Chapter 46: Eliminating the Roots
Everyone’s eyes widened!
Zhang Ruoan laughed so hard that his mouth couldn't close. He said, "I just asked everyone to search the houses in the village, and they found so much food, and there's more than just this basket!"
Seeing so much food, Zhang Dajun's eyes lit up.
"Mom, now we can eat brown rice every day!" he shouted happily.
Zhang Ruoan took Zhao Chunhua to the house where the grain was found.
I saw that the basement under the council hall was filled with all kinds of food, not only coarse grains and brown rice, but also finer flour and cornmeal.
"Is it the same as the pork jerky we ate before?" Zhang Tianbao asked again.
Zhang Dajun was a little annoyed and said, "Of course it's the same! Are you guys going to eat it or not? If not, then I'll eat it!"
Zhao Chunhua saw Zhang Dajun still licking the remaining residue at the bottom of the bowl and realized that Zhang Dajun was still growing up and the noodle soup was not enough for him.
She gave half of the bowl to Da Jun, "Da Jun, you have contributed a lot to clearing the Wild Dog Village this time, eat more."
Zhang Dajun stared at the bowl of noodle soup, his throat moved, but he didn't move.
He looked at Zhao Chunhua and asked, "Mom, I ate your portion. Is it enough for you?"
Zhao Chunhua immediately got angry: "Just eat when I told you to. Why are you talking so much nonsense? How can I starve?"
After hearing this, Zhang Dajun happily finished the remaining half bowl of noodles.
Seeing Zhang Dajun and Zhao Chunhua eating so happily, the others gradually relaxed and started eating.
The people from the second and third rooms were extremely jealous when they saw Zhao Chunhua and her family eating with gusto.
Everyone in the village can eat coarse rice and rye flour, but they are the only ones still eating bland and tasteless wild vegetable soup. How can they swallow this?
Fortunately, Erxi didn’t make any noise this time.
But when Bai Xiaowei went to check the grain bag in the middle of the night, she found that the remaining two pieces of dried rat were missing!
She immediately went berserk: "Who stole my rats? You are such a shameless person who deserves to be struck by lightning! You even stole my things. You can't live like this, right?"
However, there was no response from anywhere.
Seeing that no one paid any attention to her, Bai Xiaowei became even angrier and started to curse: "You don't admit it, right? Then I curse you to never give birth to a son! Even if you give birth to a son, he will be a short-lived ghost! It would be best if you have no descendants and your family is destroyed!"
The sound was so loud that even Zhao Chunhua could hear it clearly.
She laughed sarcastically, finding this self-curse quite eye-opening.
After a while, some villagers finally couldn't stand it anymore.
"Bai Xiaowei, why don't you ask your own son if he took it? I saw him rummaging around in your car yesterday to eat something!"
"We saw it too," another person next to him echoed.
Bai Xiaowei was stunned and turned to look at Erxi.
Unexpectedly, Erxi said directly: "Yes, it's just what I eat. What's wrong? I walked such a long way, can't I eat some meat?"
The jerky had no taste at all, and it almost broke my teeth when I bit it.
After hearing this, Bai Xiaowei was furious and teamed up with Defu to beat Erxi up.
The blow was even more brutal than what Zhao Chunhua had done that day!
"I told you not to learn your lesson and just steal food! Today I will definitely give you a good beating!"
The valley was filled with the echoes of Zhang Erxi's screams.
After this scene was over, Zhao Chunhua and her family lay down around the fire to rest.
While everyone was asleep, Zhao Chunhua entered the space and found that the area of the wheat field had expanded a lot. Now it could at least meet the food needs of more than ten people.
The corner of the vegetable garden that she had always missed was also developed, and the approximately six square meters of land was planted with tomatoes and lettuce.
After picking a few tomatoes, she didn't care about her image and just wolfed them down.
Maybe it was because she hadn't tasted such delicious vegetables for a long time, so she felt very satisfied at this moment.
Oh, this is real life! Life outside is just suffering!
In the end, Zhao Chunhua saved two tomatoes for tomorrow's breakfast, and picked some lettuce to put in the noodle soup tomorrow morning.
However, when the family saw Zhao Chunhua take out these green vegetables from her pocket, their eyes were full of surprise.
"Mom, where did you find this lettuce?" Zhang Baozhu asked in surprise.
In the current situation, drought and war have made it impossible for the land to grow even food, let alone evergreen fruits and vegetables.
While cleaning the lettuce in her hands, Zhao Chunhua answered: "Where did it come from? I got it from that village."
"Alright, alright, come over and help, and don't say anything nonsense. We only brought back a few of them, so don't let anyone know."
Everyone believed it and said nothing more.
While roasting the lettuce, Xie Lanqin kept yawning and looked very tired.
Zhang Tianbao felt sorry for her and planned to let her go aside to rest for a while.
Xie Lanqin raised her head and glanced at Zhao Chunhua who showed no reaction, and immediately declined Zhang Tianbao's kindness.
"I'm just cooking, it's not a hard job. You guys are pushing the cart and carrying the luggage, that's tiring!"
Zhang Tianbao had no choice but to say, "Okay, tell me if you're tired."
Xie Lanqin nodded and stirred the soup in the pot.
She didn't sleep well the whole night yesterday and woke up several times. In her dreams, she saw Zhao Chunhua beating and scolding her and driving her away.
She was terribly frightened, fearing that Zhao Chunhua would take revenge on her and also worried that the baby in her belly would be sold. She could hardly close her eyes in the second half of the night.
She saw Zhao Chunhua stand up once in the middle and she felt extremely nervous.
It was not until he saw that Zhao Chunhua seemed to have gone to the woods to relieve herself that he felt a little relieved.
But in the past two days, Zhao Chunhua did not behave in any unusual way, and her attitude towards her was the same as before, as if what happened on the cliff had never happened.
Xie Lanqin therefore held on to a glimmer of hope, guessing that Zhao Chunhua must have fallen off a cliff and hit her head, which was why she had forgotten that memory.
But what she didn't know was that Zhao Chunhua had never forgotten this incident, and even remembered every detail of Xie Lanqin pushing her down the mountain.
She did not expose Xie Lanqin, firstly because she was still pregnant; secondly, Xie Lanqin was the daughter-in-law chosen by the original head of the family, and if she was divorced, outsiders would definitely laugh at her.
Finally, in ancient times, if someone was accused of murdering their mother-in-law, the person would be sentenced to death. Once she told the truth, Xie Lanqin would probably be in danger.
So she didn't want to talk about it and decided to wait until the baby was born.
Suddenly, Zhao Chunhua snatched the spoon from Xie Lanqin's hand, frowned and said, "How long will it take you to finish the meal at this speed? Go away, I'll cook!"
In desperation, Xie Lanqin could only give way to Zhao Chunhua to take over.
Soon, a big pot of fragrant vegetable porridge was ready.
The fragrance attracted the attention of the surrounding villagers, and everyone began to busy themselves cooking.
Only the first and third wives lost their appetite at the sight of the stew made from wild vegetable roots.
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