in from the back of the cafeteria. There were so many dead bodies in there."
Qian Shulan's mouth was a little dry, "Were they beaten to death?"
"No!" He pointed to the white powder scattered by the door. "This is unique to our village. It is Guanyin soil used for kiln firing. Those people ate this stuff and bloated to death."
This village is already at the end of its rope, and these refugees won't be able to get anything good even if they rob.
Qian Shulan wanted to escape from this place. Her face turned pale and her whole body was shaking. "Da Shuanzi, let's go quickly."
She really didn't want to stay in such a place for a moment.
The three of them quickly left the cafeteria. Dashuanzi wiped his tears and glanced at the cafeteria.
"Grandma Qian, I need to go home to get some things. My stepfather and mother are both dead, and I want to see them for the last time."
Qian Shulan was just trying to find an excuse to go back to the cafeteria, so she nodded quickly, "Go quickly, I'll wait for you here!"
The two children walked home hand in hand.
Qian Shulan watched them disappear around the corner of the alley and rubbed her sore eyes.
She looked around to make sure there was no one else, then she produced two bags of food from the space. She estimated that there should be more than 200 people.
She put six sacks of sweet potatoes at the entrance of the canteen. Although it was a little little, as long as they ate sparingly, they could still survive for a while. She couldn't bear to watch them die like this, and she couldn't help more people, so she could only do her best.
After placing the food, Qian Shulan left quickly and returned to the previous intersection.
Dashuanzi and Xiaolihua came back soon.
Qian Shulan glanced at their backs. They were both empty and had nothing on their backs. She was a little curious and asked, "Aren't you two going to get something? Where are the things?"
Da Shuanzi took out a bronze object from his neck. It had turned a little black and looked like a tiger.
Xiao Lihua also took out one, it was a rabbit.
"This is what my father left for us. I hid it on the top of the beam at the front door of my house. I just went to get this."
Although this thing looks very vintage, she has a lot of space, so she is not interested. "Then let's go quickly."
The two followed Qian Shulan out of the production team and arrived at the canal, only to find that all the refugees were sitting on the canal.
Seeing the three people coming, the crowd began to stand up and look towards them.
Qian Shulan, with her two children, walked past them sideways.
Suddenly Qian Shulan noticed the last woman, who was holding a child in her hand. Noticing her gaze, she subconsciously lowered her head.
Qian Shulan was slightly surprised. She glanced at her again. The woman's deer-like eyes made Qian Shulan's heart skip a beat.
"Grandma Qian, what's wrong with you?" Dashuanzi pulled Qian Shulan's hand, not knowing why she suddenly stopped.
Qian Shulan thought about it and decided to turn back and said to the woman, "Our youngest son needs a wife. If you marry him, I won't let you starve to death. Are you willing?"
When the others saw her coming back, they all gathered around her.
Dashuanzi and Xiaolihua looked stunned.
The woman looked up in surprise. Seeing the serious look in the old lady's eyes, she subconsciously narrowed her eyes and began to look at Qian Shulan's clothes.
The man who led the team came over and asked, "Auntie, what are you doing?"
Qian Shulan smiled and said, "I have a son who wants to marry a wife. I think this girl is quite suitable for my eyes. I wonder if she is willing?"
This kind of thing was especially common during the famine years. Even in Wangjia Village, there were several wives who came from Guandong, and they were bought with just a bag of grain. So no one was surprised.
A woman asked, "Can it really fill you up? Are you kidding me?"
Qian Shulan shook her head. "It's impossible to have enough to eat. Nowadays, even cadres can't have enough to eat, let alone an ordinary person like me. I just want to avoid starvation."
Everyone saw that she was wearing a military coat and that although her skin was rough, her face was rosy. They could guess that their production team still had food.
The woman clenched her fingers and stared at Qian Shulan's eyes eagerly. "Did your son hit anyone? How old is he?"
Qian Shulan answered them one by one, and of course also mentioned the matter of her daughter and divorce.
This condition is very good.
But the woman did not agree on the spot, "Can my nephew go with you too?"
"OK!"
"Okay!" So the woman and the child followed Qian Shulan and left. The others all looked at them with envy.
Halfway through the journey, Qian Shulan began to speak to the woman, "Although I really want to introduce you to my son, he has a strange eye and may not like you. I'm telling you in advance. If he doesn't like you, I'll introduce you to the chicken farm of our production team. Is that okay with you?"
