The team stopped by the river for half an hour. The Shu family took advantage of this time to boil two cans of hot water and filled up the wooden buckets. They thought that if there was no water to drink on the way, they could just boil it in the car.
pot.
In addition, Mrs. Shu cooked a pot full of yam beans and added handfuls of torn dried meat into it. The meat was salty. When boiled in water, the yam beans were also stained with salt, making them less dry.
Shu Mingli had been hungry for a long time, so he grabbed a handful of yam beans and stuffed them into his mouth without even peeling the skin. While eating, he muttered: "This thing is not good. I don't have a proper diet to keep my stomach full. Not long after eating, my stomach felt full."
Deflated."
Mrs. Shu scolded him: "Then why don't you just stop eating? With your mouth, you can support both of us. I don't think you eat too much, but you picked it first."
"Aren't I afraid that I won't be able to push the cart if I don't have enough to eat? I didn't make a choice..."
Shu Mingli stuffed another handful of yam beans into his mouth, looked at the few remaining items in the pot, swallowed, and stopped taking any more.
Mrs. Shu caught his little move in her eyes, and she hummed with a dark face. She turned around and took out an oil paper bag from the package, "This is filled with dry food. If you are not full, please take two cushions."
Shu Mingli chuckled and took the dry food, and praised: "I knew my mother was the best, she wouldn't bear to see us starve."
Mrs. Shu turned her head away in disgust, "Don't do this. The maximum is three yuan per person. If you take too much, you'll be fined."
A few Ming people were happily sharing the dry food, but at the other end, several families were quarreling over a few yam beans. This one was yelling that he took one more, and the other one said that he took the bigger one.
In order to save food, some people only boiled a pot of hot water and didn't even cook food. The children at home stared at other people's food and cried and complained that they were hungry.
Mrs. Shu felt uncomfortable after hearing this, so she took off her turban and fell asleep on the hay mat.
It seems that when I fall asleep, the heart-wrenching crying disappears.
After eating, Shu Mingyi found some tools and took several Mings to the forest to saw wood and install small sheds for the donkey carts. The few youngsters had nothing to do and ran to the river to play in the water.
At this time, there were many people squatting by the river.
A group of people had been exposed to the strong sun for a long time, and the skin on the back of their necks was almost melting. Suddenly seeing a river with water was more pleasant than seeing their own mother.
After every household had finished drawing water, the young boys all jumped into the water like dumplings. The water in the river was not deep, only reaching an adult's knees, but it could not stop them from flopping around in the water for a while, with their heads and tails attached.
Take a shower together.
Shu Mingliang was even busier than them. Not only did he wash his hair and take a bath, he also caught a few large crucian carps that were 1 inch long.
The fire for boiling water was not out yet, so Mrs. Shu added some more firewood and grilled the fish.
The fresh fish gave off a faint meaty aroma when grilled by the flames. Even though Mrs. Shu had chosen a remote place for grilling the fish, some people were still attracted by the aroma.
The visitors were two brothers, Shuanzi and Zhuzi. They both looked similar. They were both skinny and skinny, like monkeys. When they smiled, their faces were full of wrinkles. Coupled with a pair of eyes that rolled around, they gave people the impression that they were too smart.
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Mrs. Shu didn't like these two people at first sight, but because of Shu Mingzhi's kindness, she still smiled and said hello to them: "Have you rested?"
The two brothers didn't mind the heat either. They squatted down by the fire and said with a smile, "We haven't rested yet. We haven't even eaten."
The other one stared at the grilled fish eagerly and said: "I think in this village, my aunt's family is the only one who has a good life and even eats grilled fish. It would be great if we could also eat grilled fish."
This statement was so straightforward that even Yanyan could hear the subtext. Want to eat her grilled fish? That's not possible!
"There are fish in the river. If you want to eat, you can catch them yourself. My seventh uncle is so stupid that he can catch them. You can't catch them, right?"
The two of them were stopped by a small breast. They really couldn't catch it. If they could catch it, who would be so shameless as to eat here?
Zhuzhu was thicker-skinned than the city wall. It was so obvious what he meant. He could still follow Yanyan's words and say: "Yes, your uncle is too stupid to catch fish. Why don't you give me your fish to eat?"
The veins on Old Mrs. Shu's forehead twitched, her face suddenly dropped, and her tone became less polite: "There are only four fishes in total, and my five children can't share them, so how can I give them to you?"
"They can share one piece between two people. If the big one doesn't eat it, then there will be two pieces of it?" Zhu Zhu said with a smile on his face.
Shu Mingliang, who was waiting for the fish to eat, said: "?"
He caught the fish, but when it came time to divide the fish, didn't he get his share?
Is this an idea that normal people can come up with?
Shu Mingliang became anxious and said quickly: "Mom, you can't listen to him, I want to eat, I'm still a baby!"
"I see you are a shovel, how old are you?"
Old Mrs. Shu gave him a blank look, and her face became even worse when she turned to face Shuanzi and Zhuzi who were covering their mouths and snickering.
"Why are you laughing? You two are worse than shoveling!
When you go out to escape famine without bringing food and come to eat and drink with others, you are just visiting in your underwear - you don't regard yourselves as outsiders.
The key point is, are we the same as you? Our surname is Shu, what is your surname?"
When an old neighbor in a village had trouble eating, she had to pretend not to notice, let alone these two monkeys that appeared out of nowhere.
Go wherever it's cool!
The two of them were scolded by Old Mrs. Shu until their faces turned green and red. They originally thought that the old lady's kind smile meant she would be an easy fool, but they didn't expect that she would have such a bad temper and scold others when she got up.
Zhuzi didn't give up and retorted bravely: "Why are you not one of our own? We will still travel together in the future. If something happens, you might ask us for help."
"You can pull me down. If something happens to you, you can run faster than a rabbit!"
"What's going on? What are you arguing about?"
The village chief and Hu Xianfeng were discussing matters by the river. When they heard the commotion, they quickly came over to break up the fight.
The villain from Zhuzi complained first: "This old lady is cursing us. She calls us worse than shovels. She also accuses us of visiting the house wearing underpants."
The village chief was confused and visited the house wearing underpants... These two grown men wouldn't have any thoughts about Guangzong's wife, right?
No, the age is wrong.
At this time, Yan Yan, a little expert in complaining, squeezed into the crowd and shouted: "They want to eat my grilled fish, but grandma said that our own family doesn't have enough, so we won't give it to them."
They also said that they would not feed Uncle Seven, but feed them, and then grandma scolded them for wearing underpants and not treating themselves as outsiders."
These two short sentences made the village chief stunned for a moment, "This... you guys have really big faces. My face is half as big as yours. Won't I have enough food and clothing on this journey?"
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Hu Xianfeng couldn't stand listening anymore and stretched out his arms to drag the two brothers away. "If you don't have anything to eat, go find something to eat by yourself. It's not embarrassing to hang out in front of others!"
The village chief looked back at the three people who were cursing each other, then glanced at Old Mrs. Shu, and muttered in a low voice: "It seems like your brothers, the Fourth, are not good enough..."
Shu Mingzhi, who came after hearing the news, happened to hear this sentence and laughed dryly and said: "Actually, I don't know them either. They should be the people brought by Brother Hu. I will find an opportunity to talk to him later."