Exiled, the Medical Concubine emptied the warehouse and escaped from the famine

This is a dense forest. There are many trees on the mountain. Larch trees as thick as buckets and birch trees as thick as bowls can be seen everywhere.

There are birds in the forest, chirping.

The rustling snowflakes were blocked by the leaves and only a thin layer remained on the ground.

There was an open space in front of the cave. Leader Shen rode on his horse and said loudly, "Come on, a few people, follow me into the cave and take a look."

Several officers holding torches led the way, and each family followed with one person.

Xie Ling pulled Gu Li inside, wanting to see what the cave looked like.

The cave was dark, the walls were covered with moss, and a cold air rushed from the soles of my feet straight into my heart.

Xie Ling immediately decided to sleep in the carriage and refused to sleep in the cave.

Several officers looked around, took out powder from the cloth bags beside them, and sprinkled it evenly around.

Xie Ling took a look and thought it should be realgar powder to prevent snakes and insects.

A tall and thin official stood at the entrance of the cave and shouted, "Everyone with a horse carriage, please give us some hay to feed the horses and use it as a ground cover.

The women went to find water, half of the men went to chop trees, and the other half came to help set up the tent. The children also kept busy and went to collect firewood. "

At the command, everyone got busy.

Except for the position of the official, the rest of the positions obviously belong to whoever grabs them first.

Zhang stood in the cave without moving, accusing Liu of being clumsy and scolding the concubine at home, telling her to be more vigilant to prevent others from stealing the things in the house.

Old Mrs. Li was not willing to be outdone and started arguing with the old lady of the Chen family.

"Mrs. Chen, I was clearly the first one to come here."

Old Mrs. Chen put her hands on her hips and said, "You twist your butt, and this is your home? My second daughter-in-law has been eyeing this place for a long time and has come here a long time ago."

There was a commotion in the cave.

Outside the cave, people were working hard.

The prisoners basically came from wealthy families, but there were also commoners like Xu Xingzhi.

He swung the axe and chopped the shorter tree trunks, and the clanging sounds continued.

After the trees were cut down, strong and sturdy men carried them into the cave and piled the trees flat on the ground one by one.

A young man took the children to find small branches with good flexibility and placed them on the trees to use as mattresses.

Some people also shook out a piece of black oil paper under the command of the officials.

With muslin straps tied at each corner, the huge piece of oil paper was tied to the trees around the clearing, blocking the falling snow.

Xie Ling, Qiuyue and a group of young ladies of similar age were collecting firewood near the woods.

The young ladies gathered in groups of three or five, all with their own family members, and were not familiar with those from other families.

The weeds were knee-high and the bushes were overgrown. A young lady named Wu rolled up her skirt, holding a sickle in her hand, and led the way for the crowd.

The forest was dangerous, so the group did not dare to walk too far. They just picked up firewood not far from the cave and looked for any edible wild vegetables.

Xie Ling watched them pick the vegetables at random, even picking some poisonous weeds that were inedible. After thinking for a while, she said, "I know a little about plants and trees. I will teach you how to identify the vegetables that are edible."

All the young ladies gathered around at once, looking around.

Xie Ling squatted under the tree, pointed at a bright red fruit and said, "This is called snake fruit, and it can't be eaten."

A young lady was so frightened that her face turned pale. "I can't eat it. I just ate two."

As he said this, he reached into his neck and tried to vomit.

Xie Ling held her hand and said, "It's okay to eat it, but the surface of this fruit is covered with a layer of wax, which can cause diarrhea."

When the young lady heard that she would have diarrhea, she covered her stomach again.

The young ladies around her couldn't help laughing because of her amusing herself.

"This is called Zhe Er Gen, and it tastes better when eaten cold. This is called Shepherd's Purse, and it tastes better when cooked. This is called Dandelion, and it also tastes better when cooked..."

The tall trees in the forest blocked some of the falling snow, allowing these wild vegetables to survive, but they were all wilted.

A group of people followed Xie Ling closely, digging up the wild vegetables Xie Ling mentioned and putting them in bamboo baskets.

Soon, everyone's bamboo basket was filled with vegetables.

When they walked to a place, Xie Ling frowned slightly. She always felt that the ground was weird.

As she expected, the next second, their feet suddenly felt empty and the group of people fell into a three-meter-deep pit!

