"Mom, you need to come up with a solution fast, we can’t go on , we really can’t."
Liu Rumei was also worried, she had nothing left in her hands, what could she do?
"What if I go to the field and dig up some wild vegetables for her to eat?" She asked.
Liu Yushui looked at her mother, unable to suppress her frown.
"Mom, no offense, but do you know which are wild vegetables and which are weeds?"
Upon hearing her daughter’s words, Liu Rumei’s face immediately turned awkward.
They were supposed to have enough to fill their stomachs after moving to the village, even if they just foraged a little from the field. At this point, she knew herself that she wasn’t born with a silver spoon in her mouth. As long as her stomach was full, she could eat anything.
But the problem was, she didn’t recognize those wild vegetables.
"I may not know, but... She, she would surely recognize them, right?" She pointed at the little girl and said.
At her words, Liu Yushui turned to look at the girl, who with a pitiful gaze, made her way over holding her belly, grabbed her by the collar.
"Hey, let me ask you, do you recognize the wild vegetables out there?"
The little girl was frightened by their menacing gazes and the conversation between the mother and daughter after being bought into the family. It seemed like they wanted to give her away to some pregnant man. She was already terrified.
Upon hearing Liu Yushui’s words, she could only shake her head.
She was only fourteen. If they asked her to serve others she’d rather starve to death now. Either way, it was going to be the end of her.
Liu Yushui threw her back into the corner, sighed softly, and looked at Liu Yushui.
"Mom, this surely won’t work. How about... you go check whose sweet potatoes are planted near our house. Take advantage of the dark and dig a few up from their place."
"This... this can’t work, can it?"
Liu Rumei hesitated, thinking that her daughter’s idea wasn’t good at all.
Nowadays, every household dutifully watched over their crops. If she were caught stealing sweet potatoes, she would be driven out of Ya Village and would become homeless indeed.
"Yushui, this isn’t good. If we get caught, things will be terrible."
"As long as you bury the soil after you dig up the sweet potato, how can anyone notice with so many potato leaves? Liu Yushui couldn’t care less whether others would find out or not. She only knew that if they didn’t eat something, the three of them were going to starve to death.
She didn’t care if others starved, but she didn’t want to. She hoped to have a good life with Zhou Liang in the future.
"We’re in such a situation now. If we don’t find something to eat, we’re all going to starve to death, mom, don’t you understand?"
On hearing her words, Liu Rumei fell silent and looked at Liu Yushui.
"Well... I’ll have a look. But it’s still impractical. We would have to boil the sweet potatoes after digging them up, won’t we? Your father’s nose is so sensitive, he would find out!"
Thinking about Liu Baixiao, she swallowed her saliva, trembling all over. Her fear was utterly genuine because she’d been terrified by him for days.
"Then eat it raw, just wash the mud off and eat it. We’re almost starving to death, who cares how we eat." Liu Yushui said.
Finally, Liu Rumei nodded in agreement, realizing that continuing to starve wasn’t the way to go.