noffsinger Chapter 176 Curved eyebrows
Chapter 176 Curved eyebrows
After seeing this, Lu Qingqing had a deeper understanding of the situation of the other people on the mountain.
In the tense atmosphere, everyone quickly collected firewood. It didn't take long before everyone started walking back carrying the firewood they had collected.
The only thing that was not lacking in this mountain was branches. In about half a day, the side of the cave was filled with firewood.
But the firewood was wet, and since they didn't know if it would rain again, Lu Tianming asked everyone to stop.
Each family did not stop to rest. There were at least twenty men guarding the cave, and the rest went out together to pick mushrooms or other mountain products.
The things brought back were divided equally among each person.
Rotate once every half a day or so.
The sun started to come out from the second day. Seeing that the sun was good, every family put their mushrooms outside to dry.
The entrance to the cave was filled with mushrooms from various households drying in the sun, while further away there was a pile of wet firewood that had been collected.
As the sun came out, the temperature began to rise gradually again.
When families went out to pick mushrooms, they all started bringing water bags with them. The weather was very hot and they sweated a lot along the way.
It was not until three days later that the number of mushrooms on the mountain gradually decreased.
Lu Qingqing and others stopped picking mushrooms, but the other refugees in the mountains had not stopped yet.
They don't have much food, and these mushrooms can fill their stomachs and can be stored after drying. They are a life-saving thing for them.
As long as there are mushrooms on the mountain, they won't stop.
Seeing the sun getting hotter and hotter, Lu Tianming looked at the water in the bucket decreasing and decided to fetch some water today.
The pond was far away from them, and it took a long time to go back and forth. Carrying water back and forth was a very tiring job.
This job can only be done by men, as women don't have enough strength to do it at such a long distance.
After the last refugee attack, each family was afraid that if there were fewer men in the cave, they would not be able to protect the food.
Therefore, only eight men were sent to fetch water this time.
Each family fetches their own water and takes turns fetching water in batches. The first group to go are those who don’t have much water.
Before, they used rainwater for drinking. Because it was raining outside, they put the water basins outside. Soon the basins were full, and each family used water without restraint.
When the rain just stopped, everyone thought that the rain would be the same as last time, and it would continue to rain after stopping for a day, so the water usage would be the same as before.
Unexpectedly, the rain stopped and never came back. The water in the buckets of several families was almost empty.
In the middle of the morning, the first group of people who came to fetch water came back and brought back a piece of news.
There are already many people fishing at the pond!
Everyone felt a little regretful, as they had only gone fishing in this pond twice.
Although they still had some food, no one would complain about having too much food, especially in a year of disaster like this.
Lu Qingqing and Qin Lang were the third group to go, and most of the people on this trip were her fellow apprentices.
This time she wanted to cast a few more nets to see if she could catch a few more crabs.
All the crabs caught by the team last time were given to her, and she kept them in the space and ate them for several days.
But the crab roe and crab meat are so delicious, and they are perfect when mixed with noodles.
Except for Lu Qingqing, all the people who came out this time were men, and each of them had a big knife hanging on his waist.
Along the way, Lu Qingqing clearly felt that few refugees dared to stare at them.
Qin Lang was carrying an empty bucket and talking to Lu Qingqing as he walked. He looked quite excited.
This time, that annoying Lu Shufu didn't come with him, so he could finally be alone with Daya.
Qin Lang would tell Lu Qingqing everything he saw whenever he got the chance.
In fact, nothing substantial was said. Most of them said that a lot of wild grass had sprouted there, or that there was a refugee there who was so hungry that his teeth were growing.
Lu Qingqing was a little confused. When she turned around, she saw Qin Lang looking at her with a bright smile on his face.
In the sunshine, the boy smiled with his eyebrows curved, revealing a row of white teeth, and his whole temperament was very clean.
At that moment, Lu Qingqing's heart beat faster.
Along the way, Lu Qingqing listened to Qin Lang talking and felt that time passed very quickly. Soon she saw the pond.
Just as the previous person said, many refugees gathered around the pond to fish.
Most of them don't have fishing nets, so they use all kinds of tools.
Lu Qingqing also saw someone making a simple fishing rod, the hook of which was made of a burnt needle.
There was a worm hanging on the fish hook. The man threw the hook into the water and sat by the pond waiting.
Master Yan found a place with few people to fetch water, while Lu Qingqing went around to the other side of the pond and chose a place where she had never cast her net before to start casting her net.
After one cast of the net, Lu Qingqing felt that it was a bit heavy and thought she had caught a big catch.
I pulled the net up with great anticipation, and found that the things in the net were different from the previous ones.
In the past, the most common things we caught were fish, and occasionally we would catch a crab or a shrimp.
This time, there was a big turtle inside. The turtle was lying on its back with its legs spread out, trying to turn its body over with its head and four legs working together.
Lu Qingqing opened the net and lifted the turtle up by its shell with great effort.
This turtle has grown very big and must have lived for many years.
Lu Qingqing originally planned to let the big turtle go, but looking at the refugees' eager eyes, she estimated that the turtle would fall into the water one second and be caught by other refugees the next.
After thinking about it, Lu Qingqing threw it into the sack. There were still a few fish, a bunch of shrimps and four crabs left in the net.
Lu Qingqing put the larger fish, crabs and small shrimps into the wooden barrel in the space through the sack.
She had previously used four wooden barrels to raise fish and shrimp, and a smaller wooden basin to raise crabs.
The remaining small fish and some insects in the net were poured back into the pond.
At this time, a man not far away was staring at the sack of fish and the fishing net in her hands.
When Lu Qingqing first arrived here, he saw the fishing net in the little girl's hand.
But when he saw the bow and arrow on her back and the knife on her waist, he hesitated.
Although she is a little girl, the knife and arrow are not something that ordinary people can have. The man began to stare at Lu Qingqing's movements.
As the first net was pulled up, the big fish inside was really attractive.
The man noticed that some refugees had begun to approach the little girl.
Thinking of the child in the straw hut, he gritted his teeth and stood up to approach.
Lu Qingqing also noticed the situation around her. She dropped the net, took two steps back, climbed up the big tree behind her, and quickly took out the bow and arrow.
Her action of climbing the tree attracted five or six men nearby to run over here, fearing that the fish and net would be snatched away by others.
Lu Qingqing squatted on the tree, looking down at the person closest to her.
With a slight sound of an arrow breaking through the air, the person closest to him was shot through the chest.
The remaining people were startled by the arrow and stopped.
Lu Qingqing's arrow was aimed at the second person. The man was so scared that he raised his hands, knelt on the ground and began to beg for mercy.
The rest of the people retreated quickly for fear of being implicated.