Ye Chuqiu shook his head and ordered, "Dahu, go to the river to pick up some sand. I want both coarse sand and fine sand... Lotus, our charcoal, have you brought it out?"
"I brought it."
"Okay, let's go get busy. We have to filter the water."
Although Lin Dahu and the others didn't know what Ye Chuqiu wanted to do or what filtering meant, they still followed her instructions.
After a while, Ye Chuqiu found all the things he wanted. Ye Chuqiu then started to take action and asked Lin Dahu to dismantle a face plate and make a simple filtering device.
"Mom, what is this?" Lin Dahu was a little curious when he saw the device made by Ye Chuqiu.
"Simple filter the water, then boil the filtered water, and you should be able to drink it. Otherwise, children will easily get sick if they drink dirty water directly."
Ye Chuqiu said, holding up the face plate and showing them the filtered water underneath. Sure enough, it was much clearer than the water Lin Dahu brought before.
"Mom, you are so smart!"
Seeing Ye Chuqiu's method, Zhao Hehua was full of admiration. Mom is indeed a person who has lived in the city and has experience. She has such a lively mind that she couldn't see it at home before. Now that she has escaped, she knows what it means.
Having an old man in the family is like having a treasure.
"Mom, I will tell the second uncle this method, how about the third uncle?" Lin Dahu asked.
"Go ahead, we are all a family, there is no need to hide some small tricks."
With her permission, Lin Dahu quickly ran over to tell Lin Qingyun and Lin Qingshi.
After he helped his two uncles set up the filtration device, when he came back, the filtered water at home had been boiled, and Lotus had begun to cook wheat porridge.
"By the way, Dahu, I've kept you busy for a long time. Mom has forgotten that there is another meat bun here. You can take it and eat it without anyone seeing it." Ye Chuqiu once again took out a meat bun from her sleeve.
The bun was handed to him.
"Mom, have you eaten?" Lin Dahu took the bun and asked.
"We have all eaten. This is specially reserved for you. You pushed my mother to walk such a long way last night and you haven't eaten enough yet. You can eat it quickly."
Even so, Lin Dahu still broke the bun into several pieces, first gave one to Ye Chuqiu, and then to each of his younger brothers and sisters. Finally, there was a small piece left. Lin Dahu pretended to stuff it into his mouth, but actually
Shangye Chuqiu looked carefully and saw that he had stuffed it into his sleeve.
After a while, he asked Zhao Hehua to light the fire and secretly stuffed the bun into her mouth.
Alas, my silly son, he didn’t even get a bite of the buns I left for him.
However, looking at the two of them loving each other, this day was actually promising.
After seeing Ye Chuqiu discovering this little secret, Lin Dahu came over and explained to her: "Mom, Lotus is breastfeeding. I want her to take one more bite so that she can have milk to feed the child."
"Mom knows." Ye Chuqiu said, handing a small piece of meat bun in her hand to Lin Dahu, "Here, here it is."
"Mom, you are so good to your son, and it's hard for him to repay you even if he holds a ring of grass in his mouth." Lin Dahu raised his hand and refused.
"Just eat, this family depends entirely on you."
Ye Chuqiu stuffed the meat bun into his mouth and said, "Don't spit it out again. Mom won't eat what's in your mouth. I hate it!"
"Mother~"
Lin Dahu was moved in his heart. He felt that this small piece of steamed bun was as heavy as a thousand pieces. Ye Chuqiu couldn't see his inexplicably moved expression. He turned around and lay down on the bamboo mat, "Go ahead, mother has to rest."
After finally eating something in her stomach, Ye Chuqiu fell asleep slowly. When she woke up, it was already night, the moon was sparse, and Zhao Hehua beside her was holding a worn cattail leaf fan.
Fan her.
"Mom, are you awake?"
Seeing Ye Chuqiu wake up, Zhao Hehua put down her fan and brought her a bowl of porridge, "We left a bowl of the wheat porridge we cooked for you at noon."
