Escape: I rely on the food exchange system to survive to the extreme

Chapter 35 Talking Badly

When the downpour came, Mei Qian's family all hid in the cabin to take shelter from the rain.

Mei Qian looked up expectantly and stared at the four fish hanging above the cabin door, whose eyes had lost their luster. Her mind was filled with a series of dishes such as pickled fish, boiled fish, fish fillet in vinegar, etc. that she had no condition to cook now.

But that didn't stop her from thinking about it.

Mei Qian thought about it and glanced at Li Baizhou who had caught all the fish out of the corner of her eye. Mei Qian also agreed more and more with Xiaomei's previous words.

Li Baizhou is really useful~
Li Baizhou, who lowered his head to drink water, shivered suddenly.

He raised his head and glanced at the cabin door to make sure that the chill was not coming from the door, and then glanced at the people in the cabin with some confusion.

It seemed like nothing was wrong.

However, when Li Baizhou lowered his head to drink water, he suddenly discovered that this family seemed to have endless things to do anytime and anywhere.

Because of his strength in catching fish and the fish's belief in breaking through the constraints and saving their own lives, his net bag was completely scrapped when he caught the fifth fish.

But because he really caught the fish, Mei Qian was learning to make a new net bag with Jiang.

While Jiang was instructing Mei Qian to make a net bag, she herself was weaving other items with the thinly sliced ​​reed strips that Han had cut into pieces. Li Baizhou looked at them carefully, looking like some kind of basket.

Even Mrs. Mei was knitting slightly rough-styled objects in her hands with the water green onions she cherished so much, but so far, Li Baizhou couldn't see what they were.

Han continued to cut the reeds, while Mei Erhu and Mei Shitou sat outside, paying attention to the heavy rain outside, and splashing the rainwater that flowed into the boat anytime and anywhere.

Such a comparison made Li Baizhou suddenly feel a little relaxed.

"How about I make some fish soup later." Finally, Li Baizhou took it upon himself to find a job for himself.

"Also, the grilled fish you mentioned."

Mei Qian added, Li Baizhou just nodded and said yes.

The two of them were singing along, but Mrs. Mei immediately interrupted and retorted: "What to eat if you're not hungry? It's a waste."

Mei Qian: "..."

Li Baizhou paused for a moment to drink water. He was the latest to arrive here and had no idea about some of the rules of Lao Mei's house, so he said, "But everyone didn't eat breakfast or lunch."

"But I'm really not hungry." Mrs. Mei looked at Li Baizhou with a look on her face that said, "You don't know the sufferings of the world." She added, "Our family only has so little food. If we have such a big family, how can we live together?" If there was a meal on the way, there would be nothing left to eat.

Therefore, our family always eats when we are hungry. Could it be that you are already hungry? "

Li Baizhou: "..."

He was not hungry, but he always felt that this eating habit was not right.

"Is it possible that everyone is too hungry?"

Li Baizhou calculated that from last night to now, he had only eaten a small bowl of rice steamed vegetables and a teal duck egg that was much smaller than an egg. The same was true for everyone else.

In other words, Mei Erhu, who only ate wild vegetables and gave his water duck egg to his pregnant wife, ate even less and rowed all night.

Logically speaking, such a strong man should be hungry.

"Even if you are hungry and you can't feel it in your stomach, can your body deceive you?"

Mrs. Mei continued to fool Li Baizhou using the words Mei Qian used to fool everyone.

Li Baizhou wanted to refute, but it was the truth. He had worked so hard to catch the fish just now and didn't feel any problem.

However, this fact is still inconsistent with common sense? !
"But milk, it's hot now, and we don't have much salt. This fish can't be kept like this, so it's best to eat it as soon as possible." Mei Qian saw that Li Baizhou had stopped talking, so she hurriedly spoke.

She also plans to exchange for some good things today! How could it be interrupted like this?
"This dead fish is not like the wild duck that my brother caught alive. It can be kept alive for two days. If the fish is spoiled and eaten, it will ruin the health of the family. If you don't eat it, it will be even more wasteful, just like at home. The noodles that were spoiled before..."

Not to mention, when she mentioned the rancid flour and the diarrhea that night, the expression on Mrs. Mei's face was visibly ugly.

Mrs. Han also thought of the stomach upset scene the night before yesterday, and quickly advised: "Mom, some things can't be stored for a long time, we have to eat them while they are fresh, and this fish..."

Han couldn't help but look at the four big fish and swallowed hard.

No, she looked at it with greed. If she did it all at once, she wouldn't even think about whether it was during the Chinese New Year!

"Then we can't do it all at once!" Mrs. Mei glared at the whole family, "What's the point of such luxury?"

"How about making part of it into food and part into grilled dried fish?" Mei Qian retreated to the next best option.

But she was worried that Mrs. Mei planned to make dried fish, and added, "But we have never made this grilled dried fish, and we don't know if it tastes good or how long it can last..."

"Isn't the dried horse meat also well placed? This fish meat..."

"Do you still have horse meat jerky?"

Li Baizhou heard this and interrupted Mrs. Mei's treatment of fish meat. Mrs. Mei heard Li Baizhou's words and saw that he was curious, so she said: "I met a Xirong dog hunting wildly before, and after killing it, the horse looked injured. If he couldn't survive, he would get some meat."

"It turns out you also killed Xirong soldiers."

Li Baizhou always thought that the Mei family was just a group of ordinary people trying to survive in troubled times. He was surprised to hear that they had killed Xirong soldiers.

"Oh, we are all forced to have no choice. Either they die or we die. We have reached that point and no one comes to save us. If we don't save ourselves, will we just wait to die?"

Mrs. Mei sighed. She didn't want to think about what happened that night.

The slightest deviation would be a dead end for their whole family.

"Speaking of it, if those big families hadn't been the main force that day, what would we have done with our idea? We just killed one person, but there were a group of people behind us."

Mei Erhu saw that Li Baizhou seemed to be very curious about the matter, so he told Li Baizhou what happened that day.

Hearing the massacre of common people by the Xirong cavalry, the anger in Li Baizhou's eyes was undeniable. Just as the Mei family said, they were lucky to survive in such a situation.

However, although the Mei family was glad that it was the wealthy families who dealt with the Xirong cavalry in the end, they all understood that the wealthy families were only trying to protect themselves.

"Those aristocratic families are really strong."

Mei Qian looked at Li Baizhou and listened to Mei Erhu's description with a solemn expression. Although Mei Qian didn't know Li Baizhou's true origin, but judging from his attitude towards the family's escape, Mei Qian didn't mind her being weird. .

In any case, her words could not reach those people's ears, or perhaps they really did, and her "slanderous words" from a humble citizen were no longer worth mentioning to them.

As soon as Mei Qian finished speaking, she noticed that Li Baizhou's eyes immediately fell on her.

Mei Qian acted as if everyone was just chatting, and continued as if she was not aware of the other party's scrutiny: "If I could follow those wealthy families to flee south, there would be no need to be afraid. It's a pity..."

Li Baizhou: "What's the pity?"

"It's a pity that I was told that I would only take my clan members and my own servants with me. My family didn't sign the deed of sale, so naturally I can't even enter the city, so I have to find another way."

As Mei Qian spoke, her eyes fell on the hazy water surface where the water vapor was rising outside, and she said: "These days, you have to earn your own way to survive."

　It seems that I haven't passed the recommended pk. I guess I won't be able to update it twice in the past two days. I have to control the word count and wait for the editor to arrange whether there is a possibility of retesting. I feel so excited and my heart hurts. QvQ
　　

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