I traveled through time, this is unscientific

"Mrs. Zhang, you have guests at home." The man said this, but his eyes kept looking at the dining table.

Only then did Zhou Xiaozhou realize that something was wrong.

Most of the houses in this village have their own doors and courtyards. For example, the Wu and Li families' houses are in the shape of a "门" (gate), with an upper room on the top, wing rooms on the east and west sides, a large courtyard surrounded by a fence in the middle, and a smaller backyard at the back where they grow fruits, vegetables, etc.

But the Zhang family only has the upper house and the wing room on the right, and on the left is a low wall made of mud, which seems to divide the entire yard into two. In addition, even the wall of their yard is made of mud, which is different from the fence of Old Wu's house.

Could it be that the Zhang family is richer than the Wu family? But this yard is not as big as the Wu family's, and looking at the family's clothes and mental state, this doesn't seem likely!

The people of the Wu family don't have any patches on their clothes, but the clothes on this dog have several places of different colors.

The people of the Wu family look very energetic, both adults and children. However, the children of the Zhang family are better and look quite lively, while the adults look exhausted.

"Yes, it's Gou'er's husband who's home." Mrs. Zhang looked like she had poor eyesight. She just turned her ears a little towards the direction of the voice, but her eyes didn't look over there. The old woman carefully searched on the table and closed the paper bag that Zhou Xiaozhou had opened. This caused several swallowing sounds to be heard from below.

The people on the wall watched Mrs. Zhang put away the things, said nothing more, and retracted their heads.

"Master, we shouldn't accept such valuable things from you. It's not worth it for a child to just pick some wild fruits..." The Zhang family's daughter-in-law was still refusing.

Zhou Xiaozhou held down her hands as she handed him the paper bag: "Just keep it. I think the dog is sensible and the little girl is well-behaved. The children in your village are all too skinny. It really makes me feel bad!"

These words touch the heart of mothers. Which mother doesn't want her child to have enough food and grow up strong? However, the harvest is poor and the parents' abilities are limited. It is not easy to raise a child year after year. Many children cannot be raised.

"Then you guys continue eating. We'll go back first. It will be dark soon and the road will be hard to travel on." Zhou Xiaozhou successfully gained some goodwill for himself. When he turned around, he found that even Zhang was wiping her tears.

The head of the Zhang family, Zhang Gou'er's father, had been sitting at the table the whole time. He did not raise his head when Zhou Xiaozhou and his friends came, nor did he raise his head when Zhou Xiaozhou and his friends left. He also did not eat a single bite of the porridge in between.

"Teacher Zhou, I'll see you off." Zhang Gou'er is worthy of being the most discerning child in Laian Village, as appointed by Zhou Xiaozhou himself.

Just as she walked out of the Zhang family's gate and was about to turn around and tell Zhang Gou'er to go back and continue eating, she saw another black shadow flash by not far away, and she couldn't help but let out a scream.

"what……"

"Who? Who's there?" Zhang was timid and trembled with fear, but she still stood bravely in front of her two children.

The people in the yard also heard the noise, and Zhang Gou'er's father stood up with a wooden stick.

The thing was a dark mass, and only a human figure could be roughly seen, and it flashed by.

Zhang Gou'er's father, Zhang Daliang, bravely walked into the shadow, picked up something and walked back.

The thing was a bare-stem plant with a black, round lump of dirt underneath. Zhou Xiaozhou recognized it immediately. It was the poisonous plant called ground bean that he had seen in the morning.

Zhang Daliang silently handed the thing to his wife.

"Who has the time to pull this thing out?" said Zhang's wife with a sigh.

Mrs. Zhang also groped her way to the computer at the gate, leaned against the door and listened to them quietly.

"We saw that man this morning," Zhang Gou'er thought for a moment and thought it should be a person, "digging this under the woods at the entrance of the village."

"What a sin!" This was Xiao Bao's mother's final conclusion.

Zhou Xiaozhou listened and gradually understood that someone had dug this thing up and eaten it. The villagers said it was poisonous. He didn't know whose family was short of money, otherwise why would they eat such a thing.

The episode passed quickly, and Zhou Xiaozhou and his group rushed back in the last bit of daylight. On the way, Wu Sanmei was in a sullen mood, and no one knew what she was thinking about. As for Zhang, she was still talking to Zhou Xiaozhou about things in the village.

"I don't know whose baby this is. He's so young, it's impossible for him to be worth this."

"Well, my third sister met me before and said that I would get sick if I ate it."

"Yes, that was when I had just gotten rich. It rained heavily that year and everything in the fields was soaked. Only these beans were growing rapidly. The heavier the rain, the taller and better they grew." Zhang fell into memories.

Hearing the unfamiliar name, Zhou Xiaozhou guessed that it was Zhang's child, Wu Sanmei's eldest brother.

After walking for a while, Zhang continued, "We were hungry! When we couldn't stand the hunger anymore, Dacheng's father followed the villagers and went to the forest to catch a lot of this stuff. He didn't dare to give it to me and my father-in-law, so he tried to eat it himself first. Oh! At first I thought it was the sticks, but the sticks were crunchy and had a bitter taste of grass juice, which was quite fragrant."

Zhou Xiaozhou looked over and saw Zhang's eyes were gentle. That must have been a very happy time in her life! As a new mother, every woman would be happy. Although she had encountered a natural disaster, she was loved by her husband and had a harmonious family. Even the hardest days were sweet.

"He and his second uncle ate the stalk, and they had diarrhea the next day. My father-in-law was scared and didn't let them eat it." Zhang didn't know what else she was thinking about, and she actually laughed twice. "Later, I heard that the lumps of earth in the field were edible, so Dafa's father took the round lumps at the bottom. I cooked it, and it tasted soft and sweet, but the outer shell was very hard and hard to open."

The few of them continued to rush home, and just as they passed the protruding big rock, they saw the dim light emanating from the house in front of them from afar. Home was just ahead, and the few of them couldn't help but speed up their pace.

Zhang was still nagging: "The saved food was given to me and his grandparents, and he and his second uncle ate the ground beans. After eating them for two days, they didn't feel anything wrong, but they didn't dare to eat more, just to fill their stomachs and not starve to death."

Zhou Xiaozhou became interested, and even Xiaobao became interested and asked his mother, "What happened next?"

"Then, we all thought it was God's blessing that we could find such food during the famine. But unexpectedly, news came from the neighboring village that an entire family had died after eating the beans."

Zhou Xiaozhou couldn't believe it. After all this, he actually told her that he had eaten dead people? This was unscientific.