Dreaming of Lion Rock: Recipe in Hand

I thought the matter was over, but unexpectedly, Chunni developed a fever in the middle of the night.

Qiu Guo drank too much porridge and got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. When she lay down again, she accidentally touched Chun Ni and found that her body was terribly hot. Needless to say, she had a fever. She hurried to wake up Xia Zhi.

The brother and sister were frantic and clumsy in taking care of Chunni, whose condition did not improve but became worse.

There was no other way but to call the aunt over by Xiazhi, and then we started to cool down properly with physical methods.

Xia Zhi invited Zhu Pozi again, and after using some medicine, Chunni's condition improved slightly.

But even so, Chunni struggled for two days, and finally the fever went away.

Chunni lay there in a daze, feeling sore in her back and waist, and silently kept repeating to herself, "Go home, go home."

However, when she woke up, she saw Xia Zhi with bloodshot eyes and Qiu Guo and Dong Lin who couldn't stop crying.

She also complained about the unfairness of God, but when she saw the person in front of her, she suddenly felt a sense of belonging to this world.

In her previous life, her parents were not closely related to her, and in this life, her parents passed away early. Could it be that she was really destined to be without a father or a mother?

Fortunately, she is not alone here, she has a younger brother and a younger sister.

Xia Zhi, filled with regret, knelt in front of his sister's bed, constantly whipping himself with firewood, saying sorry.

He was afraid, his parents were gone. What would he and his siblings do if his sister also...

Chunni struggled to get up, hugged Xia Zhi and cried, beating him with both hands, as if to vent all the dissatisfaction and anger in her heart. She had never been sober as she was at this moment, and she didn't go back even after all the tossing and turning. She couldn't go back, she could never go back to that world again.

Qiu Guo and Dong Lin ran over and hugged the two people closest to her in the world, their faces also filled with tears!

After letting go of the past, Chunni began to consider the current situation.

The family only had half a bag of sweet potatoes, dozens of kilograms of rice, ten kilograms of wheat, and a small bag of soybeans. They thought that after the wheat harvest, the village would distribute wheat. If they saved a little more, they could still have enough food to last until the team distributed rice.

Chunni thought about the sauerkraut she ate every day and wanted to eat meat more and more. What should she do?

Xiazhi and Qiuguo look pitifully skinny, and Donglin is even thinner. How can we improve the food at home?

It was impossible to get meat without meat coupons. We had to wait until the Chinese New Year when the village would distribute meat.

The most urgent thing is to supplement some nutrition to the best of your ability.

Her eyes fell on the bag of soybeans and she froze. She couldn't order tofu, but she could cook tofu.

This is what she learned from the locals in western Sichuan during her previous life. This vegetable tofu is very simple to make and is very suitable for the current situation.

Chunni scooped out two bowls of soybeans from the bag and prepared to take them to the stone mill at the east end of the village to grind them into powder. Xiazhi went with her.

"Sister, let me hold it!"

"it is good."

And of course little Dong Lin is his big sister's follower, wherever she goes, he goes!

Before I got there, I ran into a teacher at the village primary school. The teacher's surname was Yun and his given name was Shu. He was about 18 or 19 years old and was an educated youth who had just come from the city to the countryside last year.

"Xia Zhi!" She called Xia Zhi with a very gentle voice, turned around and looked at Chun Xiao, whose face looked particularly small and eyes were particularly big because of her thinness, and said: "Chun Ni, why doesn't Xia Zhi study anymore?" She went straight to the point.

Xia Zhi didn't go to school these days, and Chunni thought he had asked for leave from school. But she didn't expect that he wanted to drop out of school!

"Xiazhi, don't you want to study?"

"Sister, I want to go home and help you." He did not answer Chunni directly.

"So do you want to study?"

"Miss!"

Looking at Xia Zhi's still slightly childish face, Chunni understood.

Since his parents passed away, Xia Zhi has become much more mature and sensible. After school, he takes the initiative to help collect firewood and dig wild vegetables. From time to time, he goes up the mountain to get bird eggs. Some time ago, he also went to the fields to catch some eels, just to add some vegetables to the family.

Now, in order to reduce her burden and for the sake of this family, he wants to drop out of school.

"No! You can't drop out of school!" Chun Xiao said firmly. She knew in her heart that in this remote village in this era, only studying could change one's destiny!

"If you want to help your sister, there are many ways you can do it. You can take your sister to pick wild vegetables; you can go to the mountains to collect firewood; you can wash clothes; you can even learn to cook! But you can't drop out of school." Chunni, who knows that the college entrance examination will be resumed in two years, hopes that Xiazhi and Qiuguo can leave this hard place and Lion Rock through studying!

Looking at her sister's determined expression, Xia Zhi accepted the fact that she had to go back to school.

Yun Shu smiled happily when she saw that the brother and sister had already discussed it.

"Chun Ni, although you are not in school now, you must not forget the knowledge you learned in junior high school. Remember to come to the educated youth center when you have time. I will give you some books. Keep studying, and you will be rewarded one day."

"Okay, thank you Teacher Yun!" Chunni understood Yun Shu's kindness to her.

"Then I'll go first."

"Okay, goodbye, Teacher Yun!"

"goodbye!"