Therefore, Qiu Yuling never complained that the road to school was far or difficult. If the road was not far, how would she get the energy?
Without energy, how can her date trees bloom and bear fruit? What will her hens eat to lay eggs? The same goes for her wheat. Watering and weeding, none of them require energy!
The manor now only provided her with a thatched house that was leaky on all sides, which was not much different from the adobe house where she lived in the Qiu family.
If she wanted to rebuild, she had to plant trees. After planting enough trees, she had to save energy. This energy...she saved so much that her calves were cramping!
Fortunately, the Cute Pet Manor was the first to have a harvest, and she can now collect two eggs a day.
By the way, I delivered the eggs to the cute pet kitchen, completed the task and got feed, and I didn’t have to find a way to secretly cook eggs in the Qiu family’s kitchen.
It really kills two birds with one stone!
She made four trips to and from school a day, each trip being more than four miles, which was equivalent to about two or three kilometers. In a day, she walked at least ten to twenty miles, and the energy received by the space system increased rapidly.
Some kids also brought their own lunch, which was nothing more than mixed noodles and dry food mixed with cold water. She insisted on walking back and forth at noon.
It was only here that she saw what dry food was. It was a rectangular tandoor made of adobe. First, burn some grass and add it into the tandoor. When the tandoor was almost burnt, put the steamed buns on the iron plate and push them in. Not everyone had a tandoor plate, so people would borrow it from each other to make steamed buns.
After putting the steamed bun into the tandoor, put the earthen lid back on and fill it tightly with some mud around it.
When the time is almost up, pull out the board and the steamed buns are orange, yellow and crispy.
I don’t make it often. I just make it once, dry it, and eat it for a long time.
Tie a bamboo rack to the beam of the house and put the steamed buns inside. Let them dry naturally without getting moldy. When you eat them, just boil some water if you have time. If you don’t have time, just soak them in cold water and you can eat them.
She went home to eat at noon every day, firstly to avoid the bad food at school, and secondly to at least have some hot water to drink when she got home.
Secondly, she had to create conditions to obtain energy. Her space currently had no other input, so she could only rely on this little energy to operate.
However, after all this, her body grew taller and stronger visibly, and mother Qiu also had a smile on her face. It can be said that she was able to keep her daughter.
In this way, Qiu's mother no longer mentioned the idea of dropping out of school after learning a few words, and Qiu Yuling could still pick up a few donkey dung balls on her way back.
The donkey dung balls can be used to add fuel to the stove, or crushed and used as fertilizer in the vegetable fields. Mother Qiu said that some of the young wives from other places in the team were so hungry that they used the donkey dung balls to fill their stomachs.
After cleaning the feces outside the dung ball, take out the crude fiber inside, and then mix it with a small amount of flour to make food such as steamed bread. At this time, some places that rely on the weather for food have become extremely dry.
Because of the famine, people started eating everything, including tree bark, grass roots, and rubber shoe soles, whether edible or not.
Even the mice in the fields stared blankly when they saw people, they were so hungry!
Qiu Yuling lamented that the place where she was sent by God, although it is the Loess Plateau and is barren, is in the lower reaches of the Yellow River and relies on the Yellow River water and groundwater.
The crops grown on the Yellow River water for two seasons a year are not enough to feed the people, but they can barely keep them alive.
Qiu Yuling walked like this every day, and soon she had accumulated enough energy to adopt a female goat. She had now practiced walking and could walk seven or eight miles in one breath without even taking a breath.
She didn't have a watch yet, but based on the feedback from the space system, she averaged out the three kilometers and it took her about forty minutes to complete the journey.
That's fine. After all, she has short legs and has to pick up things on the road occasionally. She can't have no contribution to the family at all.
There are no cameras or big data monitoring now. Qiu Yuling goes there once a day, one trip early and one trip late, and secretly eats a boiled egg on the way back.
What, let her go home and eat in peace?
There were only three rooms in total at home, all of which had a large kang (kang bed) as the common bed. Qiu Yuling, Qiu's father and mother slept in the suite, each of them sharing one large kang.
The three brothers of the Qiu family slept on the big kang in the main room outside the suite. The living room and bedroom were all in this one room, and there was also a kitchen where all the sundries were stored.
There is no other way. The conditions are so harsh. Even if you throw the Bull Demon King here, he will have to put on the bridle and plow the land obediently. Anyway, Qiu Yuling has gradually become numb!
But there was also something to be happy about. The female goats she adopted produced two kilograms of milk every day. Now she not only had goat milk to drink, but also had enough milk to drink.
As usual, the squeezed goat milk is handed over to the cute pet kitchen. Sometimes when she gets tired of drinking it, she can exchange it for a bowl of goat milk custard to make her one.
Qiu Yuling found that her Zhifubao Farm was just like the modern society. The richer people were, the easier it was for them to make money. They could make money without doing anything as long as they invested it. Her farm was the same. It was so difficult at the beginning that she had to run herself to pieces all day long. The little energy she saved had to be distributed here and there.
She gradually recovered. She kept half of the harvested grain and used the remaining half to exchange for an extra acre of land to plant rice. Now she has one acre of wheat and one acre of rice.
She also dug a hole and buried a sack of grain on her way home from school.
She went home and quietly told her third brother that someone had secretly put the grain on the grain collection truck. She hid aside, and after the person left, she moved the grain to another place little by little, dug a hole and buried it.
She was really tricked. Because she came home late that day, Qiu's mother scolded her for playing on the road and almost beat her with a fire poker. However, there was no grain-collecting truck that secretly stored grain. This was just a fabricated story by her. Whether she believed it or not, she couldn't find a more reasonable excuse.
Besides, if she didn't make up the story, she wouldn't know how to get the grain out into the open, and the Qiu family would soon be on the verge of having to eat tree bark and grass roots.
Back to her Zhifubao Farm, she had also harvested the jujube tree. She kept half of the big red dates and paid the other half to the system mall, earning two thousand points. She also bought an apple tree and spent one thousand points.
The Cute Pet Manor also had some gains. She had saved eggs for a while and had two broods of chickens. Now there are twenty-three chicks chirping. Recently, she looked from the combs and saw that there were eight roosters and the rest were hens. This shows that she is not far from the freedom of the eggs.
Qiu Yuling was also worried. It would be fine if she was reborn as a lonely star in this life. With the Zhifubao Farm, she didn't say that she would become prosperous, but in these difficult times, supporting herself was not a problem and she could live a very comfortable life.
But the bad thing was that she was not alone. Over the past six months, both her parents and her three brothers took great care of her. She gradually forgot that she was Zhou Xiaolin and only thought of herself as Qiu Yuling, who was born in 1960.
Ever since she entered school, she has thoroughly understood what time it is. It is better to arrive at the right time than to arrive early. She arrived during the three-year natural disaster period, and she had to survive until the end of next year to avoid death from hunger.
Qiu Yuling felt that in addition to making her own life a little better, she also had to find a way to help this family get through it!
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