One day at the end of March, her malt milk essence finally ran out, and Zhou Chen, who had no choice, could only take her to the Zhou family's dinner table.

The Zhou family ate grass leaves for dinner that day, because Zhou Chunlai used most of the Zhou family's grain to get married, and the Zhou family's food standard was lowered again, and the paste was very thin, and although the grass blades were still quite tender, it was still difficult to eat. Zhou Wanwan was not mentally prepared when she was fed the first bite by Zhou Chen, and choked out directly.

I was really unprepared, I didn't expect this meal to be so unpalatable. The bitter blades of grass, the sorghum flour with the skin grinding, bitter, astringent and prickly, her taste buds who are used to eating space food can't stand it for a while.

"If you can't eat it, don't serve it!" Mrs. Zhou put her face on the table after Zhou Chen hugged Zhou Wanwan to the table, but seeing Zhou Wanwan sitting in a regular manner, she really couldn't find fault with it, so she didn't make a sound, and now she finally found a reason to push her down. "What can she eat? Bai hugged me and divided half a bowl of food with me. ”

"Milk, I'll take the girl back to Westinghouse to eat." Zhou Chen picked up Zhou Wanwan, folded their brother and sister's paste into a bowl, and prepared to go back to the West House. Zhou Yang came over to help him hold it, picked up his bowl again, and went back to the West House to eat.

Li Guizhi, who was holding his own bowl to feed Zhou Lan, looked at the backs of the three brothers and sisters, and stopped talking. These days, Zhou Lan eats the paste in her bowl, and she also wants to give Zhou Lan a paste, but she is afraid that Mrs. Zhou will scold, so Zhou Wanwan sat on the table tonight and got less than half a bowl of paste. She thought, they are all the same age children, and Zhou Lan should have them, but Mrs. Zhou didn't see them like mother and daughter, she wanted to but didn't dare to say it, and after a few efforts, she gave up at the last moment.

Li Guizhi glanced at Zhou Chunxi, who was eating silently on the kang, hoping that he could say something for her youngest daughter, who had already said this several times in front of her husband. Zhou Chunxi looked at Mrs. Zhou's gloomy face and shook her head gently at Li Guizhi. Li Guizhi lowered her head with red eyes, and fed Zhou Lan with the food in the paste, they were all the same age children, why did her daughter suffer so much......

After barely eating a few bites of grass and leaves, Zhou Wanwan said that he would not eat any more. It just so happened that she had been preparing to make herself a little darker and thinner recently, and this was the opportunity. Her current appearance is too eye-catching, Zhou Wanwan is afraid that she will cause some trouble if she continues to swagger, so it is better to keep a low profile.

But the two elder brothers didn't think so, they looked at Zhou Wanwan who refused to eat, and they were so anxious that they had no master. Zhou Yang, who has always been calm, turned in a circle on the ground, and Zhou Chen hugged his sister so distressed that tears came out.

Since my sister was picked up last winter, the longer she gets, the better, smart, beautiful, healthy and lively, and now the malt milk essence is gone, and my sister is not used to eating at home, and she must be hungry and thin again, and maybe she will have to get sick, like last winter, slowly losing energy, and finally only one breath is left to hang there......

"Why don't I go to the captain again and see if I can give us some food first, I can't eat much...... Zhou Yang said hesitantly, for his own sake, he would not ask for anyone, let alone ask for things, but his sister can't, he can't watch it easy to raise such a good sister to suffer." It's really not good, let's go and find Chief Shen, let's not want it, let's borrow it, and pay ......it back in the autumn with interest."

"Chief Shen is not always in the village, I heard that he will return to the county after the New Year, and I don't know when he will come back." Zhou Chen didn't object to his brother begging someone, if his brother didn't go, he would go too, he couldn't starve his sister if he said anything, and their brother would definitely pay back the favor he owed in the future, and the most important thing now was not to starve his sister.

"Let's talk to the milk first, cook some wheat batter for Nannan, we have to stretch our necks to swallow this sorghum batter with grass leaves, she is so small, how can she swallow it." Zhou Yang proposed again.

"Milk won't say yes." Zhou Chen told his brother with certainty, "I can't stand anything except being scolded." We still have a little soybeans, let's not eat them, chew soybeans every day in the future and feed them, and then warm them up in a few days, go to the big bubble to find out if there are any small fish, cook fish soup for Nannan to drink, and then see if there are bird eggs or what, Nannan is small, can't eat much, we are so adults, how can we feed her. ”

"Then do it first," Zhou Yang also agreed, "There's really no way, I'll go and beg someone, why can't I let Nan Nan go hungry, you look at Liuya's pitiful appearance, I feel sad when I see it." ”

"She's pitiful, she's pitiful because she has a confused mother!" Zhou Chen was very dissatisfied with his brother's words, and warned her by the way, "Don't worry about their affairs, she has a father and a mother, and it hurts more than us, so we don't need to worry about it." ”

"I know," Zhou Yang happily agreed, "I just want to say, why can't we be allowed to get to that point." ”

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After listening to the conversation of the brothers, Zhou Wanwan felt even more guilty.

She used to know that the food of the Zhou family was not good, and she knew that the vegetable leaf porridge must not be delicious, but she never thought that it would be unpalatable to this extent. She was sorry for her brothers for giving so selflessly, she should have taken out food earlier, she should have taken out more food, and she shouldn't have let her brothers eat this kind of thing for so long for fear of exposing herself.

