The Path of the Peasant Girl

Chapter 8 008 Someone is coming
Zuo Hua shook his head: "I don't know."

"Oh." Qu Jingming felt a little more comfortable. It turned out that she didn't know him either. It wasn't because he didn't know him alone. He had never seen anyone eat this thing in the village before.

Zuo Shi didn't know what he was thinking, so he dug up quickly.

A few people worked together, and they dug up a large pile of cassava in no time.

There are a lot of cassava spread on the ground. A few children, you look at me, I look at you, and I can't help but be excited.

"How long will this take, have we made a fortune?" Zuo Hua swallowed.

"It's not promising, it's called making a fortune." Qu Jingming said with disgust, and couldn't help but be happy.

Zuo Hua glanced at him and snorted coldly: "Hmph, duplicity."

Qu Jingming: "..."

Zuo Hua bent down and was about to pick up the cassava and take it away, but was stopped by Qu Jingming's wave.

Zuo Hua was confused and looked at him for unknown reasons.

Qu Jingming said with a smile: "There are so many cassava, big and small, we can't take them back with our hands."

After Qu Jingming finished speaking, he pulled a few vines from the roadside and said, "This kind of Tianma Teng is very tough and can be used to weave a back basket."

After speaking, he took a knife and chopped down a lot of Tianma vines and started to make a back basket.

Because he went up the mountain with his grandfather to collect herbs since he was a child, he learned some crafts of weaving a back basket.

After half an hour, a small basket was woven.

"In the future, this backpack will be given to Xiaoge. Grandpa and I will make up a few more, and we will have one for each."

Zuo Shi smiled and said, "This is possible."

Several people picked up the cassava swiftly and put it into the basket.

When they got back on the road, they saw Mr. Qu and Mrs. Wen looking around with Zuo Ge and Zuo Jiang, and they relaxed after seeing a few of them.

"Grandpa, we found something to eat." Qu Qiming ran over first and took out the cassava in the basket.

"What is this?" Mr. Qu asked curiously.

"Cassava." Qu Jingming repeated Zuo Shi's introduction to cassava.

A few people from the Wen family also became curious.

"Xiao Shi, is this really edible?" Wen was a little suspicious.

"Yes, why can't you?" Zuo Shi laughed, and as soon as he finished speaking, he realized that something was wrong.

How could she know what Wen's didn't know?How can this be explained?

Zuo Shi's mind turned quickly, trying to make things right: "This is what I learned from Granny Ma in the east of the village. Granny Ma said that cassava must be cooked before it can be eaten. If it is not cooked, people will eat it. poisoned."

Granny Ma is an orphan and widow in the east of their village. Her husband joined the army in the early years, leaving behind their orphans and widows.

Mother-in-law Ma raised her son to grow up and married a daughter-in-law for her son.

Mother-in-law Ma released her daughter-in-law and lived alone from then on.

The people in the village thought that Granny Ma was unlucky, Kefu Kezi, and her tough personality, and she was not easy to talk, so no one wanted to associate with him.

Only the Zuo sisters who were bullied at home would run to their yard from time to time to talk to Granny Ma.

The old woman is a person who is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, and occasionally pity them and give them some food.

"Second sister, is it true? Granny Ma said it, why don't I know?" Zuo Ge asked innocently.

Zuo Shi Fu forehead: "You didn't ask her, of course you won't say it. I also asked when I saw her eating cassava."

Anyway, Granny Ma passed away last year, and there is no evidence of her death. Isn't she the one who said this?

Only then did Mrs Wen believe it, and said happily, "If you can really eat it, that's great. There is so much cassava, enough for us to eat for several days."

"Yes, I'll do this tonight." Zuo Shi patted his chest and assured.

Several people were in high spirits, and even the pace of walking became easier.

They found elm leaves and willow leaves just now, and now they have found cassava. They have rations for several days. How can they be unhappy?

"Grandpa, this thing doesn't belong to us. It was Xiaoshi who found out that it could be eaten, so we picked it up. We need to replace it with herbs. You can't give the herbs to those you don't know." Qu Jingming reminded Mr. Qu .

The old man Qu smiled bitterly: "Jing Ming, you are really a little devil."

"How can you say that about your grandfather?" Mr. Qu raised his beard and pretended to be angry.

Qu Jingming snorted softly: "I'm not thinking about the crowd of us, who's to blame?"

Mr. Qu coughed awkwardly: "...I see, it won't be like before, when people who are really poor will be saved."

Qu Jingming: "..."

On the road to escape, who is not pitiful?

In the eyes of his grandfather, there were too many poor people, and in the end, he was more pitiful than anyone else.

In the past, it was only their grandfather and grandson, but now it is not appropriate to add a lot of people in Zuo Shi's family and act as before.

"Don't worry, you can save me when you say it." Mr. Qu seemed to know what he was worried about, so he took the initiative to give him a reassurance.

Qu Jingming was really happy, his face flushed with excitement - it should have been this way long ago.

"Then let's go."

Seeing that their father and son reached a consensus, they even carried something on their backs and started to go on the road again.

After walking for more than an hour, take a rest, and then leave again.

Then in a small valley, several people were pleasantly surprised to discover that there was a small well that did not dry up.

Several people immediately decided to cook here, and then set off on the road after eating.

Cassava is a kind of food with relatively high practical value, at least for people fleeing the famine, it is a relatively cost-effective thing.

Zuo Shi first cut the cassava into strips with a kitchen knife and boiled them in clean water piece by piece.

After cooking, add the tapioca to the pan and fry until golden brown, then sprinkle with a few drops of oil.

The enticing aroma emerges from the pot and drills straight into the nostrils.

The left picture shows a few children sucking their mouths, sitting around the pot, swallowing saliva, staring straight at the cassava in the pot, and their stomachs growling.

"Alright? Can you eat?" Zuo Jiang couldn't help asking.

He was young and couldn't help being hungry, and with such a strong aroma reaching his nose, he couldn't help it.

"You can eat." Zuo Shi said.

After that, I started to distribute some tapioca to everyone's bowl, which was about half a bowl.

Zuo Jiang couldn't wait to pick it up with chopsticks and put it into his mouth. The taste of the noodles was fragrant and glutinous, so he couldn't help squinting.

"It's delicious, it's so delicious, this is the best thing I've ever eaten." Zuo Hua couldn't help but praise after taking two bites.

"Yes, how come I didn't find out that the second sister's cooking is so delicious before, how many delicious things have we missed before?" Zuo Ge sighed.

The grandfather and grandson of Qu were also very supportive and praised.

It's a pity that a small bowl of tapioca flour is enough for those who have been hungry all day?
After a few people finished eating, they sat by the pot and waited eagerly for the dumplings that had just been steamed.

Zuo Shi was delighted, and while checking the food points in the system, he thought about what to exchange the food points for.

Just as a few people were waiting for the vegetable dumplings, there was a sudden movement in the distance.

"Someone is here, let's go." Zuo Shi's expression changed.

(End of this chapter)