Create a home with a system

Chapter 9
There are few people in their area, and there are only a few people in a town. It is said that the town is actually similar to a village, poor and desolate. The big town is only two or three streets lively, and the market is there. Tang Jun, the boss of the Tang family, is there The cloth shop over there acts as an accountant, and it is relatively quick to find him.

Except that the nearest bazaar is more lively, the county is farther away. To go to the county, you have to take a donkey cart or a mule cart. It takes half a day to go back and forth. It was Tang Lao Er who drove the donkey cart to see the guests there and only saw Tang Lao Si when he was free. Now that the situation at home, Tang Lao Er couldn't leave, the only way to find Tang Lao Si was to let Tang Lao Si do it.

On the way back, Tang Junsheng and Tang Zheng looked very preoccupied, and walked with their heads down. Fortunately, the road in their place was fairly smooth, otherwise they would have to go into a ditch.

Seeing their listless appearance, Tangning hesitated to speak several times, but finally said nothing and followed them into the house silently.

Jiang Shi was still awake at the moment, and immediately opened the door when he heard the movement, frowning and asked, "Why have you been here for so long?"

Tang Junsheng shook his head, his voice was low and hoarse, "I'll talk about it later."

After finishing speaking, Tang Junsheng turned his head and saw that the two children had entered the room separately before closing the door.

Seeing him like this, Jiang knew that the job at Jingchuanpo was dirty, so he undressed him and persuaded him gently: "It's okay if you don't do the job at Jingchuanpo, there must be other people who have jobs, yours Everyone recognizes the craftsmanship, but if it doesn’t work, let’s charge less, someone will find it by himself.”

"I'm not worried about this, but..." Tang Junsheng opened his mouth, met Jiang's inquiring eyes, and didn't know what to say for a while. He sighed for a while, and then told Jiang what Tang's second child said. Shi.

If Jiang Shi hadn't been sitting on the bed at this moment, he would have fainted immediately, crying with a suppressed voice, "How could this happen! This is to destroy our family! It is to kill our family! "

Tang Junsheng was so frightened that he hugged Jiang tightly, and coaxed him: "The matter hasn't reached that point yet, you have to calm down. If it doesn't work, we'll just run away."

Jiang's cry froze for a moment, then he shook his head and said, "Where can we escape? Our family is so poor that we can't even afford the money. The road is full of dangers. We can't go anywhere without a guide. I can't go anywhere!"

As he spoke, Jiang became more and more desperate.

Tang Junsheng hugged him, speechless for a moment, Jiang's worry was also a difficult problem that he could not solve, he himself had no idea how to persuade Jiang.

That night, the husband and wife hugged each other and kept their eyes open until dawn, as if resigning to their fate and waiting for the sentence.

Tang Ning, who was sleeping next door, had no idea that her parents were already so worried. She slept comfortably until she woke up naturally. When she opened the door, she saw Tang Zhong playing chaotically with a stick in the yard. moves.

Looking around, Tong Tang Zhong asked, "Have parents and elder brother gone out?"

Tang Zhong replied without turning his head: "Let's go early, the pot is hot for you to eat, and I will go out after you finish eating."

Tangning paused and looked at him in surprise, "Where are you going?"

"Didn't I tell you yesterday, we found a hickory nut and a few jujube trees on the mountain, and the fruits on them were almost ripe. Everyone agreed to take turns to go there for a few days and guard them. Take it off, so as not to let others get there first." Tang Zhong threw the stick in his hand, and made a gesture to rush out.

Tangning quickly grabbed his collar and pulled him two steps towards the courtyard gate, "Wait a minute, I'll go up the mountain with you."

"Okay." After Tang Zhong answered, he realized what Tangning had said, and he jumped up as if he had seen a ghost, "Sister! Have you figured it out? Don't feel bad anymore?"

Tangning rolled her eyes at him, "I don't feel bad at all, that's fine, don't talk nonsense, take me into the mountains later, it's still the old custom, I'll carry the basket and show you around, you can tinker to see if there are any good things, the more the better. "

In Tang Ning's memory, the siblings often went into the mountains with their parents and the village boy on their backs, and every time they could get some good things for tooth-making sacrifices, otherwise, the siblings would not be able to do anything with their family's food. He has a physique that can be seen in front of him now.

"It's easy to say!" Tang Zhong showed Tang Ning a mouthful of teeth that were not white, and Tang Ning frowned. The poor people don't care so much these days, and they lack water here. Most people have never brushed their teeth in their entire lives. When I woke up in the morning and drank a scoop of water, my teeth were all yellow and ugly.

Tang Zhong is still young now, and his yellow teeth are not as obvious as those of adults. If it takes a few more years, it may be difficult for him to go back for nothing.

Thinking of this, Tangning covered her teeth in horror. She ran into the stove and took a good look at the water in the water tank. After making sure her teeth were not as bad as she imagined, she was relieved and the pot had melted. I ate something that knew whether it was gnocchi or batter water.

Frowning, she quickly packed the dishes and chopsticks, carried the basket on her back, brought the woodcutter at home along the way, and followed Tang Zhong quickly to the hillside behind.

Entering the mountain from their house, you have to go up the high slope at the back, wind along the dirt road on the high slope, go down the high slope and walk for a while, pass some houses, and arrive at the mountain until there are fewer and fewer people. underfoot.

Not only do people eat less in their land, but so do wild beasts. It is early autumn, and wild animals have to start preparing food for the winter. The mountains are not safe. In the past, there have been several incidents where villagers were bitten or killed by wild beasts when entering the mountains. Over time, people here will not easily go to the mountains unless they really can't survive.

However, in that case, dozens of strong men would go in together to try their luck, and it was impossible for one or two people to act alone.

It's a barren year now, and the outskirts of the mountain have probably been scraped several times by the villagers. I'm afraid even wild vegetables are hard to find. Tang Zhong and the others must have gone deep into the mountains if they could find hickory nuts and dates. I don't know how far they went. Well, Tangning knew that there were many dangers in the deep mountains, but she didn't know if the machete was very useful, and if they encountered danger, they would be able to escape.

Along the way, Tang Ning kept walking silently, which surprised Tang Zhong, who was walking in front, "Sister, you used to chase after me to ask me about this kind of thing, but today you don't seem to be curious at all."

Tangning glanced up at him, and said expressionlessly, "We're on the road now, why ask so many questions, even if the place you found is dangerous, with just these hickory nuts and dates, we have to go there today."

"It seems very reasonable." Tang Zhong rubbed the back of his head and always felt something weird, but he couldn't figure it out, so he shook his head and stopped thinking about it.

(End of this chapter)