Xiao Ju Niang returned to the cave where she lived in the dark, and as soon as Xiao Ju Niang entered the cave, she found fire paper and lit the tung oil lamp! And Zhuang Zhuang is hungry, but he is also a little person, and he didn't ask for food from Sister Ah in the peach blossom house, and now when he returns to his cave, he is anxious to stick to Xiaoju, and he is pitiful and hungry! Xiao Ju looked at the little cunning Zhuang with a smile, and took out the fried and unfinished small pastry from the small space for everyone to add supper.

Xiao Ju Niang unconsciously took the small dough cake handed over by Xiao Ju, and stared at the hole blocked by the curtain while biting, looking preoccupied. Xiao Ju followed her mother's eyes, and lost her previous composure in her heart, this cave has no security gate, only a layer of cloth curtain to cover it, if everyone sleeps to death, they don't know if they are sneaked in.

"Xiaoju, when we go to dig wild vegetables tomorrow, we will cut down a few trees and come back by the way, and make a wooden gate, which is not only breathable, but also can prevent people with bad intentions from entering the hole." Xiao Ju Niang stared at the entrance of the cave for a long time, and finally spoke.

"Well, tomorrow Niang and Zhuang Zhuang will be responsible for digging wild vegetables, and the work of cutting trees will be handed over to me. I have a lot of strength! Xiao Ju measured the size of the hole with her eyes. At the same time, I thought in my heart that this wooden gate should be made thick and strong, and then the big lock of the courtyard gate that was replaced by the small courtyard of the county seat should be installed, and I would be able to sleep boldly at night.

The next day, Xiao Ju Niang and her husband arrived at the intersection of the mountain early to wait, and sure enough, the Peach Blossom family and Hu Tian's family came over early. After everyone gathered, they walked together towards the mountain. Along the way, just like last night, Xiao Ju Niang and Zhuang Zhuang were looking for wild vegetables, while Xiao Ju found those trees that were as thick as an adult's arm, and cut down more than a dozen trees with a woodcutter taken out of the space.

Although the other two families were a little strange about Xiaoju cutting down trees, they just thought that she was cutting them back to make firewood, so they didn't ask much. It's just that when I went down the mountain, I saw Xiao Ju dragging more than a dozen trees that were tied with rattan and didn't look light down the mountain, and I was surprised by her strength!

Thinking that these adults in their family have been starving for a long time, they have a sense of vanity when they walk, and the Xiaoju family should be more difficult than them, why does this family of three seem to be very energetic? Especially Xiaoju, when did she have such a big strange power?

Although everyone has some doubts in their hearts, it must be another family's business, so it is not good to ask too much. What's more, it's been a day since I went out to find food, and in order to save food, everyone didn't eat at noon, and I didn't have the strength to be curious! At this time, I just want to go down the mountain and go home to get food, so the road is quiet.

As soon as he got home, Xiao Ju used a firewood knife to cut the small trees with thick arms that he dragged back into sections of wood that were longer than the entrance of the cave, and then used a knife to flatten their surface branches, and then firmly embedded the wood into the hole one by one, leaving only a hole one meter wide and two meters high that could only be entered and exited by one person. Then she used the remaining wood to make a wooden gate and installed it, and at the same time, as she thought yesterday, the big lock of the courtyard gate that had been replaced in the small courtyard of the county seat was secured.

After finishing the cave door, Xiao Ju made some fixes again to make the fence and gate stronger, and then clapped her hands and cleaned up the excess wood scattered in front of the cave door.

And Xiao Ju Niang has been cleaning up the wild vegetables dug up today with Zhuang Zhuang, and after cleaning up, she boiled some wild vegetables and corn paste with the cornmeal that Xiao Ju took out early.

But this is the time for families to eat, and the smell of wild vegetables wafts everywhere in the air. When Xiao Ju Niang boiled the wild vegetables and corn paste, she saw that Xiao Ju was still making the gate there, and she couldn't get it right for a while.

She asked Xiao Ju to eat dinner first and then get it, but Xiao Ju just wanted to get it in one go, so that she could find a free space to take a bath in a small space, so as to wash off the stinky sweat on her body! Let the mother take Zhuang Zhuang to eat first, no need to wait for her.