"Um."
Ye Chuqiu responded, took the wheat porridge, poured it into his mouth, and felt still hungry. After thinking about it, he took out two more steamed buns from his sleeves, handed one to Zhao Hehua, and ate the remaining one by himself.
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After eating, she began to think about what to do next. Although many refugees planned to try their luck outside the city, Ye Chuqiu knew that there was not much food left in the city, and those landlords were not kind-hearted people.
Therefore, they still have to continue on their way. Anyway, she has so many sons. As long as they go south and find a place with mountains and water, they will not die of hunger.
After making up his mind, Ye Chuqiu asked Lin Dahu to call Lin Qingyun and Lin Qingshi to come over and discuss the matter with them.
The two brothers decided to listen to Ye Chuqiu and set off together tomorrow morning. Lin Dahu told the village chief about their family's decision, but the village chief shook his head and said, "In my opinion, we can just wait outside the city.
, If we go forward, who knows what the situation is ahead? Outside this city, the good people in the city may be able to donate some rice. If we go forward, if we don't find food, we may starve to death.
On the way."
"Village Chief, what you said makes sense, but there are so many refugees outside the city. Even if the good people in the city are kind, how many can they help?"
Lin Dahu said: "I have discussed it with my second uncle and third uncle today. We have to continue on our way tomorrow."
"Okay, we are all outside the city. Everyone has his or her own destiny. If you want to leave, I won't let you stay. If you get outside and have a good future, just don't forget the big guys."
"It's natural."
Lin Dahu responded, turned back to Ye Chuqiu, and informed Ye Chuqiu of the village chief's decision.
"Mom, they just arrived outside the city and they may not be able to leave. Should we still leave?"
"Of course they left. They have never been to the city and don't know what the situation is like in the city. They are still giving porridge to those great benevolent people. The food has increased to two to three hundred coins a bucket, and those great benevolent people cannot afford it.
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Ye Chuqiu shook his head and said: "Besides, don't forget, there is a group of rebels ahead. They failed to break down the city gate this time, and they may have to come again next time."
Hearing Ye Chuqiu talk about this, Lin Dahu felt a little firmer, "What mother said is that we will continue setting off tomorrow."
On the other side, Li Youmei was chattering to Lin Qingyun, "Master, do you really want to listen to Dahu? Follow them forward? In my opinion, we might as well stay. Yesterday, my sister-in-law begged and went to the city.
I got a lot of good things, let's go begging tomorrow."
"Are you going to beg? Do you have the skills of a sister-in-law?" Lin Qingyun said angrily: "You can't even enter the city, so why are you begging?"
"You're not looking down on me." Li Youmei was angry.
"I'm not looking down on you. Why don't you go to the city tomorrow to ask for one and show it to me? As long as you succeed, I will listen to you." Lin Qingyun said.
"Humph, if I were literate, I wouldn't be any worse than my sister-in-law. When she was working as a maid, I heard that she even recognized her master's family a few times. Now, she might as well be like this."
"Just save your energy, we are stupider than my sister-in-law, so just listen to her."
Lin Qingyun said angrily, and then, no matter what Li Youmei said, he remained silent. Li Youmei was so angry that she pinched him twice, and finally had no choice but to lie down.
However, Ye Chuqiu couldn't sleep for any reason. Finally, when it was midnight, she signed in with the system as soon as possible. This time she just hoped that it wouldn't be roses. But good guy, the system gave her a big box of children's toys.
glass beads.
"Damn the system, is it so difficult to give me two bags of rice?"
Ye Chuqiu said something angrily, but the system just pretended to be dead and ignored her.
Ye Chuqiu had no choice but to put the box of glass beads in the space, and took a few more to play with.
It seems that she will have to go to the city again tomorrow to fool the children of wealthy families.
If she wasn't running away from famine, she could sell this box of glass beads for hundreds of taels of silver, but now, she might have to sell it at a low price.