Chapter 42: The Human Heart (II)

They were much better off than the homeless people who had rested early - at least they had something to eat.

They came out in a hurry, and they only took a dozen or so dried naan cakes in total, and the naan cakes were made dry, and the three little girls could sustain themselves by eating one meal, not to mention that they still had money to supply dry food when passing through villages and towns, and in comparison, they were much better than that group of people.

But don't ordinary people eat two meals a day?

The fire was overflowing, and Changting leaned closer to Hu Yuniang's side, and asked in a low voice, "Yuniang, how many meals do you eat a day?" ”

"Two meals." Hu Yuniang absentmindedly took a wooden stick to poke the burning fire, and Mars suddenly jumped out, and the snow next to it gradually turned into a puddle of water, "It's Xiao Aning who is not yet well, and he only needs three meals today." In the past, it was a meal in the morning, and a meal at noon and evening. ”

"All the people in your village are like that?"

"I grew up with my grandfather in the deep mountains and old forests, I don't know if they are all like this, but a few families close to me are like this, oh, the county squire Wang only eats two meals at home, who has the spare money to eat two meals!"

Hu Yuniang leaned over again to pick up the fire, and then stuffed one or two pieces of firewood into it from time to time, and asked Changting with a smile, "What's wrong?" Weird to eat two meals? I don't know anyone else, so I just say that I am my own, the forest keeper depends on the sky for food, and today everyone who can hunt prey will have food to eat, and if he can't hunt, he will be hungry, and if he has the remaining cured meat and fur, he will take it to the village and exchange it for rice and vegetables, or he will pick wild vegetables and catch fish to eat. Grandpa said that we are still living well, and those farmers who live by guarding the fields not only have to watch the sky to eat, but also have to look at the face of the government to eat."

Taxes and miscellaneous taxes and higher wages every year.

Changting nodded thoughtfully, and when he looked at the yellow-skinned and thin, dragging children and cubs, his eyes fluttered.

The origin of the strong men in front of them is unknown, and they can't avoid it, and now when you look at the later group of people who look like homeless people and look like homeless people, it seems that something is wrong.

Since the habit of three meals a day with neat ear piercings is not a serious Shu homeless person, how can it fall into the field of wild vegetables? She originally guessed that this was a civilian businessman who fell into trouble due to defaulting on debts, but ordinary ordinary businessmen did not have the habit of eating three meals!

The squire in Hu Yuniang's mouth only uses two foods!

The scale in Changting's heart was biased towards the other option.

It is not a common merchant who is in debt and lost, nor can it be an ordinary small scholar, but the slave of the Dashi family will follow the master's family to develop the habit of eating three meals a day

Is it really a fugitive slave?

Changting frowned, in a trance, but heard Hu Yuniang exclaim beside him, "Oops! Cooked, cooked! Even the fragrance has come out! While shouting, he hit Changting with his elbow, this stupid girl didn't do it lightly or heavily, Changting touched his arm with a smile, I'm afraid it's green

As soon as Changting raised his eyes, his eyes passed through the shadows of the trees, and he could just see the group of ragged people who were busy on the opposite side.

sighed, is it a fugitive slave? Anyway, it has nothing to do with her half a penny.

Hu Yuniang saw that Changting didn't react, so she bumped her elbow hard, Changting ate two more pains, buried her head and calmly straightened the sleeve of Lida's jacket.

yes, it's good now, I'm afraid it's not only green, I'm afraid it can be green.

Xiao Changning's mouth was tightly pursed, and he took the small wooden stick given by Hu Yuniang to dig the pit where the nuts were buried, the little girl had never held a wooden stick, and she was not skilled, she didn't cut it after three or five times, Hu Yuniang squatted down with a smile, and simply put on leather gloves to dig the soil. The fruit nested in the mud pit that burned red, one by one, the pine nut fruit exploded, like a white tower of the demon town, the chestnut also cracked, like a grinning flower, the unique sweet fragrance of the fruit became more and more intense in the cold wind in the winter season.

The weather was very cold, Changning hurriedly took it inhaling, without a holster, and his hands were hot.

Hu Yuniang took the chestnut back with a smile, peeled it off and stuffed it into Xiao Changning's mouth three or two times, and asked, "Is it delicious?" ”

Xiao Changning was so hot that he couldn't close his mouth, and he wanted to bite but didn't dare, so he had to open his mouth and call out the white mist and hot air, nodding straight like a chicken pounding rice.

Changting laughed when he saw it, and after all, he didn't suppress his curiosity, so he had to lean over and ask Hu Yuniang, "How do you know that there are pine nuts, hazelnuts and chestnuts hidden under the tree?" ”

Hu Yuniang smiled so that her eyes narrowed into a slit, and she didn't turn her head to look, and hurriedly took out a big chestnut from the hot pile, and the tiger's mouth was clamped, and the shell fell, Hu Yuniang handed it to Changting, and waited for Changting to take it, before clapping her hands and saying, "Squirrels and mountain rats want to spend the winter, and they can't eat in the snow in winter, so they bury the stored food in the pit they plan, and then dig it out to eat in winter." Mountain people go up to hunt and are easy to be fascinated by their eyes, and they can't find the way, so they knock out the fruit stored by the squirrel and eat it, so we also call it a life-saving mouse. ”

Changting remembered the scene where Hu Yuniang put back a few pine nut towers after digging a nest

"Didn't we rob them of the food they had worked so hard to save?" Changting also asked with an absent-minded smile, and the little girl unconsciously brought out two small pear vortices on her face.

Changting didn't care, but Hu Yuniang nodded solemnly, "Well, because it's only winter now, they can still be stored sometimes." In two days, my grandfather won't allow me to dig holes, saying that the snacks in our mouths are actually their lives. ”

Changting was stunned.

The scholars and the Shu, the humans and the animals, the animals and the trees

Heaven and earth, who is the one who divides the three, six, nine and so on?

"Bang-"

There was a sound behind him.

Changting hurriedly looked up, and a black shadow came out of the fire at some point, and immediately subconsciously hid the young sister behind him, but he didn't know that he looked at it by the firelight, and it was the boy who came to beg for egg yolk at noon!

Hu Yuniang was very surprised, reached out and rubbed the boy's hair, and asked repeatedly, "Why are you here!" Why didn't I see you in the afternoon! Which group of people did you follow? ”

The boy shook his head, turned sideways and chattered a lot of words, Changting still couldn't understand, frowned and turned his eyes to look at Hu Yuniang, Hu Yuniang smiled and was willing to explain, "Why can't you understand the words!" He said Jizhou accent, which is quite similar to Youzhou's words! He came with the crowd, and in the afternoon they were crowded, and they didn't even see each other! I followed the scent."

Hu Yuniang pointed to the other end of the bushes, it was the group of ragged people, she didn't finish explaining, she listened to the boy's strength, pointed to the pine nuts in Changning's hand, and stammered in official words, "I want to eat hungry"

The official words are not bad, at least they can be understood.

Changting frowned deeply, from the bottom of his heart, he didn't want to give it out.

Unearned, and habitually unearned.

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A-Yuan will start the double shift from tomorrow, and the double shift will be until August 1st (if the hand is straight, the double watch will continue to go down,,,)