These words made everyone feel cold. Can they survive, everyone depends on their own ability?
The next day, Fu Bao planned to continue going to the mountains. In this era, she realized how difficult it was to survive. If she hadn't brought her own koi to help the family get some food, the whole family would probably have starved to death.
There are more than a dozen people in a family, which gives me a headache just thinking about it. The key is that the whole family relies on farming.
There is not enough food to eat every year. Where will the surplus food come from? Once there is a drought, it is no joke.
They planned to go into the mountains, so Mrs. Huang took her sons to fetch water, while her daughters-in-law were sent out to collect firewood.
Unexpectedly, a man came to Huang's house quietly. He went to the kitchen first and didn't find anything outside, so he smashed the cabinet and found that there was a bag of whole grains inside.
He chuckled and said, "Yes, I know that the Huang family has food, shit, but they just don't want to take it out."
He searched several rooms and found no money. He shook his head and said, "If you are so poor, I'm afraid all the good things will be hidden by that old guy."
The man swaggered to the door, looked at the lock, and was about to smash the lock...
As soon as Fu Bao fell asleep, he felt sucked back home by a force.
She was startled when she saw Li Changsheng sneaking around the door of the room.
She picked up a stone and threw it on the door. Li Changsheng was so frightened that he wanted to run away with a bag of coarse grains. Fu Bao hit him hard on the head with a stone.
But Li Changsheng still ran away with the food, and Fu Bao was so angry that he stamped his feet.
When she woke up, she looked at Huang Nianmei and said, "Brother, let's go home!"
Huang Nianmei looked at the sky. Isn't it still early?
But his sister wanted to go home, so he nodded and said, "Okay, go home."
The herbs recently collected are all anti-plague, including honeysuckle, forsythia, Guanzhong, isatis root, atractylodes, chonglou, huoxiang, costusia, mugwort, moxa leaf, white mustard seed, artemisia annua, Daqingye, coptis, and gentian. , indigo indigo, dandelion, purple groundweed, wild chrysanthemum...
As long as it is useful against the plague, we can dig up whatever we catch. No one knows what will happen in the next year or two?
Huang Nianmei arrived home holding Fu Bao, only to find that her door was open.
He was so anxious that he rushed into the kitchen, only to find that the cabinets had been pried open, and then he shouted: "Come on, sister, hurry up and call our grandma back from the field."
Huang Laimei ran away quickly. After a while, Mrs. Huang came back panting and said, "What's going on? Who picked the lock? He's going to die..."
Fubao naturally knew that Li Changsheng had broken the lock, but he couldn't tell now. All his family members were back, and they were so angry when they saw the lock.
Fubao really hated Li Changsheng for being so sneaky. Mrs. Huang hurried back to the room and found that the lock on the door was not open, so she said: "It seems that it is really unsafe to store things at home."
That night, Mrs. Huang moved all the valuable things in the room into the hole.
Fu Bao couldn't wait to clap her hands. This was a good thing. If those dark days came, she wouldn't have to be afraid.
After Li Changsheng returned, he found that his head was bleeding and he threw the bag of grain on the ground and lay on the bed.
He was feeling groggy. When he was asked to eat, he realized that his whole body was cooked like dried shrimps.
Old Mrs. Li was so frightened that she hurriedly sent him to the pharmacy in the town. Unexpectedly, the treatment cost him two yuan in one night.
Where did she get the money? He hurried to his daughters' homes.
Li Mei has four sisters in her family, and she is the youngest. Mrs. Li looks for her from family to family.
She cried and ran to her eldest daughter's house. The eldest daughter was now married to the town and her family had some money. She secretly stuffed her with fifty cents and said: "Mom, this is the last one for me. You can save a little money..."
Old Mrs. Li said angrily: "Your brother is about to be burned to death. Why do you ask for some money? Now that you have good food and clothing in the town, you don't care whether we live or die, right?"
The eldest daughter sighed: "Now every household in the town has no food, and our family is having a hard time..."
"Bah! I just don't want to give it!" After saying that, Mrs. Li wiped her tears and said, "My family has been without food for several months. Have I spoken to you?"
The eldest daughter couldn't help feeling distressed in her eyes, so she went back to carry half a bag of flour.
If Fu Bao were here, he would definitely be scolded, this is the number one Fu Di Mo.
Mrs. Li took the flour and went to the second son's house again, but as soon as she reached the door, the second son's dog rushed out and barked "woof, woof, woof" at her.
All the neighbors came out to watch the fun. The mother-in-law of the second child's family looked at Old Mrs. Li with disdain and said, "What? Are you coming to beg for food again? Are you short of money or rice this time?"
Before Mrs. Li could say anything, the mother-in-law of the second child's family saw the bag in her hand and said, "Hey! Did you know to bring something with you this time?"
As soon as these words were said, Mrs. Li was so frightened that she ran away holding the flour bag.
When she arrived at the third child's house, she heard the howling of the third child in the house and the beating and scolding of the men in the house. In the end, she had no choice but to come to the fourth child, Li Mei.
Li Mei happened to finish washing her clothes. As soon as she walked to the bamboo forest, she was stopped by Mrs. Li:
"Daughter! You have to save your brother! He was hit on the head and is now lying in the drug store!
It costs two dollars! I don’t have a dime now, what do you think I should do? "
Li Mei said anxiously: "I...I will go back to find my mother-in-law..."
The little girl on her back started crying, and Old Mrs. Li said with an unhappy face: "You are so unlucky, why did you give birth to a loser again? Why won't your damn mother-in-law help you take care of her?"
Li Mei sighed and said, "She hasn't even looked at this child yet."
"What? She's a granddaughter, why?" Mrs. Li looked puzzled.
Not only did he not understand, Li Mei also couldn't figure out that when Fu Bao was born, Mrs. Huang was born from both an egg and a chicken.
Nowadays, the portion of thick rice porridge given to her is a little too much at most, and even trying to eat an egg is a dream.
Li Mei shook her head, and Mrs. Li quickly said: "Stop talking about this, go home quickly and collect money for me. Your brother is still lying in the drug store!"
Li Mei returned home with her child on her back, knocked on the door and said, "Mom, I have something to ask you."
Old Mrs. Huang looked at her and said, "What's the matter?"
Fu Bao looked out from the crack in the door and saw a child on Li Mei's back. This must be her sister.
It's quite painful for such a big child to be carried on the back, but women are like this nowadays. During this confinement period, Li Mei didn't work for a week, which is already very rare.
"I... something happened to my brother. My mother wants to borrow money from our family." Li Mei said sharply: "I want to borrow 2 yuan."
Mrs. Huang sneered and said:
"If I remember correctly, your brother lost money in gambling that year and borrowed 3 yuan from our family. He hasn't paid it back yet, right?
Why do you have the nerve to come to borrow money again? Do you think our family is easy to bully? "
