Chapter 31 Return
"They're back! They're back! They're back!" Yike accompanied Uncle Hao and Aunt Hao to look into the distance. He spotted the two blurry figures on the snow with his sharp eyes and jumped for joy.
"Good! Good! It's good to be back." Uncle Hao and aunt were so excited that they were incoherent.
"Ziyi, Uncle Hao." Yike rushed out of the cave and ran towards the two of them.
"Don't run, be careful not to fall," Ziyi said loudly.
"Go back, it's cold outside." Ziyi rushed towards Yike quickly, shouting, "Go back quickly."
"It's great that you're back! We were so worried about you." Yike jumped happily beside Ziyi, chattering about how anxious he and uncle and aunt Hao were, how they wandered around the cave entrance a hundred or eighty times, and so on. At this moment, Yi Ke had completely forgotten that his soul was several decades old, but he was talking and doing things that only teenagers would do.
Ziyi looked lovingly at Yike who was talking non-stop beside him. His words were like the crackling of firecrackers without pause and he didn't find it noisy at all. On the contrary, this brilliant, warm, fresh and vibrant vitality attracted him and made him happy.
"Yike, you don't know how powerful Ziyi is. If there is really such a blind beast that dares to come looking for us, I don't even need to do anything. Ziyi can handle it by himself."
"Yes, so next time don't wait for us, just have a good rest. There are two of us, so why should we be afraid of wild animals? They won't come, and if they do, they will just be a good addition to our food."
Looking at Ziyi who was full of confidence and in high spirits, Yike's mood also unconsciously became excited.
After entering the cave, Li Haoran and Ziyi put down their backpacks and washed their hands and faces.
Yike and Zhang Yuling brought out dinner and put it on the table. Although they didn't know when Uncle Hao and the others would be back, Zhang Yuling had started cooking a sumptuous meal since yesterday, ready for them to eat when they returned.
On the table was a large plate of wild boar meat fried with bamboo shoots, a plate of bamboo rat fried with black fungus, a plate of wild vegetables mixed with garlic, fragrant sweet potato pancakes, and thick white bone soup. The bamboo shoots and bamboo rats were brought from a cave. It was the first time for Ziyi, Uncle Hao, and Uncle Hao's aunt to eat this dish. It was so delicious that they almost swallowed their tongues.
After dinner, Li Haoran talked about what he saw and heard when he was out of the mountains: the continuous drought and food shortage in recent years had caused some people to starve to death. I thought there was a little rain last year, but it was a drop in the bucket, so the harvest was poor again, and some people starved to death in the winter again.
"You don't know, when Ziyi and I entered the city, the streets were deserted, and there were only a few people in the department store. Even those few people, I think it's not appropriate to describe them as pale and skinny. It's not an exaggeration to describe them as skinny as a stick."
"Uncle Hao is talking about the phenomenon in the city. I went to the countryside and it was so miserable." Ziyi looked at Yike and listened with great interest. He also spoke up, "There are many new graves on the hills in the countryside. And I heard from a friend that many girls in the village married to faraway places just to leave food for their families."
"Alas!" Li Haoran sighed, "Some people secretly sell children of only a few years old to human traffickers, and we don't even know whether they are dead or alive."
"Uncle Hao, is it so miserable outside?" Yi Ke was terrified just by hearing it.
"Yes, there has been drought for several years. Where can we get food? It's better here. We are close to some mountains. At least we can eat leaves and wild vegetables. It is said that in places without mountains, even the grass and tree roots have been eaten."
"In fact, even if you have money, you can't buy food outside. Most provinces in the country are short of food. Without food, money is useless."
"Yike, you should just escape to the mountains to live. At least we have food to eat in this deep mountain."
Yi Ke also agreed with this. Zhang Yuling also looked sympathetic, and even secretly felt lucky that she was sold out by Li Haoran, otherwise she would have starved to death last winter.
Yike had the same idea as Zhang Yuling. According to Yang Huaihua's partiality, if she had not escaped into the mountains last year, she would have joined the army of people who starved to death in such a winter with little food and clothing.
Since Yi Ke still had memories of the original world, he knew that the history of this parallel world was similar to that of the original world, and that the past few years had been years of famine, so he risked his life to escape to the mountains. At least there are wild animals and vegetables in the mountains to fill your stomach. Although it is a little more dangerous, it is better to die of a full stomach than to die of a hungry stomach. There have been famines for several years outside, and there is no tree bark or grass roots to eat. I heard that some people died of bloating after eating Guanyin soil. I can't imagine that tragic scene. The more Yike thought about it, the scarier it became. He was still young, so he had better hold on to Ziyi's big thigh and get through the current difficulties for the time being. She didn't expect that the decision she made carelessly turned out to be a wise move.
After getting married and having such a husband with extraordinary martial arts skills, will I still go hungry? As the saying goes, it is better to marry well than to be born well. Although I was not born well and was born into a biased mother's belly, I am married well now and have no worries about food and clothing. How can I feel happy?
"Brother Ziyi, has my letter of introduction been processed?" Although Yi Ke knew the direction of history, he could not do anything to change it, so he should just focus on his own affairs.
"No, I'll do it next time I go out."
"That means I won't be able to go out next time." Yike's face fell, looking extremely disappointed.
"You can go out. It's the same if you get things done first and then go back into the city." Ziyi explained hurriedly.
"Really? Uncle Hao?" Yi Ke didn't believe it.
"Really? It's the same if you go out and do it again." Li Haoran said
"Then it's a deal, you have to take me out next time you go out!"
"Don't worry, I will take you out before the snow melts." Ziyi promised.
"I want to go out and buy some vegetable seeds, and also some grain seeds, rapeseed seeds, and other seeds. I want to plant some when the weather warms up, so that I don't have to go out to sell food in the future."
"There is no land to cultivate here, so it is useless to buy seeds."
"There is land that can be cultivated. There is a large basin next to my orchard. There are more than enough land of several thousand acres. We just need labor."
"What, what did you say? There are fields that can be cultivated?"
"Yes, the basin is surrounded by mountains, and the middle is flat, with a stream. There are no big trees in the basin, only some bushes and weeds. Even the trees are not big, so they can be cut down and used for planting."
"Oh my God! Yike, you are really a lucky star for our family. We have been looking for a place to farm for many years, but the places we found were either too small or had no water, so we have never found a suitable place. The place you just mentioned is really a good place."
"Let's find some time to go and see, is it far from here?"
"It's not far. It will take about half a day to get there."
"Okay, I'll go check it out after your banquet is over."
"The water is hot. Ziyi and your uncle Hao, go soak your feet. You've walked for such a long time, soaking your feet will make you feel better." Zhang Yuling came out after boiling the hot water and shouted. She poured hot water into a wooden barrel and asked Li Haoran and his nephew to soak their feet in it.
"The hot water for foot bathing has moxa leaves and ginger added to it. They say it's good for you."
"Thank you, Yike." Li Haoran said happily.
"It's okay, it's just that you came back from outside in such a cold day, and your body is cold. Soaking your feet with moxa leaves and ginger can stimulate the yang energy in the body and have the effect of warming the meridians and dispersing cold, so I asked my aunt to make some for you to soak in, so that your feet will be warm when you go to bed at night."
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