Zhao stopped talking for a while, then muttered softly, "We have split up and severed our relationship, so why would they care about me?"
Although the voice was low, Yu Zhou heard it. She didn't look at Zhao, but said calmly, "Third wife, do you think I talk too much? You should also understand clearly that even if we split up the family, can your father and I really ignore you? You and Han Shan have to live on. If you continue like this, if he really loses his heart, you will have a hard time in the future."
How could Zhao listen to Yu Zhou's advice? She never thought things through carefully, and she would never care about her temper or thoughts, and would explode immediately.
She turned her head away and didn't respond to Yu Zhou's words.
At this time, the group of people who went out to find food came back. Yu Qiaoshan and Zhou Xiang each held a pheasant and a rabbit in their hands. The two were veteran hunters and more experienced than other villagers. Most people did not catch any game, but only found some wild fruits.
Some were lucky enough to pick up a nest of bird eggs that had been blown off a tree.
"Dad, Mom, eat some wild fruits first." Yu Qiaoshan said, "I'll go coat the wild pheasant with yellow mud and roast it over a fire."
Yu Zhixing used his clothes to carry back a lot of wild fruits, including prickly rose fruit, lantern fruit, and other fruits that he couldn't name. He grabbed a handful and gave them to Wang Mengyan to feed the little Platycodon.
The people in the cave also began to share the wild fruits.
Yu Jinshu and Yu Jinyan swallowed their saliva. No one from their third room went to look for food, so they could only smell the fragrance of the wild fruits around them.
Now it’s not like before when the family was still divided, so they will also have a share of what the eldest wife brings.
"Eat something to fill your stomach first." Yu Zhou took a handful of small fruits and stuffed them into the hands of Yu Jinshu and Yu Jinyan.
After all, she still felt sorry for her two grandsons.
Yu Zhixing saw this from the side and said nothing. He lowered his head to feed the little Platycodon fruit. But in his heart he felt that his second and fourth brothers had been spoiled. It would have been fine if they only knew how to study in the past, but now in this situation, they still put on the airs of scholars. They are both adults already, and others can find food, so why can't they?
All those who had hunted game came outside the cave to process the animals. Zhou Xiang had a small dagger with him, which came in handy at this moment. After he had processed the pheasant, Yu Qiaoshan took over the dagger and also cut open the pheasant, taking out the inedible organs, and then skinned the rabbit.
"Brother, did you see Meng Yatou and Fuling and the others when you came back?" After cleaning the pheasant, Yu Mengshan helped to wrap mud on the pheasant and asked with some concern.
"We did. I originally wanted Zhixing to stay with them. Fifth Brother was also there. Meng Yatou and the others said that with so many people, nothing would happen. So Zhixing came back." Yu Qiaoshan said as he worked. "We didn't see any big beasts along the way, and there were no signs of wild boars in the forest. I don't know if it was caused by the flood and rain. I guess those guys are hiding in their dens."
Yu Mengshan nodded, and the two of them wrapped the whole pheasant in yellow mud, carried the wild rabbit that had been cleaned with puddles, and returned to the cave.
Someone in the cave had already lit a fire and was roasting a skinned wild rabbit on it. Yu Qiaoshan poked the fire, buried the wild pheasant wrapped in mud in it, and found a branch to roast the rabbit head on the fire.
After waiting for two incense sticks of time, Yu Qiaoshan dug some wild pheasants out of the fire and used the sporadic fire to roast them for another two incense sticks of time.
The yellow mud had completely dried and cracked. Yu Qiaoshan peeled off the mud shell. The chicken feathers fell off as the shell was peeled off, and the aroma of chicken wafted into the air.
The whole chicken and roasted rabbit meat were divided into parts, and each member of the Yu family received some to fill their stomachs. Some was also left for Yu Qizhe, Yu Jiao, and Yu Fuling.
Yu Qiaoshan also gave two pieces of meat to the third room. The pieces were not big. Yu Hanshan gave one piece to Li Xiu'e to feed her two children, and the other piece to Yu Jinshu and Yu Jinyan.
An hour and a half later, Yu Jiao led the herbalists back and brought back a lot of herbs.
They didn't encounter any danger, except that the mountain road was slippery and a few people fell. Yu Jiao saw it, but they were all fine, perhaps because they were careful and didn't sprain their bones.
Yu Jiao asked those with fever to chew some plantain raw, classified the collected herbs and adjusted the dosages, then distributed them to the family members of the patients with fever, asking them to decoct the medicine. Only then did she have some free time.
"This is the wild pheasant and rabbit meat that your uncle caught in the mountains. Eat some quickly to fill your stomach." Song handed the meat wrapped in leaves to Yu Jiao and the other two.
While eating meat, Yu Jiao said, "When we came back, the rain was much lighter. We can go down the mountain later to see if the water has receded."
"Zhizhou, come with me to the foot of the mountain to see if anyone else wants to go?" Yu Qiaoshan looked at the other villagers in the cave and said.
Several men stood up in response, and a group of five or six people left the cave and went down the mountain.
Half an hour later, several people came back, one of them carrying a bag of food on his back.
Someone was sharp-eyed and recognized that it was his own grain bag. He asked, "Has the water receded from the mountain? Why did you carry my family's grain?"
"The Qingshui River was still flooded. I waded through it and found that the water level was much lower than before. The earthen bridge seemed to have been washed away." Yu Qiaoshan said, "There was still a lot of water in the village. It was hard to tell how deep it was. A lot of things were washed out and floated on the water. This bag of grain was washed together with a few pieces of wood. We had to work very hard to get it out."
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