newbobooks Chapter 147 Help
Chapter 147 Help
Zhou Dacang said, "You'll know when you go there tomorrow."
"Come, bring the grain in and make a porridge meal tonight." Li picked up the bag of grain on the ground and put it on her own cart.
"Hey, where is the old man? Mom, where is my master?" Zhou Guo looked around and didn't see the old man, who was still there just now.
"I saw him go out to the back mountain. Maybe he went into the mountain to hunt." Zhou Xing said.
"Hunting? Oh, your old man can hunt?" Chen was surprised. There were no hunters in their village, and they envied those who could hunt. Hunting meant that they could eat meat often, which was a dream come true for a family like them who could not even eat a piece of meat during festivals.
Li smiled and said, "I'm not very good at it. I can just set traps and catch rabbits and pheasants. But it's not always possible. It all depends on luck."
"That's great too, rabbit and pheasant are also meat." Even so, it is already very enviable.
Li didn't dare to speak.
"Hey, the water is ready. Come and have a drink, aunties." Zhou Xing took out the bowls on the cart, scooped hot water into a bowl, and soaked some wild mint picked on the road in it. This was found by Zhou Guo on the road. He picked some tender leaves, dried them, and soaked them in water to drink, which can relieve the heat.
Everyone is tired and sweaty now, so this is the best thing to drink.
After Zhou Xing's interruption, Li was relieved. If she continued, she would feel like she was showing off her wealth, which was not good. They were refugees with nothing. If they lived better than others as soon as they got out, how could they live in the village in the future?
"Hey, just drink some water, it's fine if it's cold. There's no need to burn it specially, it won't waste firewood." Chen said.
"Yes, but we are used to drinking it on the road. When we encounter no running water along the way, we can only use the stagnant water along the way. There are all kinds of things in the water. We got diarrhea after drinking it and it was very painful. Later, we met a doctor who told us that we should heat the water before drinking it." Zhou Xing said with a smile.
"I see, stagnant water is dirty, so you have to heat it up before drinking it. But, what's in this bowl? It tastes cool when I drink it, and it makes me feel all the heat in my body is gone. It's really strange." Dama's family took a few sips, held the bowl and looked at the mint inside, but couldn't recognize what it was.
When the others heard her say that, they blew on the bowls a few times and then gulped down the tea. After finishing the tea, the mint was not wasted and they chewed it and ate it.
Li smiled and said, "This is silver dan grass. It's very hot on the road in summer. We relied on this to get here. This tea can relieve the heat."
"Oh~~ No wonder it feels so cool when I drink it. I feel so comfortable all over. I'll go pick some later. I can make some after I dry them, right?"
After drinking tea, everyone started to work again. They spent the whole afternoon clearing the weeds in front of and behind the house. The whole house was exposed, and it finally looked like a yard, unlike the beginning when it was just a wasteland with no one living there.
"Okay, sister, we'll go back first. If you need any help in the future, just let me know. You're welcome." Chen wiped the sweat from her face and drank another bowl of tea.
Several people who helped drank a bowl.
Li said, "Don't worry, stay and have dinner. You guys have helped us so much since we got here. I don't know how to thank you. We still have to have dinner."
Chen waved her hand and said, "Don't do that. How rich is your family now? Can you afford to feed so many of us? Are you going to live a miserable life in the future?"
"Yes, we are not here for your meal. We all know your current situation. How can we eat your meal? If you really feel bad about it, just remember it. When your life gets better in the future, you can treat us to a meal again." said the Dama family.
Several people said they didn't want to eat it, so they were asked to keep it for themselves.
Everyone in the Zhou family was very moved. Li held their hands and didn't know what to say.
Seeing this, Zhou Guo pulled Zhou Xing to take out all the remaining mint at home, packed seven or eight of them into bamboo tubes, and took out seven or eight strings of dried pine mushrooms strung together with wild vines, handed them over one by one, and said with a smile:
"My dear aunts, you know that we don't have much good stuff at home. You can take this little bit of dried silver grass back to drink. I picked this grass myself without spending a penny. Although it's not very good, it's a little token of our appreciation. And these pine mushrooms, we also picked them on the way. We went into the woods for several days to pick them. You can take them back to eat. Maybe you have enough at home, but they are yours. This is a gift from us. Don't worry, we have plenty of pine mushrooms. They're all on this cart."
She had messy short hair and was tanned, looking like a black boy. The aunts were very surprised to see her. "Sister, is this your boy? He has such a sweet mouth. He knows how to treat people at such a young age. How did you raise him? My son is four or five years older than him and he only knows how to work hard."
"Yeah, he's handsome. I don't know how he'll attract girls when he grows up."
Zhou Guo: “…”
The Zhou family couldn't help laughing.
Chen's family was puzzled, "What's wrong?"
Li looked at her daughter's hair, which took who knows how long to grow, and said helplessly, "You are mistaken. She is my daughter."
"Ah? A daughter?" Chen and the others looked at Zhou Guo in surprise. They looked her up and down and felt that she didn't look like a daughter. "This doesn't look like a daughter."
"Ha ha ha ha……"
"Hahaha……"
The family laughed.
Zhou Guo touched his hair and felt it was pretty good. Washing his hair was not troublesome at all. He could just comb it with his hands every day when he got up. He didn't have to spend time combing it. He didn't feel it was bad.
Li didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Please stop saying that. I don't look like a girl at all. If you say that, I won't be able to change. It's not good for me to stay like this."
Chen and the others laughed out loud, "I think she's pretty good. Your daughter is adorable, brave, eloquent, knows how to treat people, and is worldly-wise. Oh, if I had a daughter like this, I would wake up laughing in my dreams. Just be content." Then she asked Zhou Guo, "Daughter, what's your name?"
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "My name is Zhou Guo."
"Zhou Guo? That's a nice name, Guo Guo, look, how nice it sounds. Okay, girl, Guo Guo, it's getting late, let's go back, we'll take the things back, these are all good things, although they don't cost money, but you have to spend time to go up the mountain to pick them, right? These pine mushrooms can be dried and sold in winter, we got a bargain today."
"No, no, we are the ones who got the advantage. You helped me do so much work, but we only harvested some grass and pine mushrooms. No matter how you look at it, we are the ones who got the advantage."
As soon as he sent these people out, the old man came back empty-handed.
Zhou Guo asked: "Master, where have you been?"
The old man said, "I went to the back hills for a walk. I wanted to catch a pheasant."