It should be a pit used by hunters to catch wild animals.

Fortunately, there were two people who walked slowly and did not fall in. They stood at the edge of the pit, looked down, and asked in horror what to do.

The little girls were panicked and most of them started crying.

Xie Ling said coldly: "Don't be afraid, there are two people outside, you can ask them to get help."

One of the voices was crying, "I, I'm lost!"

The girls in the pit asked, "What about the other one?"

"We are twin sisters, both of us have poor directions."

As soon as the words fell, the girls in the pit started discussing.

"Then what should I do..."

"I was so scared. I shouldn't have come to collect firewood."

"Will there be wild beasts woooooooooooo..."

"It's all Xie Ling's fault! If she hadn't taken us to look for wild vegetables, we wouldn't have fallen in here!"

Gu Tingwei from the second branch of the Gu family suddenly pointed at Xie Ling and said.

Her sister Gu Tingjing immediately agreed, looking at Xie Ling with resentment, "Yes, yes, blame her. If it weren't for her, how could we have fallen in!"

"That's not what I meant." A young lady with a high bun stood up with her arms folded, looking at me with a sarcastic look, "She was kind enough to teach us how to identify wild vegetables, why are we blaming her?"

The girls around also echoed the words of the woman with the high bun.

"Yeah, don't blame Xie Ling."

"This pit has always been here. We can only say that we were unlucky."

A round-faced girl looked up and down at the two sisters Gu Tingwei and Gu Tingjing, and said disdainfully: "Aren't you all members of the Gu family? Why are you still finding fault with your own family? I've never seen such black-hearted sisters."

In a large family, people value friendship among brothers and harmony among sisters. Naturally, they looked down on the behavior of Gu Tingwei and her sister.

Xie Ling didn't bother to pay attention to the two clowns and asked the twin sisters at the edge of the pit, "Can you climb trees?"

The taller girl said, "Although I'm not very proficient, I should be able to climb up."

Xie Ling nodded, reached into the bamboo basket, and actually took out a four-meter-long hemp rope from the space.

He said to the people above, "We will throw this hemp rope up. You hang the rope on the tree and then put it into the pit. We will climb up along the rope."

As soon as the words fell, the young lady surnamed Wu volunteered, "I'm strong, I'll do the tossing."

Xie Ling handed her the hemp rope.

Miss Wu wrapped the hemp rope into a ball and threw it up with all her strength with her arms.

The hemp rope fell accurately at the feet of the twin sisters.

The two of them didn't waste any time, put down the bamboo basket and started climbing up the tree to hang the rope.

About half a quarter of an hour later, a thick, long hemp rope slowly fell into the pit.

Gu Tingwei pushed everyone away, grabbed the rope and tried to climb up.

Everyone looked at her with contempt.

"How shameless."

"The rope obviously belongs to Miss Xie, how dare she grab the first one?"

Gu Tingwei didn't care about all that, she grabbed the rope and climbed up.

Unfortunately, his arms were not strong enough and he fell to the ground with a thumping face.

Miss Wu gave her a cold look, grabbed the rope and said, "Those with less strength will go up first, and those with more strength will use their shoulders and hands to support them from behind. I have the most strength, so I will be the last."

Under her command, everyone exerted all their strength and finally climbed up one by one.

It was just a small incident with the two sisters of the Gu family.

No one wanted to help them, and in the end, they had to roll around on the ground before someone was willing to help them up.

After coming out of the pit, the group of girls developed a friendship of sharing weal and woe and became very close to each other.

Even with our faces covered in flowers and mud, we were still smiling brightly. You held my arm, I held your arm, and we were talking happily.

Of course, except for the Gu Tingwei sisters.

Everyone deliberately alienates and isolates them.

Someone said: "My mother-in-law is very bad. She only tortures me. She makes me wash clothes and cook every day. I am exiled all the way. My hands are covered with calluses."

The little girls all comforted her.

Someone said: "I'm telling you guys, don't spread it out, my eldest sister-in-law and my third brother are having an affair, last time I saw it..."

The girls all promised to keep their mouth shut.

The topic finally turned to Xie Ling.

There is no other reason, because Xie Ling has the most handsome husband in all of Shangjing.

"Really, you don't know how handsome the prince is. I dare say that all the men in Beijiang combined are not as handsome as one-third of him."

