Chapter 41
Lin Dahu went to clean up the bamboo rats. These two bamboo rats were not big, one was only about one pound, and there was not much left in the body and the internal organs and fur.
There are also wild vegetables, but there are very few. So many refugees have passed by, and they have already stripped away all the food. They can still find some wild vegetables. Lin Dahu and the others have worked very hard.
"It's okay to eat meat."
Sihu pulled his sister Wufeng over to see Lin Dahu deal with bamboo rats, while Zhao Hehua started to build a stove and make a fire with Qiaoer on her back.
Over there, Fu Yu and Fu Tong were embarrassed when they looked at the food in front of them.
Where did they recognize any food? After working for a long time, they only found a bunch of weeds that they could not eat. Later, Lin Dahu discovered their embarrassment and gave them a few wild vegetables to tell them to identify them.
After working hard for an hour, they only found a little bit.
"elder sister."
Fu Tong lowered his head and felt very embarrassed.
"Oh, it's not your fault. You're already great to find these wild vegetables."
Fu Yu said, "She has no nerve to blame her brother. If it weren't for her, they wouldn't have been worried about food along the way. They would only worry about how to make the dry food better and more delicious."
"You won't make a fire, are you?"
At this time, Zhao Hehua came over, and she lowered her head and said shyly: "My mother asked me to teach you how to build a stove and make a fire."
"We have never made any fires, thank you sister-in-law."
Fu Yu responded and asked Xiao Cui and the servant to learn seriously with Zhao Hehua.
"If you want to have a stove, just build it up. The main reason is that when burning the fire, the firewood must not accumulate too densely."
Zhao Hehua demonstrated to them, "Put the burning firewood underneath, such as dry leaves, bamboo leaves, etc., put branches on it, wait until the fire burns, and then add a large piece of firewood."
After Zhao Hehua made it, she took out a small box from her arms, but it was a box of matches. Ye Chuqiu signed a whole pack yesterday, with a total of ten boxes. She threw a box for Zhao Hehua to save her from using flints, which was too troublesome.
"Here, just like that, just wipe it, light the match and throw it in."
Zhao Hehua lit a match, threw it into the stove, carefully put the remaining match into the arms, then stood up and asked, "Did you know it?"
"It's OK, but sister-in-law, what are you holding in your hand? The fire is so fast." Xiao Cui asked curiously.
"This is called matches. Don't you city people use them often?" Zhao Hehua put away the matches.
"We people in the city use it often?"
Xiao Cui was a little puzzled. She had never seen her before.
But after Zhao Hehua said this, she felt embarrassed to ask again. You must know that she is a maid at an official's house. She can't be as good as a country woman, right?
So after Zhao Hehua helped them make a fire, she thanked her and watched Zhao Hehua leave.
Zhao Hehua still has to boil water to make milk powder for Qiaoer, and she has no time to delay here.
After she left, Fu Tong, Fu Yu, Xiao Cui, and the servant were confused when they saw the good fire.
"How should we make wild vegetables?"
"We have no trouble."
"Grilled?"
The five masters and servants stared at each other. Not only did they have no food, they didn't even have tools to cook or dishes.
What happened to this?
"Look at those fools."
Li Yumei discovered their embarrassment and whispered to her man, "Is it still the lady of the official family? Isn't it just like that? They came out to escape from the famine and died the fastest."
"The second fastest one is you, you have a lot of mouth." Lin Qingyun said angrily: "When can you change your gossipy temper?"
"I just love gossip? Which woman in the village doesn't like gossip? Do you think her sister-in-law doesn't like talking? She just looks down on us and is too lazy to tell us. Humph, when she used to flatter her mother's family, she didn't know how to please her family with the scandals.
And that third brother and sister-in-law, do you think she is an honest person? She is poisonous in her heart, only me, straightforward, and say whatever she wants."
"Are you still breathing? I would rather learn from your third brother and sister and say less, and not to say this and that all day long. Do you think you are the master of the county, and everyone wants you to comment." Lin Qingyun said angrily.
When he used to work outside every day, he only knew that his wife talked a lot, but she didn't know that she had so much talk a day, and she had everything she said.
However, he himself didn't know that he had been with Li Yumei for a long time, and his language was more lively than before. At least now, he could say a few words and block Li Yumei from the point of saying nothing.
"It's really boring to talk to you. I have to ask the county magistrate to comment? The county magistrate is idle all day long, come and care about you? I tell you, this is the fun of our women's family."
Li Yumei took out a handful of fried black beans, threw them into her mouth, chewed them carefully, and a bean fragrance popped out, "It's so difficult on the way to escape from the famine. If you don't let me talk, then you might as well call me to die."
"I didn't let you talk, I just asked you to keep less of other people's affairs."
"I'm just saying a few words, I don't care. The person who cares about them is the eldest sister-in-law."
Li Yumei looked at Ye Chuqiu and whispered: "Look at my sister-in-law, how scheming she is. She deliberately didn't take out the food and sent her family to hunt in the mountains and dig wild vegetables. She was deliberately making it for those officials to see."
"That's not necessarily. I saw that my sister-in-law and her family ate so generously a few days ago. Maybe she really didn't have much food." Lin Qingyun said again.
"You are stupid. If she has no food, will she give us so many black beans?" Li Yumei said: "She is just deliberately showing her difficulties. When those officials are too hungry to bear it, she will go to show kindness. Wouldn't that be grateful to her?"
Lin Qingyun stumbled on Li Yumei's words and felt that what she said was really reasonable. However, he asked again: "What do my sister-in-law want their gratitude? Although they are children of the official family, they are now poor and waste food if they bring them."
"I don't know either. If I want her to be smart, can I still be a cow and a horse for her?" Li Yumei shrugged.
"Maybe for money."
Chai Chunfang came over at some point. She looked around and whispered: "I saw that young lady stuff silver notes for her sister-in-law."
"How much has it been stuffed?" Li Yumei asked hurriedly.
"I don't know, but I don't think my sister-in-law wants it."
"You see clearly? My sister-in-law didn't want it, isn't it possible?"
Li Yumei said that Ye Chuqiu could not be so generous.
"I really didn't want it, but I've heard people say that this silver note is not something you can get casually. It seems that you need a secret order. You can only get it if you match it. Some of it has to go to me."
Chai Chunfang said, "I think my sister-in-law is embarrassed to ask someone for a secret order. She must want to send them to the city and wait for them to withdraw the money. Wouldn't you thank her? Then someone just leaks a little in her hands, which will be enough for them to eat."
"Then you didn't say it earlier."
Hearing this, Li Yumei became a little anxious and said, "Then we can't just watch, hurry up and help them."
When he heard it was profitable, Li Yumei was busy at that time and hurried to Fu Yu and the others to help.
Chapter completed!