Before it got dark, about four o'clock in the afternoon, the Huang family began to fall asleep on the kang.

Nowadays, there is no food to eat, and one meal a day is too much, and this meal is eaten at four o'clock in the afternoon.

After eating, they go to bed separately to conserve their strength, and another reason is that if you fall asleep, you won't be hungry.

I don't know if I'm tired or injured this night, and I have no dreams all night, but when the sky is bright, the original body of this body naturally wakes up.

After a night of recuperation, the big bag on Huang Yiyun's forehead, except for some pain to touch, is not a big problem, he does not get dizzy when he stands up, and he can move freely.

Huang Yiyun fumbled to put on his clothes, combed his hair a few times with his fingers, and then tied it up with a hemp rope.

After seeing that the others have not woken up.

Cautiously walked out the door and looked out.

The village is bordered by mountains to the left and back, barren fields to the right, and a river in front.

However, now that there is a drought, the water in the river has dried up, and only three or four fingers of wide water is left in the middle, which flows slowly down the river.

As for the rest of the river, patches of ground that had been cracked by two or three fingers were like cobwebs, going in all directions.

I saw that my family lived in a deserted village, with only a dozen houses.

Half of the houses are still made of thatch, and the rest are earthen houses.

The houses are dilapidated and desolate, and it looks like these houses have not been inhabited for a long time.

The house where his family has found a temporary residence is the best one in this deserted village.

There is a small fence yard in front and a kitchen well in the back.

Just closed the door of the hall, and broke a big hole in it, and the cold wind blew in from the outside.

Huang Yiyun rinsed his mouth slightly and wiped his face.

Grandma, mother, uncle, second sister and third sister woke up one after another.

Every day comes to this time.

The three adults will take a few small ones around looking for food, even if they cut the bark of the tree roots, as long as they can eat it, they will eat it, and they will dig it back to fill their stomachs.

"Mother, today I want to go a little farther into the mountains to see if I can find something to eat." Huang poured a large scoop of cool boiled water from the river, and then filled a bamboo tube with a bamboo tube of water, and said to Huang Li's family.

After drinking a stomach of water, after the stomach is peristalsised, it can only be full for a short time, and after the water completely enters the small intestine, the stomach will be hungry and gurgling, and it will be even more uncomfortable.

"Well, Cheng, my mother will go with you. Old family, you can take the eldest sister, second sister and third sister to see if you can find something to eat. Huang Li nodded and said with a bamboo basket on his back.

Then, after thinking about it, Huang Li handed the remaining two hoes to Huang Li and Huang Yiyun, and then said, "You two take two hoes, go to the wasteland over there to hoe and hoe, see if you can dig anything, and second, it can also be used for self-defense, as long as someone dares to bully our family, don't care about anything, just hoe it up, this year!" Life is not worth anything. ”

"Grandma, we know, you and Uncle should also be careful."

After that, the Huang family divided into two teams and set off separately.

Huang Liu took his three daughters to the wasteland, and suddenly, Huang Yiyun saw the riverbed with cracks.

Suddenly, I thought of my previous life, my grandfather liked to fish, and often liked to go to a pond to fish.

On one occasion, the water in the pond dried up completely, and the riverbed was exposed.

Grandpa originally said that he was going home, but he saw that there seemed to be something under the cracked riverbed.

Grandpa walked in and saw that it was actually a river mussel, and it was not small, so he picked up two bags and came back.

Grandpa told himself and his grandmother about it, saying that he was lucky that day.

After Huang Yiyun's heart turned, he said to Huang Li, who was walking in front, "Mother, you go to the wasteland first, and my daughter will go to the riverbed to have a look." ”

"Eldest sister, the rivers are all dried up, and the riverbed is exposed, there is only a little water left, and there are no fish, what are you doing in the riverbed?" Huang Yiling asked a little puzzled.

Huang Yiyun didn't know if there were river mussels in the dry riverbed, and it would make people happy when they said it later, so it was better to take a look for themselves first.

"Then you go and see for yourself, if you don't find anything, you will come to look for your mother, and if there is something to shout loudly, you can take this hoe, and you may be able to use it later." Huang Liu knows that the eldest sister has been smart and stubborn since she was a child, she has an idea, and she has a tough temperament, and once she decides something, she will not change it.

Huang Liu also did not persuade the eldest sister, so he let the eldest sister take a hoe.

As for where to find food, it's the same, the key is whether you can find it.

Huang Yiyun carried a basket on his back, holding a hoe as a crutch in his hand, and slowly slid into the riverbed.

The riverbed was so dry that there was a sound of 'bangbang' when you stepped on it.

In the dry crevices, no mussels were found.

Huang Yiyun had no choice but to walk to the middle of the riverbed.

The bottom layer of soil is a little softer.

Suddenly, after Huang Yiyun sank down slightly, he obviously felt a hard object under his feet, and after Huang Yiyun had some guesses in his heart, he used a hoe to hoe away the river mud, revealing a piece of river mussels the size of an adult's palm.

Huang Yiyun saw that after this, his face showed joy, and he hurriedly picked it up, and he didn't care about the soil on the mussel, knocked it with his fingers, and smelled it again, but there was no stinky smell.

Huang Yiyun said with a smile: "This river mussel is still alive." ”

After picking up the first river mussel, Huang Yiyun was full of energy.

Go to the muddy place where the river is wet.

Step on it hard, because the mussel shell is relatively hard, and you can feel it when you step on it.

Gradually, the second mussel was found, and the third mussel ........

These mussels are large and small, and even some of them have cracked shells, and the fleshy parts of them are shriveled, and it looks like the mussels have been dead for a long time, and it seems that they are sunburned or have not absorbed water.

Picking up the river mussel means that there is food, and having food means that there is no need to starve.

Huang Yiyun picked it up for two hours.

The morning went by like this.

Although he was very tired, after thinking that a group of little radish heads at home didn't have to starve, Huang Yiyun felt a warm current in his heart.

The basket was stuffed, and a small pile of mussels was piled up on the ground.

It's just that it seems like so much, but in fact, the back basket that Huang Yiyun is carrying is not big, and it can only put down twenty or thirty river mussels the size of an adult's palm.

According to the Huang family's eating method yesterday, eat one river mussel a day, and then boil it with a pot of water, so many river mussels, I am afraid it is enough for the Huang family to eat for a month or two.

All they drank was water, they were not full, they didn't care about anything, and they were far from being able to solve the problem of their family's food for the winter, and they had to find food.