Liu's house is at the foot of the village entrance mountain, the opposite side of the mountain is the town, it takes about half an hour to walk the foot of the main road, before the big drought, the people of the four towns and eight villages all go there to buy some daily necessities or do some small business, and then some people go to the outside of the town to make a living in the market with a greater flow of people.

And now she's going to make the trail into the mountains.

After the drought, the village was silent, since knowing that the new county order would not abandon the people, Xiaoliangshan and the surrounding villagers were staying at home to recuperate, waiting to receive the seeds two days later so that they could plant a season of early rice next year, only the elderly people chatted sporadically at the door.

Not surprisingly, Yue Chungui was shouted.

"That girl from the Liu family, where are you going when it's getting dark?"

Yue Chungui lowered his head and wiped his face, turned around and responded softly: "Grandpa, I'll go up the mountain to see if there are any wild vegetables." ”

The opening is a single-family family in the village, making iron for a living, and the elderly craftsmen have some status in the village.

He spoke directly: "The county lord's grain is distributed by the head, and you don't have enough to eat so soon?" ”

Yue Chun smiled in embarrassment: "Grandpa...... Our family's food is from Uncle Quan. ”

As soon as these words came out, the old people around raised their eyes, and it happened that the daughter-in-law of the Lizheng family came out to call her in-laws into the house, and asked casually:

"How is your food in his hands?"

Yue Chun returned to the branch, and his eyes were red: "Before putting the grain, Uncle Quan ...... Say help us get food......"

The old man, who was thinking quickly, had already "snorted", knocked on the cigarette gun, and glared at the house of the Liu family from a distance.

The drought has just passed, a ration of food is a life, who will give their life to others! It is clear that someone has a bad conscience and bullies people, and the child has no support at home!

On the side, his father had already blackened his face.

Lizheng's daughter-in-law is a chubby woman, her temper is no better, she also knows what she thinks when she sees this, she is afraid that her in-laws at home will be angry, so she hurriedly spoke: "Spring girl, it rained two days ago, and the mountain bitter vegetables are about to rise, you pick some back, and the aunt will send you some eggs later, this mountain bitter vegetables scrambled eggs are fresh and tender, and Zhiping can eat such a small doll!" ”

Yue Chungui quickly wiped his eyes when he heard this, and said with a grateful face: "Thank you, auntie!" Thank you, auntie! ”

"Uncle Quan borrowed two of my chickens to lay eggs." She said embarrassedly, "...... It's been five or six days, and I haven't laid an egg yet, so I think it's because I'm small and won't take care of the laying hens. ”

Li Zheng's daughter-in-law was also angry when she heard it, and scolded Liu Quan secretly, if you don't have eggs in five or six days, do you still call laying laying hens! That Liu Quan is clearly taking chickens that have been raised for several years and can't lay eggs for a long time to fool people's children! He still has the face to shout all day and night to send two chickens to his nephew and niece's family to lay eggs to make up for his body.

Yue Chungui sniffed: "This chicken will have to be returned to Uncle Quan in two days, and I didn't lay eggs until I thought about going to the mountains to find some wild vegetables." It doesn't matter if I'm hungry, but my younger siblings at home are already hungry, and Zhiping is still crying with hunger today. Auntie, you are such a nice person! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the faces of several old people became worse and worse, daring to love this chicken not only can't lay eggs, but will have to pay it back in a few days?!

Li Zheng's father immediately got up, and with a gloomy face, he took out two boiled taro from his arms and gave them to his daughter-in-law: "I'll send them to the child with eggs later." ”

He turned his head again and said, "If it gets dark today, pick wild vegetables and come back quickly, we have all written down your matter!" ”

After saying that, he turned his back and entered the house, obviously angry.

Yue Chungui swept around the old people who were muttering and sighing, thanked Lizheng's daughter-in-law with a worried face, turned around and smiled with satisfaction.

The people in the village have been tormented by the drought for a long time, and the half-grown children who are lonely and helpless and have no support are forced to go up the mountain to pick wild vegetables, which is a new thing......

Qizhou is a hilly area, the mountains in the south are not very high, Yue Chungui only walked for a while, and then arrived at a gentle low slope, looking from afar, the new vegetation has already risen to the point.

Wait a few more rains and the whole mountain will come alive.

When she was a child, she was brought up by her grandfather, and the older generation believed that mountains could not be eaten, and as long as the mountains were still there, people could survive, and mountains were more adaptable to natural disasters than people.

