Living in the mountains and forests as hunters

Chapter 3

Zhao Yiyi's grocery store can only see elementary and intermediate levels now, but since there are elementary and intermediate levels, it means that there will be advanced levels, and there may even be others. The grocery store is the smallest shop unit, and there are more what?Is it a storefront?Is it a supermarket?what is this else?Zhao Yiyi didn't know, but she knew that this was her hope for a smooth life in this world. In order to protect this secret and herself, she could only silently guard this secret alone.

After washing the clothes, Zhao Yiyi returned home and didn't rest, nor did she have time to rest, because her stepmother was already waiting.

"Danny, hurry up and dig wild vegetables. I don't know if you are lazy. Recently, you have been digging less and less wild vegetables. By the way, your brother has gone to collect firewood. You go to the mountains Take a look at it from time to time, and help get some back."

Zhao Qian's complexion is very ugly, with a trace of bluish yellow, not much flesh in his body, his tone is not gentle, and there is a little impatience in his eyes, and the hoe in his hand is dancing very fast. A big vegetable patch.Autumn has already begun, and if we don't clean up any more, I'm afraid it will be too late to plant radishes. If there are no these vegetables by then, what will their family eat in winter!Thinking of this, Zhao Qian looked at Zhao Yiyi from the corner of her eyes again, thinking about it and thinking about it.

It's not that she is so bad, she wants to do bad things, it's that a person who encounters her living environment will probably become like this, in order to survive.Became a widow before the age of 30, with two children. The most important thing is that the only son is only ten years old. Afterwards, seeing that she could only rely on her to take care of it alone, without enough food and clothing, she was still in the mood to have a good face towards a child who was not born by herself.

However, this stepdaughter still has a dull personality, and she may not be able to answer a word after asking three questions. She is even impatient to say more, so she is used to direct orders.Communication is really difficult for ten years!But to be honest, this Zhao Qianshi is not a bad person, at least after all these years, there is no such thing as ill-treating Zhao Yiyi's original body, it's just a little cold.But now, with the pillars gone, she had to think of other ways.Anyway, I have to bring up my son!Otherwise, how would you live this day!
After Zhao Yiyi listened to the order, she just nodded, then turned around to get her own basket and went out. Speaking of this basket, Zhao Yiyi's dead father made it himself. It is to be an unqualified bamboo craftsman, not to mention how delicate it is, at least these baskets at home, baskets!They are all made by myself. When I have time, I will also make some mats, bamboo hats and the like to sell in the market, so as to give the family some extra income. After hemorrhage dies every two years, he can marry another daughter-in-law.Although the family only has two acres of land and three houses, it can be regarded as a family with some wealth in this small village in the mountains.

Zhao Yiyi walked all the way to the hillside in the north with her back on her back, counting her money at the grocery store as she walked. In the past two months, she had already earned 340 yuan selling mushrooms and wild vegetables, but later for It is convenient to collect herbs, so I bought a medicine hoe, and I bought a dagger for self-defense in the mountains. A few days ago, because I fell in the mountains and cut my leg, I bought a knife to prevent infection. Jin Erguotou cleans the wound, which costs 40 yuan.Also, when the family bought a padded jacket for her father's illness, she secretly added a worn-out padded jacket she bought from a grocery store to help the family grab an extra pack of medicine, but the grocery store However, her cash is 30 yuan less, so far, she still has 270 yuan left, which is 1000 yuan away from the upgrade. It seems that there has been a lot of progress, but there is still a big difference. Of course, if there are four more In a few months, if she thinks about it, she will be able to accumulate enough money to upgrade, and then she must save up money to buy the Chinese Herbal Medicine Encyclopedia as soon as possible.It's not for medical treatment or anything like that, but she thought, the medicinal materials sold here are wild medicinal materials, which are more valuable than wild vegetables, so that she can accumulate money faster.

It's just that there is still a big problem here, that is, it is already autumn, according to memory, there are two more months, I'm afraid it will snow, and how will the winter be spent at home!In order to see a doctor for her father, the family has no money in savings, and there is only less than [-] catties of food left. Even cotton clothes and quilts have been exchanged for medicine money. This winter, I am afraid it will be really difficult. She remembered that there are people who freeze to death here every year.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel very upset. Of course, she also thought about whether she would tell her secrets to her two last relatives and ask them to help them earn money together. By exchanging 250 yuan for 100 catties of rice, the family can survive the winter without worrying about running out of food.And the old cotton-padded clothes are only 30 yuan, hurry up and buy three, at least they won't have a single winter clothes this winter.

