The safety and comfort of traveling through farming

Chapter 193

"Mother..." Dong Ye of "Creation" lying on the drawing paper sat up and stretched out her hands towards He Tao.

He Tao bent down, hugged her armpit and lifted it up twice, then kissed her cheek again: "Dong Ye, be good, let's draw your picture."

But Dongye continued to reach out and asked, "Mother, give me a hug."

"Hug, I want to hug!" Dongzhi also stretched out his hand.

He Tao looked at their chubby little hands, and patted her protruding belly with some embarrassment—the baby in her belly started to "compete" with her sisters before she was born, and she couldn't hug her big belly.

She didn't want the twins to think that she would no longer value them as much as before after her big belly, so she simply lay down on the ground, and then opened her hands and said, "Come on, babies, come to mother..."

The twins "giggled" and got into her arms with a smile, touching her face with their ink-stained little hands, smearing He Tao into a big face.

Fu Shi has always liked to regard himself as a big mountain, lying on the ground for the twins to climb, Dongzhi and Dongye thought of him after playing for a while, and began to look for Fu Shi everywhere, and asked like an adult: " Where's daddy?"

"Daddy is going out, and he won't be back in a few days..." He Tao sighed.Fu Shi has led people to search for three days, but they still haven't found Fu Lei and Lin Bajin.

Fu Shi missed the babies' second birthdays, and her preparations for the birthday party were useless. They couldn't celebrate with lanterns and festoons when Fu Lei's whereabouts were unknown, right?
"Be good, babies, and I will hold a birthday party for you next year..." He Tao turned around and kissed the twins' foreheads and asked them, "Do you miss Daddy?"

The twins nodded their heads and replied: "I want to~"

He Tao said with some melancholy, "I miss him too..."

At this time, the Great Wasteland ushered in an unexpected guest, Uncle Qin!

He Tao was taken aback when he saw Uncle Qin: "Uncle, why are you here?"

After she finished speaking, she felt that she had said the wrong thing, and she said it as if she did not welcome him very much.It's just that although the two families have officially resumed contact during the Spring Festival, because the two families live far away, they haven't walked around once for more than half a year after the Spring Festival. She doesn't understand why Uncle Qin came to visit suddenly.

Is it to celebrate the twins' birthday?Does Uncle Qin like these two grandnieces so much?She took a peek at Uncle Qin, only to realize that something was wrong with him.There are scratches on his clothes, his bun is a little loose, there is unknown dregs in the hair, there are bean-sized beads of sweat on his forehead, and there are stains on his face. It looks like mud, as if he has experienced a battle royale Aftermath or something.

Uncle Qin was also taken aback when he saw her: "Nephew and daughter-in-law, what's wrong with your face?"

Only then did He Tao come to her senses and realized that her face was covered with ink from the twins, she quickly raised her hand to cover her face: "It's okay, I accidentally got something on it... Uncle, sit down, Mei Niang, pour a glass of water Come."

"Hey!" Mei Niang nodded.

Uncle Qin just sat down and swallowed. He wanted to open his mouth to speak, but found that his mouth was so dry that it was difficult to make a sound.Just in time, Mei Niang poured the water and handed it to him. He drank it all in one go, then stood up, picked up the small teapot and poured water.

He Tao stared at him dumbfounded, she felt she could be sure - Uncle Qin definitely didn't come here to celebrate the twins' birthdays.

He Tao asked Mei Niang and Lan Niang to take the twins out to play. She originally wanted to secretly wipe off the ink on her face, but after working hard, she realized that it was impossible.

Uncle Qin just finished drinking the water. After wiping off the water stains on the corners of his mouth with his cuff, he looked up at her, and burst out laughing before he could speak: "Your face..."

He Tao raised his hand to cover his face in shame again: "Uncle, you sit down, I'll clean up."

"No, I'm in a hurry..." Uncle Qin said something in a panic, then looked at He Tao nervously.

He Tao didn't hear a word clearly: "Uncle, speak slowly, I didn't hear clearly."

Uncle Qin slapped the table and stood up, so frightened that He Tao moved back involuntarily and looked at him vigilantly. He patted his head, took a few breaths, and then said: "The devil is here!" !"

"The devil is here?" He Tao thought there was something wrong with his ears, devil?Jap? !This doesn't seem to fit the general environment, where did the devil come from?It's not the period of the Anti-Japanese War!

"Long-haired devil!" Uncle Qin patted the table again: "There is going to be a war. The troops of the long-haired devils are coming. I saw it! There is going to be a war! Where is Fu Shi? Tell him to come out, hurry up, let him take Come on, the three of you mothers, hurry up and hide, before the fight starts, quickly hide in the mountains!"

fight? !He Tao was dumbfounded.

The war, the bottomless gang fights between the two countries, will cause tens of thousands of deaths, break up countless families, and leave serious post-war disasters. Is this kind of disaster really happening around her? !

"Uncle, did you misread it? Where did you see it? Maybe it's our Daqi's army..."

