The end of natural disasters: the daily life of child brides in ancient times

After Lu Shufu completed the apprenticeship ceremony, Li Rui and a group of senior brothers clamored for Lu Shufu to call him senior brother.

Lu Qingqing watched with a smile on her face, and suddenly realized that Lu Shufu was three years older than her.

Now, my cousin has become my junior fellow apprentice!

Lu Qingqing looked forward to it with a sense of mischievousness. Lu Shufu was going to call her senior sister soon!

Lu Shufu obediently called everyone "senior brother", but when it was Lu Qingqing's turn, his face blushed again.

It always feels a bit awkward to ask him to call his cousin "senior sister".

But everyone else has already called out, we can’t just leave Daya out.

After Lu Shufu awkwardly called out "Senior Sister", he heard Lu Qingqing respond loudly.

The senior brothers looked at the junior brother's cheeks that were about to burn and laughed even louder!

At this time, Shi Xiu'er and Tian Funiang came back with firewood and a bunch of mushrooms.

Little Stone was also holding seven or eight mushrooms in his hands. When he saw Erya sitting next to him watching the martial arts practice, his eyes suddenly lit up.

He ran over, raised the mushroom in his hand, and said crisply:

"Erya, look, I picked up a lot of mushrooms. Grandma said she would make mushroom soup for me at noon. I can give you some."

The two children started chattering.

This voice attracted the attention of Lu Qingqing and his fellow disciples.

Master Yan looked at his disciples staring at the mushrooms in other people's backpacks and knew that their minds were now focused on the mushrooms on the mountain.

Thinking that it was rare that the rain stopped today, Master Yan waved his hand and stopped teaching.

Li Rui and his fellow brothers called out to their three newly-acquired junior brothers and sisters, asking them to go mushroom picking together.

Master Yan looked at them making a fuss and thought that there were still dangers in the mountains, so he asked them to bring weapons with them before leaving.

The apprentices responded in unison. Young people are always full of energy, and the group left in a hurry.

At this time, most of the people in the village had already left, and only a few people were left in the cave.

Seeing that the village chief was still in the cave, Master Yan picked up the bag that Mrs. Yan had prepared long ago and returned it to the village chief.

The village chief was determined not to accept it. After a lot of arguing, it was only when Master Yan frowned that the village chief accepted the item.

As for Lu Qingqing and Qin Lang, Master Yan put the two bags directly back into their carriage.

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On the mountain outside, Li Rui found a large area of ​​edible mushrooms and immediately shouted:

"Come here quickly, there's a huge mushroom patch!"

A few people who were still picking a few scattered mushrooms at the back hurried over and cheered when they saw the large area.

Young boys are always full of desire to win, and soon several brothers began to compare who had more mushrooms in their baskets.

Lu Shufu is a calm person. This time he was the last one to come and walk with Lu Qingqing.

"Daya, thank you!"

"Didn't you and the village chief already thank him before?"

Lu Qingqing was a little confused. Why did he suddenly say this?

Lu Shufu walked with his head down, and upon hearing this he hurriedly explained:

"No, before I thanked you for saving my family's lives, this time..."

Lu Shufu suddenly didn't know what to say. He always felt that something had changed, but he couldn't put it into words.

Before the two could say anything more, Qin Lang in the front turned around and shouted:

"Daya, why are you back there? Come here quickly, I found some fungus!"

Lu Qingqing responded, "Okay, I'll be right there!"

As she spoke, she ran towards Qin Lang. Thinking of something, she turned back and smiled cunningly at Lu Shufu:

"No need to thank me, I am your senior sister after all. I will protect you from now on!"

Lu Shufu scratched his head, watched Lu Qingqing run away, and muttered softly.

"You are obviously younger than me, so I will protect you from now on."

In front, Lu Qingqing and Qin Lang picked all the wood ears from the roots of the trees.

After picking a small handful and drying them and then soaking them, I guess it will be enough for one meal.

This fungus goes especially well with rice when eaten cold. The fungus we picked earlier has already been eaten.

It’s been raining heavily these days, so I think we can still find some wood ear mushrooms.

Lu Qingqing and others continued to move forward. The growth rate of mushrooms after the rain was no less than that of spring bamboo shoots after the rain.

From time to time we encountered large patches of mushrooms on the road. Later on, everyone only picked the large ones and were too lazy to go around to pick the scattered ones.

Everyone picked up things as they walked, not only mushrooms, but also a lot of branches that were more resistant to burning.

Soon, everyone was a little overwhelmed and just as they were about to go back, Lu Qingqing heard some movement not far away.

She made a gesture to silence everyone, then gently put down her backpack and tiptoed towards that place with her weapon.

After walking a few steps, I heard the sound of something splashing on the water in front of me.

Lu Qingqing ran a few steps quickly, passed through several big trees, and found a large pool of water.

By the pond, a mountain cat was walking out with a fish in its mouth. When it saw someone looking at it, the mountain cat ran forward at an extremely fast speed.

Soon, it disappeared into the woods.

Lu Qingqing was attracted by the fish that the mountain cat had just caught. The fish was quite big. Thinking of the delicious fish meat, she shouted to the back:

"Brother and brother, come quickly, there's a pond here. I just saw a mountain cat catch a fish. It was quite a big fish!"

Hearing the sound, the others behind ran over quickly. Seeing the pool of water below, Qin Lang gave Lu Qingqing a thumbs-up and said:

"Daya, you're amazing. I didn't even hear you from so far away."

Li Rui and several of his senior brothers also smiled and praised Lu Qingqing.

Everyone had a lot of things in their hands, and they didn't bring any fishing nets this time. They just looked around the pond and then hurried back.

When they returned to the cave, everyone else had already returned, and Lu Qingqing and the others were the last to come back.

Master Yan waited for them to come back for a long time and thought something had happened. If others hadn't persuaded him, he would have gone out to look for them.

He just came back after seeing them and scolded them with a cold face.

As soon as Master Yan stopped, Qin Lang said happily:

"Master, Daya just found a pond, and there are fish in it!"

Li Rui also came to Master Yan's side, gestured with his hands to measure the length of the fish, and continued:

"Yes, Daya said she saw a fish this long. Didn't Qu Hong bring a fishing net? Let's go fishing together this afternoon."

After several fellow disciples finished talking, everyone who listened was deeply moved.

When Bai Xing'er heard them talking about fish, she wanted to go fishing with them, but she felt that it was Lu Qingqing who discovered it, and it would not be good for her to follow and take advantage of her.

But thinking of his dwindling rations, he gritted his teeth and said to Lu Qingqing:

"Daya, can I go fishing with you? I'm willing to give you 40% of the fish we catch."

Lu Qingqing was stunned when she heard it, then she smiled and said:

"I don't raise these fish, so whoever catches them owns them. Besides, the pond is huge, and it would take more than a couple of days to catch them all. Just go ahead and do it."

From the moment she discovered the pond, Lu Qingqing had no intention of hiding.

Not to mention that the pond was so big, she couldn't catch them all by herself.

For example, we have been fleeing famine with the people of Lujia Village for such a long time and have experienced so many disasters together. Most of these people are trustworthy.