Just like Lizheng's daughter-in-law said, there was already a stubble of tender green mountain bitter herbs on the side of the low slope, and she was busy picking a hand. People here only make a living as wild vegetables, in fact, the nutritional value of wild vegetables is high, a few children drink a bowl of bitter vegetable chicken soup, and then eat bitter vegetables and scrambled eggs for taste. When she went back, she slaughtered the rest of the chicken, and she didn't worry about eating it for the next few days!

Here she was able to pick up the energy, but she didn't know that there was a person standing behind her.

The sky was coming to an end, and Cheng Qiyou calmly watched the woman in front of him pick a large handful of mountain bitter vegetables, with a smile on his face. His bowl of rice cereal seemed to work, but I don't know if she denied the true face of that clan after such a scene.

After picking a bag full of wild vegetables, I got up after returning from spring, and the soil in this area was wet, and I thought that the ground had returned to the tide, and the drought had really passed.

Thinking like this, Yue Chungui suddenly looked at a bunch of yellowish vines in the dirt mound, and when he got closer, Yue Chungui smiled, isn't this a sweet potato vine! Wild sweet potatoes can still grow in this place! It seems that she will come up again after a few more rains, and she will have to transplant the new stubble to the door of her house, and such a large piece of land cultivated by the Liu family's parents in the yard is not wasted.

After noting down the location, Yue Chungui finally stood up straight with satisfaction, turned his head and was taken aback, facing a white and thin face.

Cheng Qiyou was holding two hares in his hands, and at the moment he was dyed red with blood, looking at her with cold eyes, and before Yue Chungui could react, Cheng Qiyou took out a rabbit and threw it at her feet, and immediately turned around to leave without looking back.

Such a rebellious appearance really frightened Yue Chungui

After catching a glimpse of the hare still fluttering at her feet, she came back to her senses and said hesitantly:

"Huh! You...... Is it Qi You? ”

The tall and thin man didn't care about the familiar faces, and after looking at them again, he finally met the faces.

"Eh, you wait!" Yue Chungui ignored the hare at his feet, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop the person, while dividing half of the mountain bitter vegetables he had picked for half a day and wanted to stuff them into the hands of the half-grown child.

Now that she has the same face, all the experiences of this child have a concrete feeling for her.

"Thank you for your rice cereal, my sister knows that the little rice cereal at home is also saved by you, I didn't have the heart to do it before, but now that I'm awake, I should take care of you." Chungui chattered as he took the straw basket in his hand, and most of the wild vegetables were all packed into it.

Cheng Qiyou didn't seem to expect that this enthusiasm made him wonder, after all, not long ago, the original body was stupid and naïve, treating that clan uncle as a close elder, stupidly holding two chickens that couldn't lay eggs.

After Chun Gui finished loading a basket of wild vegetables, he glanced at the other dead hare in his hand, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, read well, and now go hunting all over the mountains.

There was nothing to say between the two for a while, and after a while, the corners of Cheng Qiyou's mouth hooked, as long as this eldest sister-in-law woke up, the life should not be as sad as his.

He accepted a basket of mountain bitter herbs, as if he hadn't spoken for a long time, and said in a dry voice, "You just woke up, the hare should be taken to make up for your body, and the two chickens will eat it, or think about how to shirk the past." ”

After putting down a sentence, he went straight away.

Chungui only woke up after watching his thin but tall back walk away, turned his head to pick up the hare and blinked, it seemed that Zhixing's bowl of chicken soup should have entered his stomach, but he shouldn't have known that she had already given Na Liu Quan a large wave of eye medicine in the village, so he reminded him.

Chungui laughed out loud, what a smart and awkward child.

This trip was full of returns, and I didn't expect the people in the village to be so simple, and when she got down from the entrance of the mountain village, there were still old people gathered in twos and threes, and she was relieved to see her coming.

"I'm back safely, yo, and there's a hare!"

Chun Gui's heart warmed, he looked at the hare and thought of the thin child, his eyes flashed and he said, "Grandma, how can I catch rabbits!" I just met Qi You on the mountain, he is good friends with us on weekdays, and he knows that I just woke up and gave me the rabbit I just caught to make up for my body. ”

The old men seemed to remember something: "Qi You....... It's Lao Cheng's youngest son who can study! ”

The other uncle took a puff of dry tobacco and frowned: "It's not wrong, the names of the two children of the Liu family and the Cheng family are all named by the old Qi Xiu, I remember it." ”

The old people in the village are quite respected, a few decades ago Xiaoliangshan produced the first batch of scholars, few out of the market, the rest of the group all stayed in Xiaoliangshan, organized people to open a private school in the town, and built bridges and paved roads, and took care of the village. Those are the builders of a generation who really have a strong sense of honor and mission.

