He Jianqiang seems to be very satisfied with his current life. This legendary experience has allowed him to stay away from all humiliation and sadness. The only people in that world who did not ridicule him were by his side, so he felt that he had lost nothing.
Yun Zheng's heart was groaning. He could eat raw bamboo shoots with relish when he was struggling for his life, but now he was holding white rice but had no intention of swallowing it, not to mention there was a small strip of oily smoked meat on the rice.
I don’t know how to farm, hunt, raise silkworms, and even weave. How can I feed two bodies? This is a big problem. Counting on others for help, begging like a beggar all day long, Yun Zheng
I think it would be better to die.
After daybreak, Yun Zheng left He Jianqiang at home and borrowed a hatchet to chop wood in the mountains. This was the only reliable way of survival that he felt after thinking about it all night.
Cutting firewood is not as easy as Yun Zheng imagined. The young man who also went up the mountain to chop firewood with him has already chopped a huge pile. Yun Zheng still only has a small amount of firewood. The hatchet is very old, or the firewood is very old.
The material of the knife is very poor. If you cut a dead tree twice, the blade will curl up. A lot of dead wood and Yunzheng were cut off by sawing.
A young man as strong as a calf snatched the hatchet from Yunzheng's hand, poured a little water from the bamboo tube, and started sharpening it on the stone. After a while, he sharpened the hatchet and held the hatchet himself.
He chopped diagonally, and the hatchet didn't seem to be much hindered as it cut into the dead tree. The young man handed the hatchet to Yun Zheng again and asked him to learn how to chop wood.
It wasn't that good. After cutting three times in a row, Yun Zheng found that he was finally able to control the hatchet in his hand.
Perhaps the noble virtue of simplicity has been integrated into their blood. The little teenagers helped Yun Zheng chop the firewood, bundle it, and then began to sit around a small fire and take out their own rice balls.
As he started to eat, Yun Zheng looked up at the sky. The sun was already three in the sky and his stomach was growling. He didn't have any extra food to make rice balls.
I lay down in the ditch and took a sip of water. I wanted to wait for my friends to finish eating and then go to the bean paste gate to sell firewood together. This is my future source of livelihood, so I have to figure everything out clearly.
They declined the rice ball handed over by the young boy. They didn't have much food themselves. The children in the mountains were generous. They just stuffed the rice ball into Yun Zheng's hand, and then they started laughing and playing on the hillside, digging out bird eggs and collecting them.
Wild fruits, they even used a long piece of thatch to poke into the ant nest. As soon as they lifted up the thatch branch, it was covered with termites. They thought they were joking, but they found that these young boys had pulled the termites into a
A small iron pot was placed on the fire, and there was a sudden crackling sound in the pot. Then, the termites were snatched away by the young boys, who were eating the ants.
Yun Zheng knew that there was an animal called an anteater that loved to eat ants. Gorillas would also poke branches into ant nests and then eat the ants that climbed up from the branches. Unexpectedly, they would eat them too.
The stout child pinched a handful of ants from the pot and tried to feed it to Yun Zheng's mouth. Without thinking, Yun Zheng opened his mouth and ate the browned ants. After chewing twice, Yun Zheng
Zheng immediately became the most enthusiastic person about catching ants. The fried ants were so delicious, salty and had a rich burnt aroma.
The joyful time was too short. When there were no more ants in the ant nest climbing up the thatch pole, the little wild fun was over. The young boys picked up their own firewood and lined up in a neat line to follow the sheep.
The intestinal path went down the mountain.
When a half-grown boy sees a little girl wearing an embroidered skirt, he will sing a few love songs at the top of his lungs, and then he will be scolded by the red-faced little girl in embarrassment. If he is unlucky, he will have a bandage on his head.
Black cloth's grandmother came out with a broom to chase him. Although Yun Zheng was beaten several times, he felt very happy in his heart.
Selling firewood is very simple. The herbal medicine shops in Douchuan require a large amount of firewood and medicinal materials every day. As long as your firewood is dry enough, they will accept it. There is no need to worry about selling the firewood.
A load of firewood cost three cents, and eight children gave twenty-one cents. How could the herbal medicine shop clerk hide this from Yun Zheng? No matter how stupid he is, he can't be a fool. Look.
When the waiter was about to hand over the money to the sturdy young man with a cheerful smile, Yun Zheng pressed the young man's hand down and smiled at the worker without saying a word.
Work felt a little guilty and added three more copper coins. Yun Zheng still smiled and said nothing. The waiter wanted to get angry. Seeing that Yun Zheng seemed to be shouting at the kind-hearted old doctor, he quickly took out ten more copper coins from his arms and slapped them on his face.
Yun Zheng turned his head and walked away, fuming.
"Tomorrow's firewood will be settled according to 3827, do you agree?" Yun Zheng shouted at the back of the guy. The guy almost missed the step, holding on to the door frame and glared at Yun Zheng.
Zheng entered the drug store at a glance.
The young boys were so excited that they kept shouting around Yunzheng, but Yunzheng couldn't understand what they were shouting. It wasn't until the strong young man told him word for word that Yunzheng understood that this damn guy
He is always deceiving everyone, and the promised money will always be less when he gets it.
After Yun Zheng promised to teach everyone how to count, the extra two cents were unanimously allocated to Yun Zheng. He bought two kilograms of rice for six cents, which made him very disappointed.
After returning home, Qiang Qiang had been lying on the window of the bamboo building for a long time, watching Yunzheng staggering back, shouting happily. He liked the family members coming back, but hated that he was the only one at home. Since his mother disappeared
, he is very afraid of empty houses.
In order to earn two kilograms of rice, Yun Zheng's hands were covered with blisters, his shoulders were bruised by the shoulder pole, and he was stung by sweat, which was painful. Life has always been difficult. Yun Zheng knew that, so when he picked up firewood,
No matter how tired he is, he grits his teeth and remains silent. He eats his own food, suffers his own fatigue, and does his own work. He has had this awareness since his previous life.
It was dawn again. Yun Zheng climbed up from the bamboo bed with difficulty. A new day was about to begin again. After he finished washing, he prepared a meal for Qiang Qiang. He hurriedly kneaded two rice balls and wrapped them in lotus leaves.
He got up, looked at the grain bag with only a little rice left, sighed, and walked out of the house. He planned to cut two loads of firewood today so that the family would have some reserves in case it was rainy and unable to cut firewood. Brother
They were both hungry together.
As soon as Yun Ye left, the little yellow dog got out of Qiang Qiang's quilt, wagging its short tail diligently, waiting for Qiang Qiang to get out of the quilt.
Yun Jianqiang looked at Yun Zheng disappearing in the morning mist, and muttered to the little yellow dog: "The more contact I had with people in the past, the more I liked dogs, but my eldest brother is different, don't you think so?"