Chapter 2: Hunger
After brushing the dishes and chopsticks, June dried his hands and took September and Nineteen to the mountains on the edge of the town to chop wood. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the cold winter, in fact, there is no shortage of firewood in the town, because the local paper-making is the main business, as the raw material of paper-making mulberry, the tree can be used as a raw material for wood and firewood after being peeled, in fact, there are many local things, and it is not expensive.
But Jin Dashan's family is definitely a family that breaks a penny in half, so he will also go to chop wood.
But fortunately, the mountains and forests near here are planted with a large number of mulberry trees and tree trees because the raw materials for paper making are not scarce, and there are already a lot of dry branches left by the felled trees.
June took September and Nineteen around in the woods, I didn't want to take Nineteen, after all, Nineteen was only three years old, and I couldn't count on the work, it was a small oil bottle of Chiguoguo, and Nineteen, who hung two tubes of clear big snot, was absolutely unwilling to be thrown at home, and had to follow June and September like a small tail.
June also knew that he couldn't put nineteen at home, Li still had a lot of work to do at home, and he couldn't take care of nineteen at all, and the house was either a fire or a steamed slurry, and there was a risk of scalding if he was not careful.
Forget it, let's take it with you.
In June, he neatly gathered up the dead branches of about the same length on the ground and tied them up with a hemp rope, and it was not difficult to collect and inspect them at all.
September also gathered a small bundle of firewood on the side, of course the size was much smaller than June.
Nineteen happily raised a wooden stick like a stick in his hand and ran around like a horse.
June wiped the sweat from his forehead and smiled, this child is still so energetic even if he is hungry.
It's been a month since I've been here, and from a groggy slumber at the beginning, to a complete awakening ten days ago, June has slowly come to terms with everything here.
June didn't know what kind of state he was in, anyway, the moment he woke up, he saw a completely different world, a country he never knew, and a bunch of relatives he never had.
Compared with the original deceitful, intriguing, and ruthless flowery family, June prefers the current poor but warm home, likes the honest and simple, rude but kind parents, and likes these brothers and sisters.
The satisfaction of all this also makes June more confident to live here.
At least the current life is a kind of warm and comfortable, every day is a pleasant face to the hardships of life, the suffering is not terrible, the terrible thing is to face the days of suffering, there is no shoulder to rely on, there is no motivation to support yourself to go on.
In her world, Qin June was also a bookseller who dominated one side, a female heroine who everyone talked about, a heroine in the book business, and a legendary woman in the paper industry
However, the lack of family affection, the struggle between brothers, constantly consumed June's power and mental strength, and there was no one who could be trusted for life in his life, thanks to June's illustrious family background and amazing wealth, as well as the peerless skills and superb paper medicine secret recipes, June's world does not allow anyone to be trusted, and no one can be trusted, and suspicion and suspicion of people are the biggest obstacles.
It is also the reason why June was too sick early, the doctor said that it was a filtering of the mind, depression in the heart, and excessive liver qi, in fact, it boiled down to a sentence, exhaustion.
Now the life of Little June seems to be much simpler, the days are hard, but the family is united, the brothers are friendly, and the fate of the little people at the bottom seems to be nothing, and June seems to be more like a fish in water.
Even if cooking on the fire every day is a difficult challenge, after all, Qin June's hand is the golden finger of the paper world used to create a legend, not for cooking.
Now I have to cook on the fire every day, but fortunately, the family is not picky, too, the paste of cornmeal, good and bad is the difference between the paste and the pot, and there is really not much difference.
However, June was amazed by the magic of creation, and now the Jin family is also paper-making, although it is only a workshop, but it is also inextricably linked to all the craftsmanship of June, and it is not impossible to change all this.
After observing so many days in June, I have long found that the process of the paper-making workshop here is still stuck in a very old technology, although the material has been made of mulberry bark and bark as raw materials, but the soaking of pulp still relies on starch glue to precipitate and glue, not to mention lime water and more advanced paper medicine.
In this way, the proportion and usage of starch glue are still used as a secret book by the papermaker master here, which is also the reason why Zhang Decai's pulp in Jin Dashan's family has a high salary.
June sighed, it's not that she doesn't want to help the family change, it's mainly that the seven-year-old girl Jin June's sense of presence in this family is really not strong, except for chopping wood for housework and cooking, she basically belongs to a girl who is quiet and wooden and doesn't pay much attention.
If you want the parents at home to listen to the advice of a girl like her, who has never been assertive, and believe that June has the ability to change the family's paper mill business, how can anyone believe it.
June lamented weakly, tightened the hemp rope in his hand, and tied a dead knot.
September pulled the placket of June's clothes and said earnestly: "Fourth sister, I'm hungry!" ”
Nineteen Yi also squeezed over when he heard it and said, "Fourth sister, I'm hungry too!" He also touched his belly with his thin little hands like chicken paws, which were flat and still chirping.
June looked at the faces of the two thin children with sallow faces, and his heart softened.
She's hungry too!
Everything is good here, but you can't eat enough!
Looking around, this solar term, the forest is bare, the leaves are all gone, even the grass is dry and yellow, everything is bare, not to mention wild vegetables, there is not even a single grass.
There was no food to be found, and what could be eaten had already been looted.
June had to let the two little ones wait for him in the same place, and walked towards the forest in the distance with a woodcutter, hoping to find something, although he also knew that there was little hope, but let's see nothing.
The farmland here is very limited, the family is not a farmer, relying on the craft to eat, the family's rice, flour and vegetable oil are all dependent on copper plates for a living, June does not think that you can find anything here.
The right is to comfort the two little ones.