Going through ancient farming to engage in infrastructure construction

Chapter 13 13 Finding Food
Under a dead pine tree, Yao Xiaoqing saw a black-brown lump bulging from the root of the tree, and poked it with a shovel, exposing the white flesh inside.

"Fu Ling." Yao Xiaoqing shouted cheerfully, "Mu Feng, come quickly, I found something to eat."

Mu Feng and Uncle Chong came running after hearing the sound, "What do you eat? Is it a scallion?"

"Fu Ling, this food is better than the foot plank sweet potato."

Yao Xiaoqing shoveled the soil away with a shovel, and Uncle Chong and Mu Feng also helped dig out with stone knives. After a while, a piece of Poria cocos weighing about four to five catties was dug out by the three of them.

Mu Feng broke open a piece of Poria cocos, and a faint fragrance came out from the fracture.Mu Feng and Uncle Chong posted it and smelled it, "It smells so good, it must be delicious, one piece is only this big, let's look for it again."

After thinking about it, Yao Xiaoqing quickly stopped them, "Look for the roots of that dead pine tree."

Mu Feng nodded repeatedly, "Understood."

Seeing this, Uncle Ah Shui and the others searched for it in the woods, and everyone searched around and found a few pieces.

Mu Feng dug out a piece the size of a washbasin under a dead pine tree, happily held up Poria cocos and laughed, "Come and see, this piece is enough for us to eat tonight."

Shan Amu said to Mufeng: "Mufeng, I'll give you the biggest piece tonight."

At this time, the golden retriever dragged two big snakes that had stripped the gallbladder and came over.She looked at the golden retriever in surprise, "Xiaoqing, come and see, your little monkey can also catch snakes."

"It just likes to catch snakes." Yao Xiaoqing glanced at the big snake that the golden retriever was holding, and felt goose bumps all over his body.

"We have meat to eat." The bull looked at the big snake with golden hair still on the ground with glowing eyes.

The golden retriever ran up to Yao Xiaoqing and looked up at her with the look of a child asking for praise for doing something good.

"Golden Retriever is amazing!" Yao Xiaoqing gave it a thumbs up, took out a ham sausage from the mountaineering bag and gave it to it, and Golden Retriever happily ran up the tree with the ham sausage.

The bull picked up two big snakes and hung them on a broken tree branch. He looked up at the dim light shining through the treetops into the forest, and said to Yaohu: "Boss, it's getting dark soon. live here?"

Yaohu looked at the sky, pointed to the hill not far ahead, and shouted to everyone: "Let's go to the foot of the mountain and find a place with a leeward wind."

Mu Feng nodded and said: "Father, you take Uncle and the others there first, we are looking for food here."

Yaohu nodded, took the mountain and the boulder, and led Yaya to the foot of the mountain with a cane, and the bull followed with two big snakes to the foot of the mountain.

Several people found a shallow depression at the foot of the mountain. The bull hung the big snake on a bush, peeled off the snake's skin with a stone knife, and dried the snake's skin on the branches.

Yaohu pointed to a clump of palms and said to the bull, "Use the leaves to wrap the snake meat and burn it."

"Okay." The bull cut two pieces of palm with a stone knife and wrapped the snake meat.

He found a few dead pine trees and cut them off with a stone axe, dragged them to the foot of the mountain, stepped on the axe, and made a pile in a while.

After cutting the firewood, he found a larger piece of wood, cut it a few times with a stone knife, found some pine needles, took out a drill rod from his fur coat, stepped on the wood, and quickly drilled it. get moving.

After a while, smoke came out of the wooden stick, and the pine needles slowly ignited.The pig put the burning pine needles under the firewood that the bull had set up. There was pine oil on the pine tree to support the combustion, and the fire crackled and ignited.

Yaohu said to him: "Hey, we don't have the strength to fight against the wild beasts, so we need to prepare more firewood and light more bonfires at night."

He thought about it, too, "Okay, there is still dry firewood in the pine forest, I'll go and chop some more."

