Chapter 13 Dry Land Waste Year (II)


    At dawn, Chen Huihong woke up on time.


    There seemed to be a child lying beside her. When Chen Huihong got up, her first reaction was to eat the bark and leave, and she almost stepped on Hui Niang. After seeing Hui Niang, I reacted later and then I remembered that there was indeed such a person last night.


    Seeing that Hui Niang was not awake for a long time, Chen Huihong felt impatient after waiting for a while. She left first, found the abandoned well found yesterday, and started to fetch water.


    Most of the wells found by Chen Huihong along the way were completely dry, with the bottom of the wells covered with dust and mud and sand, and no drop of water could be used.


    A small number of them are not completely dry, and the water is pitifully small. The thin layer of water cannot catch up with the evaporation. Only in the morning can a trace of turbid sewage be produced.


    It can be seen that the drought is serious.


    Chen Huihong dug it three or four times before he dug out a shallow layer of turbid well water from the well. Without containers, she just walked back with the bucket.


    Fortunately, the refugees who passed through this abandoned well did not take the hemp rope and the broken bucket away, otherwise Chen Huihong would have to rub the hemp rope and find a bucket.


    By the time Chen Huihong returned, Hui Niang was awake and sat on the ground in a daze, looking like a puppet doll. Seeing Chen Huihong coming, Huiniang excitedly got up from the ground and ran towards Chen Huihong a little staggeringly, which was in sharp contrast to the staggering appearance that was comparable to the zombie learning to walk last night.


    "elder sister!"


    "Water." Chen Huihong said concisely and put the bucket on the ground, "It''s a little dirty, wait for it to settle for a while before drinking."


    After saying that, Chen Huihong sat down, and Huiniang nodded obediently and sat down.


    "What do you want to ask me?" Hui Niang knew that Chen Huihong had something to ask her.


    "Where do you escape from famine?"


    Hui Niang lowered her head and thought, "At the beginning, my mother said she would run north. I heard that the drought in the north is not as serious as ours. It rained. The price of wheat is not as high as 20 yuan per stone. If you go there, you don''t have to borrow money to buy grain when you go there. Maybe you still have some food to eat."


    "But my father disagreed. He said that there was a war disaster in the north, and many people died, and there were many horses and horses. He might die halfway through the way. Although the drought became worse the further south, a relative of my family worked as a carpenter in Lin County, and he could have some food to eat when he defected to him." At this point, Hui Niang, who had been bowing her head, raised her head and looked at Chen Huihong quietly.


    Chen Huihong was thinking about her own affairs, but she didn''t pay any attention to Hui Niang and asked, "Have you gone to Lin County?"


    Hui Niang shook her head: "There is a plague in Lin County, and many people have died. My relatives have also died. The village with severe epidemics has been burned by fire, and no one dares to get close to it."


    "I don''t know where my parents are going. They may go to Peking or Qin. But on the way, we heard from others that Qin was drought, but some people said that Peking would not let the victims go to the city and they were stuck outside. My father wanted to take the train to the south, but many people fell to death, and some people were shot to death directly. My father was afraid that his brother would fall to death, so he didn''t take it out."


    "Are there many people fleeing famine?" Chen Huihong asked.


    "More." Hui Niang nodded affirmatively, "It has been three years of drought. It doesn''t snow in winter and rain in spring. At the beginning, there was a little harvest that could barely survive. Last year, the wheat harvest was completely harvested and even the crop was not left behind."


    "The wheat is not collected, and the rent is paid as required, and the taxes are paid as required. Many families in our village have gone away. My family has four acres of land, and the four acres of land must be kept for my brother to get married. My father is reluctant to leave the land, so he has not run away."


    "Last year, I sold my elder sister to pay taxes. I originally thought that this year might be a good year. Unexpectedly, it has not rained since the beginning of spring, and I really can''t survive anymore. My grandparents are afraid of being burdened, so they only eat Guanyin dirt and eat it to death."


    "Last month, my parents buried my grandparents and sold the land, and took me and my brother to run away."


    "Actually, my father wanted to sell me together last year. My mother said I had little food and could work. I sold it more money one year older, so I saved it this year. As a result, when I came to my house this year, I thought I was not good-looking and wasted food, so I didn''t want to charge money." Hui Niang''s tone was light, as if she was telling some ordinary things.


    "Sister Chun next door is pretty. He collected it and gave him two bags of wheat. Renyazi said he wanted to sell her to Peking. Sister Chun was so happy and left her red-headed rope for me and told me that she might eat white flour steamed buns when she went to Peking, and she would be lucky enough to eat rice."


    "Sister, do you know what the white flour steamed bun tastes? Only Landlord Zhang in our village can eat white flour steamed buns. I saw it once. It was white and soft, and it must be softer than the clouds in the sky. They all said that white flour steamed buns are sweet, and they are sweet without adding sugar."


