novelden Chapter 118 Banana Rain
Chapter 118 Banana Rain
This battle seemed difficult to fight. Five days had passed and there was still no sound from the navy to report safety.
There was little food left in the cave and the food the villagers brought with them when they fled.
Su Weixi was also very anxious when looking at this situation. There was food in his own space, but it would be too strange for him to take it out with so many people.
Furong saw Su Weixi's worry and comforted him not to worry, saying that she could go out hunting and would not let Su Weixi and the others starve.
But Su Weixi shook his head. Everyone had food before, so it was okay for Su Weixi and the others to eat the prey hunted by Furong.
But the current situation is different. People are running out of food, and you are still here eating meat. Aren’t you just making people hate you?
Even though Furong was very skilled in martial arts, and the two guards and the coachman also had martial arts skills, there were more villagers and they were outnumbered.
Su Weixi thought about it all night, and on the morning of the sixth day, he went to discuss it with Village Chief Chen.
"Grandpa Village Chief." Su Weixi walked to Village Chief Chen's house and saw Village Chief Chen who was also frowning.
"Miss Su is here, please come and sit down. Are you out of food? I'll ask my old woman to get you some. I still have some at home."
Village chief Chen knew that Su Weixi had been relying on hunting to exchange food with the villagers, but now it was obvious that the villagers no longer had much food to exchange with Su Weixi and his friends, and they thought that Su Weixi wanted to ask them if they had any food.
Seeing that Grandma Haihua was about to get up to get the food, Su Weixi immediately stopped her.
"No, Grandpa Village Chief, I'm not here because I have nothing to eat. But it's also about food."
"Oh? What does Miss Su mean?"
"Grandpa village chief, you said before that it would generally take four or five days for the Japanese to be driven away, so we only prepared five or six days of food. But now there is no movement at the foot of the mountain, we can't just sit there and wait for death?" Su Weixi objectively analyzed the current situation.
"Miss Su, what are you thinking? Are you planning to go down the mountain?" The first thing the village chief thought of was that Su Weixi and the others wanted to leave, and he immediately spoke up to stop them, "Miss Su, no, as long as the horn doesn't sound, the city gate won't open, and you can't get into the city even if you go down the mountain.
"Grandpa Village Chief, don't worry, we won't go down the mountain."
Afterwards, Su Weixi told the village chief his idea.
Su Weixi's general meaning was that so many people couldn't just sit there and wait to die, but they would probably be able to find a lot of food on the mountain.
Although her personal guards can hunt, they cannot provide for so many people.
So he wanted Village Chief Chen to call some smart people to follow the two guards of the Su family to set some traps, and maybe they could get some prey.
In addition, the ladies can pick some wild vegetables and fruits to fill their stomachs.
The villagers were not unaware of the wild vegetables and fruits. In recent days, all the wild vegetables and fruits near the cave entrance had been picked clean.
If you want to pick them now, you can only go to a farther place, but safety is a problem.
Su Weixi said that after the two guards and the strong men in the village came back from setting traps, they would protect some women to pick wild vegetables and fruits.
Village chief Chen quickly agreed to Su Weixi's proposal because he also knew that if no action was taken, the villagers would really have nothing to eat.
Soon, Village Chief Chen called the heads of each household to explain the situation, and the villagers agreed. They had long seen Su Weixi and his friends eating meat and were greedy, but they did not have the ability to hunt.
Now that the Su family's guards were willing to teach them how to hunt with traps, they naturally agreed.
Therefore, about twenty young and strong men and two guards were quickly selected to set out to set traps in the mountains.
After they came back from setting traps and had a good rest, they protected the young and more nimble women to pick wild vegetables and fruits.
Su Weixi was worried that they wouldn't be able to find much food, so she wanted to take some food out secretly. So she followed the group picking wild vegetables.
She was leaving, and Qing'er, An'an, Ningning and the other two naturally wanted to go with her. Su Weixi took them with her, and the two guards went out. Furong would follow her when she went out. It would be safer to take them with her instead of leaving them in the cave.
