Famine Bride: Marry into the best in-laws and win

Xu Manyue's expression turned completely cold. "I don't care what you thought at the time, or whether you truly regret it or just pretend to regret it."

"Please get out of my sight as soon as possible. Seeing you will only affect my mood."

There is no such thing as regret medicine in this world. The affection between her and them had disappeared when she was abandoned by this family in her previous life.

Xu Xiangbei widened his eyes and looked at Xu Manyue in disbelief, "You... you really hate me that much?"

He and she should be the closest relatives in the world, how could she hate him so much...

Xu Manyue nodded. "Yes, I hate you and your Xu family just like that. I hate you even more than you can imagine."

"If you still want to save some face, don't let me see you again in the future, let alone run to me and seek a sense of existence."

"I really don't want to see anyone from your Xu family again."

Xu Xiangbei's mind was blank and his ears were ringing. He seemed to be immersed in his own world. He couldn't hear or see anything. He seemed to have lost his mind and was in a daze.

Lin Luoxia noticed something was wrong, she frowned and said, "Third sister-in-law, let's leave early."

Mrs. Shen glanced at Xu Xiangbei's expression and said, "Yes, we should leave early. What if this guy goes crazy?"

Xu Manyue nodded, "Okay, let's leave early."

However, just after the three of them took a few steps, Xu Xiangbei fell to the ground with a bang.

He fainted and his face turned frighteningly pale.

Mrs. Shen subconsciously looked back and was shocked. Oh my god, why did this man fall down?

She ran forward holding Xu Manyue in one hand and Lin Luoxia in the other.

"Hurry up, hurry up, it would be bad if those shameless people from the Xu family come to blame us."

Xu Manyue turned around and took a look. Xu Xiangbei's face looked very bad. Coupled with his abnormal reaction just now, he probably fainted.

And judging from his complexion, he probably needs to be sent to the clinic for treatment as soon as possible.

However, all this has nothing to do with her.

Little did they know that Xu Xiangbei still had a little consciousness at this time.

At the moment he fell down, he was hoping that she would care about him, be anxious, worried, and find a way to save him.

But unexpectedly, she was so cruel that she actually left him.

He watched Xu Manyue's figure disappear, his heart began to ache again, and his whole body felt extremely uncomfortable.

Finally, everything went black and he passed out completely.

……

Xu Manyue and his companions came to the foot of the back mountain again.

Now, in the entire Qingshan Brigade, apart from the mountain, this is the only place where you can see some grass roots, tree bark and so on.

The rest of the place is almost bare yellow earth, full of cracks and dust, without a trace of life.

Some people would take the risk of going up the mountain in order to survive, but most of them would be too hungry and weak to avoid wild animals.

The reason why the two brothers Shen Lao Da and Shen Lao Er were able to go up the mountain was because their father, who died early, was an old hunter who made a living by hunting, and now he still has a lot of hunting equipment at home.

Hunters can find wild animals in the mountains, so they can naturally avoid them.

Others don’t dare to do the same as them. Whether they can survive in the mountains depends entirely on luck.

Xu Manyue looked around and found that most of the wild vegetables had been dug up long ago. There were still many pits on the ground, which were obviously dug when digging grass roots.

But there are still many villagers kneeling on the ground digging grass roots.

Mrs. Shen curled her lips and said, "Okay, I came here for nothing today. Look around here, it's almost full of people, not even a few grass roots are left."

"Let's go, let's go back to bed and save our energy."

Suddenly, Xu Manyue saw a lot of people scraping the bark of a dead tree. Some of them were so hungry that they stuffed the bark into their mouths while scraping, chewing it, and finally swallowing it bit by bit.

Xu Manyue stopped the two who were about to go back and said, "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, let's go scrape the bark too."

Mrs. Shen glanced at the dried bark of the dead trees and said, "No, Third Sister-in-law, that stuff is edible, but it's too hard. Even if you put it in your mouth and chew it for a long time, you may not be able to chew it."

"It stings the neck when you swallow it. Those people only chew on the bark because they have nothing to eat."

As for why we don’t eat fresh bark, of course it’s because the fresh bark is deep in the mountains, and most people don’t dare to go up the mountain.

The trees at the foot of the mountain had long since died, and their bark was dry and hard, making it difficult to eat.

Xu Manyue looked at the dead elm trees around her and was silent for a moment. "What if we grind the bark into powder and mix it with other coarse grains to make steamed bread?"

Mrs. Shen and Lin Luoxia were stunned. Made into steamed buns?

What to do?

It must take a lot of effort to make something so hard.

Xu Manyue looked around and saw who was there, so she explained to the two of them.

When she was in school, she read a book that introduced elm trees.

The outermost layer of the elm tree is old bark, which is hard and difficult to digest by the human body.

However, if you peel off the outermost layer of old skin, a thicker, softer layer of skin will appear. This layer of skin is called the "cambium" in biology.

After removing this layer of fine skin, dry it in the sun, grind it into powder with a mill, sieve it, and it can be eaten, especially used to make steamed cornbread.

Pine bark is similar to elm bark and can be treated in the same way.

Mrs. Shen's eyes lit up instantly, "So tree bark can be made into something like this."

"Then let's go get some back quickly, right now."

Thinking of the steamed buns that she hadn't eaten for a long time, she was almost drooling.

Lin Luoxia looked at Xu Manyue and couldn't help but said, "Third sister-in-law, you educated people know so much, you even know these things."

She had never been to school since she was a child, and apart from her own name, she could hardly read a single word. There were very few people in the team who could read and write, especially girls.

Although my third brother's wife only attended junior high school, her education level was considered high compared to the team.

Xu Manyue looked a little dazed. "I didn't learn these things from textbooks either. They were all from miscellaneous books."

Speaking of it, those days when she had to walk for several hours on the mountain road to go to school in the commune seemed very far away when she thought about it now.

At that time, she really liked reading, but unfortunately, after Xu Mingyue came back, the Xu family gave her the opportunity to go to high school to Xu Mingyue.

Soon, the three sisters-in-law found a dead old elm tree. It’s true, after peeling off the old outer layer of bark, the thin inner layer of bark was indeed much softer.

After working hard for most of the day, I finally peeled off all the fine bark from the old elm tree.

Until it was almost dark.

Xu Manyue and her friends returned home with a full load of today's harvest.