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

Zhou Dacang squatted aside, almost crying with heartache. This child had never eaten like this before when he was at home, even when he was fleeing. I wonder what he went through outside and how many meals he went hungry?

Zhou Guo was busy tearing the cake for him.

"Wow······"

As he was tearing it, he heard a thunderous cry. He looked up and saw Zhou Su holding a bowl, tilting his head back and crying with his mouth open, with big tears falling into the bowl.

He didn't cry even when he was caught, beaten, and nearly killed. But now, seeing his living family, eating delicious meals, and being taken care of attentively, Zhou Su finally couldn't hold it in any longer. His grievances were like a flash flood, out of control, and he was about to cry until dawn.

Zhou Guo patted his little head gently and apologized softly, "Okay, okay, don't cry. I'm sorry for you. I was wrong. I shouldn't have lost you. I made our little Su suffer so much. I don't know how much I've done. I'm sorry for you. But, I promise you, from now on, I will never abandon you again, okay?"

"Ah ...

Zhou Dacang said, "Forget it, don't comfort him. Let him cry for a while. He has suffered so much injustice, it is right for him to cry. It is better than holding it in."

Zhou Guo didn't think so. How could a child still cry? He still had to coax him. The more he coaxed him, the more he felt that someone was loving him, and the sense of security came back. She was beaten when she was a child, and grandma hugged her and coaxed her.

Zhou Da Cang looked at her and shook his head, how old is this girl, how come she looks like her grandmother? He must have seen it wrong.

Like a wronged child who finally found his mother, Zhou Su couldn't stop crying. He held the bowl in one hand and grabbed Zhou Guo's clothes with the other hand, crying breathlessly.

Zhou Guo held him patiently. Although Zhou Dacang said that, he still felt distressed in his heart. After all, it was their fault. There were hundreds of people in a team, and so many children were not lost, but their child was lost.

It’s because I didn’t take good care of the child that I lost him.

At the end of her tears, Zhou Su raised her head and asked, sobbing, the first question since they met, "You... have you looked for me?"

Zhou Guo almost cried. After a while, she choked up and said, "Of course I looked for you. We went looking for you when you were lost. We walked for a long time in the direction you lost, but we couldn't find you. So, as soon as we settled down in the North, my uncle and I came out to look for you. We walked from north to south and from west to east for more than a month. If we hadn't heard that there was a war in the North, we wouldn't have gone back if we couldn't find you. If we don't find you this time, I will come out next time."

"My sister has worn out many pairs of shoes. Mom has been crying all day and her eyes are swollen. Grandma got seriously ill and went to look for Grandpa. Before she died, she was still thinking about you and asked us to find you. So, Xiao Su, you see, we are all thinking about you. We think about you very much. My eldest sister often talks about this and that when she eats something delicious. She says that when you come back, she will make a lot of delicious food for you. My uncle also said that he wants to take you horseback riding."

Zhou Dacang nodded frantically with red eyes, "Yes, yes, yes, uncle will take you to go horseback riding, hunting, and picking mushrooms in the mountains. Let me tell you, there is a kind of wild mushroom growing in the mountains where we live now, which is delicious. I just don't know if it will still be there when we go back. If not, it's okay, there's still next year."

After hearing this, Zhou Su burst into tears again.

Zhou Guo patted his little head, "Alright, alright, stop crying. You've been crying for so long. Let's eat first. If you don't eat now, the meat in the bowl will get cold, and it won't taste good if it gets cold."

After a while, the little guy slowly stopped eating and wolfed down a bowl of chicken and a pancake. Zhou Guo was afraid that he would be full, so he didn't dare to feed him any more.

He didn't make a fuss. After finishing his meal, he couldn't hold on any longer and fell asleep, twitching from time to time in his sleep.

Zhou Guo and Zhou Dacang squatted beside him, looking at his bruised and swollen face as he slept, with relief and joy on their faces of having lost something and regained it.

"He's much thinner and cries so hard. I've never seen him cry so hard since he was a child. He seldom cries. Every day he just grins with his teeth bared. He's so happy. Everyone in the village likes his smiling little face." Zhou Dacang touched his little head with heartache.

Zhou Guo was a little scared when he thought about it now. He whispered, "Fortunately, I turned back and caught up with them. Uncle, you don't know, I was about to leave on horseback, but there was a voice in my ear telling me not to go and to turn back. I thought there was nothing to lose by turning back, so I turned back. As a result, I saw two adults carrying Zhou Su and running wildly. Oh, yes, I haven't told you what these people do. They actually eat people! And they don't want the dead. If I hadn't turned back, I dare not imagine the consequences!"

Zhou Dacang frowned, "These people are no longer human. Even if there are no wild vegetables in the mountains and plains, there must be tree bark. I don't know how many children they have harmed. We didn't want to do anything about it before, but luckily you insisted, otherwise..."

The two looked at Zhou Su with great relief. It was really a close call.

There wasn't much meat on a pheasant to begin with, and Zhou Suli ate most of it. The two could only soak the biscuits in the remaining chicken soup to fill their stomachs, and then eat some of the remaining chicken breast, chicken head, chicken feet and leftovers.

Although the meal was simple, Zhou Guo and Zhou Dacang ate it with gusto and found it very delicious. They thought the soup was delicious, the pheasant meat was tasty, and the flower mushrooms were even more delicious. They felt relieved and ate with a better appetite.

Zhou Guo ate more than ten pancakes in one breath with the soup and burped all the time. It had been a long time since he had such a hearty meal.

Although I ate a lot of delicious food when I was at home before, I was worried about something and couldn’t enjoy the food.

Zhou Da Cang, who was sitting opposite him, also ate six pancakes in one go. After finishing, he sighed and said, "Ah, what a delight!"

The two of them were not sleepy at the moment, and as they had just found their loved ones, they did not dare to sleep either, so they agreed to sleep for half the night each.

Sure enough, in the second half of the night, Zhou Su began to talk nonsense and yell, "Ah, let me go, let me go... run, run... I will kill you! Mother! Mother! Father! Father! Wow... Sister!"

Zhou Guo rushed forward to comfort him and grabbed his flailing hands, "Xiao Su, Xiao Su, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, sister is here, sister is here..."

After being comforted for a long time, Zhou Su finally opened his eyes.

When she first saw Zhou Guo's concerned face, she blinked for a while, and then seemed to finally recognize her. She started crying loudly, "Sister, you finally came to find me! They are so bad, they eat people! Wuuuuu, I'm going to be eaten by them!"