Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

After thinking for a while and still unable to figure it out, she stopped thinking about it. It was already incredible enough that she could come to this world with her memories. What was a handful of strength? She wouldn't even frown even if she could fly over eaves and walls. What a good thing.

She sat down calmly and even looked around leisurely. Everyone was asleep and no one was awake.

An hour later, the team started their journey. The headman said that they had to walk forty miles today and would not rest until they reached their destination.

The younger Zhou Suli and Zhou Tao rode on the cart, and occasionally Zhou Guo would also get on to sit, but his legs were really not strong enough.

Six family members, including my eldest cousin Zhou Gu, were responsible for pushing the carts. Two people pushed one at a time, and the remaining person took a rest and replaced at any time. Zhou Xing was busy looking after the two children, and also had to take care of others, pouring water, passing things and bringing food.

The remaining three, Zhou Mi, Zhou Mai and Zhou Guo, formed a group.

Among them, Zhou Mai and Zhou Mida were two or three years older than Zhou Guo. They felt that they took good care of her. If Zhou Guo had not been unwilling, the two would have taken turns carrying her forward.

It is not easy to walk forty miles. At the beginning, there were still sounds in the team, but later the sounds gradually weakened. After it got dark, there was no sound at all, only the sound of wheels and footsteps.

The Zhou family was also very tired. After all, Old Man Zhou and Mrs. Huang were not young anymore. After all this work, their backs were hunched and they didn't even have the strength to speak.

Mrs. Li and Mrs. Xu were fine. In the past, during the busy farming season, they would be in a similar state after working a day, except that their feet would feel a little sore.

The hair coats of the little ones were soaked with sweat. At the end of the day, their originally dark faces were now black and dirty, and their original features could not be seen clearly.

After walking for an hour and a half in the afternoon, Zhou Guo was carried onto an ox cart by her family. During this time, she secretly helped her mother push the cart for an hour, which made Li secretly wonder why the cart seemed to be getting lighter as she pushed it.

After more than an hour of darkness, the team finally stopped.

Everyone looked for their own place to spend the night.

When the headman told them to stop, Zhou Mai and Zhou Mi jumped to the front and looked around until they found a big tree.

The family pushed the carts over and placed the two carts on the left and right of the big tree. The area in the middle was where the family rested at night, and it could barely block the wind.

As soon as Huang took a break, she told the children to pick up some dry branches around.

Old Man Zhou took Zhou Gu to fetch water. The only downside here was that it was too far from the water source.

Zhou Dacang brought down the pots and bowls and ingredients prepared for cooking in the evening, and was busy cutting grass, laying out bedding, and tidying up the place to rest for the night.

Li and Xu took Zhou Xing to cook. They fried the chicken, boiled it in water, and put various vegetables and beans picked from the vegetable garden into the chicken. Chicken was salty, so no salt was needed. They put the steamed buns on tree branches and roasted them over the fire.

Zhou Guo couldn't help, so he walked around and saw some wild vegetables on the ground. He picked up a basket and squatted on the ground to dig them up one by one. He dug up the fresh ones whole and picked up the old ones with the top ones and threw them into the basket.

Although there was a moon at night, she couldn't see clearly. She could only see the general idea vaguely. She picked whatever she saw that was vaguely edible. She dug wild vegetables faster than anyone else, and the basket was full in a short time.

There were too many wild vegetables. Looking at the wild vegetables on the ground, she felt that they could not be wasted. She didn't know what the situation would be like ahead, so she should prepare as much food as possible at this time. They could be dried and eaten as dried vegetables.

He carried the basket back and dumped everything on the ground, then he walked away carrying the basket.

Everyone was busy at this time. The younger ones were all taken by Zhou Dacang to cut grass. No one paid attention to Zhou Guo, nor did anyone notice that she was digging wild vegetables.

When Huang turned around from the pot, she looked down and saw the weeds on the ground next to the cart. She was startled and asked, "Oh, who dug these wild vegetables?"

It was really too much, just in the time it takes to finish a meal.

Li stretched her head to look behind the big tree and saw her daughter still squatting on the ground digging wild vegetables. She felt relieved but also had a headache. This child, why is she still digging after digging so much?

Just as she was about to speak, Xu on the side laughed and said, "These are not wild vegetables, mother. Look, there are all kinds of things here, young leaves, old leaves, old stems, grass roots, and some of them are not edible at all. These are clearly grasses. Who dug these?" She said as she picked them up.

Huang looked around and saw Zhou Guo squatting under a tree digging wild vegetables with a large basket next to him. She stared with eyes wide open and said in disbelief, "Our Guoguo can dig wild vegetables now?!"

After watching for a while, he felt that Zhou Guo seemed to be a lot smarter. He dug up the wild vegetables with the roots and shook off the mud before throwing them into the basket. He turned his head to look at Li, who pointed in Zhou Guo's direction, "She, she, what's wrong with her?"

Xu looked at it and said, "Yes, second sister-in-law, Guoguo seems to have become much smarter and even knows how to dig wild vegetables."

Li looked at her daughter who was digging wild vegetables in the distance. She thought about the child's performance from yesterday to today. She was not sure whether the child was completely recovered. It would be better to tell everyone about it so that everyone could make a decision. She told the whole story from beginning to end and explained, "The child doesn't seem to be completely recovered. Even after waking up, he is still dazed. I didn't tell you because I was afraid you wouldn't believe me. I planned to tell you in a few days."

In fact, she just thought that it would be better for the child to be safe at this time of trouble. She was afraid that others would say that she had a bad fate and was unlucky in marriage, which would not be good for the child.

Huang's eyes lit up as she listened. She clapped her thigh and said happily, "Oh, healed is healed. What's the meaning of "not fully healed"? Look, this child is so good. He can dig wild vegetables as soon as he wakes up. He even knows to bring things home. The master is right. This child is destined to be rich."

Xu couldn't help curling her lips. Don't look at this pile. There's not much to eat. There's also a bunch of old leaves and rotten roots. Isn't it just some wild vegetables? Just like that, you're destined to be rich? Then she is also destined to be rich. She has been digging wild vegetables since she was three or four years old.

Her two daughters are destined to be rich!

Mrs. Li didn't expect her daughter to be rich and noble. She smiled and said, "I don't expect anything else. As long as Guoguo can be fine, it's enough. She can be like a normal girl, can laugh, dance and play, love beauty like a girl, know how to dress herself up, and can get married. Living a normal life is my biggest wish in this life."

Huang didn't hear clearly what she said. She was immersed in her own world at the moment. For many years, she had been looking forward to this day. The more she looked at Zhou Guo, the more she felt that he was smart and clever, smarter than any other child in the family.

Old man Zhou had just come back from fetching water when he heard that his granddaughter was fine. Looking at the old leaves and rotten roots on the ground, he hesitated, "She won't eat these even if you give her a chicken. Are you sure that girl is fine?"

Everyone was silent.