Chapter 13 13. No need

The woman raised her thin hand to stroke her daughter's scorched yellow and messy hair, and looked at the father and son and the black dog not far away.

"Mother doesn't know either." She shook her head and said, she wanted to go up and ask, but in this special period, everyone is very defensive and doesn't allow anyone to approach.

"Yeah." The little girl nodded, feeling a little depressed and hungry.

But she didn't leave her eyes from the willow basket, glanced at the wooden stick in her hand, and then learned to pick it up in the cracked soil according to the gourd painting, although she didn't know what she was pulling?
The woman ignored her, and continued to search around, but she didn't dare to leave the child too far away, but she still found nothing, even after the mopping up by a group of people before, even the roots of wild vegetables that could be eaten were dug up. clean and dry.

In the disappointment of the woman, she heard her daughter's small exclamation, and saw that the child was holding a mud lump in his hand, which was very similar to what the father and son dug not far away.

Gu Lan also heard the exclamation of the little girl behind. In fact, Gu Lan had already discovered it when the little girl was digging the soil with a stick.

The actions of the mother and son were not behind their backs. It was found to be normal, and Gulan didn't think it was strange.

In addition, the area under the river is not small, and they don't have the ability to take all the mussels in the cracks as their own, even if they have them, they can't.

Now is not the time when there were only the mother and son. Just imagine that when everyone is starving, their faces are thin, their faces are yellow and their eyes are red, unless they don't fire or stay away from the crowd, they will never be discovered. I didn't want to put myself in danger.

Therefore, even if they were not discovered, Gu Lan did not decide to hide the discovery of the mussel.

As for the candidates, after this day's observation, Gulan has already counted them.

But it seems unnecessary now. Although the little girl has deliberately lowered her voice, she was still vaguely heard by other people who were eagerly looking for food. Everyone gradually approached in the direction of the little girl.

The daughter's words made the woman come to the child, took the thing in her hand, and found that it was a field snail with a complete mouth cover, and the fresh snail meat inside could be seen...it was alive.

The woman's eyes lit up. Although they didn't like to eat snail meat, the earthy smell was too strong, but they were starving to death so why would they care about the earthy smell, as long as they could eat it.

The woman glanced at the father and son who were digging, and immediately understood what the father and son were digging. She couldn't help looking at the basket beside them with burning eyes.

... They seem to have dug a lot, and there is a trace of envy in their eyes.

Resisting the excitement in her heart, the woman quickly put the snails into the small basket she was carrying tightly, and without saying anything, she dragged her daughter to search in the cracked soil, hoping to find more, so that the mother-in-law might be able to share more The child eats a little.

At the same time as the woman was searching, several people from different directions approached them. In fact, it was Gulan and the others who wanted to approach them the most, but because of the big black dog guarding next to them, especially this black dog The dog had already stopped digging the soil and was staring at them. No one wanted to try the sharpness of the dog's teeth, but all the eyes looking at the big black dog were extremely hot.

"What did your girl from Zhao Gang's family find? What is it delicious?" An old woman with folded face and upside-down triangular eyes, who looked mean and mean, was the first to come to the mother and daughter, and opened her mouth Just go straight to the goal.

"...Aunt Liu...no...nothing to eat, just the snails that are often seen in the river. My girl found one from the crack."

The woman hesitated for a few moments and told the truth. After all, Aunt Liu had already seen it, and she was too stupid to say that.

"Tianluo, Zhao Gang's daughter-in-law, do you think you can find snails here?" Aunt Liu couldn't help but raise her voice a few degrees.

The woman nodded, and at the same time, Aunt Liu's words were heard by other refugees who gathered, and everyone's faces were happy.

The taste of snails is indeed very bad, but as long as they can be eaten, everyone has only one word in their minds.

Almost in an instant, the dozen or so people who gathered here scattered away, searching the cracked bottom of the river without stopping.

This is life-saving food!
Soon one person dug up a mussel that was smaller than the palm of his hand. Surprised, he resisted the sound of wanting to rush out, carefully and quickly put the mussel into the carrying basket, and then his search became even faster.

After a while, everyone has gained something one after another. The common point is that they have not made much noise. After all, the more people know, the more limited the gains will be.

The main reason is that they also discovered that the place where mussels and snails exist must be soil with some humidity, otherwise even if there are, they will be empty shells that have died for a long time, and they have already dried up and cannot be eaten.

There is only this piece of soil at the bottom of the river with a little humidity, and the area is no more than five acres of land. To inform others?Everyone is not stupid.

Here, Gulan looked at the approaching crowd, squinted slightly, then got up and looked at the back basket guarded by Dahei. There were already twenty or thirty large and small river mussels and snails in the back basket. Dozens of them were secretly collected by her in the space.

These, together with the food in the package as a cover, were enough for their rations for half a month, and the sky was getting dark, so Gulan decided to stop.

Pulling An An called the basket on the back of the big black and leaning on the wooden stick Gulan in his hand to prepare to go ashore, and then find a remote place with few people to clean up the mussels in the basket. She has salt in her space, and it can be stored for a longer period of time after pickling .

Of course, this is just a show for her, just sprinkle a little bit, after all, it is placed in the space.

"Mother...Dad, don't you want to look for it?" An An looked at the people in the distance and thought of what her mother said before, and quickly changed her words.

"Well, almost." Gu Lan nodded.

Just as Gulan pulled his son and turned to leave, he was stopped by someone.

This was the first time that Gu Lan was stopped by someone since he was fleeing with the little bun these days.

Even though she has deliberately stayed away from the crowd to avoid trouble, it seems that sometimes trouble is not something you can hide if you want to.

No, here comes the troublemaker.

Gu Lan stared at the old woman blocking their way and the two men behind her. The shriveled old woman stared at them naked with cloudy and calculating triangular eyes.

"Ma'am, what's the matter?"

The deliberate lowering of the voice, the hoarseness caused by the lack of water, and the tall and thin body made Gu Lan look like a slightly weak man, and no one suspected that it was a woman.

It is impossible for a weak woman to bring her child here, either being robbed or murdered.

Gulan, who lives under the red flag, feels a headache every time he thinks about the days before Yuanshen. Except for Yuanshen's husband, who is better, the others don't pay attention to Yuanshen at all. The same drive to grind.

When it becomes a burden without the slightest use value, it is not the first time to be discarded.

But Gu Lan was lucky to be abandoned, otherwise she was afraid that she would not be able to bear it if she was with such a great family.

Hey, thinking of the status of women here, Gu Lan couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

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