Chapter 5： Adding insult to injury

Chapter 5 Adding insult to injury

Wu Cuihua also jumped out and cursed, "Those ungrateful things ate our fish last night, and just now they refused to help."

Li Laosi gave her a cold look and refused to answer.

The third sister-in-law also knows how to protect the luggage and his wife and children. The second sister-in-law will stand out when it is beneficial and hide when trouble occurs.

If it wasn't for the second brother, he really wanted to slap her until her teeth were all over the floor.

When Mrs. Li and others rushed back, she felt bad when she heard that the food had been robbed.

Wu Cuihua jumped up and down, as if she had just tried her best to protect the food.

Old Mrs. Li knocked on the pot with her pipe.

"Shut your mouth. No one in the family knows what your virtues are! If you dare to talk too much, don't eat tonight."

“If the food is gone, how can we eat?”

Wu Cuihua avoided the pipe pot and muttered something, which made the whole family look coldly.

Mrs. Li took the swaddling clothes and saw her granddaughter’s eyes shining brightly, feeling relieved.

"Grandma's Fu Niu'er, aren't you scared? Grandma is back, so we are not afraid."

Jiayin replied with a bubble of saliva, trying to comfort the old lady, but all he heard was babbling.

This actually made Mrs. Li even happier, "That's it. If the food is gone, it will be gone. As long as the whole family is safe. Besides, we also have a little lucky girl in our family. With some blessings, we won't be hungry."

Wu Cuihua curled her lips and wanted to say something to make things more difficult, but was pulled back by Li Laoer.

"Go and pack your things and get on your way."

Wu Cuihua rolled her eyes, not daring to say anything.

Jiayin lay in her mother’s arms and sat on her father’s wheelbarrow again on the road.

Her little brows were furrowed, and she was trying to think of how to not be so shocking, but still be able to actually help the family.

It's a pity that her little brain is not fully developed yet, so she couldn't think of a way to do it, so she fell asleep first...

When Jiayin woke up again, it was already time to take a rest at noon.

The sun was shining right now, and Tao Hongying was afraid that her daughter would be exposed to the sun, so she asked Jiaxi and Jiaan to pick up a few wooden sticks and tie them with strips of cloth.

A piece of Li Laosi's big cloth was covered on top to make a simple arbor to shade the sun.

Wu Cuihua glanced back at Jiayin from time to time, muttering something in her mouth that she didn't know what to say, and it probably wasn't anything good.

The food was taken away, and now there was only half a bag of millet left on the donkey cart, as well as the sweet potatoes dug up earlier.

With a big family and a few half-grown-ups, this thing can't last long at all.

Old Mrs. Li took two puffs of her pipe and pot, her slightly cloudy eyes full of sorrow.

“Old Si, I can keep the millet and sweet potatoes, so I’ll keep them for now. Go to the mountains and see if you can find some food.”

Mrs. Li turned around to see that her granddaughter's eyes were still closed and she seemed not to be awake, and her voice was lowered a bit.

Li Laosi readily agreed, put his bow and arrows on his back and headed up the mountain.

Several boys wanted to follow, but Li Laosi drove them back.

It is difficult to hunt when there are many people. They are impatient, and even if there is a pheasant, hare or something, they will be scared away.

Jiayin heard Mrs. Li's words and opened her eyes to look over. She only saw her father's strong back and was a little worried.

In such a famine year, when even people have nothing to eat, how can those wild animals survive?

Without her following him, it would be strange that her father could hunt any living creatures!

Jiayin quickly stretched out her little hand and grabbed it in the direction of Li Laosi, babbling in an attempt to call her father back.

Tao Hongying thought Jiayin was hungry, so she quickly held her in her arms and breastfed her.

Jiayin suddenly took a mouthful of milk, and the baby's nature made her subconsciously start to swallow. With this interruption, Li Laosi was completely gone.

Jiayin sighed silently, "Oh, that's it. She will follow him next time."

Half an hour later, there was no good news secretly taking things out of the space. As you can imagine, Li Laosi returned empty-handed.

There are a lot of people around here. Not to mention the game on the mountain, even the bark of the trees has been almost stripped off, and there is no trace of the wild fruits and vegetables.

Everyone saw Li Laosi coming back empty-handed. Although they were mentally prepared, they still felt a little melancholy when they thought about the little food left.

Li Laoer looked at his brother's dark face with a hint of guilt, raised his hand and patted his shoulder lightly, jokingly.

“Look, we can’t do it without our Fu Niu’er by our side, right?

Let me tell you, you should hug Fu Niuer before you set off, maybe you can catch a pheasant, hare or something! "

His joking like this dissipated a bit of the sadness that had just filled the Li family, and everyone laughed together.

Jiayin quite agreed with Li Laoer's words. He opened his little mouth, rubbed his two rows of toothless bald teeth up and down, and also babbling in response.

Seeing her like this, Mrs. Li smiled even more happily. She reached out to tease her granddaughter and dangled the cigarette bag hanging under the pot in front of her.

Jiayin’s face was full of black lines, why did his movements look like teasing a puppy.

Even though she thought so in her heart, she still reached out her little hand to grab it resignedly, causing Mrs. Li and others to laugh again.

“Sister is not only a lucky girl, but also a pistachio!”

Jia An smiled so hard that his teeth were almost exposed, he clapped his hands and said.

Although they didn’t find anything good in the mountains, the Li family couldn’t go hungry.

Mrs. Li grabbed a handful of millet and picked two small sweet potatoes. She gave them to her third daughter-in-law and asked her to cook them into a paste.

Zhao Yuru carefully held the sweet potatoes and millet, put them in the pot, and took them to the river to wash them.

Wu Cuihua stretched her neck and looked at the half bag of sweet potatoes, and then looked at the two brothers Jiaxi and Jiaan who were milking Jiayin. Her eyes were rolling, and she didn't know what she was thinking about.

When Zhao Yuru came back with the pot, Wu Cuihua lazily started to help with the work.

“Hey, my fourth daughter-in-law has plenty of milk now, right?” Wu Cuihua and Zhao Yuru gathered together and asked her in a low voice.

Zhao Yuru was cutting sweet potatoes into small pieces. When she heard Wu Cuihua ask this question, she moved her hands and looked at her suspiciously.

“What are you asking for?”

Wu Cuihua never cared much about Tao Hongying, but now she suddenly asked if she had enough milk, and she felt that she had bad intentions.

“I’ll just ask.”

Wu Cuihua felt a little guilty, raised her hand to wipe her nose, and continued to help Zhao Yuru.

Handful of millet, two sweet potatoes, and half a pot of water. In the end, everyone got a bowl of slimy sweet potato and millet paste.

Zhao Yuru has a sharp eye and saw a small bunch of green and yellow wild vegetables by the river. She added it to the paste to add a little more flavor.

A few grown men and a half-grown boy drank a bowl of glutinous rice paste while snoring, and they were not even half full.

Zhao Yuru drank half of the bowl and poured the rest of her bowl into Li Laosan's bowl with a calm expression.

In this time of famine and chaos, if their family wants to survive, they still have to count on these gentlemen.

It's okay if she eats less. She has to let her men eat more.

Li Laosan looked at his wife guiltily and distressedly, then raised his head and drank the paste.

Wu Cuihua didn't seem to notice Zhao Yuru's actions, and drank her own paste in a few sips.

She glanced at Old Mrs. Li with furtive eyes, and saw that the old lady's face was quite kind, so she plucked up the courage to speak.

(End of this chapter)