Traveling through 1942 with space

Looking at his cousin biting off the rat's head in one bite, Hou Xiaoge was reminded of the bones scattered all over the ground in Siwagou. Goosebumps instantly broke out all over his body and he swore never to eat rat meat again.

Hou Xiaoge also plans to get rid of all the mice raised in the space after they grow up.

Now that we have rabbits in the space, they grow very fast, have strong reproductive capacity, and their fur can be sold for money. They are also more in line with the human diet. Only fools would eat mice.

After eating the roasted rat, the two brothers went to fetch water.

Perhaps because the weather was too hot, all the refugees who came to fetch water have gone down the mountain to escape the heat.

The two brothers did not like the dirty water that flowed into the small pond, and spent half an hour filling the three large bamboo tubes they carried, which weighed about fifteen or sixteen pounds.

"Let's go home." The two smiled at each other and returned home with the joy of a good harvest.

It was already past four in the afternoon when we returned, and many refugees were already walking towards the water source with wooden buckets, bamboo tubes and other tools to fetch water.

Seeing the two brothers each carrying half a basket of wild grass, they all showed envy in their eyes.

The good thing is that most of these refugees are from the same village or hometown. They all know each other and no one rushed forward to snatch the two children.

However, not snatching does not mean not wanting or not asking. Many women and elderly people stopped the two and asked for wild vegetables or where they picked them.

I definitely won't give it to you. If I give it to one person, you will have to give it to a group of people. Besides, there are rats and snake meat hidden in the backpack. If it is exposed, they may really be snatched away by you.

However, Hou Xiaoge has been in society for many years and knows that people's hearts are hard to predict, especially now when people go out, they stick together for warmth. We are all from the same hometown, and we cannot offend everyone.

With a smile on his face, he took out sour dates from his cousin's shirt pocket and gave a little to each of them, just to "sweeten" their mouths.

As expected, every word left by our ancestors is correct.

After taking the sour dates from Hou Xiaoge, most people's attitudes became more friendly. They even called him "Heiwa, Heiwa" in a very affectionate way.

When they heard that the two men had dug the wild vegetables and sour dates in a ravine four or five miles away under the dark sun, they were all shocked.

After struggling to deal with the old men and women who asked questions along the way, and scaring off some people with bad intentions with sickles, the two brothers finally returned to the dilapidated house.

"Why don't you two save some energy and take a nap in the middle of the day? You've been out for more than an hour. Are you dreaming of going to heaven?" As soon as they entered the door, they bumped into their uncle and started scolding him without waiting for a reply.

"Dad, you are scolding me. We will eat these wild vegetables outside." The more reckless Erhuan obviously didn't buy his father's words. He put down the backpack and showed off.

"You bastard, you dare to threaten me? I'll beat you to death." The uncle picked up the straw sandals on his feet and threw them at Erhuan.

Seeing this, Erhuan quickly ran towards his aunt, but his tail, which had just been raised, was ruthlessly knocked down by his father.

"Oh! Erhuan and Heiwa, you two have made a fortune. Where did you dig up so many wild vegetables? And they are all delicious." Second Aunt heard the voice and walked out of the room. When she saw the two baskets of wild vegetables, her eyes lit up instantly.

"Aunt, this was dug by my brother Erhuan and I in a ravine five miles away. There are fewer people there, and wild vegetables are easier to find." Hou Xiaoge explained with a smile.

"My dear father and mother, you two ran so far in the middle of the day under the scorching sun. It really made life difficult for us two children." The aunt exclaimed, slapping her thigh.

"Yes! Erhuan and Heiwa have grown up and know how to dig wild vegetables to feed their families." Second Aunt looked at Hou Xiaoge and Erhuan, and tenderness appeared in her usually fierce eyes.

Erhuan's uncle, who was chasing him nearby, heard that his son and nephew had run so far to pick wild vegetables. He looked at the straw sandals in his hand and felt sorry for his son.

"Forget it, you have done a good job digging wild vegetables today, so I won't punish you.

