Chapter 487: Escape
He Xiaofeng first went back to the kiln room where he slept with Liu Zhu, but Liu Zhu helped Luo Sen back to the room to rest first, and then turned back to the room where he was resting.
"Pillar, during the meal, you said, 'When we get back to Kyoto, there will always be a way to keep them full!' What does this mean? As soon as Liu Zhu entered the room, He Xiaofeng asked anxiously, knowing that she wanted to ask during the meal, but seeing that Liu Zhu had been a little uncertain, she was worried that the team was going to criticize the 'rightists' again, and she was afraid to ask at the dinner table.
"Tomorrow, when you come back from work, you will take some of the things you can eat at home and make dry buns, and then pack the clothes that we and Jian'er Hong'er changed on the road, and I am going to take you out of Hujiazhuang tomorrow night!" Liu Zhu said in a low voice.
"What do you say? What about the old man? He Xiaofeng was startled, and his voice involuntarily raised a tone, which was particularly abrupt in this quiet night, and Liu Zhu immediately reached out and stopped He Xiaofeng's mouth.
"The old man stays! When we're settled, we'll find a way to come back and pick it up! Liu Zhu felt that He Xiaofeng had calmed down, so he took his hand away from He Xiaofeng's mouth and explained at the same time.
"How's that going to work? He is old and in poor health, and when we leave, who will take care of him? He Xiaofeng subconsciously objected, in the past two years, in her heart, she had long regarded Lawson as her father. In fact, according to the actual situation, Luo Sen is Xiao Ju's godfather, and Liu Zhu is Xiao Ju's uncle, so He Xiaofeng and Liu Zhu and Luo Sen should be equals, but because of Luo Sen's own knowledge and life experience, in ordinary life, he unconsciously became the guide of He Xiaofeng and Liu Zhu. So in this family, everyone unconsciously respects Rosen as a father.
"This is arranged by the old man! Naturally, he has a point! Don't worry so much! Don't forget to save more for what you eat at home! I'll go into the back mountains early tomorrow morning to get some more game and come back, and then you will clean it and drown it in salt. Let the old man make his own soup and drink! Liu Zhu's mood was actually not good, and he was also worried that after his family left, the village brigade headquarters would find trouble with Rosen, but he also knew that if he didn't leave according to Rosen's arrangement, he would not be able to find food in the mountains in winter, and there was no food in the village, so everyone could only wait for death if they stayed here. And if you leave at this time, you may have a way to live.
"Got it!" He Xiaofeng saw that Liu Zhu looked preoccupied. Thinking that leaving this matter involves secrecy, family members who have been in the army for a long time are generally very conscious of not asking about secrecy. So He Xiaofeng kept silent. The two of them went to the kang and thought about their own things, and both of them tossed and turned for most of the night, and they fell asleep in a daze when it was almost dawn.
When He Xiaofeng opened his eyes, he found that Liu Zhu had long been on the kang. She remembered what Liu Zhu said last night about going into the back mountains early in the morning to hunt and taking her and a pair of children away tonight. Get busy and go to the kitchen to make breakfast and take inventory of what you eat at home.
Since he was sent to Hujiazhuang with Liu Zhu, the commune canteen was just established. When everyone ate in the commune cafeteria, the food was still very good. The three meals a day do not talk about big fish and meat, but the meals are all white flour and dried buns, as well as meat dishes. But the good days didn't last long. When there was not enough food, the canteen changed from three meals a day to two meals a day. Then the white flour bun turned into a vegetable bun. Then it's a vegetable paste. Later, it became a wild vegetable paste. Now the cafeteria is simply closed, and everyone is looking for something to eat. And the family relies on the seventy or eighty pounds of coarse cornmeal that Lawson gets back from Huaxian every month to support it until now. But in the past three months, no one from Huaxian County has come to deliver coarse cornmeal, and the villagers are not allowed to leave the village. In the past, the surplus cornmeal was saved, and the amount of corn flour that was eaten was getting less and less every day.
He Xiaofeng sighed and lifted the noodle bag again, and the cornmeal in the noodle bag was less than three catties. After thinking about it, she poured less than a pound of cornmeal into the basin, and ate it on the way to make wild vegetable buns with wild vegetables. As for breakfast, she looked at the pile of Huaishan roots piled on the kitchen floor, which Liu Zhu found when he went deep into the back mountain a few days ago, and when he dug it back, the family was overjoyed.
He Xiaofeng divided this pile of Huaishan into two piles, one big and one small, and then put the small one in a basin, planning to wash it and steam it and cool it there, and then take it away. In addition to Huaishan, cornmeal and wild vegetables, there are more than ten sweet potatoes in the family's food, and these more than ten sweet potatoes are used as the family's rations today. He Xiaofeng rummaged through and picked up, took four or five sweet potatoes out, and prepared to make sweet potato and wild vegetable porridge for breakfast and dinner. It's been a long time since I've eaten Chinese food! He Xiaofeng sighed, when is this kind of day of day counting?
After breakfast, Liu Jian and Liu Hong continued to ask their friends to dig wild vegetables at the edge of the back mountain, these two little guys went out in addition to carrying a basket, but also brought a small hoe and a small cloth bag, all the way muttering that they wanted to go to the place where they dug up the larvae yesterday to dig up the worms, the fried insects they ate last night were so fragrant that they both wanted to swallow their tongues, dig more today, and then in addition to leaving it to Grandpa Luo, everyone can also have a full meal.
