In early spring in March, in Dahe Village, which originally had abundant water resources, the large willow trees along the river were all dying with their leaves drooping. The rice in the field has not yet headed, and it is the time when it is not harvested.
The farmers were all skinny and skinny, with no food in their stomachs and weak in their work. Even though the captain of the production team roared at the top of his lungs, he kept running backwards.
The thin woman on the ground straightened up and shouted: "Foolish old Liu, you were the one who said you wanted to open a canteen so that everyone could have a full meal, but you stopped it after just one year and asked us to do it again." Let's go home and cook, but you took away all my pots and made steel, so what should I use for cooking?"
As the captain of the brigade, the deflated old Liu was sprayed with a black nose and a swollen face. However, it was an elder who scolded him, so he had to persuade him in a good voice: "Third Aunt, calm down. If you don't have a pot, just use a clay pot. A living person can still be urinated." Damn it, we are doing this for the sake of nation building."
"Bah, let alone the two bags of food you gave me, I'm full. My family drinks water every day. They can be used as mirrors. How can you have the energy to work without food? Are you? I want my wife to die from exhaustion just like Gu Mingdong's wife!"
When Gu Mingdong's wife was mentioned, the old Liu's face turned ugly, and he shouted in a rough voice: "She gave birth to a child and failed to raise it well, not because she was exhausted from working."
He added: "We can't just stop working before we have enough to eat. Where will the food come from if we don't work?"
"Third Aunt, I have to criticize you for your low consciousness. We work not for ourselves, but for the party and the people. We poor and lower-middle peasants are not afraid of hardship and tiredness. We grit our teeth and focus on production. This is a public matter. "
After raising the flag, the third aunt did not dare to say anything, turned around and continued working.
Only then did the deflated old Liu silence his voice. He was also worried about what was going on with the old Gu family. Logically speaking, the old Gu family were orphans of martyrs and the village had to take care of them. However, food is expensive these days. Fortunately, there was a disaster last year. How could there be any? Where is the food to feed them?
That fool Gu Mingdong is also useless. If you have the ability to marry a wife, don't let others starve to death!
It's better now. People are dead. What's the use of crying all the time? If you have the strength, you might as well go out to work early to support the remaining brothers, sisters and twin sons. If this continues, the remaining children won't be able to support them either!
Frustrated old Liu was worried and planned to go to Lao Gu's house after work to persuade him. Everyone was dead and the living had to live their lives, but they couldn't just lie at home all the time!
Either sympathy, ridicule, or contempt, Gu Mingdong on the hilltop to the east knew nothing about it.
Gu Mingdong was lying in the grass, staring intently at a hidden cave. Suddenly, a furry head came out.
The thin man rushed over like a bolt of lightning, rolled over, and got a hare with its neck pinched.
After getting the hare, Gu Mingdong felt his eyes go dark and his whole body was shaking.
This body is so hungry that it's damaged to the core. Even with his strong mental power, it's still too much for him at the moment.
He sat down and took a few breaths. When the dark clouds in front of his eyes faded, Gu Mingdong got up and walked to the back of the mountain. He lit a fire on the spot and skinned the hare and roasted it.
The conditions were insufficient and there was no seasoning except salt, so Gu Mingdong still ate it with big mouthfuls and ate it all in one go.
In times of famine, so did the rabbits. After the hare was skinned, there was only a few taels of meat. Gu Mingdong was still not full after eating one, but at last there was no burning acid reflux in his stomach.
As soon as he wiped his mouth, he buried the firewood and fur on the spot, and also put on a disguise to ensure that he would not be discovered.
After filling his stomach, Gu Mingdong had the strength to think about what happened.
When the apocalypse broke out, he was still in Paradise 996 on Earth. He finally awakened his powers, but he was useless and had no offensive power. He failed to survive the third year.
He originally thought he would be killed by zombies, but who would have thought that God would actually give him a chance to travel through time.
Gu Mingdong subconsciously pressed his heart, where there was a special mark, which was his special power.
It was also because of this superpower that he was able to hold on to the hare with this frail body to feed himself.
The rabbit meat in his belly made him feel warm all over. It was a famine era, but the air in a world without zombies was sweet.
Rice, eggs in sugar water, malted milk, and braised pork in fish soup were the only delicacies the original owner had ever tasted in his life, making Gu Mingdong want to swallow.
It's a pity that he arrived a few years late and didn't catch up with the good time of the big cafeteria, otherwise he would have to eat hard with an open stomach.
Gu Mingdong stood on the top of the mountain and looked down, his slender and sharp eyes slightly raised, and his eyebrows raised with a hint of murderous intent, as if he was patrolling his territory.
He didn't stand for long, and soon got into the forest.
After a while, Gu Mingdong went down the mountain with a bamboo basket on his back, and happened to bump into the old Liu who was planning to visit old Gu's house after work.
