Chapter 36.
"Have you heard that Dahe Village downstream lost more than [-] chickens overnight!"

"Last night, a dozen or so wolves came down from the mountain and went straight to the village. That wolf howled all night!"

"Three other villagers were bitten by wolves, that's a tragedy!"

"Hiss—that arm was bitten badly, two bites of flesh were bitten off the arm of the Orion in the village!"

"Even Mr. Xie couldn't do anything about the injury. He said he asked his family to prepare for the funeral!"

The two villages were originally neighbors, and they were more or less related to each other. Many people rushed to Dahe Village after hearing the news, fearing that their relatives would be affected by the disaster.

And when they returned to Shenjia Village again, they were shocked one by one.

Even Li Zheng couldn't help but came out and asked:
"Shen Wang, what's the situation with your natal family?"

"My God, I thought it was pitiful enough to be patronized by wolves, but I never thought there would be more pitiful!"

Shen Wangshi's expression was very complicated, she was sad because of the tragic appearance of her relatives, but she didn't know what to think of, and there was a little happiness on her face.

These words aroused everyone's greater curiosity.

"What, is there anything more pitiful than a pack of wolves? What is that!"

"That's right, what happened, could it be that the black bear has also gone down the mountain?"

"The black bear didn't go down the mountain, huh!"

Mrs. Shen patted her thigh, "Everyone in Dahe Village is sallow and emaciated from hunger. Those who don't know it think they haven't eaten for months!"

Thanks to the fact that she brought some food when she returned to her mother's house, otherwise she wouldn't be able to last long like her elder brother and sister-in-law.

"They didn't have a good harvest this year, and they didn't leave much after selling the farmers in the field. It's not like our sixth uncle Zhang Luo who bought grain early. It is said that every family ran out of grain half a month ago."

"Besides, the hunter heard the wolf howling at night because he was hungry and wanted to hunt to eat. Who would have thought that the wolf would not be hunting, and he would get himself into it!"

hiss--

"Why is there no food? Can't go to Fucheng to buy it!"

"That's right, although the number of people in Fucheng is restricted, it's not impossible to enter!"

Shen Wangshi sighed, and her voice became louder, "If you can't afford it, do you know how much a catty of black noodles is?"

"Isn't it 15 Wen a catty?"

"That's the old calendar, now it's 25 Wen a catty, broken rice is even more unaffordable!"

hiss--

The melon eaters gasped, "It's so expensive!"

"Black-hearted businessman, grab the money, this is it!"

Shen Wangshi shook her head slowly, but she became the most stable one.

"The grain shops in Fucheng all have the same price, and there are still many people who have sharpened their heads and squeezed in. Whoever has money in their hands will starve themselves, isn't there no way!"

The rich can still buy food with their family wealth, but the common people can't do it. Without money, they can only go hungry!

"So it is!"

Only then did everyone realize that not all villages have sixth uncles.

They looked at Li Zheng again with awe and admiration in their eyes.

Shen Mantun puffed out his chest subconsciously, and instantly felt that his aura was two meters eight.

"Listen, you all listen, now you know how good our village is!"

"Yes yes yes, we understand, thanks to the reminder of the sixth uncle, otherwise all our money would not be enough to toss."

"If Uncle Six hadn't told us to beware of animals going down the mountain this time, we might not even be able to keep the chickens at home!"

There is really an old man in the village, as if there is a treasure!
While everyone was rejoicing, they asked Mrs. Shen for more details.

At this time, halfway up Shennong Mountain, Cheng Xi was leaning on a big bare tree and using a high-powered telescope to inspect it himself.

The truth is worse than Shen Wang's description.

Dahe Village is a small village of about one hundred households, and the households live in a relatively compact size, which can be seen at a glance.

Today's Dahe Village is completely different from the last time she looked with a telescope. At least half of the row upon row of houses collapsed because of the snow, the thatch flew around, and even bare walls could be seen.

Many villagers were tidying up in the yard numbly, and the large red blood stains looked particularly hideous in the white snow.

What a miserable word to describe.

"The battle last night was very tragic——"

Cheng Xi turned the binoculars slightly, and found that the conditions of the other villages were no better than Dahe Village, and most of the thatched houses were destroyed.

She even saw a family of seven or eight people walking out of a small house of about 20 square meters.

In the face of nature, human beings are still insignificant.

"Ok?"

Turning the binoculars in Cheng Xi's hand, he saw four dark figures at the edge of the village entering a house with sticks in their hands, and came out with a rag bag in their hands.

She narrowed her eyes slightly, and waited for a while, and finally a half-dead figure crawled out of the house slowly.

Hunger most easily breeds crime.

The taste of being hungry is not good. Even a well-educated person may not be able to stand the bottom line in the face of hunger, let alone in the uncivilized ancient times?
The disaster brought by the snowstorm is just the beginning.
Cheng Xi looked at the negative 25 degrees displayed on the thermometer and was silent for a moment, then tightened his sister-in-law brand thick padded jacket.

Downhill.

***
In a small courtyard of Shenjia Village, more than a dozen villagers crowded together.

In the encirclement, Shen Mantun was so worried that he straightened his hair with his hands.

"Father, do you have any good ideas?"

"That's right, Uncle Six, you are the person with the most knowledge in our village, can you give me a tip?"

"It's too cold, the house is like an ice hole, if you go down, you will freeze to death."

"If every household hadn't run out of firewood, we wouldn't be able to ask for it from you, would we?"

The villagers came to Lizheng's house for one thing this time - there was no firewood to burn at home.

You need firewood for cooking, and you need firewood to keep out the cold. You can't live without firewood in such a cold day.

The temperature drop for several days made the villagers sick, those lying in bed, and those who were able to go out were all in good health.

A while ago, the big guys could go to the back mountain to pick up branches to make a fire to keep warm, but now let alone the branches, they can't even see the road.

While other villages are still struggling to get enough to eat, the villagers of Shenjia Village have already encountered another challenge.

The sixth uncle frowned fiercely, and stared at everyone in a circle.

"If you don't have firewood, go find firewood. There are so many trees on Shennong Mountain, why can't you use your hands?"

"Ouch—"

The expressions of the villagers became even more bitter!
"We want to run up the mountain, but we dare not!"

"That's right, Uncle Six, last time we ran into a wild boar before we reached halfway up the mountain, and almost killed everyone!"

"If you meet a pack of wolves, it will be even worse!"

"If the prey on Shennong Mountain dare to come down the mountain, they must be hungrier than us. If we encounter them on the mountain, we will die!"

In the past, Dahe Village was patronized by wolves. The villagers dare not underestimate the hungry wolves anymore. Going up the mountain now is tantamount to fighting wild beasts.

(End of this chapter)

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