Five years later

Xu Yunjin shuttled through the mountains, and the little man carried a small basket.

A delicate and lovely little face was tanned red, and his mouth was a little chapped.

I poured the bamboo tube I carried with me, and only two drops of water flowed out of it.

And there was not a trace of green in the huge mountain forest, so she sighed and walked down the mountain with the basket on her back.

Xu Yunmeng, who was digging bracken roots at the foot of the mountain, looked at Xu Yunjin who came out of the mountain, walked over to take Xu Yunjin's back basket, poked her forehead and said:

"You, every time you come out with me, you say that you will never go into the mountain, every time you dig wild vegetables while I secretly go inside, if you encounter a beast inside, I see what you do, next time you sneak out, I will tell my grandmother, second uncle and second aunt, let them clean you up."

Xu Yunjin dodged Xu Yunmeng's finger with a smile, looked at his little adult-like sister and said coquettishly:

"Oh, sister, good sister, I was wrong, let's go home quickly, I don't have any water in the bamboo tube."

Xu Yunmeng had long been accustomed to the coquettish and scoundrel appearance of his little cousin, glared at Xu Yunjin angrily, and went down the mountain with a basket on his back.

The house built by the Xu family at the end of Nanyun Village, the Xu family has been hunters for several generations in recent generations, but they still mainly make a living from farming.

Only when the farm is not working, he will go to the mountains to hunt some pheasants and hares, and he never dares to go into the mountains to hunt.

On the way home from the foot of the mountain, he met several uncles from the village carrying firewood to their homes, and Xu Yunjin looked at the villagers walking in front.

It should be a tall northern man, but at this time, when he looked from behind, he only felt the thinness of a few people.

The clothes on his body obviously did not fit, as if they were hanging on several people.

Looking up at the scorching sun in the sky, Xu Yunjin sighed, shrugged the small back basket on his shoulders and buried his head and walked home.

When the two sisters arrived home, only the younger brother Xu Yunzhao was playing in the yard by himself, and the grandmother Zhang was tidying up the vegetable garden in the backyard.

Xu Yunjin and Xu Yunmeng opened the door, and the younger brother Xu Yunzhao saw that the two sisters were back, so he immediately stood up from the ground and ran to the two of them on his little short legs.

"Eldest sister, second sister, grandma said that if you don't come back, she will clean you up at night."

The child's unique cute voice raised his eyebrows and looked at Xu Yunjin with schadenfreude.

Hmph, let you go out without me.

"If Grandma cleans me up and my sister, tomorrow I will ask my second brother to teach you to recognize a few more big characters, after all, your sister and I can write by hand at your age, you only know a few words, and the big names are written crookedly."

Xu Yunjin put down the back basket and walked in front of Xu Yunzhao, pinching the little chubby face that was somewhat similar to her.

looked at Xu Yunzhao with a smile, this kid just didn't clean up.

Sure enough, when he heard Xu Yunjin talk about his second brother Xu Yunqing, Xu Yunzhao immediately raised his mouth, and thought in his heart that Sister A was a big villain, turned around and ran into the backyard to call Zhang.

Grandma Zhang Linghua is a woman who looks a little chubby, and her perennial work makes her look a little old.

But her husband respects and loves her, and her children and grandchildren are also filial, and Zhang's life is much more comfortable than that of other old people in the village.

Although the years have left some marks on her face, Zhang, who is in her fifties, looks exceptionally kind.

"Dream girl Jin girl is back, you didn't go into the mountains today, I'm afraid the wild vegetable roots at the foot of the mountain are not enough to dig in the village, and I don't know when it will rain this day."

It hadn't rained in Daqi for two years, and it didn't rain at first, and no one felt anything.

In the north, as long as there is heavy snow in winter, it is fine, and the snow melts in the next year, and spring plowing can be normal.

As a result, not a single snow fell in the north that winter, and the spring rain did not come as promised.

The naughty sun hangs in the sky all day long, exposing the earth.

Rivers dried up quickly, and the grain planted was sunburned, and now many counties in the north are in a state of anxiety about food sources.

