Hard work

Chapter 34
It is the first time for orchids to spend summer in ancient times.

It was still light summer, the air was dry, with heat rising from the ground, and even the soil in the field smelled of sunshine, which was an experience she would never have had in the city before.

The chirping of crickets gradually echoed on the back hill.There are even more cicadas, lying on the trunk and squeaking.

Not too spicy either.

Because there is a mountain behind the village, there are dense trees on the mountain, and there is a small stream flowing down, the green area blocks a lot of sunlight.People in the village like to sit on the side of the mountain and feel cool all over.

The end is a beautiful scene of farmhouse music.

But in Lanhuaer's view, these are just food.

In her previous life, she heard from an old man that what she ate during the locust plague was locusts.She has a lot of contact with these bits and pieces.I can't say I like it, at least I don't hate it.It's good to have something to eat these days, and it doesn't matter what you eat.

Goudan is now a master at catching sparrows, and he has to bring it back every day.

All the orchids were killed, dressed up, roasted and eaten.There is too little meat, and after smoking, there is not even a trace of oil and water, so it is better to eat it directly.

Goudan eats his belly full every day, and his enthusiasm for catching sparrows is even higher, and he can hardly finish eating sparrows every day.Lan Huaer began to make the saved wild vegetables and oyster mushrooms into future food reserves.

When I was digging a hole to hide the money pot at home, I dug a small cellar, and put some wooden blocks in it, just thinking about storing food, so that I can eat it in winter.

Lan Hua'er doesn't have much time to go to the back mountain to find traps.She asked Goudan to look at the traps, but the directions were not quite right, and in the end she didn't know if he caught anything in those traps.

If she went up the back mountain now, she would go up to catch cicadas and locusts.After catching them, they squeezed out their stomachs, skewered them like sparrows, and burned them to feed the dog eggs to supplement protein.

This thing seems a bit disgusting to say, but the children in the village don't have so many scruples.

And in fact, after burning incense, it is actually quite delicious. It tastes a bit like barbecue, but it is crisper and more delicious.

Goudan took a skewer like this in one hand and a bunch of roasted sparrows in the other, and went around the village, immediately attracting the drooling of countless boys.

He was eating pine nuts before, but not many people saw him.Moreover, the pine nuts are relatively small, so they were eaten up in one go, but not many people said anything.

The protein after burning is really very fragrant.

Not to mention the little ones, even the villagers working in the fields were attracted by the scent, and looked curiously at the skewers in Goudan's hands.

Many people shouted and asked:
"Zhao Erlang, what are you holding?"

Lan Huaer had already told Goudan before, so he learned to answer, saying:

"Skewers!"

This is the first time that Goudan was looked at by everyone with such yearning eyes, and an indescribable pride suddenly rose in his heart-he didn't even know that this feeling was called pride, but Involuntarily raised her small chest.

"Delicious!"

While speaking, he took a bite.

The locusts that were torn open gave out a stronger fragrance, causing the children around them to swallow their saliva.

Because Lanhuaer told Goudan to show a good taste-the taste of the skewers is indeed very good.

People in the village thought that the skewers were delicious.

Orchid's idea is actually very simple.

She felt that it was impossible for her to monopolize the resources of the back mountain all the time.Since she can find so many things to eat on the back mountain, others can also find them.Moreover, some people in the village have been collecting wild vegetables on the back mountain, but they usually don't go to the deep mountains.

When other people find out that the two siblings found food on the mountain but concealed it from the people in the village, then there may be gossip again in the village.It's better for her to tell the story first, so as to get back a good reputation.

Anyway, Lanhuaer and Goudan are notoriously "unable to survive".

Although the village is concerned about the mountain king Hong Dawang on the mountain behind, there is no reason to force the orphan to death.

They don't go in much by themselves, it's convenient for Lan Hua'er.

Many people enthusiastically asked Goudan what those delicious things were in his hand.

Goudan learned from them once, saying that it was sparrows and bugs.

The adults couldn't help sighing again after hearing this, saying that the Zhao family's children are really pitiful.I can't even eat food, so I can only find such things that people usually look down on on the back mountain to eat.

If a bird like a sparrow can still be considered as meat, those grilled bugs can't be regarded as a good thing.Ordinary people would never think of putting this kind of thing in their mouths.

Many people lost interest immediately.

Just thinking that sparrows are considered meat anyway, and there are fields at home to take care of, so how can there be so much time to run up the mountain.

So someone turned his head around and said to Goudan:
"Zhao Erlang, this string of yours smells fragrant, so I'm afraid you won't be able to eat many of them. It's because this method of catching birds seems to be good, so you can catch so many? Or you can play with my donkey, How about a companion?"

This is actually just thinking that my child will learn the method of catching sparrows.

Of course, Lan Hua'er also thought that the people in the village would have this kind of reaction, so she had already told her to get Goudan to agree.

Anyway, it's just catching birds. If those people don't follow suit, it won't last long.Everyone has eyes and brains, so why not agree first, which can be regarded as selling a favor.It's just birds, not much meat, just a snack.There are more people, and more birds are caught, so if you share one point, the amount is still there.

At the beginning, Lan Hua'er felt that the sparrow was a little frightened.

In modern times, sparrows have become animal protection. If they are found to beat sparrows, they will be fined, and there will be people from the Animal Protection Association coming to make trouble.

Later, she found out that the sparrows these days are inexhaustible, and they will never go extinct no matter what, she felt relieved.

Naturally, there are some people in the village who disdain to let their children learn to catch sparrows from Goudan, but there are quite a few of them.

Goudan has more playmates, and he can be the leader of a group of children, which greatly builds his self-confidence. Lan Huaer thinks this is enough.

She also thought about grilling sparrows into skewers and selling them in the village.

It's just that selling things at the door of the house always feels that it is easy to offend people and it is a thankless job.She can't make any special taste, and everyone knows the source of the ingredients, so they can't set a high price.

She felt that she might as well not do such a business.

If you want to make money, you have to think of other ways.

[Thank you sister May for the reward!I'm sorry I have something to do at home today, so I can only update one chapter first.I'll fill it up later if I'm free!The week before has been all sorts of hectic.I'm wrong!The tiger landed. TAT]

(End of this chapter)