Stepmother in charge: Making a fortune through farming and raising her children to fight back

Yun Zhenzhen started panting after only a few steps. The wound on her head had not healed yet, and the severe pain made her break out in cold sweats.

Fortunately, I had plenty of strength and managed to crawl and walk for half an hour, stopping and starting.

The big mountain in front of us is called Mangshan. From time to time, you can hear the howling of wild beasts in it, which is creepy. Because a brave hunter in the village once went in and never came out again, so the people in the entire Daqin Village dare not go deep into it.

I only dared to chop firewood, dig wild vegetables and pick mushrooms in the outskirts of Mangshan to find some food.

But along the way, apart from weeds and plants that the villagers didn't recognize, everything else was bare, not even a wild vegetable.

After a while, Yun Zhenzhen finally found a few clumps of inedible radish under a bunch of bushes. She quickly reached out and picked them frantically, fearing that if she was a step slower she wouldn't be able to eat them.

There was a sound of footsteps coming from afar, and then a group of aunts wearing coarse linen, with pale and thin faces and listless looks walked past Yun Zhenzhen one after another, with the baskets behind them filled with freshly dug wild vegetables.

If you are lucky, you may even find a few small mountain mushrooms.

After seeing her, one of them showed a rare lively expression and a look of disdain.

Yun Zhenzhen didn't bother to care. At this moment, she stared at the corner of the leaf that was exposed under the leaves. If she guessed correctly, there should be a chicken mushroom underneath.

Yun Zhenzhen cautiously stretched out her hand towards the leaf. She gently peeled off the leaves, one by one, and finally saw the treasure hidden underneath - three or four clumps of plump chicken mushrooms!

These chicken mushrooms have conical caps, smooth surfaces, a slightly yellowish color, and a unique aroma. Each one is the size of an egg, with soil still on the bottom, clearly having just emerged from the ground.

Yun Zhenzhen's heart was beating wildly with excitement. This was a good thing. With it, she wouldn't have to eat only wild vegetables. She quickly reached out and picked all the chicken mushrooms and put them in the backpack.

A sharp-eyed aunt nearby saw this scene and hurried over to search, but after spending half a day she didn't find a single mushroom.

Sitting on the ground, he was jealous when he saw the mushrooms in Yun Zhenzhen's hand. He felt unbalanced in his heart. Why should she be the one to find such good things?

"Aunt Qin, this mountain belongs to everyone. You should share the mushrooms you picked with everyone. It's not good to keep them all by yourself and let everyone watch over them."

After she finished speaking, she looked at the others, but no one agreed with her. Everyone knew her family's situation, and no one wanted to make things difficult for a widow.

One of them stepped forward and said, "Aunt Fugui, we all know her family's situation. There's no need to embarrass her just for some mushrooms..."

Yun Zhenzhen looked at the person who was talking in front of her and recognized that it was her neighbor Aunt Zhao. She couldn't help feeling a little uncomfortable.

"Make things difficult for her?" Aunt Fugui screamed when she heard this: "Why do you say I'm making things difficult for her? Isn't it just asking her to share some with me? Besides, the things on this mountain originally belong to everyone, so what's in her arms is mine."

Hearing this, Aunt Zhao was about to persuade her again when a calm voice came from behind her.

"Okay." Yun Zhenzhen walked forward and prepared to hand over the mushrooms in her hand.

No one expected her to agree so readily. Everyone knew the situation at her home. If everyone else had brown rice and had to live on wild vegetables at home, then her family didn't even have brown rice.

Aunt Fugui didn't care about all that. She stood up from the ground and was about to snatch the thing from her hand without even having time to shake off the dust.

"I can give it to you." Yun Zhenzhen took back the mushroom in her hand. "But according to what you said, the mountain belongs to everyone, and the things in the mountain also belong to everyone. Then shouldn't you give me half of the things in your backpack?"

"Why should I give you half? I picked them up myself." Aunt Fugui retorted subconsciously, "You bitch, don't you know how to pick them up yourself?"

"That's right, you bitch, don't you know how to pick it up yourself?" Yun Zhenzhen repeated this sentence with a sneer on her face: "You are so shameless~"

Only then did Aunt Fugui realize that she had been tricked. She was speechless and her face turned pale and blue.