Uncle Qin replied impatiently: "How could I get it wrong?! Not to mention that our Daqi's clothes are different from theirs, and even our people look different. I don't even think I can see the densely packed long-haired ghosts." How can you be wrong about one person?! I saw them enter the village to grab food! I...do you think I will run dozens of miles to tell you without even knowing what is going on? Let me tell you, it’s too late if you don’t hide, Changmao not only grabs food, but also kills people, let alone people, there won’t even be a single live mouse in the place they live in!”

"But, this, what... what about our Daqi's army? Isn't it the Qingshan Pass after crossing Daqingshan? Our army is there? Where did our army go? Just, just let Changmao like this son……"

"Ghost knows where it is! Hurry up, stop talking nonsense, and hide, where is Fu Shi?"

Even though He Tao didn't want to believe it, her rationality told her that Uncle Qin wouldn't aimlessly, especially on such a big matter, she stood up "teng" and said to Uncle Qin at a loss: "Fu Shi is not here..."

"What?!" Uncle Qin also stood up. Why did Fu Shi go out at such a time? The most important thing is...he asked nervously, "Where did he go? Didn't he go to the border?"

"No, he went into the mountain. He went into the mountain to find someone. His cousin was lost. He went to the mountain to look for it for four or five days..." He Tao couldn't help complaining to Fu Lei in his heart. If he got lost, Fu Shi wouldn't have been in the mountain for so many days, and she wouldn't have to panic here alone.

"It's good to go to the mountains, it's good to go to the mountains," Uncle Qin heaved a sigh of relief, and then said to He Tao, "You won't meet long-haired ghosts in the mountains, you clean up first..."

"What about Fu Shi?"

Uncle Qin had calmed down completely after he had said a lot, and he said slowly: "You clean up first, you said that he has been in the mountain for several days, and he might come back anytime soon, he will be back soon." When you come back, you immediately hide in the mountains. The long-haired devils won't come right away, maybe they won't come to you at all..."

Nanshan County is just a small remote county town, Liushu Town is just a small broken town, and Rongshu Village is an inconspicuous small village. He saw the long hair in Nanyang County, which is nearly a hundred miles away from here. The team went directly to Fucheng from there!

"Okay, I'll clean it up now." He Tao nodded repeatedly, agreeing that he could no longer agree with Uncle Qin's point of view, maybe Changmao would never come to Rongshu Village at all, they were just making all-out preparations just in case.

"Food is the most important thing when you go to the mountains. It's hard to say how long this battle will last. It's almost winter, and you have to bring thick clothes. It's colder in the mountains than on the dam, and there are fewer prey in winter. There will be a lot of people outside when there is a war. It’s messed up, remember, you need to prepare more for everything. After the chaos, even if you have money, you can’t buy it. Even if you can buy it, you have to spend money. Those things can be put, prepare as much as possible... Remember one thing Things, don’t let people know what you have at home, even if you have a lot, don’t tell anyone, at that time, no one can tell what will happen, and when there is chaos, some people will not be recognized by their relatives..."

After Uncle Qin had said everything he needed to say, he was anxious to go home.He Tao gave him two ingots of ten taels of silver ingots. The Qin family's family property is like that. It is estimated that there is no extra silver to hoard supplies. Uncle Qin refused at first, but after He Tao repeatedly expressed this little silver It was nothing to the current Fu family, so he accepted it. Before leaving, he emphasized it again: "Remember, don't reveal your wealth."

"Remember, uncle, don't worry, I will remember everything you said!" He Tao nodded, and then asked a giant stone guard to ride him back.

After sending Uncle Qin away, He Tao summoned all the servants in the family.Fu Shi took away most of the four servants, eight maids, and Jushiwei. There were only four people guarding the house, and one of them was sent out by her just now to see Uncle Qin off.She couldn't help but be thankful that there were so many people in the family, otherwise there would be no one to handle errands at this time.

However, precisely because there are so many people in the family, there are more supplies that need to be prepared. The firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea that their family uses every day can be compared with the average family's consumption in a month.

Mentioning this, she couldn't help but rejoice again.Because after experiencing a disaster year and seeing the Qingshan people buy and store grain, in order to ensure that everyone in the family can eat well under any circumstances, whether it is a disaster year or a war, she asked Fu Shi to build a cellar Even if there are disasters for three or five years in a row, even if the imperial power changes outside, their family can live their lives in hiding without worrying about food and drink.

After buying the real estate in Daoxiang Village last year, they stored half of the first grain tax they collected in the cellar—it was used when He Lian "run away from marriage" at the beginning of the year.Two more grain rents have been collected this year, and the cellar has been filled to the brim, enough for dozens of people in their large family to eat for five years.

When there is enough food, it is much easier to just prepare other consumables. Speaking of which, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea only need firewood and salt.However, it has not yet reached the point of "necessary", and there is no need to worry about not having enough money, so it is natural to make perfect preparations.

She checked the list she made while waiting for everyone to arrive. Because she was afraid, her hands kept shaking when she wrote, and the words she wrote were like those written by children who had just entered school, most of which were crooked. Yes, some of them are simply dots of ink. If it wasn't for her own writing, she probably wouldn't be able to recognize a single word.

(End of this chapter)