Soul: At the beginning, the father died, and the eldest and second brothers wanted to separate the f

When the eldest family returned to the house, Chen Hongju complained about her dissatisfaction: "As the head of the family, we are obviously the eldest, why should we share the family property equally with the second uncle and that brat Xie Zhiyi when dividing the family property!"

"Then why didn't you say anything just now? And what about my mother's acre of land? I was about to speak, why did you hold me back?"

Chen Hongju rolled her eyes at him and said, "What's the use of saying it? If the time comes, my mother will say that this family doesn't want to be divided anymore, and all this will be in vain." Another reason was that she was scared after being beaten!

Xie Zhishu also agreed and stretched in the house: "I'll go up the mountain to chop some firewood in the afternoon and sell it in town tomorrow."

Chen Hongju agreed very much. Now that winter was about to come, many families in the town had to collect firewood. Although firewood was not expensive, they could sell it for some copper coins to improve their food.

When it comes to food, Chen Hongju asked, "Master, the food has been divided. We can't eat together anymore. But there is only one kitchen at home. How about we build a stove ourselves?"

Xie Zhishu disagreed and looked at Chen Hongju: "You are usually good at calculating, will you calculate this? Rebuild the stove, and buy a pot for free?"

Chen Hongju clapped her hands immediately: "Yes, why didn't I think of it? No, I have to go to the kitchen to get a pot!" Chen Hongju said and went immediately.

The Xie family has only three pots in total: a big pot for cooking, a pot for frying, and a small pot with handles. When cooking, they just fill it with water and put it at the back of the stove. The hot water is just right for washing dishes.

Chen Hongju directly took the big pot for cooking.

As soon as I came out of the kitchen, I ran into Xie Jiaojiao. Thinking of what happened yesterday, I glared at Xie Jiaojiao.

Xie Jiaojiao was thirsty and wanted to go to the kitchen to drink some water. But she was shocked to see that Chen Hongju not only took the pot away, but also took away all the good bowls in the kitchen. The remaining ones were all bumped and had corners.

There is only one kitchen, but three families have to cook for each other, which is really troublesome. It was already afternoon when Xie Jiaojiao had her meal, and the meal was not tasty.

Chen Hongju took away the big-handled pot. When the second wife saw this, she quickly took away the iron pot she usually used for cooking, leaving only the small-handled pot for them and their mother.

There is no way to cook at all.

In the end, Xie Jiaojiao found some stones in the yard and built a small stove in front of her door, so that the three of them could have a meal.

Sun Ruhua felt angry and upset, and thought that her two sons were too unfair, so she treated them like this after splitting up the family.

Xie Jiaojiao comforted her and said, "Mom, why think so much? Even if they treat us like this, we still have food to eat."

After dinner, Sun Ruhua cleaned up the dishes. Xie Jiaojiao looked at her, wiping her tears and shaking her head slightly while cleaning up the dishes. It was true that her stepmother had been crying for several days since she came here.

Xie Zhiyi tugged at the corner of Xie Jiaojiao's clothes: "Sister, mother is crying again."

Xie Jiaojiao made a hushing gesture to him.

Xie Zhiyi shut up immediately.

After a while, Xie Zhiyi said, "Sister, I'm going to collect grass for the pigs."

"You didn't go this morning?"

Xie Zhiyi shook his head: "My mother didn't let me go this morning."

Xie Jiaojiao nodded, and then said: "Wait a moment, I will change my clothes and go up the mountain with you."

Xie Zhiyi hurriedly shook her head: "It's okay, sister, I'm not alone, Brother Niu will be with me."

"I told you to wait for me, so wait for me!"

Xie Zhiyi had no choice but to say okay: "But the mountain road is not easy to walk on."

"understood."

Xie Jiaojiao changed her clothes quickly. For convenience, she wrapped a headscarf on her head and wore a short shirt and long pants. She tied a piece of cloth around her waist to make it easier for her to work. Xie Jiaojiao looked down at her clothes. They were all patched. Wow, she was so poor.

When Sun Ruhua came out after packing, she saw two people who were fully equipped and preparing to go out. She told them to be careful, and when she saw them go out, she turned around and went to sew the soles of their shoes.

As Xie Jiaojiao walked on the road, she looked around to see if there was anything that could make money, but to her disappointment, there was nothing!

When we got to the mountains, the temperature was obviously colder than outside.

However, when Xie Jiaojiao looked up the mountain, she saw that a strong wind blew and the leaves of the Chinese oak on the trees fell down.

"Sister, walk a little further and you will reach the place where we usually collect grass for pigs."

Xie Jiaojiao nodded, and finally saw Xie Zhiyi and Niu Er taking her to a place with a water source. There were some green plants next to the water source. As soon as they arrived at the water source, Xie Zhiyi took a sickle and cut the green grass.

Xie Jiaojiao didn't stop either, and followed them in waving the sickle.

After finishing the pig feed, Xie Jiaojiao was sweating profusely. She walked to the stream to wash her hands and saw crabs in the stream.?

Xie Jiaojiao casually broke open a piece of stone, and indeed, she saw a big crab underneath! Xie Jiaojiao's eyes lit up instantly.

"Come here, you two."

The two thought something had happened to Xie Jiaojiao and rushed over.

But Xie Jiaojiao grabbed the reptile!

"Sister, why are you catching this water reptile? It will pinch you, and it will hurt!"

Xie Jiaojiao didn't understand: "What do you call it?"

"Water crawlers! There are all over this creek!"

Xie Jiaojiao felt that the term "water reptile" was an insult to these mountain crabs!

"This is not a water reptile! This is a crab! It's edible!"

Xie Zhiyi thought his sister must be starving. How could she eat this thing, which was covered with shells? Could she eat the shells?

Xie Jiaojiao knew they didn’t understand, so she called out to them, “Help me catch it, be careful, don’t let it get caught, I’ll cook it for you later!”

The two men didn't move.

Xie Jiaojiao shouted: "Catch him! What are you standing there for?"

The two men then hesitantly grabbed it.

Maybe because no one caught them, the mountain crabs were very big. Xie Jiaojiao didn’t even want the half-grown ones, and only caught the big ones.

After catching almost half of the basket, Xie Jiaojiao thought it was enough.

The crab should be eaten while it is alive. If it is dead and then put into the pot, there will be a fishy smell.

Seeing that it was getting late, Xie Jiaojiao called out to the two of them, "That's enough. Let's go home."

After squatting for a long time, Xie Jiaojiao felt dizzy when she stood up, but fortunately she finally stood up.

Xie Jiaojiao sighed, this body is too weak!

With her around, Xie Zhiyi would definitely not be asked to carry the pig grass. He thought it would be very heavy, but he didn't expect that maybe it was because of her original body, Xie Jiaojiao didn't feel that the pig grass in the basket was heavy.

Several people returned home before dark.

Xie Jiaojiao asked Niu Er to go back and put down the pig grass and come over to eat crabs, but Niu Er shook his head and said that he would not come over. He did not believe that the crabs were edible.

Sun Ruhua took her backpack and asked, "Why did you take so long to come back?"

Xie Jiaojiao and Xie Zhiyi smiled but said nothing. They dumped the pig grass to the backyard and returned to the house carrying the backpacks.

Sun Ruhua took a look and asked: "How come you caught so many water reptiles?"

"Mom, this is not a reptile, it's a crab, you can eat it."

Sun Ruhua didn't believe it: "This is usually smashed in the summer to feed the ducks."

Xie Jiaojiao knew that no matter how much she said, it would be better to demonstrate it to them, so she smiled and said, "You will know when I make it."