The aunt who was traveling with her quickly stepped forward and pulled her away. Soon she disappeared from sight, leaving only her lingering voice: "You said you were the same, why are you competing with a widow like her?"

As if she had regained her ground, Aunt Fugui was full of confidence: "That's right, I'm just a little whore, no one loves me..."

Yun Zhenzhen wanted to go further inside, but when she thought of the two crying babies at home, she gave up the idea and went back first, waiting to come back in the afternoon when she was ready.

As she reached the door of her house, she heard a baby voice coming from inside.

"Second brother, did mother really go to prepare food for us?"

"I told you not to call her mother."

"Oh~"

Qin Nan continued to ask, "Will she cook for us?"

Qin Wen laughed coldly and said, "If she could cook for us, I would eat the bird droppings at the door."

With a creaky sound, Yun Zhenzhen pushed open the gate.

Seeing her come back, the two little ones stood cautiously in the yard, with a bit of nervousness and uneasiness on their faces. They looked at the basket full of wild vegetables in her backpack without any excitement or expectation.

Since the original owner separated from the family, she has been more harsh on the two little ones. They can only have the food in the house after she has finished eating.

The brothers never had enough to eat at home.

Yun Zhenzhen walked into the inner room carrying the basket on her back, leaving the two siblings looking at each other in bewilderment. You know, at this time in the past, the stepmother would have yelled at them the moment she saw them, so why was she so silent today?

What tricks is she trying to play?

Yun Zhenzhen didn't know what the two little ones were thinking. She took the backpack and went into the kitchen, preparing to make some wild vegetable and chicken mushroom soup with the wild vegetables.

The problem was that I was used to using natural gas and didn't know how to burn wood. After struggling with it for several minutes, I finally gave up and shouted outside, "Someone come and light the fire."

Qin Wen stood at the door, looking at the woman sitting in front of the stove with a cold gaze, a hint of doubt and vigilance on his face. He wanted to see what this stepmother was up to.

After being trained by his original body, Qin Wen became an expert at making fire and cooking, and soon wisps of smoke rose from the kitchen.

A large basket of chicken mushrooms was also washed and placed aside. Little Qin Nan was running around in the yard, and laughter could be heard from time to time. He looked very happy.

Yun Zhenzhen first boiled the water, added wild vegetables and simmered them, then added chicken mushrooms and cooked a pot of thick paste.

She wanted to cook another dish, but her house was bare and she had no seasonings, so she had to give up.

But this is also very good.

You have to know that the original wild vegetable porridge only had wild vegetables, at most a handful of black flour, and it was very watery. She drank the thickest bowl herself, and the child could only have the wild vegetable soup.

It’s nothing like now, when everyone can get a bowl of sticky wild vegetable porridge.

Yun Zhenzhen picked up a bowl and tasted it.

It was very bitter and difficult to eat without any extra seasoning. Fortunately, chicken mushrooms were added, and the freshness of the mushrooms covered up some of the bitterness. Yun Zhenzhen drank a big bowl in one breath.

But when he looked up, he saw the two little ones in front of him staring at the Huhu on the table and swallowing their saliva.

The things she found difficult to eat were actually the food that sustained the children in this family.

Yun Zhenzhen put the bowl on the table, told them to eat it while it was hot, then turned and walked out of the house.

After Qin Wen was sure that his stepmother had left, he served a bowl to himself and his sister. He took a sip and found that it was full of wild vegetables and mushrooms, much more substantial than the wild vegetable soup.

"Second brother..." Qin Nan asked vaguely while eating with a bulging mouth: "Didn't you say that mother can't cook for us?"

"You said that if mom cooked for us, you would eat the bird shit at the door."

Qin Wen, who was eating happily: "......"

A bird seemed to have heard this. It chirped, flew over, took a dump, then flapped its wings and walked away in a swagger.

It seems to be saying: You’re welcome, eat it while it’s hot.

Qin Wen had a stern face and glared at his treacherous little sister, signaling her with his eyes to shut up.

"Hehe!" Qin Nan continued, "Remember to eat less. You have to save some space for dinner. Enmmmm... This is so delicious! How happy I would be if I could eat it every day in the future."

Qin Wen: “…”