Making Furniture

Jiang Chuan's words were reasonable, with the Jiang family's people still eyeing them greedily. They needed to be careful.

"Dad, why not invite the village chief to our home tomorrow?" Jiang Xia suggested. "He's a good man; he won't cause any trouble."

"That could work," Jiang Chuan nodded, agreeing to Jiang Xia's idea.

That night, after Zhou Lan and Jiang Chuan had finished washing up, they lay in bed discussing the events that took place in the village that day.

Not long after Jiang Chuan left, the village chief gathered everyone together and told them that relief food was on its way. He asked everyone to hold on a bit longer, promising that within a fortnight they would no longer be hungry.

He also took the opportunity to warn those who had been foraging for wild vegetables to keep quiet about the abundance of wild vegetables in their village.