Li Laoshi thought that no one had noticed him spying on Chunfeng, but little did he know that he had already been seen by others.
Qiaoyun was in the kitchen next door at that moment.
She was a shy young wife. When so many strange men suddenly came to her house, she hid in the kitchen to eat and take care of the children, and didn't come out.
This also allowed them to clearly see Li Laoshi's sly and furtive actions.
Qiaoyun was furious.
She had witnessed the suffering Chunfeng's sister-in-law endured among the refugees. Fearing being harmed, she sewed her clothes onto her body, causing her skin to rot all over.
The way this migrant worker is looking at his sister-in-law now means he must know her.
Qiaoyun's attentiveness had been praised by her mother-in-law, Jiang Zhi. At this moment, she remained calm and simply hid to observe.
Fortunately, Li Laoshi only peeked and did not do anything else.
Not long after, Qiaoyun waited until her mother-in-law entered the kitchen and then told her what she had just seen.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Zhi immediately called Xu Errui over: "Errui, you said that the one who helped you kill the refugees that day was Li Laoshi?"
Xu Errui told his family about killing the refugees, especially how Li Laoshi hit him with a stone from behind during the fight, which allowed him to win.
At this moment, Xu Errui heard his mother ask him again, and she and his wife pointed to the people outside to confirm. He nodded and said, "It is indeed Li Laoshi. This man looks timid, but in reality..."
Xu Errui didn't know how to describe Li Laoshi's behavior. It always felt a bit awkward. He said he was honest, but his actions didn't seem like those of an honest person at all.
Jiang Zhi nodded: "Okay, I understand!"
Li Laoshi had been up the mountain several times, and Jiang Zhi and he were already old acquaintances.
This time, he led the refugees up the mountain because he had colluded with Zhang Juntou, and he also helped Xu Errui kill the refugees.
This person keeps claiming to be an honest man, but he's slippery and adept at reading the winds. It's hard to say whether he's good or bad. In any case, be careful in the future and don't believe anything he says.
Although Jiang Zhi felt that Chunfeng's secret was nothing, and Zhang Juntou might not necessarily seek justice for that Boss Hu, it was difficult to predict what others would think.
This needs to be told to Xiaomanye, Xu Dazhu, and Chunfeng immediately.
Finding an excuse, Jiang Zhi walked to Chunfeng's side, pointed to Li Laoshi outside, and whispered, "That man might recognize you!"
Chunfeng's expression changed slightly: "I don't really remember that person."
In Xujia Village, Chunfeng lived alone and did not talk to other refugees, so she did not know who Li Laoshi was.
Now that this refugee recognizes him, it will implicate Boss Hu.
Jiang Zhi said, "Why don't you tell Dazhu about it? He'll definitely be able to come up with a solution for you."
Jiang Zhi didn't know if the couple had mentioned killing Hu Laoda. Now that Li Laoshi recognized the person, they needed to prepare in advance.
Chunfeng nodded: "Brother Dazhu knows, I'll go tell him right now!"
Soon, Xu Dazhu, who was chatting and laughing with someone, stopped laughing and his face turned somewhat ugly.
Xiang Dejin also noticed that Xu Dazhu was acting strangely, and that he kept glancing at the vagrant who was leading the way outside. He asked, "Dazhu, is something wrong with you?"
Xu Dazhu was silent for a moment, then said, "At the beginning of the year, my wife got separated from us because of the chaos of war and stayed in the village alone for a while. Fortunately, Xiaoman found her, but she got into a conflict with someone when she left... and that person died."
Xiang Dejin raised an eyebrow: "Oh, is that all?"
Xu Dazhu nodded: "Li Laoshi, the one who brought you here, recognized her and will probably tell Zhang, the squad leader, and they will investigate the matter."
Xiaoman jumped out from the side: "Brother Xiang, I did this. It has nothing to do with my sister-in-law. That person was trying to strangle me. I accidentally did it when I was fighting back."
He took the blame, so his sister-in-law and Errui wouldn't have to get involved.
"What about the corpse?"
Xiaoman stiffened her neck and said, "Bury it!"
