"Benefactor, can your old Fengjun get used to eating this kind of wild vegetable soup?" Ni Xiucai was a little worried.

"Now there is no food, and I can only eat this." Qin Yining's small face was not as thin as an adult man's palm, but his almond eyes were bigger and brighter.

Ni Xiucai glanced at Miss Eight and Qin Huining, who were sitting not far behind them and wept silently, and couldn't help but sigh.

are also the daughters of the Qin family, but Miss Eight and Qin Huining can't endure hardship, a pair of three-inch golden lotuses can't go out to dig wild vegetables, let alone hunt, and ask them to do some pulp washing and cooking work, but they look helpless, they are basically two eldest ladies who don't touch the spring water with their fingers.

During these days, the servants brought by the Qin family to the mountain were already taking care of their own affairs. Most of the work falls on the men of the second master, the third master, Qin Yu and Qin Han, followed by Qin Yining and the three loyal maidservants around her who can endure hardships the most.

At first, there was still grain stored on the mountain, and the shopkeeper of Zhong Da also prepared a lot before going up the mountain. But no matter how much food there is, it can't control the large number of people, consumes a lot, and it can't be replenished for a long time.

Nowadays, don't say that it is ten taels of silver for a pound of rice, even if you pay a hundred taels of silver for a pound to buy, I am afraid that you will not be able to buy it.

As the number of victims increases, hunting and digging wild vegetables is not an easy task.

They took the hill a little better, and the people of the city dug up all the grass roots, and ate up the bark of the trees, and at first there were many people who were poisoned by eating poisonous weeds, but now more and more people are dying, and it is no longer possible to tell how people died.

In every famine, the first to die is always the elderly and children.

Who in the mountains is not a dragger? Who doesn't want their old father, old mother, or their children to live?

The grain was bought with Qin Yining's silver, and she had the absolute right to speak.

Some people have bad thoughts in private, but most of the people around them are grateful to Qin Yining, and if they don't want to be pointed at by Qianfu, they can only suppress it.

To their surprise, Qin Yining did not leave all the food to the Qin family, nor did he give up the elderly and children, and after the food storage gradually decreased, healthy adults began to feed mainly on wild vegetables and prey.

There are so many people in the Qin family, except for the old lady, everyone learns how to work, and the rest of the food is given to the old lady and the pregnant second grandmother Han.

Twenty days ago, when Qin Yining was holding a bowl of gruel that could show the shadow of a person and wanted to take a sip, she couldn't swallow the porridge anymore when she looked at the hungry skinny monkey-like Li Gouyu next to her, looked at the children's wide watery black eyes, and saw that these children no longer had the vitality to pick wild flowers to give her.

Since that day, Qin Yining has never eaten a bite of food.

Bingtang was anxious, and told Nine Girls, Lu Dehan, Ni Xiucai and others about Qin Yining's injury just now.

"A few days ago, the Qin Mansion suffered, and there were no more people, and the big guys all knew about it. Our girl was seriously injured, and it was easy to pick up a life, but because of excessive blood loss, she really lost her foundation, and she didn't wait for Lisuo to go up the mountain, I can give her medicine, but just taking medicine, so starving can't do it, the loss of qi and blood can't make up, I'm afraid that the longevity is useless. ”

Don't look at the young age of rock candy, but she has excellent medical skills, and she is a descendant of the Tang family, which one on this mountain has a headache and brain fever that doesn't pass through her hands? All the people on the mountain have great respect for rock candy.

Hearing what rock candy said, they were all in a hurry, and if they hunted some wild things or picked some sweet wild fruits, they would give them to Qin Yining first.

Ni Xiucai is seventy-two years old this year, and before today, he was able to get a piece of mixed bread every day, and he also gave half of it to Qin Yining, Qin Yining refused to use it, so Ni Xiucai gave the half of the cake to other children.

From today, the elderly and children have also run out of food. The game on the mountain is almost caught, the dry day, the rain has not rained for a long time, and the wild vegetables are growing slowly, and the next step is that they should really pick up the bark and eat it.

Qin Yining saw that the soup was almost over, so he gave Ni Xiucai a bowl first,

Another bowl was served to Miss Eight and Qin Huining.

Miss Eight smiled gratefully at Qin Yining.

Qin Huining lowered her head and was expressionless, thinking that she was hungry and had no strength to laugh.

Qin Yining didn't care either, and called rock candy, Jiyun and Qiulu to help, and sent the wild vegetable soup upstairs.

Who knew that in the autumn tiger-rampant sky, the door of the corridor that was not closed on weekdays was closed today, and it was also bolted inside.

Bingtang went to knock on the door, and after a while, he saw that the door was opened a crack, and the person who opened the door was Mama Qin.

"Four girls." Mama Qin's face was a little embarrassed.

Qin Yining smiled and said, "The vegetable soup is ready." Those who have gone out hunting have not yet returned, so let's eat some soup to cushion their stomachs. ”

Mama Qin smiled and nodded, but she didn't mean to let Qin Yining in, and reached out to pick up the pottery bowl in her hand.

Qin Yining looked at her suspiciously, and then looked at the blood stains and white fluff left between her fingernails, and her heart jumped. As soon as he pushed the door open, his breath was immediately filled with the smell of stewed meat.

"Mama Qin, the hunters haven't come back yet, why are you still hiding meat in the house?"

Mama Qin hung her head and said nothing.

Rock Candy, Jiyun, and Qiulu also entered the door, and Mama Qin closed the door anxiously.

