Chapter 718: Escape from Famine 23
Yuanchun cried out, "My eldest son, now that you are gone, what should I do?"

Then she pretended to be unable to bear the stimulation and fainted.

The next day, Yuanchun woke up and called her eldest grandson and granddaughter to her side. She tearfully told them, "Xiaowu, Xiaoyu, your parents are gone, don't worry. You still have grandma. She will take care of you in the future. She will work in the fields to earn work points to support your studies. You must make grandma proud and graduate from high school."

"Grandma, are my parents really dead?" Xiaoyu cried out and threw herself into Yuanchun's arms, crying out of breath, "Grandma, I want my parents."

"Grandma, my sister and I will be orphans from now on." Geng Xiaowu wiped his tears, grinned, and cried loudly.

When Geng Dalin and Sun Chunfeng heard this, they couldn't help crying.

The three youngest children saw that everyone in the family was crying, so they also started crying.

For a while, the Geng family was filled with cries of grief.

The family was depressed for several days until the village chief notified every household in the village to go to the brigade to collect relief food. Only then did the whole family cheer up.

Geng Dalin dragged a cart and carried a sack, and went to the brigade headquarters with Sun Chunfeng, and quickly brought back relief food.

Twenty kilograms of food per person, and the eight people in the Geng family received a total of 160 kilograms of food.

Next, the river outside the village also had water. The village chief organized the villagers to dig ditches and divert the water from the river into the fields. It was a little late to plant late rice, but they could plant vegetables, radishes, potatoes, and wheat...

Geng Dalin was assigned to dig ditches, earning 10 work points per person per day, while Sun Chunfeng was assigned to till the soil, earning 8 work points per person per day.

Yuanchun had just lost her son and was still in grief. She did not go out to work, but stayed at home doing housework and taking care of the children.

Another three days passed before Yuanchun finally cheered up and went out.

As soon as Yuanchun arrived at the entrance of the brigade, someone called her, "Aunt Geng, you came out to work today. I heard from Chunfeng that you are not feeling well. Are you sick?"

"What's wrong with you? You must be sad. Geng Dazhuang and Du Jincui were killed by lightning. Mrs. Geng had white hair and sent off her black-haired son. How can she get better?"

"Old Geng, how come your Da Zhuang and Jin Cui were struck to death by lightning? Did they do something immoral to be punished by God?"

Yuanchun looked at the two women who had ill intentions towards her and asked coldly, "I really don't know what bad things my Dazhuang and Jincui have done. Why don't you ask God?"

"Old Geng, how can I ask God in heaven?" The old woman rolled her eyes and suddenly slapped her thigh, "Okay, Old Geng, are you secretly cursing me to death?"

Yuanchun refused to admit it. "Mr. Xu, I just asked you to ask God. I didn't curse you. However, you watched Dazhuang and Jincui grow up. You know whether they have done anything bad or not. Dazhuang and Jincui are a little lazy, but they are not bad people. They have never done anything bad in the village and they don't even dare to fight. So I also want you to ask God if he killed the wrong people?"

"Oh my, how could this thunder strike the wrong person?" someone exclaimed.

Some people also said, "Although Geng Dazhuang is a sly guy and likes to brag, he is not a bad person. It's just that the Du family and the Fan family are not good people. Could it be that Geng Dazhuang and his wife were implicated by the Du family?"