Mu Feng, Xiong Niu, and Uncle Shui dragged the pine tree he had cut down towards the foot of the mountain.

Yao Xiaoqing found another piece of Poria cocos under the pine tree that he cut down.

Shan Amu and Hua found a small bundle of rhizomes and brought them back to Yao Xiaoqing, "Xiaoqing, can you see if this thing is edible?"

Yao Xiaoqing took it and found that it was Codonopsis pilosula.

well!Yao Xiaoqing sighed in her heart: If you can get a pheasant, the stewed pheasant with Codonopsis ginseng must taste good.

Hua looked at Amu Shan and said with a smile: "Mum, Xiaoqing knows a lot about food."

Shan Amu nodded, "Xiaoqing is protected by the gods."

Several people carried a bag of pine needles with their hands in the pine forest, and spread their backs to the foot of the mountain on the ground. Shan'am, Hua and the others spread animal skins on the pine needles.

Everyone sat around, and Amu Yun dug off the excess soil on the poria cocos and buried it under the fire.

Mu Feng sat there, locking the unwoven back basket.

It was getting dark gradually, and the snake meat wrapped in palm leaves and the poria cocos under the pile of ashes exuded bursts of fragrance.

Mu Feng pulled the cooked Poria cocos out of the fire with a wooden stick, and put them on the palm leaves that Yao Xiaoqing had laid out.The bull took the snake meat from another fire and put it on it.

Yaohu took out a stone knife, cut the snake meat into sections, and said to Yao Xiaoqing, "Xiaoqing, share the food with everyone."

Yao Xiaoqing was stunned for a moment, and seeing everyone looking at her, she stood up and said to Yaohu, "Yes, leader."

A piece of snake meat was placed in front of everyone, and the poria cocos was distributed to everyone. Yaohu said to everyone: "Let's eat!" Then everyone picked up the snake meat poria cocos and started eating.

Yao Xiaoqing took a bite of Poria cocos, the powder was light and tasteless but not unpalatable.Seeing everyone gobbling up a piece of snake meat, and seeing that the snake meat was really hard to swallow, he gave the snake meat to Yaohu, and ate it with poria cocos.

Yaohu put the snake meat back in front of her, "Xiaoqing, eat it."

Yao Xiaoqing picked up a piece of poria cocos, "Father, I like to eat this."

Mu Feng looked at Yaohu, "Father, Xiaoqing doesn't like to eat snake meat, she used to give it to her mother."

Yaohu paused, then turned to look at Yao Xiaoqing, "Father doesn't know, Xiaoqing doesn't like to eat."

"Hey!" Yao Xiaoqing smiled foolishly.

Pig looked at her and laughed, "Xiaoqing, snake meat is delicious."

Yao Xiaoqing looked at him and said with a smile: "Brother, I like to eat pheasant, venison, and goat."

"Okay, bro, I'll bring you back from hunting deer." She said seriously.

Thinking of the barbecue powder in the bag, Yao Xiaoqing nodded with a smile, "Okay, when you call back, I'll prepare something delicious for you to eat."

Yao Xiaoqing and Mu Feng went to a puddle not far away. Under the light of the fire, Yao Xiaoqing saw tiny insects at the bottom of the water. He didn't know if they were leech larvae or something else.

Carefully fill the pot and kettle with water, go back and boil a pot of elderberry, and give it to a few injured ones to drink.

He boiled the water in the kettle and said to them: "I saw worms in the water. Everyone try to drink the boiled water in the future. I will put the boiled water in the kettle."

Xiongniu looked at her and asked curiously, "Xiaoqing, why do you want to drink boiled water?"

Yao Xiaoqing looked at him and smiled and said, "Uncle, I'm afraid those bugs will settle down in your stomach."

After hearing this, Xiong Niu looked terrified, covered his belly, and nodded repeatedly, "Listen to Xiao Qing and drink the boiled water."

(End of this chapter)