Rebirth of Siheyuan: Starting from escaping famine in 42

Li Qingfeng was pulling the cart with some difficulty when he suddenly heard someone calling him from the front. He looked up and found that it was Qin Dezhui and the people from Qinjia Village jogging towards him, so he stopped. Why should he bother pulling the cart when there was free labor?

Li Qingfeng lit a cigarette, waved at them, and shouted, "Uncle Qin."

When everyone arrived, Qin Dezhui laughed and said to Li Qingfeng, "Qingfeng, you're here!" As he spoke, he stretched his head and knocked on the cart. Seeing the cart full of grain, he instantly became excited.

The villagers who followed also saw the cart of grain. They were very excited, their faces flushed, and they kept muttering, "Now we have food to eat."

"Yes! This cart of food can sustain the whole village until the autumn harvest."

"Yeah yeah!"

"Dezhu is really capable. He directly sent people to the village to exchange food. Now we don't have to worry about the Japanese stealing food."

Discussions from the crowd continued.

Hearing this, Li Qingfeng narrowed his eyes and looked at Qin Dezhui with a smile.

Qin Dezhui's face turned red due to the talk, and he quickly said, "Qingfeng, let's go into the village first! I'll pull the cart." As he said that, he pushed Li Qingfeng aside, held the handles of the cart with both hands, exerted all his strength, and walked quickly towards the village with his calves.

Li Qingfeng smiled, nodded and greeted the people in Qinjia Village one by one, smoked a cigarette, and walked slowly behind Qin Dezhui.

When a group of people were about to reach the threshing ground of Qinjia Village, men, women, young and old from the whole village were waiting in the threshing ground, stretching their heads to look in the direction of the village, all looking forward to the arrival of the food exchange. When they saw the carts full of food, there were exclamations in the crowd, and some even cried with joy, but they all had one thing in common, that was a bright smile on their faces.

At this time, an old man with white hair walked out of the crowd, looked at Li Qingfeng, and asked Qin Dezhu: "Dezhu, this is the young man who came to exchange food!"

"Yes, Second Master, he is Li Qingfeng." Qin Dezhu explained to the old man, and then said to Li Qingfeng: "Qingfeng, this is the village chief of our village, Qin Mancang, you can just follow me and call him Second Master."

"Hello, Mr. Qin." Li Qingfeng took out two cigarettes, gave one to Qin Mancang and himself, and threw the rest to Qin Dezhui, asking him to pass cigarettes to others.

Qin Mancang nodded and said with a smile: "Brother Li! I thank you on behalf of the whole village. If you hadn't come to exchange for food, someone might have starved to death."

Li Qingfeng smoked a cigarette, waved his hand, and said with a smile: "Second Master Qin, there is no need to say that, we are all trading with each other."

"Also, Master Qin, you can just call me Qingfeng, no need to call me Brother Li, Brother Li."

"Okay." Qin Mancang shook his head and said, "Qingfeng! What you brought is life-saving food. Besides, we may not be able to exchange food with others."

Li Qingfeng laughed: "Haha!" Then he said to Qin Mancang: "Second Master Qin, let's trade first! After exchanging the food, I can go back to the city."

"Okay." Qin Mancang said to Qin Desheng next to him: "Desheng, call someone to bring the prey over!"

"Got it, Second Master." Qin Desheng called five or six people, and went straight out of the crowd to pull the prey.

Li Qingfeng took this opportunity to squint at the people around him. They all looked pale and thin, as if they could be blown away by the wind.

I saw Qin Huairu in the crowd at a glance. She was fair and beautiful, and she stood out among the crowd.

Li Qingfeng also heard people in the crowd talking about him, saying all kinds of things.

"Hey! Look at this city guy. He's really fair and strong."

"Yes! Yes! You can tell he's eating well. His face is rosy."

"I don't know if he has a wife. If not, I'll just marry him."

"How funny! Don't you even look at what you look like?"

When Li Qingfeng heard these words, he shook his head in amusement and thought to himself, you can't control me. Besides, I have someone in my heart. Don't think about me anymore, even though I know I'm handsome.

"Please make way, everyone, make way." At this time, a voice coming from outside the crowd woke Li Qingfeng up.

Coming back to his senses, Li Qingfeng saw the man called Qin Desheng, leading five or six villagers, all pushing wheelbarrows that were piled with various prey, all pickled, as well as a bear skin and twenty or thirty rabbit skins, all of which had been processed.

When they came over, Li Qingfeng said to Qin Mancang with a smile, "Second Master Qin, please take a look at the food first. If the number is right, just unload it directly so that I can load the prey and take it back."

"Okay." Qin Mancang walked to the cart and asked the people beside the cart to unload the grain to the open space on the side. Then he opened the grain bags one by one and looked at the grain inside. They were all very fresh. At the end, he even found a pile of extra white radishes.

But he just saw the food in front and knew that he could exchange all the prey in the village. What about these extra white radishes? Are they for our village?

So he walked up to Li Qingfeng and asked in a puzzled voice: "Qingfeng, what about these extra white radishes?"

Li Qingfeng nodded and said, "Second Master Qin, those white radishes are for you."

Qin Mancang's eyes widened when he heard this. He couldn't believe it and confirmed again: "Qingfeng, is what you said true? You really didn't fool me."

Li Qingfeng smiled and nodded, and said affirmatively: "Second Master Qin, I didn't lie to you, I really gave it to you!"

After Qin Mancang confirmed it, his eyes suddenly turned red, and he nodded and said softly: "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you, Qingfeng."

Li Qingfeng waved his hand, indicating that he was welcome, and then said, "Second Master Qin, please see if you can load all the prey onto the cart."

"Okay," Qin Mancang responded, and then said to Li Qingfeng: "Qingfeng, you can't even carry all these prey away!"

Hearing this, Li Qingfeng smiled and said, "It's okay, Master Qin, a friend of mine is waiting for me in Changping. He doesn't want to show up, so I pulled it myself. Otherwise, he could have taken it away in one trip."

"Oh! What's going on? Okay, I'll call people to load the cart for you." Qin Mancang called three or four people and asked them to load the prey onto the cart and put them in order.

With so many people, the cart can be loaded quickly. After a while, the cart was full. Li Qingfeng said to Qin Mancang, "Second Master Qin, I will take this cart of prey away first, and the rest will be taken on the next trip."

Qin Mancang said, "Okay, do you want someone to push you from behind? That way you will feel lighter."

"No need, Mr. Qin, I'm leaving first." After saying that, Li Qingfeng drove away with the cart full of prey.

"Row."

Qin Mancang watched Li Qingfeng pulling the cart away, and then he called on people to start distributing the food.

When the villagers in the crowd heard this, they cheered loudly.