Chapter 173 The corners of my mouth are almost crooked with anger!

After deciding on the plan for tomorrow, everyone broke up the meeting.

"So those sticks that Ran Yatou and the others carried back in the afternoon were sugar cane? I thought they were firewood!"

"It's sugar cane. I used to see a salesman selling goods at the county market, and among them were sticks cut into sections. The salesman said they were sugar cane. People ate them immediately after buying them, and they all said they were very delicious. Tian, ​​​​we also want to buy it for the children, but unfortunately we can’t afford it. A small section costs 20 cents!”

"So expensive? Then Ran Yatou and the others cut off so much, isn't it worth several taels of silver?"

"Otherwise, why is the brown sugar so expensive? Sugar cane is not available everywhere. It takes a lot of sugar cane to make sugar, so it should be more expensive."

"Then let's go chop it down early tomorrow morning and boil it down with brown sugar, so that we can replenish it for our family."

"Okay, go to bed early tonight and set out early tomorrow to cut down all those sugar canes!"

So that night, everyone went to bed early, and their dreams were all about sweet sugar cane and brown sugar.

Early the next morning, everyone got up earlier than usual. Before dawn, they got up and washed themselves by the light of the fire.

Then I grabbed a piece of wild vegetable pancake and was ready to nibble on it while setting off.

If you have a machete at home, try to bring all the machetes with you. Some people also bring a hoe. If you don't have a knife, be prepared to pull it out with your bare hands.

The Qiao family has two machetes and a hoe.

But the hoe is a good tool for farmers to farm. They were afraid that the hard sugar cane head would break the hoe, so they were reluctant to bring it with them, so they only brought two knives.

The young and middle-aged people from every household were mobilized, leaving only the old, weak, women and children.

Therefore, the fire lit at the entrance of the cave last night was not extinguished to scare away the wild beasts that might come here by mistake.

The old village chief sat at the entrance of the cave holding a gong. If there was an emergency, he would sound the gong.

It is very quiet on the mountain, and the sound can be carried far away, so there is no need to worry about young adults not being able to hear it.

Instructing those who stayed behind to be careful, the young and middle-aged people set off with the help of a glimmer of light that just appeared on the horizon.

Qiao Ran walked behind and saw that people from the Wang family and Qiao Dewang's family were following the crowd quietly, including Qiao Honglian. Qiao Ran smiled slightly.

Zhao Tieniu and Qiao Erhe led hundreds of men and half-grown men to the valley where sugar cane was found. It took two sticks of incense to walk.

They had already opened a road yesterday, and when they entered along that road, they saw black sugar cane taller than a human being hidden among the thatch.

"Wow, are these sugar canes? That's what they look like!"

"It's so high! If I hadn't already known it was sugar cane, I would have thought it was ordinary thatch!"

"Quick, quick! Everyone separate, finish chopping as soon as possible and go back to make sugar!"

So everyone spread out, groups of three, and groups of two, and began to cut and pull up the sugar cane.

Qiao Ran took advantage of the crowd and got into a place where no one could see.

He took out the machete from the space, chopped hundreds of sugar cane trees and threw them into the space.

Then, when everyone was almost done cutting and someone was near her, she put the machete into the space and started pulling out the sugar cane with her bare hands.

Then he pulled some thatch and twisted it into a rope to tie up dozens of sugar cane on the ground.

Qiao Honglian did not have a machete. The machete and hatchet she had at home were taken by her grandfather and her mother, and she could only pull them out with her bare hands.

Just after pulling out two sugar canes, Qiao Honglian felt uncomfortable all over.

First I felt itchy in my throat, then my arms, chest, back, thighs and calves... everywhere.

After a while, even the bones in the body were itching, and a dense itching spread throughout the body.

It was so itchy that she didn't even bother to pull out the sugar cane anymore, and her hands scratched randomly and eagerly on her body.

I was scratching my chest, and my back felt itchy again. I scratched my arms, and my legs felt itchy again...

She only regretted that she didn't have dozens of hands so that she could scratch all the itches on her body at the same time.

As her body became more and more itchy, she scratched harder and harder.

However, the itch seemed to emanate from the inside of the body, from the bones and blood. Even if the skin was scratched, the itch was still deep into the bone marrow.

