Chapter 208

In any case, in this uncertain weather, they can hardly do anything, and they can only grow food in bamboo baskets.

When he went back, Xu Qing glanced at the people who had taken off their heavy cotton padded clothes, and found that all of them had lost a lot of weight. The thin clothes were empty, and they were as thin as a human frame.

Not long after Xu Qing went back, he and Li Changting went to find the patriarch.

"We're going to have a look at the beard village." Xu Qingdao, I haven't seen him all winter, and I don't know what happened there.

"Is there not enough salt for everyone?" Xu Qing's next sentence came to the heart of the patriarch.

"It's not enough." The patriarch said with a smile, "you go to order a batch of salt for us by the way, and make an appointment. I'll send someone to pick it up next time."

The clan leader wanted to ask Xu Qing and Li Changting to bring some salt back, but it rained all spring. He thought there might be no ready-made salt for them.

Xu Qing answered and set out with Li Changting in the afternoon.

It's hard to walk on the muddy mountain road. Li Changting is very careful with Xu Qing on his back. This time, he is not on his way in the hot sun and snow. Xu Qing rarely has time to enjoy the scenery along the way.

The cool and humid mountain wind slowly blows, bringing the fragrance of soil and vegetation. Along the way, she also saw many wild flowers and weeds growing tenaciously in the mountains.

Towards evening, the two stopped to enter the space for a night's rest.

"Look, Qing'er, is that a bamboo forest?"

Xu Qingshun looked in the direction that Li Changting pointed to, and saw that behind a big tree that had just grown green leaves and appeared to be bare, there was a large area of lush emerald green.

"It seems so!" Xu Qing is a little excited.

The bamboo forests around the village are almost cut down by everyone. It's really exciting to see such a large bamboo forest.

Xu Qing is excited not because of bamboo, but because of spring, bamboo shoots will be far away!

The best time to eat bamboo shoots is around Qingming Festival. Xu Qing calculated the days in his heart. It's less than half a month since Qingming Festival. Now is a good time to dig bamboo shoots!

"Go! Go and see if there are bamboo shoots! " Thinking of the fresh bamboo shoots, Xu Qing's mouth water will flow down. She especially likes to eat pickled bamboo shoots. She blanches the bamboo shoots, immerses them in the water for a day or two, and then minces them and fry them for a special flavor!

So they took advantage of the dark, quickly toward the bamboo forest.

As soon as he entered the bamboo forest, Xu Qing saw a lot of bamboo shoots that had already sprouted. Instead of rushing to dig, they walked around the bamboo forest.

This bamboo forest is as big as a football field. It was blocked by dense forest before, so that they didn't find it after they went back and forth so many times.

Seeing the darkness coming down, they dug a few bamboo shoots at will and went into the space.

Two days later, when Xu Qing and Li Changting came to bearded cottage with a basket of bamboo shoots on their back, they attracted almost everyone's attention.

Xu Qing can't help but feel sad when he looks at everyone's thin appearance. Few people are comfortable this winter.

Beard came out to meet them as soon as he heard the news, and welcomed them into the village as usual.

Xu Qing put down the bamboo basket and said, "this is what we dug on the road. It's just a gift for you."

It's hard to be a guest without a gift. It used to be like this, but now who has the conditions to give food as a gift? That is to say, Xu Qing and Li Changting don't lack food. In exchange for something they didn't like before, it's a great treasure for others.

Beard looked at the bamboo shoots and laughed: "ha ha ha, then I'll take it impolitely!"

As long as it's food, he won't refuse it.

However, he was also right to miss what Xu Qing said just now: "these are what you dug on the road?"

Xu Qing said about the bamboo forest he found on the road: "there are many bamboo shoots growing there. You can dig them and eat them. Just leave one for our village. You can have the rest at will."

Bearded happily responded well, and finally sighed: "you said it's hard to go out after such a long rain. Originally, I was planning to take advantage of the fine weather to let everyone go to the mountains to look for mushrooms and wild vegetables."

Xu Qing's eyes brightened. Yes, there are mushrooms! But she didn't see any mushrooms all the way. When she went back, she would go to the mountain to look for them.

Beard asked his brother under him to take care of the bamboo shoots and let Xu Qing and Li Changting have a good meal. It's sunny these two days. They went to the lake to catch fish. One winter later, the fish in the lake grew up.

Xu Qing looked at the lake where the water level had risen a lot and asked beard, "will people from Hezhou go back?"

Beard said: "I guess they will go back. You know Zhao Jian's rules. Since he is under him, he has to listen to him. If Zhao Jian sends a message to let these people go back, these people will not dare to stay."

In a word, Xu Qingcai knew that after she left with Li Changting last winter, all the people of Xinghu in Hezhou moved over. There was only Zhao Jian's army left in Hezhou. Because of the responsibility of guarding the city, he could not leave.Fortunately, it snowed on the first day of the lunar new year, and there was no water shortage in Jizhou.

"Is Xu Qing here?"

At this time, a thin woman rushed into the crowd. When she saw Xu Qing, she burst into tears.

"How did you come?"?! Do you know I'm starving! You won't see me a few days later, you heartless man

As soon as Xu's mother met Xu Qing, she complained to him. Her tone was pitiful and she was wronged. When she heard that, Xu Qing had goose bumps.

After a few months' absence, Xu Qing found that Xu's mother had become almost unrecognizable to her. Her black hair had turned gray, and she was as thin as a wood, and her face was sallow.

In fact, people here look almost thin and waxy yellow, and Xu is not the most special one.

Xu Qing has never had a good feeling for this cheap girl. Now she cries and screams at her, but she is speechless and expressionless.

She had been struggling with whether to do her duty to support the original owner. It was nothing to raise Xu Laoniang, but she thought that she would have to raise Xu Laoniang's son's family by the way, so she didn't want to care about anything.

"Why don't you talk?" Xu's mother looks at Xu Qing anxiously. She hasn't forgotten Xu Qing's words about severing the relationship. Now if she asks Xu Qing for some food, Xu's mother is really not sure whether Xu Qing will give it to her.

However, Xu Qing just said calmly, "don't worry, madam. I'm telling you that there is a large bamboo forest in the mountain. There are many bamboo shoots. I can take you to dig in the afternoon."

"You..." When Xu Qing called her mother, her brows tightened tightly. For a long time, she didn't know what to say. She didn't dare to get angry, and her face was twisted.