Chapter 19: Departure
"Eldest sister, sit here grandma, how did you come up with this method?" Huang Li patted the kang on his side and motioned for Huang Yiyun to sit down.
"It's not yesterday when the eldest sister stir-fried vegetables, the fourth brother and the fifth sister washed the yellow spinach leaves and let the eldest sister stir-fry, saying that the withered yellow leaves were fried and eaten together, and the eldest sister picked it out, and let the fifth brother throw it into the chicken pen. Huang Yiyun smiled and hugged Huang Li's arm, pillowed his head on Huang Li's shoulder.
"My eldest sister is smart, and during this disaster year, she found food again and again, which shows that she is a blessed person." Huang Li smiled and touched Huang Yiyun's head.
"Not really." Huang Liu also agreed.
is a mother herself, who doesn't like to listen to others say good things about their own babies.
"Mother, you embroider well, these rabbit skins have been dried, you make a pair of rabbit skin shoes for grandma, a pair for aunt, my daughter estimates that there is still a little more, you make another pair for the fourth brother." Huang Yiyun took a cautious look at Huang Liu, and after seeing that there was no different color on her face, Huang Yiyun walked behind Huang Liu, pinched Huang Liu's shoulder, and said.
"Okay, mother, I'll do it."
"Don't, sister-in-law, I don't need these rabbit shoes, my sister-in-law made them for you." When Huang Jiang heard this, he hurriedly excused himself.
"Brother and sister, my sister-in-law is stronger than you, and I should do it for you, and my sister-in-law is not uncomfortable."
"Come on, no one should shirk it, the old family's, just do it for the second family, it's too much for the family to resign." After Huang Li saw that Huang Liu's and their concubines were still going to excuse themselves, they clapped down and said.
"Cheng, mother, daughter-in-law will do it."
On this day, Huang Yiyun was a little surprised that their family caught more than seventy or eighty birds, among which most of these birds were sparrows, and there were also a few crows and partridges.
It's just that, like today's disaster, people can't eat enough, let alone birds.
really responded to that sentence, people died for money, and birds died for food.
Most of the birds and finches caught by the Huang family are one or two heavy ones, crows and partridges and the like, but they are no more than two taels, and they are all skinny.
Huang Yiyun is still the chef tonight.
Directly slaughtered half of the birds and finches caught today, took roasted birds and finches as the staple food, fried a bean, and steamed an eggplant finch minced meat.
The roast birds are crispy and tender, don't eat a few small ones from the Huang family, shouting that they are delicious, and even Huang Li's has eaten two more roast birds.
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The time slowly came to the halfway point of February next year.
At this time, spring has begun, everything has recovered, and the weather is gradually warming.
In winter, the Huang family first found river mussels, soil poria, and then pheasants and hares, and in addition to the successful planting of greenhouses, birds and birds were caught in winter.
In addition, after the successful planting of the greenhouse, Huang Li was worried that he would not be able to eat food in the spring of the next year, so he pickled several jars of beans, eggplants and cucumbers.
Even the hen at the head of the house, as well as the chickens that have been raised for a few months and a half, as well as the birds and finches that were caught in the past, are also dried and left to eat when they are on the road in spring.
With surplus food in his hand, he didn't panic in his heart, and in the winter days that others saw as a disaster, the Huang family comfortably ate and drank.
Although the family did not eat a mouth full of oil, big fish and meat, but at least they could eat a full stomach and eat meat from time to time.
In this winter, a few small ones of the Huang family raised a lot of white and tender, and they also grew a little meat.
"Now that spring is beginning and the weather is getting warmer, let's clean up tonight, and we will start to leave for Zuobei City tomorrow to meet the boss and the master, don't let them wait for us anymore." After dinner that day, Huang Li suddenly decided.
In the past few days, Huang Yiyun saw that Huang Li had some insomnia at night, and he was turning over and over on the kang over and over again, so he thought that Huang Li should be about to start the journey.
The Huang family doesn't have many things, and many things have already been packed.
On the second day, he loaded the canoe and prepared to set off for the agreed city of Zuobei.
"Wait." After preparing to set off, Huang Yiyun suddenly called out to everyone.
Everyone saw the eldest sister running into the kitchen again, and when she came back, they saw the eldest sister holding a piece of yellow clay and a piece of black charcoal in her hand, and Huang Li was puzzled, "Eldest sister, what are you doing here." ”
"Grandma, such as today's disaster, everyone can't eat enough, and even many people didn't survive last winter, our family has so many people and children, the babies are white and tender, others look at it, isn't this clearly telling others that our family eats and drinks well in winter?
The eldest sister will get some mud and charcoal ash for a few of you, make black spots, and yellow spots, don't be so eye-catching. Huang Yiyun said, the movements of his hands did not stop, and the faces of his younger siblings were black and yellow, yellow and yellow, plus the thin body, which was almost the same as before, and the people who were alive and well were all refugees.
As for the uncle, grandma, aunt and mother, they are rainy, their skin has long been white, they are all yellow and dark, they don't need Huang Yiyun to dress up at all, they really look like they haven't had a good meal.
"It's still the eldest sister who thinks thoughtfully." When Huang Li heard the eldest sister's words, he was first shocked, thinking that the refugees were rogues and had children to eat.
Fortunately, the eldest sister thought thoughtfully.
"Alright, let's go." After Huang Yiyun dressed up his younger siblings, the uncle carried the seventh, sixth, fifth and fourth brothers to a canoe and pushed them away.
Uncle made another canoe to place the Huang family's pots and pans, clothes, quilts and other things.
It was pushed by Huang Yiyun, the second sister, the third sister and Huang Liu in turn.
As for the prepared food, Huang Li was not at ease, so she personally covered it with a coarse cloth on the back of a basket.
The aunt was not in good health, and she was out of breath after walking for a while, so Huang Yiyun asked the aunt to get on the canoe too.
Set off again to Zuobei City, perhaps because the Huang family ate and drank well throughout the winter, and after preparing a lot of food, the Huang family's face was no longer discouraged, but a few small chatters along the way were noisy, and the dullness on the road was also taken away by a few children of the Huang family.
Although the Huang family has two canoes to push, but the road is bumpy, they walk very slowly, they hurry during the day, rest around at night to make a fire, lean together to keep warm, when hungry they pick some wild vegetables, eat some pickles pickled by Huang Li to satisfy their stomachs.
When I met a mountain temple at night and slept in a mountain temple, I didn't make a fire, and the family slept together for a night.