Traveling through 1942 with space

It has been more than a year since the disaster began last year, and the remaining assets of the three Hou families have long been used up.

Hou Yangmin and his brothers must still have some money on them now, but it is no more than one dollar at most, which is only about 70 or 80 cents in total.

Seven or eight cents was not a small amount in the relatively peaceful Qin Province. It could be exchanged for seven or eight kilograms of flour or more than twenty kilograms of sweet potatoes.

However, as food prices soared and disasters spread across the Central Plains, these seven or eight cents could only buy three pounds of bran at most, not even two pounds of sorghum rice.

The brothers kept this little money just for emergencies, and recently they were planning to go to Wangfan Town to buy all the salt.

After all, people can barely survive by eating grass roots and tree bark, but if they don’t eat salt for a long time, they won’t be able to walk. Once they encounter an accident, they can only wait to die.

Now that they had these six dollars, they were all very happy. If they took this money to Wangfan Town to buy sweet potatoes, they could buy more than 50 kilograms.

"If the ancestor appeared in your dreams every now and then, our family would really get better." Erda said excitedly, stroking the ocean in his hand.

"Heiwa, these three foreign uncles won't ask you for anything, but you have to hide it well and don't show it off.

Also, if you really need money urgently, you must give it to your uncle when he asks you for it." The uncle also said to Hou Xiaoge with a smile.

"Uncle, I will keep this money safe. If I really need money, I can take it out at any time." Hou Xiaoge nodded seriously.

"Okay, you've grown up now, and I believe in you. Also, if your ancestors appear in your dreams in the future, you must tell me in time." The uncle stopped Hou Xiaoge who was about to leave, and warned him seriously.

"middle!"

"Heiwa, what did you talk to my father and my uncle Erda just now? I see they are very happy." Hou Xiaoge came to the group of brothers, and Erhuan asked curiously.

"It's nothing. He just praised our good luck today. We got wild vegetables and meat." Hou Xiaoge made up a story.

"The meal is ready, go get your bowls." Second Aunt shouted as she came out of the kitchen.

"Hurry, hurry, there must be meat in the meal today. I can smell the fragrance." The little guys picked up the wooden bowls that had been prepared long ago and rushed to the kitchen.

Tonight's meal was wild vegetable porridge made from bark powder and wild vegetables, which looked quite different from the previous meals. But if you looked closely, you could see a lot of meat and fat floating on top, which was naturally the work of Hou Xiaoge and Erhuan.

Tonight, Second Aunt and Sister-in-law cooked the big snake that Hou Xiaoge caught. The snake weighed at least five or six kilograms, and even after skinning it, it still weighed more than four kilograms, so there was quite a lot of meat.

Hou Xiaoge and Erhuan made great contributions, so Second Aunt gave them a full bowl of rice, and four pieces of snake meat, which was a total of two or three taels.

Looking at the pieces of snake meat in the bowl, Hou Xiaoge breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it was not rat meat, otherwise he would have to give it away.

After taking the meal, Hou Xiaoge and his brother lay on a wooden stake and started eating happily.

There is quite a lot of meat today. Even a child can divide it into two pieces. There is about one or two taels of meat, which is enough to satisfy your appetite.

"Little boy, is the rice delicious today?" After finishing the meal, Hou Xiaoge asked with a smile to his younger brother who was still licking the bottom of the bowl.

"It smells so good! The meat is delicious, too. These two days have been just like Chinese New Year, except for the lack of a few big white steamed buns." The little guy licked his lips greedily, obviously not full yet.

As for not being full, that's all you can do. There's no second bowl for you to fill, after all, every meal is calculated, you can only have less, not more.

It was almost six o'clock in the evening when we finished eating. It was dark around seven o'clock, so it was too late to go out to look for wild vegetables.

Besides, people tend to feel sleepy after eating, so my uncle simply announced that he would not go out tonight so that everyone could take care of their health.

The children naturally wanted nothing better than to have such a good thing happen, and they cheered happily one after another.

After returning to the courtyard, Hou Xiaoge prepared to catch up on some sleep so that he could enter the planting space earlier after his brother fell asleep.

I had just lay down for about half an hour when I was awakened by shouting in the yard.

"Heiwa, Yangwa and the others have listened to you and are coming to play with you." Hou Xiaoge recognized the shouting voice as that of his cousin Erhuan.

When I walked out of the room, I saw my cousin Erhuan leading a group of little kids around ten years old standing in the yard and playing.

Hou Xiaoge has no memory of his previous life now, and except for his cousin Erhuan, he doesn’t recognize anyone else.

Erhuan also knew that Hou Xiaoge had lost his memory, so he pulled a group of little kids together and started introducing them.

Most of these little rascals have the surname Hou, and they are all related to Hou Xiaoge's family, and can be considered clan relatives.

Although the remaining three or four children had different surnames, they were all from the same village and grew up together with nothing.

After the introduction, Hou Xiaoge got to know this group of childhood friends of his original self again.

Looking at the people wearing tattered clothes and starving to death, Hou Xiaoge felt a little sad about the difficulties of those times, but at the same time he was happy about his original body's popularity.

He walked into the room, took out the half pound of sour dates that were left over from today, and asked his cousin Erhuan to distribute them to the group of little kids.

These days, sour jujubes are a great snack for rural kids. And since it was a year of disaster, they became even more precious, and everyone started scrambling to buy them.

"Okay, stop fighting. Take your turns. If you continue to fight, I won't give you the delicious food when I get it." Hou Xiaoge threatened.

When they heard that there would be more if they didn’t rush to grab them, the little rascals immediately quieted down.

After distributing the sour dates, the little ones threw them into their mouths and started eating them in big mouthfuls.

Even though it was a little sour, the little ones treasured this snack very much. After eating the date flesh, they swallowed the date pits whole, reluctant to waste any of it.

A little sour jujube instantly brought everyone closer together, and the sense of alienation that had just existed disappeared without a trace.

"Heiwa, I thought you were going to die! I didn't expect you to be alive again." A little black boy who was about the same height as Hou Xiaoge put his arm around Hou Xiaoge's shoulders and said excitedly.

This guy was introduced by his cousin as the original body’s best friend, named Yangwa.

I heard that Erhuan said that they were so close in the past that they wanted to wear the same pants, so they were really good friends.

As for why he was called Yangwa, his father was a sheep herder for the landlord before he fled from famine. After he had a son, he gave him a cheap name, Yangwa, so that he would be easier to raise.

"You bastard, if you don't know how to talk, just say less. I was just knocked unconscious, not killed." Hou Xiaoge has the mindset of an adult. He is not used to having a child clinging to his shoulders. He feels awkward and slaps the little guy's black hand away.

After being criticized by Hou Xiaoge, Yangwa felt that he might have said something wrong and scratched his head embarrassedly.

After an episode, a group of little kids sat in the yard and started to whistle.

In his previous life, Hou Xiaoge often sat and chatted with some little boys. It was quite interesting to chat with these little boys.

However, these guys kept bragging more and more outrageous, saying that they had been to the battlefield to fight the Japanese and even shot down Japanese planes with a slingshot.

Some people also said that they had seen people jumping down from the mountain and they were lucky enough to be unharmed.

There are also those who may be craving for meat and brag that they went to the mountains a few days ago and hunted a wild boar weighing several hundred kilograms and ate it all in one meal.

A group of little rascals boasted as if it were true, which made Hou Xiaoge laugh out loud.