Chapter 13 Dry Land Barren Years (2) At dawn, Chen Huihong woke up on time. It seems that she didn't adapt to the fact that there was a child lying next to her. After Chen Huihong got up, her first reaction was to eat the bark and leave, almost stepping on Hui's mother. After seeing Hui Niang, she reacted belatedly, then remembered that there was indeed such a person last night. Seeing that Huiniang didn't wake up, Chen Huihong felt impatient after waiting for a while, so she left first, found the abandoned well discovered yesterday, and started to draw water. Most of the wells Chen Huihong found along the way were completely dry. The bottoms of the wells were full of dust and sand, and not a drop of water could be pumped out. A small part of it is not completely dry, and there is very little water. The thin layer of water cannot be evaporated quickly enough, and only in the morning can a trace of turbid sewage emerge. This shows how serious the drought is. Chen Huihong hit three or four times before getting a shallow layer of turbid water from the well. There was no container to put it in, so she just walked back with the bucket. Fortunately, the refugees who passed the abandoned well didn't take the hemp rope and the broken bucket with them, otherwise Chen Huihong would have to twist the hemp rope and find a bucket. When Chen Huihong returned, Huiniang had already woken up and was sitting on the ground in a daze, looking as dull as a puppet. Seeing Chen Huihong approaching, Huiniang excitedly got up from the ground and ran towards Chen Huihong with some staggering. It was in sharp contrast to the staggering appearance of a zombie last night.
"elder sister!" "Water." Chen Huihong said concisely and concisely, and put the bucket on the ground. "It's a bit dirty. Let it settle for a while before drinking." After saying that, Chen Huihong sat down, and Huiniang also nodded obediently and sat down. "What do you want to ask me, sister?" Huiniang knew that Chen Huihong wanted to ask her something. "Where are you fleeing to?" Hui Niang lowered her head and thought for a while: "At first, my mother said to escape to the north. I heard that the drought in the north is not as serious as ours, it rains, and the price of wheat has not reached 20 yuan a stone. There is no need to work there and work in the fields. If you borrow usury to buy food, you might still have something to eat.” "But my father disagreed. He said that there was a war in the north. Many people died, including a lot of thieves. They might have died on the way. Although the drought became more severe as we went south, a relative of mine who was a carpenter in Linxian County went there. I can also have something to eat." At this point, Hui Niang, who had been looking down, raised her head and looked at Chen Huihong quietly. Chen Huihong was thinking about her own things and didn't pay attention to Hui Niang at all. She asked, "Have you gone to Linxian?" Huiniang shook her head: "There was a plague in Linxian County. Many people died, including my relatives. The villages that were seriously affected by the epidemic were all burned down, and no one dared to come near." "I don't know where my parents are going. They may go to Peking or Qin. But on the way we heard from other people that there was also a drought in Qin, but some people said that Peiping would not allow the victims to enter the city and would block them outside. My father wanted to pick up the train to go south, but many people fell down and died, and some were directly shot to death. My father was afraid that his brother would fall to death, so he didn’t pick up the train.” "Are there many people fleeing the famine?" Chen Huihong asked. "More." Hui Niang nodded affirmatively, "It has been drought for three years. It doesn't snow in winter and it doesn't rain in spring. At the beginning, there was still a little harvest to barely survive. Last year, the wheat harvest was so bad that we didn't even have any grain left." "The wheat harvest has stopped, so we have to pay the rent and pay the taxes. Many families in our village have fled. My family has four acres of land. Those four acres are reserved for my younger brother to get married. Dad is reluctant to part with the land and has never left. ” "Last year, I sold my eldest sister to pay taxes. I originally thought that this year might be a good year. But I didn't expect that there would be no rain since the beginning of spring this year. I really couldn't survive. My grandparents were afraid of being dragged down, so they only ate Guanyin soil to death. " "Last month, my parents buried my grandma, sold the land, and ran away with my brother and me." "Actually, my father originally wanted to sell me together last year. My mother said that I ate less and could work. If I were one year older, I could sell it for more money, so I kept it until this year. But this year when people came to visit me, they thought I was too old. It doesn’t look good, it’s a waste of food, and I don’t want to pay for it.” Huiniang’s tone was calm, as if she was telling something ordinary. "Sister Chun next door was pretty, so Ren Yazi took her in and gave her two bags of wheat. Ren Yazi said she would sell her to Peking. Sister Chun was so happy that she left her red headband to me and told me She might be able to eat white flour steamed buns when she goes to Peiping, and if she’s lucky, she might even be able to eat rice.” "Sister, do you know what white-flour steamed buns taste like? Only Landlord Zhang in our village can eat white-flour steamed buns. I saw one once, but the buns are so soft, they must be softer than the clouds in the sky. They all say white-flour steamed buns It’s sweet, and it’s delicious without adding sugar.” "I know." Chen Huihong said, "The white-faced steamed buns are not white, and the noodles are not white either. They are gray and not sweet."
