Quick Transmigration: The Cannon Fodder's Comeback in the Era Tales

Chapter 73: Chapter 73: The Poor Little Girl Killed by Her Uncle 29

After the villagers learned that Yuan Chun could make vermicelli, they shamelessly came to the team leader’s house to learn. Once they mastered it, they went home to make it themselves.

As a result, a few days later, every household courtyard in Xiaxi Village was filled with drying vermicelli.

In the spring of 1960, the old village chief led the villagers to open up thirty acres of wasteland, all planted with sweet potatoes.

Afterward, the old village chief organized the villagers to plant hundreds of acres of sweet potato seedlings on the mountain. The team headquarters also organized a militia team to patrol the mountain, fearing that wild boars might ruin the sweet potatoes.

The year 1960 was even drier than 1959, with only three rains the entire year. Each was just a drizzle, barely wetting the ground before stopping.

In early spring, the ground was already cracked, so the villagers had to fetch water to irrigate the land in order to plant crops. Afterward, they tirelessly fetched and watered the crops every day, nurturing the seedlings...

Fortunately, the river outside the village never dried up, no matter how much it was used, sustaining the villagers of dozens of villages.

By 1961, more and more villages learned about this never-drying river, and villagers from dozens of miles away rushed over to fetch water. They used ox carts to haul water to irrigate their land, hoping to save some crops...

During the three years of disaster, many people starved to death in other places, but not a single person starved to death within a hundred miles of Xiaxi Team, and they managed to harvest food every year.

This attracted the attention of the authorities.

Soon, some departments sent people to secretly investigate the river and lake situation. After Yuan Chun got the news from 007, she went to the mountain to put the water pump into the space.

Anyway, it was already autumn in 1961, and the harvest would be in a month, so the year of drought was almost over, and the water pump wasn’t needed anymore.

However, looking at the water pump occupying half of the Jade Gourd Space, Yuan Chun found it such an eyesore that she decisively transferred the water pump to the System Space.

007: ”...”

”Host, I’m squeezed out of space to stand in.”

”Do you have feet?”

It had no feet.

It was just a system.

But it was a system with awareness and thoughts.

”Host, you can buy a 100 cubic meter space specifically for it.” It suggested weakly.

Yuan Chun righteously replied, ”It has a place already, why waste those points, besides, I’m still in debt.”

007: ”...”

Alright, just leave it there, at worst, it would just play with the water pump’s pipes as a tunnel toy.

A few days later, when Yuan Chun went to the mountain to pick mushrooms, she saw several groups of strangers searching for something, and some of them were holding small, exquisite instruments, detecting something.

She didn’t dare get close and quietly walked away before they noticed her.

After all, a thirteen-year-old girl appearing deep in the mountains seemed quite strange.

She didn’t want anyone to suspect she had something special about her.

For the next month, Yuan Chun didn’t go back into the deep mountains but instead followed her village friends to gather pigweed on the outskirts, earning work points.

Perhaps due to eating well in recent years, Yuan Chun grew very fast, reaching a height of 1.5 meters at thirteen. In a time when everyone was hungry and had an empty belly, this was already considered tall.

One year younger than her, Liu Yuzhu was only 1.3 meters tall, half a head shorter, and had grown dark and skinny, completely losing the fair, chubby, and tall appearance from the previous life.

In this life, without her money to support and without her working like a horse doing chores, Liu Yuzhu was no longer the little princess darling of her second uncle and aunt.

She heard from her aunt that all the household chores at her second uncle’s house were done by Liu Yuzhu.

Since Ge Cuilan injured her leg, six-year-old Liu Yuzhu had been forced to learn to cook and wash clothes... Later, even after Ge Cuilan’s leg healed, Liu Yuzhu continued doing the household chores.

Liu Yuzhu completely took over the role of the original host from the previous life.