That night, Zhou Wanwan was fed a handful of soybeans by his brothers, and Zhou Wanwan, who had long been accustomed to this method, ate it without any psychological barriers. She knew that if she didn't eat, her brothers would be in a hurry and couldn't sleep. Lying in the arms of her second brother, Zhou Wanwan secretly swore that this was the last time her brothers would suffer, and no matter how difficult it was in the future, she would not be able to let her brothers starve again.

The next day, Zhou Wanwan took advantage of the unpreparedness and circled around the firewood and straw stacks of Zhou's house.

At night, when Mrs. Zhou was holding firewood, she found a collapsed mouse hole under the firewood and straw stack, and the hole was full of wheat.

Mrs. Zhou was crazy with joy, and called the sons of the Zhou family with trembling legs, and sent a few grandsons to guard the front and back doors to get the food out of the hole. There was a big rat hole, fifty or sixty catties of wheat with a small amount of corn, and a basket of large potatoes that were particularly well preserved.

The Zhou family looked at these piles of things and believed that this was the ancestor manifestation and Huang Daxian blessed them.

After another two days, Mrs. Zhou found a large patch of water purses on a wasteland blocked by several large wooden piers behind the barn, which grew densely and strongly, and they were dug up in several baskets.

With these, although the food of the Zhou family is still mushy, it is a paste of wheat flour and shepherd's cabbage, and occasionally a few pieces of potatoes can be placed. I ate a few bites of every meal every night, and the only seasoning was salt, which was still unpalatable, but it didn't squirt out.

Because of these grains, Zhou Chunlai and his wife suffered a lot less from the white eyes. It turned out that marrying Shen Yufen was to receive an extra relief grain, but after they got married, there was no news about the relief food, and in the end, everyone knew that there was no need to count on it, so they didn't look forward to it. But the Zhou family, especially Mrs. Zhou, was angry, this fake news made her lose too much, if she didn't know that Zhou Chunlai and his wife didn't have the ability to spread such news, she would even suspect that this was a means they deliberately used to deceive her into getting married. But even if she knew that Zhou Chunlai and his wife were innocent, she couldn't stop Mrs. Zhou from being angry with them. It's a fact that food is lost to them, right? Then what else is there to say, insulting, angering, making trouble, you can suffer these in silence.

It wasn't until she found the grain in the mouse hole and the wild vegetables that appeared from time to time in the corners of the Zhou family that Mrs. Zhou's mood was better, Huang Daxian blessed the Zhou family, and even the two losers of Zhou Chunlai and his wife didn't look so hateful.

With something to eat, of course Mrs. Zhou will not forget Zhou Hongxiang. Zhou Chunxi was sent to the county seat again, and ten catties of freshly ground flour were sent, and the shepherd's cabbage got up early in the morning and dug a big basket while it was fresh, and took a few potatoes. The Zhou family watched the few foods being divided so much, and they didn't speak, but their eyes were dissatisfied. Mrs. Zhou didn't care where they were dissatisfied, and eating her daughter and grandson was the most important thing.

Zhou Hongxiang did not come back when Zhou Chunlai got married, saying that there was a temporary worker position in the county hospital, and she wanted to watch over there and strive to be able to work. If you become a temporary worker, if there is a regular job in the future, you will be more likely to fight for it, and you will be able to eat the supply of food. Such a big thing is of course more important than Zhou Chunlai's marriage, and Mrs. Zhou must fully support her eldest daughter. This time, let Zhou Chunxi go to the county seat, and send things is one thing, and the other thing is to see if Zhou Hongxiang became the temporary worker.

Zhou Wanwan also knew that whatever she took out would be given to Zhou Hongxiang, but she couldn't care about it so much, she couldn't watch her brothers starve for such a reason. However, she also understands that she can't take out too much at once, first, it is not safe, and second, the more she takes, the more she will share. She plans to take her time and ensure that her brothers don't eat such unpalatable things anymore, and then she can add a small stove to her brothers.

However, this small stove has to be more cautious, it depends on the timing, and it has to cooperate with the environment. But it doesn't matter, she thinks slowly, there is always a chance.

After Qingming, the weather is completely warm, the wind blowing on the face is moist, the grass in the field is not so sparse, and it slowly grows up, it is the season to dig wild vegetables. However, after three years of searching, the grass in the field is not even patchy, let alone wild vegetables, and it is lucky to find ten or eight trees in the morning. But even so, it can't discourage the enthusiasm of the children to dig wild vegetables, and it is good to hold back in the house for a winter, and it is good to come out and run in the fields, barren slopes and ditches.

Zhou Ling and Zhou Xia finally turned over the more than one acre of vegetable garden at home, and after doing housework every day, they took a small basket and a small wooden shovel to dig wild vegetables. All the iron tools were used to make steel, but now the children go to dig wild vegetables without knives to hold, and they all use wooden shovels.

Zhou Wanwan also wanted to go out for a walk, but after thinking about it, he gave up. It's too unsafe to walk with them, in case she is thrown into a ditch or a bubble that pushes her directly. Therefore, Zhou Wanwan obediently stayed at home to watch Mrs. Zhou grow vegetables.