Farming and reading family

Fortunately, they did not make a fire when they were camped, and Luo Dagang also asked Lu Hao to take the horses for a walk in the mountains before drinking water, otherwise they would definitely be discovered by this group of people.

The two men retreated to a safe place and Luo Dagang released Chen Ke. Chen Ke sat on the ground, gasping for breath, as if exhausted.

Luo Dagang ignored him and looked around vigilantly.

It took a long time for Chen Ke to react: "Should we report to the police?"

"Call the police?" Luo Dagang looked at the innocent Chen Ke. "Why do you think they dare to be so rampant?"

After all, Chen Ke was reborn. When he heard Luo Dagang say this, he immediately understood what was going on. His heart became even colder, and he began to worry whether Mo Xun could accomplish this task now.

Luo Dagang thought Chen Ke was frightened: "But don't worry, I will definitely escort you to Qinzhou safely."

This is not what Chen Ke was thinking.

At night, Lu Hao and Luo Dagang took turns on duty, and they slept leaning against the horses.

Suddenly Chen Ke woke up with a scream, and Luo Dagang was so scared that he pulled out his machete.

"Having a nightmare?" Lu Hao joked.

Chen Ke breathed a sigh of relief when he realized it was a dream.

He did have a nightmare. In the dream, Feng's death was even more horrific than the one she had died in the daytime. She just threw herself into his arms like that, and he couldn't move.

"If you don't do anything wrong, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door in the middle of the night, let alone nightmares." Lu Hao joked.

Luo Dagang glanced at Lu Hao and said, "Boss Chen is a scholar. It's normal for him to be scared after what happened during the day."

Chen Ke did not respond. It would be fine if it was someone else, but that person happened to be Feng.

Gao E did not pursue the matter and everyone just let it go, but he still felt a little strange.

After all, who doesn't like being liked by others? He would often remember the feeling of being thrown into Feng's arms.

But from now on, I feel fear when I think about it.

Chen Qing and his friends came back in the late night. Almost everyone was stung by a wasp, and some of them were seriously injured and had to be helped back.

Fortunately, the harvest was good, and several backpacks were filled with honey.

This honey is a rare commodity. They rarely come across it when they go into the mountains, and even if they do come across it, they don't dare to actually go up and collect it.

This time they went deep into the mountains and dared to go up because they had more people, but the price was also very high.

Gao E was woken up by them and came out to see what was happening. She quickly asked Yang and the others to take out the wooden basins to hold the food. The villagers also trusted the Chen family, so they all went back to rest after eating.

Chen Qing was tired after a day of work, so he went into the cave and lay down. As a result, he heard his father's stomach rumbling.

Chen Fansheng finally fell asleep, thinking that he wouldn't be hungry when he slept. However, Chen Qing and the others came back and woke him up again, so he couldn't fall asleep at all.

"Dad, didn't you eat dinner?" Chen Qing asked in a low voice.

"Grandpa gave the food to someone else." Chen Xichen said immediately.

The men in the cave were all asleep, and when they heard Chen Xichen say this, they pretended to be asleep.

"What's going on?" Chen Qing simply sat up.

"It has nothing to do with you, go to sleep." Chen Fansheng didn't want to talk about this embarrassing thing.

"Even if Dad gives food to others, my second brother and his wife can't stop Dad from eating." Chen Qing said and was about to go out to ask Gao what was going on.

"Grandpa gave the food to Chen Baolai's family." Chen Xichen said in a low voice.

Chen Qing slowly sat back down, wondering why his father was so confused.

Putting aside the grudge between the two families, what Chen Fancai did was really inhumane. How will the villagers view them in the future?

Chen Fansheng saw the boss's reaction and knew that he was also angry: "Go to sleep."

Chen Qing lay down and fell asleep.

Chen Fansheng couldn't fall asleep at all. Firstly, he was hungry, and secondly, he was worried about what to do about this deadlock.

Gao E called Xu over early in the morning, along with several hardworking women from the village. They squeezed out the honey they had collected, and then counted and put it into jars.

Gao E planned to boil the beeswax from the remaining honeycomb and keep it.

Song was pacing around the Chen family's door early in the morning, but she didn't dare to go in when she saw so many people in the yard.

Seeing that Song ignored her, Xu went over and sat next to Gao E, who was holding the child. "Chen Fancai and his family are just living next door to you?"

"My father and he are brothers, it's normal that he can't let go." Gao E said helplessly.

"They also have land, but they do nothing and just rely on your house. Your father-in-law is also confused." Xu was a little helpless.

People in Baotou Village are having a hard time now, but at least there are people with stuttering problems, and the whole village is united as a village collective, so there is hope for the future.

Gao E didn't know what to say: "If his family wants to sell the land, my family can also buy some."

Xu was relieved when he heard Gao E's words that she did not intend to let the Chen family join the village collective.

This time, Chen Qing and his friends were stung by bees. Although they got some harvest, they don’t plan to go into the mountains again. There is nothing to eat directly, and it is very dangerous.

If something happens to these strong laborers in the village, life in the village will become even more difficult.

They planned to chop more firewood before it snowed, so Chen Qing discussed with Lei Laozhang about making his fine iron into axe.

"It's not that I don't want to help, nor that I can't bear to part with the fine iron, it's just... I can't make iron now. Without a furnace and charcoal fire, it's simply impossible." Lei Ming spread his hands.

Chen Qing knew this was a problem, but their machetes were wearing out too quickly.

Before, only his second brother's family had two knives. Later, when they were clearing the silt down there, they also found some farm tools, machetes, and kitchen knives, but they were all rusted and there was not much left after a little grinding.

"Then burn some charcoal." Gao E listened to their conversation from the side.

"It's easy as long as we have carbon, but we also need a bellows." Lei Ming felt that this had to be bought.

"Then let's start preparing." Gao E thought for a moment and asked, "Brother, let's find a suitable place to build a carbon kiln."

The people in Batou Village don’t know how to make charcoal, but they roughly know how to do it. Chen Qing nodded.

After discussing this, Gao E happened to have something to ask her eldest brother: "Now that we can't find food, we can still find some medicinal herbs."

"Medicinal herbs?" Chen Qing had never thought about this.

"Well, you can discuss it with Doctor Sun and take him into the mountains to look for some, especially things like Polygonatum sibiricum and Gastrodia elata. Eating them regularly can replenish qi and blood." Gao E suggested.

Chen Qing nodded: "I will go to discuss it with Doctor Sun right away."

After Chen Qing left, Gao E asked her sister-in-law to come over and prepare to soak the horsehide. After thinking about it, she decided to use wood ash to rub it, but the quality would be a little worse.

In this situation, poor quality is better than no quality at all.

In the morning, Chen Fansheng did not go to deliver food to Chen Fancai's house, which caused Chen Fancai to scream outside like a ghost, but others pretended not to hear him.

In the evening, Chen Fansheng found three small bamboo bowls and divided a bowl of rice into three portions and gave them out.

Chen Fancai's face turned green when he saw the porridge being finished in just two sips.

Song even mocked: "It seems that what the eldest brother said in his son's house doesn't count."

Chen Fansheng was already feeling aggrieved, and when he heard Song say this, he became furious: "You can eat it or not." He said that and left.

After Chen Baolai finished his portion, he stared at the other two. Chen Fancai and Song Shi didn't care how much they had and hurriedly picked them up to eat.

"Dad, this won't do." Chen Baolai smacked his lips.