Farming in space: the struggle of peasant girls

Chapter 48 048 I Want You To Meet Someone
Mu Yu carried a heavy load of food, humming a little tune leisurely and walked out of the East Street area.

Along the way, I found a safe place to put the food and eggs into the mustard space, changed back to the old clothes, messed up the hair, and finally put a handful of dust on the face, and it was all done.

After changing her clothes, she looked ashamed, as if she had lost her eyesight just now.

She bowed her head along the wall and walked all the way back to the ruined temple, suppressing the joy of the successful transaction, thinking about how to upgrade the mustard space.

After thinking about it for a long time, the rice is cooked and my legs are numb, but as always, I have not gained anything.

The hot air surged and lifted the lid of the pot, and she came back to her senses, wondering if she should boil another egg by the way.

How can you not get tired of eating wheat porridge and corn bread with bran added every day?

It would be great to have some other food to improve it.

Other beggars can occasionally get some other food, or they will catch some sparrows, mice, cats and dogs to eat, these are not acceptable to her.

Yang Erlang hadn't brought anything similar since she rejected the fox he brought back last time, which made her somewhat relieved.

She is always afraid that someone will get sick from eating these, but she has to let others eat them, so she can only take care of herself and pay more attention to the situation of the people around her.

But speaking of it, disasters and plagues don't mean that they can be there. Anyway, the original owner and Yang Erlang haven't encountered them in the past few years, so she feels more at ease for the time being.

Crack the eggs into the earthen pot, and the instant burst of aroma is irresistible.

She took a deep breath, and then covered the clay pot with a clay lid to prevent the fragrance from spreading too far.

Even with the lid on, the scent of scents still seduced her constantly, arousing the pleasure of eating and drinking in the past, and her stomach was also induced to growl.

These few eggs are not enough...

There aren't too many weeds now, and they can be used to exchange eggs for at most three or four at a time, but the frequency of exchange is very slow.

For example, what she thinks now is that the next time she goes to the grocery store is 20 days later, that is to say, in these 20 days, there are only two eggs, no, there is only one left now.

20 days, two people, only one egg to eat.

This won't work, I have to think of a way.

It is possible to exchange more eggs with new grains, but it is not an option if this continues. She does not like the feeling of being controlled by others.

You can exchange things from others, but you must have them yourself.

She can grow food by herself, and she can raise chickens to collect eggs by herself.

Yes, raise it yourself.

She took out another egg in the space and stared at it for a while, her expression changed from full of hope to frowning in thought.

Hatch eggs and raise chicks, chicks lay eggs, then hatch eggs, eggs lay chickens, chickens lay eggs, eggs lay chickens...

This idea sounds great at first glance, but there is a problem that cannot be solved.

How to make this egg into a chicken?
She can't hatch eggs!
Moreover, it is uncertain whether the egg can hatch a chick. Only fertilized eggs can hatch a chick.

She thought about it, and felt that if she really wanted to lay eggs, then first of all, she needed two chickens, one male and one female, so that it would be more sustainable.

Thinking about it this way, the problem becomes simpler.

The next time she goes to the grocery store, she can exchange the new grain for two chickens. It's not worthwhile to exchange eggs, but it's not such a problem to exchange chickens.

There are chickens in the grocery store. When Lao Wangtou took her to the warehouse, she heard the crowing of several chickens. Last time, she overheard Lao Wangtou receiving a hen, but it was only a few catties of old grain. , if you want to resell her, the price will not be too high, a dozen catties should be enough.

Wait until the next wave of millet is ripe, enough to get these.

However, that will be 20 days later, so I have to let it go before that.

Instead of going to the grocery store, her life became more regular.

During the day, I pretended to go out to look for weeds, and brought them back to trade with the people in the ruined temple. At night, I cooked with Yang Erlang and exchanged the knowledge of the day. Day after day, it was ordinary.

She complained in her heart that her life was really boring and meaningless.

Then within a few days, this boring and ordinary life was broken.

Yang Erlang came back and told her to take her to a place.

……

"Are we going out of town?"

Mu Yu asked Yang Erlang who was looking serious beside him, Yang Erlang shook his head but didn't speak.

She wanted to ask again, after all, she didn't have any preparations before doing something. It wasn't her style, even if it was an adventure, she had to be prepared, but this time Yang Erlang just informed her and didn't say much.

This is also not in line with Yang Erlang's character.

But she looked at Yang Erlang's serious side face, and finally chose to believe him, and didn't ask any more questions.

Anyway, Yang Erlang would never mean to harm her, and he would always tell her everything when he got there, so she just waited.

She followed Yang Erlang and walked a long way along the direction that Yang Erlang showed her the dog hole in the city last time. She remembered this journey, so she guessed at first that she was going out of the city.

However, Yang Erlang shook his head, no.

The two walked for a while, and met a few skinny beggars on the road. They were really skinny, with only a layer of skin left besides the bones.
Compared with these beggars, Mu Yu and Yang Erlang were not thinner at all, they couldn't be any healthier.

Mu Yu was amazed by the tenacity of human life, that he could still live like this, his expression darkened after being amazed.

Although he is still alive now, obviously, he will not live for long.

"Go away!"

Yang Erlang's yelling woke her up. She looked back and found that the beggars she saw before had been following them. To those eyes with a greedy dark light.

Like a devouring abyss.

She calmed down and glanced around coldly. There were five beggars in total, not all of them together. All five of them were terribly thin, and they didn't have any weapons. They probably weren't strong enough to fight.

She can handle it alone, and there is no suspense when she is with Yang Erlang, but still be careful, no one knows what these people will do under the pressure of death.

Yang Erlang scolded a few more words, these people stopped, but they didn't disperse, they still stared at them, as if unwilling.

Mu Yu subconsciously wanted to take out bricks from the space, and after realizing it, he looked around for stones, but fortunately, stones were much easier to find than weeds.

She knelt down and picked up a big one, then gathered a few smaller ones and stuffed them into her pocket.

She and Yang Erlang kept an eye on these people as they walked, throwing stones at them as long as they dared to approach them, and finally got rid of these people after walking for a while.

"Are there many cases like this outside now?"

Mu Yu was silent for a moment, then asked.

Yang Erlang nodded, did not speak, the atmosphere was a bit heavy.

"I thought that cannibalism only happened in Beishan, but I didn't expect it to happen here in the south as well, and it seems that there is time."

"This kind of thing is more common outside the city."

Mu Yu turned her head to look at Yang Erlang, this was when he rarely spoke on the road, and seeing the city wall was not far away, she asked,

"So you want to bring me here to see for yourself how bad things are?"

"No, I want you to meet someone."

(End of this chapter)