Jiang Luo sat in the empty room, fiddling with a string of rusty wind chimes hanging in front of the window.

It feels good not to have to be upside down.

There was originally a wooden bed in the room, but unfortunately it was too old and had decayed, so it could only be piled up in the firewood room as firewood.

Poor accommodation is not the most important thing, they need to find food at the moment. Otherwise, they will always eat the seeds of crops in the space, and those limited numbers of seeds will eventually run out one day.

Chen Xianyue was diligent and used Uncle Chen's excuse to get acquainted with some women in the village, and those people were not bad-hearted, telling her that a lot of wild vegetables could be dug up in the mountains behind.

It's just that there are few people on the mountain, and some people have seen jungle beasts, so they usually go into the mountain together in a dozen or so people and come back before sunset.

Most of the families in the village are like this, digging wild vegetables to make a living.

Of course, there are also two wealthy families in the village, who were small landowners in the village before the drought came, owning dozens of acres of land, so they have a lot of grain stored at home. It's just that they are very stingy, and they rarely deal with other families in the village, for fear that others will covet their food.

Chen Xianyue knew it in her heart, and agreed with them to go into the mountains together to dig wild vegetables the next morning.

She followed the village path back to the east of the village, pushed open the courtyard door, Jiang Ran ran out first, Jiang Cheng sat in front of the firewood house door and fiddled with the rotten wood in his hand.

Jiang Luo sat on the steps and looked at Jiang Cheng with his cheeks up, he was very smart, although he had never been in contact with carpentry before, but he only groped for a long time, and made two benches, and they were decent.

Jiang Cheng carried the small bench he had made and handed it to Jiang Luo, "Sister, look." ”

"Beautiful." Jiang Luo squinted his eyes and praised him with a smile, "Brother is really amazing." ”

"Of course, you won't have to sit on the ground in the future, you'll get sick if it's cold on the ground." Jiang Cheng grinned and wiped the fine beads of sweat on his forehead.

"Good~"

Jiang Luo beckoned to Jiang Ran, "Second sister~ Brother has made the little bench for us." ”

Jiang Ran trotted over with a smile on her face, she took the small bench, and grabbed the corner of her clothes nervously with her other hand, "Thank you, big brother." ”

Jiang Cheng restrained his smile and had a faint expression, "No thanks." ”

He went back to the door of the wood-chamber and picked out a few flat planks from a large pile of useless wood, and he was going to make two benches.

If the wood wasn't so rotten, he could even make a small table.

"Luo'er." Chen Xianyue walked up to her and sat down, "Little lady has to go out tomorrow and come back later, you follow your brother and sister at home, you have to be well-behaved, you can't run around." ”

"Where is the little lady going?" Jiang Luo tilted his head and asked her.

"The village...... Aunt Wang's family in the village has some work to do, and she wants me to help her tomorrow. She hesitated, not daring to tell the truth, Jiang Luo, this little girl is too smart, if she knew that it was dangerous to enter the mountain, she would not let her go.

"I'll listen to my brother and sister." Jiang Luo nodded and withdrew his gaze.

The sun shines on the yard, giving the barren land a bit of fresh breath.

Jiang Luo stretched out his hand, trying to catch the light in front of her, the sun shining warmly on her body, all of which really made her panic. She really inexplicably became another person, living in a different world.

"Little lady~" Jiang Luo said slowly, "There is a lot of grass growing on the hillside over there, let's use the straw to weave a straw mat out." ”

"Straw mats?" Chen Xianyue pinched her nose, "You girl is really smart." ”

She had been thinking about how she could get a bed out so that the family of four would not have to sleep on the floor all day. Because although there are many trees on the mountain, she is weak and can't cut down the trees, not to mention, even if she cuts them back, she doesn't have the ability to make a bed.

What Luo'er said is that the barren grass all over the mountains and fields does not take much effort to weave straw mats. She weaved more straw mats and piled them on top of each other so that they could barely be used as beds.

The three of them went out of the courtyard together and pulled weeds near their homes. In the middle of the night, the branches of the moon were already piled with long grass for most of the yard.

Chen Xianyue arranged the dead grass into small stacks of small stacks, and then used tougher thatch as a rope to tie the grass tightly together.

In this way, little by little, it was quickly woven into a straw mat that could sleep for one person.

Chen Xianyue was happy in her heart, she didn't feel hard, she settled the three children, and returned to the yard to continue weaving straw mats.

Taking advantage of the moonlight, Chen Xianyue hid a shallow smile on her face, as long as she could make the children more comfortable, she wouldn't feel hard even if she worked for three days and three nights.

When the sky was slightly bright, Chen Xianyue stretched her waist and stood up with difficulty.

Three straw mats had been woven on the ground, and she collected the scattered dead grass in the yard for a while and put it in the firewood room.

By the time Jiang Luo and the others woke up, the yard full of dead grass had been cleaned up.

Jiang Luo looked at Chen Xianyue's darkened eyes with some distress, she shouldn't have slept all night.

Chen Xianyue cooked a large pot of porridge with the only remaining rice, and she was going to leave for a day, afraid of starving the children.

After breakfast, Chen Xianyue went out with a straw basket.

She was dressed in patched sackcloth, her black hair was simply curled with a wooden hairpin, and she wore straw sandals on her feet.

Jiang Luo stood in front of the door and looked at her distant back, and it took a long time to come back to her senses.

The courtyard was an open and flat field, with a cracked opening.

Under such conditions, if you want to farm, I am afraid that you have to carry water from the river to irrigate.

She and Jiang Ran's small arms and legs, Jiang Cheng are extremely thin, which is really physical work for them.

But they can't sit back and eat, they still have to grow some food. Sweet potatoes are the most suitable crops to grow, it is not picky about growing conditions, and the yield is high, but it is autumn.

She chose to plant turnips, white radishes and carrots, which have a short growth cycle and can fight hunger.

The small plot of land in the west is used to grow cabbage, which grows quickly and can be served on the table in about two weeks.

She told Jiang Cheng what she thought, Jiang Cheng didn't think much about it, and went to the river to get water with a wooden bucket.

Jiang Luo was digging the ground with Jiang Ran at home.

From early morning to dusk, the two dug seven or eight steps away, and Jiang Cheng grinded blood blisters on his hands, and he gritted his teeth and insisted.

After the sun went down, they finally planted the radish and cabbage in the ground.

After a long time, Chen Xianyue came back with a tired look and a basket.

The basket was filled with a variety of wild herbs.

She had wounds on her arms, and her clothes were torn one by one, presumably from the bushes.

There were many of them when they entered the mountain today, so they walked farther, so they came back late.

Chen Xianyue had never gone into the mountains to dig wild vegetables, and the mountain road was difficult to walk, so she fell and injured herself.

"Little lady, have you entered the mountain?" Jiang Luo frowned and said angrily.