Being fooled by fierce beasts to travel through the beginning is fleeing famine

Chapter 25 Yam
The oatmeal porridge with snake meat boiled more and more fragrant, and gradually, everyone began to swallow their saliva.

The sky also began to gradually brighten, and the east was already pale.

Qingyan stood up with a "crack!"

Everyone who was waiting to eat was startled by her, thinking that there was another snake or other beasts.

Just about to stand up together, Qingyan made a silent gesture to them, and then whispered: "It's okay, I seem to hear the sound of a pheasant, don't move, I'll go and have a look."

When everyone heard this, Qi Qi's eyes lit up, and Yang Shuanzhu whispered: "Pheasant? This thing is not easy to catch, do we need to help together?"

"Yeah, yeah, we ran around it together."

Qingyan smiled and shook her head, "No need, too many people scare it away from far away, I move fast, I should be able to catch it, you boil water and wait for it to be caught and plucked."

Yang Dashan's family said: "Okay, okay, let's build another stove and boil more hot water."

Fortunately, there is a water pool here, and it is convenient to fetch water. They originally decided to boil more water after eating, and put it in clay pots to drink on the road after cooling down.

Qingyan refused the following of several men again, and then sent Chouchou to stay and protect them through sound transmission, and she rushed out by herself.

Soon they came three to 400 meters away from their camp. In the messy grass, there was indeed a long-tailed pheasant digging the soil on the ground while pecking at the exposed insects.

Qingyan thought for a while, if she rushed over directly, she would definitely make a noise.

She only had these two sets of clothes, and she didn't know if she would have a chance to buy one from here. If it got dirty, she wouldn't have time to wash it, and it would be too embarrassing to continue wearing it.

Then I saw the broken stones on the ground, squatted down decisively, picked up a few of the right size, aimed at the head of the pheasant and threw them over.

The pheasant was engrossed in eating bugs, and didn't realize the danger was coming. By the time it realized it, it was too late, and the stone had already hit its head heavily.

Before the wings flapped twice, his head was smashed to death and he couldn't die anymore.

Qingyan stepped forward, holding the neck of the chicken and weighing it in her hands.

I can't complain that this pheasant can fly, but the chickens raised at home can't. The weight of this pheasant is only about half of that of domestic chickens.

Standing up with the pheasant in hand, I wanted to go back. Before turning around, I found a light yellow thing with many roots in the soil that the pheasant had just dug.

Qingyan immediately stopped in her tracks, fearing that she might make a mistake, she took out the miniature flashlight that she put in before from her pocket, and turned it on to take a closer look.

Isn't this yam?Although it is still very thin, not like the thick and long ones they bought in the market, but she will not recognize it this way.

There are also small peas on the vine, aren't they just yam beans, this is what she and her mother like to eat most, and they often use it to make candied haws by themselves.

Thinking of this, I picked those yam beans without saying a word, and put them in my jacket pocket.

I found a branch next to it and dug it up. Because there was little rain and the soil on the ground was not soft, it was very difficult to dig the branch.

I thought to myself, dig one tree first, and then go back and get a shovel for the rest, and then dig them out.

After digging until more than half of the yam was exposed, I reached out and grabbed the vine and pulled it out.

It's just that the strength was a little too strong, and I only pulled out [-] to [-] centimeters, and the thinnest part below was broken inside.

Holding the yam in his hand, he walked back happily bouncing around.

Seeing that she came back safely, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and when they saw the things in her hand, they burst into laughter.

"Miss Xue, you are so powerful that you actually killed a pheasant!"

"Oh? Isn't this potato medicine? This is usually found in relatively deep mountains, and it is rare on the edge of mountains. Miss Xue, you will not go into the deep mountains, right?"

"Nonsense, how can such a short time be enough to go back and forth to the deep mountains? It must be that the seeds picked up by the little bird have taken root here..."

Qingyan is very happy, it seems that people here know this yam, so it is easy to say, save her to explain that it is not poisonous and can be eaten.

Qingyan said: "The place I just went to is not far away, it's less than a mile away. When I saw this, I thought it would just be used to stew pheasant. It must be delicious."

Yang Dashan's family said: "Yes, yes, this is delicious when boiled and stewed chicken, sweet and fragrant."

Qingyan was a little curious about its name, and said insinuatingly: "Your name is Yayao here? It's not the same name as ours."

Yang Dashan, who fluffed his chicken feathers aside, said with a smile: "This thing was not called by name at first, it was called yam. In the previous court, it was changed into yam medicine because it was as famous as the emperor and violated a taboo."

Qingyan blinked, forward?Is it one of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms or the Tang Dynasty?
But he said in his mouth: "Master Dashan, you know a lot."

Yang Dashan waved his hand, "Oh, I just heard what those passing merchants said, we ordinary people don't know this."

Yang Dawang and Yang Erzhuang also nodded, "Yes, yes, thanks to that small road, there are often merchants passing by us, so we know some outside things, otherwise we would be blind."

Because merchants often pass by, people often come to stay in villages like theirs that are relatively close to the road.

Of course, most of them are supplementary food and water sources. Although the canal is right next to the field, if you don’t ask for it yourself, you will also cause trouble when you encounter those unruly villagers.

Qingyan agrees very much, she still needs to meet outsiders to see more of the world and know more.

It's like in later generations, if there were no newspapers and TVs, where would you go to know so many things in other places? This is the importance of information.

Qingyan told them again that there were still a few yams over there, and Yang Dashan and Yang Dawang followed her there with shovels, and quickly dug up those few yams.

When they came back, the women had packed up the chicken, took the yam in their hands, peeled and cut it into pieces with a knife, stewed it with the pheasant, and made a big pot full.

Everyone gathered around to eat snake meat porridge, while waiting for stewed chicken with yam and boiling water.

For breakfast, there is only snake porridge. The chicken is prepared for lunch, and it can be placed in a crock pot. Anyway, it is not afraid of cold in hot weather, and it saves the time to stop and cook.

(End of this chapter)