"Yes, yes. Last time, the prince came back from a victorious battle, riding on a tall horse and wearing a military uniform. I really fainted when I saw his face."

"If the prince hadn't turned into a living dead, he and Xie Ling would have been a perfect match. They both looked like fairies."

But in the end, everyone's tone turned into sympathy.

The prince is beautiful, but he is a living dead.

It’s a pity that Xie Ling is so beautiful.

The young lady of the Gao family said something shocking, "Xie Ling, you should remarry and come to my house. Although my third brother is not as handsome as the prince, he is also a good-looking man. He has no concubines in the house, and he is very talented. He won the top three prizes in the autumn imperial examination..."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's thoughts were immediately opened up.

"Come to my house, come to my house, my brother..."

"Stop talking, come to my house! Please, Xie Ling, come to my house..."

It turned into a blind date meeting.

Xie Ling was helpless, thinking about Gu Wei, she quickly woke up.

Otherwise, his wife would have been ordered to marry.

The little girls were chattering.

When passing by a huge rock, I could faintly hear the voices of a man and a woman talking.

A little girl widened her eyes and whispered, "Don't talk, why do I feel like..."

Everyone fell silent and pricked up their ears.

The sound behind the boulder became louder, and the foul language was unbearable to the ears.

All the young ladies blushed.

Then, there was a rustling sound of clothes being taken off, and the woman's moans and the man's growls overlapped, making a very loud noise.

The two of them were obviously so absorbed in their own ecstasy that they didn't even notice there was someone behind them.

The young lady with a high bun blushed and spat, "Which young man and young woman are so shameless? Others are working hard, but these two...they..."

Most of these young ladies were unmarried, their faces flushed with shame, and they left in a hurry.

Xie Ling looked back and saw a piece of light pink clothing.

She always felt that the woman's voice was familiar. Who was it?

At this moment, the cave was basically arranged. Each household had lit a fire in the open space and sat or stood around the fire.

Some families cut half of a wooden block to use as a chair and the other half to use as a table, and they have already started cooking.

When Xie Ling and Qiuyue came back, Pei had already lit the fire and filled two hot water bottles.

As soon as they sat down, Pei handed them the hot water bottle.

"Hurry up and sit down, warm your feet and hands."

Xie Ling held the warm hot water bottle and took a few sweet potatoes from the space and threw them into the fire.

In this weather, it is most suitable to eat roasted sweet potatoes.

Gu Li came over carrying a bucket of water, and as soon as he put down the barrel, he wanted to scoop up some water to drink.

"Wait!" Xie Ling called him.

"What's the matter, sister-in-law?"

Gu Li was exhausted. He had chopped trees, climbed trees to tie the oil paper strips, and climbed half a mountain to fetch water. At this moment, he wished he could stick his head into the bucket.

Xie Ling took out a small iron kettle and said, "The water must be boiled before drinking. There are many invisible worms in it. Drinking it will cause diarrhea."

Gu Li listened to Xie Ling's words and sat down obediently, but he kept swallowing his saliva, probably because he was very thirsty.

Xie Ling took out a bottle of Coke from the space and handed it to him.

"Drink quietly, don't let others see you."

Gu Li's eyes lit up, "What is this?"

He looked around and shook it, "Is it water?"

Xie Ling then remembered that Gu Li didn't know how to open a Coke.

She opened the Coke and handed it over.

Gu Li took a sip cautiously, opened his eyes wide, and smacked his lips in disbelief.

"What kind of water is this? Why does it feel like it's jumping up and down in my mouth? It's magical! And it's so sweet!"

Xie Ling chuckled, "This is called Coke. Don't throw away the can after you finish it. It might be useful to you."

Ru Jie'er opened her big black eyes and clearly wanted to drink, but she just sat there obediently without saying a word.

After Gu Li took a sip, he passed it to Ru Jie'er, "You can drink the rest. I'm full."

Ru Jieer obediently shook her head and said seriously, "Brother is very tired today. Brother drinks, but Ru Ru doesn't drink. Ru Ru doesn't want to drink."

The two of them pushed and shoved each other.

Seeing that there was nothing to do at the moment, Xie Ling leaned on Pei's legs and said that she would take a short rest, then entered the space.

She kissed Gu Li again yesterday, and wondered what the space would look like after being upgraded.