When Xiao Ju Niang and the villagers of Huzhuang came out of the depths of the dense forest one after another, they finally got out of the dense forest and arrived at the back slope of Huzhuang.

Most people stood on the hillside and looked at Huzhuang at the bottom of the mountain, and Xiaoju's family was no exception. In the past, the brick houses and mud-walled grass houses hidden among the trees were now reflected in the eyes of everyone, and the remnants of the broken wall after the fire were burned, and the black smoke curling up from the ruins. Looking at such a home, the Huzhuang people standing on the hillside suddenly burst into tears.

Xiao Ju looked at the people of Huzhuang who were standing around crying bitterly, and only felt astringent in her heart, you must know that the drought has just passed, and the people of Huzhuang have not recovered from the drought, and now they will lose the houses they rely on to shelter from the wind and rain, doesn't this make their lives even worse?

At the same time, there was a wave of resentment against the Japanese soldiers, seeing the scene in front of me, remembering that in modern times, those Japanese politicians whitewashed and refuted the war of aggression launched by them in every way, and even some Chinese people also defended it.

The villagers of Huzhuang cried and walked down the mountain towards their dilapidated home, and Xiaoju also silently followed her mother and Zhuang Zhuang in the direction of their cave. And the two families of Peach Blossom and Hu Tian had already walked far ahead of them, and they couldn't wait to see if their home had been destroyed by the fire of the Japanese soldiers.

Xiao Ju Niang finally came to her broken cave, but she didn't expect that the cave on this hillside might be too broken, but she escaped the fate of being destroyed by Japanese soldiers. Xiao Ju Niang opened the door, because no one lived in it for a long time, and there was a thick layer of ash everywhere in the cave. Xiaoju and his mother quickly brought water with Zhuang Zhuang and began to do a lot of hygiene.

It's not that Xiaoju doesn't want to go to the county seat immediately, but seeing the scene of Huzhuang being burned down today made her feel a little uneasy about the situation in the county seat. You must know that there are Japanese soldiers and puppet soldiers stationed in the county, who knows if this act of arresting Ding is also going on in the county?

Thinking of the bestiality of Japanese soldiers against women and children learned about by various channels in modern times, and then thinking about the unobstructed courtyard in the county seat, Xiaoju did not dare to take this risk and took her mother and Zhuang Zhuang back to the city at this moment. After all, the Japanese soldiers here in Huzhuang are coming, and they can also run into the back mountains to hide!

Xiao Ju and her mother scrubbed the thick dust in the cave, while thinking, judging from the dust at home, Hu Daring's father hasn't come back for a long time, right? Could it be that he has been captured by Japanese soldiers? Otherwise, he is really so ruthless that he even abandoned his wife and son like this and went to survive by himself?

This lady was busy for most of the day, except for the kitchen, and finally cleaned up the three rooms in the broken cave. Xiao Ju and the three of them sorted themselves out at will, and took out the pancakes prepared by Xiao Ju before leaving in the morning, but they didn't finish it on the way, and gnawed on the cold well water.

Although the bread was cold, this lady ate it like the most delicious food in the world, and ate it sweetly and contentedly. Especially Xiaoju, she never thought that one day she would be reduced to a piece of bread to eat, so she looked satisfied.

Think about it in modern times, I have long been tired of eating chicken, duck and fish, and often go around with colleagues and friends to find the so-called original ecological restaurants, and spend very expensive prices to taste those wild vegetable coarse grains that are now used to fill the stomach.

And the coarse grains of wild vegetables that we eat now are cooked in water, and it would be good to put a little salt, so how many cooking processes are there? So it tastes bitter and astringent, and how can there be any taste of original food? As for the coarse grains, they were soaked with most of the chaff in them, and they were eaten in the mouth, so thick that they wore out the mouth, so they could only chew coarsely and swallow them.

Xiaoju sometimes dreams back at midnight, and she has an incredible feeling that she has slowly adapted to the current poor life.

This lady finished gnawing a few cakes beautifully, and then poured some cold well water, Zhuang Zhuang was young, walked a long way up and down the mountain road early in the morning, and when she came back, she jumped up and down to help carry water, wash and wipe cloth, not to mention that his body has not recovered to a healthy state, Xiao Ju Niang is the same, these two people have long felt very tired.

Xiao Ju had already noticed the fatigue on the faces of her mother and Zhuang Zhuang, and after everyone was full, she put away the rest of the food on the kang table, sent the two of them to rest on the kang, and went to the kitchen to clean up.

Wait for Xiaoju to clean the kitchen, and also take out a small bag of cornmeal from the space and put it in the kitchen, while also filling the kitchen water tank with water. I took out some of the firewood that had been laid in the dense forest for so long and stored in the space.

She looked at the bag of cornmeal and the pile of firewood piled up in the corner of the stove, and estimated in her heart, thinking that there should be no problem for the mother to eat and use it for four or five days, so she smiled and went out of the kitchen and went back to the main room.

At this time, it was already dark, Xiao Ju pushed the door of the cave, and just saw that Niang was holding a flint and steel to make a fire, looking for a tung oil lamp everywhere. Xiao Ju then remembered that the tung oil lamp had been taken away by her a long time ago, and it had been used in the soil cave in the dense forest for a long time, and it was being lost in the miscellaneous house in the space at this time.

Xiao Ju hurriedly moved the tung oil lamp out of the miscellaneous room of the space, she had already discovered that every qiē thing in the space, she could move them out and in through her mind, so that she didn't have to be stupid to carry them in and out as before, and worry about being found out that something was wrong.

Xiao Ju Niang looked for a long time, but did not find the tung oil lamp that was originally placed in the lamp hole, and at this time saw her daughter Xiao Ju come in, and asked: "Xiao Ju, was the tung oil lamp at home put away by you?" ”

"Mother, you are amazing! Just guess it! Well, here I am! Xiao Ju patted her mother's ass and took the Tongdong lamp that had been removed from the space to her mother.

"Girls' families, less poor mouths! Be careful that no one wants it in the future! Although Xiao Ju Niang listened to Xiao Ju's words, she felt very close in her heart, but she still blamed her mouth, but quickly took the tung oil lamp in her hand and lit it, and gently put it back into the light hole on the wall. Soon, the cave was filled with a room of dim but warm light.

"Mother, I've cleaned the kitchen! But I didn't make dinner! I'm a little tired! Xiao Ju said to her mother a little coquettishly. It's not that Xiao Ju really loves Jiao, but her body is so big, she ran away early in the morning, and when she came back, she was busy until dark, not a breath of air supporting her, and she was already tired and crawled down.

Xiao Ju Niang listened to Xiao Ju's words, a look of self-blame and relief appeared on her face, stretched out her hand and gently held Xiao Ju in her arms for a while, before she said: "Ju'er, this was originally what my mother did, but now I let you worry about a little baby like you, and my mother is ashamed!" ”

"Mother, don't they all say that your daughter is your mother's little padded jacket? So it's right for a daughter to help her mother share her worries! But now I'm really tired, I'm going to sleep with Zhuangzhuang! Xiao Ju said as she lay down on the kang, pulled the broken quilt on the kang and covered it, and closed her eyes to dream of Zhou Gong.

Xiao Juniang looked at her daughter tired like this, and sat on the side with some distress for a while, then got up and went to the kitchen to see what she could eat, so that after the pair of children woke up, they could fill their stomachs.