Chapter 19: Departure
"Big sister, how did you think of this method when you sit here?" Huang Li patted the kang beside her and signaled Huang Yiyun to sit down.
"It wasn't when the eldest sister was cooking yesterday. The fourth and fifth sisters washed the yellow spinach leaves and let the eldest sister stir-fry them. They said that the yellow leaves were stir-frying together. The eldest sister picked them out and asked the fifth brother to throw them into the chicken. Seeing the birds on the wall of our house flying down and grab the spinach leaves with the chickens to eat, the eldest sister thought of it." Huang Yiyun smiled and hugged Huang Li's arm, resting her head on Huang Li's shoulder and said.
"My eldest sister is smart. During this disaster, I found food again and again, which shows that she is a blessed person." Huang Li smiled and touched Huang Yiyun's head.
"This is not." Huang Liu also echoed.
If you are a mother, who doesn’t like to hear others say good things about your children?
"Mom, you have a good embroidery work. These rabbit skins have been dried. You make a pair of rabbit leather shoes for my aunt and a pair for my aunt. My daughter probably has a little more. You make another pair for my fourth brother." Huang Yiyun looked at Huang Liu carefully. After seeing that there was no strange color on her face, Huang Yiyun walked behind Huang Liu, pinched Huang Liu's shoulders and said.
"Okay, mom, let's do it now."
"Don't, sister-in-law, I don't need these rabbit leather shoes. I can make them for you." Huang Jiangshi hurriedly refused when she heard this.
"My brother and sister-in-law, my sister-in-law is stronger than you, so it's okay to do it for you. My sister-in-law is not feeling uncomfortable either."
"All right, don't refuse anyone. All the old people will do it for the second family. It's too disgusting for the whole family." After seeing that Huang Li and his sister-in-law were going to refuse, they decided to come down and said.
"Since, mom, daughter-in-law will do it now."
What surprised Huang Yiyun about catching birds this day was that their family caught more than 70 or 80 birds, most of which were sparrows, and a few crows and partridges.
However, as today's disaster is like no one can get enough, let alone birds.
I really responded to the saying, people die for money, and birds die for food.
Most of the birds caught by the Huang family were one or two, with a little emphasis on crows and partridges, but no more than two taels, and they were all thin.
Tonight Huang Yiyun is still the chef.
He directly slaughtered half of the birds caught today, and used roasted birds as the main food, then fryed a bean and steamed an eggplant crumb meat.
The roasted birds were crispy and tender. I ate them a few young people in the Huang family, saying that they were delicious. Even Huang Li ate two more roasted birds.
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Time slowly comes to halfway through February of the coming year.
Spring is already in full swing, everything has recovered, and the weather is gradually getting warmer.
In winter, the Huang family first found river clams and wild yam, and then there were pheasants and hares. In addition to successful greenhouse planting, birds were caught in winter.
Moreover, after the greenhouse planting was successful, Huang Li was worried that he would not be able to eat food in the spring of the next year, so he marinated several jars of beans, eggplant and cucumbers.
Even the hen at home, the chickens that had been raised for several months and a half, and the birds caught in the past were dried and left to eat when they were on the road in spring.
I had surplus food in my hand, and I was not panicked. In the winter when others thought that natural disasters were overwhelming, the Huang family was so comfortable that they could eat and drink.
Although the family didn't eat a lot of oil and big fish and meat, they could at least eat enough to fill their stomachs and eat meat from time to time.
This winter, the Huang family’s small ones were much white and tender, and they also had a little meat.
"It's spring now and the weather is getting warmer. Let's clean up tonight. We will start to leave for Zuobei City tomorrow to meet with the boss and the head. Don't let them wait for us anymore." After dinner that day, Huang Li suddenly decided.
These days, Huang Yiyun saw that Huang Li had some insomnia at night and was tossing and turning on the kang repeatedly, so he thought that Huang Li should propose a departure.
There are not many things in the Huang family, and many of them have been packed up.
The next day, he loaded a single-timber car and prepared to set off to go to the agreed Zuobei City.
"Wait." After getting ready to set off, Huang Yiyun suddenly called everyone.
Everyone saw the eldest sister running into the kitchen again. After she came back, they saw the eldest sister holding a piece of yellow soil and a piece of black charcoal in her hand. Huang Li was puzzled and said, "Big sister, what are you doing?"
"My grandma, like today's disaster, everyone is not full, and many people even failed to get through last winter. There are so many people and children in our family, and the children are all white and tender. When others see it, they are not obviously telling others that we are good at eating and drinking in winter?
The eldest sister will give you some mud and charcoal ash, make them black and yellow, don't be so eye-catching." Huang Yiyun said, his hands were constantly moving, and he made them black and yellow on his younger brothers' faces, and his thin body were almost the same as before, and they were all refugees.
As for my uncle, grandma, aunt and mother, they were covered in wind and rain, and their skin was no longer white, all withered and dark, and they didn't need Huang Yiyun to dress up. They really looked like they didn't have a good meal.
"It's still the eldest sister who thinks it carefully." When Huang Li heard the eldest sister's words, he was shocked first. He thought that refugees were bandits and had children. What if he saw a few of his children who were white and tender, it might be jealous?
Fortunately, the eldest girl thought about it carefully.
"Okay, let's go." After Huang Yiyun dressed up his younger brother and sister, his younger uncle carried his seventh, sixth, fifth and fourth brothers into a single-timber cart and pushed him away.
My uncle placed the pots, pans, clothes, quilts and other items from the Huang family on another single-timber car.
Huang Yiyun, the second sister, the third sister and Huang Liu took turns to push.
As for the food prepared, Huang Li was worried, so she personally carried a basket on her back and covered it with a coarse cloth.
My aunt was in poor health and she was panting after walking for a while. Huang Yiyun asked her to get on the single-timber car.
We set out again to Zuobei City. Perhaps the Huang family had good food and drink throughout the winter, and after preparing a lot of food, the Huang family no longer looked ashamed. Instead, several small chattering along the way, and the dullness on the road was also taken away by the Huang family's children.
Although the Huang family has two single-timber carts pushing it, the road is rugged and uneven. They walk very slowly. They hurry during the day and rest at night to make a fire. They lean on each other to keep warm. When they are hungry, they pick some wild vegetables and eat some pickled pickles pickled by Huang Li’s family.
At night, I encountered a mountain temple sleeping in the mountain temple. If there was no fire, the family would sleep together for a night.
Chapter completed!