Miss Wu helped Liu Ma sit on the edge of the kang.
She spread the quilt and said, "It seems that the master is not here.
You go to the kang and lie down first.
I will go look for anything to eat."
Liu Ma shook her head.
The fifth lady advised: "Looking at this situation, we can't go back for a while.
From now on, we will have to depend on each other.
I am younger and can handle it better than you.
Don't be too busy resting now, and don't be too busy taking care of yourself."
As a servant, after you have rested and we are both full, we will discuss a long-term plan."
Mother Liu let out a long sigh and lay down obediently with Miss Fifth's support.
The fifth lady got off the kang, moved step by step, and went to various rooms to find food.
First, he moved tiredly to the opposite room.
The layout of the room was the same as the one where Liu Ma was lying, and there was no food.
The kitchen was unlocked, and there was no food except the thick ice in the water tank that had cracked.
All the other houses were locked, the windows were closed and could not be pushed.
The fifth lady held on to the wall and walked toward the cowshed step by step.
"Kick-clack-clack-clack-clack-clack," A hen came out of the henhouse crowing.
Miss Fifth's eyes lit up, but she was instantly discouraged.
"Kick-clack-clack-clack-clack-clack," But the hen kept croaking.
This croak was announcing to the owner that it had laid an egg gloriously.
Fifth Miss walked to the chicken coop step by step and put a hand into the chicken coop.
Her face was immediately full of surprise.
There are eggs in the chicken coop.
This is winter, not the season for chickens to lay eggs.
The egg she held in her hand was still hot, and it had clearly been laid by the hen she had just called.
She reached into the chicken coop with another hand.
There were more than just the eggs in her hand.
She touched them one by one.
There were seven of them.
But other eggs felt cold to the touch.
Some have cracked from the frost.
She moved to another henhouse and touched it, and there were eggs in it.
She touched all the henhouses, and almost all of them had eggs in them.
The fifth lady lifted up her skirt, picked up as many eggs as she could, and carried them to the kitchen with her skirt.
There was firewood in the kitchen, and Miss Fifth made egg soup.
After drinking egg soup with Liu's mother, Fifth Miss tried to pick the door lock.
It took more than half a day to pick the first lock.
The remaining locks are picking more and more smoothly.
There was nothing edible in any of the houses, but bedding and clothing were complete, and there were men and women, old and young.
The west side of the house is divided into two sides.
There is only one room next to the main house, and there is a well on the south side of the other two rooms.
There is a stone cover on the wellhead, and some debris is piled up.
Scene changes.
The exhausted fifth lady entered the hospital from outside.
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Liu Ma limped out of the house and took the homespun backpack from Miss Fifth.
Ask eagerly: "How was your day?"
Miss Fifth shook her head: "It's still the same.
No matter how you go, you will eventually circle back to the original place, that is, you will go around the marked place.
You will eventually return to the original place.
And, as always, wherever you go.
The yard can always be seen as long as there are no obstacles blocking it.
In other words, these days I just circle around this yard. " Liu's mother sighed: "Could it be that it's really a ghost beating the wall?
Why would we encounter a ghost beating the wall in broad daylight?"
The fifth lady smiled bitterly: "It seems that the entire trench is a maze.
I'm afraid we won't be able to get out for a while."
Then she smiled and said: "Mother Liu, I found a pine forest with a lot of pinecones on it.
I picked a few and put them in my backpack.
The backpack was too small to hold a few, so I'm going to get a backpack to get more.
Make some.
Let’s eat fried pine nuts today.
I haven’t eaten them for a long time.
Thinking of the smell of pine nuts makes my mouth water.”
"It's all my fault that the old slave is useless, and the fifth lady has to go out to look for food.
The old slave deserves to die."
Mother Liu cried.
"Oh, Ma Liu, please don't cry anymore.
Don't let me find the exit by then, but your eyes are so broken that you can't see.
It's really not worth it."
Miss Wu stretched out her hand to wipe Ma Liu's tears, but hesitated and then pulled back. .
Her hands became rough, with many small cracks and many fleshy thorns on her fingers.
Miss Wu followed Ma Liu into the kitchen and sat down by the still-burning firewood to warm herself up.
