Rebirth of an Old Farmer: Escape from Famine with Children and Grandchildren

Can you please wake up and look at Little Stone? From now on, all the food in the house will be given to you, and I will only drink water, so that you can stay by my side forever!

These words deeply hurt Aunt Huaihua's heart. Seeing her granddaughter's helpless and desperate look, she burst into tears. She hugged the ancient jade stone in her arms and whispered to her, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, little stone. Grandma is still here. Live with grandma. No matter how big the difficulties are, I will be by your side. After we finish our things here, we will go down the mountain together to Youzhou to settle down. There we can build a beautiful little house and plant all kinds of crops in the open space behind the house. As long as the two of us work together, we will be able to gradually make our lives stable."

For this girl who had just lost her loved one, her grandmother was the only person she could rely on at this moment.

After hearing Aunt Huaihua's warm words, Gu Yushi seemed to have found new hope and cried even harder. She hugged her grandmother's body desperately, unwilling to let go as if she had grabbed the last straw.

The villagers around remained silent, allowing the grandmother and grandson to vent their inner pain.

After all, in their eyes, such a thin and young girl was really pitiful.

Although she is already twelve years old, her figure is far smaller than that of children of the same age. She even looks more like a child of seven or eight years old, young and innocent.

The villagers all secretly hoped that she would not leave early like her eldest sister, otherwise the old village chief and his wife would be heartbroken again, even more painful than before.

That morning, the old village chief and Aunt Huaihua did not go out. They were probably lying in the simple straw hut, their hearts full of grief.

The two of them snuggled up to each other, as if mourning their lost loved ones with silent tears.

However, the others did not stop because of this. Those who went up the mountain to pick wild vegetables continued to pick wild vegetables, and those who went hunting continued to go to the hunting grounds, as if any changes in life had not affected them at all, and they still had to go on with their lives.

Sun Wan followed Wu, and together with Zhang Nizi and Wu Yuemei, they entered the mountains.

The area is lush and rich in vegetation, which is refreshing.

Especially for Sun Wan, who loves nature, it is like a treasure.

She was in a very happy mood. She saw all the plants with well-developed roots on the ground, whether they were familiar or rare species she had seen for the first time, and all of them were taken into her private space.

In addition, she also paid special attention to many small saplings and collected them all, regardless of whether she knew them or not.

This time, she thought that she could no longer sell all the collected supplies on the online mall as she did before, and she should keep some for herself as a backup.

After all, if you can find a suitable place to settle down in the future and have a large enough yard, you can also choose a few trees you like and plant them yourself.

Clusters of dandelions can be seen everywhere on this sunny slope.

The small golden flowers sway gracefully among the green leaves. They seem like a bright smile in the summer, which makes people feel relaxed and happy and can't help but feel in a good mood.

Sun Wan bent down, carefully picked a few delicate dandelion flowers, and gently tied them to the two small and delicate braids of her granddaughter Miaomiao.

She leaned over and kissed Miaomiao's dark but thin face, "bobo", and then a sweet smile overflowed from the corner of her mouth, "Oh, grandma's precious granddaughter, the more I look at her, the more I like her!"

His tone was full of doting and joy for the child.

Hearing the praise, Miaomiao giggled happily, and did not forget to gently insert the yellow flower in her hand into Sun Wan's low and loose bun.

Her originally thick and long hair has now become dry, split and dull. Sun Wan has always wanted to find time to get a haircut, but unfortunately her life is too busy and she can't even think about it.

In desperation, I could only simply tie it into a low ponytail.

However, unexpectedly, this hairstyle was unexpectedly loved by the women in Sujia Village. They began to imitate it, simply using a smooth small wooden stick to tie it up.

In this land full of dandelions, Sun Wan dug up all these lovely plants.

Some were uprooted, leaving deep holes; others had only the above-ground parts pulled out, with the roots still intact in the soil.

Just as she was about to continue looking for other useful plants, she discovered several honeysuckle vines climbing between the treetops not far away.

This is a rare thing!

Although there have been several heavy rains in recent days and flash floods have caused considerable damage to the mountainous areas, the plains are still facing severe water shortages.

Therefore, when cooking vegetable soup, throwing a few flowers into it can help reduce internal heat and relieve summer heat for both adults and children.

However, what was puzzling was that no matter how hard Sun Wan searched, she did not find the expected chestnut or hazelnut trees in the woods all afternoon.

This made her feel a little strange.

Fortunately, the children did get some results: they found a lot of small black fruits that they usually eat and some red sweet potato fruits.

The men did not return empty-handed either, as they hunted a lot of pheasants, rabbits and fat and big mountain rats.

Several boys held their chests high all day long, claiming that they were going hunting, and as expected, they brought back several plump tits as trophies.

Perhaps thanks to the abundant natural resources here, this group of birds have grown particularly strong.

In addition to digging wild vegetables, women also need to wash the picked wild vegetables one by one, chop them carefully and then dry them after returning home.

If there are elderly people in the family, this tedious work will most of the time be undertaken by these hard-working elders.

Sun Wan used four palm-sized wild vegetable cakes she made herself to exchange for two large bamboo sieves at the village market, which were used to dry the wild vegetables for future preservation and consumption.

When it was time to cook, everyone gathered around the hot fire and started baking fragrant wild vegetable pancakes.

The proportions of ingredients in wild vegetable cakes made by different families are also different. Some families add more rye flour, which makes the taste more solid; while most families put more wild vegetables with black flour, which tastes fresh and healthy.

The wild vegetable pancakes are not very big, only about the size of an average adult's palm.

After making them, people will first place the cakes on the bamboo sieve prepared in advance to let them cool slightly, and then carefully put them into cloth bags.

Such a simple yet humane day passed like this, but the next day they had to go down the mountain before dawn.