As soon as I was reborn, my fiancé came to propose marriage!

The news of the murder in the town quickly spread to the village.

There were still a few families in the village who did not believe the village chief's words and sneered at Cui Mingzhu's good advice. Now they finally showed a little panic.

They hurriedly took the remaining silver in the family and asked their son to go to the town to stock up on grain, even if it was only 70 cents per pound.

Otherwise, just like what the village chief said, if it’s 70 cents today, you won’t be able to buy it later if you want to!

Those who bought it were glad that they bought it at a low price.

The next day, the village held another meeting. The village chief's purpose was to make everyone keep silent about the matter of hoarding grain.

Although stockpiling food is each family's own business, no one knows how much other families have stockpiled.

But now almost every household in Yulin Village has stockpiled it.

This is a huge goal!

If this were to be discovered by someone with ulterior motives, once a famine breaks out, this would be like a huge granary and everyone would be doomed!

Therefore, this matter has to be brought to the surface and they must be made to take it seriously.

This was the third time the gongs and drums had been struck in the village this year. Everyone's heart trembled when they heard the gongs and drums.

Everyone knows that the situation is unusual.

This year is probably more disastrous than any other year.

First there were the bandits, then there was the skyrocketing food prices, and then no one dared to think about what would happen next...

We gathered at the entrance of the village. Today, everyone looked at the village chief standing on the stone quietly, without saying a word.

After all, no one is a fool. Seeing how the situation develops, they all know that the village chief is doing this for their own good.

The village chief stood in a wide space at the entrance of the village and struck the gong, signaling everyone to listen carefully.

"Everyone has been prepared for the previous things."

He never mentioned the matter of hoarding food, but everyone knew it. "I called everyone here today to emphasize that this matter must not be known to outsiders!"

"What?"

"We are rich now!"

Two young men nearby asked stupidly.

"Why?"

The village chief sneered, "The world is going to be in chaos..."

He then sighed, "You are still young and have never seen people eating each other."

"Village chief, why did you suddenly talk about cannibalism?"

The two young men were a little confused and interrupted the village chief.

"The generation before that all experienced a great famine, but the people of that generation were either too old to move or died."

The village chief's eyes sunken and he began to reminisce.

That was something only his grandmother's generation had experienced, and he had never experienced it.

But when I was little, I would hear my grandmother talking non-stop when I was sleeping with her.

The fear of famine in my heart became more and more profound, especially in the past few nights, I could imagine the scene with my eyes closed.

One of his grandmother's eyes was blinded by someone trampling on her during the famine and hitting a dead branch on the roadside, but fortunately, she managed to save her life, right?

Later, she married and moved to Yulin Village, where she gave birth to his father, and then to him.

With both children and grandchildren, the old man can be said to have had a happy life after all the hardships he has endured.

But now?

Can they get through this peacefully?

This is really a question that no one can answer.

"Don't take it lightly, or you'll cry later!"

"Everyone knows that the town has started to get chaotic. It's hard to say what will happen in the future. Now we have the government to take care of it."

"But what about later? Now we kill one person, but what about killing ten or a hundred people in the future?"

Everyone's breath was suffocated.

"By then, there will be countless burning, killing and looting. Will the people in the government be able to handle it?"

"So, we have to guard our own front door. If chaos really breaks out in the future, our village cannot turn its elbows out. First of all, we can't tell anyone about the grain storage!"

Chen Ping thought of the patrol team he had formed during the last bandit incident, and shouted, "When the village chief wants to use us, just ask. There are plenty of young and strong people in our village, and we will never let outsiders invade our village!"

"Yes!"

Everyone responded in unison.

Especially the team led by Chen Yan, who caught the bandit last time, were so excited that their blood was boiling.

The village chief nodded with satisfaction, "Good boy, I was right about you!"

"Everyone, cheer up. If you have money at home during this period, use it to stock up on things. In the future, money will be useless."

Some people still didn't believe it. "It's just that the food price went up and someone died in the town. Why are they making it seem like the whole town is doomed?"

He was muttering below, but the village chief still heard it.

"Isn't it just that the price of food has increased?"

The village chief shook his head helplessly and repeated his words.

"The price went from 15 to 70 cents, that was yesterday. It might be 100 cents today. Is this just a small matter?"

The man didn't dare to say anything after hearing this, because everyone was looking at him as if he were a fool.

"In short, the fact that every household in our village is hoarding grain is not allowed to be told to anyone else. If anyone tells others and brings disaster to our village, then we in Yulin Village will no longer recognize that family!"

"Whether you live or die from now on has nothing to do with our village. Expel you from the village!"

The village chief said sternly.

Everyone was shocked, but they also knew that this was the best way. Otherwise, if someone with a bad mouth spread the news, everyone in the village would suffer.

Now that I have made it clear, I hope no one will be confused...

"Go back. Everyone should prepare well in the remaining time. If you have relatives elsewhere, please visit them as much as possible."

"But just one sentence, even if you have relatives in the neighboring village or other villages, you are not allowed to spread a single word about our village!"

"if not......"

He didn't continue to say the rest, but everyone knew it.

There are more than 100 households in Yulin Village. If one family makes a mistake, the other members can trample the entire family to death.

Anyone who knows what's best knows what to do.

........

When Zheng saw that the village chief had made it clear, she no longer concealed it.

She used the method Cui Yunzhu taught her to make dried vegetables, and called Wang and Xiao Zheng to join them, and together they dried all the vegetables in the backyard for later use.

As for the seedlings in the field, no one cared about them.

Given the current situation, is there still a need to plant the seedlings?

well.......

Zheng stood at the edge of the field, looked at the seedlings that had grown to half the height of her knees, and sighed.

What farmers cherish most in their lives is food, but seeing these large tracts of green fields about to be destroyed, she felt indescribable pain in her heart.

Cui Yunzhu harvested another wave of crops that had just grown in the space, and immediately planted new crops.

Then, when no one was around, he and Chen Yan would steam rice at home. During the day when there were many people around, they would only steam rice.

The rice has a slight smell, so even someone wouldn't easily notice it.

In the afternoon, when every household started to go back to cook and there was no one at the foot of the mountain, they began to prepare the main course, including all kinds of delicious meat dishes.

Although a lot of meat and vegetables were stored in the space before, no one knew how long this famine would last.

After all, in the previous life, Cui Yunzhu and Chen Yan separated after only a few months.

She had no idea what happened next.