The Blessed Beauty Returns with a Dimension
Chapter 165 - 158 Relief

Chapter 165: Chapter 158 Relief

Jiang Yue is back, and Jiang Xiaoxiao and the others have finally cleared the road.

The Kenqing Farm where they are is much colder than the county town where her elder sister is.

The county town can already be considered spring with flowers blooming, but here it still feels like the cold of winter.

Fortunately, no more snow has fallen since the New Year.

This is already a blessing amid misfortune.

The road is said to be cleared, but it was really just the workers and educated youths from the forestry station who voluntarily organized and cleared a path.

Otherwise, there would be no way to get down the mountain.

By now, people at the forestry station could no longer hold on; the workers’ food ran out long ago, and now every household can’t even survive on porridge alone.

If this continues, they will all starve to death.

Jiang Xiaoxiao and their situation isn’t any better.

There’s not much food left, and even the last cabbage is gone; even though they still have some wild chicken eggs, rabbit meat, and wild chicken meat, they can’t eat that every meal.

Now the remaining rice, when cooked into porridge, can only last for three more days at most.

Jiang Xiaoxiao is worried sick but there’s nothing she can do.

If she rashly takes out the food, it would be equal to declaring there’s something problematic with her.

She was so anxious that she developed sores at the corners of her mouth.

It was only yesterday that the road finally cleared.

Jiang Xiaoxiao finally got a good night’s sleep.

Early this morning, the manager Guo Dongjun already took people down to the county.

They must get some relief grain back from the county.

This year’s snow disaster is so severe.

Given the situation at their forestry station, the county is bound to provide some relief grain.

The educated youths’ commune there is also waiting.

Their food is also about to run out.

It’s impossible to wait for the harvest in less than a few months, and these months are very hard to endure.

Jiang Xiaoxiao was contemplating that if the road opened, she would call the production team to see if her sister has returned.

Under normal circumstances, as she imagined, her sister should have already had the child and returned to the county.

This time, without the troubles from the Qin family, her sister should be able to have a peaceful postpartum period without leaving behind so much illness.

Most importantly, she wants to go to two places.

These are people who helped her in her past life, and although this life they intersect a lot earlier, she feels she must go.

Otherwise, she would feel uneasy for life.

In her past life, she raised three children on her own.

During that time, when life became unbearable, and she was so sick she was almost dying, if it hadn’t been for the kindness of strangers...

She would have really died in the hospital, with not even a penny to pay for the hospital bills. If it weren’t for someone righteously stepping in, charitably covering her medical expenses, she wouldn’t have had her later life.

But because someone covered her medical expenses,

After Liu Guoqing returned, he had no money for dowry and directly refused to marry the match he was going to register marriage with.

When she later found Liu Guoqing, she realized his life had become quite miserable because of her.

He had been a good veteran, but after returning home, he ended up marrying a widow.

The widow had two sons.

Liu Guoqing never had a son of his own in his lifetime.

After raising someone else’s sons, in his old age, neither of the sons was filial.

In the end, Liu Guoqing’s life had drastically changed because of her involvement.

Originally, she and Liu Guoqing were supposed to meet ten years later, but she remembers it was due to this snow disaster that Liu Guoqing’s parents starved to death.

Young Liu Guoqing had to take on the burden of the family alone.

To provide meals for his younger siblings, he had no choice but to sell three of their six houses.

But because of that, the deeds were usurped by others.

The three siblings ended up in an orphanage.

Back then, there weren’t really any orphanages; they were welfare homes.

She recalled Liu Guoqing because the educated youths’ commune’s food was also running out.

With so much food piled in her space, yet having no way to take it out, she suddenly remembered Liu Guoqing.

The boy five years younger than her and his hardships.

She learned of Liu Guoqing’s past because he drowned while trying to save a child from drowning.

His past only came to light then.

Jiang Xiaoxiao also read it in the papers; she knew Liu Guoqing had always been a good person, and such a good person shouldn’t receive such a fate.

In the afternoon, Guo Dongjun returned with the accountant and branch secretary of the farm.

The three of them looked disheveled, and everyone who saw them knew they hadn’t accomplished anything.

"Manager, did the county refuse to approve the relief grain for us?"

The workers are anxious; so many mouths at home are waiting to be fed.

Guo Dongjun sighed, "The county leaders said the snow disaster this year is too severe, not only our place is affected. There are over a dozen farms, production teams, and villages that are also suffering. The county can’t just focus on our forestry station.

Although the relief grain was approved, it has to be distributed according to the severity of the disaster, one area at a time. I’ve consulted with the leaders in charge of relief grain in the county; they say the current amount of relief grain is just a drop in the bucket. We can only prioritize those farms that are most severely affected first, while our Kenqing Farm, despite facing disaster, isn’t the worst.

In terms of order, we’re probably at the back of the queue. Those few big farms ahead of us at least have several thousand people, and we can’t let those people starve to death."

Guo Dongjun withheld some information, as there’s hardly any relief grain in the county.

Severe snow disasters have occurred throughout the region, not just in this area.

The provincial and municipal levels are currently busy with disaster relief operations.

The food allocated to their county is really very little.

The county leaders suggested they find a way to self-rescue; now it really depends on one’s own abilities.

They advised that since they are a forestry station with a lot of wood, they might consider bartering wood for food, or employing other means of barter; they’ll have to figure it out themselves.

If they rely on the county, there’s really no chance.

County leadership hasn’t slept for days, conducting meetings day and night to strategize.

Leaders were designated to each farm and production team to help with local disaster relief.

The aim is to minimize loss and casualties caused by the disaster.

The priority is to stabilize the populace, encouraging self-reliance, even borrowing from relatives and friends if needed.

When Guo Dongjun heard this, his heart sank. Basically, they were on their own. Although these farm workers have relatives and friends,

even those closest are over a hundred miles away, and though the road is clear, it’s just one simple track, and that’s still a rough journey.

It’s not just them who are affected; surrounding villages, production teams, and farms are all hit by the disaster.

Taking food from others would be asking them for their lives; who would lend their life to someone else?

All the farm workers and educated youths fell silent, no one had a word. What should they do, just sit here waiting for relief?

Guo Dongjun called out for a few key cadres of the farm, and summoned Song Moting and Jiang Xiaoxiao, along with He Aiguo.

These are the leaders among the educated youths, bringing them together to brainstorm, as everyone is in the same boat now.