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

The two of them were having so much fun playing that the children at home could no longer play with them.

While the children were playing, the adults had already started cooking the fish.

It is also very convenient to cook fish. There is ready-made wild vegetable soup. Just add half a pot of water to the fire, boil the soup again, then throw in the chopped fish meat, add some salt, and boil it until it boils and you can eat it.

The aroma of fish soon spread throughout the camp, and everyone was very enthusiastic. The harvest had been poor in recent years, and sometimes a family had to live on a piece of tofu during the New Year. Some families hadn't eaten fish for years.

As soon as the soup started to boil, the children all stood by the pot with their bowls in hand.

The Zhou family was no exception. Zhou Guo and the other children in the family stood by the pot, each with a bowl in hand.

The two big fish were cut into pieces and put into the pot, mixed with the wild vegetables and soup. The pot was full and the aroma was everywhere. The children looked at it eagerly, not wanting to blink.

Huang took out the only remaining bucket in the house, opened the lid, and inside was a bucket full of cooked rice!

Tonight's meal has to be served in a bucket!

Although the other people in the family had seen it before, but now seeing so much food that they could eat it all up for tonight, they couldn't help but smile, and everyone had a smile on their face.

Zhou Guo, who was unaware of the situation, was so shocked by the bucket of rice that she forgot to speak. During the many days she had been fleeing, her family always cooked in a pot. They would cook most of the rice in a pot of porridge mixed with dried or fresh wild vegetables and grass roots. There was only so much to eat for a family of more than ten people. She couldn't help but touch her stomach every time she saw it. She knew she wasn't full just by looking at it, and she couldn't help but feel even hungrier.

But today is different. With such big buckets of rice and such huge pots of dishes, I feel safe and secure just by looking at them.

She looked into the bucket and saw husked rice inside, yellow and white, with yellow husks sandwiched between the snow-white rice grains. The rice grains were broken, but that didn't matter. After all, it was rice.

It is probably made of stones. It takes a lot of effort to peel the shell into this shape.

She held her bowl and waited for her grandmother to serve her food.

Because she had a big appetite, in order to reduce the number of times she had to serve herself, Huang got her the largest bowl in the house. This bowl was used to serve soup before. Of course, such a big bowl could never be filled up every time, so she could only fill half a bowl, and then drink half a bowl of soup afterwards, which was almost enough.

Huang prepared food for everyone. When it was her turn, she took her big bowl and filled it up to the brim.

Zhou Guo took it happily.

Huang took her own bowl of rice and said with a smile, "Okay, let's start eating."

When the children heard this, they ignored everything else and focused on fishing fish out of the pot to eat.

Li first picked up a piece for Zhou Guo, and then picked up a piece for her younger son who couldn't catch any fish. She no longer needed to take care of her older son.

Huang picked up a piece for each of the two children picked up by Zhou Guo. The older one could eat by himself, but the younger one couldn't eat yet. She served the child a bowl of rice, soaked some fish soup, and picked up some wild vegetables, intending to feed the child first before eating herself.

Seeing this, Li silently put several pieces of fish into her mother-in-law's bowl. Seeing this, Xu also picked up a piece. She couldn't fall behind.

Zhou Guo buried his head in his food. Even though he had just eaten half a grilled fish in the mountains, that little bit of food could not fill his stomach. He still needed food to satisfy his hunger.

For how many days, she has never had a full meal. She is hungry every day and her eyes are green with hunger. How can she think of anything else at this moment?

The tender fish meat mixed with the fragrance of wild vegetables made her appetite very much. She took a bite and couldn't help but close her eyes. It was so delicious!

Although the rice was rough, she had been eating wheat rice for so long, so this was nothing.

The children buried their heads in their food and ate without even having time to say a word.

Seeing that her mother-in-law had not eaten, Li quickly finished her bowl, took the bowl from her hand, and said, "Mother, let me feed her. You eat first. It's delicious."

As he spoke, he began to feed the child.

Huang said, "Let me do it. The child will finish eating in a few more bites. He is too small to eat much. It is not reasonable to feed one child with two people."

Mrs. Li was not at ease. After all, the child was brought back by her daughter. "It's okay. I've already eaten a bowl of rice. I'm not that hungry anymore. You can go over and eat. You must be hungry after not eating much all day. You don't need to worry about this."

Huang saw that she couldn't get rid of her, so she had to pick up the bowl and start eating.

Almost everyone in the camp had dinner by now, and the delicious fish was so appetizing that everyone couldn't stop eating.

Other families who were resting not far from the roadside could not help but swallow their saliva when they smelled the tempting aroma of the food and saw more than 300 people smacking their food from the steaming pot. Although they had no shortage of food, they just liked the delicious food here.

Zhou Guo held the bowl and ate two bowls of rice in one breath, ate a lot of fish, meat and vegetables, and drank half a bowl of soup. His stomach was full from eating so much that he reluctantly put down the bowl.

Everyone in the Zhou family had finished eating, and she was the only one left. She drank up the last bit of soup in the pot without wasting it, and was so full that she could hardly walk.

She touched her belly, looked at the stars in the sky and sighed. The feeling of being full was so happy. She was so happy that she didn't even want to move a finger. She just wanted to sleep.

The children were lying on the ground with their arms and legs spread out, their faces showing happiness and satisfaction of having eaten their fill.

After eating and drinking their fill, the Huang family's adults felt too lazy to move.

Xu said, "This is the most delicious fish I have ever eaten in my life. We drank up the entire pot, including the soup. I don't know when I can eat fish again."

When no one responded to her words, she continued to talk to herself, "Not only did I finish the soup, I also finished the whole bucket of rice. I think I have to eat sparingly in the future. Who can afford to eat like this? Eating one bucket at a time, even if there is a mountain of gold and silver in the house, it will be eaten up."

Huang said, "Okay, stop talking. The children are all asleep. You've been busy all day. If you don't sleep, others will have to sleep."

Xu closed her mouth in satisfaction. She just ate too much and wanted to talk, but she couldn't find anyone to talk to.

Mrs. Li was busy looking after the children. Seeing that they were all asleep, she lay down and closed her eyes. She still slept next to her daughter to shield her from the wind and insects.

Soon, snoring sounds could be heard in the camp. Except for a few fires and a few night watchmen, everyone was asleep.

The stars seemed to be exceptionally numerous and bright tonight, and even the snoring of the crowd seemed to reveal a sense of satisfaction after having eaten and drunk enough.

When Zhou Guo opened his eyes the next day, it was still dawn. Zhou Su and the two children beside him were not awake yet, but his brother Zhou Mai and his mother were already up.