The fifth lady helped Liu's mother sit on the edge of the kang, and said while pulling out the futon and laying it out: "It seems that the master's family is not there, you go to the kang first and lie down, and I will go to see if there is anything to eat." ”

Mother Liu shook her head.

The fifth lady persuaded: "Look at this scene, we can't go back for a while, and the two of us will depend on each other in the future, I'm younger, better than you can carry, don't be busy resting first, don't be busy paying attention to the distinction between master and servant, wait for you to rest, we are both full, and then discuss a long-term plan." ”

Mother Liu sighed and obediently followed the support of Miss Five.

The fifth lady got out of the kang, moved step by step, and went to each room to find food.

First dragged his tired steps to the opposite room, the layout in the room was the same as the room where Liu's mother was lying, and there was nothing to eat.

The room was not locked, and there was nothing to eat, except for the thick ice in the tank filled with water that had been frozen and cracked.

All the other rooms were locked, the windows were closed, and they couldn't be pushed.

The fifth lady leaned against the wall and touched the cowshed step by step.

"Cluck-cluck-,......"

A hen crowed out of the coop, and Miss Five's eyes lit up, but she was instantly deflated.

"Cluck-cluck-,......"

But the hen cried vigorously, and this cry was to announce to her master that she had a glorious egg.

Miss Five walked to the chicken shed step by step, put a hand into the chicken coop, and her face was immediately full of surprise.

There are eggs in the coop, but this is winter, not the season for eggs.

The egg she held in her hand was still hot, and it was clearly the hen she had just called.

Another hand reached into the chicken coop, and there was more than one egg in her hand in the nest, she touched them one by one, and there were as many as seven.

The other eggs are cold to the touch, though; Several have frozen and cracked.

She changed a chicken coop to touch, and there were eggs in it, and she touched all the chicken coops, and almost all of them had eggs in them.

Miss Five lifted her skirt, picked up some eggs as best she could, and carried them to the room in her skirt.

There was firewood in the room, and the fifth lady made egg soup.

After drinking egg soup with Liu's mother, Miss Five tried to pick the door lock. It took more than half a day to pick the first lock. The rest of the locks are getting smoother and smoother.

There was nothing to eat in all the houses, but the bedding and clothing were complete, men and women, old and young.

The west side of the house is divided into two sides. There is only one room next to the main house, and the other two rooms have a well on the south side, and there is a stone cover at the mouth of the well, and then there are some miscellaneous items piled up.

Scene transformations.

The tired Fifth Miss entered the hospital from the outside. Mother Liu limped out of the house and took the homespun backpack from Miss Five. Eagerly asked, "How is today?" ”

The fifth lady shook her head: "It's still the same, no matter how you go, you will eventually go back to the same place, that is, go around the place where it has been marked." Eventually, it will come back to where it was.

And, as always, wherever you go. As long as there are no obstacles in the way, you can always see this yard. In other words, I'm just going around this yard these days. ”

Liu's mother sighed: "Could it be that it is really a ghost hitting the wall, how can you encounter a ghost hitting the wall in broad daylight." ”

The fifth lady smiled bitterly: "It seems that the whole trench is a maze, and we may not be able to get out for a while." ”

Then he smiled and said: "Mother Liu, I found a pine forest, there are a lot of pine cones on it, I hit a few and put them in the backpack, the backpack is too small to fit a few, I will take a back basket to play more, today we will fry pine nuts to eat, I haven't eaten it for a long time, I think of the fragrance of pine nuts, I want to drool." ”

"It's useless to blame the old slave, and the fifth lady has to go out to find food, the old slave should die." Liu's mother shed tears.

"Oh, Mother Liu, don't cry anymore, don't find the exit when you arrive, but your eyes are crying and you can't see, you really can't draw it." The fifth lady stretched out her hand to wipe Liu's mother's tears, but hesitated and shrank back.

Her hands were rough, with many thin cuts, and there were many fleshy spines on her fingers.

The fifth lady followed Liu's mother into the room and sat down next to the still burning firewood to roast the fire.

