Chapter 1: The First Arrival
"Sister! Sister! Get up! A childish voice woke up Jiang Yu'er who was asleep.
"Don't make any noise, let me sleep a little longer." Without opening his eyes, he reached out and touched the little guy sitting next to him, asking him not to disturb her from sleeping.
"Sister, get up, I'm hungry!" The child next to him shouted unrelentingly. The stomach has begun to 'growl', indicating how hungry the owner of the stomach is.
It was only at this time that Jiang Yuer remembered that she was no longer the one who had just graduated from college. She is now a fatherless and motherless ten-year-old girl with an older brother and a younger brother. Her brother is a second child in a restaurant in the city, and she takes her five-year-old brother at home, waiting for her brother's meager income every month to support him.
It's been almost a month since she came here, and she hasn't been able to get used to this kind of life. She thought that all this was just a dream, but what she saw in front of her told her nakedly that all this was not a dream, it was real.
I don't know if it's because of Jiang Ziming's words, Jiang Yuer also felt that her stomach began to growl. Touching her hungry belly, Jiang Yu'er resigned herself to her fate.
"Okay, my sister will make you something to eat." Jiang Yu'er touched her brother's little head and said with a smile.
"Uh-huh! Uh-huh! The food made by my sister was the most delicious. Jiang Ziming nodded, his eyes narrowed with a smile.
He didn't have a name before, everyone called him Ergou, a very difficult name, Jiang Yuer could only give him a new name. Children in the countryside, in addition to knowing what their surnames are, and the names behind them, the family will call them whatever they want.
What Zhang Laosan, Wu Laosi's, it's just a big handful.
After Jiang Yu'er cleaned herself up, she paced into the kitchen. The house was left behind when my father and mother were there, and it was barely able to live in it. In the first few years, the three siblings relied on what their parents left behind, barely enough to fill their stomachs. After a long time, the three brothers and sisters ate all the things in the house, and due to their age, they had no strength to farm or anything.
Only the older brother can still do some work in the fields. But this kind of life of making ends meet still can't go on. There was an uncle in the village who worked for people in the town, and introduced his brother to a job as a junior in a restaurant, where he could receive twenty copper plates every month. Although I can't do anything, I can buy something or something, save a little, and barely be able to hang the lives of my younger brothers and sisters.
It's a pity that no matter how hard he fought and how he did it, he still starved his sister to death in the end.
Jiang Yu'er thought that she should want to save things and leave them for her younger brother to eat! It's just that she didn't know that she was already malnourished, and because she couldn't get anything to satisfy her hunger, she died in the end.
Jiang Yu'er found two sweet potatoes, washed them, cut them into small pieces, put them in the pot and boiled them. These sweet potatoes were so hungry that she couldn't stand them a few days ago, so she took her younger brother up the mountain to find something to eat, and she accidentally found them.
It may be because there is no fertilizer, or it may be because it is wild, so it is very small. If it had been before, two sweet potatoes would not have been enough for her to eat. But now, the two sweet potatoes are actually the breakfast of her and her younger brother.
After breakfast, Jiang Yuer took her younger brother and carried a rusty hoe and went to the ground. She knew that she had little strength, because she couldn't eat enough, and she didn't know how long she hadn't eaten oil and water in her stomach. I had a bowl of sweet potato porridge just now, but now I feel hungry.
"Ziming, you sit and play on the ridge, and after my sister finishes the work in hand, let's go home!" After explaining to her younger brother, Jiang Yuer carried the hoe into the ground.
Looking at the fields in front of her where the thatch was taller than herself, Jiang Yu'er felt desolate for a while, still desolate. Such a land is really not very good. Not to mention the abundance of food that can be grown.
She graduated from Agricultural University and also majored in planting. But all this in front of her is really embarrassing for her. It is said that it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, although she has learned a lot, but it is all mechanized planting, even if it is mechanical ploughing, there is not even a cow.
Ploughing the ground or something, all by hand. She thought that if there was a cow and a plow at home, at least they would not starve.
Just, where did the cow come from? The plow has become a minor problem.
After inspecting it, Jiang Yu'er seemed to hear something in the woods. When I looked up, I saw a fat rabbit foraging in the forest! For her, who hadn't eaten meat for a long time, it was like seeing an angel, and her eyes lit up.
She also knew that she didn't have that ability, so she could catch the rabbit with her bare hands, walked back to the field, and pulled her brother back. She plans to bring some utensils when she comes tomorrow, and it may not be long before she can see meat in her internal organs.
"Sister, what are we going to eat tonight?" Looking at the empty kitchen, Jiang Ziming raised his head and asked his sister.
Jiang Yu'er was really stopped by her younger brother, the two sweet potatoes she ate in the morning were already the last grains of the day. What do the siblings eat at night? She can resist, but how can Jiang Ziming, who is only four or five years old, carry it?
"Ziming, you stay at home obediently, and my sister will go out to find you something to eat." She's glad it's not winter. Autumn is the harvest season, and you should still be able to find something to eat.
"I'll go with you!" As soon as he heard that his sister was going out, Jiang Ziming stepped forward and took his sister's hand and said.
Jiang Yu'er looked at the little radish head, and finally agreed to his request. I went out and got a basket and walked towards the ridges. She's going to dig up some wild vegetables and come back, and although it doesn't taste very good, it will at least fill her stomach.
Early the next morning, Jiang Yuer brought the fire and sharpened a lot of bamboo sticks at home. With a basket on his back, he once again appeared in the field where he had come yesterday with his younger brother.
"Ziming, you play here obediently, my sister will go and get busy first." With that, he turned around and walked towards the woods where he saw the rabbit yesterday. She dug two small pits first, buried all the bamboo sticks in them, and made some grass to cover up the hole, and there were a lot of wild vegetables next to it. But she didn't rush to dig it back, these things, but the magic weapon to help herself catch rabbits, whether she can eat rabbit meat, depends on them.
Back in her field, she began to repair the perimeter of the field, put on fire, and went to stand on the side of the woods, ready to put out the fire in time. Luckily, it wasn't windy today, and the house was still some distance from the woods, so there were no fires or anything like that she thought.
The people in the village who were working in the distance saw that the young lady and brother actually set fire to the ground like this, and they were a little confused.