The Rough Man and the Beautiful Wife of the Orion Miracle Doctor

Chapter 57 Food Crisis
Old man Zong kicked Zong Pingkang angrily.

"I've also signed up for you, so you can follow me up the mountain to dig ditches!"

Zong Pingkang felt like the sky was falling when he heard the news.

"Dad! You are my biological father."

"The mountains are so dangerous, and the wild beasts are not completely dead. How can I dare to go up there?"

"How about you let the third child go."

Old man Zong was so angry at these words, "Let the third child go up the mountain, and you go chop and buy firewood!"

Zong Pingkang was not convinced, "I hope that the little firewood the third brother chopped can earn a few copper coins."

He had just earned five taels of silver for his family. Of course, he kept the other five taels to himself without telling anyone.

And he can immediately go to Zong Yulian to ask for another sum of money.

When he thought of this, Zong Pingkang's back immediately straightened up.

In the end, this family still depends on him.

Old man Zong kicked him hard again.

"Just go if I tell you to. You won't have to stay home all day long. You also have grandchildren. You spend your days doing nothing but eating and doing nothing. Do you feel a bit like an elder?"

After being scolded by Old Man Zong, Zong Pingkang could only agree to follow the villagers to dig ditches in the mountains tomorrow.

Now the sun was going to set again, and Old Man Zong wouldn't let him go out.

Fang Jinxiu went to talk to Mu, then took a shovel and followed Zong Bai out to look for wild vegetables.

Thinking that Zong Yu was sleeping at home anyway, he would definitely hear if something happened, and it was not like there was no one to look after my mother.

All the herbs in the small medicine field are alive. Even if they are not watered every day and only sprinkled with a little spiritual spring water, they can survive, but the types are a bit limited.

Anyway, if the drought continues like this, the plants on the mountain will die sooner or later. If she can seize the time and transplant more herbs back, she won't have to go to town to spend money on medicine in the future.During this trip to dig wild vegetables, Fang Jinxiu actually found several different types of herbs.

What surprised her the most was that she found a lot of medicinal materials that could treat injuries and detoxify. Zong Yu had been dealing with wild beasts and poisonous insects in the mountains all year round, so he would definitely need these two medicinal materials.

Zong Bai concentrated on digging wild vegetables, and the two of them searched for a long time before they found a small handful of edible wild vegetables.

The relatively safe places in the wild mountains have been visited by the villagers. They feel very lucky to find these Zongbai. Normally, he would not be able to find so many wild vegetables when he goes out alone.

"Sister-in-law, the sun is going to set, let's go back."

"Okay, I guess your eldest brother should be awake too."

When the two returned home, they saw Zong Yu standing in the yard, chopping firewood.

Nowadays, there is an abundance of dry firewood in the mountains. A large bundle of firewood can be collected by chopping dead trees.

Zong Yu was visibly relieved when he saw Fang Jinxiu coming back. He knew she wouldn't run away, but he still felt a little irritated when he couldn't see her.

"came back."

Fang Jinxiu nodded to him, took her own herbs and went to the medicine field to plant them.

Zong Bai sat aside to handle the freshly picked wild vegetables, and said worriedly, "Brother, there are fewer and fewer wild vegetables in the mountains."

"Autumn is almost over, and we don't even have wild vegetables to eat in winter."

"I'm afraid the food we have at home isn't enough to survive the winter."

Grain stores in the town have begun to limit the weight of grain that people can buy. Not to mention the skyrocketing prices, each person is only allowed to buy ten kilograms of grain.

This happened after Zong Yu bought the grain, and he heard someone say it on his way back.

This also means that the town will soon fall into a food crisis and there will be no food to eat.

(End of this chapter)