Spring comes to the desperate place

Mr. Song and Amma Song had four children in total. The first child was a boy, who fell into a river and drowned when he was eight years old. Song Dazhuang was only two years old that year. Amma Song was pregnant with their third child. She was frightened and gave birth to a daughter prematurely. It was rare for boys to give birth to daughters, so the couple raised their daughter like a treasure.

However, the child was born prematurely and was weak, so the couple raised him carefully until he was over three years old. One night, he fell asleep and never woke up again. At that time, Song A-mo almost cried her eyes blind. If she hadn't gotten pregnant again, he would probably have continued to be depressed.

The fourth one is what they call Xiao Er. The Song couple, who had lost two children in succession, cherished this hard-earned child very much. They took great care of the child during the pregnancy. Old Mr. Song would take his husband to see a doctor almost every month, for fear that something might happen to the child. Fortunately, the child was very competitive. Not only did he not let Grandma Song suffer from the pain of pregnancy, but he was also very strong when he was born. He grew up safely until he was fifteen years old. Old Mr. Song named him Song Dahe.

Song Dazhuang was five years older than his younger brother. At that time, he had already married Song Qin. Song Qin was very capable and became pregnant with Song Chunsheng in just half a year. During the autumn harvest, Song Qin was about to give birth, but the news of military service came from the county, and each household was required to send an able-bodied man. The Song family had not split up, so it was reasonable for Song Dazhuang to go to serve in the army.

Song Daha felt that his brother was about to become a father, and that military service might put him in danger. He couldn't bear to see his little nephew lose his father at birth, so he signed up himself without telling the Song family. Song's father was already prepared to sell his property and was determined to keep both sons. When he knew that Song Daha had signed up himself, he was so angry that he almost fainted.

After the name was reported, everything was a done deal and could not be changed. The Song family bid farewell to their youngest son in tears. It had been nearly twelve years since they last saw him. Song Chunsheng had grown into a young boy, but after sending a letter home, there had been no news from the youngest son since.

The old couple often missed their youngest son at night, and they kept the letter well. They could draw the totem on it even with their eyes closed. So that day, Amao Song recognized the totem on Gu Fengyue's chest at a glance.

Old Master Song and Aunt Song thought that since Gu Fengyue said he was from the capital, he must be either rich or noble. In addition, there was the same totem on his clothes, so maybe they could really find the whereabouts of their youngest son.

With this hope in mind, the Song family chose to rescue Gu Fengyue without hesitation, and were even willing to take the risk of exposing the space and take Gu Fengyue on the road with them.

Just as Song Chunlin expected, they reached the halfway point of the mountain the next day. Looking down, they could vaguely see the official road. Song Chunlin looked for a long time but didn't see many people passing by on that road. He thought that the villagers should not have reached here yet. It seemed that they were quite fast.

Song Chunlin mixed some spiritual spring water into the water that the Song family drank at noon. The amount was not much, but it could replenish the Song family's strength. After drinking it, everyone continued on the road with full energy. Even Gu Fengyue, who was on crutches, walked very fast with the support of Song Chunsheng.

At night, the family found a cave. The cave was spacious and cool. After Song Dazhuang inspected it and confirmed that it was not a cave of wild animals, everyone settled down in a corner of the cave.

Song Chunlin did not look for food in the backpack, but pulled Song Chunsheng outside. There were not many things in their backpacks, and it seemed very strange to keep taking things out. So at noon, Song Chunlin planned to go out and look for wild vegetables under the pretext of transferring some other ingredients from the space.

Song Dazhuang also understood and said to go and see if there were any pheasants. The father and his two sons all went out. Gu Fengyue watched their performance with a twitching mouth. If Gu Fengyue was younger and less experienced, he might have been fooled by this family. Not to mention that this is a desolate mountain area, who would let two children run around in the mountains looking for food? He is not blind along the way. Let alone pheasants, he has not even seen a rabbit in the mountains. Song Dazhuang is going to look for pheasants now, maybe he will come back with a slaughtered pheasant later.

Sure enough, not long after, Song Chunlin and Song Chunsheng came back with two full baskets on their backs. Although there were no pheasants in them, there were many clods of earth that Gu Fengyue had never seen before, as well as several big, red and juicy tomatoes. Song Chunsheng and Song Chunlin even had wild fruits wrapped in large leaves in their arms.

In Song Chunsheng's arms were mulberries, and in Song Chunlin's arms were black plums. They looked so juicy and fresh, just like those just picked.

Just as the two brothers put down their spoils, Song Dazhuang also came back. Unexpectedly, he did not "hunt" a pheasant, but instead held a few taro and a cloth bag of bird eggs in his arms.

Song Chunlin felt tired of drinking chicken soup recently, while Song Chunsheng liked tomato egg drop soup, so the two brothers unanimously decided to replace pheasant with eggs. As eggs seemed too eye-catching, Song Chunlin added some quail eggs to make up the number.

Those lumps of earth in Gu Fengyue's eyes were half sweet potatoes and the other half potatoes. Song Chunlin asked Song Qinshi to throw the potatoes into the fire and roast them, and peel the sweet potatoes, cut them into pieces, and make sweet potato porridge with a handful of broken rice.

The broken rice was something Song Chunlin found in some houses in his previous life. Because it was too broken, it was not tasty when cooked into rice, so now he could use it to cook porridge.

It was the first time that Gu Fengyue saw potatoes. He watched Song Qinshi cooking skillfully and began to doubt whether the porridge was still drinkable.

Song Qin only cooked porridge, but felt it was not enough, so she took out a small jar of pickles and dug out the cooked potatoes. The unique aroma made Gu Fengyue sniff, and she felt that this lump of earth seemed to be quite fragrant as well.

Gu Fengyue tentatively took a bite of the sweet potato porridge and was pleasantly surprised by the sweet taste. He thought the sweet potato porridge would be unpalatable, but he didn't expect it to taste quite good and sweet.

He took another bite of the baked potato. It was soft and glutinous, not as sweet as sweet potato, but with some pickles, Gu Fengyue ate three baked potatoes in a row. Finally, he drank two bowls of sweet potato porridge. He held the empty bowl and burped, which was a rare occurrence.

The fruits after the meal were mulberries and black plums. Everyone knew about mulberries, but no one had ever seen black plums. Song Chunlin demonstrated by taking a small bite and then sucking the juice inside. The ripe black plums felt soft but hard, and very juicy. The skin could be easily torn off. The Song family members followed Song Chunlin's example and tore off the skin to eat the flesh inside.

Gu Fengyue also took a tentative bite. It tasted sweet, even sweeter than the grapes tributed from the Western Regions in previous years. Grapes have more seeds, but this one only has one core. After eating one, Gu Fengyue licked the juice on his fingers. Only after he finished licking it did he realize that the tips of his ears had turned red.