Because of a few rains, all kinds of wild vegetables on the mountain are rushing to emerge, not to mention that there are people who have planted fields in Huzhuang have gone to rescue the wheat in the fields, only like Xiaoju's family who did not farm continue to hang on the mountain every day, and then there are some children.

Xiaoju found that her mother had become very silent during this time, and the enthusiasm for her future life in her eyes some time ago was gone, and only silence remained. However, every day, I took her and Zhuang Zhuang up the mountain to pull wild vegetables, because there are many wild vegetables that emerge after the rain, and there are few people who pull them, so Xiao Ju Niang's daily harvest is very big now, and she can't eat it at all.

But Xiao Ju Niang cleaned up the wild vegetables that she pulled a lot every day, dried them and let Xiao Ju put them away. Xiao Ju guessed why she did this from her mother's situation, this is to reserve some food, and it will take a few days.

Xiaoju actually wants to tell her mother that her small space is full of enough food and noodles for her family to eat for a lifetime, so that her mother doesn't have to worry! But thinking about those superb relatives, as well as the current environment, I finally chose to keep my mouth shut. The only thing I can do is to follow my mother, and every day I get up early and go to the mountains to pull wild vegetables and come back to cool and collect.

Peasants are the most stoic and hard-working people, in modern times, all the dirty work in the city that no one wants to do is done by migrant workers who go to the city, and the pay for doing these jobs is very low, and even some unscrupulous bosses often hack their hard-earned money, but few people complain, they still fight in the most difficult positions in the city. Now Xiao Ju has the deepest understanding of the nature of the peasants' perseverance and hardship.

By the time Hu Tianjia and Taohua's family were waiting for Xiaoju's family at the intersection of the mountain again, nearly half a month had passed. Xiao Ju looked at the Hu Tian family and the Peach Blossom family, who had not seen each other for nearly half a month, and really didn't recognize them.

Not only have the two families darkened, but they also look thinner than before, as if they would fall when the wind blows. The most important thing is that there is no vitality on my face from some time ago, the kind of vitality that is full of hope for life!

When Xiao Ju went up the mountain, she quietly pulled the peach blossom aside and asked, "Peach blossom, how is the harvest in your field?" Peach Blossom said with a dejected face: "Alas, compared with the good harvest in previous years, there is only 30 percent of the harvest!" I can't even make up the taxes! ”

"What then?" Xiaoju is also a little anxious now, you must know that when the Japanese soldiers and puppet soldiers come to urge the military food, it is not ordinary ferocity. Finally struggling to survive to this day, but to die at the hands of those people?

"Xiaoju, I may also be sold by my family like my sister, so that I can collect the tax grain! Do you know that we worked in the field for half a month, and no one dared to eat the little grain and noodles that were rescued, but just chopped the wheat straw into balls to eat to fight hunger. "Peach Blossom looks a little listless.

Peach Blossom is almost twelve years old this year, if it is really sold by her family, at this time, where can it be sold? Xiaoju can guess without thinking about it. Brothels, only brothels, will at this time, take advantage of the disaster year when human life is not worth much, spend very little money, and buy a large number of young girls. After raising them for a while, you can let these people take customers and earn a lot of money for those brothel owners.

"Isn't there any other way to think of it?" Xiao Ju asked with some reluctance.

"What's the solution? I heard my mother say that if you want to escape, you can't escape, our area is occupied by Japanese soldiers, and there are puppet army turrets guarding every intersection, and we are not allowed to leave at all. Peach Blossom glanced at Xiaoju with her eyes that were too big because of her thinness, but she was unfocused.

"Who did your mother listen to this news?" Xiao Ju asked in surprise. You know, she originally wanted to persuade her family to leave Henan and escape to other cities. Fortunately, my mother didn't listen to her at that time, because if Peach Blossom was telling the truth, and my mother listened to her idea of leaving, these people in her own family might also die at the hands of Japanese soldiers or puppet soldiers.

