Crossing over reveals a waste's difficult journey home

Uncle Liu did not answer Xia Shu's question. After taking a sip of the tofu pudding, he put the ceramic bowl on the ground.

He said to Xia Shu in a serious tone, "Shu, go get all the elderly people over 40 years old in the village. If they can't walk, carry them here.

Also, go and ask the village head to come over and tell him that I have something to do."

Xia Shu was too young. When he saw the tofu pudding, he wanted to buy some and let the elders in the village drink some, hoping that they could be healthier.

When Uncle Liu saw the tofu pudding and drank it, he thought about more.

Xia Shu didn't know what Uncle Liu wanted to do, but he was obedient and did whatever his elders told him to do.

After a lot of trouble, with the help of others, he brought the other eight elderly people over 40 years old in the village to Uncle Liu's house, and then he went to find the village head.

Dashan Village is not big, with less than a hundred people in total, and there are even fewer people over 40 years old, only nine in total.

In ancient times, there was no such saying among poor families that having an old person in the family is like having a treasure.

When there is a shortage of young people and wars are ongoing, the elderly are always the first group to be abandoned.

The same goes for the elderly in the mountain villages. Once something happens, even if the young people don’t say anything, the elderly will automatically give up on themselves, for fear of becoming a burden to their future generations.

In some villages, there are very few people over 30, let alone those over 40.

The reason why Dashan Village can have these nine elderly people is not only because they live under Jiang Qizhi and do not have to worry about war all the time, but the unity of the village is also an important reason why the villagers can live to this age.

Because of unity, villagers rarely voluntarily abandon the elderly and children unless there is really no other way. It is also because of unity that Xia Shu was able to grow up under the care of the entire village.

If only one or two families were kind-hearted, Xia Shu might have grown up, but he would definitely not have been raised to be the cheerful and helpful person he is now.

The village is small, so if anything happens, everyone will know about it soon, not to mention something like this that brings all the old people together, which will attract even more attention.

When Xia Shu followed the village head Liu Qinghe back to Uncle Liu's house, the villagers had already surrounded the small courtyard in three layers.

"Li Zheng is here!"

Someone shouted, and everyone took the initiative to make way for Liu Qinghe.

"Uncle, what's wrong with you?"

Most families in Dashan Village have the surname Liu. The father of the village head Liu Qinghe and Uncle Liu are brothers from the same mother. So when the other party calls Uncle Liu "uncle", it is not out of courtesy, but because the other party is really his uncle.

Xia Shu went to find him and said that when Uncle Liu called all the old people in the village, Liu Qinghe felt uneasy, thinking that his uncle was dying and wanted to see everyone!

As soon as they met, he started to care about Uncle Liu's health.

"I'm fine. I'm doing fine! We asked everyone to come here for this."

As he spoke, Uncle Liu pointed at the tofu pudding he had taken a sip of.

Next, as the person who bought the tofu pudding, Xia Shu told everyone present what he had seen and heard.

After Xia Shu finished speaking, Uncle Liu picked up his ceramic bowl and said to Liu Qinghe, "Here, eat it."

Liu Qinghe was just shocked by what Xia Shu said when his uncle stuffed a ceramic bowl in front of him. He didn't dare to drink it.

"Uncle, His Majesty said that tofu pudding is good for the body, and you should eat it. Why should I eat it?"

Liu Qinghe is already 32 years old and has a grandson this year. He is definitely not considered very young in Daxia.

However, in front of his uncle who is already in his forties and a generation older than him, he is still a junior and has to respect the elder.

He couldn't eat this thing that could prolong life in front of so many elders.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Just eat it if I tell you to. After you eat it, I have something to tell you."

Liu Qinghe could only recognize a few words and didn't know what "I dare not refuse a gift given by an elder" meant. But he knew that if he didn't eat what his uncle asked him to eat, he would definitely be beaten.

He was already the head of the village and even had a grandson. He didn't want to be beaten in public. That would be too embarrassing.

So now he has to eat whether he wants to or not.

After putting that little bit of tofu pudding into their mouths, Liu Qinghe and his uncle had the same feeling: this thing was incredible!

At the same time, having seen more of the world than the other villagers, he also understood why his uncle had asked him to come.

"Xia Shu, you said this thing is made of beans?"

Xia Shu has already explained it very clearly before. I don’t know why the headman asked again. But it doesn’t matter. Just ask!

"Yes, I saw with my own eyes the man at the stall grinding the beans into pulp using a large stone plate, putting it into the pot, and after it boiled, he added some things, and the pulp became like this."

Beans, not the wheat and millet which have poor yields, but the beans which have better yields and are the ones they eat often!

If they knew how to make tofu pudding, could they eat it more often?

Regardless of whether it can really prolong life, at least it is very soft and good for the elderly and children.

Because of his father and grandson, Liu Qinghe is very concerned about what the elderly and children can eat.

Before his father died, the family only had beans.

The beans were too hard and the dying old man could not eat them at all. My father was unable to eat a single bite of food until his death and was half-starved to death.

As for his little grandson, he became very thin due to hunger because his daughter-in-law did not have enough milk.

If he had this tofu pudding, his father would have been able to get a bite of food before he died, and his grandson would have been able to grow fatter!

Thinking of this, Liu Qinghe made a decision.

"Shu, come with me to Ningping City again tomorrow."

"Ah, oh!" Natsuki didn't know what Ri Zheng was going to do, and agreed subconsciously.

Seeing that his nephew understood what he meant, Uncle Liu smiled with relief.

Then he asked Xia Shu to take out all the pottery bowls in his house. Seeing that it was not enough, he asked the people around him to go back and get some, making a total of eight pottery bowls.

There were enough bowls, so he asked Liu Qinghe to divide the tofu pudding in the ceramic pot equally into eight ceramic bowls and deliver them to the eight elderly people one by one.

The old people looked at the bowls again and again, but no one ate.

"Hurry up and eat, what are you waiting for? Didn't you hear what Shu said? Isn't this tofu pudding good for the body?"

After Uncle Liu said that, no one wanted to eat it anymore. It’s not that they didn’t want to eat it, but they all wanted to leave it for their children and grandchildren.

“Elders, please eat quickly. If you don’t eat, others won’t dare to eat.

Since it is sold at the city gate, the younger generation will have a chance to eat it one day."

After Liu Qinghe's persuasion, the old people finally picked up their bowls and started eating with great cherishment.

The old man who ate the tofu pudding, the child who was drooling because of the greed, Liu Qinghe who had ideas, and even Xia Shu who brought the tofu pudding back, all had no idea how much change this bamboo tube tofu pudding would bring to their small village.