Happiness System

Less than half an hour later, Fu Xiuwu came up to Qin Yunxi and said carelessly, "Second sister-in-law, why don't you lend me the backpack? I'll carry Han'er for you!"

Although his wife Zhang Yining's family also came to see them off, they were afraid that they would not be able to keep their belongings, so they prepared two packages, one with spare clothes and the other with food, and also stuffed some banknotes and small change.

He has three children, two legitimate children and one illegitimate child. The oldest is only four years old and very delicate, and the youngest has just turned two years old. The three children give him a headache. In addition, his wife is weak. Even if the concubine can take good care of the illegitimate children, the two children, one big and one small, are enough to give him a headache. He has no time to spare!

The Fu family was originally a family of military generals. Even though they later turned to literature, the men of the Fu family basically did not neglect martial arts.

Qin Yunxi was not afraid that her brother-in-law would drop her daughter, so she readily handed the backpack and her daughter to him.

Fu Xiuwu didn't expect his second sister-in-law to be so easy to talk to. As if he was afraid that she would go back on her word, he immediately stuffed his daughter and son into a basket and carried it on his back.

Qin Yunxi glanced at him and saw that although her brother-in-law was as tall as Fu Xiuwen, he was a bit stronger.

Afraid that he might drop his daughter because he wasn't full, she thought for a moment and gave him a steamed bun.

Fu Xiuwu did not refuse. He took it and divided it into two. He ate half himself and divided the other half into three portions for the three children behind him.

Although Zhang Yining is weak, she is not a squeamish person. After her husband helped her share the burden of the luggage, she was able to keep up with the main group.

"Second sister-in-law, do you think we can make it to Mo Nan alive?" Fu Qingyue sat beside Qin Yunxi and wiped her tears.

As soon as the team stopped at noon, Fu Ronglang went to the yamen runner to rent a clay pot for the old lady to boil medicine. The rental fee was ten taels of silver for three days.

Then Fu Mao and his wife Qian Yanhua held the child and knelt down, begging his father and stepmother to save the child.

Qian Yanhua had no breast milk so her child could only drink rice soup, but drinking only rice soup was not enough.

It so happened that the wife of a young general among the exiles had plenty of milk. Seeing that the Fu family seemed to be in the best condition and had the best supplies in the entire team, she came over and said that she could help feed the child in exchange for two portions of meals.

And this meal does not refer to the food for a fugitive, but the food for the yamen runners.

The yamen runners would prepare extra food every day, and the excess food would be sold according to their own appetite, at one or two taels of silver per portion, for a whole day. They would eat whatever they wanted, without any complaints.

One tael of silver is just a drop in the bucket for the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion, but it is a lot for the current Fu family!

The old lady and Fu Ronglang and his wife only received one thousand and two taels of silver sent by Li Mutong's parents.

Even Fu Ronglang and his wife were reluctant to eat the two portions of food they bought today, so they shared them with the old lady and several children under the age of three. Even the eldest son Fu Xiusheng didn't get a single bite.

The kneeling of Fu Mao and his wife irritated sister-in-law Zou Yiren.

If you calculate carefully, this money is considered mother-in-law's private property. It belongs to them, the legitimate sons and grandsons. What have you, the illegitimate sons and grandsons, to have anything to do with it?

When Fu Qingyue saw that her nephew was dying of hunger, she said something fair, but she didn't expect to be attacked indiscriminately.

She thought it was horrible. Her sister-in-law had gone crazy just two days after she left. She felt extremely confused for a moment.

Qin Yunxi handed her a steamed bun and said, "Eat it. Finish the white flour steamed bun today. Tomorrow we will go to the yamen runners to order food. Don't worry, my second sister-in-law will pay for you!"

The supplies she arranged would not arrive until two days later. She had not anticipated that the other members of the Fu family would be in such a miserable state, so she prepared fewer things.

There was food in her space, but unfortunately she couldn't take it out, so she could only secretly find opportunities to eat it alone.

Fu Qingyue held the steamed bun in her hand and lowered her head and said, "Second sister-in-law, that's not what I meant..."

"I know, but you are still young, so don't meddle in adults' affairs." Qin Yunxi himself didn't want to get involved in the lawsuits between the other brothers of the Fu family.

When Fu Qingyue heard the words "you are still young", tears started falling again.

One is considered an adult only when he gets married. She has already decided on her husband's family, and they have matched their horoscopes and are preparing for the wedding ceremony. She will get married when she turns seventeen early next year.

Just after she left Shili Pavilion yesterday, that family caught up with her, returned her engagement letter and token of love, and said that the marriage was cancelled.

Qin Yunxi didn't know about this yet. When she saw someone coming, she thought it was a relative or friend who was late.

The end of the previous life had made Qin Yunxi more manly than any other man. She did not want to comfort the crying sister, so she stuffed another steamed bun into her hand. Seeing that the fight over there had come to an end, she picked up the cloth bag and went to deliver food to the old lady.

"Grandma, my granddaughter-in-law has some rice. When my husband comes back from collecting firewood, I'll ask him to cook some rice porridge for you to warm you up. Why don't you eat some steamed buns first?"

As she spoke, she took out two steamed buns and stuffed them into the old lady's hand. Then she stuffed two each into her father-in-law and mother-in-law's hands and left.

The old lady and Li Mutong looked at the steamed buns in their hands, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. This person didn't know what to say to her.

Say she is unfilial, she never forgets to honor her elders when she has something, say she is filial but she is too lazy to even say a few words of care for free, not even putting in the effort to show her filial piety...

