In the evening, as soon as the radio rang, the day's work was over. The grazing team, which had been feeding the cattle a few times, would start driving the cattle to the river to graze until the cattle were full and returned to their pens.

Ended a day's work.

Some brave children directly rode on the back of the cow and drove the cow back with whips in their hands. Yun Xiaotang and Zhao Tianer followed behind the team. This was probably the day's work for the production team's cow herders.

After Zhao Xueer finished collecting, she did not go home directly. She wandered around the entrance of the village for a while. She stared at the oldest and largest elm tree at the entrance of the village. Sure enough, elm coins the size of fingernails had grown on the old elm tree.

The trunk of the old elm tree at the entrance of the village was as thick as the waists of three adults. Zhao Xueer was not worried that the trunk would not be able to support her. She put the hoe behind her waist and began to climb the tree.

After she climbed to the trunk and branches of the tree and stabilized her body, she took out a hoe from behind her waist and chopped off a small branch of elm coins. There were heavy green strings of elm coins on it, like copper coins.

Carefully leaving the branches on the ground, Zhao Xueer wrapped her arms around the trunk and slid down the elm tree.

Picking up the elm branches on the ground, Zhao Xueer thought about going back and using the elm money to make coarse grain woofou for her younger brothers and sisters.

On the grass by the river, Yun Xiaotang and her brother were still watching the cows grazing. When it was almost dark, the production team came and counted the number of cows. After making sure that none were missing, they started to herd them together.

Lead the cow back to the stable.

It wasn't until the last cow entered the cattle pen that the herding team left and went home.

At this time, the sky was completely dark, but luckily the moon was bright. Taking advantage of the moonlight, Yun Xiaotang and Zhao Tian'er each carried their dustpans and baskets and walked home under the moonlight.

As soon as Zhao Xueer returned home with the elm coins, she lit the kerosene lamp, picked the elm coins from the branches and put them into a basin to wash. She also boiled a pot of water on the stove, and when the water boiled, she poured the elm coins into the water.

Blanch it, then pick up the elm money, chop it into pieces and put it in a bowl.

After doing this, she took a bowl and went back to the house. When she came out, the bowl was half filled with rice bran. She crushed the rice bran and elm money together, added some salt, shaped them into steamed buns and steamed them in the pot.

Seeing that her younger brother and sister hadn't come back yet, she walked to the door with a kerosene lamp in hand, opened the door and stood at the door, looking around. At a glance, she saw two figures elongated by the moonlight.

After a day's work, Yun Xiaotang felt relaxed and was not restless even with the basket on her back. She jumped up and down, sometimes running to her brother's left, sometimes to her brother's right.

Zhao Tian'er was helpless, "Sister, can you turn your head like this without getting dizzy?"

Yun Xiaotang, who was like a small spinning top, responded with a loud voice, "I'm not dizzy, not at all."

As he said that, he held his brother's hand and turned it around, which turned to the door of the house. Yun Xiaotang stopped, rubbed his slightly dizzy forehead with his hands, and was stabilized by Zhao Tian'er.

"Sister~"

The two brothers and sisters who had stopped fighting looked up and saw their sister Zhao Xueer waiting for their return at the door of their home under the dim light of the kerosene lamp.

Yun Xiaotang pulled her brother and walked quickly to her sister, calling her sister sweetly.

Having already noticed her sister's naughty behavior just now, Zhao Xueer stretched out her finger and tapped her forehead, "You~" her voice was gentle and helpless.

She felt happy to see her sister so lively, but she was really scared of her sister lying lifeless on the bed.

I took my sister and brother into the yard and asked them about their work as they walked, "How do you feel about working today? Do you feel tired?"

Upon hearing this, Yun Xiaotang and Zhao Tianer shook their heads together, "I'm not tired. There are many other children herding the cows, so I'm not tired at all."

After saying that, he put down the basket on his back, and Yun Xiaotang took out a handful of dogtail grass from it, "Sister, the rhizome of this dogtail grass is edible, it has sweet juice."

Zhao Xueer took it, immediately put one in her mouth, chewed it, "Yes, it's sweet. You go and wash your hands now, while my sister cooked the steamed buns."

When Yun Xiaotang and the others finished washing their hands and returned to the main room to sit down, Zhao Xueer had already come in carrying a green steamed bun.

Although the public canteen has reopened, the food now being eaten is still the food stocked before. Only one lunch meal is provided, and breakfast and dinner need to be dealt with by oneself.

She also specially saved a few of this pot of wowotou for tomorrow's breakfast.

Putting the steamed buns on the table, Zhao Xueer suddenly felt a little unsure, "This is the coarse grain steamed buns I made with elm money. This is my first time making this. I don't know if it tastes good."

Yun Xiaotang took a steamed bun and took a bite. It smelled like elm money. Since it was not made with flour, it was not unpleasant to eat.

"Well, this tastes pretty good."

Zhao Xueer smiled. Under the dim kerosene lamp, a pair of younger siblings were holding a piece of cornbread with satisfied expressions on their faces. She felt that she was relieved that they were sensible, but was sour that they could not live a good life.

These days, she has been thinking about ways to make money.

Now she can't raise pigs, plant fruit trees, and has no supplies, which means she has nothing to take to the black market to replace what she needs.

Zhao Xueer felt that she was in a dilemma for a moment.

Yun Xiaotang, who was eating steamed buns, was also thinking about this problem. She was trying hard to recall the plot of the book.

In the original text, the heroine Zhao Xueer picked fern roots in the mountains, extracted starch from the fern roots, and made fern root cake. The fern root rice noodles gradually became a way to make money.

Spring is the best time to dig wild vegetables in the mountains. There are various kinds of bracken, Chinese toon, and thorn buds that can be picked.

However, this will have to wait until the public canteens are completely closed. At that time, the production team will encourage villagers to go up the mountain to find food on their own.

The most important thing for the production team now is spring plowing.

After eating the steamed buns, Zhao Xueer thought that her younger brothers and sisters would have to go to herd the cows early tomorrow before everyone went to work, so she urged them to wash up and go to bed.

Yun Xiaotang is indeed a little tired. She used to often suffer from insomnia, but since she came to the book, she has never suffered from insomnia again and goes to bed very early every day.

After all, there is no TV, no mobile phone, and no electricity. Lighting the kerosene lamp also consumes kerosene.

There is nothing else to do except sleep and rest.

Lying on the bed, Yun Xiaotang originally wanted to continue thinking about some details in the book, but unexpectedly her eyes closed involuntarily and she fell asleep.

The next day, when the sky was dark, Zhao Xueer got up, warmed up the remaining steamed buns from last night, and handed them to her brother and sister who were about to go out to herd cattle.

Yun Xiaotang and Zhao Tianer took it, finished it in three bites, and went out to herd the cows.

The people from the production team took the cow rope from the hands, and the team drove the cows to the river in a sparse manner. The cowherds all yawned as they walked, and occasionally someone's stomach could be heard growling.

, obviously didn’t even eat breakfast.
Chapter completed!