"There are no wild vegetable roots at the foot of the mountain, and we have to dig a little deeper to get there, and we dare not go in any further."

Xu Yunmeng lifted his basket and showed it to Zhang.

"Hey, take it to wash and dry, although there are a lot of wild vegetables stored at home, and I also made fern root powder and kudzu root powder according to the practice of Jin Yatou, but if it doesn't rain this day, I'm afraid it's ......."

Zhang paused for a moment, and then didn't go on, maybe things weren't so bad that things didn't have to go, and there was no need for the children to know about this.

But Xu Yunjin is not a seven-year-old child, it has not rained for two years, the temperature is rising day by day, there is no reservoir to store water in Daqi, and there is no modern south-to-north water diversion project.

If it doesn't rain, the people in the north don't know what will happen when they run out of water and food.

Speaking of the good life of the Xu family in the past two years, it is all thanks to Xu Yunjin.

The Xu family has always believed that the people in the village said that Xu Yunjin was too smart and would endure some big tribulations.

Especially after Xu Yunjin fell into the water when he was two years old, the Xu family has never dared to be careless.

So before the age of five, Xu Yunjin was detained at home, looking at the Xu family's way of shrinking clothes and dieting, Xu Yunjin couldn't go out to find something to make money.

After the age of four, Xu Yunjin finally won the opportunity to study medicine with the only doctor in the village, the old man Luo, and the Xu family expressed their support for Xu Yunjin to study medicine.

In this way, when Xu Yunjin was five years old, he got the opportunity to go out with his brother and sister to dig wild vegetables and learn to recognize herbs.

Looking at the bracken all over the mountains, foodie Xu Yunjin thought of making bracken root vermicelli to eat.

The practice of fern root vermicelli is what Xu Yunjin himself saw on the Internet in his previous life.

After the family tried the taste of fern root powder, Xu Yunjin proposed the idea of selling fern root noodles to restaurants.

The Xu family thought about it for a while and agreed to what Xu Yunjin said to try.

The fern root vermicelli did not disappoint Xu Yunjin, and the Xu family made a small fortune in a short period of time.

In the time that followed, Xu Yunjin followed his brother and sister to discover Gegen again.

Pueraria lobata was also a kind of medicinal material at that time, which had the functions of relieving muscle and reducing fever, relieving fever, invigorating rash, raising yang and stopping diarrhea.

However, at that time, the use of kudzu was limited to concocted tablets for medicinal purposes, and there was no way to eat them by grinding them into powder.

With these two kinds of powder, the Xu family also earned nearly five hundred taels of silver a year, which is considered a big family in Nanyun Village.

If it weren't for the drought in the past two years, there has been no rain, and the Xu family is afraid that they will not stop this business for a while.

With this money as a backing, even if it has been a drought for two years, the Xu family has a better life than most people in the village, at least they can eat a full meal, and if they want to eat delicious food, they can only eat in their dreams.

When Xu Yunmeng went to clean up the bracken roots, Xu Yunjin was sorting out his medicinal herbs in the yard.

In the past two years, no matter how valuable the medicine she has taken, it has been arranged with Xu Yunjin.

Xu Yunjin always had an ominous premonition in the past two days, as if something big was about to happen, so he would go to the mountains to collect medicine at such a time.

After lunch, Xu Yunjin lay on the bed to rest.

In a daze, she came to that familiar place again, and as soon as Xu Yunjin came, she skillfully took a small hoe and began to dig holes in the ground and throw seeds.

After losing most of the hour, Xu Yunjin stopped, put the small hoe away, and went to the small well next to him to drink two sips of water.

This time, she did not rush to open the door of the kitchen she knew best, but sat on the edge of the field and watched everything in front of her.

With endless black earth, a small thatched house, and a magical well, Xu Yunjin can't count how many times she's been to this place.

When she was three and a half years old, Xu Yunjin dreamed of this place for the first time, and at first a voice from afar and near told her that as long as she helped him farm, she could eat what she wanted.