【Chapter 6】Abundant Harvest
In the dim house, Xiao Tiedan drank her last sip of chicken soup, held her stomach and smacked her lips with great satisfaction.
The pheasant was fat enough. After half of the uncle's family, there was still a small pot left. Yu Wan went to the bamboo forest in the backyard to dig two bamboo shoots, cut them into slices and put them in. In this way, she could eat them until the evening.
Yu Wan also fed Jiang some chicken soup and some minced meat made of chicken breast.
Jiang had only woken up for a while and fell asleep soon after.
People who have been ill for a long time should not take too much tonic. Compared with chicken soup, what Jiang may need more is a bowl of light and stomach-nourishing brown rice porridge.
"Sister, what will we eat tomorrow?" Xiao Tiedan asked while sitting on the small stool beside the brazier.
Yu Wan took a rough dry cotton cloth and walked over: "The chicken miscellaneous has not moved yet, I'll stir-fry you some garlic sprouts and chicken miscellaneous tomorrow."
“What is chicken chorizo?”
"It's the chicken's internal organs."
"What are the internal organs?"
This child is talking nonstop.
Yu Wan said, "Stop talking, say you're excited and won't be able to sleep later."
"Oh." Xiao Tiedan replied obediently, and opened her mouth again in a second.
But before he could speak, Yu Wan glanced at him faintly: "The excitement is what you are now."
Little Tiedan shut up in disappointment.
Yu Wan squatted down and wiped Xiao Tiedan's wet feet. After wiping, she realized that the back of the child's feet had been frozen.
Yu Wan picked up Xiao Tiedan's shoes and saw a small hole in the sole of the shoe.
Yu Wan stuffed the little iron egg into the bed: "Sleep, don't talk anymore."
After saying that, she turned around to look for Xiao Tiedan's shoes, but found that each pair was torn and old.
"Sister!" Xiao Tiedan suddenly spoke excitedly.
"Aren't you allowed to speak?" Yu Wan turned her head and saw that he was lying in the place where she slept last night. Seeing herself looking at him, he hurriedly moved to Jiang's side, blinking his bright eyes and said, "Sister, I'll warm you up! Come and go to bed!"
Yu Wan's expression was not moved, but a trace of indescribable sourness flashed through her heart. She bent her lips and said softly: "Okay, I'll go to sleep now."
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On this side, Yu Wan took a break, but on the other side, Zhao was unable to sleep.
She remembered what happened during the day and felt that she had seen a ghost!
She saw that girl growing up. She knew how young her daughter was. She didn't dare to say anything in front of her on weekdays. She called her "Aunt Zhao" and was even more intimate than her mother!
She asked the girl to go east, but she never went west, but she didn't dare to ignore her!
After so many years, the girl's kindness to her has not diminished. She once lived in her cousin's house for a whole year. When she came back, she was still not alienated from her. Instead, she even used her as a Buddha and used all the hundreds of taels of snowflakes brought from her cousin's house on her and her son!
This stupid girl obeyed her words. What happened? Why did she change her body after a few days?
Thinking that he hadn't drunk the chicken soup, Awan threw herself into the pig's trough, Zhao threw all his face and grinded his teeth in the quilt with anger!
But what she was most annoying was not this, but her daughter told her just now that Awan's dead girl actually sent the chicken she stolen from her to the people of the Old Yu family to eat!
"Damn girl is sincerely going to anger me to death... wait for me! Ah Heng is back, I'll let him get you off!"
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The next day, Yu Wan got up early again. It took a while for snow to fall at night. It didn't fall heavily, and only a thin layer fell.
Yu Wan planned to try her luck in the vegetable field today to see if she could catch another pheasant. If she caught it, she would not cook and eat it at home, and she wanted to go to the market to exchange some money.
But her luck seemed to have run out of it yesterday. She waited in the vegetable field for an hour, but she didn't see any pheasant appearing.
It was bright and Xiao Tiedan was about to wake up, so Yu Wan had to give up and chopped off a bag of cabbage that had been gnawed and went home.
The rotten vegetable leaves are picked, and the vegetable heart is barely edible.
Yu Wan went to the kitchen, took out the last small bowl of chicken soup, put some cabbage hearts, and fryed garlic sprouts and chicken sprouts with a small spoonful of chicken oil that she refined yesterday, and washed the water and radish that she didn't eat, and then made them cold. This was their last meal.
The cupboard was empty again.
The garlic sprouts and chicken sprouts tasted very good. The garlic sprouts were a little burnt, but they were full of oily flavor and tasted salty, smooth and crispy. Among the chicken sprouts, Xiao Tiedan’s favorite is two "small yellow eggs" and two pieces of fat and tender chicken liver.
Xiao Tiedan couldn't stop eating, and her mouth was oily. Only at this time did Yu Wan's ears be pure.
After breakfast, Yu Wan took a shovel and a basket to the small bamboo field in the backyard.
She just thought about it, it doesn’t matter if there is no chicken, and winter bamboo shoots are also good things. Although she didn’t know whether it was valuable or not in ancient times, as long as it was a dish, someone would definitely buy it.
There are not many bamboos here, so Yu Wanzai dug them carefully and only dug out six medium-sized winter bamboo shoots.
Still too few.
Yu Wan's eyes were placed on the small hill behind the bamboo. If she read it correctly, there was a mountain behind the hillside, and there seemed to be a green bamboo forest at the waist.
"Tiedan, I'll go out for a while, you're taking care of my mother at home."
After giving instructions to his younger brother, Yu Wan walked into the mountain with a basket on her back.
The mountain seemed to be close at hand. When I walked over, I realized that there was a very exaggerated distance. Fortunately, this body did too much farm work and had a good physical condition.
The dead grass on the ground was frozen, and Yu Wan was wearing ordinary cloth shoes. The soles were not very slippery, so she could only walk carefully. After such delays, it was already half an hour later when she arrived at the bamboo forest.
But there are so many bamboos here, big and green, and it also emits a bamboo fragrance that is more than ten times more elegant than her backyard. It is refreshing to smell it like this.
Yu Wan took out the shovel and began to find winter bamboo shoots carefully.
Winter bamboo shoots are much harder to dig than spring bamboo shoots. Spring bamboo shoots will grow on the ground and can be seen at a glance. However, winter bamboo shoots are hidden underground, so it is difficult for people with inexperienced to dig it.
She also planted a lot of bamboo in her hometown in her previous life. In the season when bamboo shoots are flourishing, her favorite thing is to follow her aunt, dig one, and she picked one until she stuffed her small backpack.
However, the winter bamboo shoots she ate in her previous life were not as big as those here.
Soon, Yu Wan dug out the first winter bamboo shoot on the mountain. What a good guy, she was two feet thicker than the bamboo shoots in her backyard!
Yu Wan continued to dig, and the ones they dug out were bigger than the other. In just one cup of tea, Yu Wan's backpack became heavy.
Yu Wan digs for a while, and sweats heavily until she fills her backpack and goes down the mountain with satisfaction.
When he approached the small hillside, Yu Wan discovered a river and she stopped.
Looking at the still water surface, she gently licked the corners of her lips.
Chapter completed!