"A Dong, are you okay?" The old Liu looked at him in surprise, his eyes always glancing at the bamboo building behind him.
Gu Mingdong saw that he was short, had a big forehead, and had a charred face. He immediately said to him: "Old Uncle Liu, I'm almost healed. It's not that the family is short of food, so I can only go up the mountain to dig some wild vegetables."
Wrapped old Liu came over with his hands behind his back: "Just think about it, people can't be resurrected after death, but you still have younger brothers, sisters and two sons. How can you let them live if you don't stand up?"
As he spoke, he was about to poke his head out to see what was in his bamboo basket, but was stopped in his tracks by Gu Mingdong's eyes.
The old Liu was stunned for a moment before he came to his senses. He felt weird in his heart and couldn't help but wonder why the boss of the Gu family had knives in his eyes. Was he like this before?
But Gu Mingdong showed his trademark silly smile. It was the silly Gu Mingdong again. He took out a handful of wild vegetables and simply pulled the bamboo basket over to show them: "Uncle, how about you take some back and add some vegetables?"
When Lao Liu saw Lu Yingying, he waved his hands and said, "How can I ask for your things? Your children have gone back, so you should go back quickly."
It was indeed his illusion. If Gu Mingdong had that kind of momentum, he couldn't let his wife die of exhaustion.
"Then I'm leaving." Gu Mingdong was not polite, stuffed the wild vegetables back, and left with the bamboo basket on his back.
Deep down in his heart, he knew that Lao Liu was afraid that he would go up the mountain to catch something good and eat it secretly. These days, everything on the mountain was owned by the public.
The captain, Lao Liu, is not a bad person, but he is stubborn and hard to talk to.
Gu Mingdong had the ability to hunt hares, but how to eat them safely was a problem, so he ate them on the mountain before coming down.
Continuing to walk forward, we soon arrived at Lao Gu's house, a row of three low mud houses.
The house of Lao Gu's family was spacious, but the location was a bit remote, and the terrain was low and prone to water accumulation. Their mud house had a high foundation, and you had to walk up to seven or eight stone steps to get in.
Everyone in the village thinks this area is not good, and the nearest neighbor has to walk fifty meters.
The original owner used to think that this location was not good, too deserted, and easy to be stolen by thieves.
Now Gu Mingdong looks at it and thinks it's good. It's better to be far away from other people's homes, so that if you make any noise, it's not easy to be heard.
"Brother, you're back." A little black girl walked out of the door. She looked like she was only seven or eight years old, with brown hair. When she saw him coming back, she stretched out her hand to take the bamboo basket.
"I'll do it." Gu Mingdong said, carrying the bamboo basket inside and dumping it on the ground.
Looking at the seven or eight-year-old child, Gu Mingdong knew that she was already ten years old and was making trouble because she didn't have enough to eat.
There was a crash, and in addition to the green wild vegetables, there was actually a pile of kudzu roots hidden underneath, weighing more than ten kilograms.
The little black girl cried out in surprise: "Ah, there are so many kudzu roots."
Pueraria lobata is a good thing, at least it fills the stomach better than wild vegetables, and it won't make your stomach sore after eating it.
The famine started last year, and I thought they would all be dug up in the winter. I didn't expect that my eldest brother went into the mountains and found so many.
"Brother, you won't go into the mountains anymore, will you?"
She looked at her brother with some worry: "There are wolves and tigers in the mountains. Brother, wild vegetables can also fill your stomach. You must not take risks."
"Sister-in-law is gone. If something happens to you again, then our family..."
As he spoke, he started to shed tears.
Gu Mingdong felt a headache after hearing this, and said hurriedly: "I didn't go into the mountains, I just dug it in the valley."
"Really?" The little girl didn't believe it. The ravine was not discovered by anyone.
Gu Mingdong added: "Xiao Bei, think about it, with your eldest brother's body, I can't go into the mountains even if I want to. I'll fall down before I reach anyone."
When Gu Simei heard this, she thought it made sense.
She immediately became happy again: "Brother, you are so lucky. You can actually find kudzu that no one else has discovered. Let's eat this tonight. It will definitely fill our stomachs better than wild vegetables."
Gu Mingdong breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that she stopped crying. He was really afraid of this fourth sister's crying skills. His stomach was obviously not full, so wouldn't it take energy to shed tears?
I glanced around and saw no one else.
Gu Mingdong frowned and asked, "Where are Anan and Xiaoxi?"
Gu Simei hurriedly explained: "They are still working in the fields and have not come back."
Gu Mingdong snorted coldly: "I think you are just lazy when you work."
Wimpy old Liu has already finished work, so what kind of work can the two half-year-old children of the Gu family do? They probably know that there is nothing to eat at home, so they go around to get food.