"Xiaoju, you don't know? Didn't someone flee the famine in Zhuangzi last year? According to the people who turned back, it was impossible to get out of the area occupied by the Japanese, and the young men were captured by the Japanese soldiers on the road, the young women were killed by the Japanese soldiers, and the children were killed for fun. You don't know how terrible those guys are! Peach Blossom said as her body trembled.

Xiao Ju didn't expect this situation, but if what Peach Blossom said was true, in the past few years when the Japanese soldiers did not surrender, she still honestly persuaded her mother to hide in Huzhuang or Huaxian with her younger brother and not go anywhere.

Maybe everyone was bent over by this hopeless life, and it takes energy to talk while going up the mountain, so along the way, except for Xiaoju and Peach Blossom, everyone was silent all the way.

In order to find more things to eat, everyone ate in the mountains at noon. The children of the three families naturally sat together in a pile, and as Peach Blossom said, what she took out was a dumpling made of finely chopped wheat straw, and Hu Tian was the same.

The wild vegetable dumplings in Xiaoju and Zhuangzhuang's hands are mixed with some cornmeal, and when they are taken out at this time, there is naturally a fragrance of wild vegetables mixed with a faint fragrance of cornmeal, so that the peach blossoms and Hu Tian, who have not stuck to the grain surface for more than a year, smell this fragrance, and the saliva in their mouths can't help but flow out.

Xiao Ju looked at the shiny wild vegetable dumplings in her hand, and then at the pure grass dumplings in Peach Blossom and Hu Tian's hands, and felt very uncomfortable. Finally, I couldn't help but put my hand into the pocket of my clothes, pretending to dig it out, but in fact, I took four prepared wild vegetable dumplings from the space and handed them to Peach Blossom and Hu Tian with two each.

Zhuang Zhuang may have been hungry and scared when his mother was crazy last year, so he was more protective of food, and at this time he saw that Sister A actually gave a few wild vegetable dumplings to Hu Tian and Peach Blossom, although these two are also his playmates, but his face also revealed a kind of unhappiness.

Xiao Ju looked at Zhuang Zhuang with a pouting mouth and an unhappy face, reached out and touched his head, and said with a smile: "Zhuang Zhuang, don't worry!" We still have! How can Sister be willing to let Zhuang Zhuang starve? ”

Zhuang Zhuang believes in his sister's words very much, because since Sister A found him and his mother, he has never been hungry, and he can still eat fragrant egg cakes every day. Therefore, I didn't dwell on it anymore, and began to nibble on the wild vegetable dumplings in my hand with a smile.

At the same time, I thought to myself, the things made by Sister A are delicious, and even the wild vegetable dumplings are fragrant. If Xiaoju knew her brother's thoughts, she would definitely think it was funny, she made it delicious? It's just that because some oil and cornmeal are added to it, it naturally tastes much better than the mother's kind of noodles in order to save grain, mainly wild vegetables, and less oil and less salt.

Peach Blossom and Hu Tian are very sensible, and they actually resisted the temptation of these two wild vegetable dumplings, and gave them to their respective mothers and grandparents with some joy. And he chewed the wheat grass dumplings, so that Xiaoju looked at it, and his heart was full of taste.

But she didn't dare to continue to be a good person and a generous person, after all, from the eyes of outsiders, her family should be the most difficult in the village. There is no one to help, the only male laborer in the family has not come back for a long time, and the relatives are all unconscious, and now even the family is occupied! She is afraid that her own good intentions will cause some bad conjectures from others, and then bring some unmanageable crises to her family.

Peach Blossom Niang and Hu Tianniang knew that Xiaoju gave her children a few wild vegetable dumplings, and on this day when eating is more important than anything else, this gift is not a big one! The two adults repeatedly thanked Xiao Juniang, and at the same time had a relationship with each other, because these wild vegetable dumplings suddenly became a little closer.