At the beginning, I beat Lazy, and the host is cruel.

Everyone slept deeply all night. After all, they had worked hard all day and their legs were sore and numb.

The next day, when the genius dawned, Aunt Shi woke up early. She quietly walked to Xia Mo's side, stretched out her hand and gave Xia Mo a gentle push.

"Qingcao, wake up quickly, we are going up the mountain."

At the end of summer, when Aunt Shi came over, her brain woke up, but she couldn't open her eyelids, she was too sleepy.

"...Uh! Okay!"

Xia Mo climbed up first, then opened his eyes, carrying the basket next to him.

Pour the remaining mushrooms into the package and wrap it up.

After thinking about it, she put the kitchen knife in her waist again.

Then he poured all the water in the bamboo joint into the pot and bowl, took two one-meter-long hollow bamboo joints, and a small basket on his arm, and followed Aunt Shi to climb up the mountain.

When the two climbed to the cave, the sky was already looking very bright.

In the cave, the stone basin that had collected water all night was already full to the brim.

This time Aunt Shi brought a big basket with four clay pots in it. It was still in the late summer when she put bamboo joints on the holes to collect water, and Aunt Shi filled the stone basins with water.

Xia Mo took a small basket and searched inside the cave, picking all the mushrooms he could. There were more or less weeds and vegetables in the stone cracks in the cave. Xia Mo picked them all.

After finishing the search at the end of summer, when I returned to Aunt Shi with half a basket of mushrooms, Aunt Shi's water bottle was almost full.

On the contrary, the bamboo joints in late summer are slower to receive water and are still half full.

Aunt Shi glanced at the late summer basket and exclaimed, "I didn't expect there to be so many mushrooms."

Xia Mo nodded, "It was a little too dark last night. There are still a few inside. I didn't see them. I picked them all. There are not as many as last night, so it's not bad."

"Save your food, you can eat for five or six days!"

"Auntie, there is spring water here, so there might be something else growing around this cave. Let's go out and look for it. I'll come back later to get the bamboo joints."

Aunt Shi nodded and said, "Then let's search near the entrance of the cave. Don't go too far, otherwise the water will be taken away!"

The two quickly started searching around the hole. Aunt Shi was a good farmer and soon discovered a bunch of withered sweet potato vines.

"Qingcao, come on, use your knife to pull it here twice and take a look."

The soil on the mountain is a bit hard due to drought, and it is particularly difficult to pull it up with your hands.

Xia Mo immediately walked over, took out the kitchen knife in his waist, and dug at the place pointed by Mrs. Shi.

"Hey, hey, green grass, dig it gently, I think I see red skin."

Aunt Shi looked at Xia Mo's rough digging and pulled her clothes nervously.

Xia Mo nodded and dug along the edge of the sweet potato with the tip of a kitchen knife. Soon a sweet potato as big as an adult's fist was dug out.

This wild sweet potato is relatively small, and when it encounters drought, its head becomes even smaller.

Mrs. Shi carefully cleaned the soil next to the sweet potatoes, and then took out the small sweet potatoes.

"Green grass~~~ Look, it's a sweet potato~~~ It's really a sweet potato!"

Aunt Shi's eyes were red with excitement. This is really life-saving food. It can be stored for a long time.

"Well, it's indeed a sweet potato. I'll dig it up and take a look."

Xia Mo nodded in response and continued digging with the kitchen knife.

Aunt Shi also picked up a stone, dug it into the sweet potato pit at the end of summer, and dug around bit by bit.

The two of them dug breathlessly for half an hour before digging out eight sweet potatoes as big as fists, two or three of which were only as big as a child's fist.

"Qingcao, let's go back, everyone will set off later."

Although Aunt Shi was reluctant to give up, she was afraid that the team in the village would wander too far. During the famine years, traveling alone would be tantamount to death.

"Okay, let's go back."

At the end of the summer, I just wanted to say that it was time to go back. The village leader and the clan leader were a little irresponsible.

The number of people is never counted when setting off. If you can keep up, just follow. If you can't, no one will care. Anyway, most of the strong laborers are at the front of the team. Li Zheng and the clan leader only need to be safe and secure, and they don't care about the lives of others.

After taking out the collected water from the hole, Xia Mo grabbed a handful of mushrooms in the basket and put them in Aunt Shi's basket, and then gave half of the sweet potatoes to Aunt Shi.

Aunt Shi's eyes turned red with emotion. Except for the first sweet potato she found, all the others were found by Xia Mo himself.

"Qingcao, my aunt has taken advantage of you, so I won't be polite to you. In the future, if you can use my aunt's advantage, just say it, ah!"

Aunt Shi's voice was choked with sobs as she spoke. A woman who has always wanted to be strong in her life felt extremely guilty if she took a little more from others.

Xia Mo smiled and said, "Auntie, look what you said, you discovered this, so I'm not taking advantage of you. Don't say such nonsense. We have to find food and water together in the future!" "

People live in groups, so it's okay for her to be alone. She also has two daughters who will get married in the future.

When they settle down somewhere in the future, they will have to trouble others to introduce someone to the two girls.

Aunt Shi smiled with red eyes, "It's because I'm too narrow-minded to see the green grass. Let's look for it together in the future. I can't make you thirsty if I can drink it in one gulp. I gave you this little basket to pretend to be Things are convenient.”

"Okay, then I'd like to thank you auntie. You are so proud. I'm just waiting for you to take me to eat and drink."

Aunt Shi glanced at Xia Mo angrily, "I'm still teasing you, big or small."

When the two of them went down the mountain, they both picked up a handful of dry weeds and covered them with water. They were careful to sail as fast as they could, fearing that they would encounter hungry and impatient people who would snatch everything from them.

As soon as we returned to the resting place, Xia Mo saw Da Niu boiling the water.

She touched the big girl's head, tore off a few small mushrooms inside the package, put them into the boiling pot, and sprinkled a few salts in. Without salt, she would have no strength.

During the meal, Xia Mo let Song Laicai go and gave him a chance to act like a monster so that he could deal with him.

Song Laicai was completely wilted, his face was pale and his lips were purple. He had been frozen all night. He was much more honest now.

Song Laicai said nothing and trembled with his hands, vigorously rubbing his stiff cheeks.

He desperately wanted to prove that he was still alive. In a daze that night, he felt like he was wandering on the edge of death several times. Only when he was rubbed until he was strangled and pain occurred did he feel like he was alive.

At the end of summer, I took Danniu to eat from the pot. Erniu and Xiaobao each had a bowl. Everyone ate quickly.

Song Laicai swallowed hard, feeling dizzy from hunger.

He didn't dare to stare at Meng Qingcao, so he could only look at the three children eagerly, trying to scare them with his eyes and make them give him the rice in their hands.

It's a pity that when the children were eating, their heads were buried in the bowls, and no one looked at him at all.

The sun has risen, and people who went up the mountain in the morning are descending one after another, and they are expected to set off soon.

Sure enough, not long after eating, I heard the sound of gathering in the village.

The villagers quickly packed up their things. Li Zheng stood on the donkey cart and took a look from a distance, and then the large army set off in a mighty manner.

At the end of summer, I packed my luggage, tied the bamboo joints, and took a bamboo joint in my hand, which can be used as a crutch and to quench my thirst.

She asked several children to hold hands and follow her on their way with the large army of the village.