Divine Doctor, Sweet Wife
CHAPTER 11 Are They Oppressing You?

Wen Ruyu left and Gu Qingyao took the fish to the kitchen, covered it with a layer of salt, then left it there.

He looked at the oil, salt, and other herbs in the kitchen and hurriedly added them from the sidelines. Then he looked into the household's rice jar. Many sacks of wheat were inside the large jars. At the top are coarse grains – some sorghum flour, sweet potato flour, dried sweet potato and corn skin.

Beneath it was rice, wheat flour, and a little corn flour.

Today, refined grains are very expensive and very few can afford them. Even the Gu family, supported by the salaries of a few people, had a miserable amount of grain.

There were less than fifteen kilograms of rice, and about ten kilograms of wheat flour. The cornflour was a little more, about twenty kilograms.

Gu Qingyao knew that there was not much grain in the house. The autumn harvest had just passed, and the grains would only be distributed at the end of the year. Currently, some families in the brigade who were in a more difficult state were almost out of food. There wasn't much left in the Gu household either!

After some thought, Gu Qingyao added two kilograms of rice, one kilogram of wheat flour, and two kilograms of corn flour. He also added some dried yams.

He doesn't have a lot of rough grains in between, or at least, he just has some kind.

Food and other resources abound in its modern life, and its interstellar space is mainly used as a supermarket and to provide hotels and restaurants. In modern times, the only people who eat raw foods and grains are those who seek their health benefits.

It was not like this time, when they were unable to eat grains!

After he finished doing all of this, Gu Qingyao took his basket and cloth sack and went up the mountain. Winter is coming and in order to survive the winter, people here are frantically looking for food everywhere.

Everywhere on the slopes of the mountain people dig wild plants and look for tree bark.

Gu Qingyao found some shepherd purses on the sidelines. Then he took his basket and went deeper into the mountain.

The Qing River Brigade occupied a huge mountain that stretched over a vast area. In the deepest part was the ancient forest. The trees in the remote area had mostly been cut down in the Great Leap Forward, but had recovered after so many years and the mountainside looked like it had once again.

Remote areas are very safe and small animals such as wild chickens, rabbits, and hedgehogs are often seen. However, these animals are not easy to catch unless one knows how to do it.

“Kakak Gu! Sister Gu!”

Gu Qingyao was about to go deeper into the mountain when she heard someone call her name. He stopped and looked. A few little boys rushed out from the nearby forest. They were about 11 or 12 years old, and they were all carrying baskets or firewood.

Kids this age are all working. They can only enjoy a comfortable winter if they have enough firewood.

The boy who led the group was called Goudan. His last name was Chen, but it had no other name, so everyone called him Goudan.

Chen Goudan is 12 years old. His father died of an illness a few years ago. Her mother had abandoned them and ran away to marry someone else. He has a 6 year old sister. This year it happened, his sister was still a newborn, and their grandparents pityed them and took care of them for several years.

Last year, their grandparents had passed away, one after another, so she had to babysit her little sister alone.

The rooms in their homes were mostly occupied by their Eldest Uncle's family. The two children lived with their Eldest Uncle's family and were treated like slaves.

Gu Qingyao's smile was very gentle. "Goudan, what's wrong?"

Chen Goudan raised her eyes to look at Gu Qingyao's face and wavered when she saw her smiling face. She's so beautiful!

Big brother Gu should be the prettiest girl in the entire brigade.

“Sister Gu, are Gu Ruoqing and the others bullying you? I saw him talking to Big Sister yesterday, something about how you should wait and see, he will force you to leave the Gu Family in the future. Did they bully you?”

Brother Beihan Will Find Anything I Want to Eat!

Gu Qingyao laughed and said, “Nothing happened. They can't bully me. Can't you see that I'm okay?”

Chen Goudan laughed. “Didn't you go to town yesterday? I saw Elder Brother Mo's car back today. Are you back with Brother Mo? The car is awesome! Brother Mo is great!”

His eyes glowed as he spoke. All the boys love cars and the boy's eyes are filled with hero worship.

"With Brother Mo's existence, they will definitely not get what they want."

Gu Qingyao smiled and said, “Don't worry, nothing will happen to me. But you have to take care of yourself and your little sister, do you hear me?

Chen Goudan hurriedly said, “I will definitely take good care of my little sister!”

But he didn't mention himself.

Gu Qingyao's heart ached as she looked at the pale skinny child standing in front of her. Some of the children around them had escaped and he took the opportunity to take four eggs from the sidelines, and hand them to her.

This is a real bird egg. They are very small and are ripe, so can be eaten right away.

In the village, chicken eggs are very valuable. Even if he gave it to her, he would not take it.

But many children like to rob nests and bird eggs are more commonly found.

"For you. They're ripe. Bring them back and give your sister two of them. Don't refuse to eat it. They are safe in your stomach. Understand?"

If he brought them back, and Chen Honghua saw them, not only would he and his younger sister not be able to eat them, they would also be beaten up.

Chen Goudan glanced at them and shook her head. “Kakak Gu, you ate it yourself! I... I can't take it!”

“Your brother Mo got this the last time he went up the mountain. He gave me some, but I still have more! He had just returned home, so he had plenty of opportunities to climb the mountain! If I want to eat more, I can get it from him. You take them!”

Chen Goudan finally took it because Gu Qingyao mentioned her younger sister. Her 6-year-old sister had never eaten such wonderful things since she was born. When he thought about it, he did not have the courage to refuse anymore.

“Thank you, Brother Gu!”

After saying goodbye to Chen Goudan, Gu Qingyao took her basket and climbed up the small hill. A small stream runs down the base of the slope, across the hill.

This place is further from the perimeter and almost no one comes here, so there are more wild chickens here.

Along the way, Gu Qingyao set up some traps, hoping to catch some small animals. In his previous life, he had learned many of these tricks on his journey with Mo Beihan. So he managed to arrange it easily.

Moreover, he was not afraid of going this far alone as he was a good fighter.

In his previous life, he felt insecure after what happened. So he forced himself to learn to fight. Some of the cousins in his family have all been trained and are good at fighting.

Later, he followed Mo Beihan around the country, and learned many things. As a result, even though Gu Qingyao was now alone, she was not at all worried about meeting a bad person.

It was already autumn and inside the forest it was colder. The small stream in front of him was narrow, at most three or four meters wide at its widest point. In some places, it was only two meters wide. River depths vary at various points.

He went around setting traps, then went to the river to catch fish.

Fish and shrimp can still be found in small rivers and some waterways, unlike in later years, when they die from pollution.