Yan Yu: "Mom, why are you so serious and praising my father?"
"It smells disgusting to me..." Li Xuemei said weakly.
"Stop boasting, stop boasting! Mom, let's stay away quickly." Yan Yu turned over and propped herself up with both hands.
Pulling her mother away from the bullock cart loaded with horse meat.
Li Xuemei took a deep breath for a long time before she calmed down. She looked at the sky and asked, "There's no movement yet?"
Yan Yu knew she was asking about the platform.
Shaking his head, feeling depressed.
"Dad has made so much money, but if the platform doesn't open, what will happen?"
Li Xuemei nodded and said, "Well, we don't have that much salt anymore."
"Your uncle said he didn't tell you what time he would be leaving tomorrow?"
Yan Yu replied: "It's the second quarter of Yinshi, which is half past four. If there weren't a lot of things going on today and everyone is so tired, I'm afraid it would have to be earlier."
"Mom, here you go, eat if you're hungry." Yan Yu took out two eggs and handed them to Li Xuemei's hand.
Li Xuemei smelled it, and it smelled like medicine.
Yan Yu chuckled and said, "I made the medicinal soup by the way. Don't worry, dad cleaned it before putting it in to make sure no chicken shit falls into the medicine."
Li Xuemei:......
Crack the eggshell very calmly and peel it off slowly.
"Even if there is a drink, it's not me."
Yan Yu: That makes sense.
"Where are your uncle and the others?" Li Xuemei asked.
"Uncle took eldest brother to see the wounded. Uncle Song is always scary. Uncle Cui said that if there was no bamboo crossbow blocking the way, one elbow to the chin would kill him. Now it's just the chin that fell off, which is already unfortunate.
Fortunately."
"Grandpa An said that the smell of blood can be removed from clothes without water. Sister Da Ya took the clothes that dad and uncle changed to deal with them. They just left not long ago and should be back for a while."
Li Xuemei finished peeling the eggshell and ate it in small bites.
Yan Yu waited for her to finish eating and then handed over the small bamboo tube she carried with her.
Li Xuemei took two sips and gave the remaining egg to her daughter.
"If you can't eat anymore, you can eat this."
Yan Yu shook her head like a rattle and stuffed it back.
"Mom, we all ate on the way. I didn't call you when I saw you were sleeping. I ate Sister Xianzi's dried snake meat." She said in a low voice.
There were only a few pieces in total. It was her family’s bottom-shelf inventory and could not be used easily.
She only ate for this special day, as she was afraid she wouldn't be able to make it until 0 o'clock. Looking at the large army, except for those who were keeping vigil and were still busy, most of them fell asleep and snored loudly.
Everyone is exhausted today.
Li Xuemei said: "Go and take a nap. I just woke up and I'm not sleepy. I'll wake you up when the time comes."
Yan Yu thought for a while and didn't hold on.
Even after eating the dried snake meat, she was still a little sleepy. She had to go on the road so early tomorrow, so she didn't want to sleep for a while, fearing that her child's body wouldn't be able to endure it.
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The Yan family came back to rest one after another.
Yan Laoer is still busy.
I took Sanbao for a walk outside. It was called eating grass, but in reality I was pulling out some water to wash his hair, face and hands.
It's too embarrassing to pull out arrows in the daytime...
When he came back after cleaning up, everyone except his wife was still asleep, and everyone else was fast asleep.
The couple sat not far from the fire, Yan Laoer wiped the iron arrows with grass one by one, and Li Xuemei looked at her daughter's notebook again.
There is a roadmap that they have renegotiated.
"Are you sure there is water on this route?" Li Xuemei asked softly.
Yan Laoer also whispered: "This route is for Lao Yan to see. There will be deviations when walking. Maomao Sanbao and I have confirmed it. Both places have water sources and can avoid thieves.
If you can find water, you can kill two birds with one stone."
Li Xuemei nodded, remained silent for a long time, and said softly: "Our daughter...killed someone today."
The firelight shone on her face, and the flickering light flashed into her eyes, which seemed particularly sad.
Yan Laoer pretended to be relaxed and said: "We are a family of three, neat and tidy, and we are all heroes fighting violence for the people!"
Seeing that Li Xuemei remained silent for a while, Yan Laoer sighed: "You don't know what Lao Yan said today..."
He told his wife about the difficulties of the world in the book.
Li Xuemei's expression changed with his words.
"...So, we should be glad that Xiaoyu is not a real child. She is mature and adapts quickly." Yan Laoer thought his daughter was really great.
Li Xuemei said: "This kind of environment really cannot tolerate the innocence of children. Now it seems that her playful boy scouts actually seem to have foresight... Natural and man-made disasters, I never thought that we would come to such a world.
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"Daughter-in-law, if you think about it, this is not a big deal. Let's not talk about it. How can our country not have some disasters, floods, typhoons, earthquakes... This is a flood, that is a drought. Before we came here, I wore a mask for more than two years.
, what’s the matter, we are united and can overcome the difficulties!
Difficulties cannot defeat us!
Push it down and step over it!"
Yan Laoer waved his fists, as if there were two big characters standing upright in front of him - Difficulty. He planned to knock it down with fists and kicks, and then go up and stamp his feet to flatten it!
"Help the compatriots who have left the embrace of the motherland to overcome the difficulties and tide over the difficulties together..." Li Xuemei murmured to herself: "Yes, that's what I said..."
"Not all countries are Xia Kingdoms!" Li Xuemei's eyes were filled with little lights gathering and shining brightly.
"We just need to survive for a few years, and Lao Yan will be a good official." Yan Laoer has confidence in his eldest brother.
Li Xuemei suddenly smiled and looked at the much younger man.
I thought: This young look suits you better.
"After the scholar, there is the Juren. Only those who pass the Juren can go to Beijing to take the Jinshi exam. If they pass the Jinshi exam or they will be awarded the title by the same Jinshi Association, the grade will not be too high. You have to start from the bottom..."
She briefly explained the general process.
"You also said that Lao Yan is a good official. This court seems to be poor. If you are not greedy when you are an official, it will be difficult to save a family fortune just relying on your salary.
Our daughter has been talking about hugging her thighs... lying down... and continuing to make salted fish... it's too unrealistic. Let's just listen to it and don't take it to heart. We still have to work hard to make some money, enough to deal with various situations.
Don’t panic if you have food, and stock up on more food.
In the past, I was mistaken and worried that buying more and more things from the platform would arouse suspicion from others, but compared with the unpredictability in the future, these risks are still better to take."
Yan Laoer kept nodding his head, then shook his head when he heard the last one.
"No, no, I really can't buy any more. We can't even put it in this car. There are too many things. We have enough food and meat. We will definitely have no problem walking to Guanzhou."
"Not now, I mean in the future when we stabilize, we will stock up on all the things on the platform shelves that need to be stocked."
Li Xuemei seemed to have made a lot of determination and said: "Also...we have so much horse meat on hand. If we trade it, no one will notice that it is missing except ourselves..."