Ye Yutong and Li Yunze were sitting at the dining table in the main room eating, with Mu Mu and Tietou accompanying them.
There were four steamed buns in the bowl on the table, as well as the sorghum noodles that the grandmother had rolled for them just now, and a large bowl of wild vegetables mixed with them.
Li Yunze and Ye Yutong each had a large bowl of noodles.
Mu Mu and Tietou didn't eat noodles. They each ate a steamed bun and drank half a bowl of noodle soup.
Shitou's wife asked the children to go back to the house, fearing that Tongtong and Ping An would be embarrassed to make a fool of themselves here.
Their family now eats wild vegetables and sorghum batter for lunch every day, which is considered a good family in their village.
Although there is no drought here, taxes are heavy and there are many victims. There are no wild vegetables in winter, and the bark of the trees on the mountain is stripped and eaten by nearby victims.
The people of Yejia Village opened up some wasteland after escaping last year, and only planted food in the ground this spring. It has just sprouted now and it is still early to harvest the grain.
I heard from Li Zheng in the village that even wasteland has to pay taxes, and I don’t know if the grain collected is enough to pay the tax?
Ye Yutong saw that Uncle Shitou and his family were all dark and skinny, and he couldn't eat the big bowl of noodles in front of him.
Shitou saw them not moving their chopsticks, so he whispered: "Eat quickly, there is no shortage of food at home. During the Chinese New Year, your uncle made the decision and exchanged all the money at home for food, and kept it in the cellar."
What he said was true. All the more than one hundred taels of silver were exchanged for sorghum noodles, but there were only about two hundred kilograms.
I still asked the stewards at the dock to help me buy it. Now they can't even enter the city, let alone buy food.
Although there is food at home, their family has more than a dozen children, large and small. If they really let go of food, they could finish it in a month.
The women in the family go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables every day, and bring home whatever is edible. Calculating carefully, I hope that these grains can survive this famine year.
Li Yunze and Ye Yutong only ate the noodles in their bowls and left some food for them when they were about to leave.
When Ye Dazhuang returned home, he told his family about Ye Yutong and Li Yunze coming here.
"The two of them were the only ones left. They probably couldn't survive, so they found this way."
Remembering that the two of them were dressed in the same embarrassment, he gloated: "They look miserable. If he hadn't called out to Daming, Tietou and the others, I wouldn't have even recognized that damn girl."
"Deserved it."
After Huang Yunqin finished speaking, he thought that his father-in-law was still there. He glanced at Old Man Ye secretly.
He looked normal, not the least bit sad. I felt in my heart that this old man was a bit cruel.
Even if the relationship is severed, he is still his biological grandson. Why didn't he react at all when he heard that his own flesh and blood were dead?
But she didn't care about this. Since her biological grandfather didn't care, there was no need for her to hide it.
He said viciously: "The whole family is full of ruthless people. If you end up like this, it will be retribution."
Thinking of Li Wenxiu and Ye Yutong pushing her to the ground and beating her on the way to escape, they wanted to kill that dead girl too.
She said bitterly: "Then why is that dead girl not dead? Life is very tough."
Ye Yuqing thought to herself, it seems that it is still the same as in the last life, and the only one left in the uncle's family is the dead girl.
She didn't care much about this anymore. That dead girl was useless, so there was no need to waste time on her.
She has to plan for the future. It will snow heavily in many places this winter, and rain will come next spring.
By then, the drought was almost over, but what followed was war, with fighting everywhere.
We have to find a way to move to the city next year. No matter how chaotic it is outside, it will not affect the capital.
Now that everyone in the family knows about her craftsmanship, they will definitely not separate the family so easily. I'm afraid I have to carry this big family into the city.
Thinking that she would have to support her third uncle and sister-in-law in the future, she felt very angry, but she also knew not to make things too tense.
If she wants to marry Yulang and be his wife, then her family must be harmonious.
She doesn't have the upper hand to begin with. If there is another bad quarrel with the family, Mrs. Hou will definitely dislike her background even more.
She still needs her third uncle and her brother to study hard, and it would be best if they can obtain academic honors, so that she has a greater chance of entering the Hou Mansion and becoming the principal wife.
Mrs. Ye Zhang warned her family, "If that damn girl comes to the house, you are not allowed to talk to her or let her in. Our two families have severed ties. Whether she lives or dies is none of our family's business." ."
"I know, mother."
Ye Yutong didn't know about the Ye family's old house, let alone care about it.
She is now talking to Shitou's family and Ye Daming and Huang Sister about their settling down in Lingnan Mountain.
"We found a large valley deep in the mountains with almost a hundred acres of land. We also built a house and dug a fish pond in it.
When he was free, Ping An took us out hunting, picking mushrooms, digging wild vegetables, and picking wild fruits. There were so many things that we couldn’t finish them all. "
Everyone was happy for them, Shitou said thankfully: "Thankfully you didn't follow us to the capital, otherwise you would be like us."
He didn't say how difficult it was here, but how could Ye Yutong and Li Yunze not see it? Both adults and children were skinny and hungry.
Aunt Daming looked like she could faint at any time, but she still brought a lot of wild vegetables over.
Uncle Daming also gave them the two cornbread earned today.
Ye Yutong wanted to take them with him. Anyway, there was so much land on the mountain that they couldn't plant it all.
I planned to bring some people up this time. If I wanted to find outsiders, it would be better to bring Uncle Shitou and the others back, who knew everything about them.
But Ping An still had important things to do. She didn't know if it would be convenient to take so many people with her on the next trip. She looked at him questioningly.
Li Yunze nodded slightly and asked, "Uncle Shitou, do you want to come with us?"
Shitou glanced at his two brothers and Daming, feeling a little hesitant.
They finally escaped here and settled here.
If we follow Tongtong and the others to the northwest, it will take almost two months.
My parents are getting older and the road is not smooth. What if something goes wrong?
But there’s not even food here, so it’s better to take the risk.
There is still some food at home, so I can eat it with my parents on the way, which should last me until the northwest.
Then I thought, if they go, will it increase the burden on Tongtong and the others?
He was silent for a while and asked: "Tongtong, be safe. Our two families are quite large. There are dozens of people in total. Will it cause any trouble to you if we go?"
Ye Yutong shook his head and said with a smile: "Uncle Shitou, why are you causing trouble? There is so much land on the mountain that we can't finish planting. If you go, you might as well reduce our burden.
Besides, my mother and Uncle Yongchang and Uncle Wencai often talk about you. They wouldn't know how happy they would be if you went back together. From now on, when we live together, we will be as happy as before. How lively it is. "
The adults were moved by what they said and discussed it in front of the two of them.
Li Yunze interrupted them with a smile, "Uncle, aunts, we still have some things to do. You can discuss it slowly. We will come to pick you up at night in three days."
Shitou asked worriedly: "Where are you two going? It's a mess here at night. You are so young. What should you do if you are treated like a two-legged sheep?"
What he didn't say was that Tongtong looked fleshy, and those who eat human flesh would most like to pick on children like this.
