When Gu Jiu and the two came back, it was just in time for the family to eat, and when they walked into the house, Ye Qingyi was beckoning them to come over for dinner.

Potato, regardless of Jing, ran over excitedly: "Mother, I changed my name, now it's not called Potato, it's called Gu Jing!" ”

"Okay."

Gu Jiu glanced at the twenty catties of multigrain flour next to him and asked, "This is the food they gave us?" ”

"Well, last year's drought had little grain harvest, and the family didn't have enough food recently, so your grandmother said that she would also give her food for the family's work, so I didn't ask for much."

Hearing this, Gu Jiu's eyes widened instantly, and he looked at Ye Qingyi in disbelief: ...... Your kindness really scared me, people are going to sell your daughter, and you still talk to others? Are you still afraid that people won't have enough to eat?

Blame me, after the system restored this body to normal, she forgot that this was something to fight for in ancient times. Alas, forget it, try harder......

"Mother, we have a lot of work, you and Xiaojing will go to the field early tomorrow morning, I'll go to the back mountain to see if I can find something to eat, don't work for them at the moment."

"In the ground?" Ye Qing looked at Gu Jiu in surprise, at this time, the corn has not grown well, and the sky has not yet rained, what kind of work can there be in the field?

"Yes." Gu Jiu nodded in affirmation: "The weather is too dry, and there is no wind, according to this momentum, the grain production will definitely be reduced, I have thought of a way, wait for Xiao Jing to teach you tomorrow." ”

Manual pollination is a waste of time, although there is only more than one acre of land, but there are more than 5,000 trees, and it cannot be finished in ten days or eight days.

Dinner was very simple, half a bowl of wild vegetable soup, half a nest of grains, if I hadn't seen Gu Jing happily pat his belly, I would have thought it was an appetizer before dinner.

"Xiao Jing, are you full?" Gu Jiu asked without giving up.

Gu Jing raised his head and looked at Gu Jiu suspiciously: "It's full." "Didn't you eat these before?

Gu Jiu: ......

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The back mountain is very large, but it has almost been turned over by people. Since the beginning of the previous year, there has been a reduction in grain production here due to the rain problem, and the people in the village are all elites, and their own food is fixed, but the food in the back mountains is not!

Instead of eating your own food, it is better to get the food in the back mountains first!

There was more than one village near this mountain, and the bees came out of the chrysalis, and most of the food in the back mountain was quickly looted.

Gu Jiu was carrying a one-meter-high basket on his back, and as soon as he entered the back mountain, he saw three or five people cutting pigweed.

In addition to their families, every household in the village will raise some pigs, ducks and geese, one is to earn some subsidies for the family, and the other is to eat meat during the New Year.

But the original owner's family didn't raise anything because Gu Zheqi was dirty, and only relied on his eldest uncle Gu Wensheng to bring back two catties of meat during the New Year.

It's also funny to say, Gu Wensheng doesn't do any work all year round, he wanders around the town all day long, and only gets back five or six catties of meat during the New Year, and the grandparents of the original owner are very happy and praise him for his ability.

But the original owner's father was busy all year round, doing farm work when he was busy, going to the town to earn two copper plates to subsidize the family by his strength when he was not busy, and even joined the army for Gu Wensheng, but he lost his life and did not end up well. even makes those people feel that this family has him and doesn't have him.

"Long girl, go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables again?" On the road, a tired and resting man shouted at her.

"Hey, uncle, pay attention to your safety." Gu Jiuxue responded in the tone of the original master in his memory.

It's just that she came to Houshan this time, not to dig wild vegetables, but to go to the fog area.

According to the memory of the original owner, no one had been in the fog area for decades.

It is rumored that the fog there can easily disorient people, not to mention poisonous snakes and man-eating monsters, and after a few people die, people slowly stop entering.

Gu Jiu walked to the periphery of the fog area, looked up at the sun that happened to be in the middle of the sky, and walked in without hesitation.

She didn't believe in man-eating monsters at all, and there would be no giant beasts in this terrain and climate. Ninety percent of the tentacle monsters in the village's population are hallucinations that appear after the villagers are poisoned.

As for the fog, it usually appears in the morning and evening in places with plenty of moisture, and the ground is almost dry and the sand is about to exhale, how can it be foggy again.

There is no way to avoid poisonous snakes, and now that the snakes are almost crawling out to bask in the sun, as long as she pays attention and doesn't make too much movement, it's fine.

As soon as he entered the fog area and walked about a hundred meters, Gu Jiu's eyes lit up.

Picked up a few sticks and threw them over, and after waiting for a while to see that there was no movement, Gu Jiu stepped forward.

Picking a small green leaf with a stick, then squatting down, holding the root of the plant firmly, and pushing it up, a sweet potato the size of an adult's fist was pulled out.

Gu Jiu patted the dirt on it and happily threw it in the back basket.

Looking at the green patch in front of me, let alone fifty or sixty sweet potatoes!

When she went to the field yesterday, she found that the drought in the field was too severe, and it was good to be able to harvest one-third of the grain in previous years.

It's just that this is not what she can manage now, their current food is enough to eat for a month, not to mention winter.

Sweet potato leaves are also edible, Gu Jiulian put the leaves into the back basket with them, and worked for more than two hours, filling the back basket to the brim. When he was about to go down the mountain, Gu Jiu picked a large handful of wild amaranth and spread it on the surface of the basket.