    "I know." Chen Huihong said, "The white-fed steamed buns are not white, and the white is not white. They are gray and not sweet."


    Chen Huihong''s honesty made Huiniang a little disillusioned, but Huiniang couldn''t help swallowing. It was obvious that compared to Huiniang''s description that relied entirely on imagination, Chen Huihong''s words were more realistic.


    Thinking that Chen Huihong had eaten white flour steamed buns, Hui Niang looked at her more respectful and asked carefully: "Sister, are you a lady in the city?"


    Chen Huihong did not answer, but Hui Niang pretended to be her agreement and continued to ask: "Sister Chun went to the provincial capital to be a maid. She said that now all the ladies in the city learn Shencheng, wearing foreign clothes, eating foreign dishes, and going to foreign schools to learn foreign languages. Do your ladies in the city also eat white flour steamed buns?"


    Chen Huihong was choked and said, "Eat steamed buns everywhere."


    After thinking about it, Chen Huihong added: "Eat too."


    “The rice is white.”


    Hui Niang asked curiously: "The lady in the city fled, too?"


    “…Escape, all escape.”


    Hui Niang nodded: "Sister Chun also told me that the master of the family she served before died and everyone in the family ran away. Several aunts stole a lot of jewelry, and Sister Chun also picked up a silver hairpin, but unfortunately she was found by the manager and snatched away."


    Seeing that the topic became more and more biased, Chen Huihong took the initiative to ask, "I didn''t buy you away, why did your parents bring you with you when they fled to famine?"


    This question can be said to be quite heartbreaking, and I directly silently asked Hui Niang.


    After a long time, Hui Niang whispered: "Mom said, she can''t bear to leave."


    "Anyway, I don''t eat much, and I can find food. If I can take care of my younger brother on the way, it''s better to take me with me. If... I''m useful."


    "Do you know how to find food?" Chen Huihong looked at Hui Niang.


    Hui Niang nodded repeatedly: "I know, I can dig grass roots from the ground, I can find insects, I can also find water, and I can also find mouse holes. Sometimes, I have good luck not only to find the food hidden by the black mouse, but also to catch the mouse."


    "Although many rivers are dry, there are always water in some places. No matter how severe the drought is, you can always get water from the well down." Speaking of this, Hui Niang quietly looked at Chen Huihong, "Sister, you don''t seem to have a tank for water storage."


    "It''s broken." Chen Huihong said perfunctorily, "and then."


    Hui Niang thought about it and added: "If the food price wasn''t too expensive, I hadn''t seen the promised disaster relief grain, and I added an additional tax this year, so my father wouldn''t have sold the land and fled."


    "I know." Chen Huihong said lightly, "I know you people... you farmer farmers in the countryside have land, and the conditions for having land at home are good. Many of them rent land from landlords without land. If they can''t pay the rent, they borrow money from landlords. The profit will be profitable until the family is broken and the children are sold."


    After saying that, Chen Huihong added: "I heard someone say it at the tea stall."


    "Where are you going now?" Chen Huihong asked.


    Hui Niang was a little confused and expectant, and looked at Chen Huihong carefully with a deer-like look: "I don''t know where I''m going."


    "Sister, can I follow you?"


    "I don''t know where I''m going, it''s useless for you to follow me." Chen Huihong said.


    "Then... can I follow?"


    "Whatever." Chen Huihong is like a ruthless gamer, not caring about the sad past of NPCs, but only caring about his own mission progress.


    Although she doesn''t seem to have any tasks to catch up with.


    "Thank you sister." Hui Niang followed Chen Huihong happily, letting her shadow completely integrate into Chen Huihong''s shadow, as if this would make her feel very 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."


    "Sister, where are you going?"


    "I don''t know." Speaking of this, Chen Huihong stopped and asked, "Where... there are many people, is it safe?"


    Hui Niang thought for a while: "Beiping."


    "The emperor lived there before."


    "What happened later?"


    "There was no emperor later." Hui Niang said, "But there were many other masters. Sister Chun told me that if she accidentally bumped into the lady, young master, wife and master in the city, she would kneel down and kowtow. When the opera troupe came to our village to perform, the people in the opera would also kowtow when they saw the emperor. Maybe the emperor and those masters were similar."


    Chen Huihong frowned: "I don''t like kowtowing people."


    "Sister, you are a lady, of course you don''t have to kowtow to others." Hui Niang said, revealing the first smile after seeing Chen Huihong. "I don''t like kowtow to others either. My mother always calls me pretentious and ill. I hide when I see the landlord in the village, so I didn''t go when Sister Chun went to work in the city, and I didn''t go, and I didn''t go even if my parents beat me."


    Chen Huihong didn''t say anything and continued to walk forward.


    Hui Niang followed her like a little shadow, following closely.


    "Sister, are we going to Peking?"


    "have no idea."


    "Then where are we going?"


    "have no idea."