The woman didn't care about whether they were like each other or not. She was more concerned about Qian Shulan's last sentence. Her eyes lit up and she asked, "Does your production team have a chicken farm?"
"Yes. We have six thousand chickens."
The woman tightened her nephew's hand, with a puzzled look on her face, "There is famine everywhere now, where do you get food to feed the chickens?"
Qian Shulan smiled and said, "We feed earthworms, not grains. But we have to water and compost them, which is not easy, so don't complain about the hardship when the time comes."
The woman shook her head. “I’m not afraid!”
Looking at the white skin occasionally exposed on the woman's neck and her delicate facial features, Qian Shulan secretly guessed that this woman must be a beauty.
I wonder if Wang Shouzhi doesn't like her? Although he likes Yuying, Yuying is obviously not interested in him and keeps avoiding him. Before leaving, Yuying said she didn't want to get married again. What else can Qian Shulan say? She can only let Wang Shouzhi give up as soon as possible.
This girl is beautiful and kind. Most importantly, besides her career value of 3, her filial piety and right and wrong values are both 10 points. Is this the second time she has met someone with a filial piety value of 10? It's so rare!
If she gave this woman a job, wouldn't that max out her three values? When she returned to the real world, she would have hundreds of thousands of dollars, which was a great bargain.
Qian Shulan brought the woman directly home and asked her to stay in the same room with Wang Danna.
Everyone was secretly wondering who this girl was
It was not until the girl said she was there for a blind date that everyone realized that this was the wife his mother had chosen for Wang Shouzhi.
Everyone looked at Wang Shouzhi, his face flushed red.
"Mom, I don't agree with this!"
Qian Shulan didn't even look at him, and called Li Chunhua, "Take her to wash her face first."
The woman looked up at Qian Shulan uneasily, and seeing that she looked calm, she followed her.
The little boy beside her looked at everyone awkwardly. He was a little scared of them, so he walked to the door eagerly and watched his aunt wash her face.
Li Chunhua let out an exaggerated exclamation, "Oh my God! How come you are so beautiful?"
Everyone was frightened by Li Chunhua's loud voice and subconsciously looked outside.
The girl's facial features were indeed very pretty, with fair skin, a pair of bright big eyes under her curved slender eyebrows, double eyelids, and an oval face. She was even prettier than that movie star.
Even Wang Shouzhi was stunned. He only took one look and whispered to Qian Shulan, "Mom, I don't like her."
Qian Shulan didn't expect that he wouldn't even be interested in such a beauty. She sighed and raised her eyelids, "If you don't like her, then you don't like her. I'm not forcing you. Just don't regret it."
Wang Shouzhi immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
He couldn't help but think of Yuying. He wondered how she was doing alone in the city.
But just as he was thinking about her, Jiang Yuying came in the afternoon.
Jiang Yuying took down the things she had brought with her, "Godmother, where is the person?"
Wang Shouzhi quickly invited someone in, "My mother is in a meeting."
Zhengguo saw his uncle staring at his aunt with his eyes rolling around, then he whispered something to Zhengkang, and the two of them made a gesture.
Zhengguo coughed and raised his voice, "Zhengkang, where is the girl that our grandma picked for my uncle?"
Zhengkang pretended to be confused and said, "She went to a meeting with grandma, right?"
Zhengguo said with some regret, "It's a waste for such a pretty girl to be paired with my uncle. If I were a few years older, maybe I could marry such a beautiful wife."
Zhengkang sighed, obviously not expecting his brother to say that. He was stunned and couldn't respond for a moment.
His stupid look made Zhengguo so anxious that he just stared blankly and kept making faces at Zhengkang.
Jiang Yuying also saw the two little brats' actions, she covered her mouth and laughed, then smiled and said to Wang Shouzhi, "Has your godmother found a girl for you?"
Before Wang Shouzhi could answer, Zhengguo quickly answered, "Yes, auntie, she is very beautiful. She is prettier than the girls in the picture magazines."
Wang Shouzhi's face turned red with embarrassment, and he was about to open his mouth to scold.
Jiang Yuying smiled and advised him, "You should seize the opportunity with such a good girl."
Wang Shouzhi's face turned pale, and he looked at her with a hurt expression. Then he closed his eyes and stood up from the stool abruptly, "I'll go find my mother first!" He walked out without looking back.
Zhengguo and Zhengkang looked at each other, feeling guilty for screwing up.