"Ahh Don't talk to Aunt Chen! ”

On the way down the mountain, a woman in her fifties stepped forward to stop Gu Jiu, stretched out her hand and asked.

Gu Jiu hurriedly took a step back, for fear that one would not pay attention to her and come up and grab it directly, after all, this Aunt Chen is famous for taking advantage of small things, and everyone wants to catch a little bit of everything.

"That's not good, my grandmother has set a number for me, and if it is less, I will be beaten when I go back today. Or I'll go back and talk to my grandmother, and she'll agree, and I'll send you home. ”

Hearing this, Aunt Chen withdrew her hand unhappily.

She is the most annoying to the old lady, she has never won when that person is playing tricks, scolding each other for more than ten years, hundreds of times, and every time she loses!

"Okay, I'll be the eldest lady today, I didn't say it, go back quickly!" Aunt Chen turned around angrily and went down the mountain with the basket on her shoulder.

Gu Jiu walked halfway, saw that no one was around, and hurriedly put down the basket and rubbed his shoulders.

She was tired to death, this basket of sweet potatoes was one hundred and sixty pounds, but she had to pretend that she only had one basket of leaves, and her heartbeat was a lot faster along the way.

I finally got home, but I found that there were a lot of people gathered around my house.

"Brother Qi, what does this white flour taste like? It's the first time I've seen a white face! ”

"Go aside, you know, is that just white noodles? Brother Qi still has poached eggs! ”

"This poached egg smells good!"

"Brother Qi, what does this taste like, you let us taste it!"

In the middle of the crowd, Gu Zheqi was holding a pair of chopsticks in one hand and a bowl of white noodles in the other, and from time to time he took a bite with a look of ecstasy.

Seeing Gu Jiu, he deliberately amplified his voice and said: "It's good to have a father who hurts, knowing that I love to eat white noodles, I specially cooked it and sent it to me, unlike some people who can only gnaw leaves!" ”

Saying that, Gu Zhiqi also exaggeratedly snorted.

Seeing this, the dogleg on the side immediately began to flatter: "Brother Qi, our Uncle Wensheng is a child, and it is not easy to get some white noodles!" ”

"Needless to say! But our Brother Qi is amazing, he was admitted to Tongsheng at the age of nineteen, how can there be a girl within a radius of more than ten miles who can be worthy of our Brother Qi? ”

Gu Jiu walked into the door without saying a word, and after putting the basket into the house, he came out to look at Gu Zhiqi.

"Cousin, if you don't want to eat it, give it to them! Don't always stand at the gate and say hello to anyone who comes, those who know understand that you want to show off, and those who don't know think that you are a brothel soliciting customers! ”

Everyone was stunned, they wanted to laugh and didn't dare to laugh considering Gu Zhiqi's face.

Gu Zhiqi had a black face, just wanted to teach Gu Jiu a lesson, and when he saw the fist that the other party rolled up his sleeves and revealed, he couldn't help but think of yesterday's boxing style, and he was a little cowardly for a while.

I just wanted to put my dog on his legs, after all, it wouldn't be a shame to lose like this.

But before he could make his eyes, he heard Gu Jiu open his mouth and continue: "You all disperse, my cousin has only eaten a meal of white noodles for several months, and he will not be willing to give it to you." ”

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Gu Zhiqi yelled at Gu Jiu with a straight face!

"I'm tired of eating this stuff twice in three days! Come, give it to you, and let you increase your knowledge. ”

As he spoke, Gu Zhiqi stretched out the bowl, but his eyes were staring at the poached egg that he hadn't had time to eat.

When everyone got the benefits, they naturally began to belittle and ridicule Gu Jiu and elevate Gu Zhiqi. It's just that she didn't care, the goal was achieved, and she went back to the house.

Since they are separated, the rice is also made separately. To prevent them from eating secretly in the third room, these people not only packed up all the food in the kitchen, but also took away the dishes and chopsticks, leaving only a pot, a wooden shovel, and a board.

When Gu Jiu arrived, Ye Qingyi was picking up the newly ripe miscellaneous grains.

Before, the Zhao family thought that every time we used the pot, we would hand over one-tenth of the food, but after being reprimanded twice by Old Man Gu, he didn't dare to mention it again.

We just asked them not to cook for an hour after cooking, because the pot was hot at that time, and they were afraid that we would take advantage of them.

But we can finish them, because it saves some firewood.

After listening to this ridiculous statement, she didn't bother to meet them in general.

"Xiao Jiu, you bring the wild vegetables, and we can make another soup to eat."

"Okay."

"Sister, look, the firewood I picked up is burning!" Gu Jing sat in front of the stove and fiddled with firewood and said.

"Yes, yes, we'll pick up more when it's almost winter, and we won't have to worry about winter then." Gu Jiu looked at the stove and said.

"Good!"

The stove looks very easy to build, and it is simply made of stone and earth. After a while, they can build another one themselves.

The Gu family now has a total of two stoves, one is the one that has been used for decades in front of him, and the other is outside Gu Zhiqi's house. Old Lady Gu and Old Man Gu were afraid that he would be hungry in the middle of the night and would not be able to eat hot food in time, so they built him a small stove outside.

"Xiao Jing, let's go after the fire is extinguished, sister, I'll show you something later, you absolutely like it."

Gu Jing: "!! Here it comes! ”