Bo Zhong's eyes were red, "But aren't we living well?" ”

There are still some things he didn't say, their lives are much better now than when their parents were alive, and when their parents were alive, they rarely had a full meal.

If the five siblings were separated, they still don't know whose house they are living a hard life in? Who can eat meat every once in a while? And they can!

As long as they don't separate, the eldest sister can take them to live a good life!

Yuan Ning chuckled, "You can't measure past behavior standards by what you feel now. ”

Bo Zhong's face was confused.

Yuan Ning touched his head and said, "Silly boy, what I mean is that no one can predict what will happen in the future. In the past, don't talk about the three old ladies and them, if it's you, can you believe that a few of us can live our lives? Didn't we have the determination to live together and die together? ”

Bo Zhong lowered his head, he really thought about it at that time, how can five children live? It's just that I think that a family can't be separated, even if I starve to death, it must be a neat family.

If you think about it, if there is no eldest sister, their brothers and sisters insist on refusing to be adopted, then they can only wait for death.

As the eldest sister said, if there is really no such capable eldest sister, the three old ladies have the best idea.

When I think about it like this, the original resentment gradually dissipates.

Seeing that his younger brother's eyes gradually returned to clarity, Yuan Ning also breathed a sigh of relief, "Okay, it's not early, hurry up and go to sleep." ”

The weather gradually got cooler, and Yuan Ning and Bo Zhong were also busy and began to prepare for the winter.

There is no need to worry about food for the time being, because Zhong Ling is careful in his calculations, and the existing food is enough to eat until next spring.

The rest is that the demand for firewood is relatively large, not only for cooking, but also for heating in winter.

When the orchard was pruned at the beginning, a batch had already been saved, and Yuan Ning roughly estimated that the amount of cooking should be enough, but the amount of heating was still a lot worse.

During this time, while the fruit cannot be picked, it is time to stock up on firewood.

Zhong Ling can't be idle, she has to splice the cloth she bought, and the color Yuan Ning has been spliced, so as not to make Zhong Ling young and her aesthetics not up to standard, and make it colorful.

Once the large pieces of cloth are ready, you can ask someone to help cut them and make a dress for the five of them.

Don't look at Zhong Ling's young age, she can go straight with needles and threads, which is much stronger than Yuan Ning, a straight woman of science and technology. Don't look at Yuan Ning is a good hand at doing machinery, but it's really not good to move the needle, cooking is actually like that, the reason why it tastes delicious now is because she is willing to put spices and oil.

These little guys at home who have never eaten delicious food think it is delicious.

In fact, her cooking skills have long been dissed.

However, Zhong Ling seems to have some culinary talent, at such a young age, whether it is pasta or stir-fry, he is already a good hand, cultivate it well, not to mention becoming a chef, at least he can reach a certain height.

After a night without a word, Yuan Ning got up early, and when he saw that his younger brothers and sisters were still asleep, he set off with an axe and a basket on his back and a rope.

In this era, there were barren grasses everywhere and ownerless forests everywhere, and the felling of trees could not be cut down casually, and the cutting of trees required to pay taxes, unless it was a tree planted by one's own family, even if it was necessary to use wood to build a house, it also needed to be approved by the government.

But cutting some branches, or even dragging dead trees home, is usually not taken care of.

After all, Yuan Ning is still young and does not have enough strength, so he just chops branches, and now his skills in climbing trees are really good, and it is not a problem to jump up and down.

She couldn't bring back so much firewood at once, so she sorted out most of the branches and spread them out to dry.

The ones that could be brought back were tidied up, tied up with straw ropes, and put in baskets.

At this time, the countrymen who are more diligent have begun to gather firewood for the winter, everyone is doing this, and when they see the firewood that someone has sorted out, everyone knows that there is a master, and no one will touch it, except for the kind of lazy and scoundrel people.

So Yuan Ning is also very relieved to put these firewood here.

turned around and went home, Bo Zhong and the others also got up, Bo Zhong was cleaning up the vegetables in the yard, Zhong Ling was cooking, and Shu Yu was pushing the cart to coax the youngest Ji Xiu.

Seeing Yuan Ning coming back, Bo Zhong hurriedly stepped forward to help put the basket on the ground, unloaded the firewood, and stacked it outside the courtyard wall to dry.

Zhong Ling brought hot water over, "Eldest sister, wash it quickly." ”

When he went out, Yuan Ning still wrapped a headscarf on his head, but because of the heavy dew in the morning, the dust on the leaves and grass leaves on his body was all underworld, and then there was sweat, and his face was a little flowery.

Such an intimate move made Yuan Ning very ironing in his heart. I rolled up my sleeves and washed my face, took off my torn clothes outside, went to the house with hot water, wiped my body, and changed my clothes.

In fact, their brothers and sisters have at most two sets of clothes, and they don't fit well.

The one Yuan Ning was wearing was still the one that was changed from Liu's clothes at the beginning, and the tattered clothes on the outside were Zhu Qiwen's.

Zhu Qiwen's clothes were also so torn that they couldn't be torn anymore. So most of the time, Yuan Ning puts on his parents' old clothes outside when he is working.

But this morning I did all the hard work, and I was sweating, and it would be too uncomfortable if I didn't change my clothes.

After changing her clothes and coming out, Bo Zhong had already put the table in the courtyard and beckoned her to come over for dinner.

After Zhong Ling and Bo Zhong set up eight meals together, they went to feed Ji Xiu rice soup first.

Yuan Ning wanted to replace her in the past, but Zhong Ling twisted on the stool, "Eldest sister, you're tired all morning, I'll do this little thing." Let's be good at Ji Xiu. ”

Yuan Ning thought about it, so it was okay, so he didn't refuse her kindness, but the speed of eating was slightly faster.

After eating, Yuan Ning went over to replace Zhong Ling and continue to feed Ji Xiu rice soup, while Zhong Ling went to eat.

When the family was about to finish eating, Aunt Zhu came.

The courtyard of their house is actually a low fence wall, and you can see the courtyard from the outside, and you can see the outside of the courtyard.

So Bo Zhong saw Aunt Zhu early in the morning, and as soon as he told everyone, Yuan Ning said lightly: "Hurry up and eat, take away what you can't eat, don't let others see it." ”

Several people hurriedly sped up their meals, and when Aunt Zhu stepped into the courtyard gate, the dining table had already been liquidated.

Aunt Zhu came in and saw that there was not even a little soup on the plate, and saw Yuan Ning walking back and forth with Ji Xiu in her arms, and there was only an empty bowl on the small bench, and there was a little rice soup in the bowl. (The rice has been fed to Uncle Yu)