However, making a living these days is a technical job, so the brother and sister will probably have to work in vain.
"Where are the two younger ones?" Gu Mingdong asked again, his brows already raised.
He looked particularly fierce when his brows were raised, and even Gu Simei became cautious. She always felt that her eldest brother had changed after waking up this time. He used to have a soft temper, but now...
"A Xing and A Chen are asleep, inside the house."
Gu Mingdong nodded, opened the curtain and took a look. The two twins were sleeping soundly. Unfortunately, their mother did not take good care of her during the pregnancy, and did not have enough nutrition after the birth. She also encountered famine, and the three-year-old child could not walk. They were all stumbling and unsteady.
Gu Mingdong doesn't like children, but this is already his responsibility. Since he agreed to the original owner, he must raise the child well.
Not one, not two, the original owner left behind a full five children.
One brother, two sisters, plus two cheap sons brought by his deceased wife.
Gu Mingdong was sitting on the bedside. The elder brother of the twins was sucking his fingers desperately, and his dark fingers were glowing from his sucking. After watching for a while, he couldn't help but reach out to **** him.
Who knew that as soon as it was pulled out, the child would cry.
"Brother, what's wrong? Why is Ah Xing crying?" Gu Simei, who was cooking, asked loudly.
Gu Mingdong pinched his son's mouth expressionlessly: "Don't cry, there will be something good to eat tonight."
Gu Liangxing seemed to understand. He got up and pushed his sleeping brother next to him. Both of them started to growl in their stomachs.
"Eat, eat, eat." The younger brother clapped his hands and yelled, his slurred speech making their father worry that he had raised two fools.
Gu Mingdong walked out holding one in each hand. The two boys shrank their heads like two little turtles.
"Brother, don't mention them like this, your nephew will feel uncomfortable."
Gu Mingdong shook his head, and the twins immediately giggled, obviously finding it very funny.
"I think they like it."
Gu Simei took a look, but it was not the case. She laughed so much that her mouth watered, so she ignored it and continued to cook.
Their pots were long gone, so they set up an earthen stove in the kitchen room with a clay pot on it, which they used to cook porridge, rice and boil water.
Gu Mingdong once doubted whether this thing could cook rice. In fact, their family had no rice to cook, and they had already eaten up the last bit of old rice. They usually made wild vegetable porridge, only wild vegetables and no porridge.
Pueraria lobata has been boiled in the pot, and the unique bitter taste of wild pueraria lobata spreads, which is not pleasant, but the children, one, two and three, are swallowing hard.
Seeing their starving faces, Gu Mingdong felt a little guilty. He ate an entire rabbit alone on the top of the mountain during the day.
There was a clang, and a half-grown man came in cursing.
"Gu Mingnan, what are you doing?" Gu Mingdong flew over with a glare.
Second brother Gu paused, widened his eyes and asked, "Brother, are you up?"
Before going out, his eldest brother was still fighting for his dead sister-in-law, but now he actually got up and looked a little better.
"I didn't know you were beating yourself up when you got home. Where did you learn this?" Gu Mingdong stared at him coldly.
Don't blame him for going online. In the original owner's memory, the second brother learned bad things during this period and followed a group of scoundrels to steal food, which ended up costing his life.
Gu Mingdong narrowed his eyes. This sign must be eliminated immediately!
After all, stealing food is a serious crime, and the death of Gu's second brother marked the beginning of the Gu family's increasingly miserable life.
Despite the eldest brother's glare, Gu's second brother didn't care and wanted to sit down.
Unexpectedly, Gu Mingdong kicked him and kicked the stool away from his butt. Gu Mingnan squatted on the ground.
"Brother, what are you doing?"
Gu Mingdong asked coldly: "Where did you go after work? Why did you come back just now?"
Brother Gu's eyes were darting, but he didn't answer.
"If you don't get beaten for a few days, go to the house to reveal your tiles. I think you want to be beaten."
"I didn't do anything wrong, why did you hit me?" Gu Erdi cursed angrily, "You are lying in bed and can't get up, and you still scold me, who works in the fields to earn work points. Do you think you are such a big brother? ?"
"Yo, you're still reasonable."
Gu Mingdong sneered and pointed at the contents of the pot: "I, the one lying on the bed, found what was there. If you have any guts, don't eat it later."
Gu's second brother was so hungry that his stomach growled. After hearing this, he said with a bad temper: "If you don't want to eat, you won't eat. Who cares?"
After saying that, he ignored them and walked to the door angrily, sat down on the threshold and stopped talking.
Gu Mingbei looked at this and that, but he didn't dare to say anything or persuade anything.
The atmosphere was at a stalemate, but Gu Sanmei came back with a smile on her face, humming a song and looking in a good mood.
Seeing Gu Mingnan squatting at the door, she smiled deliberately and said, "Boy, are you here to be the doorkeeper?"