Mother Liu lifted the pot, scooped a bowl of chicken soup and handed it to Miss Five: "Miss Five, drink a bowl of soup first to warm up, the chicken has not been stewed yet, and it can't be bitten, Miss Wu will wait for a while, wait for the chicken to stew well, and then go out to beat pine cones after eating." ”

The fifth lady took the chicken soup bowl and said worriedly: "I killed several chickens, if the master's family comes back one day, how will I explain." ”

Mother Liu didn't care: "Killing one is also killing, killing more is also killing, anyway, it's already started, let's talk about it when I'm full." ”

The fifth lady blamed Liu's mother: "If you want to kill the chicken, you will wait for me to come back, the chickens in this house are like pheasants, they run fast, and they can fly to the trees, your leg is already injured, what if you toss it again and your leg hurts badly." ”

"Hehe, it's too late for the fifth lady to say this, now that the chicken soup is stewed, the old slave is fine." Liu's mother said and moved her legs and feet.

The fifth lady instructed: "If you really feel that you have nothing to do, just pick up some firewood nearby, and wait for me to come back and read ();." ”

Liu's mother promised again and again: "Okay, good, the old slave obeys the order, Miss Fifth drink quickly, the body is warm after drinking, the weather is cold, and the soup is cold quickly." ”

As the chicken soup entered her stomach, Miss Five's whole body came alive.

After drinking the chicken soup, Miss Wu got up and went to the next room to take out a back basket and a sickle, and explained to Liu's mother that the pine forest was not far from here, and she would be able to come back soon, so she hurriedly went out.

The animals of this family do not need to be fed, every morning at dawn, each goes out to find food, and when he comes back before dark in the evening, he does not see a single one starved to death, one by one, like a wild one, acting quickly and responding quickly.

Not only are there chickens in the yard, but there are also many chickens in the wild, and like domestic chickens, they return eggs in winter.

"Cluck-cluck-,......"

"Cluck-cluck-,......"

……

Haha, it's chickens laying eggs again.

The fifth lady was not in a hurry to hunt pine cones, so she turned to the place where the chickens crowed, picked up the chicken coop that she could reach in the low place, felt the eggs inside, carefully wrapped them in a handkerchief, put them in the homespun backpack on her body, and then went to the pine forest.

There are hundreds of chickens in the trenches, which resemble domestic chickens, and they are so swift that they fly to trees or cliffs at every turn.

There is a lot of arable land around, and the corn cobs in the field have not been broken, and small and discarded sweet potatoes can be dug up in the sweet potato field.

There are also quite a few small animals, the most common being hares.

Along the way, digging knots, picking wild fruits, picking eggs, and when the fifth lady arrived in the pine forest, the back basket was half filled.

Miss Five picked up the pine cones that had been hollowed out by the squirrels on the ground and threw them at the pine cones on the pine tree, which quickly filled the back basket.

She picked up the basket and walked back, and saw Liu's mother standing at the gate of the courtyard and looking around.

When she arrived, the fifth lady said, "Mother Liu, I'm back." ”

Mother Liu helped the fifth lady pick up the back basket, and the two carried it inside.

Put the back basket in the room, Miss Five was so tired that she didn't want to move, Mother Liu scooped a bowl full of chicken with soup and put it on the small table to urge Miss Five to eat quickly.

Miss Five was so tired that she had no appetite and just wanted to sleep upside down.

Mother Liu was anxious: "Fifth Miss, you eat a little bit, you are tired for a day, how can you stand it if you don't eat." ”

The fifth lady ate a few pieces of chicken, drank a few mouthfuls of soup, and urged Liu's mother: "You eat too, don't you want me to eat more and be hungry, I'm still waiting for you to get better soon, so that I can give me a hand, let's find an exit quickly." ”

"Okay, the old slave knows, the old slave will eat, and the old slave will have to be with Miss Five." Liu's mother also filled half a bowl of chicken for herself and ate it with Miss Five.

It's dark.

Mother Liu boiled hot water, laid out the quilt, and waited for Miss Fifth to wash her feet.

The fifth lady washed her feet and fell asleep. (To be continued)