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

In the past few days, the families who took medicine from their house not only returned the medicine, but also sent fresh wild vegetables and fruits. Some families even brought a few dried chestnuts, a handful of dates, and a few walnuts as snacks for the children.

Don't underestimate these things. The weather has not been good in recent years, and the fruits at home are all kept to sell. Only the crooked and cracked ones that cannot be sold are kept as snacks for the children. There are not many of them. They are treasures that people have stored for a whole winter and may be the last stock in their homes.

Zhou Guo took the chestnut in his hand and looked at it. It was thin and small. Just as he was about to eat it, he turned it over and saw a worm hole as big as a pinhole on the bottom.

...Is this still edible?

Then I thought that this was a treasure that someone had hidden for a whole winter, and it would be bad to just throw it away, so I put it in my small bag and put it in my arms.

With this thing hanging around her waist, it is easy for it to get caught on branches or thorns when digging wild vegetables. It would be bad if it was lost. But at least it is a purse. She is the only one in the family who has this thing.

"Come on, Guoguo, brother will take you to pick fruit." Zhou Mai walked up and said.

Zhou Guo looked at the wild fruit field, and saw more and more people gathered around it. He shook his head and said, "No."

Zhou Mai said: "That's fine, there are many people there, I'll go pick them for you."

The vegetables brought from home had long been eaten, and more and more people came to dig wild vegetables.

When too many people are digging, it becomes difficult to dig a full basket.

However, among so many people, Zhou Guo was always the first to come back with a basket. Usually she could dig two more baskets while others didn't even have one basket full.

Someone saw this and pointed at his own child and said, "You are useless. You are not even as good as a little kid. Look how nimble his hands and feet are. He can fill three baskets while you can't even fill one. With your hands and feet, you can't even eat warm shit."

Of course, the person being told was not convinced. "Don't you see what she dug up? She just tossed edible and inedible things, old and tender, into the basket. People who didn't know would think it was for the chickens. Even chickens know to pick the tender ones. You want to eat that? There are all over the mountain. Do you want some?"

Everyone took a closer look and realized that it was true. "Oh my, why does this child want everything he catches? Didn't his family teach him? Why does he want grass? It's for the chickens at home... Hey, isn't that a tree leaf? Does he eat tree leaves?"

People in the village all said that the daughter of the Zhou family was a little better, but it seemed that she was not much better. However, she was a good wife after all, and she brought home everything good or bad.

Zhou Guo was concentrating on digging various wild vegetables. No matter what others said, her purpose of digging wild vegetables was to avoid starving to death in the future and to save her life. Therefore, as long as the wild vegetables would not kill people, she would accept them all and take them away.

Well, although this honeycomb grass is old, the leaves are still edible... Although the leaves of the sticky plant are not delicious, you can just pick them a few more times... Hey, the Artemisia selengensis here is growing so well, it's such a big patch, this vegetable is much more delicious than the other vegetables in the basket.

She picked up the basket and cut the wild vegetables at the roots, not being picky, taking both the tender and the old.

The woman next to her finally couldn't stand it anymore, so she came forward and said, "Girl, this is not the way you dig wild vegetables. Look, the stems of these are old, and the leaves are yellow and rotten. We can't keep them. Let's pick the tender and good-looking ones." She picked the tender wild vegetables and showed them to her.

Zhou Guo looked back and saw that the woman was about the same age as her grandmother Huang, with gray hair and tattered clothes with patches all over them. They had been running for so long and everyone looked very disheveled. Although they were not unkempt, they were not in much better shape either.

The clothes they were wearing had been worn for so long that they were covered in dust and mud, looking dirty and torn. It was very inconvenient to flee, so everyone just gave up and didn't bother to take care of them.

This mother-in-law's clothes were cleaner and tidier than most people's, and her hair was combed neatly, more neatly than most of them. Although she was dark and thin, she had a kind face. Zhou Guo took a liking to this mother-in-law at first sight.

"It's best not to eat the old ones that are too hard to chew..."

Zhou Guo saw that although she was old, she was very agile. Her hands flew up and down in the wild vegetable bushes. In a short while, she could get a handful of fresh wild vegetables, and soon filled half a basket.

This efficiency is much faster than hers!

However, although those next to them are old, the thin leaves on them are also edible.

As she plucked the leaves, she said, "Mother-in-law, these can be eaten. Although they may not taste good, it's too late to be so particular. It's good enough to have something to eat."

The old woman was stunned to see that she had plucked almost all the leaves of the wild vegetables she saw on the ground. She even plucked the tender leaves off the vines. She was speechless for a long time, "Girl, can this be eaten?"

I've never seen anyone eat it. Even if you're feeding it to chickens, you wouldn't cut it like this.

Zhou Guo said: "It's not poisonous, so why can't we eat it? It's just to fill our stomach. These are better than tree bark."

The old woman asked, "Why would they eat tree bark..."

He paused here, thinking of their current situation, and did not speak for a long time.

Seeing that she didn't say anything, Zhou Guo didn't take it seriously. She didn't know what the future held, but there had never been an easy way to escape from disaster since ancient times. It was always a good idea to prepare more food. The old lady looked kind, so it would be nice to have a reminder.

The woman was silent for a while, and then she also started to harvest wild vegetables on the ground, imitating Zhou Guo's behavior. She did not doubt how such a big child could have such knowledge. She just thought that the family members talked too much and the child remembered it in his heart. The Zhou family really thinks far ahead.

Thinking of this, the woman had no time to think about anything else. She just wanted to harvest all the edible weeds on the ground.

Zhou Guo was busy picking wild vegetables. As she was picking, she smelled something strange and suddenly noticed movement in the grass in front of her. Something dark slid past. She quickly grabbed the thing's tail and lifted it up.

Hey, what a big snake! !

It was thicker than her wrist and probably weighed about ten pounds.

The crowd started to cheer, "Ah, snake, snake!" "Oh my god, the girl from the Zhou family caught a snake!" "It's so big, it must weigh more than ten pounds. Now Zhou Deli's family will have meat to eat."

When the Zhou family heard the noise, they looked over and were shocked to see Zhou Guo holding such a big snake in his hand.

Zhou Dacang and others also hurried over, and the brothers and sisters who were picking fruits and digging wild vegetables also hurried over to watch the fun.

People kept coming around, all wanting to see how big the snake was. It was unbelievable that a little girl like Zhou Guo caught such a big snake with her bare hands. "It's not small. This girl is really brave. Most people wouldn't dare to catch it."