Qin Yining walked inside quickly, and found that the windows were closed along the way, and couldn't help sneering: "On a hot day, you guys are not too hot." ”

came to the door of the old lady's room and pushed it open.

The sound of "clang" startled the old lady and the second grandmother in the house.

The two of them were holding a small rabbit leg and gnawing on it, and in front of them was a casserole, and the soup in it was bubbling.

There are still scattered blood stains on the side of the gong bucket in the corner, the snow-white rabbit fur was ripped off and thrown on the ground, and the plum-shaped curl that was once tied around Erbai's neck by his own hands is now soaked in blood.

Qin Yining's head buzzed, "You guys, you ate my Erbai?" ”

The old lady took a sip of soup and smacked her lips and said, "Come on, I was going to call you here, you look at your thin body, and drink some soup to replenish your body." ”

Han Er's grandmother is not pregnant yet, but she no longer has morning sickness, and when she can eat, she drinks the soup vigorously without raising her head.

Mama Qin said embarrassedly: "Fourth Miss, the old lady and the second grandmother need tonics, this morning the old lady only ate a bowl of vegetable soup, she was really hungry, and it happened that the hunter hadn't come back yet, so she said, just said ......"

Facing Qin Yining, she raised her willow eyebrows, and her apricot eyes were round and angry, and Mama Qin's explanation was speechless.

"When am I not giving you meat? When the whole family is eating vegetable soup, they also leave the best for you, my little rabbit is not as big as a woman's palm, and it has shed its skin and removed its bones, can you have two taels of meat? What a hard-hearted heart you are, and you won't let go of such a small rabbit! The hunters will soon be back, and you won't be able to wait a moment! ”

The old lady couldn't care about the embarrassment, threw the spoon in the bowl, and sneered: "You are filial to your grandmother?" Now that there is a famine, only you will keep this food as a pet! Isn't two taels of meat meat? Two taels of meat for your second sister-in-law to make up for your body, and she can also let her give birth to a son for your second cousin! ”

Han Er's grandmother drank the soup and said inarticulately: "Sister Yi'er, go back and sister-in-law will pay you a hundred rabbits, don't be angry, come, come and drink the soup, the broth cooked in the cauldron doesn't even taste meaty, come and taste it." ”

Qin Yining's tears flowed down as soon as he brushed it.

She starved herself, and never thought of killing Erbai, because it was given to her by Xiao Xiao himself, he said that it was a token between them, and it was also a token of the peace talks between Da Zhou and Da Yan, and he also personally untied the plum blossom on the jade pendant and tied it around Erbai's neck.

They were so close at that time that she still seemed to be able to remember the unique aura of Xiao Xiao's body.

She understands everything, and understands that under war, each has his own ability.

But she watched the people starve to death on the streets one by one, and looked at the numb and empty eyes of the people who ate Yizi, when she was the most hungry, she thought about the bowl of cold noodles that Xiao Xiao cooked for her with her own hands, and she hoped that Xiao Xiao could suddenly appear and save them all from the sea of suffering.

No matter how hungry she was, she didn't want to eat Erbai, so she hid Erbai in the room, took care of it carefully, and fell asleep with it in her arms at night.

Because without it, it seems that there is nothing to prove the mountain alliance and sea oath between them.

But now Erbai has been eaten......

Qin Yining felt that the nerves that had been supporting him suddenly collapsed, and he couldn't help but pour down his tears anymore.

Seeing Qin Yining like this, the old lady was also a little disappointed, and said inwardly: "Isn't it just a beast?" As for you? Don't think I don't know where that rabbit of yours came from! After Xi Huacheng's peace talks, you came back with that brute, and then the embryo surnamed Xiao came to our country to show off his might, I tell you, the surname Xiao will harm us like this, I only eat the rabbit he gave you, and I haven't taught you a lesson! You have a close relationship with him, do you still want to rebel? ”

If you are sorry, you will give her a hat?

Qin Yining waved his hand, not wanting to say a word to someone like Lao Taijun anymore, picked up the plum blossom from the blood-stained rabbit fur, and turned around and left Lao Taijun's room.

"Girl." Bingtang and Qiu Lu hurriedly chased out, one left and one right to help Qin Yining.

Jiyun sneered: "What a long insight!" There is still an ungrateful and shameless old pious woman like you in the world! Qin Taishi is such a beautiful character, how can there be such a mother as you! It's really a good bamboo shoot! Or did you steal the child from somewhere to raise it? Dirty! Phew! ”

"You, it's the other way around! Someone! ”

"Someone? You are now the greatest burden, you have to be served all day long, and you should still be in the house? ”

Jiyun glared at the old lady with disdain, turned around and chased out, she was afraid that something would happen to Qin Yining.

Jiyun found Qin Yining, rock candy and autumn dew next to a stream outside Ningyuan.

Qin Yining squatted by the stream, scrubbing the blood stains on the veins with his own hands, and was no longer crying.

But seeing her squatting on the ground, the butterfly bones behind her seemed to be able to pierce the thin back of her clothes, Jiyun's nose was sore, and she almost cried.

Lord, when are you coming! If you don't come again, you will torture the future princess to death, not only starvation, but also torture in your heart!

Jiyun wanted to persuade and opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of footsteps.

A slightly hoarse male voice, suppressed the surprise, and said breathlessly: "Yi'er, yes, is it you?" ”

Qin Yining looked up and saw that his thin cheeks were sunken, and Yu Chiyan, who was wearing a half-worn robe, had come up the mountain under the service of several guards and palace people.