Chungui smiled: "Grandpa has such a good memory, I almost didn't recognize it when I was on the mountain just now." The child is not yet fifteen, and the whole person is thin as a bamboo pole. She was ashamed and said, "I'm too embarrassed to take this rabbit." ”

A few old people were silent, and the children who were studying were still hunting in the mountains at night, which was a good thing, and the village did not know how much filth had happened under their noses.

"He separated from his brother and sister-in-law before the drought, and a half-year-old child had such a hard time and shared a rabbit with me, I really ...... Huh. Chungui looked helpless.

The eyes of several old men were immediately sharp, and they all held their breath, you look at me, I look at you.

Chun Gui sneered in her heart, she had long felt strange that a half-grown child who had studied would be forcibly separated.

Dare to love even this division is hiding from the people in the village!

Seeing that the goal was achieved, Chun Gui hurriedly said goodbye. She lifted the rabbit in her hand, and looking at the demeanor of the old men, she obviously remembered Cheng Qiyou's affairs.

Although the old people are respected, but when they are old, the news in the village is not very well-informed, and the spring return comes out to sway, and directly stabs the two things of the clan relatives grabbing food and the brother and sister-in-law driving the younger brother, although it cannot immediately improve the actual situation of several children, but who knows what will happen in the future!

When I got home, I put the hare in the cage and covered it with a cloth, and the wild vegetables were washed in the pool, and when I opened the door, I saw Zhixing washing the dishes.

Seeing her coming, Zhixing smiled and raised the bowl in his hand, and pointed to the two taro and five eggs that were placed aside.

He looked a little excited: "Sister-in-law, Aunt Li just sent taro and eggs!" Still...... He also instructed us to go and get food ourselves next time. ”

After speaking, he looked at Yue Chungui with reverence, he had read books and was the most clever child in the family, and when he thought about it, he knew that it must be his sister-in-law who had done something.

Chungui smiled and rubbed his head.

Zhixing continued: "Sister-in-law, Qi You also came just now, and he was going to go up the mountain to hunt, so I served him a big bowl of chicken soup. ”

Chungui put the wild vegetables into the cupboard, then took the bowl in Zhixing's hand and said, "Sister-in-law knows, sister-in-law met him just now, and he also gave sister-in-law a hare!" ”

Zhixing's eyes lit up: "Qi You caught a rabbit!" Then he won't be hungry for the next two days! ”

Chungui's eyes softened, this is also a good boy.

She touched Zhixing's head, pointed to the eggs, and said softly: "Zhixing, sister-in-law will only say the next words once, you have to remember." ”

Seeing that she was suddenly so serious, Zhixing also hurriedly straightened her face: "Sister-in-law, you said." ”

Chun Gui: "In the past, there was my father and mother and your eldest brother to protect us, we lived according to the rules without worrying about anything, and our hearts were simple before we were coaxed away by Uncle Quan." ”

Zhixing's eyes were cold.

Chungui continued: "But my sister-in-law has just died once, and now that she has woken up, she knows that there are people in human nature like Qi You, who is self-reliant and pure, and there is also Uncle Quan's disregard for family affection, so we can't live like this anymore." ”

Zhixing's eyes were obscure, and he opened his mouth: "Sister-in-law, I understand." ”

"Sister-in-law will definitely let you live a good life, but before that, I will also clean up the people who bullied us in the past!"

Zhixing hurriedly raised his eyes: "Sister-in-law, I will help you!" ”

Chungui hooked the corners of his mouth: "Sister-in-law just informed you, and didn't want you to do anything, but Zhimin still wanted you to ........"

This time, without waiting for her to finish speaking, Zhixing grabbed the words, and he said with a straight face: "Sister-in-law, I understand, Zhimin will also understand, there are only a few of us in our family, and if we don't unite, we will be bullied by people like Uncle Quan!" ”

Their family could no longer watch their sister-in-law lying silently on the bed like they did today, but they could do nothing.

Chungui breathed a sigh of relief, it is good for the child to be sensible, and it will be easy to understand at one point. She is not afraid that these children will one day find out the personality difference between her and the original body.

"Your Aunt Li is right, two days later will be the last time to put grain, and none of us will be left behind on that day!"