"Has that Ye Laizi been beating the child his wife brought with her recently?"
"I'm not sure either. My aunt said that after the clan leader sent someone to talk to him, he stopped beating him." Sister Ye San said, "But we can't expect him to be very good to the child."
Mrs. Ye sighed and said, "After all, they are not my biological children. It is better not to beat them. As for the others, it is not something we can control casually."
"I think his wife is having a hard time too," said Mrs. Ye. "If she didn't have two children, she'd be so exhausted. Who would want to take this step?"
"That's right!" Mrs. Ye nodded and said, "That's why I admire our mother very much.
"After our father passed away, she was alone outside the Great Wall, raising four sons, and she never thought about taking another step. It was really not easy."
"My mother is a very savvy person. Even though she is uneducated and illiterate, ordinary women are no match for her."
The two sisters-in-law walked towards the sunny hillside while talking, intending to find a warm place to stop, dig some soil and then go home.
"Hey, sister-in-law, look, is this a small root vegetable?"
Mrs. Ye San took down the basket and when she bent down to put it on the ground, she suddenly saw a few thin green seedlings coming out of the soil.
Because it was so thin, it would be difficult to see if she hadn't bent down.
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Ye also bent down to look, picked up a shovel and dug into the soil twice, and immediately dug out the white round bumps under the green seedlings.
She said in surprise: "It really is small root vegetables. I didn't expect that there are small root vegetables in the capital.
"Look around to see if there's any more. If we can dig some up, it'll be perfect for scrambled eggs tonight."
"Oh, let me look for it!" Sister-in-law Ye licked her lips and said a little embarrassedly, "Sister-in-law, I'm a little greedy after hearing what you said."
So the two of them didn't bother to dig the soil, and each took a shovel and started looking for small root vegetables all over the ground.
Qingtian had eaten small root vegetables before, but the Shan family couple were not very good at cooking, so any vegetables that could be eaten raw were basically eaten with dip in sauce.
So she called Xiaoye over to smell the small root vegetables, patted its head and said, "Xiaoye, let's go help find some small root vegetables too."
"Awoo!" After Xiao Ye smelled it, he lowered his head and began to sniff around.
Qingtian hurriedly followed it and before he knew it, he had walked a long way away.
Mrs. Ye Dasao and Mrs. Ye Sansao were busy looking for small root vegetables. Before they had dug up much, they looked up and found that their daughter was missing.
"Sunny?" Mrs. Ye panicked, dropping the root vegetables and shovel in her hands to the ground. "Sunny?"
Mrs. Ye San also stood up and looked around for it.
"What should I do? Where is the child?" Mrs. Ye's hands began to tremble uncontrollably, and all kinds of bad thoughts flooded into her mind.
Did the child meet a bad guy? Was he carried off by a wild animal? Did he fall down the mountain?
Fortunately, Third Sister Ye was relatively calm and said, "Sister-in-law, don't worry. If there was any danger, Xiao Ye would have called for help long ago.
"Think about it, didn't we hear the dog barking at all?"
Mrs. Ye gradually calmed down and began to shout around: "Qingtian? Xiaoye? Where did you go?"
Qingtian didn't hear any sound, but Xiaoye's ears were very sharp, so he immediately started barking.
Mrs. Ye hurried over following the sound.
"You kid, why did you run away without saying a word? And you ran so far? I scared you to death!" Mrs. Ye came over and saw that Qingtian was fine, so she breathed a sigh of relief.
Qingtian pointed ahead excitedly and said, "Mom, look, these are all small root vegetables, right?"
Only then did Mrs. Ye discover that the small open space in front of Qingtian was actually full of small root vegetables.
If you look closely, you can actually see traces of ridges on the ground.
It seems that someone must have cultivated vegetables here before, and this is a small piece of land that was specially cleared out.
Because the land had been reclaimed and turned over before, there were not as many weeds and shrubs here as in other places. It was also on a sunny hillside, so many small root vegetables grew after the thaw.
Mrs. Ye San came over and saw it and immediately became excited.
"Oh my goodness, how did you find this place?"
"Xiaoye found it!" Qingtian said as he raised his hand and rubbed Xiaoye's head.
Mrs. Ye didn't bother to say anything more, she turned around and walked back: "I'll go get the things, let's dig some small root vegetables today, we can dig the soil anytime.
"If there are any leftover eggs after frying them, you can mix them with some pickles and eat them slowly."
The Ye family grew up outside the Great Wall and fled all the way to escape famine. Although their lives are better now, they still miss some of the food outside the Great Wall.
That's why Mrs. Ye was so excited when she saw the small root vegetable.
So two people took a shovel and started digging.
Before digging, Mrs. Ye reminded Qingtian, "Just take Xiaoye and play here. Don't run around. Do you hear me?"
"Okay, Mom, I understand." Qingtian quickly agreed.
Only then did Mrs. Ye go to dig the root vegetables with peace of mind.
After all, at this time of year, the snakes, insects, rats and ants in the mountains have not yet come out, so as long as the children don't run around, there is basically no danger.
The land Xiaoye found had a lot of small root vegetables, as if someone had planted them on purpose.
And because there are fewer other roots and stones in the soil, they grow thicker and are particularly easy to dig.
Before long, Mrs. Ye Dasao and Mrs. Ye Sansao had several bundles of small root vegetables tied with straw ropes around them.
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