To make matters worse,
Wu Cuihua also jumped out and cursed, "Those ungrateful things ate our fish last night, and just now they refused to help."
Li Laosi gave her a cold look and refused . echoed.
The third sister-in-law also knows how to protect the luggage and his wife and children. The second sister-in-law will come forward when it is beneficial and hide when trouble occurs.
If it wasn't for his second brother, he would have really wanted to slap her until her teeth were all over the floor.
When Mrs. Li and others rushed back, she felt bad when she heard that the food had been robbed.
Wu Cuihua jumped up and down, as if she had just tried her best to protect the food.
Mrs. Li knocked on the pot with a cigarette pouch.
"Shut your mouth. No one in the family knows what your virtues are! If you dare to talk any more, don't eat at night."
"If the food is gone, what else can we eat?"
Wu Cuihua muttered as she avoided the pipe and pot. , which made the whole family look coldly.
Mrs. Li took the swaddling clothes and saw her granddaughter's eyes shining brightly, feeling relieved.
"Grandma's Fu Niu'er, aren't you scared? Grandma is back, so we are not afraid."
Jiayin replied with a bubble of saliva, trying to comfort the old lady with a few words, but all she came out was babbling.
This made Mrs. Li even happier, "That's all. If the food is gone, it will be gone. As long as the whole family is safe. Besides, we still have a little lucky girl in our family. With some luck, we won't be hungry."
Wu Cuihua He curled his lips and wanted to say something to make things more difficult, but was pulled back by Li Laoer.
"I'm going to pack my things and have to leave."
Wu Cuihua rolled her eyes, not daring to say anything.
Jiayin lay in her mother's arms and sat on her father's wheelbarrow again on the road.
Her little brows were furrowed, and she was trying to think of how she could be less alarming and still be able to actually help her family.
Unfortunately, her little brain was not fully developed yet, so she couldn't figure out a way, so she fell asleep first...
When Jiayin woke up again, it was already time to take a rest at noon.
The sun was shining right now, and Tao Hongying was afraid that her daughter would be exposed to the sun, so she asked Jiaxi and Jiaan to pick up a few wooden sticks and tie them with strips of cloth.
A piece of Li Laosi's big cloth was covered on top to make a simple pergola to shade the sun.
Wu Cuihua glanced back at Jiayin from time to time, muttering something in her mouth that she didn't know she was talking about, and it probably wasn't anything good.
The food was taken away, and now there was only half a bag of millet left on the donkey cart, as well as the sweet potatoes dug up earlier.
A big family, and a few half-year-olds, this thing can't last long at all.
Mrs. Li took two puffs from her pipe and pot, her slightly cloudy eyes full of sorrow.
"Fourth, I can keep the millet and sweet potatoes, so I'll keep them for now. Go to the mountain and see if you can find something to eat."
Mrs. Li looked back and saw that her granddaughter's eyes were still closed and she didn't seem to be awake, and her voice was lowered a bit.
Li Laosi readily agreed, put his bow and arrows on his back and headed up the mountain.
Several boys wanted to follow, but Li Laosi drove them back.
It is difficult to hunt when there are many people. They are impatient, and even if there is a pheasant, hare or something, they will be scared away.
When Jiayin heard what Mrs. Li said, she opened her eyes and looked over. She only saw her father's strong back and was a little worried.
In such a famine year, when even people have nothing to eat, how can those game animals survive?
Without her following him, it would be strange that her father could hunt any living creatures!
Jiayin quickly stretched out her little hand and grabbed it in the direction of Mr. Li, babbling, trying to call her father back.
Tao Hongying thought Jiayin was hungry, so she quickly held her in her arms and breastfed her.
Jiayin suddenly took a mouthful of milk, and the baby's nature made her subconsciously start to swallow.
With such an interruption, Li Laosi was completely gone.
Jiayin sighed silently, alas, that's all, she can follow him next time.
Half an hour later, there was no good news secretly taking things out of the space. As you can imagine, Li Laosi returned empty-handed.
There are a lot of people around here. Not to mention the game on the mountain, even the bark of the trees has been almost stripped off, and there is no trace of the wild fruits and vegetables.
Everyone saw Li Laosi coming back empty-handed. Although they were mentally prepared, they still felt a little melancholy when they thought about the little food left.
Li Laoer looked at his brother's dark face that was faintly filled with guilt, raised his hand and patted his shoulder gently, jokingly.
"Look, you can't do it without our Fu Niu'er by your side, right?
Let me tell you, you should hug Fu Niu'er before you set off. Maybe you can catch a pheasant, hare or something!"
He said jokingly , but it dissipated a bit of the sadness that had just filled the surroundings of the Li family, and everyone laughed.
Jiayin quite agreed with Li Laoer's words, grinned her little mouth, rubbed her two rows of toothless bald teeth up and down, and also babbling in response.
Seeing her like this, Mrs. Li smiled even more happily, stretched out her hand to tease her granddaughter, and dangled the cigarette bag hanging under the pot in front of her.
Jiayin's face was full of black lines, why did her actions look so like teasing a puppy.
Although she thought so in her heart, she still reached out her little hand to grab it resignedly, causing Mrs. Li and others to laugh again.
"Sister is not only a lucky girl, but also a pistachio!"
Jia'an smiled so hard that her teeth were almost exposed, and she clapped her hands and said.
Although they didn't find anything good in the mountains, the Li family couldn't go hungry.
Mrs. Li grabbed a handful of millet and picked two small sweet potatoes. She gave them to her third daughter-in-law and asked her to cook them into a paste.
Zhao Yuru carefully held the sweet potatoes and millet, put them in the pot, and took them to the river to wash them.
Wu Cuihua stretched her neck and looked at the half bag of sweet potatoes, and then looked at the two brothers Jiaxi and Jiaan who were milking Jiayin. Her eyes rolled, and she didn't know what she was thinking about.
When Zhao Yuru came back with the pot, Wu Cuihua lazily started to help with the work.
"Hey, my fourth daughter-in-law has plenty of milk now, right?" Wu Cuihua and Zhao Yuru gathered together and asked her in a low voice.
Zhao Yuru was cutting sweet potatoes into small pieces. When she heard Wu Cuihua ask this, she moved her hands and looked at her suspiciously.
"Why are you asking?"
Wu Cuihua never cared much about Tao Hongying, but now she suddenly asked if she had enough milk, and she felt that she had bad intentions.
"I'm just asking."
Wu Cuihua felt a little guilty, raised her hand to wipe her nose, and continued to help Zhao Yuru.
A handful of millet, two sweet potatoes, and half a pot of water. In the end, everyone got a bowl of slimy sweet potato and millet paste.
Zhao Yuru's sharp eyes saw a small bunch of green and yellow wild vegetables by the river, and added it to the paste to add a little more flavor.
A few grown men and half-grown men finished the bowl of gooey food without even being half full.
Zhao Yuru drank half of the bowl and poured the rest of her bowl into Li Laosan's bowl with a calm expression.
In this time of famine and chaos, if their family wants to survive, they still have to count on these gentlemen.
It's okay for her to eat less. She has to let her man eat more.
Li Laosan looked at his wife guiltily and distressedly, then raised his head and drank the paste.
Wu Cuihua didn't seem to notice Zhao Yuru's actions, and drank her own paste in a few sips.
She glanced at Old Mrs. Li with furtive eyes, and saw that the old lady's face was quite kind, so she plucked up the courage to speak.