Chapter 710: Escape from Famine 15
Early the next morning, Sun Chunfeng stayed at home to look after the house and the children, while Yuanchun and Geng Dalin took Geng Xiaowu to the bamboo forest behind the village to cut bamboo water and bamboo rats.

The bucket of bamboo water that they had cut earlier was almost finished by the eight of them during their journey over the past few days.

The remaining bowls of water were used to cook meat soup last night. This morning, several people did not eat breakfast, so they hurried to the bamboo forest.

With Yuanchun around, there was certainly no shortage of water. The first bamboo she cut produced half a bucket of water. She then cut four or five more bamboos, and after two buckets of water were produced, Geng Dalin jumped back home.

Yuanchun and Geng Xiaowu stayed behind to chop bamboo rats.

The bamboo forest on the back hill of Fengling Village was not very big. Yuanchun spent the whole morning chopping and chopped out all the bamboo rats in it. There were only about fifty or sixty of them in total.

At noon, Sun Chunfeng saw that there were not many bamboo rats and did not dare to cook more. He only cooked ten. Each person only had a small bowl of soup and meat.

Geng Dalin was a little worried. "Mom, God doesn't know when it will rain. We bamboo rats won't last for a few days. After we eat all the bamboo rats, we will have nothing to eat."

"What are you afraid of? If there are no bamboo rats, there are still field mice."

"Mom, are you going to dig field mice to eat?"

"Bah, I don't eat field mice. I go to dig out the food hidden by field mice."

Yuanchun doesn't eat just any mouse.

She doesn't eat any other rats except bamboo rats.

However, voles are also edible. She doesn't eat them, but these ones at home can be eaten.

"Mom, can field mice hide food?" Geng Dalin jumped up in surprise. "Mom, let me dig now. There are quite a few field mice in the ditch at the edge of the field."

"What's the hurry? Get the tools."

Yuanchun ordered him to bring a cart, a few cloth bags, a shovel, a spade and a rake, and then took the whole family to the fields. This year was dry and the fields had no harvest, but in previous years the crops had been plentiful, which also led to many field mice stealing food.

Yuanchun knew that voles, like squirrels, loved to hide food in their nests. Some of the food hidden by voles would surprise people.

When Yuanchun arrived at the edge of the field, she exerted her spiritual power, penetrated the earth, and explored underground. Soon, she found several vole nests.

Yuanchun was in high spirits. She brought her whole family, young and old, to the widest ridge of the field and directed Geng Dalin and Sun Chunfeng to dig a small hole under the ridge.

He kept digging along the small hole, more than three meters deep, before he finally found a vole. Geng Dalin threw down the iron rake and pounced on the vole that was trying to escape, grabbing its tail.

"Mom, this field mouse is so fat, it weighs at least one pound. Hehe, we can have boiled mouse meat soup tonight."

Yuan Chun rolled his eyes at the fool and said, "Why cook rat meat soup? With so much food, we can just have rice tonight."

Geng Dalin then noticed that there was a pile of rice grains hidden in the field mouse's nest. He was stunned with shock. "This...this field mouse really knows how to hide food. This...this much rice grains must weigh more than ten kilograms."

"Too much to say."

Up to fifty kilograms.

Yuanchun ordered Sun Chunfeng to bring cloth bags to pack the grain.

After loading all the food, everyone in the Geng family had a look of joy on their faces.

Several children were clamoring to eat rice in the evening.

Yuanchun smiled and nodded, "Grandma will cook for you. We will all have rice tonight so you can have enough to eat."