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

Zhou Guo knew he was in the wrong, so he smiled and said, "I just wanted to go to the forest to see if there was anything edible, so that we could change the taste. The mountain is so big, we can't just go in and out, we have to look around to see if there are any treasures, anyway, we are here now."

Li pointed to the rotten wood at her feet, "Is this the treasure you found? I hate it even if I use it to make fire."

Zhou Guo looked at the wood at his feet and was speechless.

After a while, he said, "It's not like I didn't get anything. Look at the fruits in the basket. There are so many. Everyone in my family can have a little to satisfy their taste."

She swallowed her saliva and said this. She really missed sweets!

Li took the basket and took a look. She sighed and picked out the reddest Mandixiang. She also pulled a few weights off and handed them to her daughter. "You ran so far, you must not have eaten any of these. Come, eat a few first."

Zhou Guo was not polite, she really didn't eat any of them, and while eating, she picked out a big, red and round one from the box, "Mom, you eat too, there are so many, we can each have two."

Li waved her hands, "This is for you kids. I'm too old to eat this. You won't be laughed at for eating from a kid. Eat it yourself."

Zhou Guo said, "What's wrong with being old? Can't you even eat wild fruits at your age? I didn't steal or rob them, why don't you eat them? Eat them quickly. Besides, who would laugh at eating something? We are fleeing from famine these days. There is no grass growing in such a remote area. We can find this thing. It is a gift from God. We will be blessed if we eat it. Eat it quickly."

As he said that, he stuffed it into her mouth and forced it in even though her mouth was closed.

Li had no choice but to take it, but she felt warm in her heart. She wiped off the dirt on it, broke it in the middle, revealing the red flesh inside. A sweet smell went straight into her nose. She swallowed her saliva. This thing was so good, how could she bear to eat it.

Zhou Guo also broke the fruit in the middle and ate the flesh like a mango. His eyes lit up. It was sweet and soft, so delicious!

After eating the pulp inside, she didn't waste the outer skin and put it into her mouth. After finishing it, she felt a little unsatisfied, so she gave a few Schisandra chinensis in her hand to her mother and ate all of them herself.

After eating, he clapped his hands, leaned back, and lay down to sleep.

As soon as she lay down, half of the fruit pulp was forced into her mouth. She smelled a familiar taste and opened her eyes immediately, and saw that her mother had also laid down, chewing something in her mouth. That was fine, eating half a piece was also better than not eating any at all.

After swallowing the fruit in her mouth, she lost consciousness.

When I woke up again, it was already late. Everyone got up one after another. The setting sun stretched people's shadows very long, and the orange-yellow sunlight made the world warm.

She just lay on the ground with her eyes open, her hands behind her head, looking at the blue sky above her, at the mountain top opposite bathed in the setting sun, and listening to the sounds of people around her and their voices. She felt that it all seemed unreal, and for a moment she even wondered if she was dreaming.

"Hey, where did this rotten wood come from? Who brought it back? What's the use of this broken thing? It's blocking the road!" Xu's voice of disgust and confusion sounded at the right time.

Zhou Guo blinked, turned over and sat up, and said hurriedly: "That's mine, don't throw it away."

She was afraid that Xu would throw away the rotten wood. She brought it out from such a deep forest and couldn't just throw it away. So she decided to keep the wood with her, like a small animal.

Xu pursed her lips when she heard this. "Why not throw this broken thing away? There is firewood everywhere on the road. Isn't it hard enough to carry so many things in the car?"

Zhou Guo said: "I pushed it myself, and I didn't ask you to do anything."

The words were a bit impolite, Xu held her breath and said, "I'm doing this for your own good!"

Zhou Guo nodded, "Well, thank you!" He picked up the rotten wood and threw it on the cart he often pushed without even looking at him.

Mrs. Xu became even angrier. Why did this child have such a strange temper? He didn't act like a little kid at all.

Li walked forward and touched Zhou Guo, saying softly, "She is your aunt after all, you should be nice to her and stop looking down on her all day long."

Zhou Guo said: "I'm good enough. You see she is always acting weird, but I just pretended not to hear her. If it was someone else, I would have called her long ago."

Li: "... You really are a living devil, always looking for trouble. Look at your stubble. Do you still remember that you are a girl? You act like a boy all day, jumping up and down, trying to get involved in everything. Who will remember that you are a girl in the future? Don't push all the work onto you. Be smart and don't act like an old ox."

Zhou Guo saw her eyes turn red as she spoke, and hurriedly comforted her, "It's okay, Mom. Look how strong I am. These jobs don't seem tiring to me at all. Don't take it to heart."

At this time, Huang and Zhou Tao had already prepared the meal. The family sat around and started eating.

It was still wheat rice as usual, with some wild vegetables in it.

Zhou Guo finished her meal in no time, took her portion of fruit, and began to eat it slowly.

Zhou Su quickly finished the rice in his bowl and sat next to his sister, eating the nuggets one by one with his eyes narrowed, enjoying it very much.

Seeing this, Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Is it really that delicious?"

Zhou Su nodded repeatedly, eyes sparkling, "Sister, next time you go into the mountains, can I go with you?"

Zhou Guo said: "I would like to call you, but you have to sleep."

"I won't sleep, I definitely won't sleep, for the fruit." The little guy nodded firmly.

Taking advantage of the night the team set out again.

Some refugees who had caught up and were about to take a rest on the spot while there were so many people were dumbfounded. Why would anyone travel at night? With so many people leaving, what would they do if wild beasts came down the mountain?

Some of them sat down immediately and watched Zhou Guo and his group leave without even raising their eyebrows. These days, when one doesn't even know whether one can live to see tomorrow, who has the time to worry about others?

The team rested during the day and traveled at night, trying to avoid people for fear of being robbed again. They were really scared of being robbed, and the injuries of the young men in the team had not yet healed.

Injured people get hungry faster than normal people and eat more than normal people because of the body's needs.

The family members made up their minds to give them medical treatment. If these children didn't get better quickly, they would be very scared when they met suspicious people on the road.

With this kind of nourishment, your body will naturally get better faster, but the food in the bag will also be gone quickly. In just a few days, half a bag, or most of the food in the bag will be gone.