Xiang Dejin frowned and thought for a moment: "It's alright, no one cares about those refugees, and Commander Zhang is busy suppressing bandits... It's good to add a name! Leave this to me."
Although he was just a wounded soldier, his words carried more weight in front of Commander Zhang than those of this mountain villager. Besides, the matter was long over, and no one would care.
As for Li Laoshi, there are ways to deal with him.
The meal inside the house took an hour to finish. Xiang Dejin and the others did not linger, nor did they say they would go up the mountain immediately. They only said they would wait until arrangements were made.
The group then left.
Life on the mountain returned to normal, yet with some changes. Everyone was trying their best to relax and extricate themselves from the shadow of being displaced.
Taking advantage of the clear weather, Xiaoman and Xu Errui busied themselves cutting tree branches and thatch.
Chunfeng led Nini to pick the last few wild wolfberries on the cliff edge.
The image shows wild wolfberries. The root of the wolfberry plant is called Digupi, which is used for night sweats and coughs caused by bone steaming, and is mainly used to treat diabetes and thirst.
In spring, the tender tips of the dog-root sprouts are blanched and served cold, and in summer, goji berries can be picked.
Unlike cultivated varieties, wild goji berries have a low yield. Now that it's autumn, it's even harder to find plump berries on vines that only bear a few berries to begin with.
Nini picked a fruit and tried to put it in Chunfeng's mouth: "Mom, you eat it, it's sweet!"
Chunfeng cherished the goji berries that Nini handed her and refused to eat them: "Nini, I won't eat them. Save them for your father. He'll recover faster if he eats them."
Nini nodded: "Okay, Nini won't eat either!"
After six months of medication and dietary adjustments, along with the constant massages from Chunfeng and Xiaoman, Xu Dazhu can now barely sit up, but standing is still a long way off.
However, Chunfeng was full of expectations, and she was willing to do anything that would be good for Xu Dazhu's health.
Especially the goji berries; from the first one turning red in summer, they were always on the mountain cliffs and slopes, feeding Xu Dazhu one by one.
Every day when she comes home from outside, she carefully takes out a few red goji berries wrapped in green leaves from her pocket.
Goji berries are now hard to find, and we'll have to wait until next summer to eat them again, so Chunfeng naturally can't afford to waste a single one.
The last wolfberry vine was also picked.
Chunfeng wiped her hands on her clothes and still stuffed the goji berries into Nini's mouth: "Little glutton, do you remember what goji berries look like now? You can't eat the wrong ones again!"
Nini smiled shyly, a goji berry in her mouth.
She almost had an accident in the summer, which terrified both families, and now Chunfeng has to remind her from time to time.
There are many kinds of berries in the mountains, but not all of them are edible.
Just as tempting as raspberries are snakeberries.
Snakeberry, snake bubble
Snakeberry is also known as "Sanpi Feng" in traditional Chinese medicine, used to treat rheumatic pain, carbuncles, boils, burns, and other ailments.
The red fruit is edible, but slightly poisonous; eating large quantities can cause diarrhea.
The most likely poisonous plant is the horse chestnut. It is used externally to treat rheumatism and burns, but when ingested, it is highly toxic and can cause death.
The unripe mulberry fruits look just like small apples, piled up red on the branches, and are very beautiful.
Unripe mulberry fruit is highly poisonous.
When ripe, it turns purplish-red, becomes soft and juicy, and tastes sweet with a slightly astringent flavor. Mild poisoning can cause convulsions and vomiting, while severe poisoning can quickly lead to respiratory failure and death.
One day, Nini ran out with the little wild boar to pick mulberry fruits. The boar didn't eat them, but she did!
When they saw Nini return with her lips and hands stained purple-red and a handful of horse chestnuts in her hand, Xiaoman's grandmother and Chunfeng were so frightened that they cried out in terror.
Both families panicked.
In the countryside, children die from poisoning every year after eating horse chestnut seeds.
According to generations of oral tradition, the only cure for poisoning by *Masangzi* (a type of wild mulberry) is to eat sow's excrement.
Where can we find pigs, especially sows, in this desolate wilderness?
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