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

Shaking her head, she had also been through this age, but she didn't know what a boy of this age would be thinking. Well, they were fleeing at the moment, so it was useless to have any thoughts.

She continued to dig herbs, carrying the basket and digging slowly. There were so many herbs in the field, so she had to dig more.

When the whole family was having dinner in the evening, Mrs. Xu laughed and said, "Guoguo, you should learn from your elder sister how to dig wild vegetables in the future. Don't bring those old grasses with seeds home. They are useless and take up space. People will laugh at you and say you don't even know how to dig wild vegetables."

Before Zhou Guo could say anything, Huang was unhappy. "What's wrong with old ones? They can be used to make soup. In the past, during the famine years, the crops harvested from the fields were not enough to make seeds. People had no choice but to go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables and fruits. Later, when the tender ones were gone, they ate the old ones, grass roots, and finally tree bark. These wild vegetables can't kill you."

Zhou Deli couldn't help but nod his head. That was the case.

Xu disagreed and muttered, "We are not at that stage yet. There are plenty of tender wild vegetables. Who would eat these things?"

Zhou Mai glanced at everyone and whispered something in his mother's ear for a while.

Li glanced at her daughter who was eating seriously and felt a little suspicious. She looked at her carefully but couldn't see anything different. She saw that she finished eating a steamed bun and picked up a wild vegetable dumpling to eat it in big mouthfuls. After a few bites, the food got stuck in her throat and the wild vegetable was stuck in her throat and couldn't go up or down.

Li had no choice but to reach out and pat her on the back, saying helplessly, "Eat slowly, no one is going to snatch it from you. This wild vegetable has never been chopped, so it's a little long."

This child was unusual when she was born, different from other children. When she was that young, her mother-in-law took her to the temple to burn incense. The monk said that she would get better in the future. Now she is really well and has a big appetite. This makes her even more unusual. I think she has had a connection with Bodhisattva since she was a child. Maybe these are really medicines, and Bodhisattva really told her?

Thinking of this, I feel much more relieved. The connection with the Bodhisattva shows that this child is blessed, and it's good to be blessed.

Zhou Guo ate her meal with big mouthfuls. She had worked for a whole afternoon and was already hungry. Her appetite had increased and she was already starving. She was not picky about wild vegetable dumplings or anything like that. Everything tasted delicious to her when she was hungry.

Li followed the path to find Huang and secretly told her about her doubts.

Huang was extremely happy after hearing this. She clapped her thigh and said, "Master is right. This child is really blessed. Maybe she went to the Bodhisattva to learn skills during those eight years. Now that she has learned well in these eight years, the Bodhisattva has let her go back. This must be the case."

After saying this, he recalled his granddaughter's increasing appetite and nodded, "Look, this child has never lacked food since she was young. Now that she has woken up, her appetite is increasing. How old is she? If she continues like this, she might eat more than your father in the future. Eating so much must be useful. If nothing else grows, then it's just growing her brain and skills."

He spoke in such a serious tone that Li went from being doubtful to believing it completely and nodded repeatedly.

With the support of Huang and Li, Zhou Guo's herbal digging business went very smoothly.

At noon that day, the team stopped to rest again.

While taking a break, she picked out some dried herbs, took out a clay pot, filled it with water, put the herbs in, and started to cook.

The whole family didn't take it seriously and thought she was just cooking soup. The sun was very hot and everyone was too tired to even talk. Some of the weaker ones in the crowd even started to feel dizzy and vomit. Some of them fell down while walking and had to rely on their family members to support them and get on a car before they felt better.

Those who are in good health are not much better, they are exhausted.

Now that they were called to take a break, who would still be in the mood to cook? The Huang family members simply took out the flour they had fried before, mixed it with water and ate it. The flour was ground by themselves, and was not as fine as white flour and was dark in color. It also contained wheat bran, but it was very filling and extremely convenient. Zhou Guo exclaimed that this thing was comparable to instant noodles.

Everyone quickly finished their lunch and fell asleep.

Seeing her daughter still guarding the pottery cauldron, Li felt distressed and said softly, "Mother, watch over her. You go to sleep for a while."

Zhou Guo shook his head. "Go to sleep, Mom. I can still take a ride if I'm tired in the afternoon."

Li thought so too. Her daughter could sleep in the car, but she couldn't. She had to help push the car.

After pushing the cart for so many days, even with someone to help, my arms were sore, painful and swollen. I couldn't even lift them in the first two days. It has gotten a little better in the past few days, but it still hurts a lot.

Everyone in the family was asleep. Zhou Guo was looking at the fire alone. He took out an apricot from his arms and began to chew it slowly.

After so many days, the apricots have lost their initial crispness and have become soft. The skin has turned slightly yellow, and they still taste sweet. However, she still prefers the crisp green apricots at the beginning. She gently bites a little bit of the skin, sucks the juice inside, and then eats the flesh bit by bit. Not only does it have a unique taste, but she can eat one apricot for a long time.

Her eyes glanced at the cauldron in front of her. Fortunately, the cauldron was big enough for the whole family to drink. She looked up at the sky again. To be honest, the sky was so beautiful at that moment!

It’s so blue... just too blue. There’s not a single white cloud in the sky. It’s very hot. Even if there was just one white cloud, it would be nice to let the sun go in and rest for a while.

The earthenware pot was bubbling.

She saw that it was almost time and turned off the engine.

I looked at the pole stuck in the ground and thought it was about time to sleep for so long, so I took out a few bowls and filled them up.

Then she started calling people, "Auntie, Auntie, wake up, wake up, take the medicine, quickly."

"Uncle, get up and take your medicine."

This call woke up the others as well.

Everyone opened their eyes dazedly, not understanding what was going on. "Medicine? What medicine? Where did it come from?"

Mrs. Xu said dissatisfiedly: "I'm not sick, why should I take medicine? You girl, you really have nothing good to say to me when you wake up."

Zhou Guo pointed to the bowl on the ground and said, "Yes, the medicine is ready, drink it."

"This is not medicine, it's just tea. Why drink medicine?" Xu said, but she didn't dislike it. She took a sip and smacked her lips. "This tea is so unpalatable. What is it made of?"

The others also took a sip after hearing this. "It tastes bitter and fishy, ​​just like taking medicine."

The two little ones were originally clamoring to drink, but when they saw this, they instantly closed their mouths and hid behind.

Although they said it tasted bad, everyone still picked up their bowls.

After the adults finished drinking, Zhou Guo refilled their cup, and the little ones wanted to drink too.

"Well, don't say that. This tea tastes a bit bad, but it feels cool after drinking it. My dizzy head feels a lot lighter." Xu shook her head and said.