Traveling Through Farmhouses: Taking the Baby on a Famine Escape

To put Duanmu Yun at ease, Zhang Xixi accepted the token, but thinking they probably wouldn't need it, she put it away in her storage bag.

Watching Duanmu Yun and the others walk away, Zhang Xixi felt a little reluctant. After all, they had lived together for so long, but they were destined to be from different worlds. She could only wish her a peaceful life.

"Da Bao, Er Bao, let's go pull weeds!"

"Ok!"

"Mother, what about the horse!"

That's right! Duanmu Yun is gone, and Brother Ma is left without anyone to take care of him!

Zhang Xixi turned to look at her two children, "Da Bao, Er Bao, Mom is entrusting you with a very important task!"

Da Bao and Er Bao immediately straightened their posture and asked with serious faces, "Mom, what kind of task is it?"

"From now on, our horse is in your care. You must take good care of it!"

"Mother, don't worry, we promise to complete the mission successfully!"

Zhang Xixi smiled and waved, "Then you guys go ahead, be careful!"

Erbao pulled Dabao along happily towards the livestock enclosure. Finally, they could ride horses! Erbao had always envied Aunt Yun when she rode a horse.

While Zhang Xixi was still struggling with weeds in the vegetable garden in the mountains, Duanmu Yun and the others had already left the forest.

Duanmu Yun turned to look at the mountains and forests, feeling a little melancholy; she was about to leave this place so soon.

When Madam Xu saw Duanmu Yun stop, she asked, "Miss, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing, I just suddenly felt a bit sentimental!"

"Miss, you can get in the carriage now!" Wang Zhong called out to Duanmu Yun and the others after he had harnessed the carriage.

Upon entering the carriage, Madam Xu exclaimed in surprise at the vibrant, large cabbages, "These cabbages are growing so well!"

Duanmu Yun looked at the cabbage and said with a smile, "It's growing very well. After all, Sister Xi has been taking very good care of it for the past seven or eight days!"

"What? These vegetables have only been growing for a few days!"

Seeing Xu's surprised and suspicious expression, Duanmu Yun asked in confusion, "Is there a problem?"

"Miss, don't you find it strange? How can vegetables grow this big after only a few days of planting, especially when they are short of water and fertilizer?"

"But that's how cabbages grow where Sister Xi and her family live!"

Seeing Duanmu Yun's blank expression, Madam Xu sighed inwardly. She was confused too; her young mistress had never grown vegetables before, so how would she know these things? Oh well, it's not a big deal.

Duanmu Yun looked at her shoes, then at the cabbage, and thought to herself that Sister Xi's family was indeed a bit magical. But for their own good, she should just keep these things to herself.

"Wet nurse, let's go!"

Xu lifted the curtain and said something to Wang Zhong, and the carriage slowly headed towards the northwest border.

The cabbages in Zhang Xixi's vegetable garden grew bigger and bigger, and of course, the weeds also grew deeper and deeper. When the cabbages grew to the size of pumpkins, Zhang Xixi harvested them and packed them into burlap sacks.

Originally, they had planned to make some kimchi, but Zhang Xixi only knew how to eat it, not how to cook it. Although she described the general idea to Chen, she couldn't make it in time, so the sacks that couldn't hold it all had to be dried.

After harvesting the cabbages, Zhang Xixi thought that the effects of the nutrient solution should still be present, so she turned the soil over again and sowed the cabbage seeds. However, this time the cabbages grew much slower.

Moreover, the water level has been decreasing recently; the lake is now dry, with only a small amount flowing from its source.

"Sister-in-law, each family will only get one bucket of water today!"

Zhang Xixi sighed, "We'll use it sparingly, and save the water from washing dishes and vegetables to water the vegetable garden."

Zhou Yujie grunted in agreement, picked up the axe, and headed to chop wood.

Zhang Xixi interrupted, "Yujie, there's no need to go chop wood. We might be leaving in the next day or two!"

Zhou Yujie was taken aback for a moment, then said, "I'll go check on Da Bao and Er Bao!"

"it is good!"

In the afternoon, Zhang Xixi bought a bucket of spiritual spring water and went to water the vegetable garden, hoping to help the cabbages grow as quickly as possible.

Sure enough, after dinner, Zhou Dashan notified everyone to discuss matters.

"Everyone is aware of the situation. Everyone should harvest their own vegetables tomorrow, and we'll set off the day after tomorrow morning."

The next day, Zhang Xixi harvested all the garlic sprouts from her own garden and put them in her vegetable basket. She planned to collect the cabbage in her storage bag the morning before she left.

"Mom, let's make more steamed buns!" Zhang Xixi carried half a bag of flour and garlic sprouts to the Zhang family's kitchen.

Mrs. Chen nodded, "That's fine. Steamed buns are easy to carry, but there are so many garlic sprouts. I'm afraid they'll spoil if we don't finish them."

"Mom, we can make filling with garlic sprouts and meat to make meat buns," Zhang Xixi suggested.

"That works too. Go and call your second brother to chop the meat!"

Mentioning her second brother, Zhang Xixi wondered why her second sister-in-law seemed to have such a low profile lately. Curious, she asked, "Mom, why hasn't my second sister-in-law bothered me lately?"

Chen's eyes flickered slightly. "What, you want her to cause you trouble?"

"No, isn't it just that I'm acting a little strange?"

Seeing her daughter's silly grin, and glancing around to make sure no one else was there, Chen whispered, "Your second sister-in-law heard from somewhere that she's having a girl, and she thinks we'll blame her for it. She's feeling really guilty, so she hasn't been showing her face lately."

Zhang Xixi was dumbfounded. It was that simple! Women in ancient times were truly pitiful; it wasn't a woman's fault if she couldn't give birth to a son.

"Your father and I don't care whether it's a boy or a girl, but since this makes her quieter, I didn't bother."

Zhang Xixi exclaimed, "Mom, you're quite open-minded!"

Although she didn't know what her daughter meant by "enlightened," Chen didn't care and continued, "I am a woman too, and I know how difficult it is for women to survive in this world. Why should women make things difficult for each other?"

"Alright, it's getting late, go and call your brother over to get some work done!"

"okay!"

The villagers from Zhoujia Village were still traveling along the outer perimeter this time. The roads didn't need much clearing, but many families had brought hundreds of kilograms of cabbages, and some had even brought the soil from where they had grown the cabbages. So they were traveling very slowly this time.

Most people in the village feel that now that they have food, don't have to go hungry, and are not in danger, it's not bad to walk slowly.

Zhang Xixi found it a bit difficult because she suddenly had the idea to learn how to make boots. She went to ask Chen for advice and studied for a few days, but she was clumsy and couldn't learn no matter how hard she tried. She could only slowly practice every day.

Zhang Xixi complained inwardly that the scissors were really unusable and were broken. She had ruined the rabbit skin again.

The system, unable to bear Zhang Xixi's self-deception any longer, spoke up: "Host, just accept your fate! You simply don't have the talent for handicrafts!"

"System, how could I lack talent? I think I'm quite intelligent!"

System: "..." I'd better not discourage the host, lest she get brain congestion and become increasingly stupid!