Traveling through ancient times: daily life on the run

Luo Yu smiled and said, "If you succeed, Brother Liu, you can consider using this skill to help more people. I think with your character, you should be able to help more people who can't walk due to leg injuries."

Brother Liu understood what she meant. The girl in front of him was shining. Just like Chunhua said, she was a knight roaming the world.

Before they finished their meal, an older woman came over from a distance and called out to Chunhua from outside the fence: "Chunhua, did you cook meat today? I can smell the aroma of meat from so far away."

Chunhua's face darkened, and she lowered her head and said, "My cousin came to visit the child's father, bringing some meat."

"Your cousin is really nice. I was wondering how your family could afford meat."

Luo Yu glanced at them. Why did these aunties seem to be holding back their anger, afraid that others would live better than them? Thinking back to the tough woman he had met during the day, who had been mauled beyond recognition by those puppies, Luo Yu couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Seeing that no one paid any attention to her and no one asked her to go in and taste the meat, the aunt walked away with her head hung.

As he walked, he muttered to himself, "How can he eat meat when he looks so poorly dressed? He must have stolen it."

Late at night, when everyone was asleep, Luo Yu carried a basket of fish and a backpack, and sneaked into the bamboo forest with a long sword in hand to find Xia Liang.

You can use a long sword to grill the meat later, which will be more convenient.

After setting up a simple earthen stove, Luo Yu used a few sticks to stick the fish next to the fire. He also plucked the chicken feathers and was about to take them to the stream to wash them, but he heard voices.

"Brother, are you sure there are six chickens missing from our house?"

"Why am I not sure? Although I don't raise chickens on weekdays, my mother said so. She beat all the servants to make sure they didn't steal it."

"Do you think we can catch the chicken thief if we go out?" The sharp voice was particularly piercing in the dark night. "Brother, the fish in the stream are gone too. I wanted to raise them and make delicious tofu and fish soup for Dad and Mom!"

"Who told you to keep the fish outside? The fish must have swam out on their own."

"I put some rocks around it so the fish can't swim out."

Luo Yu thought about it and realized that it was no wonder. When she was fishing in the afternoon, she was curious about whether this natural water pond was good for raising fish. The two rows of stones were naturally placed, so she didn't pay much attention to them. It seems that the boy also understands the principle of water embankment and has a promising future.

Judging from the brothers' voices, they were no more than fourteen or fifteen years old. Luo Yu was feeling a little ashamed for stealing chickens and fish from other people's homes, but the older one's voice suddenly turned vicious: "It must have been those poor, stinky kids from Qingshui Village who stole it. Tomorrow morning we'll send people to search every household. They can't eat all the fish in a day. Whoever has fish will be beaten up. It would be best if they cripple their hands. Then we'll see if they keep stealing."

"Well, whoever stole the fish must have also stolen the chicken."

When Luo Yu heard this, he thought it was a ridiculous logic, but they did guess it right.

Only after seeing the two brats leave did Luo Yu dare to go to the stream to wash the chicken. He felt guilty like a thief, so he could only wash it secretly.

While grilling the chicken, I mentioned this to Xia Liang. Xia Liang didn't care: "It's okay. I ate it all anyway. Come and beat me up if you dare!"

"Don't you feel guilty?"

"My lackeys said that the landlord's wife, named Yin, always took advantage of people. She would take away anything valuable from anyone's house and claim it as her own. Yin's husband is just the same. Last year, he stole a dog from a villager downstream and insisted it was his. Then, after he stole it, he found his dog, but they wouldn't let it go. Instead, they beat it to death and had their servants cook and eat it."

"Damn it, I get it. This is the deep hatred of your lackeys."

"Alas, Tugou is Dahuang's father, so of course he wants revenge."

"Then you should eat more, as a way to avenge those dogs." In fact, Luo Yu wanted to say, the chicken should be innocent, right?

After eating and drinking his fill, Xia Liang sat down and patted his belly with great satisfaction: "After so many days, I finally had a full meal. I had such a great time eating four big roosters and a dozen fish!"

"You can't do such sneaky things from now on. Tell your lackeys to find a way to get some food from the restaurant in the city."

"It's good that they didn't lose their lives in the restaurant."

Luo Yu sighed. Where would she get meat from? The people living in this place didn't even have prey. Even though she had money, she couldn't go into town to buy meat. Asking Sister Chunhua for help was too tempting.

Xia Liang saw her anxiety and comforted her: "Sister, it's okay, I will find a way. If all else fails, I will catch a snake and eat it. Snake meat is also very delicious!"

Xia Liang, who loves small animals, now has eyes that light up when he sees any small animal.

After returning home, Luo Yu woke up Chunhua and asked them to deal with all the leftover chicken. What they meant by dealing with it was that the whole family got up and had a midnight snack, and then buried all the bones.

"Sister Zhou, didn't you return the money to them? Won't they let us go?"

"That's true, but I heard that Yin likes to take advantage of others. He insists on saying that six chickens were lost, and then he blames us for everything. That would be bad. At least he should make us pay another five taels of silver."

Chunhua was frightened. She could never earn five taels of silver in her lifetime!

Luo Yu calmly comforted her, "Don't worry, I'm here. Everything has been handled. I found them anyway, so someone must have stolen them. Everyone, just be calm tomorrow and don't be too nervous."

On the second day, the family got up very early. Luo Yu first accompanied Chunhua to sell vegetables. She wanted to buy some white flour and rice by the way, because drinking only porridge would make her exhausted.

Luo Yu pulled two copper coins from his bag and gave them to Chunhua, telling her to go to the city to buy some rice and flour. Chunhua stared at her bag, lost in thought. Miss Qin's bag was like a huge bag; besides being able to take out copper coins, small change, and pickled meat, it was also a great place to put them.

Seeing her lost in thought, Luo Yu asked with a smile, "What are you thinking about?"

"Sister Zhou's bag is very creative. It seems like it can hold a lot of things, so it won't be tiring to carry."

"Oh, yes. This kind of bag is very simple to make. It's easy for ordinary people like us to carry around and can hold a lot of things. It also has hidden buckles inside, making it very safe. There are also many styles. Sister Chunhua, would you like to try making some and selling them?"

Chunhua shook her head, not wanting to accept it. "But the cloth alone would cost a lot of money, and I don't even have the capital."

"I'll lend you the cost, which is like you doing the work for me. How about I take 30% of the profit from every bag sold?"

Luo Yu didn't care about the money. She knew that if she didn't accept a penny, Sister Chunhua might not agree. As for when to take the money, she would talk about it later when she had the chance.

"Sister Zhou, you treat us so well, I really don't know how to repay you."

"Why are you saying all this? I'm already very grateful that you took me in for a few days. Besides, whether you can make money or not ultimately depends on yourself. I can only provide temporary funding and technical guidance."

As the saying goes, teaching a man to fish is worse than teaching him to fish.

Luo Yu slept in a simple adobe house at night, which felt not much better than being in the wild. She could not experience living a lifetime in such an environment. In ancient times, it was too difficult for a poor family to turn their lives around by relying solely on hard work and determination. Chunhua had only one daughter, Jing'er, and a husband paralyzed in bed. Her life was harder than any other family.

She didn't want to ignore it, but she also knew that it would be difficult to improve anything with her own limited strength. However, there is an old saying that goes, a single spark can start a prairie fire.

She will change little by little until the day she can truly see the light.