An orphan girl from a farming family: Everyday farming in the mountains during natural disasters

Air condensation.

Xia Qingyue keenly sensed that something was wrong.

Li Weisheng looked unhappy, and his emotional fluctuations could be felt even from a distance.

Li Benfu and his wife stood up from their seats at the same time, looked at their youngest son, and sadness filled their eyes.

"It's okay, I just dropped a wooden basin." Chen Dawei ran forward, picked up the wooden basin, raised his hand and patted Li Weisheng on the shoulder.

Li Weisheng carried the wooden basin back inside without saying a word.

Seeing him leave, Li Benfu sat down again, his face a little more serious than before, and he continued what he had not finished saying:

"That night we escaped from the village. On the way, I found Tan Xiaozhu following us. I asked Yuzhen to take Kang'er and the others to the other side while I led her away.

Tan Xiaozhu really took the bait, and just when I was about to ambush her, Sheng'er suddenly appeared, startling her and allowing her to escape!"

"Sheng'er trusted Tan Xiaozhu very much at first, but was betrayed later. Sheng'er hated her so much and still can't get over it."

Chen Yuzhen sighed, her expression still worried, "I'm just worried that this kid will get hung up on this and do something stupid!"

Xia Qingyue listened quietly.

After a while, Li Weikang came over with two killed chickens and three rabbits, and they didn't talk about those things anymore.

The two brothers and Chen Dawei and his son were outside the cave, closing the wooden door and cooking. Li Benfu and his wife accompanied Xia Qingyue to the open-air cave.

The originally dug hole was separated into two rooms with a wooden door, and wooden beds and other furniture were placed in it. It looked good and had a primitive and simple style.

I planted some more vegetables in the field.

There are more than ten pheasants and rabbits kept in the fence.

Xia Qingyue looked around, and Chen Yuzhen said, "Qingyue, I want to ask you for help with something."

"Aunt, please speak first."

"When we were imprisoned in Tianlang Village, we witnessed our relatives passing away one by one. Sheng'er was a stubborn child. He did not listen to my warnings at that time, but believed Tan Xiaozhu instead. He thought that all this was his fault and that he had harmed our family!

Since he came back, he has been very silent and rarely laughs. If he continues like this, we are really worried that he will get suffocated. Also, he has been thinking about taking revenge on Tan Xiaozhu.

If possible, we would certainly like to kill that woman to avenge our relatives, but the world is so chaotic now, what if we fail to avenge ourselves and end up getting hurt instead?

Our family has tried to persuade him before, but it didn't work. I was wondering if you could persuade him."

After saying this, Chen Yuzhen was already in tears.

Li Benfu raised his hand lovingly and wiped away the tears on his wife's face with his fingertips.

Pity the parents of the world.

"Okay, I'll give it a try, but I can't guarantee whether it will work or not."

Chen Yuzhen burst into laughter.

"Uncle, I want to make a mold. I wonder if you have any way to make it?" Xia Qingyue gestured with her hands. What she wanted to make was a rectangular wooden mold for making earthen bricks.

Li Benfu said it was no problem.

It was learned that Chen Dawei had learned the craft from a carpenter.

Soon, lunch was ready, and Li Weikang and others came inside with tables and chairs.

On the table were two large bowls of fried chicken with konjac, tofu and chili, two bowls of hand-shredded roasted rabbit, and a bowl of wild vegetable soup.

The food was rich and fragrant.

"Sister Qingyue, eat quickly." Li Weikan handed her a small bowl of steamed pumpkin.

Pumpkin was the staple food, and her bowl had the largest portion, while the others only had half a bowl.

Heihei also got a bowl of pumpkin and some rabbit meat and wild vegetables to eat.

While eating, they frequently picked up meat for Xia Qingyue with great enthusiasm.

After taking a few bites of the dish, Xia Qingyue tasted a sour and salty flavor, which was quite appetizing. She remembered that the Li family did not use salt.

"Auntie, why does this dish taste salty?"

Chen Yuzhen said: "It's not salt, but a kind of wild fruit with salty taste that we found in the mountains. In the early years, when we were poor and had no money to buy salt, we went to the mountains to find this wild fruit and brought it back."

Wild fruits with salty taste?

She thought about it and thought of Rhus chinensis, a plant that bears fruit covered with a layer of white substance that looks like salt.

After lunch, she wanted to help wash the dishes, but they held her down and told her to sit down and rest while the Li Weikang brothers went to clean up.

After staying at Li's house for an hour in the afternoon, Xia Qingyue said she wanted to go back.

Li Weisheng stood up and said, "I'll take Sister Qingyue back!"

Li Weikang originally wanted to say he would go and see her off, but Chen Yuzhen secretly pulled his hand and stopped him.

He saw the expression on his mother's face and immediately understood something. "Little brother, then you should send Sister Qingyue away safely. Make sure she is safe!"

"I will!" Li Weisheng looked determined.

Even if he died, he would protect Xia Qingyue. She was the savior of their entire family!

The Li family went to get five eggs, a handful of dried fish, two dried chickens and a dried rabbit and put them in Xia Qingyue's backpack.

Just like before, Xia Qingyue declined. They had worked so hard to get the food, but they gave her so much at once. Their lives were so hard.

Because of this matter, the two sides had a quarrel. This situation reminded her of the Chinese New Year in her previous life, when some elders had forced red envelopes on her.

What a sweet burden.

In the end, both sides were exhausted from talking and each gave in. Xia Qingyue did not order eggs due to the bumpy journey, but asked for a dried chicken, a rabbit, and half a dried fish.

After leaving the cave, the two people and the dog walked on the small path in the mountains and forests.

"Sister Qingyue, after we came back, Mom told us everything. It was you who saved Mom and Dad and brought them to a safe shelter, which is why you were able to rescue us later.

You are our family's great benefactor. If you have any problems in the future, we will be there for you at any time!"

The two walked side by side. Xia Qingyue glanced sideways and saw his smooth profile.

After going through so many things, the once naive and silly boy has become serious and always has a stern face.

"Brother Weisheng, do you think you will be happy living together after you come back?"

Li Weisheng slowed down his pace, his expression relaxed a little, he nodded gently, but soon, tears of sorrow appeared in his eyes, "It's a pity that my grandparents, my great aunt and uncle are gone, it's all my fault, I ruined them!

I will kill Tan Xiaozhu to avenge them, so they can rest in peace!"

Xia Qingyue stopped and faced Li Weisheng, "No, I believe that Brother Weisheng's deceased relatives have turned into butterflies or stars or other things to protect and accompany you in other forms. They must be very happy to see you reunited with your uncle and aunt and live together.

They don’t want to see you living in hatred and depression, but want to see you happy for the rest of your life.”

Li Weisheng's eyes widened, and he retorted emotionally: "Should I pretend that everything that happened in the past never happened? They died tragically at the hands of those people!"

"In life, most of the time, people have to make choices. What is more important, revenge or family? Which one do you think is more important? If you or another family member accidentally loses you in the process of revenge, what should you do?"

“Revenge cannot occupy all of your life, otherwise it will only bring new tragedies, and the cycle will continue.”

As soon as she finished speaking, several dragonflies flew out from the nearby grass and surrounded Li Weisheng.