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

After a while, Xia Mo saw a small fish swimming in the water. She picked up a few stones, took aim, and smashed them down with full force.

“Bang——————”

After a while, a small fish as big as a palm floated on the water with a white belly turned over.

Aunt Shi heard the movement in the water, looked back, and then continued to search.

Suddenly she found a handful of water celery, and Mrs. Shi's heart almost jumped out of excitement.

She clutched her chest and turned around to call out to Qingcao. She found that Qingcao was grabbing something in the river, so she just immersed herself in pulling up the water celery. After pulling it out, she would share it with Qingcao.

Xia Mo concentrated on looking at the river and did not notice Aunt Shi's side. Soon she knocked out four or five fish.

But after that, it was difficult to see fish again. Such a big movement would scare the small fish away.

At the end of summer, I fished out the fish floating on the river. I counted 6 fish, four as big as a palm, and two as big as a hand. In the year of famine, even the fish couldn't grow big.

At the end of the summer, seeing Aunt Shi still busy at work, she killed all six fish directly on the shore, washed them, and saved the time of taking them down the mountain to kill them and wasting water.

"Oh my god~ Is this a fish? Qingcao, why did you catch so many fish?"

When Mrs. Shi came back from pulling out the handful of water celery, she saw Qingcao squatting and washing things on the bank. She came over to take a look and exclaimed.

"Auntie, wait a minute. After we kill this one, we will go back and come back tomorrow morning. There are still fish in the river!"

Aunt Shi nodded, "Okay, okay, let's come back tomorrow morning. I found some water celery here, give you half, and I'll put it in the basket for you."

Mrs. Shi caught half of the water celery in the basket and put it in the grass basket, covering the killed fish inside.

"Thank you, ma'am. You're welcome. I'm going back to stew the fish."

"Why are you so polite to me? Every time I follow you, I can find water and food. I feel like I am lucky to you."

"Haha, aunt is really good at joking. This is good luck for us. If I don't come out with you, I might not be able to find you."

"Yes, yes, we are lucky. I really hope this thief can make some rain soon, so we don't have to run away anymore."

"Mom, even if it rains, we have to run south."

"Ah? Why is this?"

"Didn't you see that our provincial capital has no officers and soldiers? If the famine here hadn't been too serious, do you think those barbarians from the grasslands would have invaded?"

After the famine in the north for several years, even the barbarians have stopped thinking about fighting. There is no use in fighting. There is nothing to eat, and there is no need to starve their beloved horses.

"...Uh, this...it's no longer a disaster. Someone from the government should come, right?"

"Who knows, the emperor has moved his capital to the south, so we must be right to go south."

"That's true, just take it one step at a time!" Aunt Shi frowned, feeling a little sad.

"Auntie, I've finished washing. I'll give you these three items, but don't be polite to me."

Xia Mo was not stingy either. He took out two fish, one large and one small, from the basket and stuffed them directly into Aunt Shi's basket.

Aunt Shi was still worried, but she suddenly stuffed three fish into the basket at the end of the summer.

"Grass, you can't do this. This fish is so valuable. Take it back and replenish it for the children."

"Auntie——" Xia Mo held down Auntie Shi's hand and said with a straight face, "You gave me water celery and I wasn't polite to you. How come I gave you fish and you became polite? Hurry up and pretend , don’t waste time, we still have to go down the mountain!”

"But...but this is a fish...it's different!"

"What's the difference? It's all food. Let's go!"

At the end of summer, Aunt Shi didn't give her time to write ink, so she just carried the bamboo sticks on her back, carried the basket, took a torch, and walked back to the road.

Aunt Shi was so moved that she sniffed, put the earthen jar filled with water in the basket, took a torch from the fire, and hurriedly chased towards the grass.

The way down the mountain is much faster, because the branches that blocked the road before have been opened by the end of summer, which saves a lot of trouble.

When he returned to the resting place, Xia Mo saw the three children and Mrs. Shi's mother-in-law, all huddled on the flatbed truck and asleep. Tiedan was lying next to the flatbed truck, also sleeping soundly.