When Qin Yunxi went back, Fu Qingyue had already cheered up. Although she was still a little depressed, she still cheered herself up and ate steamed buns while playing with her nephews and nieces.

Seeing Qin Yunxi coming back, Fu Qingyue lowered her head and whispered, "Second sister-in-law, the meals at the yamen runners' place are too expensive. I can actually eat the fixed amount."

"It's thick, choking, and there are teeth-gritting stones. How can you really eat it?" Qin Yunxi glanced at her and took out a water bag to feed the child water.

Fu Qingyue gritted her teeth and spoke even more quietly, "Father said that when he was out on duty, he couldn't even eat coarse grains like this, and had to pick wild vegetables and dig grass roots to fill his stomach."

Qin Yunxi almost spit out the water she had just drunk. She looked helplessly at her overly naive sister-in-law and asked her, "Yue'er, don't you usually read 'The Records of Dali'? There have been no major natural disasters or wars in the past twenty years in the country of Dali. Even if there were occasional disasters, the court would quickly allocate money and food for disaster relief, so it wasn't that miserable."

Fu Qingyue opened her innocent eyes wide and said in surprise: "Second sister-in-law means that father lied to me?!"

"Father wouldn't lie to you. Even your second brother like me would eat wild vegetables and grass roots when we were out on business. After being used to eating delicacies from land and sea, it's not bad to occasionally mix in some refreshing wild vegetables. The roots and stems of plants such as yam, sweet potato, sweet potato, radish, and lotus root can taste great if they are cooked by a good chef..." Fu Xiuwen put down the dry firewood in his hand and continued while making a fire.

Qin Yunxi saw that Fu Qingyue looked like she was about to doubt her life, so she continued, "Father and your second brother are just trying it out for fun, but we will soon really have to start eating wild vegetables, the kind that will make our faces turn blue from eating them every day!"

Fu Qingyue was still confused until she took the porridge cooked by her second brother back to her elders.

As she handed the porridge to Li Mutong, she said, "Mother, my second sister-in-law said that we will eat wild vegetables every day in the future. Those wild vegetables are different from the grass-root wild vegetables that father mentioned!"

Li Mutong glared at her husband helplessly and said to him, "I told you not to talk nonsense to the child, look what you've done to the child!"

Just as she finished speaking, she saw out of the corner of her eye that her eldest daughter-in-law was pushing the child towards her. The eldest son stood up to stop her, and then the couple started arguing again.

Her face darkened and she cursed in a low voice: "You are useless and only know how to stare at your elders' things. I'm not even dead yet and you're still thinking about them all day long. What an uneducated person!"

After scolding her, she was afraid that her innocent and soft-hearted little daughter would be deceived by the daughters-in-law with ulterior motives, so she served her mother-in-law porridge while saying, "I gave fifty taels to your fifth sister-in-law, but that woman only knows how to bully young daughters-in-law who are ignorant. How can a few mouthfuls of milk be worth two portions of food? Even one is too much!

If the price doesn't go up over there, fifty taels will be enough for fifty days. By then, Cheng'er will be five months old, and I won't care about it anymore.

Yue'er, you are still young. If you don't understand something, just watch and listen more. Don't get involved in your sisters-in-law's lawsuit. As long as your father and I have something to eat, you won't be hungry..."

As Li Mutong spoke, she thought of her youngest daughter's ex-fiancé's family and was glad that she had been determined to keep her daughter for another year. Otherwise, wouldn't this daughter, who was as innocent as a little white rabbit, have fallen into a den of wolves and been eaten up?

Qin Yunxi doesn't care about those things. The biological mother is responsible for educating the children. It is enough for her to take care of the two biological children of the original owner.

Although it is early summer now, the temperature difference is extremely large. By noon, it is so hot that people almost faint from difficulty breathing.

She quietly fed the two children small pills to prevent heatstroke. Seeing the pile of luggage at home, she hesitated for a while before throwing two pills into Fu Xiuwen's water bag.

She is no longer a fighter in the apocalypse, so she should make good use of this free porter!

Fu Xiuwen quickly discovered the difference in the water, but he knew that with his wife watching over it, no one could tamper with their things.

Thinking that his wife was unwilling to pay attention to him these past two days, he gave up the idea of ​​asking and just silently observed his body to confirm the function of the added water.

After walking for less than half an hour, many prisoners were dizzy from the scorching sun, especially those who had no relatives to see them off or provide them with supplies. They didn't even have a water bag, and they sweated a lot but had no water to replenish their sweat, so they fainted from heatstroke.

Watching the yamen runners dragging the unconscious convict onto the donkey cart while cursing, Fu Xiuwen suddenly realized that maybe the water was for heatstroke prevention?

He looked at the half remaining water bag, approached Qin Yunxi and asked, "Madam, how about I give this water to my father and mother?"

Qin Yunxi was fed up with these people's beating around the bush when trying to say nice things, so she rolled her eyes and said, "You can do whatever you want with your water!"

Fu Xiuwen didn't know how he had offended his wife again. He touched his nose and thought it was just the hot weather that made her angry. He kept silent, took the water and went to his father.

Fu Ronglang was indeed an experienced young man from an aristocratic family. He immediately discovered the benefits of the water. After drinking a few sips, he asked his son to give some to his grandmother, mother, and sister as well.

"Wen'er, times have changed. Brothers should support each other."

Li Mutong didn't know how to persuade her daughter-in-law, so she could only start with her son.

"Mother, I know." Fu Xiuwen was silent for a moment before taking back the water bag and replied.