Chapter 276. The water receded.
Later, Hua Chengtian and You Luosong accompanied the elder Hua who was collecting grain seeds from various households to Wei Dapeng, Doctor Sun, and Zhu Rourong. They visited and made arrangements before nightfall.
The three families were happy to greet the village chief personally.
Why wouldn’t they greet him? Having just moved here, they lacked everything except the houses they brought with them, hoping the village chief could help introduce them to the villagers. They wondered if they could use Silver Coin to exchange for some coarse salt or grains.
Undoubtedly, they expected to stay for quite a long time in this household.
And as they imagined, they all managed to buy coarse salt, though it was purchased from the village chief’s house, with each family getting half a jin, while they were introduced to buy grains from the villagers.
Although the price was somewhat higher than usual, given the current circumstances, being able to buy grains was worthy of gratitude to their ancestors. At the very least, they no longer needed to eat the wild vegetable roots and bark that had been nauseating.
That night, knowing they would receive grain seeds the next day, ten or so households enjoyed their soundest sleep in over a year.
The next morning, they anxiously hurried down the mountain to receive the grain seeds. The temperature was continually rising, and it wouldn’t be long before they could plant on the mountain.
They saw the old and young of Hua Village busy working in the fields. Each was pressing hard, eager to borrow grain seeds and start farming.
Their envious gazes continued to pursue the block after block of fields in the valley for a long time.