Living in the mountains and forests as hunters

Chapter 25

When An Dalang went out with things early in the morning, Zhao Yiyi got busy again. First, she sold some of the winter bamboo shoots she had hidden to the grocery store, and got more than 200 yuan. It wasn't because she was impatient. Instead, he was thinking about waiting for Dumb to come, and there would be more people in the family. I'm afraid it would be more inconvenient to do things later, so it's better to take advantage of the fact that the two children are not familiar with each other at this moment, don't pay much attention, or even connect with each other. When neither of the two children has ever entered the storage room, it will be done!By the way, I also added two large vats, put some candles, matches, cloths, hoes, and two more daggers, and added a bag of rice and noodles at home, and put them in a new large vat. In the tank, there are many people in the family, and they are all edible. If it is not filled, it may not be enough to eat in a few days.

Look at the four large vats at home, two for rice noodles, one for dried vegetables and mushrooms, and one empty. Zhao Yiyi is going to put the prey at home in the future, and there are two large wine jars, one for marinating There are still half jars in the vegetable jar, one contains Zhao Yiyi's own bacon, which weighs no more than ten catties, and there are various medicinal materials on the shelves, dried fruits saved in autumn, and some earthen jars. With meat sausages and blood sausages made by Zhao Yiyi himself, there is a basket on the ground on one side, in which are winter bamboo shoots dug by An Dalang, there is really a lot of food at home!With these, there is no need to worry about not eating in winter, right?

After tidying up the storage room, Zhao Yiyi took out some kelp and prepared to soak it in water for a while, cut some bacon, continued the same as yesterday, making kelp and bacon soup, and prepared flour for making steamed buns. She prepared them all yesterday Yeast, today An Dalang will lead people to bring things back, and then they will always have a meal, isn't it, such a long journey, people go back hungry, and she won't have to go back to her mother's house in the future.

"Dabao, it's time to start the fire. Let's make more for lunch today. Your uncle will bring people back, and your aunt's younger brother. If you want to call him little uncle, you will also come and stay with him for a few days. Erbao, bring those people back." The small stove in front is also lit. There are so many people today that one iron pot is probably not enough to make soup. Two of them will have to steam steamed buns. The earthen pot also needs to be stewed with soup!

I don't know how many people An Dalang led to transport things this time, but Zhao Yiyi has his own way, and he made steamed buns directly according to eight or nine people, and there are thirty big steamed buns on the steamer, and the two-storey steamer looks scary , or two iron pots with a steamer, what a big battle!Rare to see in this home too!The children couldn't eat it, and it would be nice to have two, and I couldn't eat three, but other people, those strong men, probably could eat four for each person.

It turns out that An Dalang's simplest and most primitive cooking stove has been rested by An Dalang, and now it can hold two earthen pots. It is the place where Zhao Yiyi usually stews bone soup. A big earthen pot, today's soup will be stewed from here.Don't say that this is a vegetable and a soup. It is really convenient when entertaining people in winter!
The two children followed Zhao Yiyi's busy head and head, watching Zhao Yiyi making steamed buns and cutting seaweed shreds with agility, they had satisfied smiles on their faces, and they wanted to drink that delicious soup again today too!There are also steamed buns, so many steamed buns, it's full again!
It's nice to be at my uncle's house.Because the two stoves were burning at the same time, the firewood was used up quickly. Dabao and Erbao ran in and out to carry the firewood, because they probably walked very carefully with their new clothes and shoes, even the firewood. Hold it as far away from your body as possible, for fear of staining your new clothes, the more careful you are, the more effort you will have to make. Fortunately, they have eaten their fill for two consecutive days, and their bodies have also relaxed at this time. As for the weakness, just like this, the last two children still had sweat on their heads.Looking at it, Zhao Yiyi kept shaking her head in her heart, what kind of body is this!You can sweat even after burning a fire, it's just sweating!It's all a disease of starvation!
"The steamed buns are ready, come on, let's eat a pad first, Dabao, go get some soup, let's eat some first. When people come back, I don't have time to bother you."

Zhao Yiyi lifted the lid of a steamer and quickly took out three steamed buns. As soon as she put down the steamed buns, they were so hot that she couldn't stop touching her ears. The freshly baked steamed buns are really lethal!Pulling the fire on the stove, going to the open flame, keeping the stove warm, warming the steamed buns, Zhao Yiyi dragged the two children past, and hurriedly ate lunch, seeing that the sun was going to pass the middle, maybe, An Da Lang is going home soon!He had said in the morning that he wanted to come back as soon as possible, and he was thinking about having a good afternoon with the heated kang!
An Dalang is definitely a guarantee of credibility. Zhao Yiyi just finished washing the dishes and clearing the table when he heard Dabao, who was carefully chopping firewood in the yard, calling his uncle loudly. Zhao Yiyi hurried out of the cave to have a look. Sure enough, On the way up the mountain were An Dalang and the others. An Dalang, Zhao Dahu, and three tall and strong men walked carefully on the mountain road with poles.

"Dabao, go open the courtyard door, Erbao, go get a bowl, and quickly let your uncle and the others ask for food. It's the end of the day, you should be starving!"

Zhao Yiyi started to put steamed buns into the dustpan with quick hands and feet, and waited for her to put the steamed buns away and start filling the soup. An Dalang and the others had already arrived in the yard. Zhao Dahu walked quickly to Zhao Yiyi with a big basket on his back:

"Sister, I'm here. Mother asked me to bring some dried vegetables and radishes."

Zhao Dahu's eyes were smiling, and he was rarely excited to see it. Also, this child has grown up so much, he has never been out of the house much!I've always just wandered around the village, but this time I stayed at my sister and brother-in-law's house for a few days, it's a good thing to let the wind go!Although he was a little dissatisfied with his sister living in the cave and felt very bad, but this did not affect his good mood, he just whispered in Zhao Yiyi's ear:

"Sister, why is it a cave?"

"Silly boy, caves are safe only in the mountains. You don't have to worry about snowstorms crushing the house, and you don't have to worry about wild animals coming in through the windows."

Zhao Yiyi looked at where Dabao and his two brothers were while talking. Zhao Dahu followed Zhao Yiyi's eyes and stopped talking immediately. It seemed that he also knew about these two children from An Dalang. , turned around and put down the basket on his body, and began to help Zhao Yiyi with work.

"Go, put the kang table on the kang, and you will eat on the kang table in a while."

While talking, four men from outside also came in, An Dalang asked the other three to sit down at the table, and Zhao Yiyi walked over.

"Uncle Seven, Brother Dazhu, Brother Quanquan, I am sorry to trouble you today. Be hungry, eat quickly."

Zhao Yiyi didn't dare to say anything to the people who came, after all, she was not a talkative person in the village, even if her temperament changed a little after she got married, she wouldn't suddenly become too powerful, right?It's better to take care of them during the action. She was busy serving the steamed buns in the dustpan, and then started serving them kelp and salty broth, a large bowl for each of them.

I guess they are really hungry. Picking soil embryos is the most labor-intensive job. They don't care about what to say at this time. You know, seeing this, several people's eyes are wide open, this is white flour!How is Dani's family doing now?That or something, forget it, I’ll talk about this later, let’s eat something first.

But everyone is poor, no matter how hungry, no matter how you see that Da Ni's family is doing well, but seeing that their family suddenly has two more children, they can't be too ignorant, the three big men are just one person After eating a steamed bun and a bowl of soup, I stopped doing anything. Such silent and thoughtful behavior is really heart-warming!

(End of this chapter)