When the two guards went to set the trap, they observed where there were wild vegetables nearby. After walking for about two cups of tea, they arrived at a place where there were more wild vegetables.
Everyone started picking wild vegetables within the area indicated by the guard, and each one was more skillful than the other.
Fortunately, we also found several wild fruit trees and banana trees nearby.
Su Weixi couldn't help but sigh, it's a good thing that this island has a tropical climate, which is suitable for the growth of many fruits and wild vegetables. If it were in the border town, it would be December now, and there would be nothing to eat in the mountains, only white snow.
While everyone was not paying attention, Qing'er took the two little ones, An'an, to pick fruits. Su Weixi told Furong to keep an eye on the three of them, and he walked towards a small path.
Furong originally wanted to follow, but Su Weixi forced her to stay and look after the three of them, and she said that she would not go far, she was just going to the bathroom.
We walked to a more secluded place and found a few banana trees.
Su Weixi saw a small hole not far from the tree. After looking around and making sure that no one was following him, he immediately took out some coarse grains from the space and put them in the small hole.
The three bags of coarse grains weigh almost two hundred kilograms in total. If you take them back and eat them sparingly, and add some wild vegetables, it will be enough for the people in the cave to eat for three or four days.
This coarse grain was secretly stored in the space by Su Weixi and Su's father when the Su family was preparing to leave the valley. However, whether they went to the border town or came to Qiongzhou, the Su family never lacked food, so they never took it out and it was always in the space.
Su Weixi looked at the food in front of him with satisfaction, clapped his hands, turned around and prepared to leave, and asked someone to pick the bananas, so that people could discover the food in the small hole.
"Bang." Su Weixi felt something hit the back of his head.
I subconsciously wanted to turn around and check, and I saw a lot of things flying towards me.
At this time, Su Weixi remembered that he still had space, and he flashed into the space while shouting.
Only after entering the space did I see clearly what was falling towards me. It turned out to be a lot of bananas. There were so many of them that it could be called a banana rain.
Su Weixi looked up and saw that there were quite a few monkeys in the surrounding trees.
At this moment, they saw Su Weixi suddenly disappear, and they screamed in fear and fled in all directions.
"Miss, where are you?"
When Su Weixi heard Furong calling her, she immediately came out of the space.
Su Weixi's previous scream alarmed Furong and the others. Furong was more skilled in martial arts, so she rushed over first, followed by the others.
"Miss, are you okay?"
"It's okay, I just met a group of naughty little guys."
"Sister, are you really okay?" The three little guys were also very anxious. They kept turning Su Weixi around to check on her to make sure she was really not injured.
"Okay, if you spin again I'll get dizzy. I'm really not injured."
The villagers who came to see what was happening saw the bananas on the ground and understood what Su Weixi had encountered.
"Miss Su, have you encountered a group of monkeys?"
"Yes."
"It must be that Miss Su accidentally walked into their territory and thought you were trying to steal their food, so she threw bananas at you."
"It should be, but we can't let them smash us in vain. Let's pick up these bananas and have more fruits."
Everyone laughed when they heard this, and the tense atmosphere just now disappeared completely in an instant.
Everyone bent down to pick up bananas. There were a lot of bananas on the ground, so they didn't plan to pick them from the trees for the time being. They would come back to pick them after they were all gone.
"Hey, there's something here." A villager who was picking bananas found the coarse grains that Su Weixi had placed in the small hole.
When everyone opened it, they found that it was actually coarse grains, and they were all very excited. Then, under Su Weixi's intentional or unintentional guidance, everyone thought that someone had hidden it here for emergency use just like the grain in the cave.
Fishermen on the coast all have this habit, and no one doubts this speculation.
I’m just worried that if I take it away, what if the person who hid the grain comes back and can’t find it?
It was only after Su Weixi said that he would send guards to deliver the same amount of food once it was safe that the villagers moved the food away.
After all, food is life now, and it is really impossible to ask them to pretend not to see it.
When a dozen people returned to the place where they had picked wild vegetables before, the villagers had already picked most of the wild vegetables nearby.
Everyone then walked towards the cave with their abundant harvest, feeling satisfied.