The only torch in the house was moved from the kitchen to the main room. On the small square table, Xu Yue, Xu Erniang, Xu Da and Wang each took a corner seat.
There are four bowls of rice bran rice and a jar of boiling water on the table.
As for the rabbit meat or pheasant meat that Xu Yue thought was a snack, they did not appear on the dining table. Instead, they were packed away by Wang, cut into small pieces, wrapped in leaves, and placed on the stove. There seemed to be others.
usefulness.
Mrs. Wang picked up her chopsticks and gave the order: "Let's eat!"
Only then did Xu Yue and the others use their chopsticks, but...
Even though today's dinner was more substantial than the previous few days, after stuffing a mouthful of wet rice bran that was barely steamed and without any other taste into her mouth, Xu Yue found that she couldn't swallow it.
Qing Mimi raised her eyes and saw that not only was she unable to swallow, but her father's brows were furrowed into the Chinese character "Sichuan" and he had a mouthful of rice bran in his mouth, neither swallowing nor swallowing.
Him, Xu Qingyang!
A dignified second-generation cultivator, he grew up in fine clothes and fine food, and all he ate were all the delicacies of mountains and seas.
As a fashionista in the world of immortality, an aesthetic benchmark among monks, and a playboy in the eyes of his enemies, he would have to arrange even the simplest spiritual rice into an exquisite snow lotus before eating it.
The bowl of rice bran rice in his hand at this moment was something he had never seen before in his life. In his four hundred years of life, it was the first time he knew that there was such a thing as rice bran in the human diet!
Compared with the violent fluctuations in Xu Da's heart, Xu Erniang's resistance to the rice bran rice was less obvious. She just stared at the rice bran rice in her hand with her phoenix eyes that were exactly the same as Xu Da's, and fell into deep thought.
Who invented this food?
How could anyone think that this kind of thing can be eaten by others?
Stupid humans!
The great light mage Serena will never give in!
Wang's ability to adapt to the environment is amazing, perhaps because she has had more difficult experiences than this.
As the most outstanding contemporary general of the Universe Federation, she and her army once experienced a serious supply crisis due to being framed by political opponents.
At that time, the troops she led were still on a completely unfamiliar planet, where resources were extremely scarce and the most basic water had to be extracted from the air through distillation technology.
If the soldiers want to fill their stomachs, they can only venture underground to capture those cunning gerbils.
In the end, despite being isolated and helpless, she still brought the troops back to the Federation intact, shocking her political opponents who thought she had long since starved to death on an alien planet.
Therefore, in Wang's eyes, nothing is more important than surviving. Even in desperate situations, she will still persevere tenaciously until the end.
The empire’s general, Wang Pingping, will never bow his head!
Perhaps Xu Yue's gaze was too obvious. Sensing her gaze, the three of them raised their heads and met each other's eyes. Everyone knew that the other party had changed his mind.
See through, don’t tell.
Seeing that no one could eat, Mrs. Wang simply put down her bowls and chopsticks and stood up.
The father and daughter put down their bowls and chopsticks and looked at her.
"I want to announce something." She looked at everyone seriously and said.
Wang said: "We have to leave here. After my observation in the past few days, the drought is very serious. There are no villages nearby. The only water source is Dawang Village ten miles away. But when we went over to exchange water with prey today, we found that
, everyone in Dawang Village is ready to move away."
"The world is in chaos. Various powerful people are rebelling under the banner of crusading against Dong Xing. Our county magistrates have all run away. The refugee army in the north is revolting again. They have gone all the way south to Shanyang County. It is inevitable for us to go south.
Along the way, you will encounter disaster sooner or later."
"Every day we go out, we see new corpses on the roadside. These corpses are completely exposed to the air. The weather is so hot and these corpses are fermenting intensively. I am very worried about a cholera outbreak."
"So, do you have any objections to my decision?" Wang asked.
The father and daughter looked at each other, then shook their heads together: "No."
Mrs. Wang immediately decided: "Then it's decided. Now fill your stomachs first. After you are full, you can pack your things. We will set off tomorrow morning."
After saying that, Mrs. Wang sat down again, drank some water, and ate all the rice bran rice in the bowl. From beginning to end, you couldn't find a trace of pain on her face.
Xu Yue swallowed silently, thinking that she would start a long journey tomorrow and needed to maintain sufficient physical strength. She felt cruel and imitated Wang's example, taking a sip of rice bran and a sip of water, forcing herself to finish the bowl of rice bran rice.
Xu Yue, the youngest, could eat it. Xu Erniang felt that she was no worse than her sister. She grabbed the rice bran rice in her hands, kneaded it into small dumplings, closed her eyes and deceived herself that it was delicious food, and ate it all.
Xu Da was inspired, and shaped the rice bran rice into a lotus shape, and started eating with graceful movements. Xu Yue was stunned to see that he was hungry, and it always felt like he was eating some delicacies from the mountains and seas.
After dinner, the four of them got ready to leave tomorrow.
Mrs. Wang poured boiled water into the bamboo tube and filled it with five tubes. Salt was added to the water in two tubes. The five tubes of water were neatly stacked in the backpack.
Xu Da, who rolled up his sleeves and stood on the stove kneading rice bran rice balls regardless of his noble manners, looked puzzled when he saw the detail of Wang adding salt to the water.
Is this woman doing something weird again?
It’s okay to boil the water and drink it. Why do you add salt to the water?
The busy Mrs. Wang had no time to care about her worthless and cheap husband. She took out half of the meat pieces that she had processed before, roasted them and wrapped them. These were for extra meals for the family tomorrow. If she wanted to go fast, she had to
Eat better.
As for the remaining half, Wang used up the coarse salt in the clay pot at home and marinated it for easy storage in such hot weather.
There isn't much rice bran left. Excluding tonight's extravagant meal, the remaining rice bran can only be used to make twenty dumplings the size of a baby's fist. It's full. Plus the meat in Wang's basket, a family of five can barely eat four.
sky.
The couple put all the food and water into the backpacks, turned around and entered the room separated by wooden boards on the inside of the main room.
This is the bedroom of the Xu family. Next door is the room of the two sisters. Xu Dalang usually sleeps in the main room on a wooden bed made of wooden boards.
Xu Da followed Wang into the house and his eyes lit up as he watched her dig under the bed and take out a clay pot.
However, Wang only took out ten large coins from the clay pot, which was all the remaining belongings of the Xu family.
Mrs. Wang counted the ten big coins three times, but couldn't count out even one. She became angry and glared at Xu Da again.
Xu Da retorted: "If I were in charge of the family, I would never let you mother and son fall into such a situation."
The implication is that you have to blame the original person, and don't blame him, Xu Daren.
Wang sneered coldly and handed the ten large coins to Xu Da. Xu Da took them and carefully put them away.
These ten large sums of money are the last hope of their family.
This small move by the couple set the tone for the rest of the family, with the male taking charge of the inside and the female taking charge of the outside. Wang was responsible for leading the charge and Xu Da was responsible for logistical support.
Xu Da was still satisfied with his current teammate. Although he didn't look like a woman, because of this, he breathed a sigh of relief.
If Mrs. Wang is also the kind of woman who only cries and moans when things happen, and he alone can pull up this big family...he chooses to commit suicide on the spot!
