Chapter 160 Seeing her death
"Big brother."
A timid voice stopped Zhang Qiang in his tracks. He turned around and saw it was his younger brother. He asked, "What's wrong?"
"Father, mother, and second brother are possessed by evil spirits. What's the point of you going to Aunt Shen Qing? She just happened to have the right medicine for Boss Zhao last time. And that medicine is not cheap. I heard it cost several thousand yuan."
Zhang Qiang was stunned for a moment, thinking that it would cost a lot of money.
"You are right, little brother. Boss Zhao is worth a lot of money. What about our parents and second brother? Besides, weren't we just fed with boy's urine? Maybe it will be fine after a while. Let's wait a little longer." The fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl looked up at her eldest brother, fearful but mustering the courage to follow his suggestion.
Zhang Qiang looked at his younger brother and then at the girl.
He opened his mouth and finally said with heartache: "Those suffering on the ground are our own parents! Don't even mention a few coins, even if it's a few taels or dozens of taels, as long as we can afford it, we will treat them!"
The two of them lowered their heads, with the corners of their mouths twitching in disdain.
What their parents taught them is that nothing is more important than money!
Only by keeping the money can we get by in the future. Besides, my eldest brother and his wife are both honest and kind. It will be much easier to make a living under them than under my parents....
"That's what Big Brother said. Do you have any money?"
Zhang Qiang lowered his head in defeat, turned to look at Zhou Tian, and asked, "Second brother, this is your husband, what do you think?"
If he doesn't help, the second brother's family will hate him to death in the future!
Zhou Tian lowered her eyebrows and said softly, "Everyone says it's evil, and we haven't found the silver yet. What can a weak woman like me do? I'll just listen to everyone."
Zhang Qiang was stunned for a long time, then sighed, "Then wait a little longer, let's work together to find the silver first!"
Without money, it would be useless to ask Aunt Shen Qing to come over or see a doctor. The most important thing is to find the money first.
Oh my god, the only thing they have is a cart, where can she hide it?
*
The soup kitchen stall was set up again in the afternoon.
This time, there were not only people distributing porridge, but also yamen runners with swords and soldiers in armor.
The scene was completely silent. Zhao Mingyue stretched her head out of curiosity and saw that the two women from the morning were still in the shed. However, this time their heads, necks, and wrists were all bald, and even their clothes were made of coarse cloth. Just like her, they were also stretching their heads to look at something.
"This is weird. We are all disaster victims. What's there to see?"
"Aunt San, you said they were already wearing gold and silver this morning, so they must be living well. Why do they still have to work serving porridge? Aren't you just asking for trouble?"
"I don't understand. Never mind. It's not something we should be concerned about. Let's focus more on the porridge."
"Just as the village chief said! The porridge has improved!"
At least it was visibly much thicker. Although it still contained wheat bran, it was obviously less than the one in the morning.
The people of Qili Village were extremely grateful that they had stored food. Otherwise, if they only had to eat this and compete with thousands of disaster victims for wild vegetables, their lives would not be easy.
Now every household in their team has food stored. They make porridge and cook it with some wild vegetables, and then add a few pancakes or wild vegetable dumplings to it so that they won’t be hungry in the middle of the night.
Qiu Yi and Nanny Lai, who were standing under the oilcloth tent, looked around anxiously, fearing that they had missed anyone.
But I stood there from dawn to dusk, and didn’t see anyone who looked like Huo Qinglin!
"What's going on? The porridge in the evening is much better. As a hungry disaster victim, there is no way I wouldn't come."
Lai Ma Ma advised, "This is precious food, and it's being given away for free without any money. The victims are worse than beggars. How could Huo Bing not come? Something must have delayed her, or perhaps she was frightened by the situation this morning and didn't dare to come to collect it."
Auntie, let's be patient, maybe she will come tomorrow."
"...Don't let me see it. If I see it, it will be her death!"
*
Shen Qing didn't ask anyone to pick up her evening porridge - she really couldn't eat it because it had bran in it.
If she can't eat it, then don't let other people in the family eat it.
They are cooking dinner.
The bacon is cut into thin slices. Each slice of the bacon is made of pork belly, with fat and lean meat alternating. After the fat is stir-fried, the sliced water bamboo shoots are poured into it, and a crackling sound immediately comes out of the big iron pot.
Accompanied by the aroma of meat wafting out.
The people around couldn't help swallowing their saliva. Thinking of their own stewed water bamboo shoots with oil residue, everyone's face was filled with anticipation and joy.
Although they cannot afford the luxury of stir-frying smoked meat, they have lard scraps. Just put a dozen or so lard scraps in a big pot. Not only can the wild rice stems get the aroma of meat, but the soup will also be full of meat flavor!
Pour a spoonful of it on the wild vegetable porridge and pair it with pancakes, it is also very delicious.
Shen Qing's family stir-fried a large pot of wild rice with smoked meat, and stir-fried a small pot of wild celery. They steamed a few salted eggs, divided them in half, and gave each person half, and served it with a large pot of rice.
Jiang Xiangnan shoveled his rice into his mouth and commented, "Mom, this wild rice stem is crisp and a little sweet. It's really delicious!"
"Stir-fried wild celery is also good, it's tender and fresh."
"Salted duck eggs are really good with rice, especially the runny yolk, which is soft and crunchy and tastes even better than the egg white. But half an egg is too little, it would be much better if I could have a whole one!"
Jiang Xiangdong looked at his third brother in shock.
I'm surprised at how bold he is!
They even gave him a whole salted duck egg. They didn't even look at the whole village. No, how many of these tens of thousands of disaster victims could have salted duck eggs to eat like their family did?
Except for their team, the other teams probably don’t even have much food left.
The third brother is really ungrateful.
Shen Qing didn't care. It's good to be unsatisfied. You can wrong anyone but not your mouth. In order not to wrong your mouth, you have to work hard.
She looked at the third child and threw out the bait: "Isn't it easy to eat the whole thing?"
Not only Jiang Xiangnan looked at Shen Qing, but all the young people except Guan the Carpenter looked at Shen Qing.
Shen Qing: .....Salted duck eggs are so attractive!
"Once we get settled, why don't we raise more ducks and geese? Goose eggs have big yolks and taste better when pickled."
In the beginning, no one was enthusiastic about working, but after just four or five months, now as long as Shen Qing makes any proposal to exchange labor for wages or improve life, the whole family will actively participate and look for possibilities for implementation.
"Then we can't live in the city, nor can we live too close to the city. These places are very popular, and small places can't afford to raise poultry."
They are in Qili Village. There are people all around them. If they raise too many animals, they won't be able to squeeze in and it's impossible to raise too many.
"Especially now that we have quite a few large animals, it would be best to find a place with mountains and water, with plenty of grass and fodder, where both humans and livestock and poultry can thrive."
The most important thing is to be able to collect firewood. In cold places where there is no firewood or it is inconvenient to use firewood, that would be very restrictive.
"The place near the mountain is far away and inconvenient to travel to, right? There might even be ferocious beasts lurking..."
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