Chen Huihong's sincerity made Hui Niang a little disillusioned, but Hui Niang couldn't help but swallow her saliva. It was obvious that compared to Hui Niang's description based on imagination, Chen Huihong's words were more true. Thinking that Chen Huihong had actually eaten white flour steamed buns, Hui Niang looked at her with even more respect and asked cautiously: "Sister, are you a young lady from the city?" Chen Huihong didn't answer, so Hui Niang took her as her acquiescence and continued to ask: "Sister Chun went to the provincial capital to work as a servant girl. She said that the girls in the city now all imitate Shencheng, wear foreign clothes, eat foreign food, and even serve If you study foreign language in a foreign school, do the ladies in your city also eat white-flour steamed buns?” Chen Huihong was choked and said: "Eating, steamed buns are eaten everywhere." After thinking about it, Chen Huihong added: "Let's eat too." "The rice is white." Hui Niang asked curiously: "Are the ladies in the city also fleeing?" "...Run away, everyone runs away." Hui Niang nodded: "Sister Chun also told me that the master she served before died, and her family members fled. Several aunts stole a lot of jewelry, and Sister Chun even picked up a silver hairpin. It’s a pity that it was snatched away by the steward’s discovery.” Seeing that the topic was getting more and more biased, Chen Huihong took the initiative and asked: "If Ren Yazi didn't buy you away, why did your parents take you with them when they fled the country?" This question can be said to be quite heartbreaking, and Hui Niang was immediately silenced. After a long time, Hui Niang whispered: "Mom said she couldn't bear it." "I don't eat much anyway, and I still look for food. I can take care of my brother on the way, so why not take me with you, just in case... I will be useful." "Do you know how to find food?" Chen Huihong looked at Hui Niang. Hui Niang nodded repeatedly: "Yes, I can dig grass roots from the ground, I can look for bugs, I can also look for water, and I can also look for mouse holes. Sometimes with good luck, I can not only find the food hidden by black mice, but also Caught the rat." "Although many rivers have dried up, there is always water in some places. No matter how severe the drought is, water can always be produced by digging a well." At this point, Huiniang quietly looked at Chen Huihong again, "Sister, You don’t seem to have a water tank.” "It's broken." Chen Huihong said perfunctorily, "Go on." Huiniang thought for a while and added: "If the price of food was not too high, the promised disaster relief food had not been seen, and additional taxes were added this year, my father would not have sold the land and fled." "I know." Chen Huihong said calmly, "I know you people... Farmers in the countryside who have land at home are considered to be in good condition. Many of them rent land from landlords without land. If they can't pay the rent, they borrow usury from the landlord. , until the family is ruined and the children are sold.” After saying that, Chen Huihong added: "I heard it from someone at the tea stall." "Where are you going now?" Chen Huihong asked. Hui Niang was a little confused, but also a little expectant. She looked at Chen Huihong carefully with deer-like eyes: "I don't know where I'm going." "Sister, can I follow you?" "I don't know where I'm going. There's no point in following me." Chen Huihong said. "Then...can I follow?" "Whatever." Chen Huihong was like a ruthless gamer who didn't care about the NPC's sad past and only cared about the progress of her own mission. Although she doesn't seem to have any tasks to catch up on. "Thank you, sister." Huiniang happily followed behind Chen Huihong, letting her shadow completely blend into Chen Huihong's, as if this would make her feel safe.
"Sister, what's your name?" "My name is... Matchmaker." "What's your last name, sister?" "What's your last name?" "My surname is Chen." "What a coincidence, my surname is Chen too." "Then sister, where are you going?" "I don't know." Speaking of this, Chen Huihong stopped and asked, "Where...is it safe with a lot of people?" Huiniang thought for a while: "Beiping." "The emperor lived there before." "What happened next?" "Then there was no more emperor." Huiniang said, "But there were many other masters. Sister Chun told me that if you accidentally bumped into the young lady, young master, madam and master in the city, you would kneel down and kowtow. Before. When the opera troupe comes to our village to perform operas, the people in the opera will kowtow when they see the emperor. Maybe the emperor is similar to those other people. " Chen Huihong frowned: "I don't like kowtow to others." "Sister, you are a young lady, of course you don't have to kowtow to others." Hui Niang said, showing her first smile after seeing Chen Huihong, "I don't like kowtow to others either. My mother always scolded me for being pretentious and mentally ill. In the village I always avoided the landlords when I saw them, so I didn’t go when Sister Chun went to work in the city, and I didn’t go when my parents beat me.” Chen Huihong said nothing and continued walking forward. Hui Niang followed her closely like a small shadow. "Sister, are we going to Peking?" "have no idea." "Then where are we going?" "have no idea." "Sister, it's strange. I was very hungry, but after you gave me some tree bark yesterday, I wasn't hungry anymore." "The bark is hungry." "Am I going to die? The people who fled with us in our village kept shouting that they were hungry, but on the day they were about to die, they suddenly stopped being hungry, and then they died." "No, a dying person won't talk so much." Chen Huihong paused, turned around, glanced at Hui Niang, reluctantly took out a piece of bark that was slightly larger than last night, and handed it to Hui Niang. "eat." Hui Niang took the bark and stuffed it into her mouth directly. Her hesitant look was even more decisive than yesterday, and even her swallowing movements were faster than last night. "Sister, you are so kind!" A good guy card was issued. Chen Huihong frowned, as if she hated this sentence, and said sternly: "I will find food by myself from now on." "Sister, I..."
