Lin Dahu went to pick up the bamboo rats. The two bamboo rats were not big, each weighing only about a pound. After removing the internal organs and fur, there was not much left.
There were also very few wild vegetables, that's right. With so many refugees passing by, they had already stripped away all the food. They could still find some wild vegetables. Lin Dahu and the others had already worked very hard.
"There is meat to eat."
Sihu took his sister Wufeng over to watch Lin Dahu deal with the bamboo rats, while Zhao Hehua started to build a stove and light a fire with Qiaoer on her back.
Over there, two siblings, Fu Yu and Fu Tong, looked at the food in front of them.
How could they recognize any grain? After working for a long time, they only found a bunch of inedible weeds. Later, Lin Dahu discovered their predicament and gave them a few wild vegetables to teach them how to identify them.
After working for an hour, they only found a little bit.
"elder sister."
Fu Tong lowered his head, feeling very embarrassed.
"Oh, I don't blame you. You are already great for finding these wild vegetables."
Fu Yu said that she had no shame in blaming her brother. If it weren't for her, they wouldn't have worried about food all the way. They would only worry about how to make the dry food more delicious.
"You can't make a fire, can you?"
At this time, Zhao Hehua came over. She lowered her head and said shyly: "My mother asked me to teach you how to build a stove and make a fire."
"It's true that we didn't light a fire, thank you sister-in-law."
Fu Yu agreed and asked Xiaocui, the boy, and Zhao Hehua to study hard.
"As for the stove, just build it up casually. The main thing is that when lighting the fire, the firewood must not be piled up too densely."
Zhao Hehua demonstrated to them, "Put burning firewood at the bottom, such as dry leaves, bamboo leaves, etc., and put branches on top. When the fire starts, add large pieces of firewood."
After Zhao Hehua set it up, he took out a small box from his arms, but it was a box of matches. Ye Chuqiu signed in a whole package yesterday, a total of ten boxes. She threw a box to Zhao Hehua to save her from having to fight.
Flint, it’s too troublesome.
"Well, that's it, just rub it, light the match, and throw it in."
Zhao Hehua lit a match, threw it into the stove, carefully put the remaining matches into her arms, then stood up and asked, "Are you ready?"
"Yes, but sister-in-law, what are you holding in your hand? It lit the fire so quickly." Xiao Cui asked curiously.
"This is called a match. Don't you city people use it often?" Zhao Hehua put the match away.
"We city dwellers often use it?"
Xiaocui was a little puzzled, she had never seen it before.
But when Zhao Hehua said this, she was embarrassed to ask again. You must know that she was a maid in an official's house, so she couldn't be more experienced than a country woman, right?
So after Zhao Hehua helped them light a fire, she thanked him and watched Zhao Hehua leave.
Zhao Hehua still had to boil water to make milk powder for Qiaoer, so she didn't have time to delay here.
After she left, Fu Tong, Fu Yu, Xiao Cui, and the young man looked at the fire and looked confused.
"What should we do with our wild vegetables?"
"We don't have a pot."
"Eat it grilled?"
The five masters and servants stared at each other. Not only did they have no food, they didn't even have cooking utensils or bowls and chopsticks.
What's going on?
"Look at those fools."
Li Youmei noticed their embarrassment and whispered to her husband, "Why don't we return the official ladies? If we escape from the famine, they will be the ones who die the fastest."
"The second fastest one is you, you talk a lot." Lin Qingyun said angrily: "When will you change your gossipy temper?"
"Am I the only one who likes to gossip? Which woman in the village doesn't like to gossip? Do you think my sister-in-law doesn't like to talk? She just looks down on us and is too lazy to talk to us. Huh, when she used to flatter her parents, she didn't know how to deal with us.
The scandal at home is to please her mother's family.
And that third sibling, do you think she is an honest person? She is poisonous in her heart, and I am a straight-tempered person who can say whatever I think."
"Are you still out of breath? I would rather you follow the example of your three younger brothers and sisters and talk less. Don't go around talking about this and that all day long. What kind of county boss do you think you are? Everyone wants you to comment.
Lin Qingyun said angrily.
When he used to work outside every day, he only knew that his mother-in-law talked a lot, but he didn't know that she talked so much a day and had everything she said.
However, he himself didn't know that he had been with Li Youmei for a long time, and his language was more flexible than before. At least now, he could say a few words to silence Li Youmei.
"It's really boring to talk to you. I have to ask the county magistrate to comment? Then the county magistrate has nothing to do all day, and he will care about you? Let me tell you, this is the fun of our women's family."
Li Youmei took out a handful of fried black beans, threw them into her mouth, chewed them carefully, and the aroma of the beans came out, "It's been so difficult on the road to escape, and you still don't let me talk, then you
Just tell me to die."
"I didn't stop you from talking, I just asked you to stop meddling in other people's affairs."
"I just said a few words. I don't care. The person who cares about their affairs is my sister-in-law."
Li Youmei glanced at Ye Chuqiu and said in a low voice: "Look at how scheming my sister-in-law is. She deliberately didn't take out the food she had and sent her family members to the mountains to hunt and dig wild vegetables. She did this on purpose for those few.
An official is watching."
"That's not necessarily true. I see that my sister-in-law's family was so generous with food a few days ago, so maybe she really doesn't have much food." Lin Qingyun added.
"You are stupid. If she ran out of food, would she give us so many black beans?" Li Youmei said, "She just deliberately showed her difficulty. Later, when those officials and family members are too hungry to stand it,
If she goes to show kindness again, won't people be grateful to her?"
Lin Qingyun smacked Li Yumei's words, and felt that what she said was indeed somewhat reasonable. However, he asked again: "What do you want from their gratitude? Although they are the children of officials, they are now poor and have nothing to do with them."
Waste of food.”
"I don't know either. If I were to be as smart as her, how could I still act like a cow and a horse for her?" Li Youmei shrugged.
"Maybe it's for the money."
Chai Chunfang came over at some point. She looked around and whispered: "I saw the eldest lady stuffing money bills into the eldest sister-in-law."
"How much is stuffed?" Li Youmei asked quickly.
"I don't know, but my sister-in-law doesn't seem to want it."
"Did you see it clearly? My sister-in-law didn't want it. It's impossible, right?"
Li Youmei said that Ye Chuqiu could not be so generous.
"I really don't want it, but I heard someone say before that you can't just get this banknote. It seems that you need some secret order to get it. Some of them have to go in person."
Chai Chunfang said: "I think my sister-in-law is too embarrassed to ask for the secret order. She must want to send them to the city and wait for them to get the money. Why don't you thank her? Then if someone leaks a little bit from their hands, it will be fine.
There’s enough for them to eat.”
"Then you didn't tell me earlier."
Hearing this, Li Youmei became a little anxious and said: "Then we can't just watch, we should go and help them quickly."
As soon as she heard that it was profitable, Li Youmei got busy and quickly went to Fu Yu and the others to help.