Chapter 719: Escape from Famine 24
A young man said, "Oh, maybe it's true. During those days of fleeing famine, I had to pee urgently one night, so I got up and wanted to find a place to pee. I accidentally saw Boss Du and Third Brother Fan whispering something. The little girl from Old Fan's family was the one who disappeared the night before."

"Oh my god, it was thundering that day. No wonder the people of the Du family were also struck by thunder. It turns out that the people of the Du family and the Fan family have been colluding with each other for a long time and have nothing to do with us. Tsk tsk tsk, it's a good thing that these two beasts were struck to death by thunder. Otherwise, if they came back to the village, who knows how many people they would have killed."

"Geng Dazhuang and Du Jincui must have been implicated by them."

"What are you implicated? Du Jincui is also from the Du family. She deserves to die."

In the morning, the villagers came to the brigade to collect tools. Everyone was talking about this matter. Yuanchun made a sad expression and stood in the middle of the line.

Behind her was old lady Zhu, who consoled her, "Sister Geng, don't be sad. Life is hard in this world, and it's a blessing for Dazhuang and his wife to pass away early."

On the way to escape the famine, seven elderly people, eleven children and six women in Fengling Village starved to death. All the children who starved to death were girls. Their families favored boys over girls and were reluctant to give food to girls. The girls, who were already malnourished, died within a few days.

Several women who died were severely abused by their mother-in-law at home. On the way to fleeing famine, their in-laws did not give them food, and they starved to death.

Perhaps because so many people died in the village, few villagers sympathized with Yuanchun.

Only the neighbors who were on good terms with Yuanchun would show concern and give her some words of comfort.

Yuanchun sighed, "He's dead, and I, as his mother, didn't even get to see him for the last time. I regret it so much. If I had known that my Dazhuang would have such a short life, I shouldn't have gone home first. I should have stayed in the team so that I could at least see Dazhuang for the last time."

"Sister Geng, please accept my condolences."

"I'm fine, I just feel a little stuffy in my chest. It will be fine in a few days." Yuanchun rubbed his chest, his eyes a little red.

Today, half of the people were turning the soil, and the other half were planting radishes. Yuanchun, as an old lady, was assigned the task of sowing radish seeds.

This is an easy job, worth six work points.

Yuanchun received a cloth bag slightly larger than her palm, which contained half a bag of radish seeds.

The Geng family's work was assigned to a piece of land. Geng Dalin plowed the soil and dug ditches, Yuanchun sowed radish seeds, and Sun Chunfeng gathered the soil. The three of them finished most of the work in just one morning.

At noon, the three of them got off work. Geng Dalin went to the brigade to hand in his farm tools, while Yuanchun and Sun Chunfeng went home to cook first. However, when the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law returned home, they saw that Geng Xiaowu and the three little girls had already prepared the meal.

A pot of thick rice porridge, a plate of cold-mixed black fungus, and a small plate of thickly shredded pickles.

"Xiao Wu, are these all the dishes you cooked?" Sun Chunfeng asked in surprise.

Sun Chunfeng was very happy that he didn't have to cook and had meals to eat when he got home.

Geng Xiaowu blushed and said embarrassedly, "I have boiled the fungus in water, but I don't know how to mix vegetables. Xiaoyu mixed the fungus. I tasted it and it was a bit salty."

"It's okay to eat salty food. It's just right to eat salty food with porridge." Yuanchun looked at her five grandchildren and praised them with a smile, "You are all good children. You know how to help adults with work. You are all good. But you must be careful when you use a knife to cut vegetables. Don't cut your fingers. And be very careful when you light a fire. Don't let sparks escape from the stove pit and cause a fire."