You must be tired from running! Have some water, Dad has boiled water." The uncle put down the straw sandals in his hand, said something soft, and turned into the room.

Erhuan was touched for a moment when his father, who was usually not good at expressing his emotions, suddenly showed concern for him, but he felt more proud in his heart.

"Dad, I'm not thirsty. There are still good things in the backpack that I haven't taken out yet!" Erhuan said mysteriously as he stood in front of the backpack.

Hearing that it was a good stuff, the uncle strode forward and picked up the backpack.

"Hey! Is your backpack filled with stones? Why is it so heavy?" The uncle asked in confusion as he picked up the backpack.

"Come on, let's go inside and take a look. Be careful not to be seen by others." Er Huan pulled everyone into the main room mysteriously.

After arriving at the main room, the two men first handed the bamboo tube filled with water to Second Aunt.

"Second aunt, aunt, this is the water we drew from the spring." Hou Xiaoge smiled and pointed to the bamboo tube.

"Not bad, with more water, we can hold on for a while longer." Second Aunt and Younger Sister took the water, smiled and patted Hou Xiaoge and the other's shoulders as encouragement.

"This water is nothing, there are better ones." Erhuan turned his backpack upside down on the ground.

As the wild vegetables in the basket scattered, the two-meter-long snake hidden inside was revealed.

Hou Xiaoge did not hide anything and poured out the wild vegetables. With a gurgle, two dead rats rolled directly to his uncle's feet.

"Oh my dear mother!"

"Be good!"

"Oh my god!"

Everyone was shocked by the snake meat and mice scattered on the ground, especially the big snake. Everyone was surprised and happy when they saw it.

After an interlude, everyone started to boil water or collect firewood, and then they gathered together to deal with the rats and snakes.

"Sister-in-law, I know how to handle this big snake. Let me do it! The snake skin is not small and it should be able to sell for a lot of money in town." The uncle-in-law volunteered.

"Okay, uncle, you deal with it. This big snake is scary to me." After hearing that snake skin could be sold for money, Second Aunt, who was about to chop the snake, quickly gave up the big snake.

"Brother, you don't know, after I poked the snake out, it ran away so fast that I didn't even have time to react.

Heiwa was very brave at that time. He beat the snake half to death with a stick. Then he chopped off the snake's head with a sickle. "Erhuan pulled his elder brother and danced with joy in front of his uncle who was peeling the snake's skin.

My uncle-in-law might have been a hunter, so he was very skilled at skinning snakes.

I saw my uncle-in-law took out a sickle blade, then fixed the broken part of the snake's body, then found the snake's belly, and slid the blade directly down along the broken end.

After a while, a complete snake skin tube was peeled out by my uncle.

Hou Xiaoge was not interested in this. Ordinary snake skin was not python skin, and it was probably worth only two or three cents. After looking at it for a while, he turned around and left.

"Uncle, we can't stay here anymore without water! When are we leaving?" Hou Xiaoge came to his uncle who was collecting firewood and asked.

"You kid, you're thinking too far ahead.

"Alas! But you are right. Without water, we can't stay here for long. We have to find another place to escape." The uncle sighed and said in bewilderment.

"Uncle, where should we go, the county or other places? There is somewhere that is not affected by the disaster." Hou Xiaoge continued to ask.

"Where should we escape to? There is no disaster somewhere." The uncle looked into the distance and was stunned for a moment.

"I'll ask other villagers about this matter later in the afternoon! We can discuss it and make plans then." After a long time, the uncle gave the best answer he could think of.

Isn't it just for this answer that I turned from passive to active?

Since his uncle is willing to ask the villagers, Hou Xiaoge will also suggest his own ideas and slowly guide his family to escape the famine.

After all, summer is coming to an end and autumn and winter are about to come. Maybe autumn will be more bearable and not so hot.

But in winter, due to the lack of warmth and the absence of wild grass to dig, the survival rate of refugees will plummet. That will be a real disaster, and I have to help my family make plans early.