After a series of discussions, we came up with a final plan.
That night, Nina and Shannon would go to one of the families to borrow something. However, after the family members went into the house, they would both steal the basket of beans drying in the sun in the yard.
When the two of them returned, we looked at the basket full of beans and were confident that the other party would call the cops. However, nothing happened even until the next afternoon. That family did not come to us to ask us to return the beans either.
We speculated that the family must have thought that we were pitiful and were in desperate need of food, so that was why they did not make a scene out of it.
Such a result left Shannon a little speechless. We eventually returned the beans to the family.
Though not long after that, the family sent the basket o f beans back to us again.
In the next two days, Shannon and Nina started taking things from other families, but similarly, no one was bothered.
People even started sending them food.
These were foods grown by the farmers themselves.
Living in the mountains, the majority of the villagers lived off nature. From the day they were born, they felt that their lives were just like the rest of the villagers. They knew nothing about the world outside the mountains and were not curious about it either.
In their opinion, the reason why Nina and Shannon were stealing other people's food was that they were poor and hungry. Therefore, out of sympathy, they decided not to pursue the matter with them.
After figuring this out, we decided not to proceed with the plan.
Even so, out of sympathy, the villagers continued sending food to us in the next few days. However, we rejected them all.
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