Chapter 14: Fainting from hunger
The old lady was angry, and she didn't care about being tired, so she scolded.
At this time, An Qingyan, the daughter of the An family's big house, exclaimed, "Mother, what's wrong with you, mother?" ”
The sound was so loud that An Zicheng, who was in a hurry to find the demolition of the fire, heard it.
At this time, they occupied a large courtyard and were going to cook a meal of wild vegetables to eat.
Obviously, when she separated from the family, she lied to Xia Qiyue that there were only ten catties of water at home.
"What's wrong?" An Zicheng threw down the firewood in his hand and ran back.
At this time, when escaping from the famine, I can't care about the man's attention to cooking, everyone has to work, otherwise they can't eat quickly.
Mrs. An also heard it, but she said disapprovingly, "Do it, make trouble!" Hungry, right? I see how you're still making trouble! You have lost the good fine grain, I think you are dead! ”
An Zicheng's face was a little bad, no matter how he said it, he was the mother of his child, if Liu Mei died, he would become a reckless man.
"Mother, save people from stammering with saliva!"
As soon as An Zicheng's words fell, Mrs. An was a little speechless, after all, An Zicheng was the eldest son on the tip of her heart, and the son who allowed her to gain a firm foothold in the old An family, she has always been very partial to this son and the child of the long house, but it does not include An Qingyan as a daughter, and of course it does not include Liu Mei as a daughter-in-law.
The old man had been sitting on the edge of the salute, and the old woman had no expression when he said this, but he couldn't sit still when he heard the eldest son say this.
"Give him water and steamed buns!"
Although Mrs. An and her son don't have white eyes, but this is for her daughter-in-law to eat, and Liu Mei is angry with her again today, she is a little reluctant to take out half a wild vegetable bun and almost two or three mouthfuls of water to An Zicheng.
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On the other hand, Xia Qiyue followed the flow of people for a while and turned into a small alley at a corner.
felt that no one entered this alley, and the people in front of her ran to the village, so in order to save trouble, she took her younger brothers and sisters and carried their children into the alley where no one entered.
After walking for a while, there were still voices boiling in the distance, but the small alley was quiet.
"Sister, it's so scary here..."Xia Jiujiu was the first to speak, a little scared, and her voice trembled a little.
Why not be afraid of Xia Qiyue? However, in the face of fear compared to the gang of robbers in Lao An's family, she still chose this small alley.
"It's okay, there's nothing here, what are you afraid of? Let's quickly find a house and cook rice porridge to eat! ”
Xia Qiyue pretended to be calm and gave them courage.
Xia Xinghe was not afraid, he walked in front of the road, and looked back from time to time to pay attention to his feet.
didn't walk for long, the first house in the small alley was close, Xia Qiyue didn't go in, but walked through a few more houses, and then stopped in front of a courtyard gate.
Because the gate of this courtyard is open, but what is going on inside is not clear at all, but fortunately this is the courtyard in the middle, and there are several on both sides of the alley, so it takes effort to find them, and the courtyard door looks good, and it can block something after it is closed.
The people were gone, so the doors were all open and not locked, and they easily touched into the house.
But soon I heard a noise outside, and it was clear that someone had already arrived.
"Eldest sister, someone is coming over next door!" Xia Xinghe listened for a while and heard that it was their next door, and opened his mouth to say something.
"What are you afraid of, we're all locking the door!" Xia Qiyue put down the basket, turned his head, and saw Xia Jiu tinkering with the package for a while, and found the oil lamp and lit it.
Suddenly the dim light illuminated the whole room, but there was only a bed and a small wooden table, and there was not even a wardrobe in the room, and there was no bedding on the bed, which had obviously been taken by the owner.
"Eldest sister, there's nothing here......" Xia Jiujiu was stunned, she thought that at least there would be something.
"Don't we have it ourselves? In September, you took your two children to make beds in the house, and I went out to see if there was a pot or something in the stove room, and cooked rice porridge! ”
Xia Qiyue arranged the work and was about to go out, but Ke'er grabbed the corner of her clothes and looked at her pitifully.
"Ke'er, rest in the house with my aunt, and my mother will make food for you!"
Xia Qiyue coaxed, but Ke'er didn't understand, and still looked pitiful, "Mother..."
The appearance of wanting to speak and stopping made Xia Qiyue a little confused about the child's thoughts, she squatted down patiently, looked at the little guy and asked her what was wrong.
The little guy squirmed for a while before saying, "Mother, Ke'er is afraid, can you follow your mother?" ”
Xia Qiyue couldn't cry or laugh, "Ke'er is good, stay in the house with my aunt, rest on the bed for a while, my mother goes out to cook, it's dark outside, isn't Ke'er more afraid?" ”
The girl who has always been better than her brother is delicate at this time, and she is still clinging to her mother.
But fortunately, Xuan'er, who was standing on the side, quickly came over and grabbed her sister, "Sister is good, come and wait with my brother, my mother is going to make something to eat for us!" ”
The two little ones usually have a very good relationship, and when they saw their brother say this, they immediately nodded obediently and followed their brother.
When Xia Qiyue went out, Xia Xinghe immediately followed, because the eldest sister didn't arrange things for him, he followed the eldest sister and helped if he needed anything.
Xia Qiyue was not polite to him and asked him to go to find firewood.
I went into the kitchen, but I saw only a small clay pot with a missing corner, and there was not a single bowl, but fortunately there was a stove.
Before Xia Xinghe came over, Xia Qiyue quickly entered the space, harvested a crop of wheat, and then planted another crop, and sold the remaining forty-eight catties of wheat to the system, with one hundred and thirty-two gold coins in his hand, plus the 144 gold coins just sold, a total of 276 gold coins.
With a huge amount of money in her hand, she generously bought four big white steamed buns and two eggs.
Originally, there were three eggs in the space, and now this one is one for each person.
The two little guys can't eat a steamed bun, one person and half are just right, and the three of their sisters and brothers are one for each person, tired for so long, although there is no big fish and meat, they can eat a meal of rice porridge with steamed buns, compared with other people, it is already a heavenly life.
She knew that everyone else was also tired, and she must have to rest first to have dinner before she could have strength, and Lao An's family was the same, so she had to eat quickly, and then lock the door and sleep. Try not to let Lao An's family find out.
I took the steamed buns and eggs, and took about three taels of rice and got out of the space.
She can't grow rice yet, so she's going to save the rice.
Fine grains are good for people's health, not only the two children, but also their three sisters and brothers have to make up for their bodies, so keep this rice, and cook rice porridge and drink it when they have the opportunity.
All the water in the space adds up to only six catties, and she doesn't dare to build it all, in case it still stinks tonight and can't get ten catties of water, it will be difficult for her, so she left two catties in the space and took four catties out to cook porridge
The clay pot must not be clean, and a lot of dust fell in it, so she only wiped all the dust first, washed the pot with only a little water, and began to cook porridge.