casserole lady

Chapter 18 Peanuts in the Vole Hole (1)
The two of them didn't eat anything that night, and Qin Zheng lay on the broken straw mat, but couldn't sleep. She silently looked at the roof with a hole in it, at the thatch blown up by the wind.In the darkness, she could vaguely see Fang Lu's stiff back. Ever since he came back, he had been sitting there, holding the red-headed rope in his hand, motionless, as if he had become a clay sculpture.

Qin Zheng forced himself to close his eyes, and then forced himself to sleep.

On the second day, Qin Zheng struggled to get up and went out to look for food, but he got very little, only a little leftovers that he didn't know where to pick up.When she returned to the house, Fang Lu was still sitting there, silent.

She squatted down, trying to make a pot of delicious vegetable soup with the leftover pickle root from the night before and the leftovers.

The vegetable soup was cooked quickly. The vegetable soup looked delicious, but it smelled a little strange.But it doesn't matter, hot soup is always good, Qin Zheng took a deep breath of the hot air, and slowly tasted the bowl of hot soup.

She left a bowl for Fang Lu, and said hoarsely, "Eat some."

Fang Lu's back didn't even move.

Seeing this, Qin Zheng simply ate the rest of the bowl.

On the second day, Qin Zheng's harvest was a few meatless bones and a few wilted wild vegetables. She put these into the casserole and boiled another pot of soup.

Fang Lu still refused to eat.

So Qin Zheng drank it all.

On the third day, Qin Zheng got some stone marrow rice left by others, and she made a pot with wild vegetables.

Qin Zheng didn't ask Fang this time, he picked up the casserole and wanted to eat it all.

When the casserole was about to bottom out, Fang Lu finally made a low, hoarse voice: "Save some for me."

Qin Zheng stopped and put the casserole on the ground.

Fang Lu brought it over, and ate up all the inside of the casserole, until he even licked the bottom of the casserole clean.

After Fang Lu finished eating, he collapsed into his clothes and fell into a deep sleep.

Seeing this, Qin Zheng pulled off his old padded jacket and fell asleep too.

In the early morning of the next day, Fang Lu woke up early, put on the ragged cotton jacket and went out.Leaning on a crutch, Qin Zheng searched from the east end of the city to the west end of the city, but found nothing. She returned home exhausted, thinking about what to do tomorrow, what kind of solution should she find?
At this time, Fang Lu came back with a disheveled face and a cold expression.

In the bleak late autumn, he was still wearing the ragged prison clothes that had long since lost its color, holding tightly in his arms the ragged padded jacket that Qin Zheng threw to him last night.

Qin Zheng looked up at him: "Stupid, why are you freezing with no clothes on?"

Fang Lu sat silently in front of the pot, then opened the ragged cotton jacket, and there was a lot of full-grained groundnuts inside.

Qin Zheng was taken aback: "Where did it come from?"

Fang Lu pursed his lips, and said concisely: "It was dug from the ground."

Qin Zheng frowned: "It's late autumn, and the groundnuts have already been planed. Besides, I see that you don't care about the five grains, how can you find so many groundnuts by yourself?" The farmer harvested In the end, if you are not careful, there will always be some residue left, so this has become the favorite of deserters.But now there are so many fleeing from famine, and they all stare at them like locusts, wishing to search over and over the land where they used to grow crops. There are so many groundnuts, it is impossible to wait for Fang Lu.

Fang Lu bowed his head and remained silent.

Qin Zheng pondered for a moment with downcast eyes, and a guess jumped in his heart.

Fang Lu raised his eyes suddenly, glanced at her, and said hoarsely: "It's not what you think."

While shaking the soil off the padded jacket, he slowly explained: "I went to the field and found a field mouse hole. There were a lot of them, so I took them all."

Qin Zheng was stunned, his brows brightened, and he clapped his hands and said, "That's great, we'll go clean up the field mouse hole tomorrow."

(End of this chapter)