40: Zero Yuan Purchase, a Big Bang

Yun Feifei's family rented out their land to someone else for cultivation. It just so happened that the family who rented the land was growing sweet potatoes, so Yun Feifei and her family also got a sack of sweet potatoes.

Yun Feifei and her four siblings were very happy with this unexpected gain.

The people in Yunjia Village will not starve for the time being because they have captured locusts as food reserves.

The villagers in other villages did not store any food. Most of them held old ideas and believed that locusts were a punishment from heaven and should not be eaten.

Some even knelt down before the locusts, burned incense, and begged them to go away quickly.

Only a small number of people had run out of food at home. They were going to die anyway, so they filled their stomachs first and then caught locusts to eat.

If people couldn't even feed themselves, how could they get food to feed livestock? So people who raised chickens, ducks, geese, pigs and other livestock at home sold them and used the money to buy food.

This is also the reason why Yun Feifei can still buy meat at the butcher shop in town.

Food is becoming more and more expensive now, and many people don't have much money on hand, so they will spend money to buy rice bran, corn stalks, etc. to feed livestock and cook them for consumption.

People who live in the mountains go up the mountains to look for food, and more and more people go up the mountains to look for food. After the locusts wreak havoc, wild vegetables cannot grow so quickly.

Everyone goes to dig tree bark to eat. Elm bark contains starch and sugar, making it the first choice for digging tree bark.

After digging out the bark, they dig up wild grasses. The roots of the wild grasses contain moisture, and the grass seeds can be used as rice and millet to make porridge. Of course, this porridge is not delicious, but it can fill the stomach.

People living near the river go down to catch fish and shrimp to satisfy their hunger. In short, in the face of hunger, everyone uses all their own methods.

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Having said that, after a few days, Yun Feifei had dealt with all the locusts stored in her space. She dried them, packed them in sacks, and stacked them in the space, leaving a lot of space free.

I went to the river and filled all the containers in the space with water. I also boiled a lot of hot water and stored it in the space.

Now that the conditions were better, she of course gave herself a comfortable hot bath, and the bathtub she bought came in handy.

The water in the bath was full of dirt. She changed the water three times before she cleaned her body. After wiping off a layer of mud, Yun Feifei felt as light as a swallow and very comfortable.

Of course she wouldn't enjoy it alone, she filled all the water tanks and barrels in the house with water.

When Yun Guohua and the others came back, they saw so much water stored in the house and thought that Yun Feifei had carried it back from the river on a shoulder pole.

He also blamed Yun Feifei for fetching water without waiting for him to come back to go together. How many times had she fetched so much water?

Yun Feifei could only smile in response to Yun Guohua's question. Could she still wait for him to come back and fetch water?

She had the space, so she just walked around without any effort, but could she say that?

When Yun Feifei suggested that everyone use this water to cleanse themselves thoroughly, her younger brothers and sisters rejected the idea.

[Wouldn't it be better to save this water for drinking? Why waste it? ]

It was only at Yun Feifei's strong request that they took a bath, but no one was very flexible with the water, so they only used water from two wooden basins, not three large bathtubs of water like Yun Feifei did.

During these days at home, Yun Feifei also saw the food that her younger brothers and sisters found, which was tree bark and a few wild vegetables.

There was no shortage of food in Yun Feifei's space, but she did not take out a large amount. She brought back a little bit at a time from outside.

Firstly, if she brought back too much food and was discovered by others, they wouldn’t be able to keep it together. Secondly, as long as she was there, they wouldn’t starve. So what difference did it make whether she brought it back or not?