    "Sister, it''s so strange. I was so hungry. I wasn''t hungry after you ate the bark of me yesterday."


    "The bark is hungry."


    "Am I going to die? The people who fled with us in our village kept shouting that they were so hungry and hungry. When they were about to die, they suddenly stopped hungry and then died."


    "No, the person who is about to die will not talk so much." Chen Huihong paused, turned around, glanced at Hui Niang, and took out a piece of bark slightly larger than last night from his body, handed it to Hui Niang, "Eat."


    Hui Niang took the bark and stuffed it directly into her mouth. Her hesitant look was particularly decisive than yesterday, and even her swallowing movements were faster than last night.


    "Sister, you are such a good person!"


    A good person card has been sent.


    Chen Huihong frowned, as if she hated this sentence very much, and said sternly: "Let me find something to eat in the future."


    "Sister, I..."


    A white light flashed, and Qin Huai left the dream.


    "Ding, congratulations to the players on unlocking the illustrations."


    Qinhuai after coming out of the dream:…


    Qin Huai after thinking for a while:…?


    Although the dreams are all bizarre and diverse, Chen Huihong''s dream is a bit too realistic. The journey of more than ten days did not accelerate in a second. Qin Huai and Chen Huihong watched the desolate scenery together for more than ten days.


    And what does Chen Huihong’s dream mean?


    Mother and daughter change their sisterhood?


    In real life, there is a mother and daughter who are rich enough to lose their worries, but in the dream, there is a duo of poor escape from famine, focusing on a life experience, contrast and cuteness.


    The most important thing is—


    Sister Hong, you haven’t finished your dream!


    The character design also collapsed.


    Chen Huihong is not the kind of indifference in her dream that contains a hint of warmth. If you compare a person with a crop, Chen Huihong must be the sun, burning herself and illuminating the world, passion is like fire, and it is not like a candle that will disappear, and it has a strong endurance.


    and…


    This dream is a bit too real.


    Qin Huai recalled the scenes and scenes he saw in his dream, which were a bit unreasonable. If it weren''t for the dialogue that appeared in the dream, it was the Republic of China period. Chen Huihong was Chen Huihong when she was young, but Huiniang was Chen Huihui at this age. Qin Huai would have suspected that this was not a dream, but a memory of Chen Huihong''s past.


    Even if it is a dream, it is like a dream in Nan Ke in his previous life.


    While thinking, Qin Huai clicked on the game panel.


    There is one more item in the unlocked picture book.


    Unlocked picture book: 1/12


    The lit image book is Chen Huihong''s avatar, click in.


    Name: Chen Huihong


    Species:? ? ? (To be unlocked)


    Dreams: 1/3


    Recipe: Bark (click to view details)


    Gift: None


    Qinhuai: Species? ? ? What''s the thing? !


    Do you want to tell me that Chen Huihong is not a human being?


    So our system is actually not an ordinary daily business system, but a spiritual energy recovery system/doomsday arrival system/mysterious invasion system?


    Then what''s the use of giving recipes?


    The spiritual energy revival has arrived and the mysterious invasion has come. What can we solve by cooking? Can we use a rolling pin to kill the other party? Or use a mold to kill the other person? Or use a sufficient amount of pasta to hold the other party to death?


    Qin Huai clicked on the recipe with a question mark.


    [Bar F-level]


    Producer: Chen Huihong


    Details of the dish: Although I don’t want to admit that this is a dish, let’s just count it. It is unpalatable, dry, and cannot be swallowed, and it is not recommended to eat it without treatment. Unless it is on the verge of dying, no one will want to eat this dish. Eating more than 3g can quickly fill your stomach, which is a real light meal. (Since this dish is really unpalatable, it is recommended to use it as a seasoning)


    A day production volume: 0/50g


    It is good to eat lightly, and it is good to use it as a seasoning.


    Capitalists want to applaud after seeing it.


    Qinhuai thought that a few leaves of vegetable leaves, a little salad sauce, two shrimps, a piece of avocado and some bargains were mixed, and it would be ruthless enough to sell a light food of 30 or 40 yuan. Unexpectedly, there was one more ruthless here.


    Guess what, just go up the bark.


    Still full.


    Healthy and weight loss, truly good and light food.


    It is also very consistent with Chen Huihong''s cooking skills.


    It’s bad. In the process of preparing for the parent-child cooking day, Chen Huihong will not really be whimsical, boldly try, be brave to innovate, and not be afraid of difficulties. She will use tree bark as a seasoning, right?


    But where to buy bark?


    Can the bark sold on Taobao be eaten?


    You can’t just peel the green belt downstairs of the community, right?


    Qin Huai felt that if he dared to do this, Chen Huihong would arrest him on the spot within three minutes, and even if he had the title of [Chen Huihong''s affirmation], he would never be favored.


    ?This chapter is two-in-one, updated today.


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    (This chapter ends)