Xu Yunjin shuttled through the mountains, the little man carrying a small backpack.
A delicate and cute little face was sunburned and her mouth was a little chapped.
I poured out the bamboo tube I carried with me, and only two drops of water came out.
And there was not a trace of green in the huge mountain forest. She sighed and walked down the mountain with the basket on her back.
Xu Yunmeng, who was digging bracken roots at the foot of the mountain, looked at Xu Yunjin coming out of the mountain, walked over and took Xu Yunjin's basket, poked her forehead and said:
"You, every time you come out to me, you say that you will never go into the mountains. Every time you sneak in while I'm digging wild vegetables, if you encounter a wild beast in there, I'll see what you do. You can sneak out again next time.
I will tell my grandparents, uncle and aunt to take care of you."
Xu Yunjin avoided Xu Yunmeng's fingers with a smile, looked at her little adult-like sister and said coquettishly:
"Oh sister, dear sister, I was wrong. Let's go home quickly. There is no water in my bamboo tube."
Xu Yunmeng had long been accustomed to the coquettish and rogue appearance of her little cousin. She glared at Xu Yunjin angrily and carried the basket on her back down the mountain.
The house built by the Xu family at the end of Nanyun Village. The Xu family has been hunters in recent generations, but they mainly make a living by farming.
I only go to the mountains to hunt pheasants and rabbits during my leisure time, and I never dare to hunt deep into the mountains.
On the way home from the foot of the mountain, I met several uncles from the village carrying firewood and heading home. Xu Yunjin looked at the villagers walking in front.
He was obviously a tall northern man, but looking from behind, he could only feel how thin he was.
The clothes on her body obviously didn't fit, as if they were hanging on several people's bodies.
Looking up at the scorching sun in the sky, Xu Yunjin sighed, shrugged the small backpack on his shoulders and walked home.
When the two sisters arrived home, only their younger brother Xu Yunzhao was playing in the yard by himself, while grandma Zhang was tidying up the vegetable garden in the backyard.
Xu Yunjin and Xu Yunmeng opened the door. When Xu Yunzhao saw his two sisters coming back, he immediately stood up from the ground and ran towards them on his short legs.
"Eldest sister, second sister, grandma said that if you don't come back, I'll deal with you tonight."
With a cute voice unique to a child, he looked at Xu Yunjin with a gloating eyebrow.
Hum hum, I told you not to take me with you when you go out.
"If grandma wants to deal with me and sister, tomorrow I will ask my second brother to teach you how to recognize a few more big characters. After all, your sister and I can already write by hand at your age, but you only know a few characters and all the big names are
It’s written in a messy way.”
Xu Yunjin put down her backpack and walked up to Xu Yunzhao, pinching his chubby face that looked somewhat similar to hers.
Looking at Xu Yunzhao with a smile, this kid just needs to be dealt with.
Sure enough, when Xu Yunjin talked about his second brother Xu Yunqing, Xu Yunzhao immediately raised his lips and kept thinking that his sister was a bad guy. He turned around and ran into the backyard to call Mrs. Zhang.
Grandma Zhang Linghua is a woman who looks a little fat. Years of hard work makes her look a little old.
However, her husband respects and cares for her, and her children and grandchildren are filial and prosperous. Zhang's life is much more comfortable than that of other elderly people in the village.
Although time has left some traces on her face, Zhang, who is in her fifties, looks particularly kind.
"Meng Yatou Jin Yatou is back. You didn't go into the mountains today? I'm afraid there aren't enough wild vegetable roots at the foot of the mountain for the village to dig. I don't know when it will rain today."
It has not rained in Daqi for two years. When it didn't rain at first, no one thought anything was wrong.
In the north, as long as there is heavy snow in winter, it will be fine. The snow will melt and normal spring plowing will be possible next year.
As a result, there was not a single snowfall in the north that winter, and the spring rain did not come as promised as before.
The naughty father-in-law Sun hangs in the sky all day long and scorches the earth.
The rivers dried up quickly, and all the food planted was burned to death. Now many counties in the north are facing food and water anxiety.
