【Quick Wear】My Years as a Mother-in-law

Yun Xi drank a few sips of the rice soup on the surface and stopped drinking. She leaned against the wall and whispered, "Chunsheng, Meizi, you two take care of my sister tomorrow. I'll go out and look for her."

Li Chunsheng frowned, reached out and threw a piece of firewood into the fire, and said disapprovingly: "Mom, it's freezing outside."

Yun Xi presented facts and reasoned with them, directly pointing out their predicament, "But how long can these things last?"

Li Chunsheng choked. "Yeah, how long can it last? Even if I save it, it can only last seven days. It's only October now. What will I do for the rest of the year? Will I just rely on water?"

Li Meizi didn't dare to speak. She was bought by the Li family as a child bride. She didn't have any special skills and the knowledge she gained from rebirth was useless now. She was confused about her future.

"Don't worry, I'm just walking around. I'll be back when I feel cold."

The next morning, Yun Xi drank a sip of rice soup, picked up her backpack and hoe, and left.

The mountain they were in at that time was in the middle of the continuous mountain range. The tribesmen explored deeper for more than twenty miles, but still found nothing.

So she didn't go deeper, but found a gentle slope to go up the mountain. Based on her memory and the climate of Jin Country, Yun Xi guessed that this place had a temperate monsoon climate and was rich in species. She wanted to see if there were any edible root vegetables that had not been discovered.

"System, can you help me scan it?"

System: "Yes, but only within about ten meters of you."

"Okay, I'll walk around and take a look."

After Yun Xi climbed the mountain, the road became even more difficult to walk on and she fell several times, so her pace was very slow. When she was hungry, she ate bread or snacks, and when she was thirsty, she drank juice or something like that. Whenever she felt the urge to defecate, she would go to the toilet immediately, and the Guanyin soil in her stomach was slowly discharged.

"Host, go to the left."

Yun Xi immediately turned around, but after taking a few steps, she was stopped. "There's an old yam under your feet."

"Really?"

Yun Xi was delighted. She squatted down and started digging with a hoe. The frozen soil was difficult to dig. Yun Xi used all her strength and slowly dug out a big yam.

Yun Xi exclaimed, "Wow, this is two meters long, right?"

System: "Almost, 1.8 meters."

"Well, this exercise makes me want to go to the toilet."

After putting the yam into the space disk, Yun Xi found a place to continue working hard, and continued looking after finishing.

By dark, Yun Xi had found nothing to eat, so she had to drag the yam back.

When she appeared at the entrance of the cave, holding the yam, she lit up everyone's hearts like a hero.

"You are great from the Sanniu family."

The clan leader finally stood up by supporting himself on the ground, and asked everyone to pick out the yams and cook them directly to share.

Yun Xi didn't say anything. If others found food, they would also confiscate it, so she nodded and returned to her bed.

Li Yanran, lying on the ground, looked at her admiringly, "Mom, did you find something to eat?"

"Well, a yam." Yun Xi didn't want to say more. Constipation was too painful.

Li Meizi handed over a bowl of water, "Mom, drink some hot water first and then the porridge."

"Okay, have you eaten?" Yun Xi took it and drank it in one gulp.

"No, this is enough for one meal today. I can eat the rest slowly." Li Chunsheng replied with his eyes closed while lying on the bamboo mat.

Yun Xi sighed. Seeing the two little ones looking anxiously at her, she poured out a third of her rice porridge into a clay pot to heat it up. Then she gave everyone two mouthfuls. "Eat it. You can't sleep if you're hungry."

A quarter of the rice porridge was enough for the two little ones, Li Yanran and Li Xiaqing, to drink their fill. After licking the bowl clean, they lay down on the ground and closed their eyes to sleep, trying not to make big movements and waste energy.

The same goes for Li Chunsheng and Li Meizi.

Yun Xi looked at the dirty bedding. It was dirty and thin, and didn't feel like cotton.

"System, is there no cotton left in Jin Country?"

"Yes, this family used to have some, but they sold them off to stock up on food. They were filled with reed fluff."

