Glory in Troubled Times: The Empress' Growth Path

Chapter 4 Simple Traps

"I'll think of a way to bring you along."

"Okay, if you have any questions, you must tell me in time, and I will wait for your news."

Zhao Tingan nodded, and after eating the sweet potatoes, he happily ran away.

Hua Qiong had nothing to do, so he woke up from the cold anyway, so he went to the village to see where he could get food besides sweet potatoes.

Looking up, those thatched houses are not much better than the place where I live.

According to the memory of the original body, this is a very small village, not many people, they all live on a little food, like Zhao Ting'an's uncle's family still has surplus food to sell, in the eyes of the villagers, it can be said to be very rich.

It seems that I have to go near the village to see if there is anything to dig and eat.

Many villagers had already eaten breakfast and were strolling at the entrance of the village. When they saw Hua Qiong walking towards this place, they thought it was for the autumn wind, and they couldn't help whispering, without any intention of avoiding it.

"Look at her sallow complexion, maybe she hasn't eaten for a few days."

"My family doesn't have any extra rations for her!"

"What is she doing in the village if she doesn't leave? It's not because she wants to rely on someone's family!"

The eyes of the crowd became more and more disgusting, Hua Qiong couldn't help but complain that she didn't intend to come to eat, and she didn't say anything, so she was so unwelcome.

Hua Qiong made up his mind to leave this small village in three days!Even if Zhao Ting'an stops him, he can't do it!
The people at the entrance of the village took the initiative to make way for Hua Qiong, for fear that she would entangle him. Although Hua Qiong was a little bit slanderous, as a modern person, he could understand people's helplessness and precautions when productivity was not enough.

It's understandable, it's understandable, firstly, I didn't harm anyone, and I didn't ask for help, so I really can't afford to speak ill of myself, secondly, I also want to eat, and I don't bother to pay attention to those villagers who talk badly.

living comfortably without anybody's help.

Dig sweet potatoes!

"Little girl! Wait, don't go!"

Hua Qiong looked back and saw a mother-in-law trotting anxiously from behind. She searched her memory, but there was no memory about this person, nor did the original owner have any memory about her.

This mother-in-law is fat, and although she is dressed roughly because of the trot, she is not panicked and anxious, and she is more kind.

She hands Hua Qiong a bundle of wood tied with hemp rope.

"You fainted and dropped it on the side of the road last time. I wanted to stop you, but you ran too fast and ignored me. I will keep your wood for safekeeping. I just heard Wang'er say, I just saw you recently, I wanted to send you there, but I didn't expect to meet you in advance."

It was only then that Hua Qiong realized that this should have happened before his soul piercing. He ran away from the crowd that day and really didn't notice what was left behind.

After thanking her, Hua Qiong asked, "Mother-in-law, do you know Wang'er too?"

"I'm a servant of the Zhao family. Wang'er often helps my old lady." The mother-in-law looked at the wood in her hand and reminded: "The wood you cut is too wet to be used as firewood."

Hua Qiong glanced at the wood in his hand and weighed it. He was a layman and didn't understand it at all, and he had never watched this kind of popular science video.

"Choose some hard wood, which is resistant to burning and has a strong fire."

"Oh, mother-in-law, it seems that I have been chopping for a long time, and it is useless." Hua Qiong said helplessly. When he wanted to eat, he had to buy the ingredients himself or order takeaway. Now he has to use firewood to cook, which is unprecedented. The road envisioned.

"It's not completely useless. The branches you cut are a little softer, but they are still useful."

Hua Qiong's eyes lit up involuntarily, she didn't expect the firewood from her original body to be useful, and she felt a little hopeful.

"When my old man was still there, he often hunted. My old lady, I can make simple traps. Come with me."

"Grandma, I haven't asked you what your name is yet."

"The old lady's surname is Wang, and she has been working in the Zhao family. Wang'er also knows me."

Snowflakes started to fall from the sky sparsely, Granny Wang lovingly touched Hua Qiong's head, and the old and the young slowly left the village.

Until Grandma Wang chose a withered bush, she took out the short hoe pinned to her waist, and the two began to take turns digging deep pits around the bush until the pit was deep enough to hold Hua Qiong.

Then Hua Qiong cut the branches into the hole at intervals, and the pattern formed reminded Hua Qiong of the old-fashioned fan hanging from the ceiling in the classroom when he was a child.

Granny Wang found another long and hard branch nearby, took out half a piece of sweet potato from her bosom, tied it to the hard branch like fishing, and finally pinned the branch directly above the hole.

"In this way, when a rabbit wants to eat sweet potatoes, it will fall into the hole by stepping on these soft branches."

Hua Qiong looked at the trap. Although it was simple, it could be called efficient even when there was nothing.

The heat on Granny Wang's and Hua Qiong's bodies kept rising, Hua Qiong got up and wiped the sweat on Granny Wang's sweat with her sleeves, it was really hard for her, an old man, to help herself out in winter.

"Little girl, come back in a day or two, maybe you will gain something."

After all, Hua Qiong was still a child with a biological age of only five or six years old. It was still a bit difficult to help Granny Wang up, and even for a moment the eyes were black, which showed that the original body was not in good health, and it was necessary to take good care of it.

The expectation of the simple trap in my heart is a little deeper.

"Grandma Wang, where else can I dig sweet potatoes around here?"

"Where there are sweet potatoes now, except for the Zhao family's field that may not have been cleaned up, the other families in the village probably don't have much rations."

"The land of the Zhao family?"

"That's right, it's the Zhao family where Wang'er lives. It's also the place where I help. It's not far from the trap. There's a boundary marker next to the field ridge, and the one with the word Zhao is engraved on it."

Hua Qiong glanced at Granny Wang's hand pointing the direction, and silently wrote it down in her heart.

After sending Granny Wang away, Hua Qiong flew towards Zhao's land, as long as he thought of the aroma of roasted sweet potatoes, his body would immediately be filled with strength, the snow kept falling, but he could not feel a trace of cold.

Find some sweet potatoes before the snow completely covers the ground!
Hua Qiong ran between the fields, because the clothes themselves were very close to the color of the land, and from a distance, it looked like a mound of soil moving, like a natural protective color.

"what?"

Hua Qiong stopped and saw two bright "colors" dangling around on the ridge not far away, so she quickly lay down on the ground and carefully observed the movement in the distance.

What's happening here?Could it be that, like myself, come to find some sweet potatoes to eat?

But looking at the clothes of the two little boys, the colors are bright, and there is not even a patch on their bodies. They don't look like people who need to come to the land to find food.

Could it be that I was overthinking it?
Seeing the two little boys getting closer and closer, their voices became clearer.

"Wang'er, who has no parents, sued my mother last time for not going to the teacher's place, and I got a good beating."

"Didn't you also feed his biscuits to the dogs?"

"This bastard must be jealous that I eat better than him and dress warmer than him. I feel jealous. I will wait for my father to go out today and see how I deal with him."

(End of this chapter)