Soon, smoke rose from the kitchen.

The millet is clean and doesn't need to be washed, just cook it like this, the lotus root still has to be washed, otherwise the soup is full of mud, at present, the Ding family is not short of water, there is no big problem.

The rest of the water is poured into Ding Xiaodie's gourd bottle, and Ding Gui finds one himself.

Well, now everyone has a container for water.

Fortunately, these townspeople couldn't take the pots and pans away when they fled the famine, and at this time, their family of three gathered in front of the stove, looking at the hot and tumbling millet porridge in the pot, and their hearts were full of happiness.

There are no big fish, prawns and no meat, but there is life, there is healthy millet porridge, and the family is neat, what is more important than this?

On the other hand, Dabao Erbao, who returned home with lotus roots, shocked the whole family.

Their family used to be in the village where the conditions were not the worst, so they still had to bring some surplus grain when they went out, but along the way, they could also save side provinces, and they could eat less than one bite.

In order of generation, there is an old mother and a ninety-year-old grandmother above the head of Laifu Village, and two and a half sons below, so it is natural to give food to the ancestors first.

The ancestor didn't want to drag down the juniors, so he only ate two or three bites of anything.

In this way, the Laifu family has to start a tug-of-war every day over who eats and who doesn't.

Now, there are so many lotus roots, and there is water in the gourd, pour some water and wash it, grab two more handfuls of rice, cut three catties of lotus roots, and cook them according to Fluttershy, boiling over high heat and boiling slowly.

Soon after, a pot of soft and glutinous lotus root porridge came out, which tasted sweet and delicious, and even the ancestors said it was delicious.

This time, I finally didn't have to let it all eat.

Laifu's daughter-in-law Yang put some lard in the porridge that was saved and saved, and her eyes were slightly red, the family was old, and the younger one was two male babies, how to eat this bit of food in the family to have the next meal?

These elaborate plans are all handled by her alone, which is very stressful and tiring.

Laifu naturally understood what his daughter-in-law was wronged about, and he patted her shoulder gently: "Sheng, one bowl per person today, everyone has a full meal." ”

The whole family smiled sadly.

It's been a long, long time since I've had a happy smile like this.

Especially when he saw the smile of the old ancestor, Laifu felt uncomfortable for a while.

Dabao then said, "Then again, I really have to thank Fluttershy this time, if it weren't for her, we wouldn't have known there was such a thing as a lotus root." ”

"Yes, Fluttershy's sister is very smart, she really couldn't see it when she was in Cave-Gully." Erbao also boasted.

Laifu nodded: "This is good, our family has to remember, if anything happens to Ding Gui's family in the future, your brothers will be diligent with their legs and feet." ”

"Got it!"

Dabao and Erbao drank porridge happily, their stomachs were warm, and their mood had not been so bright for a long time.

……

Zhang Xiu is also a neat person in housework, the fragrant porridge was quickly prepared, and for the sake of Wang Dafeng's teeth, the lotus root was also cooked to the softest and glutinous extent.

Fluttershy then asks Wang Dafeng to wake up for dinner.

After calling for a long time, Wang Dafeng opened his eyes and said in a daze: "Dead girl, eat?" Ouch, I'm afraid I'm dreaming, how can there be such a thing as eating in these years, only asking for food and begging for food. ”

Ding Xiaodie couldn't help but laugh, the old woman was sometimes quite cute, she blinked her big eyes: "Don't you smell the fragrance of millet porridge?" ”

Wang Dafeng immediately squinted his eyes and sniffed.

Hey, it seems to smell like food.

She immediately sat up energetically, her head was no longer confused, her legs were no longer painful, her hands were not sore, and she quickly went downstairs and went straight to the kitchen.

I didn't expect to see a pot of millet porridge on the square table, and a pot she didn't know what it was, it seemed that it was very glutinous and delicious.

"This ...... Where did this come from? Wang Dafeng was directly shocked and incoherent, she had never seen such a good millet porridge when she was in Aozigou, I'm afraid she wasn't dreaming, right?

"Third child, you pinch me."

Saying that, he stretched out his old arm, and Ding Gui smiled and helped her sit down: "Mother, don't pinch, this is not a dream, it's true, eat quickly, I can let you eat enough today." ”

Here, Zhang Xiu had already put out three bowls of porridge and lotus root, and handed the chopsticks one by one: "Eat it, Fluttershy, you can eat it too." ”

Wang Dafeng sat down suddenly.

It wasn't until she heard a comfortable sigh from her subconscious when she drank the sweet porridge in her mouth that she realized that it was really not a dream.

However, where did millet and this thing called lotus root come from?

Wang Dafeng had to ask, and Fluttershy lied: "Grandma, I've heard people say that when you're lucky, when you're blessed, don't ask where these blessings come from, and when you ask, they'll run away." I don't think you should ask, and don't talk about it, anyway, we just have something to eat. ”

Wang Dafeng heard that the little girl was right, and nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, yes, I won't ask my milk anymore, if I have something I don't do well, you remind my milk." ”

didn't expect the old woman to change so much, Ding Gui and Zhang Xiu glanced at each other and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Millet porridge is delicious, lotus root is also delicious, no oil is fine, but the disadvantage of salt is the disadvantage of taste.

Ding Gui thought about taking out a pound of millet to exchange for some salt, and the rest would be able to last a little anyway, and if they did good deeds, Fluttershy would be able to go to the space to get it.

So after eating, he took the millet and went out.

Zhang Xiu and Ding Xiaodie are not worried about this at all.

Don't look at Ding Gui's unreliable appearance sometimes, in fact, he is a good hand in business, he can pinch and calculate, and no one's brain can turn as fast as his.

After Ding Gui left, the three women in the family sat in front of the stove and chatted with their hearts.

chatting and chatting, Wang Dafeng sighed: "If only we could dig lotus roots in that lotus pond every day, we would settle down here, and we wouldn't have to run forward!" ”

This sentence sounds a little sad, but if you can really settle down, no one wants to go to the wind and eat and sleep out.

Ding Xiaodie knows very well that it is impossible to stay in Yangliu Town for a long time, not to mention anything else, there are still bodies in some families on the street, and now everyone pretends not to know and ignores them, just this kind of day, it will not take two days for flies to fly all over the sky.

At that point, it wasn't an ideal place to live, unless all the bodies in the town could be disposed of.

……

The next morning, the villagers went to the street early, and everyone was holding buckets and pots, hoping to find some water in the town.

Everyone rested in the house all night, their thoughts were a little drifting, if they could find a water source, they didn't want to move half a step further, and the days of dragging their families were enough.

Laifu was so anxious that he stopped a few people: "Listen to me, don't look for it blindly, it's a waste of energy if you can't find it, everyone should save energy, and we'll set off as soon as it gets dark." ”