Mother Liu opened the pot, scooped out a bowl of chicken soup and handed it to Miss Fifth: "Miss Fifth, drink a bowl of soup to warm it up first.
The chicken is not yet stewed and cannot be chewed.
Miss Fifth, please wait for a while until the chicken is cooked and eat it."
Then go out and hunt pine cones.”
The fifth lady took the chicken soup bowl and said sadly: "I killed several chickens.
What will I do if my master comes back one day?"
But Liu Ma didn't care: "Killing one is still killing, and killing many is still killing.
Anyway, we have already started.
Let's have a full stomach first."
Miss Fifth blamed Ma Liu: "If you want to kill chickens, you should wait for me to come back.
The chickens here are like pheasants.
They can run very fast and can even fly up into trees.
Your legs are already injured.
If you continue to toss them, your legs will be seriously injured."
What to do?”
"Haha, Miss Fifth, it's too late to say this.
Now that the chicken soup has been stewed, the old slave is fine."
Mother Liu moved her legs and feet as she spoke.
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The fifth lady said: "If you really feel like you have nothing to do, just pick up some firewood nearby.
If you have anything to do, wait until I come back."
Liu Ma promised again and again: "Okay, okay, I obey my orders.
Miss Fifth, drink it quickly.
It will make your body warm after drinking it.
It's cold and the soup will cool down quickly."
As the chicken soup entered her stomach, Miss Fifth's whole body became alive.
After drinking the chicken soup, the fifth lady got up and went to the next room to take out a backpack and a sickle.
She told Liu's mother that the pine forest was not far from here and she would be back soon, and hurried out the door.
The animals in this family don't need to be fed.
Every morning at dawn, they go out to find food.
When they come back before dark in the evening, no one has died of starvation or freezing.
They all look like wild animals, moving quickly and reacting quickly.
There are not only chickens raised in the yard, but also many chickens in the wild.
Like domestic chickens, they also lay eggs in the winter.
"Kick-clack-clack-clack-clack-clack," "Kick-clack-clack-clack-clack-clack," Haha, there is a chicken laying eggs again.
The fifth lady was not in a hurry to hunt pine cones.
She turned to the place where the chickens were crowing, picked up a low chicken coop within her reach, took out the eggs inside, carefully wrapped them in a handkerchief, and put them in her homespun backpack.
Go to the pine forest.
There are hundreds of chickens in the trench.
They look very similar to domestic chickens.
They move very quickly and fly to trees or cliffs at every turn.
There is a lot of cultivated land around, and the corn cobs in the field are not cleanly broken, and the sweet potatoes can be dug up in the sweet potato field.
There are also many small animals, the most common ones are hares.
Along the way, they dug roots, picked wild fruits, and collected eggs.
When the fifth lady arrived at the pine forest, the basket on her back was half full.
The fifth lady picked up the pine cones that had been hollowed out by the squirrels on the ground and threw them at the pine cones on the pine tree.
The pine cones quickly filled the basket.
She picked up the basket on her back and walked back.
From a distance, she saw Liu's mother standing at the entrance of the courtyard, looking around and walking around.
When they arrived, the fifth lady said, "Mother Liu, I'm back."
Mother Liu helped Fifth Young Lady take off her backpack, and the two of them carried it inside.
Putting the basket in the kitchen, the fifth lady was too tired to move.
Liu Ma scooped up a full bowl of chicken and soup, put it on the small table and urged the fifth lady to eat quickly.
The fifth lady was so tired that she had no appetite and just wanted to fall asleep.
Liu's mother was anxious: "Fifth Miss, you can eat as much as you want.
You have been tired for a day.
You can't stand it if you don't eat."
Miss Wu forced herself to eat a few pieces of chicken, drank a few sips of soup, and urged Liu's mother: "You should eat too.
Don't starve yourself just to make me eat more.
I'm still waiting for you to get better soon." , so you can help me and we can find the exit quickly."
"Okay, I know, I will eat now.
I still want to keep the fifth lady company."
Liu Ma also filled half a bowl of chicken for herself and ate it with the fifth lady.
It's dark.
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Ma Liu heated up the hot water, laid out the quilt, and waited for Miss Fifth to wash her feet.
The fifth lady washed her feet and fell asleep
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