The second brother Gu ignored her, turned his head and continued to be angry.
Gu Mingnan raised his eyebrows and exclaimed exaggeratedly when he walked in: "Wow, Xiaobei, what are you cooking? It smells so good. Brother, are you up? I'm worried about you. I feel relieved when I see you are getting better."
Gu Mingdong laughed in his heart, one kind of rice can support all kinds of people, and these brothers and sisters of the Gu family are an example.
Among the four brothers, the original owner Gu Mingdong is the eldest brother. He is soft-tempered and can't handle things. I listen to my mother while I'm alive, and listen to my wife when I die. If my wife dies, I'll be useless.
The second child, Gu Mingnan, was the stubborn donkey who went on a rampage and eventually got himself killed; the third child, Gu Mingxi, was the young girl who had just entered the house. She looked smart but was actually stupid, and sold herself for a few morsels of food; the fourth child, Gu Ming, was the young girl who had just entered the house. Bei is just a crybaby, but he is still a doormat, timid and afraid of getting into trouble.
It doesn't matter if you are poor, but the whole family is not united.
Except for the fact that the two sons were not raised well and had no temper, Gu Mingdong thought that this family was full of bad habits.
No wonder the original owner was lucky enough to be reborn, but would rather give his body to him, a lonely ghost, in exchange for his promise to raise these children.
It is estimated that in the eyes of the original owner, it is too difficult to raise them.
Probably the ridicule on Gu Mingdong's face was so obvious that the shameless Gu Sanmei couldn't speak anymore, and said with a smile: "Brother, it's not that I'm not happy to take care of you these days, I'm not allowed to work during the day, so That's why I let Xiaobei take care of you."
After saying that, he went to steal Gu Simei's job: "Xiao Bei, take a break and let Sister Rang come."
The little soft bun who had been responsible for most of the housework and was bullied by his brothers and sisters was stunned.
Gu Mingdong said calmly: "Xiao Bei, since Xiao Xi is willing to help you share the burden, then you should take a break."
Gu Sanmei was just showing off, but ended up having to continue burning.
But there was only one stove, and it was almost cooked just now, so she filled it with firewood. Then she couldn't help but lift the lid and take a look. After looking at it, she said, "Where did that kudzu root come from? I thought it was a wild vegetable again." ."
"My eldest brother went up to the mountain to dig it."
"Brother, did you dig it?" Gu Sanmei was surprised, "Brother, where did you dig it? Are there any more? Is there more? How about I go dig with you tomorrow?"
Gu Mingdong didn't answer, just asked: "Are you ready? Let's start eating when you're ready."
When it came to eating, Gu Sanmei didn't care about anything else. She quickly opened the lid and poked it. After making sure it was edible, she started to divide it. She knew the situation and knew to put the biggest and best piece into the big brother's bowl.
After the portioning, Gu Sanmei asked strangely: "Second brother, why are you still stunned? You don't want to eat?"
"Don't eat it! I can't get used to the taste!"
"Tch, you are so picky when you are already hungry, you deserve to be hungry." Gu Sanmei snorted coldly, and poured the contents of Gu Lao Er's bowl to herself, "If you don't want to eat, I will."
"It's still pink, well, it tastes a bit sweet, and the dick is really unpleasant."
Although kudzu root is not a good thing, the powder Gu Mingdong brought back was sweet and much more delicious than wild vegetables. Even the twin brothers gnawed it hard and ate it all over their faces. In the end, they scraped it all and stuffed it into their mouths. , no waste at all.
Gu Mingdong had something in his stomach. He tasted it and thought it tasted good. At least it contained a lot of starch and could fill his stomach.
They were eating happily, and Gu Erdi's stomach growled, like gongs and drums.
Gu Simei was a soft-hearted person and begged in a low voice: "Brother, second brother has also been working for a day. He can't bear it without eating..."
Gu Mingdong looked over at the stubborn donkey. The donkey was still angry, but his eyes were staring at them, swallowing hard.
"Come and eat." Gu Mingdong said calmly.
As soon as there was a step, Gu Erdi hurriedly came down and said, "You asked me to come here to eat this, I didn't come here on my own."
On the other hand, he snatched his bowl back, took one bite and shouted: "It tastes so good."
He also raised his head and asked: "Brother, where did you dig up the kudzu root? It's quite pink and sweet, and it's delicious."
He doesn't hold grudges either.
Gu Mingdong smiled like an old fox: "If it tastes good, eat more. When you're full, I'll tell you something."
Hearing this, Gu Erdi's back felt cold. He touched the back of his head and felt that he probably wasn't full.
Gu Mingdong looked at his younger brother with a smile, as if he were watching a little animal that had fallen into a trap without realizing it, and was trying to fatten itself up.