The general's wife took her child on the road to exile

Shen Rulan sat in the yard in a daze, her heart beating like a drum. Suddenly, Xu Shiwen stuffed a protective jade pendant into her hand, and then he left with his family's pass.

Her eyes flashed, and Shen Rulan looked at the two godly guards at the door. Her heart... seemed to have blossomed into a fragrant flower, soft and relaxed.

At this moment, she was afraid of the hearts of those scoundrels, second-rate people and bad officers... It seemed to calm down a little, and Shen Rulan could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

At this moment, there was a hint of blush on Shen Rulan's soft cheeks, and a hint of vitality appeared in her shy almond eyes. The decadence in her eyes in the past was no longer visible. She was now as beautiful as a lily in the mountains, blooming gracefully.

Two guards at the door stood seriously, and neighbors kept looking at them. Neighbor Xu Saozi stood in front of her house. She looked at Widow Liu's house worriedly. The two guards standing like soldiers made Xu Saozi very scared. She went back to the house and told her husband Xu Yuanchang about her worries.

He comforted Mrs. Xu and said that maybe someone from her parents' family came and they were quite wealthy, so she shouldn't be afraid, as it might be a good thing.

The few words from the Xu family man calmed the confused Mrs. Xu down, and she went out to chop grass for the pigs.

She wondered how many neighbors she would need to hire to harvest the crops on her own land? How much money would it cost to plant a new crop of wheat, corn, and potatoes?

She mixed the chopped pig grass with some wheat bran and rice bran, and added the leftover soup and stirred them evenly. Mrs. Xu carried the pig food bucket and walked to the front of the pigpen. In the distance, a few piglets ran happily towards the hostess. Mrs. Xu reached out and took the gourd ladle to scoop up a ladle of thin pig food, and she poured the pig food into the wide stone pig trough on the ground.

The little piglets happily put their heads into the trough and ate with a smacking sound.

Mrs. Xu went back to her own kitchen to cook. She took the steamed and cooled buns from the steamer and put them in a bamboo bun basket and covered it. Mrs. Xu cleaned the pot and put a spoonful of lard into the pot.

She put chopped garlic cloves, chili peppers and a small bowl of bamboo shoots into the pot. Mrs. Xu kept stir-frying the bamboo shoots with a spatula. The white bamboo shoots, red chili peppers and green onions were very bright in color, and the aroma of garlic and chili peppers was very appetizing.

The aroma of the food gradually spread into the yard and drifted to Li Er's house next door. He didn't light a fire. The short and thin Li Lao Er was now leaning on the kang mat and sleeping in a daze. In his dream, he returned to... the sad situation of the first four years when he had nothing to eat or drink.

In the dream...

Li Laoer was chewing hard tree leaves in his mouth. He felt his throat was loose. He had diarrhea these days and his face was very pale.

He was suddenly awakened from his dream. Li Laoer rubbed his eyes and realized that he had just been having a nightmare. Li Laoer walked to the faded eight-immortals table two meters away in cloth shoes. He reached out and picked up the broken teapot.

Li Laoer filled the teacup and drank three cups of water in a row. His thirst felt better now. Li Laoer sat there and ate some of the leftovers from lunch. Li Laoer did not dislike the cold rice and leftovers on the plate as he had a good appetite. Li Laoer chewed the soft boiled sweet potatoes, which tasted cool, soft, and sweet.

He ate a big potato and then a fist-sized black steamed bun. Li Laoer put a bite of the steamed bun into his mouth and picked up a piece of pickled vegetable with chopsticks.

Li Laoer ate with great relish. Compared to four years ago when his family had nothing and no food... Li Laoer was forced to chew some tree leaves to fill his stomach, it was already very good that he had these delicious foods stored at home.

He is busy with farm work in the fields. Due to his poor legs and feet, he plants less. Currently, his family is self-sufficient in food.

Four years ago, nothing grew on Li Laoer's land and he was so hungry that he wanted to eat dirt. Since then, the exiled general's wife Ye Jiu came to Xiaozhang Village and led everyone to improve the soil. After three months of management, everyone has a good harvest now.

He was very happy every day. Li Laoer was very grateful to Ye Jiu. He thought it was the general's wife who came and helped them manage the land where crops could not grow, which completely changed the current situation of hunger and made them have a way to survive...

If it were still the original saline-alkali land, he would really starve to death.

Li Laoer was thinking about some work he had to do in his own fields. He wanted to harvest the wheat in the fields and then plant some millet, soybeans and corn.

He planned to harvest the crops in the fields and send a few bags of grain to Mrs. Gu Ye Jiu. Li Laoer wanted to express his gratitude to the general's wife.

Although the harvest from the fields was not much this year, Li Laoer also wanted to do his best. There were many villagers who thought the same as him. Most of the gifts they sent to the Gu Mansion were refused by the servants, but some villagers just put their things on the ground and turned around and ran away.