Chapter 122: 3 more chapters added, sorry for the power outage
Chapter 122: 3 more chapters added, sorry for the power outage
Shen Zhiqiu and his companions also thought that the journey was even more difficult.
The wheelbarrow was filled with large kudzu roots, which were very heavy in themselves.
Now it is impossible to push it alone, so one person has to pull it with a rope in front and one person has to push it from behind.
There were people on both sides carrying smaller Pueraria roots and supporting them on both sides.
The temperature dropped today, making digging Pueraria root a lot more difficult than the previous two days, and the men were almost exhausted.
This happened again in the evening, and Shen Zhiqiu and her daughter had exactly the same thoughts.
I kept cursing myself in my heart: "Shen Zhiqiu, Shen Zhiqiu, you always have the guts to be lucky and think it won't snow today. So what? Now I'm telling you to be greedy and not to let everyone go back in advance."
He really wondered: Will it snow today? But then he thought that it would probably snow in the evening.
With this fluke mentality, and hoping to dig more kudzu roots, they even set out later than Shen Youyou and the others.
Because they have to tie the kudzu root to the car, they have to tie it tightly, otherwise it will fall off halfway, which will be even more troublesome.
The only thing that is stronger than Shen Youyou and the others is that Ge Gen is not afraid of snow.
Shen Zhiqiu was also carrying a lot of kudzu roots and was holding on to the side. He was distracted and fell down. It can only be said that the family of three shares the joys and sorrows.
Shen Zhichun and Shen Zhidong, who were pushing the cart, immediately asked, in perfect tacit agreement: "Third brother, are you okay?"
Shen Zhiqiu didn't bother to brush off the snowflakes that fell on his body, let alone rub his sore butt: "It's okay, let's go."
The men really gritted their teeth and pulled the cart, trying their best to rush towards the cave.
Shen Zhiqiu was afraid that his daughter would end up like him. He was too worried. Besides, the road in the pine forest was shorter, but it was steep and difficult to walk on.
On Shen Youyou's side, the sky was gradually getting dark, and with the heavy snow, she couldn't see the figures in the distance clearly, but she knew her grandparents were right in front of her, so she hurriedly shouted:
"Grandpa and grandma, we are back. The road is too slippery. Don't go this way. We will be there soon!"
She was really afraid that the old men and women over 50 years old would get hurt, which would be more trouble than gain.
They are very young, so they just need to rest after falling. The elderly have brittle bones, and there were no calcium tablets to take in ancient times, so their nutrition is not enough.
When Old Lady Hua heard her granddaughter's response, she became very anxious and trotted towards the direction where the voice came from. As for what her granddaughter said, she couldn't hear clearly at all.
At lunch, she felt anxious when she heard others discussing the weather, and she muttered:
"Then please don't let it snow today. When my good grandchildren come back today, I won't let them go out to collect food tomorrow. Otherwise, if it snows heavily and something happens, it will make me very upset."
But the moment the snowflakes really started to fall from the sky, Old Lady Hua slapped herself in the face, blaming herself for having a bad mouth and saying what she said would come true!
She first wandered around the entrance of the cave, but no one came back no matter how hard she waited.
He hurried out to meet his granddaughter.
When everyone saw this, they became worried and followed him out.
"Oh, my dear grandson!"
When the two sides met, Old Lady Hua was considered quite old among the group of old ladies, but she was jogging in front.
When Shen Youyou saw people, she anxiously wanted to shout to her grandma, "Slow down," but a gust of cold wind mixed with snowflakes splashed into her mouth.
I felt like I was choking and kept coughing.
It took her a while to recover. After the grandfathers who came running over slowly shared some of the things, Shen Youyou seemed to have been drained of all her strength. She collapsed and sat down on the ground with a thud.
She was so tired that her legs were shaking and she couldn't exert any strength, as if all her bones had been pulled out.
Old Mrs. Hua hurriedly came up to support her. On Shen Youyou's left was her grandmother, and on her right was her mother. They walked like this, supporting each other.
The eldest aunt and the fourth aunt pulled the sisters Daya and Erya respectively, and the aunt also dragged the sister Taohua. With the grandparents sharing some of the burden, it was finally a little better than before.
Grandma Hua also panted and asked her granddaughter: "You must be exhausted today!"
She was panting because the old lady was jogging all the way and she didn't fall once. It was all thanks to God who took pity on her age.
The answer is: not tired.
In fact, everyone knows whether they are tired or not. For those who are fleeing famine, it is useless to be afraid of being tired. You have to survive.
As long as you want to stay alive, you have to rush around, either traveling or looking for food and things you can use.
Just say there are so many people and there is not enough food. Can you survive the winter?
As for the fish that Shen Zhiqiu mentioned, to be honest, that is unknown. I have seen fish, but the water is too deep. It is an underground river. Who can guarantee that we can catch it?
What's more, after winter, the grass and trees will recover and it will snow, so the drought will not continue. Many wild vegetables will gradually appear, and there may even be mushrooms.
But why don't we speed up after the New Year? We have been delayed in the mountains for so long. How is the war going in the south? Is there a winner? We don't know these things. As long as we haven't reached the north, we are not safe.
Even if we have time to pick these wild vegetables, by then we will all be pale and thin from eating them, and won't have much physical strength. What if we encounter refugees or bandits?
Even in the north, there are not necessarily bandits who rule the mountains.
The thing that was most lacking in ancient times was bandits. We didn’t encounter them here because those who could run had already run away, and there was no water to drink, so who would stay and wait to die?
If you meet them, you have to fight them. They are bandits and mountain kings. Some of them have weapons. If they also have water and food,
What good can come from this group of people who live on wild vegetables every day?
It was like rushing to deliver food! So Shen Youyou completely agreed with her father's arrangement, and she had to store more supplies in the winter.
It is best to eat and drink well in the cave when you cannot travel in winter, keep your body healthy, and save food for the next journey. That is the right choice.
Along the way, Shen Youyou, who had no memory of ancient times, understood more clearly what it meant to flee famine. She felt that these people were more like the weeds all over the mountains.
They are both tenacious and fragile. Their tenacity comes from their desperate desire to stay alive, and they are willing to break through their physical limits again and again in order to stay alive.
They are fragile because they are really easy to break. Perhaps just a single blow from someone else can break them.
But it is just a resemblance, wild grass can regenerate, but humans cannot, so what Shen Youyou and Shen Zhiqiu have to do is to take one step at a time and look three steps ahead, and come up with different response plans for all possible situations.
In fact, the place where we met the grandmas was only a few hundred meters away from the cave. The main reason was that the snow was getting heavier and heavier, and it was impossible to walk on the road. Now the snow was up to the ankles. Can you imagine how heavy the snow was?
With snow hanging on their bodies, they looked like snowmen. No, because they were carrying things, they looked more like snow apes with their backs bent.
Shen Youyou now has only one thought, that is to go back and check on her pine candy. She is cold and tired, and she fell from the tree many times to collect them. Nothing must happen to her!
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