"So that's it."

Fortunately, every household had a fire burning, so it wasn't too cold. Yun Xi thought about how her original father was a scholar, but he had a stepmother. She could have married into a good family, but she was forced to choose a widower with a child because the stepmother offered a large gift.

Fortunately, Li Sanniu was a good man and could hunt, so he lived a good life. Unfortunately, he encountered a natural disaster. With Li Meizi's reminder, he sold all the valuable things in the house and exchanged them for food. Unfortunately, he still couldn't survive.

Natural disasters are not something ordinary people can bear.

After receiving five bowls of yam soup, Yun Xi fell asleep quickly while thinking about things. She was woken up by the cold in the morning. Seeing that the fire was about to go out, she quickly added two pieces of firewood into it.

"System, what time is it now?"

"Five in the morning."

Having gone to bed too early last night, Yun Xi was very energetic now. She first boiled a clay pot of hot water to wash her face and rinse her mouth, then drank a large bowl of hot water. She then put another clay pot on top and poured her rice porridge into it to heat it. After it was hot, Yun Xi added a little hot water and divided it into five portions for everyone to drink.

"You guys keep the food here, I'll go out and look for food later. I hope I can still find it." Yun Xi looked worried.

"it is good."

Li Chunsheng had no objection, he felt his stepmother was very lucky.

Yun Xi finished drinking the rice soup and left as usual. Several men followed her, but she ignored them and just found a direction to continue scanning the system. She then used a stick to dig the snow, pretending to do so.

The men behind her, all with big bellies, imitated her, and both sides were silent.

It was noon, and when Yun Xi fell a few times and reached the halfway point of the mountain, the system scanned a sweet potato.

"This way~"

Yun Xi weakly shouted to the group of people below. Upon hearing this, the eight men below immediately quickened their pace and climbed up. Seeing Sanniu's wife pointing at a slender dry sweet potato vine, they immediately pounced on it and started digging. Of course, they did not throw away the sweet potato vine. Even if it was dry, animals could eat it, and so could people.

Seeing that they had dug out five small sweet potatoes, Yun Xi turned around and continued to climb up the mountain. This time she was lucky. Just as she was about to lie down on the thick snow to rest, the system spoke.

"A few meters up there's a yam that's even older than yesterday's."

Yun Xi just lay down and got up again, found the yam vine and called the men to dig it.

This time, it took almost half an hour to dig the old yam and found a three-meter-long yam, as thick as an adult's arm. Wow, this one should last for ten days. Together with the sweet potatoes, Yun Xi wanted to go back. She had a great harvest today.

Turning around, she saw the eager gazes of eight grown men. Yun Xi choked and had to continue.

It was not until the evening that they found another nest of sweet potatoes and dug out eight. At this time, the weather was not good, the wind began to blow, and snowflakes fell again. Everyone hurried back to the cave. The people in the cave sat up anxiously when they saw their harvest.

Chief Li pulled his son aside to ask about it, and said with surprise, "Starting tomorrow, one person from each family will be divided into several groups to go to the mountains to find food. Whether we can survive this winter depends on everyone's efforts."

There were sporadic responses from the cave, but Chief Li paid no attention to them. He put the sweet potatoes and yams away and cooked them when everyone ran out of food.

Yun Xi did not enter the cave. She first found a place sheltered from the wind and ate half a full meal. She also solved some personal problems before going back. She needed to rest for three more days before taking the laxative. It would be almost time.

When they got to their own beds, there was still plenty of rice soup and yam, not a bit less. Yun Xi frowned, picked up the rice soup left by her daughter and son, poured it into the clay pot, heated it up, and shared it with everyone. "Everyone will find food in the future, there's no need to be so frugal."

Li Chunsheng disagreed and said, "What if we can't find anything to eat?" Wouldn't we have to eat Guanyin soil again?

"If I can find it, everyone can definitely find it too. You don't have to worry." Yun Xi said firmly.

I gave everyone some rice soup and then we lay down to rest.