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

Chapter 381: Experience Gained from Eating

But due to the weight problem, they didn't bring much firewood.

Therefore, Lu Tianming asked everyone to only build two fires.

At that time, families who needed hot meals would take their meals to the fire to heat them up before eating.

At the same time, place a pot above the fire to boil water.

Because there were not many people on the road and the men were all next to the car, Lu Tianming did not arrange anyone to be on duty.

He sat in the carriage and looked around.

As soon as the team stopped, Qin Lang hurriedly unloaded the cart from the ox.

Seeing that the cow was panting with exhaustion, he touched its head soothingly.

Seeing that the ground was slippery, he took a torn straw mat and spread it on it before leading the cow up.

Then, he took food and water from the cart and sent them over.

He didn't stop until the cows had eaten.

Seeing how thoughtful he was, Li Rui felt that the cow must be comfortable, so he hurriedly made arrangements for his own horse.

The other families who had livestock pulling carts, although not as meticulous as the two of them, also unloaded the carts as soon as they stopped.

Now that people have started fleeing famine again, every family takes better care of their livestock than they do themselves.

Not far away, the women were scattered in the fields, digging up tender wild vegetables.

Everyone had been eating dried vegetables for the whole winter, and when they just set out on the road, they discovered these newly grown tender wild vegetables and were very greedy.

There was no chance on the way, but when they stopped, they couldn't bear it anymore and scattered around to look for it.

And Lu Qingqing was among them.

Just now, Bai Xing'er and Zhuzi's wife came to call her, so she took her tools and followed them.

In fact, she had planted some shepherd's purse in the vegetable garden in the space before, and with other fresh vegetables, she was not too greedy.

However, since everyone else was having fun digging, she naturally had to join in.

The women were busy as a group, and a few men were building a fire on the roadside.

Soon, the fire was lit.

Li Rui thought about the toasted steamed buns he had eaten before, so he took a knife to cut the buns into slices and toasted them over the fire.

Soon, a scent of burnt noodles wafted away and drifted away with the wind.

When everyone in the team was busy, they heard Lu Tianming shouting:

"There are refugees coming, come back and impose martial law!"

Upon hearing this, the women who were still digging wild vegetables in the fields looked around hurriedly. Seeing six or seven refugees coming from the east, they were so scared that they ran towards the car with their cloth bags.

When Lu Laosan saw Sun Cui running towards this place with her big belly and her feet slipped, he was almost scared to death.

He didn't care about anything else and ran over to pick someone up.

When Lu Qingqing heard Lu Tianming's shout, the first thing she did was to look for the location of the refugees.

Seeing that the distance was still far, he shouted to the two people beside him to run back.

While running, he took off the bow and arrow on his back.

After suffering a loss before, she never leaves her bow and arrow.

Even when going to the toilet, she carries it on her back.

Soon, Lu Qingqing ran back to the convoy. She found a slightly higher position and aimed at that place with her bow raised warily.

When the six or seven refugees saw this scene, they begged for mercy from a distance.

Lu Tianming said loudly:

"Don't come any closer! If you come any closer, don't blame us for being rude!"

At this time, the refugees were still more than ten meters away from the caravan. Seeing that the team was armed with swords and bows and arrows, they had no desire to rob at all.

After the first person knelt down, the people behind him followed suit and knelt on the ground, begging:

"Dear kind-hearted masters and ladies, we have been hungry all winter and have no strength left. Please give us some dry food!"

As he said this, he kowtowed again and again.

As they moved, everyone in the team could see the faces of these people clearly.

Although he was better than the three people he met at the beginning, he still had a sallow complexion and looked skinny.

In other words, none of the refugees they met along the way were in good condition.

Seeing them like this, many women in the team couldn't bear to watch any longer and turned their heads away.

If the team had just started to flee the famine, perhaps someone would have been kind enough to secretly give them some dry food.

But after fleeing famine for so long, they have seen too many cases where kindness led to disasters that affected the entire family.

Therefore, even though Lu Tianming felt reluctant, he still said coldly:

“We don’t have any extra food!

Before you came over, the women in our team were still digging wild vegetables!

Now, the wild vegetables in the fields have also begun to sprout.

Work hard now, you won't starve to death!"

The kneeling people wanted to beg again, but they saw Lu Tianming raised the big knife at hand.

Following his action, the rest of the team also raised their weapons.

"Leave immediately!"

Now, the refugees all knew that they were not good people, and they walked away from the team in embarrassment.

How could they not know that there were wild vegetables in the fields?

The pleading just now was just to ask for some food!

When the convoy was out of sight, the man who had kowtowed first said with regret:

"This team is really careful. I see they have a lot of stuff in the car, and they even have several babies!"

Another person echoed, "Yes, those babies are all plump and white, and look very tender! If they were roasted, they would probably be extremely tender!"

As he said this, he slurped his saliva greedily.

"Yeah, that team is just too strong! They're armed with knives and arrows, they're definitely not ordinary people!"

The other men also felt sorry.

They can survive the winter not just by relying on some wild vegetables.

Among the foods we eat every day, the most common one is two-legged sheep.

In fact, they all gained experience from eating.

Which age is the most delicious and which part is the most tender.

Which one is the most unpalatable and which one cannot be eaten.

It’s a pity that as the winter goes on, the fewer people I see.

This is a big reason why they are so hungry.

There are wild vegetables in spring, but who would want to eat bitter wild vegetables for every meal?

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In the convoy behind, Lu Tianming and others breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the refugees walking away.

But this incident still scared everyone in the team.

They had lived in peace for a whole winter and their vigilance had decreased a lot.

Seeing this, Lu Tianming stopped being so arrogant and arranged six armed men to be on guard according to the rules of fleeing from famine.

After this incident, the women were no longer in the mood to dig wild vegetables, so they went to their cars to get food and prepared to heat up their lunch.

Lu Qingqing put the wild vegetables she dug into the carriage, took out a few steamed buns from it, and planned to heat them up by the fire to eat.

Seeing her coming, Bai Xing'er squeezed aside and made room for her, then greeted her:

"Daya, come here!"

"Hey, I'm coming right over!"

Lu Qingqing responded and hurried to the crowded fire.

Bai Xing'er had already baked her own rice, and now she came over with steamed buns and helped to bake them too.

Next to the fire, the food from each family was placed together, and the differences between them became apparent.

The best ones are the steamed buns made from finely ground white flour, like the ones made by Lu Qingqing.

The second type is the pancake made with two-grain flour. This is what the village chief and Lu Tianfu’s family eat.

The worst was the pancake that Sun Cui brought out. It was a steamed vegetable pancake made by mixing chopped dried vegetables with a little flour with bran.

When the things were put together, Sun Cui naturally noticed the difference.