With a flash of white light, Qin Huai left the dreamland. "Ding, congratulations to the player for unlocking the illustrated book." Qin Huai after coming out of the dream:... After thinking for a moment, Qin Huai said:...? Although dreams are all bizarre and varied, Chen Huihong's dream was a bit too realistic. The journey for more than ten days did not speed up for a second. Qin Huai had to watch the desolate scenery with Chen Huihong for more than ten days. And what does Chen Huihong’s dream mean? Mother and daughter change their sisterly relationship? In real life, they are a mother and daughter who are so rich that they have lost their worries, but in their dreams, they are a duo who escape from poverty. They focus on experiencing life, contrasting cuteness + nurturing. The most important thing is- Sister Hong, your dream is not over yet! Also ruined the character. Chen Huihong is not the indifferent character with a hint of warmth in the dream. If people are compared to crops, Chen Huihong must be the sun, burning herself and lighting up the world. Her passion is like fire, and she is not like a candle that burns away and disappears. The battery life is super strong. and… This dream is a little too real. Qin Huai recalled the fragments and scenes he saw in his dream, and they were too real to be true. If it weren't for the dialogue that appeared in the dream, which clearly indicated that it was during the Republic of China, and Chen Huihong was Chen Huihong when she was young, but Hui Niang was Chen Huihui at this age, Qin Huai would have suspected that this was not a dream, but Chen Huihong's past memory. Even if it is a dream, it is like a dream in the past life. While thinking, Qin Huai clicked on the game panel. There is an extra item in the unlocked illustrated book. Unlocked illustrations: 1/12 The illuminated illustration is Chen Huihong’s avatar, click on it. Name: Chen Huihong Species:? ? ? (To be unlocked) Dreamland: 1/3 Recipe: Bark (click to view details) Gift: None Qin Huai: Species? ? ? What is it? ! Do you want to tell me that Chen Huihong is not a human being? So our system is actually not an ordinary daily management system, but a spiritual energy recovery system/doomsday arrival system/mysterious invasion system?
So what's the use of giving recipes? The spiritual energy is revived, the apocalypse is coming, and the mystery has invaded. What can be solved by cooking? Can you beat the opponent to death with a rolling pin? Or beat the opponent to death with a mold? Or use enough noodles to suffocate the other party? Qin Huai clicked on the recipe with a head full of questions. 【Bark Grade F】 Producer: Chen Huihong Dishes details: Although I really don’t want to admit that this is a dish, let’s just call it that. It is unpalatable, dry and difficult to swallow, and it is not recommended to eat it without processing. Unless they are on the verge of death, no one will want to eat this dish. If you eat more than 3g, you will feel full quickly. It is a real light meal. (Since this dish is really unpalatable, it is recommended to use it as a seasoning) Amount that can be produced in one day: 0/50g A good light snack and a good recommendation to use as a seasoning. The capitalists want to applaud when they see it. Qin Huai thought that a few vegetable leaves, a little salad dressing, two shrimps, a piece of avocado, and some cheap food mixed together would be enough for a light meal that sold for thirty or forty dollars, but he didn't expect that there was something even more ruthless here. Guess what, straight up the bark. Still full. Healthy and weight loss, a really good light meal. At the same time, it is also very consistent with Chen Huihong’s cooking skills. Damn it, in the process of preparing for the parent-child cooking day, Chen Huihong wouldn't be really whimsical, bold, innovative, fearless, and use tree bark as a seasoning, right? But where to buy bark? Can the bark sold on a certain website be eaten? You can't go to the green belt downstairs in the community and peel it off right? Qin Huai felt that if he dared to do this, Chen Huihong would arrest him on the spot within three minutes. Even if he had the title [Chen Huihong's affirmation], he would never show favoritism. This chapter is two in one, one update today.
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