Ji Yunshuang said, "Well, the secret is that you must not tell anyone except me."

Lu Yuzhu said, "Okay! Then Zhuzhu won't tell anyone, not even if brother asks."

Ji Yunshuang said, "So good!"

As they spoke, the two had already entered the cave.

"Wow!" Lu Yuzhu exclaimed in surprise upon seeing the scene inside the cave. "It looks like a small house!"

Ji Yunshuang said, "Because many young ladies live here!"

"Master!" Chen Wu came from the other end of the cave, saw Ji Yunshuang, and hurriedly knelt down to pay his respects.

Gong Hui had just given birth, and Ji Yunshuang had brought many kinds of seeds when she came last time. Chen's father wanted to plant the seeds as soon as possible.

Therefore, the cave has been particularly busy these past few days, with even the youngest girls going to help in the fields.

When Ji Yunshuang and her group arrived, no one noticed them. Chen Wu was on his way to hunt some more game to nourish his wife, and that's when he happened to run into Ji Yunshuang.

Ji Yunshuang gestured for him to stand up and asked, "How are Madam Gong and the child?"

"Everything is fine! Thank you, Master!" Chen Wu kowtowed to Ji Yunshuang several more times before standing up and saying, "I'll go tell them now and go with you."

Ji Yunshuang said, "There's no need to rush! You stay with them for a while, I'll take Zhuzhu to the back pit to take a look first."

Houkeng was the name she gave to the large area at the other end of the cave for convenience.

Ji Yunshuang took Lu Yuzhu's hand, and after a few steps, she remembered something, took a jar out of her bag, and handed it to him, saying, "This is for the baby. If the baby doesn't have enough milk, you can mix it with warm water and feed it to the baby. If the baby has enough milk, you can also use it to nourish the mother."

It was formula milk powder she took from her spatial storage.

She had a lot of this in her spatial storage. She had originally intended to take it out for her two children to drink while they were fleeing famine, but it was too inconvenient to carry it around.

Later, she took out a cow from her spatial dimension so that her family could drink fresh milk, so she didn't touch the milk powder.

Thinking that she had personally delivered the child, she took out a can of milk powder and put it in a porcelain jar when she arrived.

Chen Wu's eyes welled up with tears. He took the jar and was about to kowtow to Ji Yunshuang again, but Ji Yunshuang quickly said, "Don't kneel, go quickly!"

This time, Ji Yunshuang didn't linger and took Lu Yuzhu and Zhu Dong'e to Houkeng.

Upon seeing Ji Yunshuang and Zhu Dong'e, the children all put down what they were doing and gathered around them.

The children chattered excitedly with Ji Yunshuang, and some looked at Lu Yuzhu curiously, asking who she was.

After learning that Lu Yuzhu was Ji Yunshuang's daughter, they were all incredibly envious.

Lu Yuzhu also looked at the people in the field with curiosity. She really didn't expect that so many young ladies would live in the cave.

Seeing the curiosity in her eyes, Ji Yunshuang squatted down and asked, "Would you like to play with them?"

Lu Yuzhu nodded.

Ji Yunshuang then let her play with the children, while she and Chen's father went to the side to talk.

Ji Yunshuang mainly asked about the situation at the middle school and the subsequent arrangements.

In fact, Houkeng is quite large; it could easily accommodate more than a dozen families.

However, clearing land in other places requires a lot of effort, but the land that Chen's father and his children were cultivating was the easiest to clear.

On the other side, Lu Yuzhu looked around curiously and asked Ji Yuqing and the others, "Why are you all staying here?"

“We were all sold by our parents. It was your mother who saved us and put us here.”

Thinking of her biological parents who sold her, Ji Yuqing felt a little sad, but then she thought of Ji Yunshuang and said, "Your mother is a good person. Thanks to her, we are able to live a peaceful life here!"

Lu Yuzhu felt sorry for them. Although her parents couldn't be with her every day, she was sure they wouldn't sell her.

And her mother, whenever she comes home, spends as much time with her as possible; she is the best mother in the world.

If her mother went to save these poor girls when she left her, she would be more obedient in the future.

She thought to herself, "My mother is the best mother in the world."

The group of children surrounding Lu Yuzhu all wore expressions of envy. If their mothers were like Sister Ji, they certainly wouldn't have sold them all!

Although they were sold, it was precisely because they were scolded for being sold that they had the opportunity to meet Sister Ji. This could be considered their good fortune.

Thinking this way, everyone became even more enthusiastic towards Lu Yuzhu.

Lu Yuzhu was happy to be able to play with so many young ladies. Unlike her older brother, they didn't like to frown and have a cold face while reading.

It's still more fun hanging out with these girls.

She looked at the tools in their hands and asked, "What are those things you're holding? Were you just planting crops?"

"This is a small hoe. We're planting beans." Ji Yuqing handed the small hoe to Lu Yuzhu and told her that the black stuff on the beans was fire ash, and that beans mixed with fire ash would grow better.

Lu Yuzhu sincerely admired them, saying, "You guys are amazing! You know so much!"

"Uncle Chen taught us all of this." Ji Yuqing was born into a farming family and worked in the fields with her parents from a young age. She knows how to do a lot of farm work.

But her family didn't know that mixing wood ash into the beans would make them grow better.

There are many other ways to farm that she has never seen before.

Sometimes she couldn't help but wonder if the harvest would be better if his parents knew these methods.

In that case, they wouldn't sell her, would they?

But then she remembered how her grandmother often scolded her for being a "money-losing daughter," and how her mother would beat her if she did anything slightly wrong, saying that girls were useless and inferior to boys. She started crying about how miserable her life was.

After her younger brother was born, her mother focused all her attention on him.

She sighed inwardly.

Even if she had farmed the land well and hadn't been sold, she would still be a worthless burden living only for her younger brother.

It's good now.

*

Ji Yunshuang and Lu Yuzhu went to the back pit, and Chen Wu quickly took the porcelain jar that Ji Yunshuang had given him to the cave where his wife lived.

The cave where Gong Hui and the children lived was a small room that Chen's father specially partitioned off with wooden planks.

Gong Hui suffered severe bleeding during childbirth, which damaged her health. She is still in bed, and Chen's mother is taking care of the baby in the room.

As soon as Chen Wu entered, he heard the child's faint cries.

He ran over in a few steps, "Mother, what's wrong? Why is the child crying?"

Chen's mother held the baby and gently rocked him. "It's alright, he's just hungry. Your wife suffered a lot when she gave birth, so she didn't have much milk and the baby isn't getting enough to eat."

There's some rice porridge simmering in a jar in my kitchen. You hold the baby, and I'll go get it and feed him.

Chen Wu handed the jar that Ji Yunshuang had given him to her and said, "The master sent something over, saying that if the child doesn't have milk to drink, you can make this for the child to drink."

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