After that, Huang Li's mother and son searched for two more hours, and after they didn't see anything to eat, they peeled off more than a dozen pieces of bark and went back to prepare to boil and eat.

"Mother, come back, come in and rest and warm up." After Huang Jiangshi unloaded the back basket on Huang Li's shoulder, and saw that there was some cyan bark in the back basket, Huang Jiang's expression darkened and helped Huang Li into the house to rest on the kang.

Looking at the few big heads and small bodies on the side, skinny and skinny, as if a gust of wind could blow a few babies away, Huang Jiangshi couldn't help but feel sad.

There are still a few months to go in this winter, and there is no food to eat, not to mention that the adults can't hold on, a few small ones, and a few of them can survive.

"Mother, I'll cook." Huang Jiang said, took out the bark in the basket, and went to the kitchen to make bark soup and drink.

Now it is better to be able to eat the bark of a tree than to eat Guanyin soil.

"We don't have to eat this today, we eat this." Huang Li held Huang Jiang's hand and took out the persimmon wrapped in cloth from his arms.

A few small ones saw Huang Li take out the persimmons after coming out.

One by one, they surrounded each other, swallowing saliva in their mouths, staring at the ripe persimmons.

But a few small ones didn't rush to fight and quarrel for food.

Huang Li felt sorry for several babies, they were all hungry, they were very hungry, and they didn't make a noise to eat.

Huang Li touched the heads of several babies one by one, and handed each of them a persimmon.

"Haven't the old family and the eldest sister, second sister, and third sister come back yet?" After Huang Li didn't see the eldest sister, he asked a little strangely.

I and my second child have come back from the mountain, and now that it's dark, whether they find food or not, they should come back.

"Not yet?" Huang Jiang replied.

Huang Li saw a small persimmon, and a few babies ate it in two or three bites.

Huang Li thought about it, and after leaving four persimmons for the old family and the eldest sister to eat, he took out two persimmons, broke them in half, and handed them to Shilang, Fifth Sister, Sixth Sister and Qilang one by one, and motioned for the four of them to eat.

"Grandma, second uncle, have you eaten? Grandson, this is for you to eat. After the fifth brother wanted to eat half of the persimmon in his hand, after seeing that his grandmother and second uncle had never eaten persimmons, he handed half of the persimmon in his hand to Huang Li Shidao.

After hearing this, the fifth sister, the sixth sister and the seventh brother didn't eat the persimmons in their hands, and looked at Huang Li and Huang Conghe with blank eyes.

"The milk is eaten on the mountain, and you can eat it." Huang Li looked at a few babies with a smile, with a look of love on his face, and motioned for them to eat persimmons.

Huang Yiyun's mother and daughter are four, one of them carries a back basket, and there are large and small river mussels in the back basket.

The Huang Yiyun sisters were in a good mood and walked to the house where they lived humming a small tune.

When approaching the door, after seeing that Grandma and the second uncle had returned, the second sister couldn't wait to run into the house and shouted, "Grandma, let's come back, guess what we found to eat today." ”

The second sister who walked into the house Xianbao seemed to remove the back basket and handed it to Huang Li and said happily.

"It's a mussel, so many." After Huang Li saw that the second sister carried back a large number of river mussels, Huang Li asked with a happy look on his face.

Huang Li calculated in his heart that with this basket of river mussels, it would be enough for them to eat for a month.

"Mother, this is still the river mussel that the eldest sister found in the riverbed at the head of the village, do we still have it here?" After Huang Liu came in from outside, his face was also happy.

"So many, and it's still a live mussel? We'll have enough to eat for a few months, and we'll be able to survive the whole winter. After the Huang Jiang clan helped the sister-in-law, eldest sister, and third sister to remove the basket, they saw that there were hundreds of large and small river mussels, and said with surprise on their faces.

"It seems that my eldest sister is really blessed, one after another to find food, and now, the second time I went out, I helped our family find food for several months. The second family, hurry up and wash two river mussels, peel two river mussels, boil a pot and come out for everyone to eat. ”

"Okay, mother, I'll go now." Huang Jiang saw that he had solved the food for several months at once, and seemed to be motivated all of a sudden, so he picked up a basket of river mussels and went to the back kitchen.

A few small ones also followed behind Huang Jiang's and watched Huang Jiang's boil river mussels.

The fourth brother and the sixth sister helped to remove the mussels, washed the mussels, chopped them into fine pieces, and then put a large basin of water into them to boil.

After that, Huang Jiang took a few children to wash the remaining river mussels, put them in a clean bucket, and raised these river mussels for future consumption.

The Huang family hasn't eaten meat for a long time.

This night's mussel soup was the best meal for the Huang family's family to escape the famine.

This pot of mussel soup is only seasoned with a little salt, and even the ginger is not fishy, and a fishy smell rushes straight to the mouth and nose.

However, at this time, the river mussel is fat and sweet, there is not much seasoning to put in, it is still very delicious, the only deficiency is that it is a little fishy.

Rao is like this, the Huang family smashed their mouths with a few small ones, and ate with relish.

"Tomorrow, old family, you take your eldest sister to pick up more firewood, we keep it for the winter to burn the kang, and now there is no food on the mountain to take home, so don't waste your physical strength to find it."

Tomorrow, my mother and the second child will go up the mountain to look for it, and if we can't find it again, our family will live on these river mussels, and when the spring of the next year comes, we will not be afraid. "The house where the Huang family lives, there is a room on the left and right sides of the hall, Huang Li and their sisters and brothers live in one, and the second uncle and aunt live in the other room with their five sisters and brothers.

That night, after Huang Li lay on the kang, he instructed Huang Liu.

"Grandma, tomorrow I will go up the mountain with you and my second uncle! Let's see if the eldest sister can bring luck to our family and find some more food for our family. Huang Yiyun slept on Huang Li's side, holding Huang Li's arm and said.

"Okay, the eldest sister will go up the mountain with grandma tomorrow, maybe the eldest sister is blessed, maybe she really found food?" After Huang Li's heart moved, he patted Huang Yiyun's hand and said.

In fact, Huang Yiyun vaguely has ideas and plans in his heart, but it is not time to develop them yet.

Huang Yiyun's heart moved, and he seemed to ask Huang Li unintentionally, "Grandma, how much water can the well in our backyard overflow every day?" Are there any other wells in the village? ”

"The well in our backyard can now overflow two large buckets of well water, enough for us to eat and drink in the past, but there is a big well at the head of the village, and the big well overflows more than the water from the well in our backyard every day. Huang Li thought that Huang Yiyun wanted to wash up.

"Oh". Huang Yiyun didn't explain one or two.