C5

On a July day, hot, wet bedding was inevitable.

Ah Jin was well-behaved, he took the fan and sat on the side of the bed to spread the heat.

"Mother, when will father come back?"

How could a peasant woman of a small mountain village like her know that he had asked her about the matters of the nation with a single sentence?

If the monarchs were incompetent in battle, the border wars could not be avoided frequently.

If her husband didn't come back, would she be able to raise the two children by herself?

It would not be a problem to eat light food, but she did not want the children to stay in this isolated mountain village for the rest of their lives.

"Ah Jin, do you miss daddy?"

"Yes, I do. With father here, no one would dare to bully us. "

"Then, can we go to the border to look for daddy together?"

Ah Jin was so happy that he hugged Su Zhi. Actually, he had wanted to look for Nie Rufeng since a long time ago. The father in his memories was strong and robust, to the point where he didn't dare to bully himself.

Although the family was always short of money, father was the head of hunting, he would never starve, and would even bring back snacks for him and Little Pancake to satisfy their cravings.

"When we're done with the food, mother will make some dry rations and we'll eat on the road. Let's go look for Daddy together."

Not without reason.

From what happened in Lady Zhang today, it could be seen that there were a lot of people in the village who did not want her to be at ease.

With such a big commotion, no one tried to stop her, they all stretched out their necks, waiting for her to make a joke of herself.

Such a place wasn't worth it for her to continue staying in!

She was lost in her thoughts while in a trance as she coaxed the two children to sleep. In a daze, she once again dreamt that the plane had malfunctioned, then she screamed out in fear.

When he woke up, the sky was already bright. By his side, Little Pancake was still sleeping soundly, but Ah Jin was nowhere to be found.

Su Zhi got off the bed, pushed open the door, and saw a toddler using her tender shoulders to drag back a bundle of firewood that was half the height of a person.

"Ah Jin, what are you doing?"

Ah Jin struggled to drag a bundle of firewood back into the kitchen, so tired that his legs couldn't even stand properly. A relieved smile appeared on his sweaty face. "Mother, the firewood at home is gone. I went to chop some back."

Su Zhi hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed his small hand, and indeed, she saw a few cuts on the surface of the little hand.

The tip of her nose ached and her eyes reddened from the pain.

Ah Jin hurriedly retracted his hand to comfort her, "Father always said that I am a man who wants to protect mother and sister. Now that royal father is not here, Ah Jin can protect you all. "

"Good child."

Su Zhi's heart ached for her, but she felt helpless.

Her body was delicate, no better than it was last night when she went to fetch water to wash. Her arms still ached from the pain. He didn't know if it was due to the lack of nutrition, but his two calves were also extremely sore.

It was probably because this child noticed something, so he got up early to chop firewood for her to share her worries.

Su Zhi resisted the pain in her heart and hugged the well-behaved and sensible child to kiss her. She must properly raise such a good son into an adult.

"Mother will make breakfast for you and your sister."

She went to the kitchen and dug out a handful of rice and mixed it with the grated corn grains from the mill and made a pot of porridge.

It was good to have rice porridge to nourish the stomach, but unfortunately he did not eat.

Su Zhi pondered, maybe she could go outside to see if there was anything that she could use.

"Ah Jin, why don't you go to the place where you dug sweet potatoes with your mother again? There might be more."

Ah Jin nodded.

After using breakfast, Su Zhi brought Ah Jin and Little Pancake to the only two dry fields in the Nie clan.

After looking around along the small path, Su Zhi roughly looked at the structure of the mountain village.

It was not easy for the Zhuang family to get enough food and drinks during their time in the city, and if they were to encounter a disaster or something like that and the government collected taxes, they would probably starve to death.

This place was far away from the county city of Qing He County, but it didn't seem like a paradise, a beautiful scenery.

There are bare hills and barren yellow soil.

There were only a few dilapidated buildings, and even the smoke couldn't rise from the chimneys.

It was raining, and the soil was soft and sticky.

Su Zhi pulled the two children along the narrow path, and from time to time, she would attract a few looks of inquiry. The majority of them were so poor that they couldn't even afford to marry their wives.