Spring comes to the desperate place

The Song family naturally refused. Song Chunlin took out a lot of cakes from the space, and Song Qin deftly put the cakes on the fire to bake. The aroma of the cakes wafted away, and the guards of the Marquis' Mansion, who had been eating dry food for several days, smelled the aroma of wheat and couldn't help swallowing.

Song Qin was afraid that there would not be enough food for everyone, so she asked Song Dazhuang to find a lot of branches around and throw all the potatoes and sweet potatoes in the carriage into the fire. The aroma of the roasted sweet potatoes was even more overbearing than that of baked pancakes, and made those who had never eaten roasted sweet potatoes stare with their eyes wide open.

"What a smell! It smells so good."

"Wow, it smells really good, much better than this thing in my hand."

"Shh, keep your voice down, or you'll get scolded again."

Although everyone said no, when the Song family gave them roasted sweet potatoes and potatoes one by one, they couldn't help but reach out to take them.

These two lumps of earth were the first time for them to eat. Everyone followed the Song family's example and peeled off the outermost layer of skin and ate the cooked part inside.

Sixteen took the advantage and picked a sweet potato that looked delicious. The sweet potato was roasted until it exuded honey-like juice. Sixteen leaned in to smell it and the aroma became even stronger. It was not only fragrant but also very sweet.

Sixteen took a bite carefully. Apart from being quite hot, it also had an extremely soft, sticky and sweet taste. After savoring the first bite carefully, Sixteen almost wolfed down the roasted sweet potato that was as big as his palm.

"It's delicious, Madam Song, what is this? It's so fragrant and sweet." Sixteen couldn't help but ask Song Qinshi. If he knew what this thing was, he would buy it the first time.

A guard who was given potatoes also came over. He liked the soft texture of potatoes and couldn't help but come over and ask Song Qinshi and the others what the round things they were eating were.

It was the first time that Song Qin was called Madam Song. She was a little uncomfortable for a moment. "Don't call me Madam or not. I'm just an ordinary peasant woman. As for the two things you ate, we dug them up in the mountains when we were very hungry. At that time, we didn't know that these things were so delicious. We just wanted to fill our stomachs."

Sixteen and the other guards fell silent after hearing this. Yes, the Second Young Master said in the letter that he was rescued by a family who were fleeing famine from the northwest. If they were fleeing from famine, then he probably wanted to escape because he couldn't survive.

During the past three years of severe drought, I heard that except for the capital, people everywhere died of thirst due to lack of water, and died of starvation due to lack of food. If it wasn't for the sake of survival, who would be willing to leave their homeland?

Seeing that they were all silent, Song Qin suddenly felt that she seemed to have said something wrong. Just then her husband and eldest son came over with water, and she hurriedly invited everyone to drink water.

There were so many people around that Amao Song filled the clay pot and earthenware jar with water. Song Chunlin even took the time to drop a few drops of spiritual spring water into both containers. After Sixteen and the others drank the hot water, they all felt refreshed, and the fatigue from days of running around seemed to go away as the hot water went down their stomachs.

After taking Gu Fengyue's pulse, the doctor asked about his initial condition. He heard Gu Fengyue say that he fell from a cliff and the bones in his hands and feet were broken. However, the doctor touched Gu Fengyue's hands and feet and found that the bones had been reconnected and were healing very well.

But it was too good to be true. The doctor was puzzled. It is said that it takes a hundred days to heal a broken bone, so why did the broken bone heal in less than a month? Could it be that Gu Fengyue mistook the bone fracture for a broken bone because the pain was so severe at the time?

This is the only reason that can explain it, otherwise the doctor would never have thought of the BUG in Lingquan Water no matter how hard he tried.

Song Chunlin saw the doctor's confusion, and silently took a few steps back, trying to pretend to be invisible.

Gu Fengyue watched the other party's little action of secretly retreating and couldn't help but find it very amusing. He also had the doctor's doubts, but he just thought it was all thanks to those small pills. As for what those pills were and where they came from, Gu Fengyue didn't want to pursue it. It was a life-saving favor, so there was no need to worry about such trivial details.

"Second Young Master, your injury is almost healed. You just need to rest for a few days when you return home. I will prescribe you some medicine later. You can take it after breakfast." The doctor touched his beard, carried the medicine box back to the car to get the medicine, and before leaving, he did not forget to take away the baked cakes and sweet potatoes that Song Qin had placed on the table.

After the doctor left, Song Chunlin came up and looked at Gu Fengyue with some curiosity: "Brother Gu, your family seems to be very powerful. You actually have so many guards."

"Awesome? Is that awesome? There will be even more awesome things when you get to the capital. If you meet the Imperial Guards, that's really awesome." Gu Fengyue raised her eyebrows and began to describe to the child the prosperity of the capital, the majesty of the imperial city, and the gossip about the major families in the capital.

Song Chunlin listened with his ears pricked up in shock. Although he didn't recognize any of the people Gu Fengyue mentioned, it didn't stop him from listening with great interest.

"Every three years, a foreign fleet comes across the ocean. The goods on their ships are not available here. You like to join in the fun, so you must like it."

Song Chunlin: "Really?"

Gu Fengyue patted his head and said, "Of course it's true, but they just left last year, so they definitely haven't been here in the past two years. They will come here in another two years."

When Song Chunlin heard that it would take another two years for the merchant ship to arrive, his excitement wore off. He thought that he could still grow sweet potatoes and potatoes, and even tomatoes had a clear path to growth with Gu Fengyue, so it wouldn't be too abrupt to plant them then.

It was the pile of books in the space that gave him a headache. It took him half a month to sort them out, and he had only finished half of them. He managed to divide them into several major categories, and found all the agricultural and animal husbandry books he wanted, and even found a pile of thick plant atlases.

It was easy for text books, as he could just copy them by hand, but there was really nothing he could do with books with color photos, he could only be careful when he read them.

While the two were chatting about gossip, the doctor had already skillfully prepared the medicine and boiled it. Looking at the bowl of black medicine, Gu Fengyue missed the small pills that the Song family fed her. Although some of them were very bitter, she could swallow them with her eyes closed, or at worst she could drink a bowl of water to wash them down.

But even before Gu Fengyue drank this bowl of pitch-black medicine, she felt a bitter taste in her mouth.

Gu Fengyue tried to struggle: "Do you really want to drink this? I feel like I'll get better soon, so I don't need this, right?"

The doctor was most concerned about having patients who had to obey him, so his face immediately turned stern and his eyes glared. Gu Fengyue could only pinch his nose and obediently drink the dark medicine.

As soon as the medicine went into his stomach, Gu Fengyue felt like vomiting reflexively, but he held it back for the doctor's sake. Song Chunlin quickly handed him a bowl of water, and Gu Fengyue gulped it down, but the strange taste in his mouth could not be removed. Seeing his bitter face, Song Qinshi couldn't bear it, so she took out the last few cherry tomatoes and stuffed them into Gu Fengyue's hands.

Seeing the sour and sweet cherry tomatoes, Gu Fengyue hurriedly stuffed them into her mouth, trying to use the sour and sweet taste of the fruit to neutralize the bitter taste of medicine in her mouth.