Chapter 4: Picking up leaks
"Mom, second sister, third sister..."
"Mom, listen, is it the elder sister calling us?" Huang Yiqiu, the third sister with sharp ears, listened in a slanted ear, and said to Huang Liushi after hearing the elder sister's shout.
"Not good, mom, has the eldest sister found something to eat again, and was discovered by others, and was about to steal my elder sister's things again?" The second sister shouted with a pale face after thinking about what happened a few days ago.
"Let's go, follow my mother quickly." Huang Liu was also panicked when he heard this. He was afraid that his eldest sister would be injured, and that the food he found would be taken away by someone. He was extremely anxious.
He picked up the hoe and ran to the riverbed in a panic.
"Big sister, what's wrong with you? Are you okay?" Huang Liu hurried to the riverbed. After seeing the eldest sister sitting aside, Huang Liu touched the eldest sister anxiously. After thinking about the scene a few days ago, the eldest sister was broken by the refugee and covered in blood, which scared Huang Liu.
I thought my eldest sister would be gone so much, but fortunately God favored me and returned the eldest sister to me.
"Mom, I'm fine. My daughter found something to eat and couldn't carry it, so she called her mother down." Huang Yiyun was held in Huang Liu's arms. Huang Yiyun was slightly shocked. It turned out that this was the taste of her mother. She was protected and cared for her.
Although Huang Liu is thin and thin, he still strongly protects his children, protects his children from wind and rain, and wants the best things to give them.
This is a previous life. My parents died unexpectedly since childhood. I never felt the warmth and care of my mother. This feels so good, so good.
Huang Yiyun's eyes turned red, and she held back her tears. She pointed to the river clam beside her and said to Huang Li, the second sister and the third sister.
"What about river clams? Or are there live river clams? There are so many, which can be enough for our family to eat for two or three months." After seeing the river clams beside them, the third sister picked them up. After smelling them, she knocked them. After seeing so many river clams alive, the third sister, who has always been gentle and implicit, jumped up happily and was very excited.
In Huang Yiyun's original opinion, he could only eat river clams that he could only eat for more than a month. In the third sister's mouth, he said that he could eat for two or three months. It seemed that during this period, everyone was afraid of being hungry and found some food, just thinking about how to save food and extend the time to eat.
"What about this river clam? How did you find it, big sister?" Huang Liu also showed excitement on his face and asked Huang Yiyun.
In this famine era, it is not easy to find such a large number of river clams. Such a large number of river clams are enough for my eldest family to eat for a long time.
"My daughter went down the riverbed to see if she could find anything. My daughter thought she couldn't find anything, so she planned to walk back. Coincidentally, after stepping on a hard object under her feet, she dug it up and saw a river clam inside. Then her daughter stepped on it hard everywhere, and when she stepped on it, there was a hard object under her feet, she dug it out and saw that it felt like a hard object under her feet, and most of them had river clams."
"My eldest sister is a blessing. I can find food one after another. The riverbed is so big, the eldest sister may not have picked up all the river clams hidden in the riverbed. Thank you for your hard work. You should take a break first. Second sister, third sister, you follow your mother, step on and go and pick up the bargain." Huang Liu, second sister, third sister, and three sister looked at the dry riverbed with their eyes shining.
It was like a hungry wolf who had been hungry for a long time, and he could not wait to see the little white rabbit.
In the end, the riverbed, which was only a hundred meters long, was found by Huang Liu's mother and daughter.
Huang Yiyun guessed that there were 156 river clams, big and small.
At almost four o'clock in the afternoon, the mother and daughter left in a fresh way.
Two flowers bloom, each with one branch.
Huang Liu and Huang Conghe went up the mountain to find food. Their family had a few days to come to this abandoned village.
I also went up the mountain twice, but now that autumn is coming, there are only dead grass and leaves left, and I can’t find anything to eat. Even pheasants, hares and other wild game have not been seen.
Either it is almost winter, these animals are also winter, or they are caught by people and no one is left.
This time, Huang Li planned to walk away from his second son to see if he could find some food.
However, I eat once a day, and it is a little clear soup and watery, and I don’t eat in the morning, so it’s a laborious job to go up the mountain.
Halfway through the journey, Huang Li couldn't walk as he got older.
There are dead branches and dead trees on the hillside. The bark that can be eaten was peeled away by our predecessors. The dead trees that had withered and dead were so ugly that they were bare and ugly. Moreover, there were many potholes on the ground. It seemed that the roots of wild vegetables were dug up completely.
"Mom, you haven't eaten in the morning and your stomach is empty. You have walked such a long mountain road. You are so tired. Why don't you go back first and I'll go further and see if you can find something to eat." Huang Conghe said, holding Huang Lishi.
"Walk a little further and you really can't find anything to eat, so just peel more bark and go back to cook. It's better than starving to death." Huang Li shook his head, and the mother and son helped him walk up the mountain.
Walking into the deep mountains, surviving trees appeared, and there was a trace of vitality.
The mother and son found a short persimmon tree in a jungle that was hiding from the sun.
If Huang Li hadn't slipped under his feet and fell into the thorny jungle on the low slope.
The mother and son could not find this short persimmon tree.
There are about a dozen red persimmons at the top of the persimmon tree.
Many of these dozen persimmons were pecked by birds and eaten half of them.
It seems that the persimmon is ripe and attracts birds to eat.
Huang Li and his son hoeed the thorns that stabbed people with hatchets and hoes, and walked under the persimmon tree.
Huang Li saw that the persimmon tree was only the size of a bowl, and only three branches were divided into them. On the branches, they could not bear the weight of an adult at all.
"Second, cut it down!" After looking at the dozen persimmons on the top of the tree, he sighed.
At that time, don’t find much food and throw people away. Will it be more costly to get it?
"Okay, mom." I wonder if I had found something to eat, Huang Conghe was very energetic and cut off the persimmon tree in just over a dozen strokes.
After the persimmon tree was cut off, Huang Li carefully picked more than a dozen persimmons, wrapped them in cloth, and took them back for the children to eat.
After hesitating for a moment, Huang Li took out two persimmons that were pecked by birds and eaten a lot and handed them to Huang Conghe. "Second, we have also walked a long way, eat one to cushion your stomach first."
After Huang Conghe hesitated for a while, he removed the persimmon stems and ignored him and swallowed them whole.
After seeing this, Huang Li, who was standing by, handed the persimmon in his hand over and said, "Eat another one."
"No, mom, eat, my son is not hungry." Huang Conghe shook his head and refused.
"Oh!" If you can't eat enough for a meal today, you can't eat enough for this little persimmon, it's all God is doing!
Chapter completed!