Chapter 62: Failed to Cut Off the Family
"Why did you go out so early in the morning? Why didn't you bring a few more people with you? What if we run into a pack of wolves or something..."
Zhou Yunshu didn't wait for Li Jialan to finish speaking before she handed the basket to her, "Mom, look what I found."
"Eggs!" Li Jialan automatically ignored the persimmons and red dates in the basket and said to Zhou Yunshu, "Why do these eggs look like domestic eggs?"
Zhou Yunshu touched Xixi's little head as she leaned in next to her and said to her, "Maybe I'm lucky. I just happened to pick up eggs from a chicken that ran away from the village down the mountain. Besides, there are still a lot of pheasant eggs here."
Li Jialan thought about it and nodded. People tend to gather together, so it doesn't seem strange for chickens to gather together to lay eggs.
Zhou Yunshu and her companion were not the only ones who had a good harvest early in the morning. Perhaps because there was water here, there were more pheasants and rabbits around than in other places. Those in the team who could hunt or were even a little agile also had some gains.
They were just ordinary people, thinking that they were about to leave the lake, so they put all their efforts into splashing around in the lake to catch fish, wishing they could take the lake away from them.
In the morning, the aunt who was in charge of cooking in the team stewed all the remaining wolf meat. In addition, except for the group of people who set the fire privately, everyone else cooked their own meals.
Zhou Yunshu and the others started a big kitchen.
Chicken stewed with mushrooms, snake soup, cabbage stewed with vermicelli and white flour pancakes.
In addition, there were eggs as a supplement, and each of the four children and Zhou Yunshu received a boiled egg.
After breakfast, the team packed up the water, the game they had hunted, and the fish they had caught in the lake, and then slowly returned to the mountain road.
With water and food, everything is sufficient. Except that the speed of travel is slower, everyone feels that traveling in the mountains is much better than traveling at the foot of the mountain.
At least you don't have to worry about being attacked or being caught and used as a slave.
In the mountains, as long as you listen to the team, everything is fine except for the occasional worry about attacks by wild animals or wildfires. The food is even better than before at the foot of the mountain.
Many people in the team have begun to like life in the mountains.
Zhou Yunshu and his group traveled on the mountain for six days. The mountain road became wider and wider, and later it could accommodate two mule carts running side by side.
On the seventh day, Zhou Yunshu and his group met another group of people on the mountain road. There were much fewer people in that group than Zhou Yunshu and his group, but they looked very fierce.
Except for the fact that no one knew who was sitting in the two carriages, all the guards that could be seen were wearing dark brown shorts and holding uniform long swords in their hands. Their eyes were sharp and cold when they swept over. This was definitely a team that had seen a lot of blood.
When we suddenly met other people in the mountains, both sides were very alert. Later, after we found that the other party had no ill intentions, we walked forward and backward.
When it got dark, everyone stopped and prepared to rest directly on the mountain road.
The firewood was piled up and the big pot was on the stand. The aunts and women in the team discussed what to cook tonight.
Perhaps it was because Zhou Yunshu had been very well-behaved during this period, Li Jialan finally stopped sticking to her like before, and also because Doctor Xue took her pulse again and found that her body had fully recovered.
These days, Zhou Yunshu has been resting and teaching the children in the team to read. Hu Zi, whose injury has not yet fully recovered, is also participating.
Ever since he was able to move, Zhou Yunshu forced him to learn to read with Yuan Li, Yuan Yi and other children, even though his learning progress was not even as good as Luo Xiaoshan's.
Hu Zi was very happy when he first started learning to read, but later his expression became more and more bitter.
At least the hunting dogs and bears could go out with the spring birds for some fresh air, but he could only use a branch to scratch the ground every day.
There is no other way. Their eldest son has to ask questions and do dictation every day.
He was a big, burly man, squatting beside a little kid who was not even as tall as his waist, answering questions from the boss every day. He looked so unsociable.
It would be fine if he was a good student, but he had to endure the IQ crushing from Yuan Li, Yuan Yi and the other two every day, and he was not even as good as the eldest son and the youngest daughter.
Alas, why don’t we get smarter as we get older?
Hu Zi sat beside the cart with a bitter face, looking at the second half of the Three Character Classic on the ground, which he couldn't remember at all. He furtively wanted to turn around and learn from the little classmate next to him.
As a result, just when he nervously turned his big head halfway, a branch as thick as a thumb fell on his arm with a "snap".
Hu Zi shivered in pain and raised his head. Sure enough, he saw his boss's serious face. Hu Zi tried to smile bitterly, "Boss, I... I forgot."
When talking about forgetting, Hu Zi was about to cry. He really was not good at studying.
Instead of letting him learn to write here, it would be better to let him move stones!
"If you forget, mark an X and continue writing."
Hu Zi listened to his boss's unquestionable words, silently lowered his big head, and continued to think while reciting from the beginning.
Man is born good, nature is similar, X is the same, the dog does not care?
Hu Zi held the wooden stick, lowered his head and swallowed his saliva. He wanted to eat buns.
Zhou Yunshu, who was standing aside, was so angry that she almost broke the stick in her hand when she saw Hu Zi write the three words "Goubuli".
The most important thing is that he wrote two of the three words "Goubuli" incorrectly!
Hu Zi listened to the sound of deep breathing in front of him and shrank his big head again.
Who has offended his boss again? It can't be him.
Hu Zi, curious in his heart, looked up timidly and happened to meet his boss's cold and stern eyes. As soon as they looked at each other, Hu Zi lowered his head.
Yuan Ruo watched this scene from the side and laughed foolishly until his hand was hit by his brother.
"What are you laughing at? Hurry up and write it down!"
"knew!"
Zhou Yunshu was cooking and reading, while the group of people in front also made a fire and prepared to cook.
"Uncle Liang, the group of refugees behind us don't seem to be ordinary refugees."
A square-faced man in a dark brown robe sat next to an elderly man who was about fifty years old and said, "I see they have strict discipline and a clear division of labor. I'm a little confused about where they came from."
The most important thing is that they look like they are fleeing famine, but there are patrols among them and even people teaching within the team.
The sudden appearance of such a team behind them inevitably made them think too much.
The man, called Uncle Liang by the man, glanced at the team behind him and said, "Be on high alert tonight. Be careful of the group of refugees behind you who might attack you."
He touched the jade token at his waist and continued, "We will leave at dawn tomorrow and try to get back to the capital before the princess' birthday."
"yes."
After Uncle Liang finished speaking, he put down the jade token and stood up. He walked to the carriage in the team, stood by the window and said, "Master, it's time to eat."
"I understand." A clear voice came from the carriage.
After hearing the reply from his young master, Uncle Liang returned to the lit fire and asked the people around him to prepare bamboo mats for his young masters.
The young man who had just spoken in the carriage looked at the handsome young man sitting opposite him who was always gloomy and said, "Zhou Yunjia, it's been so long, can you please stop looking so gloomy?"
"Yun Qi asked me to take you back to Nanzhou for your own good. Otherwise, do you really want to make the Zhenbei Palace extinct?"
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