Chapter 22: The Runaway Chicken
Liu Guo didn't know how others survived in this cold winter. But she has to find a way to live, not only to fill her stomach but also to make money.
The northeast town in early winter is really cold, and this kind of cold has not been felt by Liu Guo before. She grew up in the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, and later followed her master to Beijing. Although it snows in the northern part of the capital, the temperature here is much colder than in the capital.
It is no wonder that the former prisoners would be escorted to Dongliao after being tortured.
"I don't know how the King of Liaodong survived back then, his army of 300,000 survived in such an environment?" Liu Guo muttered to himself: "No wonder, the combat effectiveness of the King of Liaodong is stronger than the other. In this climate, it's really a workout. ”
Liu Guo didn't find anything, she had heard the king of Liaodong mention it before. Outside this pass is an extremely beautiful place with rich machines, and what ginseng is everywhere and what wild things are flying all over the sky. Anyway, there is gold everywhere here, and the endless Liaoyuan is beautiful.
She didn't find anything beautiful, she only felt that there was a cold person here.
I walked around the outside, and there was a layer of frost on my eyebrows. Liu Guo had never even seen the fur of a wild animal, let alone hunting.
In the end, Liu Guo took out his housekeeping skills, went up the tree to dig out the bird's nest and caught pheasants on the ground.
Digging a bird's nest is a technical job, and Liu Guo at this time is not good at light work, but his body is petite and lightweight. Relying on the experience of her previous life, she skillfully climbed the tree and caught the sparrows. I found a broken rope to thread the sparrows together and threw them in the basket behind them.
Taking advantage of the bright sky, he jumped into the courtyard of the village chief's house. He stole two corn cobs from the granary in the yard, and before leaving, he found a handful of millet in the ground tank under the window and kicked it in the pocket of his clothes.
Liu Guo took these things to the place where there were pheasant footprints in the wild, broke off the corn kernels, and threw the corn kernels along the way.
At the end of the corn kernels are placed a handful full of millet, and a broken basket is supported by branches on top of the millet. There is a long rope under the broken basket, and at the other end of the rope is Liu Guo hiding in the shadows.
In this barren winter, many families have nothing to eat, let alone pheasants and ducks.
Liu Guo looked at the footprints of pheasants here, and judged that there must be a lot of pheasants hiding in this vicinity. Sure enough, in a quarter of an hour's effort, a medium-sized pheasant probed his brain.
It found the corn kernel and rushed over and pecked it with a big gulp. After a few bites, it makes a cooing sound. Soon three or four companions were brought in, and four or five pheasants ate the corn kernels happily, all the way to the vicinity of the broken basket.
The last two pheasants ate the least, and saw the millet in front of them running over frantically and plunged into the broken basket.
Liu Guo gently pulled the rope in his hand, and broke the basket to buckle the two pheasants inside. The frightened two pheasants jumped up in the cage, alarming the three who were eating outside.
The three pheasants immediately ran around, and Liu Guo jumped out and grabbed one of them. The other two ran fast, and the stone in Liu Guo's hand flew out.
A stone hit the neck of the first pheasant, and it fell to the ground, and Liu Guo took the opportunity to grab it. Liu Guo walked quickly to the broken basket and stuffed the three pheasants in his hand. He picked up a large stone and placed it on top of the basket to prevent the four pheasants from jumping up and overturning the broken basket.
"When it comes to the meat in my mouth, you can't run away today. Liu Guo rolled up his sleeves, ran in the snow and chased the fifth pheasant that ran away.
"Coo, coo, coo," the fifth pheasant screamed as he ran. After some tossing, Liu Guo was sweating profusely.
She carried the fifth pheasant and scolded angrily: "Morning and evening are all meat in the pot, what are you running!"