She scratched quickly and continuously, leaving bloody marks on her body. Her fingernails were gradually filled with bloody flesh, but she couldn't stop the itching. It seemed that the roots of her teeth were itching, and she was so itchy. Want to scream.

However, most of the people here are men. If she makes a sound and people look over, they will see her disheveled clothes and scratching randomly.

I don’t know, I thought she was doing something!

So she gritted her teeth, held back her moans and screams, and just kept scratching.

"Damn bitch, why are you lazy? Why don't you pull it out quickly! Others will pull it out soon! Why don't I beat you to death, lazy girl? If you don't pull out 50 sticks, you won't be able to eat today. have eaten!"

When Xiao Huang saw that her daughter did not seize the time and quickly pull out more sugar cane, but was twisting her body left and right and being lazy, she was so angry that she lowered her voice and cursed.

Qiao Dewang, who was chopping sugar cane with a knife, also raised his head, glared at his granddaughter fiercely, and cursed dissatisfiedly:

"A lazy girl who only eats and doesn't work!"

Qiao Honglian felt aggrieved, but she didn't dare to defend herself, otherwise she would be afraid that she would have nothing to eat when she went back.

While scratching her body, she pulled out the sugar canes with one hand, very slowly. When everyone stopped, she pulled out less than ten sugar canes, and was scolded and pinched by Xiao Huang.

Qiao Honglian endured it and did not dare to scream.

This time many people came, and within a quarter of an hour, everyone had completely swept away all the sugar cane in this valley.

The thatch was trampled and cut down, the whole valley was in a mess, and even the small, immature sugar cane that had just been unearthed was pulled up.

Qiao Ran reminded everyone: "These roots with roots can be used for planting. You can keep some and don't lose them all. Maybe we can grow our own sugar cane in the future!"

After hearing this, everyone picked up a few chopped off roots with whiskers and prepared to take them with them on the road.

If you can reach your escape destination and settle down as soon as possible, try planting sugar cane. Maybe you can actually grow it?

Qiao Ran is the reincarnation of a little fairy child, so everything she says must be right!

The Qiao family sent out five people this time. The third brother Qiao Erhe and the two siblings Qiao Ran Qiaodong all came out, so their family had the most sugar cane.

Qiao Ran can work better alone than two people in other families. She pulled out a large bundle of sugar cane by herself.

The Qiao family's sugar cane was tied into three bundles, and Qiao Erhe and the three brothers each carried one bundle, refusing to let Qiao Ran have any more hard work.

Qiao Ran wanted to say that she was not tired at all, but when her uncles insisted, she had no choice but to comply with their wishes.

Let the three uncles carry three bundles of sugar cane, while I and my brother helped the second uncle and the others hold the machetes.

Qiao Ran looked at the Wang family and Qiao Dewang's family. They had few families and few tools, and they didn't dare to compete with the villagers for sugar cane, so they could only go to the side to cut it.

The Wang family father and son cut down a bundle of sugar cane, which looked like there were only more than thirty canes.

As for the Qiao Dewang family, Mrs. Huang stayed in the cave to take care of her precious grandson and disabled eldest son. Only Qiao Dewang, his eldest daughter-in-law Xiao Huang and his granddaughter Qiao Honglian came out, and the three of them only chopped thirty or forty sticks together.

When going back, Qiao Dewang, as a man, walked in front carrying the bundle of sugar cane, while Xiao Huang and Qiao Honglian walked behind.

Their family followed the villagers, followed by the Wang family and his son.

Although Wang Lusheng claimed to be a scholar, his family conditions did not allow him to be a weak scholar who could not lift his hands or shoulders.

So he carried the bundle of sugar cane and followed Qiao Honglian.

After walking only a few steps, Wang Lusheng saw Qiao Honglian a few steps ahead, twisting her body around and tearing her clothes into a mess. He didn't care at all that this was in the wild. There were a large group of men in front of him and a group of men behind him. And him and his dad.

Wang Lusheng frowned, and his mouth almost became angry!

He was already engaged to Qiao Honglian, and they were already an unmarried couple. Would she still be so eager to seduce him?

Could it be that she was so lustful that she had no regard for shame and wanted to seduce him in the wild to do things in the bushes?

But, his dad is still behind!

Wang Lusheng thought, turned around and glanced behind.

Sure enough, his father's face turned red with anger and his breathing became much heavier, obviously he was about to get angry.