Song Xixi suddenly sneezed, unaware that she had revealed her secret. It wasn't that she was careless, it was that she didn't know that there was no antidote to Juemingcao.
Even knowing this, her life was seriously threatened at that time, so she could only choose to take the detoxification pill.
Otherwise, if you worry about this or that, you will lose your life. In the end, keeping the secret will be of no use!
"My dear, what's wrong with you? Did you catch a cold last night?" Niu Hua'er suddenly became nervous when she saw her daughter sneezing, and raised her hand to touch her forehead.
"Something flew into my nose, so I didn't catch a cold." Song Xixi rubbed her nose and made an excuse.
Seeing that there was no heat on her forehead, Niu Hua'er was still worried and said worriedly: "You don't look right today either. You look very pale. Do you feel uncomfortable in any way?"
Song Xixi's skin was originally white, and there was usually no blood on her face, but today she was poisoned twice, which severely damaged her vitality and made her face look even worse.
"I'm not feeling uncomfortable, maybe I didn't sleep well last night." Song Xixi was afraid that Niu Hua'er would become suspicious, so she quickly changed the subject: "Grandpa and the others haven't come back yet, is something going on?"
Niu Hua'er's attention was diverted as expected: "Several people from our village have gone, and the few men who came yesterday are still there. If anything happens, your grandpa and the others will not suffer."
Song Xixi secretly breathed a sigh of relief and told her about the four traps she dug in the morning.
Niu Hua'er hugged her and praised: "My little boy is so awesome, he can even lay traps!"
Song Xixi's face was not thick enough after all, so she said a little unconfidently: "If the trap is not good enough, if the prey cannot be caught, all the work will be in vain."
Niu Hua'er was very confident about her daughter: "Baby, you can hit a wild rabbit with just a hit. With such a carefully laid trap, you will definitely be able to catch the prey. If you don't catch it, it means the prey didn't come."
Song Xixi laughed and fell into her arms: "Tomorrow morning, I will ask my uncle Song San'er to accompany me to see the prey. If we catch the prey, we will sell it."
Her strength will not recover for a while, and it is not appropriate to go into the mountains alone.
It's rare for Guobao to act coquettishly on his own initiative. Niu Hua'er couldn't be happier: "Yeah, let them do the hard work. Guobao can just stand and give instructions."
The mother and daughter talked for a while, and Zhou Taohua also prepared lunch.
It's said to be lunch, but it's actually the wild vegetables picked up in the morning. But there are a lot of wild vegetables, and one big bowl is enough for one person.
When the people who went to town to buy grain in the morning come back, they can mix it with the grain and cook wild vegetables into a paste in the evening, and things will be much better next time.
There was a lot of food in the [Gourmet Package]. The Song family was not short of these wild vegetables, so each person only took a small bowl and put it in the corner to eat.
Others saw it and thought they wanted to leave the rest to everyone. Even if they didn't say it clearly, they were moved to tears in their hearts.
I have to say, this is really a wonderful misunderstanding.
Before the boiled wild vegetables were finished, the voices of men and women could be heard at the foot of the mountain, and someone could faintly be heard cursing something.
Everyone stood at the entrance of the cave with bowls in their hands and looked down. After a while, they saw Song Wufu walking in the front, followed closely by the old village chief and his family, who were carrying their bundles.
Slowly, all the people who were assigned to Shuitou Village and Elbow Village yesterday showed their faces and supported each other towards the cave. They were all cursing and even letting out a few suppressed sobs.
Everyone looked at each other and quickly put down the bowls in their hands to welcome him. They helped the old man with handicapped legs and feet to sit down in the cave.
"What's going on?" Niu Hua'er asked Song Cai quietly, while Song Xixi listened.
"Alas, just like us yesterday, we were all attacked by the lions of those two villages, and the price they charged was even worse than that of Qingshan Village!"
Song Cai has always had a good temper, and now there was a look of resentment on his face: "Last night, Shuitou Village extorted a sum of money for food, a bowl of gruel that could see a person's shadow, and a multi-grain steamed bun the size of an egg.
Dare to ask for ten cents and still see cash in cash!"
Naturally, the old village chief and the others could not afford so much cash, so they humbly put in good words to Mr. Sun of Shuitou Village, asking them to be accommodating, and would pay them back immediately when they borrowed the money from the government.
I don’t know if Village Chief Sun is deliberately disgusting people, or if he wants to break their bones and suck out their marrow. He agreed, but he directly settled their food expenses for the entire month, added high interest rates and wrote down IOUs, forcing them to put their fingerprints on the IOUs.
You must know that the IOU is calculated based on three meals a day, so each person is 30 cash per day, and 900 cash per month. Add in the high interest of 100 cash, which is a full tael of silver per person per month!
A small family of three only needs three taels of silver!
Even if they could borrow ten taels of silver from the government, who would dare to put their fingerprints on the IOU?
Because the old village chief and others refused, they were kicked out by the host who was staying with them. They were not allowed to enter the house at all and even cursed them with some very unpleasant words.
In the end, more than 40 people stayed overnight in the haystacks at the end of the village. Several children had already caught cold and fell ill.
The situation in Wantou Village is slightly better. They did not write IOUs and did not force them to put their fingerprints on the IOUs, but it is not much better. The food and accommodation fees are also terrifyingly high. No one dares to eat or live in the village and take the initiative to clean up.
The baggage is gone.
Song Xixi puzzled: "It stands to reason that these three villages just want to make more money from us. They should know before the lion opens his mouth that we can't afford it, so why are they still doing this?"
It doesn't seem like it's all about the money.
Song Cai shook his head: "Who knows, now that everyone has come up the mountain, we will never go back and let them slaughter us."
Song Xixi looked around and felt a little headache: "The two caves are too small to accommodate so many people. We have to build a house as soon as possible."
Song Cai said: "The matter of building a house has been discussed. Tomorrow we will divide the land first. Then we will go to the mayor to apply for the land deed. By the way, we will also handle the matter of borrowing money. When the money is obtained, the house
It can also be covered.”
Naturally, we couldn't afford to build a brick house, so we could only build an adobe and thatched house. However, the soil quality of the Songjia'ao land was not suitable for building a house, so we had to buy the mud bricks elsewhere, and this expense could not be saved.
Niu Hua'er whispered: "Our family still has a few taels of silver. It must be enough to repair the house. We don't need to borrow it from the government, right?"
Song Cai nodded: "Borrow, it doesn't cost any money anyway, why not borrow?"
Song Xixi agreed: "If we don't borrow it, what will we do with the money we spent?"
Niu Hua'er understood: "Then let's borrow it. If it's a big deal, I'll borrow a little, and I'll pay it back next year and the year after that."
In the afternoon of that day, some people went around looking for caves where people could live, while others continued to dig wild vegetables and collect non-toxic wild fruits.
When it was almost dark, we found a cave, but the location was not very good. It was close to the mountains, and there were also excrement left by unknown large animals nearby. It was really unsafe to live there, so we had to give up.
In the end, everyone had to squeeze into two small caves. It was difficult to turn over during the night, but there was no need to light a fire to keep warm.