He Xiaofeng also drank a bowl of sweet potato and wild vegetable porridge, and then stewed the rest of the porridge on the stove, so that when Liu Zhu came back, he would have a hot mouth, and then brought a bowl of cornmeal and wild vegetable paste and a small plate of fried cicada larvae left last night into the hall and put them on the kang table, and then went out to work with a hoe.
He Xiaofeng went so early, not to be an activist, but to find some edible wild vegetables and weeds in the fields by the way, many people in the village are like this. It's almost noon when I actually go to the fields to do things. Luo Sen and Liu Zhu usually do the same as He Xiaofeng, but today Liu Zhu entered the mountain, and Luo Sen, the old injury on his waist has reappeared, and it hurts so much that he has to lie on the kang. The team also knows his situation, and the salary is calculated according to the amount of work to work, not to mention that there is not much food now, and not many people care about whether Rosen goes to work or not.
It was already noon when Liu Zhu came back, and this time he went into the mountain a little deeper than usual, and ran into a pack of wolves, if he hadn't hid quickly, he would almost not have come back. Fortunately, there was no danger, and of course the harvest was good, with six pheasants and five nests of wild eggs, a full twenty-five eggs. He also caught nearly 20 mountain frogs in a waterhole in the mountains.
Liu Zhu threw the things in the kitchen, drank the sweet potato and wild vegetable porridge that He Xiaofeng had warmed on the stove a few times, wiped his mouth with his hand, and hurriedly carried the hoe to work. In the first half of the day, show your face in front of everyone, so that you can delay the time when you are found out by the team and leave.
Liu Zhu found He Xiaofeng in the field and asked He Xiaofeng to find an excuse to go home from work to get food. He Xiaofeng quickly found the team leader in charge and said that Rosen had made an old mistake and wanted to go home to take care of people. The team leader in charge didn't embarrass anyone, but just said that if he congratulated Xiaofeng to leave, he could only count half a day's work. He Xiaofeng naturally nodded in agreement.
When he got home, He Xiaofeng was really surprised to see the pile of prey piled on the kitchen floor. Liu Zhu used to go hunting in the mountains to find food, and it would be good to be able to hunt two or three pheasants, after all, the villagers also went to the mountains to find food, and the brave ones would go deeper. Naturally, there are fewer and fewer wild things, unless you go deeper into the mountains, but I heard that there are wolves in the deep mountains and forests, and no matter how hungry you are, there is still a life, and when you encounter a wolf pack, there is no life, so no matter how bold the villagers are, they dare not drill into the mountains. If He Xiaofeng knew that Liu Zhu had drilled into the deep mountains today, and would take them to drill into the deep mountains tonight, he would not have been only happy but not surprised at this time.
He Xiaofeng cleaned up the six chickens and twenty mountain frogs, and the four chickens and twenty mountain frogs were soaked in salt and placed in a large wooden basin for Lawson to eat slowly. The two chickens were steamed in the pot, and the twenty-five wild eggs were steamed in the pot at the same time.
After He Xiaofeng sorted out the food and clothes he left, and the sweet potato and wild vegetable porridge for dinner was also boiled, Liu Jian, Liu Hong and Liu Zhu went home. Today, these two guys dug up a whole small bag of cicada larvae, and it is estimated that the cicada larvae in that forest have been dug up by a few of them.
He Xiaofeng saw that his children were full of mud stains, but they looked excited, so he guessed that these two little guys had found something delicious. So I asked with some curiosity: "Did you find anything delicious in the forest today?" ”
"Mom, give!" Liu Jian proudly handed the small bag he was holding to He Xiaofeng.
"Got the worm?! So much?! As soon as He Xiaofeng opened the bag, he looked surprised. What kind of good luck is today, Liu Zhu has hunted so many wild things, and now these two little guys have dug up so many insects.
"Mom, in addition to leaving it for Grandpa Luo, we also have a lot to eat today!" Liu Hong swallowed his saliva and smiled so much that he couldn't see his teeth.
"You slanderous cat!" He Xiaofeng glared at his daughter with a smile, picked up the small cloth bag and went to make fried cicada larvae. In addition to the unknowing Liu Jian and Liu Hong, the three adults were all preoccupied, and Rosen kept putting the fried cicada larvae on the plate into the bowls of the two little guys, he was reluctant, because he didn't know if Liu Zhu and them would be able to see each other in his lifetime!
When it was completely dark, Liu Zhu and He Xiaofeng each carried a big bag, and at the same time took two small bags for Liu Jian and Liu Hong to carry on their backs, the two of them realized that something big had happened.
"Dad, where are we going? What about Grandpa Luo? Liu Jian took the small bag from Liu Zhu's hand and put it on his back, and asked with a puzzled expression.
"Your Grandpa Luo is resting, don't bother him! I'm going to take you out of Hujiazhuang tonight! Liu Zhu knew that Lawson didn't want to watch them leave, so after dinner, he said that he would go back to his room to rest. His heart was also very sad, but he had to suppress that reluctance.
Liu Jian and Liu Hong saw that their parents' faces were not very good, so they didn't dare to ask more, so they obediently followed behind Liu Zhu and He Xiaofeng with their respective small backpacks, and walked to the back mountain of Hujiazhuang by moonlight. (To be continued)
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