Now we have food, meat, eggs at home, and some green vegetables in the private plot behind the house. We have everything we need.
Besides, she still had more than ten taels of silver on her, so she didn't need to worry too much about selling the cookbook.
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At the thatched hut at the entrance of the village, the members of the Yu family who had run all the way here were sitting on the ground or collapsed. Everyone was gasping for breath, with a look of fear on their faces, having survived a disaster.
Old Mrs. Yu is now extremely glad that she chose to move out, as the place was simply too horrible.
If you continue to stay there, something bad will happen sooner or later.
After the Yu family members, who were either paralyzed or sitting on the ground, finally calmed down their violently beating hearts, they began to growl with hunger one after another.
"Grandma, when can we eat? Xiaosi is so hungry." Yu Xiaosi, one of the twin sons of Yu Laosan, touched his hungry stomach and looked at Grandma Yu.
He was already very hungry, and he had run all the way from the end of the village to the beginning, which consumed a lot of his energy. Now he was completely starving.
Old Mrs. Yu was also hungry. When she heard her grandson ask this, she turned her eyes to her eldest daughter-in-law, Yu Zhao, and her third daughter-in-law, Yu Liu.
Yu Zhao and Yu Liu were also very hungry, but after looking around, it seemed that only they two were able to cook.
It is impossible for Yu Jiaojiao to do it, let alone Old Madam Yu. As for Yu Li, she has been taking care of Yu Laoer because Yu Laoer has a broken leg, so she can't be expected to do it at this time. It is even more impossible for Old Man Yu, Yu Laoda, Yu Laosan and Yu Dashan, the eldest grandson of the Yu family.
The two of them had no choice but to get up from the ground and walk into the thatched hut.
The thatched house has not been occupied for more than a year, almost two years. Weeds have grown in the house, and the pot on the stove in the kitchen has rusted due to long-term disuse.
I looked around again, but there was no firewood.
The two looked at each other, and Yu Zhao looked outside: "Mom, there is nothing here, the pot is rusty, there is no firewood, no food, we can't do anything here."
When they left, they originally wanted to take pots, pans, and food from the kitchen, but they were so scared that they ran out without caring about anything. Not only did they not take any pots, pans, or food, they didn't even take any food with them.
There is a saying that goes, "A skilled cook cannot cook without rice," not to mention that the two of them didn't want to do it in the first place. This is a ready-made excuse, so why not use it?
But even though they avoided cooking, they had to face a realistic problem: they had no food, no pots and pans, and even no firewood. How could they survive?
When Old Lady Yu heard what Yu Zhao said, her brows furrowed.
But after all, Old Mrs. Yu had lived for several decades, so she quickly made arrangements.
"Eldest brother, third brother, and Dashan, go collect some firewood. Eldest brother's wife, you go to the Liu family next door and borrow some food." Old Mrs. Yu started making arrangements.
Although the three people who were assigned to collect firewood were quite dissatisfied about being asked to collect firewood on an empty stomach, they also knew that the current problem was that they could not cook without firewood. In order to eat quickly, the three people had to get up from the ground and go to the mountain at the entrance of the village to collect firewood.
The three of them had walked a long way away, but Yu Zhaoshi was still standing there without moving.
Old Madam Yu frowned, her eyebrows raised: "Why aren't you going yet?"
"Mom, you don't know that Uncle Liu's family is notoriously stingy. How could they possibly lend us food?" Yu Zhao would go out to listen to gossip when she was free. Uncle Liu's family was in the business of plowing the fields and driving ox carts for the villagers. They were considered one of the most prestigious families in Lihua Village.
However, just like the Yu family, the Liu family's financial power is controlled by the old lady.
But Old Lady Liu was notoriously stingy. No one could take advantage of her for even a piece of thread. She was extremely calculative. If anyone owed her a couple of copper coins by riding in her ox cart, she would come to ask for it within a day.
Yu Zhaoshi was not sure that she could borrow food from such an old lady Liu.
"Then borrow from someone else. Don't you understand this logic?" Mrs. Yu's words sounded harsh, but to her they were still light.
If it weren't for the fact that Yu Zhao was Yu Jiaojiao's biological mother and she gave her precious granddaughter Jiaojiao some face, she would have scolded even more harshly.
"I understand, mother." Yu Zhaoshi actually just wanted to be lazy, but seeing that she couldn't avoid it, she could only go to borrow food from others reluctantly.
Yu Liu thought she had escaped, but the next second she was stared at by Old Lady Yu: "Didn't you say the pot was rusted? Third daughter-in-law, why are you standing there like an idiot? Why don't you clean the pot before you go back to collect firewood and borrow food? Why are you being lazy?"
Yu Liu was singled out and scolded by Old Lady Yu. She thought that if she had known this would happen, she would have gone to borrow some food.
Yu Jiaojiao just watched Old Lady Yu arrange everything and had no intention of helping at all.
Of course, even if she showed that she wanted to help, Mrs. Yu would not allow it.
Because she was going to marry into a wealthy family. She had already suffered a lot since she was born in a wealthy family. Why would she be asked to work again?
That's impossible.
When the old lady looked over, she was holding her stomach tightly with both hands, looking so hungry that she had no energy.
There is some pretense involved, but it was indeed the first time that Yu Jiaojiao was so hungry.
In the past, as long as she was a little hungry, food would be brought to her, and she would have the leisure to complain about the taste.
But now, she was really hungry after such a meal. Even if it was the egg custard that she hated the most because of its fishy smell, she could still eat it in big mouthfuls and had no energy to dislike it at all.
"Jiaojiao, my dear granddaughter, you have suffered a lot." When Old Mrs. Yu saw Yu Jiaojiao holding her belly, she felt distressed.
She didn't feel so distressed even when she was starving herself.
Yu Jiaojiao pursed her lips, lowered her head slightly and said nothing.
How could she say that she didn't blame them? How could this be possible? She should have been born in a family that had no worries about food and clothing, but she was born in the Yu family. The Yu family should have allowed her to eat well, wear good clothes, and use good things.
Instead of being like now, where she doesn't have enough clothes to wear and eat well, she has already started blaming her family in her heart.
But she still has to rely on Yu's family for support, so she didn't show it very obviously.
Old Mrs. Yu did not notice Yu Jiaojiao's psychological changes. She just thought that she was too hungry and didn't want to talk, and she felt even more distressed.
He decided in his heart that he must compensate his precious granddaughter well.
All the beautiful dresses and jewelry had to be bought new. Only when the precious granddaughter was dressed up beautifully could she marry into a wealthy family and enjoy the good life with them.
In the final analysis, rather than saying that Old Lady Yu felt sorry for Yu Jiaojiao, it would be better to say that she felt sorry for the lucky star who was able to marry into a wealthy family and bring them a good life.
If Yu Jiaojiao was not such a lucky star, all this heartache would no longer exist.
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