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Chapter 5: The First Meal

"Well, thank you for your hard work, Brother Xiaoshi." Yun Huachun stepped forward and thanked him, and like a magic trick, he took out a scoop of green and yellow apricots from the seam of the car.

"Brother Xiao Shi, eat some apricots to relieve the heat..." Yun Huachun handed over the gourd scoop with a smile.

Shi Yang looked a little surprised, and then looked at Yun Huachun suspiciously.

"You were careful, you even brought the apricots. You can keep them for yourself, I'll leave first." After saying this, Shi Yang left quickly.

Yun Huachun looked at Shi Yang's retreating back and smiled bitterly. He could clearly see the disgust on Shi Yang's face.

"Lao Yun, maybe people don't like to eat these apricots. Just keep them for us to eat. When he needs help in the future, we will help him!" Wan Hongmei came up and said comforting words.

"Dad, don't be sad, maybe you are too polite and scare people!" Yuntao stuck out her tongue and said.

Their family has a bad reputation in the village and they are never polite to others.

Yuntao picked an apricot from the gourd and stuffed it into her mouth. The rich sour taste made her tired look sober.

Yun Huachun handed a scoop of apricots to Yun Tao and asked her to get as much as she could.

Yuntao shook her head and refused, "It's too sour." She covered her mouth and finished chewing the sour apricot in her mouth.

Yun Huachun didn't hesitate when he saw this.

Neither man nor donkey stopped until dark.

"Have a rest here tonight!" A man's roar came from the front.

Yuntao picked up the coarse sweat towel next to her and wiped the sweat from her forehead before jumping off the trolley.

Looking at my father and mother, their faces were tired and their bodies were wet with sweat.

Yun Huachun unloaded the donkey and took it to the river to drink water.

"Dad, have a drink of water." Yuntao came forward holding a bamboo tube and said.

Yun Huachun took the bamboo tube and raised his head to pour water.

"Did your mother drink water?" Yun Huachun breathed a sigh of relief and turned his head to take a look.

Here Wan Hongmei has already picked up the pots and pans from the trolley and is ready to cook.

"Drink, Dad, there are painkillers here, do you want to take them?" Yuntao said secretly.

Yun Huachun nodded, took the pills from Yuntao's hand and stuffed them into his mouth.

Taking too much painkillers is not good. It was too uncomfortable for him to travel with his injuries and he had to take them.

At this moment, there are already many women standing by the river, fetching water for cooking, scooping rice and washing vegetables, and scooping water directly from the river to drink.

"Tao'er, come here and help me!" Wan Hongmei shouted while holding the pot.

"I'm here, mother!" Yuntao ran back holding the bamboo tube.

"Can you use flint?" Wan Hongmei held two stones in her hands and looked troubled.

Even though she had used this thing several times in her memory, she could not get it to catch fire.

Yuntao took the flint and said, "Let me try it. If it doesn't work, I'll ask someone else to borrow a fire."

This was sold in the school canteen when she was in elementary school. All the boys in the class liked to buy it, and some girls also bought it. Yuntao secretly played with it for a while.

Yuntao put a ball of dry straw under the firewood as a kindling, rubbed it a few times, and the hay immediately ignited.

"Finally it's popular! You have to teach me how to use this thing!" Wan Hongmei looked at her daughter with kind eyes.

"Mom, don't worry, I'll teach you how to do it." Yuntao promised, patting her chest.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, the family ushered in a moment of respite with their rice bowls in hand.

Wan Hongmei makes chowder noodle soup.

Mix the flour with water to form a small dough, then add various vegetables and mushrooms at home, cut half a piece of bacon, and add in random onions and wild vegetables pulled from the roadside, and the fragrance will spread far and wide.

The green vegetables are grown in my yard, and a lot of them have been left in the car for a day. They may go bad if they are left in the car for a day.

There was a lot of noise and noise all around, and the whole family was so full of food.

This is the first meal they eat when they come into this world.

"I'll clean up and wash the dishes!" Yuntao wiped her mouth and said.

She sat in the car for a while in the afternoon, while her parents kept walking.

"Okay, you go ahead and wash it. I'll take a break with your father." Wan Hongmei directly handed the bowl to her daughter.

Yuntao took the bowl and went to the river to wash the dishes. Although Wan Hongmei and Yun Huachun were sitting there, their hands were never idle for a moment.

Wan Hongmei was weaving straw mats out of hay, while Yun Huachun was carefully tearing some old clothes into strips of cloth.

"Sister, you are from Shigang Village, right..." A woman's chatter suddenly sounded next to her.

Wan Hongmei raised her head, and saw a round-shouldered, round-faced woman in gray clothes holding a bowl and looking towards Wan Hongmei.

"Yeah, what's wrong?" Wan Hongmei searched for the woman's face in her memory, but it seemed she had never seen it before.

"Auntie, what's the matter?" Yuntao passed by the woman holding a bowl.

After hearing this, the woman looked at Yuntao with a confused expression, raised her eyebrows, and was about to open her mouth, but when she saw Wan Hongmei's eyes, her expression immediately changed.

"This is your daughter, sister. She is so handsome!"

"I am a relative of Aunt Guihua in your village. As you know, Aunt Guihua, I am resting next to your house. It is not easy to escape this way. The children in my family are making a fuss when they smell your smell. I am just thinking about this.

If you have leftovers, why not give some to me."

"I don't take your eggs for nothing. These are eggs laid by my own old hens. They are very good. I will bring them over to you in exchange for them."

As he spoke, he consciously took out two eggs from the bowl and prepared to place them on the ground to replace the remaining contents in the pot.

Yuntao picked up the lid of the pot next to it, covered the pot, and placed the bowl on it.

This is reserved for her father's extra meal in the evening, and no one is allowed to take it.

The woman suddenly looked fierce, "What's wrong with your child?"

"What's the matter with you!" Yuntao shouted back unconvinced.

"When adults do things, how can a child like you speak?" the woman drooled.

"Why can't I make the decision for my own children?" Wan Hongmei asked with slight anger.

"How can you, a woman, talk? At my age, I am your elder..." the woman said fiercely with her hands on her hips.

"How can any of you treat your elders like this?"

Yun Huachun had no intention of participating in the conversation between the women, but this man dared to bully his wife and children in front of him.

Can he be a man if he doesn't make a sound?

"Whose elder are you?" Yun Huachun stood up suddenly, a head taller than the woman, and blocked the mother and daughter behind him.

"Where does this crazy woman come from? She begs for food when she begs, and she still wants to show off to her elders?"

"Have you come to my house to recognize yourself? Why don't you go to the river and take a look at yourself in the water?"

Yun Huachun's sharp words and the aura brought by his tall height forced the woman to take half a step back.

"Where am I begging for food? You have to speak with conscience, I will give you something in exchange!" As she said this, the woman took out the eggs and raised them.

"Everyone is here to judge! I gave him two such big eggs in exchange for a bowl of leftover soup, and why am I begging for food!" the woman screamed.

These words attracted the attention of many people around. Everyone was sitting in their seats, chatting with each other.

"Isn't this Cheng Qiaoniang? The one next door..."

"Why do you look like Yun Huachun's family?"

"Interesting, these two families are difficult to deal with, why did they get together?"
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