Ye Wenxue yawned early in the morning, carrying Yuanyuan on her back and a bucket of dirty clothes to the spring to wash them.
As soon as I walked to the stove, I saw a strong-looking man sitting on the newly made stool.
He huddled listlessly on the bench, clutching his stomach. His face showed little emotion, but you could tell from a distance that he was very aggrieved.
Ye Wenxue didn't pay much attention to Suiye. She just walked over and pressed the stool. Seeing that the stool didn't look like it was about to fall apart, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Yesterday afternoon, while supervising the felling of trees by Suiye, Ye Wenxue took some time to make a table and four long benches.
When they left Shanqing Village, the group of one adult and five children could not take much with them, so there were no furniture such as benches or tables in the valley.
These days, the food is placed on a covered empty basket, and the children squat or sit directly on the ground to eat.
It's very convenient, but it doesn't look very presentable.
Ye Wenxue had been worrying about food and lodging every day for the past few days, busy finding mountain produce to make food and wet mud to build a house... She couldn't spare the time to make wooden furniture.
I happened to have some free time yesterday, so I made some tables and chairs.
However, Ye Wenxue had never studied how to make furniture before, so she found it difficult to get started. She successfully made the tables and chairs, but she was worried that they would fall apart after only a few days of use.
Seeing that Suiye, despite being so big, hadn't fallen apart even while sitting on a long bench, Ye Wenxue gained a lot of confidence in her skills.
Seeing that she left without even asking him a question, after checking on the long bench, Suiye felt even more aggrieved and buried her head in her hands, silently angry.
Ye Wenxue was already exhausted from raising five children, and she really couldn't spare any time to care about a fool. After washing her clothes, hanging them up on a rope, and preparing to cook, she decided to go and do her own cooking.
"I want to eat Zhuxi tribute rice. Brown rice is too coarse, I can't swallow it." Suiye appeared behind Ye Wenxue like a ghost.
Zhuxi tribute rice? Dream on!
Even if he sold his property, he still couldn't afford it.
Ye Wenxue turned around and glared at Sui Ye, but seeing that he didn't take the opportunity to bully Yuanyuan, her tone softened slightly:
"Don't even mention tribute rice, we don't even have much brown rice at home. Do you want some? If not, I won't cook your meal."
Suiye, feeling dizzy from hunger, retreated to the side, looking aggrieved: "Eat."
He didn't eat this badly when he was on a march.
But being under someone else's roof... he sighed heavily, feeling even hungrier.
"Can I...can I have some persimmons and chestnuts?"
He was afraid he wouldn't live to see the rice cooked.
Ye Wenxue vaguely felt that this person was easier to talk to than the previous two days, and his tone was much softer, which made her a little strange:
"Don't you find these mountain products too rough?"
I find it disgusting.
Suiye secretly complained, "It's not that I've been starving for four or five days and I just can't take it anymore."
He didn't respond, and Ye Wenxue didn't press the matter further, only saying, "Eat if you want, but don't waste it. I and a few children ran a long way to find this little bit, and carried it back under the scorching sun. I don't even know how many blisters we got on our feet."
"If I find out you're wasting food, you won't be eating for the next few days."
Suiye was slightly taken aback, opened his mouth but then closed it again, and responded with a muffled sound.
"Wait a minute," Ye Wenxue added a piece of firewood to the stove, "I'll go get it for you."
Chestnuts, persimmons, wild kiwis, and the like were originally stored in the cave where Su used to live, but now there's nowhere to put them, so they have to be piled up at the entrance of the cave where Ye Wenxue's family sleeps.
The children were still sleeping in the cave, and she didn't feel comfortable letting this person go in and rummage through things.
Suiye didn't care about this at all; he even complained that no one washed and prepared the food and delivered it to him.
Ye Wenxue went back into the cave, put Yuanyuan down, and asked her to urge her older siblings to get up. She then took a handful of unpeeled chestnuts and persimmons to Suiye.
"Fill your stomach first, and I'll cook dinner as soon as possible. If you're really bored, go water the vegetable garden."
Suiye frowned as he looked at the chestnuts. After hesitating for a long time, he took a bite and spat it out, saying, "These chestnuts are spoiled, I..."
Ye Wenxue sighed: "How old are you?"
"Nineteen... no, I just turned eighteen this year!"
"Twenty years old?" Ye Wenxue looked Sui Ye up and down, who had an exceptionally strong build, and sneered. "I thought you were two years old. Even my Siwang knows to peel chestnuts before eating them. Don't you know that?"
Sui Ye could easily tell he was being mocked, but he tried his best to calm his anger: "The chestnuts I've always eaten are the best, they're always shelled and cooked, they're always..."
So, do you know how to peel chestnuts?
"...I don't have to do it myself!"
Out of consideration for the neatly stacked wood beside the vegetable garden, Ye Wenxue patiently taught him once, and then stuffed a peeled chestnut into his hand:
"If you dare to waste food again, you might as well not eat and starve to death."
Watching Ye Wenxue turn to wash vegetables and cook, Sui Ye held a chestnut, frowned for a long time, and belatedly realized that he had given himself away.
He is currently suffering from amnesia and shouldn't remember things from the past.
He looked at Ye Wenxue with a complicated expression, but did not rush forward to ask questions. He peeled and washed the chestnuts one by one and ate them slowly.
Perhaps it was because he was so hungry, but for some reason, Suiye felt that the raw chestnuts in his hand were sweeter than any chestnuts he had ever eaten.
As Dazhuang rubbed his eyes and carried Yuanyuan out of the cave, he saw Suiye happily eating chestnuts, occasionally glancing up at his mother's back.
Da Zhuang squinted, exchanged a glance with Su Jiu who had just emerged from the cave, and quickly walked to Ye Wenxue's side;
"Mom, what are we having for dinner today?"
Ye Wenxue heard similar phrases at least three times a day: once in the morning, once at noon, and once in the evening.
The distribution is very regular.
She glanced at Dazhuang and said, "I'll have a simple breakfast, just porridge and pickled vegetables. But we don't have many pickled vegetables at home, so I'll find some time to dig up some wild vegetables and pickle them."
Dazhuang grunted in agreement, glanced at Suiye who was three and a half heads taller than him, and couldn't help but speak:
"Mom, if I eat more, will I be able to grow taller than him in the future?"
Ye Wenxue recalled the description of the main villain in the original book: "...It's a bit difficult, but there's still hope."
Suiye is probably from a family of military generals. He's already over 1.85 meters tall at the age of twenty. If he eats more, he might grow even taller.
The villainous eldest son injured his body while fleeing famine, and was only 1.82 meters tall when he died at the age of 23.
Dazhuang was ambitious; he wanted to eat more and work more so that he could grow taller than Suiye.
If anyone dares to bully his mother again, he will punch them.
Ye Wenxue was completely unaware of his thoughts: "Go and wake Shuangshuang and the others up; it's time to eat."
"Okay."
Dazhuang left, and Su Jiu arrived.
He only said one sentence: "I want to go out of the valley to find herbs."
Ye Wenxue, while serving the porridge, glanced at him and asked, "Aren't the herbs in the valley enough for you?"
Su Jiu sighed, "I'm just missing one crucial ingredient. I'll come back as soon as possible and promise not to run around and cause trouble."
Upon hearing this, both of them simultaneously recalled Su Jiu's two near-death experiences.
"You...you'd better watch yourself."
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