It can be seen that everyone is very tired, and they can still sleep so soundly despite being hungry and thirsty.

The villagers who went up the mountain also began to go down one after another. They started earlier than late summer, but they walked far, so they were one step behind them when going down the mountain.

Fortunately, the villagers had more or less harvested something when they went up the mountain this time. Although there was drought everywhere, there should be more water sources in the mountains than in other places.

At the end of summer, I saw many villagers coming down the mountain with smiles on their lips. Some villagers were lucky enough to catch pheasants, and they stewed them as soon as they came down the mountain. They didn't save anything. It had been a long time since they had eaten meat.

There are also some villagers who only dig wild vegetables. Although they are a little envious of others for having meat to eat, they are very satisfied with having wild vegetables to eat. Water is also available, which is the hope of survival.

Although the villagers were a little aching, they all took some things out and put them in Li Zheng's place, keeping them and sharing them with the more than ten strong men who stayed behind to protect them.

Xia Mo also discussed with Mrs. Shi, and each took the smallest fish and a handful of water celery and sent them to Li Zheng.

When Li Zheng saw the fish brought by the two men, his eyes lit up and he nodded happily.

After returning home at the end of the summer, Mrs. Shi stewed fish in a hurry. Mrs. Shi hesitated and stewed only one fish.

At the end of summer, I thought I would catch fish tomorrow morning, so I stewed two of them, then chopped some water celery and put them in.

While the fish soup was simmering at the end of summer, Song Laicai's eldest brother and second brother came over lazily holding a jar of water.

Boss Song saw Xia Mo stewing something and looked around her nervously, but did not see the child.

He rushed to Xia Mo's side, "Three...Three younger siblings, where are the third brother and the children?"

After Boss Song finished speaking, he looked at the pot with twinkling eyes. Along the way, he saw many villagers from other villages exchanging their children for food. Some of them would eat their own children when they were hungry. He was a little worried... ..

"It's brother, why are you here?"

Xia Mo heard the sound, looked up, smiled and said hello.

This elder brother is a good man. It was at this time in his last life that they found a lot of water. They were worried about the original owner and the others who sent the water, only then did they realize that they saw that heart-wrenching scene...

"Mom asked me to bring you some water. Where are the children?"

Boss Song turned pale and asked again.

At this time, Song Lao Er also moved to the side of Song Lao Er. He really didn't want to face the confused third brother and his wife. Both couples were very evil.

"Second brother is here too, the children are sleeping at Aunt Shi's side!"

Xia Mo looked at the shy Song Laoer, shouted happily, and pointed at the place where the children slept.

Song Laoer was stunned by the call of "Second Brother". He had always looked at him sideways before, but he had never called him!

Boss Song finally breathed a sigh of relief, "We found water on the mountain. My parents asked me to give you some. You can get over it first."

"Well, thank my parents for me, please."

Song Lao Er and Song Lao Er's eyes suddenly widened like bells. What kind of words did they hear? "Thank you" is what the third brother and sister would say?

"Big brother?"

When Xia Mo reached for the water, Mr. Song didn't let go.

Brother Song came to his senses when he heard the shouts of his third younger brother and sister. He let go of his hand in embarrassment and gave the earthen pot to Xia Mo.

The two brothers looked at each other in shock, and the elder Song winked at Song Laoer.

Song Laoer was reluctant and said in a nonchalant manner,

"Here...there are some wild vegetables here, which my parents will give you to eat."

Xia Mo took it over without any courtesy. She did not refuse the kindness of her parents-in-law. This was an opportunity to integrate into the warm family.

From now on, when these two girls find someone to live with, they will have to ask their parents-in-law to help them find someone to support them. This will also allow the two girls to have a family to rely on.

"Then I'm welcome. Thank you very much, eldest brother and second brother."

"No...you're welcome, let's go back first."

Boss Song looked at the three younger siblings who suddenly became polite and didn't know what to say.

Under Xia Mo's smiling eyes, the two brothers fled.