Seeing Yu Qingtang standing next to the tiankeng, he hurried over and said, "Yu Zhiqing, be careful not to step back. There is a tiankeng with no bottom behind you. If you fall in, you won't be able to climb out."

Yu Qingtang smiled. It was really a different world with the same parents. When she was a child, she was also taught by adults not to get close to the tiankeng. The reason given was the same as Li Jianye said.

At that time, she often wondered: the earth is round, and the sinkhole has no bottom, so would the things that fell in come out from the other side of the earth?

Yu Qingtang did not expose the parents' lies. It is a good thing for children to have awe of tiankengs, because tiankengs are indeed very dangerous for children.

But she also wanted to share the chestnuts with her friends, so she said, "I just went down to see that this tiankeng is a fake one. It has a bottom and there are several chestnut trees. Let's go down and pick chestnuts together."

"Really?" The children were all very happy, especially the little girls who were only five or six years old. Their families were very poor and there was some discrimination against girls. They could not get enough to eat at home, so they could hide the chestnuts they picked and eat them by themselves.

Li Jianye ran to the tiankeng and looked around: "Where do we go down?"

Yu Qingtang pointed to a corner near the mountain wall and said, "The slope there is gentle."

Yu Qingtang led the way. The slope here was only about 40 degrees, and the surrounding grass showed signs of being walked on. Such a road was not a problem at all for children who had been running in the mountains since childhood.

Li Jianye was the bravest one walking in front, while Yu Qingtang followed behind, supporting the younger ones.

When they got to the bottom, the children found that the land was no different from the land above, and they didn't see any bottomless holes. They all jumped up and cheered with joy.

"Oh! Oh! Oh!" "This is really a fake sinkhole!"

"Where's the chestnut, Yu Zhiqing, where is the chestnut?"

Yu Qingtang took them to the chestnut tree and said, "See? There are so many chestnuts on the ground. Pick them up quickly, or they will be eaten by bugs."

"Yu Zhiqing, aren't you going to pick it up?"

Yu Qingtang pointed to the large canvas bag he had placed under the tree and said, "Here, I've picked up enough. You guys can pick up the rest."

"it is good!"

Li Jianye looked at the ground and then looked up at the tree: "It seems that the chestnuts on the tree have been broken."

Yu Qingtang also looked up: "It was like this when I came here. Maybe someone discovered it before us and picked all the chestnuts on the tree."

Li Jianye touched his head in confusion: "It's really strange, why would someone leave the ripe chestnuts on the ground and pick the unripe ones on the tree instead?"

Yu Qingtang ignored his question and let him wonder on his own. While the children were picking chestnuts, Yu Qingtang started exploring the bottom of the tiankeng.

The bottom of the sinkhole is dark and humid, which is very suitable for the growth of Araceae plants. Yu Qingtang discovered many wild konjacs, snake flowers, and several seven-leaf aconite plants.

Yu Qingtang didn't know how to handle the herbs so he didn't touch them.

After searching around for a while, she found a ginseng.

The red fruit was very bright, and Yu Qingtang ran over excitedly.

He found the right tools in the space, tied a red rope around the ginseng plant and started digging slowly.

The outermost layer of soil was dug out with a knife, and the inside was slowly dug open with a small spoon. Twenty minutes later, a ginseng the size of two index fingers was held in Yu Qingtang's palm.

Yu Qingtang observed carefully: "Has it been ten years?"

"Yu Zhiqing is gone."

Hearing the children's cries, Yu Qingtang quickly pulled out a large piece of moss and wrapped it around the ginseng.

Tie the ginseng seeds to a branch so that they can be sown by the wind.

After finishing work in the morning, Yu Qingtang returned to the educated youth site to make lunch.

Collect the dried chestnuts, spread them out in a winnowing basket and place them in the house to dry in the shade.

At noon, they fried some cured meat, bamboo shoots and smallpox soup. Yu Qingtang ate all the leftovers and packed them for Yu Qingxu.

Yu Qingtang went out with his lunch box. He had to pass by the cowshed to get to where Yu Qingxu and his friends grazed the cattle.

In this era, people also live in the cowshed, and they are not ordinary people. Women who travel through time and are reborn all like to run to the cowshed to show their goodwill and curry favor with others.

Yu Qingtang has a good family background so he doesn't need to rely on others. Instead, he should stay away from them.

If Yu Qingtang didn't want to take a shortcut, he wouldn't have gone through the cowshed.

Look! Whatever you say comes true.

From a distance, Yu Qingtang saw the reborn heroine Su Nianru sneaking around the cowshed.

Well - actually she wasn't that vulgar, but Yu Qingtang guessed that she wanted to curry favor with someone powerful, so she looked a little vulgar in his eyes.

Thinking that today's daily check-in had not been completed yet, Yu Qingtang moved closer quietly and stretched his ears to listen.

A child in the cowshed was talking: "My grandfather and several other uncles and grandfathers have gone out to work."

Su Nianru asked: "What about Doctor Ji?"

The child said, "Brother Ji went up the mountain to collect herbs."

"Collecting herbs? Is someone sick?"

Su Nianru coaxed the child gently: "Tell me, I can help you."

The child said nothing and gave her a door panel.

Su Nianru frowned, turned around and was shocked to see Yu Qingtang looking at her with great interest. She couldn't help but said angrily, "Yu Zhiqing, don't you know that scaring others can kill them?"

Yu Qingtang opened his innocent eyes and could see through Su Nianru's guilty conscience at a glance. He said with a smile, "It's broad daylight. How could Su Zhiqing be scared if she has done nothing wrong?"

Su Nianru stamped her feet and said, "You are the one who did something wrong. I have to go back to work."

Perhaps hearing the noise outside, the children in the cowshed opened the door a crack again.

Yu Qingtang was startled when he looked over. This kid looks familiar?

Perhaps because Su Nianru hadn't walked far, Xiao Zijing just looked at Yu Qingtang with sparkling eyes and didn't call anyone. When Su Nianru walked away, the four-year-old child finally pulled out the bolt with great difficulty and ran out.

"Big sister." Yu Qingtang saw that there was still a layer of light gray on his body and remembered: "Are you Xiaoxiao?"

Xiao Zijing nodded: "Sister, my full name is Xiao Zijing, and my nickname is Xiaoxiao. You can call me by my nickname."

"Well, my name is Yu Qingtang, you can call me Sister Yu."

Yu Qingtang squatted down to his level and asked in a low voice, "Do all your family members live here with you?"

Xiao Xiao shook his head: "Only grandpa, mom and dad went to a very far place."

Yu Qingtang was slightly moved. Such a young child was about to be separated from his parents and have to live in a cowshed with harsh conditions.

People in the cowshed were not tolerated and those in serious cases were often dragged out for criticism. The turbulent tragedy of this era cannot be fully described in just a few lines of text in a book.

Yu Qingtang touched Xiaoxiao's head and took out a bag of White Rabbit milk candy from the space.

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