Madam, She Has a Tender Heart

At night, Yaya and Xiaobao slept between Su Qingmei and Su Qingliu.

There was a warm kang under them, and they were warm.

Xiaobao used to play with his brothers and sisters, but he had never slept with them. Now he slept with a little sister, which was both novel and fun.

He immediately forgot to ask his mother whether to count the fingers of one hand or two hands.

He played happily with sister Yaya on the bed.

The two siblings held hands and lay down to talk. They had been talking all night and still didn't sleep.

Su Qingmei didn't care about her and talked to Su Qingliu.

"That Wei Fuchang?"

Su Qingmei asked about him.

She didn't know how to place him.

He was the lifesaver of her sister and Yaya, and it was natural to let him live at home.

But Su Qingmei felt that Wei Fuchang didn't look like a farmer. He was literate and had some knowledge. He looked very different from ordinary farmers.

If he was allowed to live at home without an identity, he would probably feel uncomfortable.

"Without him, Yaya and I would probably be gone."

"Yeah, I know."

"Qing'an, let's not make him feel uncomfortable. Let him do whatever he wants. Let him stay or leave, okay?"

"Okay."

Su Qing'an said nothing more.

"How long do you think it will take for parents to receive our letter?" Su Qingliu asked again.

At night, she and Qing'an wrote a long letter to her parents and brothers and sisters. She missed them so much.

Su Qing'an estimated the time it took to send and receive letters before, and said: "It's hard to say now. The situation on the road is not good. It will take at least a month. I don't know if it will take longer. It's possible that they won't receive it."

Su Qingliu was a little worried after hearing this: "We encountered many caravans being robbed along the way. Many wealthy families were robbed by mountain bandits on the road. Some of them didn't survive. It's too tragic."

Su Qing'an sighed.

"Yes. Now the common people have no way to make a living, they can't even eat, and they don't care about anything else. They all join the bandits. Bandits are emerging in an endless stream. It is impossible to survive alone. It is better to join a bandit group. There are more people and maybe you can survive."

"Alas, in this world, I don't know when peace will come."

"It won't be peaceful in a short time. Lu Bocheng said that there will be a small battle every three days and a big battle every five days. He misses his son and can't even ask for leave."

"It's great that my brother-in-law is still alive. Xiaobao also has a father."

"Having a father is the same as not having a father. I don't know when I can see him." Su Qingmei sighed slowly.

"As long as we are alive, we will always meet. I'm just afraid..."

"Well. As long as we are alive, there will be a chance. He also said that he saved a small jar of gold for Xiaobao to buy property and get married. Sister, do you think he is thinking too far? Xiaobao will only be two years old next month."

Su Qingliu saw her look of disgust and sneered.

"My brother-in-law must be so happy."

Su Qing'an curled her lips: "He's like a fool. When dividing the spoils, others want pearls and jade, but he wants gold. Can gold be more valuable than pearls and jade?"

Su Qingliu laughed again: "My brother-in-law is smart. Now pearls and jade can't be sold outside, only gold is valuable."

"Then you can save it first. When peace comes in the future, how many jars of gold can be exchanged for a jar of pearls and jade..."

The two sisters talked all night, as if they couldn't finish talking.

It wasn't until dawn that they stopped.

After breakfast, Wei Fuchang told Su Qing'an that he wanted to go to the new village with Siyuan to take a look.

In just one night, I'm afraid they talked a lot, and they looked like good brothers.

"Okay. Siyuan, you go and take a look, and carry some food over. Exchange Siyuan back and let him rest. I want him to go to Renzhou."

"Okay." Siyuan agreed, and went to the new village with Wei Fuchang.

Su Qingliu looked at Wei Fuchang's departing back and smiled at Su Qing'an: "He seems to be alive."

Su Qing'an nodded.

It's good to find something to do, but I'm afraid of having no ambition to live.

After breakfast, Su Qing'an took Su Qingliu and Yaya around the village and met many people.

The mother and daughter had never lived in the mountains before, and they were surprised by everything they saw.

Seeing the small building of the villagers, people lived upstairs and raised livestock downstairs, the latrine was dug on the second floor, people squatted on the second floor, and the poop fell directly into the pigsty.

Even the mother and daughter were surprised and stared at it.

Lu laughed: "Qingliu is the same as me and Ruyi before. Now we are used to it."

Su Qingliu was a little embarrassed.

Walking in the village, seeing everyone greet her enthusiastically after learning her identity, she felt warm in her heart.

And Yaya had been dragged by Xiaobao to meet many big and small friends.

Su Qingliu's smile became even brighter.

After dinner, I saw the mother and daughter of the Lu family going to dig bamboo shoots, so I also took the basket and wanted to follow.

Yaya also wanted to go.

When Yaya went, Xiaobao wanted to go too.

Su Qingmei saw this and decided that the whole family would go to dig bamboo shoots.

After being soaked in snow water for a whole winter, bamboo shoots have emerged one after another. They can be seen everywhere in the forest.

Now everyone knows the deliciousness of bamboo shoots and bamboo fungus through Su Qingmei's promotion.

After digging, go to the stream, peel the bamboo shoots, soak them in mountain spring water to remove the astringency, go back to the pot, add some oil, add some wax meat and smoked meat stored before the New Year, and stir-fry. The fragrance can spread for miles.

Even if the children scrape the edge of the pot, they can't be driven away.

There are not many wild vegetables now, and there are many people digging bamboo shoots in the forest.

When they see Su Qingmei, they greet her.

When they hear that the woman next to them is her sister, they even give her the bamboo shoots in the basket as a gift.

Su Qingliu, who had escaped the environment of cannibalism outside, was also a nimble woman. She also had experience in opening a shop in Fengting Town, and she quickly became friendly with the woman in the bamboo forest.

"I don't want the bamboo shoots. You all dug them with your own efforts. If you don't mind, teach me how to find and dig them. I also support myself and don't eat my sister's in vain."

When the women saw how happy she was, they were happy to take her with them.

"Your sister is very happy that you can come. Where can you get freebies? Besides, in our mountains, as long as you work hard, there is plenty to eat."

"Yes, when spring comes, there will be a lot of wild vegetables in the mountains, and there will be endless fungi to collect."

"That's right. Your sister told us that there are more edible fungi now. This is bamboo fungus. We didn't know how to eat it before, so we let it rot in the forest. Now we pick it home and add it to the soup. It’s so fresh that your eyebrows will fall off.”

Su Qingliu happily followed her aunt and sister-in-law, digging more and more happily in the bamboo forest.

When Su Qingyu saw that she had integrated well, she was also relieved.

Looking at Xiaobao again, the little one can instruct Sister Yaya to pick bamboo fungus.

"Here here..."

"Be gentle."

"Oh, sister, you crushed it!"

"Mom said you have to take off this black lid so you can't eat it."

"good."

The two siblings were running around looking for dead leaves, while the other was picking them up. They seemed to be cooperating in a tacit understanding.

The two guys, who were just a little older, were running around in the woods, entertaining a lot of people.