At the beginning of Yangchuan, Chu Mubei personally led people to Dazhu Village, full of broken walls.

He inquired about the people in the vicinity, and some people had seen officers and soldiers burning villages and mountains, but no one knew the whereabouts of the people in the village.

Chu Mubei searched all over the officers and soldiers and learned that he had seen the people in the village on the mountain.

Immediately led people up the mountain to look for it, the scorched scene after the mountain fire.

After more than ten days of searching, only a few dozen charred corpses were found, and the corpses were burned beyond recognition, and it was impossible to distinguish their identities.

Chu Mubei was lost in his heart and left Yangchuan guiltily.

In late autumn, the fallen trees are bleak.

Jiang Luo and the others walked to a small village, there were only a dozen families in the village, there was a lake in front of the village, the lake was dry, and the trees along the shore were yellow and rotten.

People in the village usually have to go to a river twenty miles away to fetch water.

Jiang Luo was puzzled, instead of being so tired every day, why not just move to the river to live.

The old man in the village told her that the old garden was hard to give up.

And there is no shelter from the wind and rain by the river, so I can't live here.

"Sister~ Are we going to live in the village or go over there?" Jiang Ran looked at the dusty village, lifeless, not a little angry.

The earthen walls and chimneys were mottled with traces of time.

Jiang Luo held his brother's hand, and most of the strength of his body leaned on his arm. Jiang Cheng weighed the pros and cons, and felt that it was better to stay in the village, and as for carrying water, he and Berning had a lot of strength.

"Let's stay." Jiang Luo said in unison with him.

After tossing and turning on the road for a month, Jiang Boning's injuries were not only not better, but more serious.

The old man Zhang in the village saw that their family was wearing shabby single clothes, so he ran to the village and got two broken bedding.

The bedding was stained, and the cotton was hard into lumps.

But I finally had something to shelter from the cold.

Chen Xianyue disassembled the bedding and simply sewed it into a short jacket, which looked very funny, but it warmed up a lot when she wore it.

There are no idle houses in the village, so Jiang Luo and they can only find a way to build a house by themselves.

Along the way, I have seen hundreds of people displaced, and many people have left their hometowns to find a way to live, but unfortunately, under natural and man-made disasters, they are all dead.

Jiang Luo was shocked at first, she lived in a prosperous world for more than twenty years, where had she seen such a tragic scene, slowly, every day she saw countless people fall and die in front of her eyes, her heart began to become numb.

I finally arrived in the border city, and this time I can finally settle down.

They needed wood and stones to build a house, and they couldn't get them, so Jiang Luo suggested using silt mixed with thatch to make mud bricks of the same shape, which were dried and used to build walls.

After the fence was built, the roof was covered with thatch to provide shelter from the wind and rain.

As for the courtyard wall, it is not necessary to build an earthen wall, because it is time-consuming and labor-intensive. They can chop some wood to make a fenced yard.

The idea is simple, but it is extremely time-consuming and laborious to do. Fortunately, with the help of the people in the village, they reluctantly built the main house before the onset of winter, and the house was divided into three parts, the east house was inhabited by Chen Xianyue and Jiang Ran and Jiang Luo, and the west house was retained by Jiang Cheng and Jiang Boning, and the middle part was regarded as the front hall.

Before they built the house, Jiang Luo suggested turning over a piece of land to grow radishes and cabbage, Jiang Cheng and Jiang Boning repaired the house during the day and worked tirelessly to carry water for watering at night.

The hard work paid off, and by the time the house was completed, the cabbages had grown green.

In order to thank the people in the village for their help, Chen Xianyue gave them a basket of small cabbage and some cabbage seeds. He also told them that this vegetable is simple to grow and can be harvested in about 20 days, and the villagers are very happy.

Winter.

Jiang Luo stood in front of the window in the house, looking at the heavy snow, and was in a good mood.

With snow this winter, the drought should ease in the spring of next year. It's just that in this cold winter, I don't know how many people can't survive the spring of next year.

The people of the village are huddled at home and dare not go out.

When Jiang Luo was building a house, he proposed to build a bed with adobe bricks, that is, a kang. They don't have bedding to keep out the cold, only straw mats, and with a kang at least they won't freeze to death in winter.

It snowed heavily overnight, and there was only a white expanse between the heavens and the earth.

Jiang Luo followed Chen Xianyue out, the radish in the yard was covered with snow, picked up the snow, pulled out the radish, and the white chubby arm-long white radish came into view.

Jiang Luo was so excited that he almost cried, so good!

They will never go hungry again.

In the afternoon, they planted some winter wheat in the open field, and the growth was very gratifying.

At dinner, Jiang Luo took out some wheat and let Chen Xianyue grind it into flour.

The family gathered around the house, preparing to make dumplings.

Wash and chop the radish and cabbage, add a little salt and spices.

Mix the dough with water, divide into small pieces of uniform size and roll out into round dough sheets.

Jiang Ran's eyes widened as he watched Jiang Luo's skillful movements, "Sister, what is this called?" ”

"Dumplings."

"Wow!" She stared at the flour and swallowed, it was really gluttonous.

"But I've also been in the capital for a long time, why don't I know that there is still this kind of food?"

As soon as she said this, Jiang Cheng also looked at her, extremely curious.

Chen Xianyue had already seen it, because of the way she ate this food, she had seen it in the recipe that Jiang Luo gave her.

Although she still didn't recognize all the words in that book, she could guess the general meaning.

Chen Xianyue is very smart and has an incomparable talent for cooking, no matter how complex the recipe is, she only needs to tell her once, and she can make it.

Jiang Luo's gaze fell on her rough fingers, or the fine lines at the corners of her eyes, if she lived in Huaxia and was only twenty-nine years old, she should have a different world, instead of pulling three children as hard as she does now.

After the dumplings were wrapped, Jiang Boning kept boiling a pot of boiling water.

The dumplings are put into the pot twice, and after the water is boiled, cold water is added and boiled again. The white, clear round dumplings tumble in the pan, exuding an enticing aroma.

A big bowl of dumplings for one person, Jiang Luo tasted one, the taste is good, the ingredients are fresh, you can eat the sweetness of radish and the fragrance of cabbage. She wanted to add a little cooking oil or sesame oil to the dumpling filling, which would be more delicious.

The family sat around a table, the room was lit up, and steaming dumplings were steaming......

Chen Xianyue burst into tears several times, and finally got through it, her children were alive, and she didn't feel sorry for the second master and his wife.

They are looking forward to waiting for the spring of the next year to build two more thatched huts to the left and right of the main house, and then fence the small courtyard.

In the future, they will live here in peace and will no longer be displaced.

This winter, in an unknown small village on the edge of Anzhou, everyone's face was full of joy.

They did not go out to escape the famine, but relied on growing vegetables to survive the long winter.