Chapter 4: Picking Up Leaks

"Mother, second sister, third sister ........"

"Mother, listen, is the eldest sister calling us?" The third sister Huang Yiqiu, who had sharp ears, listened attentively, and said to Huang Liu after hearing the eldest sister's shout.

"Oh no, mother, is it that the eldest sister has found food again, and has been discovered by others, and is about to rob the eldest sister's things again." After the second sister thought of what happened a few days ago, she shouted with a pale face.

"Let's go, hurry up and go with my mother." When Huang Liu heard this, he also panicked, because he was afraid that his eldest sister would be injured, and he was afraid that the food that his eldest sister found would be snatched away, so he was very anxious.

Picking up a hoe, he ran to the riverbed in a panic.

"Big sister, what's wrong with you, are you okay?" Huang Liu hurried to the riverbed, and after seeing the eldest sister sitting aside, Huang Liu touched the eldest sister anxiously, and thought about the scene a few days ago, the eldest sister was broken by the refugees, covered in blood, which frightened Huang Liu.

I thought that the eldest sister would be so gone, but fortunately, God favored me and returned the eldest sister to me.

"Mother, I'm fine, my daughter found something to eat, and she couldn't carry it, so she called her mother down." Huang Yiyun was held in Huang Liu's arms, Huang Yiyun's heart was slightly shocked, it turned out that this is the taste of mother, it feels good to have someone to protect and care for.

Although Huang Liu's body is thin and thin, he is still strong to protect his children, shelter his children from the wind and rain, and want to give his children the best things.

This is a previous life, my parents died unexpectedly when I was a child, and I have never experienced the warmth and care of my mother, which feels so good, so good.

Huang Yiyun's eyes were red, and he couldn't hold back his tears, pointing to the river mussels on the side and saying to Huang Li, the second sister and the third sister.

"Is this a mussel? It's still a live river mussel, so much, enough for our family to eat for two or three months. After the third sister saw the river mussels on the side, she picked them up, smelled them and knocked them, and after seeing that so many river mussels were alive, the third sister, who had always been gentle and reserved, jumped up happily and was excited.

In Huang Yiyun's original opinion, he could only eat river mussels for more than a month, and he directly said in the mouth of the third sister that he could eat for two or three months.

"Is this really a mussel? Big sister, how did you find it? Huang Liu's face also showed excitement and asked Huang Yiyun.

In this era of famine, it is not easy to find such a large number of river mussels, and such a large number of river mussels is enough for his eldest family to eat for a long time.

"My daughter went down to the riverbed to see, if she could find anything, her daughter thought she couldn't find anything, and she was going to go back, but coincidentally, after her daughter stepped on a hard object under her feet, she dug it up and took a look, and there was a river mussel inside, and then her daughter stepped on it all around, and when she stepped on the hard objects under her feet, she dug them out and opened them, and there was a feeling of hard objects on the soles of her feet, most of them were river mussels."

"My eldest sister is a blessed one, one after another can find food, this riverbed is so big, the eldest sister may not have picked up the mussels hidden in the riverbed, eldest sister, you work hard, you rest first, second sister, third sister, you follow your mother, step on it, go to pick up the leak." Huang Liu, the second sister, and the third sister looked at the dry riverbed with bright eyes.

It's like a hungry wolf that has been hungry for a long time, and when he sees a little white rabbit, he can't wait.

In the end, the riverbed, which was only about 100 meters away, was found by Huang Liu's mother and daughter, and the river mussel was almost a three-back basket.

Huang Yiyun estimated that there were one hundred and fifty-six river mussels, large and small.

When it was almost four o'clock in the afternoon, the four of them mother and daughter were still leaving.

Two flowers bloom, one on each branch.

Huang Liu and Huang Conghe went up the mountain in search of food, and their family came to this deserted village for several days.

I also went up the mountain twice, but now in autumn, only the dead grass and fallen leaves remain, and there is nothing to eat at all, not even wild game such as pheasants and hares.

Either it's almost winter, and these animals are also winter, or there is not a single one left that has been caught.

This time, Huang Li plans to go farther into the mountains with the second child to see if he can find some food.

It's just that eating one meal a day, plus there is no clear soup and little water, and there is no food in the morning, it is laborious to go up the mountain.

Halfway through, Huang Li couldn't walk when he was older.

Halfway up the mountainside are dead branches and dead trees, the bark that can be eaten has been stripped away by the predecessors, and the dead trees are bare and ugly, and there are many potholes on the ground, and it seems that the rhizomes of wild vegetables have been dug up clean.

"Mother, you haven't eaten in the morning, your stomach is empty, and you've walked so far on the mountain road, you're tired, mother, why don't you go back first, I'll go farther away and see if I can find something to eat." Huang Conghe helped Huang Li Dao.

"If you go farther and you can't find anything to eat, you can peel more bark and go back to eat it, it's better than starving to death." Huang Li shook his head, and the mother and son walked towards the mountain with their arms.

Walking deep into the mountains, there were surviving trees and a trace of life.

In a jungle sheltered from the sun and thorns, the mother and son found a dwarf persimmon tree.

If it weren't for Huang Li's feet, he slipped and fell into the thorny jungle on the low slope.

The mother and son could not find the dwarf persimmon tree.

There are also a dozen red persimmons at the top of the persimmon tree.

Many of these dozen persimmons were pecked by birds and finches, and a small half of them were eaten.

It seems that this persimmon is ripe, attracting birds and finches to eat.

Huang Li's mother and son used a firewood knife and a hoe to hoe the thorns that pierced people, and walked under the persimmon tree.

Huang Li saw that the persimmon tree was only the size of a bowl, and it only had three branches, and the branches could not bear the weight of an adult at all.

"Second child, cut it!" After looking at the dozen persimmons at the top of the tree, he sighed.

When the time comes, don't find much to eat, and you fall people down, will the gains outweigh the losses at that time?

"Okay, mother." I don't know if I found something to eat, Huang Conghe was full of energy, and cut down this persimmon tree in a dozen clicks.

After the persimmon tree was cut down, Huang Li carefully picked more than a dozen persimmons, wrapped them in cloth, and brought them back to the baby at home to eat.

After Huang Li hesitated for a moment, he took out two persimmons that had been pecked by birds and finches and ate a lot, and handed them to Huang Conghe, "Second brother, we have also come a long way, let's eat a cushion first." ”

Huang Conghe hesitated for a moment, and after removing the persimmon pedicle, he didn't care about wiping it, and swallowed it with a gulp.

Huang Li, who was on the side, saw this, handed over the persimmon in his hand and said, "Eat another one." ”

"No, mother, you eat, my son is not hungry." Huang Conghe shook his head again and again and refused.

"Alas!" If you eat a meal every day, you can't eat enough, this little half of a persimmon can be full, this is all a sin in the sky!

But it's going to kill us.