But she dare not!First of all, there are many people in the village, and the situation of their family is known to almost everyone. If so many things are added at once, it will be no wonder that they don't attract people's attention!Another one is her stepmother, she is definitely a woman with a broken mouth, so she can't keep it secret!If she is allowed to know his secret, then needless to say, the whole village will know it within a day, and what will happen later?Zhao Yiyi couldn't imagine her ending.

Of course, she also thought about going to the town at the foot of the mountain, as a cover, and then said that she picked up something and exchanged it for money, and then took out some things, such as kitchen knives, daggers, axes, etc. Then I exchanged rice, grain and silver money, but she had to go down two hills to go down the mountain. This is not something she can do alone. If she encounters a beast, how can she escape?If with others?This is even more impossible to get out!Secondly, the things in this world have been mentioned earlier, the quality of iron products such as axes is not as good as those from grocery stores, and there are not many things. She, a girl, suddenly produced such good ones, it seems that they are from those big families. There is only something, will no one doubt it?The third terrible thing is that in this world, it is absolutely rare for a single woman to travel. It's not that she doesn't want to, but it's dangerous!As long as she goes out, she will definitely be noticed by others. If she is a bad person, encounters some kind of kidnapper, knocks her out and sells her, what should I do?This is not a world of martial arts, she has no ability to protect herself.

It doesn't matter if Zhao Yiyi thinks too carefully, or she is timid!Anyway, in this way, she is really worried and has nothing to do.

"Sister, sister? What are you thinking! I have called you several times! Why is there no response?"

A thin boy who looked like a bamboo pole, who was only eight or nine years old, dragged a large bundle of firewood and was struggling to move towards Zhao Yiyi's direction. Back, this is Zhao Yiyi's younger brother in this world, Zhao Dahu, a ten-year-old child, wearing patched clothes, or the kind of clothes that don't fit very well, you can tell at a glance that it's an adult's clothes that have been made smaller.The straw sandals on the feet were even more tattered.

"It's okay, I'll come!"

Zhao Yiyi put down her back basket, took a few quick steps, and stepped forward to help Zhao Dahu pull down the firewood. She was 14 years old after all, and it would be useful to be four years older, not to mention that after years of hard work and exercise, she would no longer look like a modern When she was delicate and weak, her strength was much stronger than that of ordinary girls.Waiting for the firewood to be pulled to the flat ground, Zhao Yiyi skillfully pulled out the two thickest branches from the pile of firewood, and tied them under the pile of firewood with a straw rope, so that Zhao Dahu could save some effort when dragging it back.

"You go back first, I went digging wild vegetables."

"Hey, by the way, sister, don't go to the east, Xiangzi from Uncle Dong's house and the two of them will dig there! I'm afraid they will all be gone right now."

"Understood, then I'll go west."

"Oh, sister, dig more, so we can dry the vegetables, otherwise there will be nothing to eat in winter."

"understood."

Seeing her younger brother walking home step by step with difficulty, Zhao Yiyi felt very bitter in her heart, did even wild vegetables become precious?Winter is really a heavy topic.Her plan to sell more money seems really difficult!If they can't prepare more wild vegetables for the family, then they will really eat less!When I cook in the morning, I only put a handful of rice, and I only drink wild vegetable porridge every day, how can I live like this!I'm afraid the stepmother would want to eat these twenty catties of rice for two months!

Zhao Yiyi looked at the small medicine hoe in the back basket, and then thought about the dagger on his back, his eyes flickered, did he really tell a lie, saying that the dagger he found in the mountains was unquestionable What, and then asked the stepmother to sell it and return it for some rice?Such a dagger should be able to sell for seventy or eighty renminbi, so it can be exchanged for ten liters of rice!Ten liters is twelve catties!Making porridge with wild vegetables can feed their family of three for a month.

Zhao Yiyi's heart was shaking, and she even wondered if she was too selfish and impersonal!Even his ten-year-old brother knows how to worry about the family's livelihood, but he is so indifferent.But after all, her uneasiness of being alone in this world made her shrink back again, sighed, and silently put on the back basket and walked towards the hillside again.

Perhaps, these days, she should stop thinking about selling things to the grocery store, and dig wild vegetables to add some food to the family.

(End of this chapter)