Chapter 158 Injury and Amnesia 2

The matter of the children in Guandi Temple came to an end. Feng Qingxue and her sister joined the army of digging wild vegetables and picking young leaves.

With these children, Feng Qingxue finally felt the tension of food.

She really saw what locusts were like.

Wherever the villagers of Caohu Brigade went, the land was scraped clean. Not to mention wild vegetables, there were only a few wild grasses left. They could earn work points by handing them in. One centimeter was given for every five catties of grass, which was the same as the regulations of Wanglou Brigade.

However, the wild grass could not be burned out. It would grow again in the spring breeze.

The vitality of wild vegetables and weeds was very tenacious. New ones would sprout after a few days of cleaning the ground, and soon it would be green again.

Wild vegetables were not delicious, and young leaves were even less delicious.

Feng Qingxue followed the crowd and picked half a basket of willow buds. After washing them, she blanched them in boiling water, fished them out and dried them, mixed them with oil and salt, and served them on the table. Feng Qingyun frowned as soon as he took a bite.

"It's so bitter! Sister!" Feng Qingyun wanted to swallow but didn't want to, looking at Feng Qingxue eagerly.

Feng Qingxue tasted it, and it was indeed bitter and astringent.

This is how it tastes when her family adds oil, salt, sauce and vinegar to season it, but other people boil it with water and eat it, so you can imagine how bitter it is.

But she still insisted on swallowing it, and said to Feng Qingyun seriously: "Yunyun, you have only had a few days of good life and you have forgotten the pain of not having food? When you were young, wild vegetables and willow buds were always delicious. Sometimes you can't even eat them! Now is the time when there is a shortage of food, even for me, it is difficult to get food like in the late autumn and early winter, we have to save food."

Feng Qingyun held the willow buds that she had not swallowed in her mouth, biting her lower lip with her teeth, looking at her stern sister with a stern look.

"Sister..." Feng Qingyun's throat was a little choked.

"Yunyun..." Feng Qingxue put her soft hand on her head, and her voice became much softer, "Didn't I tell you about Brother Guancheng and Brother Guanyu? There are so many orphans like them who beg for food everywhere. Have you forgotten that we also relied on begging to fill our stomachs after being driven out of our homes? People can't forget the hardships in the past when they have a good life. When I first started to dig wild vegetables, you were so obedient and reminded me to dig more wild vegetables and dry them for storage. Have you forgotten?"

"I didn't forget, sister!" Feng Qingyun swallowed the willow buds in her mouth, and the hand without chopsticks pulled her sister's collar, "I just had a good life with my sister for too long, and I can't swallow it for a while. I can eat, I can eat!"

As she said, she lowered her head, ate the willow buds in big mouthfuls, and drank the sweet potato porridge in the bowl in big mouthfuls.

Compared with people who have no food to eat, she has a good sister, which is really lucky.

Later, Chen Ming and Xu Aiguo pulled hundreds of kilograms of coarse grains to the air-raid shelter in Xishan. Feng Qingxue, who had received the news in advance, specially brought Feng Qingyun over to watch the unloading of hundreds of kilograms of coarse grains. They were all dried bean dregs, sweet potato dregs and chopped bean cakes. The only things that could really be called food were half a sack of dried sweet potatoes and half a bag of sweet potato noodles.

"My sister-in-law asked me to get these things, and I knew they were used to save people!" Chen Ming smoked a cigarette. The cigarette was a gift of white flour given by Feng Qingxue during the New Year. It was given by the leader, and he had never been willing to smoke it. He said to Jiang He seriously: "Boy, I picked them out for you from the farm. They are not delicious. Don't feel that you owe me a favor."

Chen Ming and Xu Aiguo, who had been soldiers, cared more about these homeless orphans than ordinary people.