Chapter 86: The Past of the Zhou Family
As the saying goes, it is easy to go down the mountain and difficult to go up, it took a day to go up the mountain Yechu, and it only took a few hours to go down the mountain.
When the two came to the bottom of the mountain, Ye Chu didn't know where this was, so he asked Wu Qian where this was.
Wu Qian said: "This is on the west side of Tiantai Mountain, and there is still a distance from the gate of the scenic spot. Ye Chu nodded, and after asking the direction clearly, he was about to leave here.
But Wu Qian still followed Ye Chu, Ye Chu Ye Chu asked, "It's already on the mountain, why are you still following me?"
Wu Qian looked at Ye Chu and said weakly: "I, I'm afraid." Ye Chu shook his head and said, "Where is your home?" I'll send you home first. When Wu Qian heard this, she nodded.
It took nearly an hour for the two of them to send Wu Qian home.
Wu Qian's home is in a small mountain village, and the road is rugged and rugged, and it just rained yesterday, and the road is muddy.
After arriving at Wu Qian's home, Ye Chu couldn't help but be shocked by the scene in front of him.
I saw that Wu Qian's house was an adobe house made of stone and mud, while the other people's homes were cement bungalows.
Outside the house there are some bamboo shelves used to dry clothes and medicinal herbs collected from the mountains.
Everything seemed out of place with the surrounding scene.
When the door opened, an old man's voice came: "Is Xiao Qian back?" The old man said it in the local dialect, Ye Chu grew up in Bashu Province, and he could understand it.
When Wu Qian heard this, she said to Ye Chu, "This is my father-in-law." Then he hurriedly replied, "It's me, Dad." ”
Then the door opened, and an old man with gray hair, a wrinkled face, and dark skin came out of the room, carrying his back.
This old man is a farmer at a glance, and his living conditions are also very poor, as can be seen from the clothes on the old man's body, although the clothes on the old man's body are not tattered, but they are washed white, because he is old, so he is called "Zhou Laohan" in this small mountain village.
After Wu Qian's father-in-law, Zhou Laohan, came out, he saw Ye Chu standing behind Wu Qian, and asked, "Xiaoqian, what is this?"
Wu Qian hurriedly explained to Zhou Laohan and told her father-in-law how she met Ye Chu today.
Wu Qian's father-in-law, Zhou Laohan, heard that Wu Qian was almost ruined, and said: "Xiaoqian, my Zhou family can't stand you! Since Dalin died, let you take care of me, an old immortal, alone." "Dalin is the son of Zhou Laohan and Wu Qian's dead husband. The old man, after speaking, there were cloudy tears in his eyes.
After Ye Chu heard Zhou Laohan's words, he knew that Wu Qian's mother-in-law's surname was Zhou, and his son was called Zhou Dalin.
Wu Qian hurriedly comforted: "Dad, where are you here, it is my duty as a daughter-in-law to take care of you." After speaking, he invited his Zhou Laohan and Ye Chu into the house.
Wu Qian's home looks dilapidated on the outside, and it is very simple on the inside, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a family with four walls.
There are three rooms in the house, the east is Zhou Laohan's room, the west is Wu Qian's room, and the middle is the living room where Ye Chu is now, which is the "hall house" as the saying goes. ”
In the living room, there is only a square table, four benches, and a small cabinet with two posthumous photos on it, one is Wu Wuqian's husband, and the other is Zhou Laohan's wife and Wu Qian's mother-in-law.
Wu Qian's mother-in-law fell ill in the early years, and the family itself was not wealthy, which undoubtedly made matters worse.
Due to the poverty of my family, my mother-in-law Wu Qian spent all her savings for treatment, and the living conditions were even more difficult.
But when Wu Qian's husband Zhou Dalin was still alive, he could barely maintain his daily expenses by going up the mountain to collect medicine.
But after Zhou Dalin's death, Wu Qian and Zhou Laohan's life was not as good as day by day, there was no way, Wu Qian had to go up the mountain to collect medicine, and today encountered that kind of thing, and the medicine was not collected.
When Zhou Laohan knew that it was Ye Chu who saved Wu Qian, he expressed his gratitude to Ye Chu vigorously.
Fortunately, Wu Qian even opened the topic and said, "Dad, the two of us haven't eaten for a day and are starving to death." Zhou Laohan hurriedly went to a thatched hut outside the house to bring food. The thatched hut outside the house is the kitchen.
When Zhou Laohan brought the food, put it on the table, and said, "Let you laugh, the family is poor, and there is nothing to entertain." ”
Ye Chu saw the meal, which was simple, a plate of fried wild vegetables, a plate of fried mushrooms, and a few nests.
Wild vegetables and shiitake mushrooms are picked in the mountains, both of which can be found everywhere in the mountains, and corn is given by well-wishers in the mountain villages.
Ye Chu looked at these meals, and then looked at Zhou Laohan and Wu Qian, and his heart was very uncomfortable, and he didn't move his chopsticks for a long time.
Zhou Laohan looked at it and said, "Young people eat, why don't you eat?" Wu Qian whispered: "Dad, Ye Chu is from the city, how can he get used to eating this coarse tea and light rice." ”
When Zhou Laohan heard this, he sighed and sat aside without speaking.
At this time, Ye Chu asked: "I have a lot of food, what should I do if I eat you?" After Wu Qian heard this, she looked at Ye Chu in shock, and even Zhou Laohan felt incredible.
Wu Qian said: "People like us, it's okay to be hungry. ”
After Ye Chu heard this, he took out a few bags of military dry food from his backpack and said, "You guys eat this." ”
These military self-heating dry foods were specially prepared by Ye Chu for this trip to the mountain, but the others were eaten by Ye Chu, and this was the only thing left by Ye Chu.
Since the two of them were only poor families in the mountain village, they had never seen and eaten this kind of food, but Ye Chu helped them heat up the dry food. After the two of them saw it, they naturally felt magical.
After a few minutes, the dry food is hot, as the food itself is cooked, and it only needs to be heated with the heating pack inside before eating.
Zhou Laohan and Wu Qian were eating the dry food brought by Ye Chu, and it was the first time they ate this kind of thing, so they naturally felt very delicious.
And Ye Chu ate the wild vegetables and said: "It tastes good, how can this be coarse tea and light rice? If this is placed in the city, it is a hot item, and many people will rush to eat it." ”
This is not an exaggeration by Ye Chu but a fact, now like wild vegetables and wild shiitake mushrooms, sold in big cities, they will definitely become a hot commodity, after all, people now pay attention to health.
There was a joke circulating on the Internet before, saying that in the eighties and nineties, many people earned money just to eat a meal of meat. In the 21st century, after earning money, people began to pay attention to health again and began to eat coarse grains such as wild vegetables and nests.
Now any vegetable food, as long as it is marked with the word wild, the price will more than double.
It is also because of this that people with a heart see the benefits in it, and use artificially grown vegetables instead of wild ones to earn high profits.
After a while, Ye Chu finished eating the vegetables and wowotou, there was nothing left, and after eating, he burped with satisfaction.
To be continued......