Disaster Apocalypse: Farming, Family, and My Hidden Secret Space

Next, in case of any emergency, Old Liu still drank a bowl of the prepared herbal medicine and was ready to leave.

However, before leaving, there was one more thing to do, which was to tear down the house.

In short, demolishing it wouldn't let the uncle's family benefit.

This time, Hua Qiang didn't ask for a reward; they were skilled at causing destruction! Mainly because Liu Kai's actions fit their taste; that's how a man should be.

Calling on dozens of brothers, they swiftly demolished the two prepared houses in an instant, not even sparing the walls, pushing everything down forcefully, leaving no good place untouched.

Zhao Daxin watched all this, dumbfounded, already anticipating the uncle's reaction upon returning.

It was truly liberating, but thinking of Liu Kai leaving, he felt reluctant, couldn't help but step forward: "Liu Kai, are you really planning to leave?"

"Yes, Brother Zhao, take care. I don't want to stay in Shangrao Village even for a moment."

"Sigh, that's also good, just that your house is too much of a pity."

"There's nothing to pity, anyway it can't be lived in. Instead of benefiting others, it's better for my heart to feel relieved, right, Brother Zhao?"

"Indeed," Zhao Daxin agreed, thinking he'd do the same if it were him.

"But they..." After all, people are unpredictable, Zhao Daxin was still a bit worried.

"Don't worry, they are my lifesavers. Just the fact that they tirelessly brought me back is enough. More importantly, they are from Hua Village."

"Hua Village? Is it Hua Village of Qinggu Mountain?" At this point, Zhao Daxin was also a bit envious; if it were Hua Village, he also wanted to follow, but unfortunately his sons were not around, and he couldn't leave the fields he just planted, the yield from which would decide if they could fill their stomachs.

"Yes," Liu Kai nodded. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so desperate to latch onto them, as everyone knows Hua Village is the most united, following them surely isn't wrong.

"Alright, since that's the case, Brother Zhao won't say much more. You take care, and if possible don't forget me in the future."

"I won't, and I have to thank you for taking care of my family these days." Saying this, he poured out more than a pound of grain seeds from the bag beside him, "These seeds aren't much but can be useful, Brother Zhao, don't disdain them."

"No, no, that's not acceptable." Such precious seeds, Zhao Daxin felt it was inappropriate to take, and besides, he hadn't done much.

"Take them; it's my little gesture, I still have plenty here." Liu Kai looked at the bag still containing over ten pounds of seeds.

As he had difficulty moving, these were enough to keep his family busy, and they might not even use them all unexpectedly.

"Liu Kai, I... Brother Zhao will shamelessly accept them, as I truly need grain seeds now." Seeing that Liu Kai's bag indeed still had plenty of seeds left, Zhao Daxin couldn't resist the temptation.

"Alright, let's go." As they spoke, Hua Qiang had already led the men to demolish all the walls and houses cleanly in the courtyard.

Looking at the home turned into ruins, Liu Kai hesitated for a moment, Heshi and the three children had reddened eyes, Old Liu was too weak and fell asleep after taking medicine, thus spared from sadness.

It was a pity they couldn't take the bricks from home.

"Brother Zhao, take whatever you need from these things, take care," truly leaving was hard for Liu Kai.

"Okay, I won't be polite with you."

Watching the Hua Village men prepared to leave, at this moment he envied Liu Kai somewhat, escorting them far away.

When Liu's uncle and sons returned home, Zhao Daxin and others from the village were picking up bricks and rubble from the ruins, fast enough to mix with mud to build another room.

At this moment, Liu Kai and his family had already gone far, now two or three miles out on the official road, no matter how enraged Liu's uncle cursed, they couldn't hear anything.

Witnessing the Liu family home reduced to ruins, Liu's uncle nearly collapsed, unfortunately, no matter how they tried to stop, nobody in the village listened to them, even the village chief's family was there; after all, before leaving, Liu Kai shouted in the village that anyone in need could take it, considering it his last bit of contribution to Shangrao Village.

In the end, Liu's uncle and his family could only watch helplessly as everyone divided the bricks and stones from Liu Kai's home until they were clean, leaving only some unusable debris, truly wanting to cry without tears.

Cursing was useless, fighting... Could their family fight the entire village? They were so frustrated they were nearly spitting blood, seeing the place where not even the fences remained, they finally had to return to their home, at least a few walls were left, able to block some view.

Within the collapsed walls sounded the complaints of Liu's uncle's family.

On the other side, after more than an hour, Old Hua finally led the troop back to Hua Village, having delayed so much that the sunset was about to set, ultimately deciding to rest overnight in Hua Village, and head up the mountain early the next day.

Li Village realised only then, indeed the village chief and others hadn't gone down the mountain, no wonder Hua Village was empty upon entering, though there were traces of repairs in the village.

After walking a long way, everyone was thirsty, eagerly rushing to the well in the middle of the village.

Besides the well at the village chief's home, the village had more than ten wells, with two public ones, one at the village entrance and the other right in the middle of the village, from where families without wells usually fetched water, the rest were private wells.

Old Hua had already had people wash the village's two wells for several days, and after sinking for two days, they were now suitable for consumption.

Isn't it just so the village chief had foresight? No matter how frugal, the water they brought down from the mountain was nearly used up, now it came in handy.

Then everyone gathered at the back of the village to rest, some fetching water, some burying pots to cook, each doing their own duty, preparing for the evening meal.

Liu Kai's family and those from Li Village also prepared together, but individually.

In these times, no family had much food, don't think about taking advantage of others, and no one would casually show great kindness.

Mostly it was wild vegetable soup, those with extra grains at home would add some brown rice or coarse flour, plus a pinch of salt, solving dinner.

Hua Village's conditions were somewhat better, boiling coarse porridge, soaking the dried cornbread, adding home-brought pickles, eating such that Liu Kai's family and Li Village people could only swallow saliva.

Hua Jin, here bringing grandpa and brother, still had a small stove, boiling white porridge, each person had one boiled egg and pickled duck eggs, a serving of pickles, several steamed buns, ate in the tent.

If not afraid the fried dish smelled too strong, Hua Jin could have made a stir anytime to heat it up, what a pity.

Even so, their food was already considered excellent outside, watching the expression of Xiao Si while eating made it clear.

Just as Xiao Si reluctantly held the bowl pushed over by his sister to wash, outside the tent came the voice of Uncle Hua Qiang.

"Village chief uncle, someone's outside the village, wants to see you."

"Someone?" Old Hua raised an eyebrow, eyes flashing with confusion, "Did they say who?" He walked out of the tent.

"Claiming to be Teacher Zhao, said he was a mentor to Cheng Tian sir at home two years ago."

Speaking of this mentor, they have seen him but weren't familiar, only the deep night and being leaner made Hua Qiang uncertain it was him, still preferring the village chief uncle to decide.