Xiao Ju Niang couldn't do it, so she had to put a bowl in a big bowl, and the rest was shared with Zhuang Zhuang. By the time the gate was completed, it was already dark. After Xiaoju put the wood at the entrance of the cave in order, she said to her mother that she wanted to go for convenience, but she didn't dare to go far for fear of worrying about her mother, but she just flashed into a small space in the dark not far from the entrance of the cave.

Xiao Ju hurriedly took a cold shower in the space, changed into clean clothes and came out. Fortunately, several of her clothes are patched with Ding stacks, and she can't see her true colors for a long time, plus it's night, and the oil lamp is dim, I believe my mother can't find out that she has changed her clothes.

went back to the cave and ate the bowl of wild vegetable paste left by his mother, Zhuang Zhuang pouted on the side: "Sister, you will make it tomorrow, the paste made by my mother is not as fragrant as you make!" It's still bitter! ”

When Xiao Juniang heard this, she glared at Zhuang Zhuang and said, "Didn't you see that your sister is tired?" Do you dislike something to eat? Zhuang Zhuang saw that his mother was angry, and hurriedly moved to Xiao Ju's side, and looked at Xiao Ju pitifully with his eyes. Xiao Ju couldn't stand the trick of being strong, so she hurriedly stopped the paste she was drinking, and said with a smile: "Okay!" Sister will do it tomorrow! But you have to help Sister Ah clean up the wild vegetables, right? ”

"Sister, when did I come back and didn't clean up the wild vegetables?" Feeling that Xiaoju had erased the credit of Zhuang Zhuang, he felt hurt, and asked a little unhappily.

Xiao Ju felt a little funny when she saw Zhuangzhuang's fried hair, took out the hand holding chopsticks, touched his head and said with a smile: "Who dares to say that Zhuang Zhuang can't do it, Sister Ah and him are in a hurry!" ”

"Zhuangzhuang, your sister is teasing you! Come here, let Sister Ah finish eating quickly, rest early, and get up early tomorrow! Xiao Ju Niang saw that Zhuang Zhuang was sticking to Xiao Ju, so that Xiao Ju couldn't concentrate on eating the mush, so she glared at Zhuang Zhuang and said.

"It's okay! Mother! Xiao Ju said as she drank the remaining mouthfuls of paste in the bowl a few times, then threw the bowl back to the space kitchen, and then poured a bowl of water from the jug in the hole and rinsed it. Then I had to sit back on the bed.

Xiao Ju Niang looked at the sturdy fence and the firmly locked gate at the entrance of the cave, and blew out the tung oil lamp placed in the cave in a relaxed mood, and said, "Sleep!" I'm going to get up early tomorrow and go up the mountain! ”

Xiaoju's family had a good night's sleep! For the next period of time, this lady gathered at the mountain trailhead and Hu Tiantaohua's two families every day, and maybe the other people in the village saw that there were many of them, but they didn't dare to make any changes.

It's a pity that after more than half a month of peaceful days, the sky began to change. Strong winds blew for several days in succession, blowing the wheat that was about to ripen and harvest in the fields, and after the strong winds, it rained several times.

When the rain stopped, I stood on the hillside and looked at the wheat fields below, where the wheat was blown to the side by the wind, and then it rained heavily, and most of the wheat fell on the fields and roadsides with its wilted body. It seems that the hope of a bumper harvest in the wheat field, which carried everyone's hopes, will be shattered again.

After the wind and rain stopped, all the Huzhuang people who planted the fields were busy going to the fields to rescue the lodging wheat, but unfortunately, these wheat not only lodging badly, but also was blown away by the wind nearly sixty percent, after harvesting, not to mention leaving to eat, even tax payment is not enough! We have to find another way to fill this gap, otherwise, the Japanese army and the puppet government will not let everyone go. So during this time, there was an air of despair in the sky over the entire Huzhuang.

Because the Peach Blossom family and the Hu Tianjia have fields, after the wind and rain, they didn't go up the mountain again, but soaked in the wheat field every day, wanting to rescue more wheat out. Otherwise, I really don't know how to live this day!

Xiao Ju Niang often stands on the hillside and looks at the scattered wheat fields below the mountain, looking sad. Xiaoju didn't know how to open her mouth to comfort her mother and her, and she had planned for a long time, but she broke reality and broke her dreams. At least for the past two years, the idea of going out to find a job to support a pair of children is difficult to achieve.