"There are no wild vegetable roots at the foot of the mountain. We all walked a little further in to dig up to this point. We didn't dare to go in any further."
Xu Yunmeng mentioned her backpack and gave Zhang a look.
"Hey, let's wash them and dry them. Although we have a lot of wild vegetables at home, and we have made fern root powder and kudzu root powder according to Jin Yatou's recipe, but if it doesn't rain today, I'm afraid..."
Zhang paused for a moment and then said no more. Maybe things were not that bad, and there was no need to let the children know this.
But Xu Yunjin is not a seven-year-old child. It has not rained in two years, and the temperature is rising day by day. Daqi has no reservoirs to store water, and there is no modern South-to-North Water Diversion Project.
If it doesn't rain yet, people in the north don't know what will happen if they are short of water and food.
Speaking of the good life of the Xu family in the past two years, it should all be attributed to Xu Yunjin.
The Xu family has always believed that people in the village said that Xu Yunjin was too smart and would endure some great hardships.
Especially after Xu Yunjin fell into the water when he was two years old, the Xu family never dared to be careless.
So Xu Yunjin was detained at home until he was five years old. Seeing the Xu family shrinking their clothes and dieting like this, Xu Yunjin couldn't even think of going out to find something to make money.
When he was four years old, Xu Yunjin finally got the opportunity to study medicine with Mr. Luo, the only doctor in the village. The Xu family expressed support for Xu Yunjin's medical studies.
In this way, when Xu Yunjin was five years old, she got the opportunity to go out with her brothers and sisters to dig wild vegetables and learn to identify herbal medicines.
Looking at the bracken all over the mountains and plains, foodie Xu Yunjin thought of making bracken vermicelli.
The recipe for fern root vermicelli was discovered by Xu Yunjin in his previous life on the Internet.
Xu Yunjin asked her grandmother, mother, and aunt to try making fern root noodles. After her family tried the taste of fern root noodles, Xu Yunjin came up with the idea of selling fern root noodles to restaurants.
The Xu family thought about it and agreed to Xu Yunjin's suggestion to give it a try.
The fern root vermicelli did not disappoint Xu Yunjin, making the Xu family make a small fortune in a short period of time.
Later, Xu Yunjin followed her brothers and sisters and discovered kudzu root again.
Pueraria lobata was also a medicinal material at that time. It has the functions of relieving muscles and reducing fever, promoting fluid production, relieving rash, promoting yang and stopping diarrhea.
However, the use of kudzu root at that time was limited to processing it into tablets for medicinal purposes, and there was no way to grind it into powder.
With these two kinds of fans, the Xu family made nearly five hundred taels of silver a year, which was considered a wealthy family in Nanyun Village.
If it hadn't been for the drought and the lack of rain in the past two years, the Xu family might not have stopped doing this business for a while.
With this money as a backing, even if there has been a drought for two years, the Xu family's life is better than that of most people in the village. At least they can have enough to eat. If they want to eat delicious food, they can only eat in their dreams.
When Xu Yunmeng went to collect bracken roots, Xu Yunjin was sorting out her medicinal materials in the yard.
No matter how valuable the medicine she collected in the past two years was, it was arranged by Xu Yunjin.
Xu Yunjin always had an ominous premonition these past two days, as if something big was about to happen, so he went to the mountains to collect herbs at this time.
After lunch, Xu Yunjin lay on the bed and rested.
In a daze, she came to the familiar place again. As soon as Xu Yunjin arrived, she skillfully took a small hoe and began to dig holes in the ground and throw seeds.
After being lost for more than half an hour, Xu Yunjin stopped, put down the hoe, and went to drink a few drinks from the small well next to it.
This time she was not in a hurry to open the kitchen door that she was most familiar with, but sat on the edge of the field and watched everything in front of her.
With endless black land, a small thatched house, and a magical well, Xu Yunjin couldn't count how many times she had been to this place.
When she was three and a half years old, Xu Yunjin dreamed of this place for the first time. At first, a voice told her that she could eat what she wanted as long as she helped him farm. This chapter has been completed!