Chapter 15: Picnic
Walk out not far again, there is a puddle in front, full of green lotus leaves, a pink and white lotus flower bud to be put in the middle of it, very beautiful, the breeze blows, a burst of refreshing flower fragrance comes to the nose, it is very pleasant. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 The info sisters were very surprised, there was such a beautiful scenery in such a wild place, and they were not in a hurry to hurry, so they stopped and enjoyed the beautiful scenery. Enjoying the perfect view, the two of them didn't leave, but they were going to pick lotus flowers.
Zhao Yang was speechless about the children's nature of the sisters. Zhao Yang also likes the beautiful scenery in front of him, but he is just a layman, and it will pass when he looks at it, and he has no special feelings. The sisters were busy picking flowers, but he was using his poor botanical knowledge to determine whether the lotus would grow lotus roots.
When the two sisters had enough, Zhao Yang told them his doubts about lotus roots. The sisters looked dazed, they had seen a lot of lotus flowers, and they didn't eat less lotus roots, but where did the lotus root come from, they really didn't know.
It was still a sentence from the action of Zhen'er that pointed out the direction: "What are you thinking about, just dig two trees and see if you can't do it, it won't take much effort." ”
So they broke two long thick branches, stood on the shore and dug up. After a while, they really dug out a calf-thick lotus root, the sisters were overjoyed, as if they were crazy, the digging speed was fast one by one, and in a blink of an eye, there was a lot of pile in front of Zhao Yang. He hurriedly said: "Enough is enough, we can't take that much."
The two sisters looked at the large pile of lotus roots, looked at each other again, and giggled.
After cleaning the lotus roots, they found a lot of wild vegetables nearby, which can be described as a bumper harvest, and what is even more outrageous is that Zhao Yang actually found a small piece of sugarcane, which is thick and tall, and can be as thick as his arm, and it is enough for one person to carry two. When Zhen'er saw this thing, her big eyes and smile were only a slit.
Happy to be happy, but the problem is also here, today's harvest is too big, this pile of wild vegetables can't be taken away at all, and most of them must be discarded, which is really a bit unacceptable for the sisters who have been hungry for a few days and haven't eaten vegetables for several months. They tried their best to take these things with them, and they sat on the sidelines sulking, their mouths pouting high.
At this time, the sun is already very westward, in this kind of deep mountain canyon, as long as the sun sets, it will be really dark that day, when it is dark outside the mountain, it is late at night in this old forest, after the towering trees block the faint starlight, the forest is black and does not see the five fingers. Therefore, Zhao Yang felt that since it was not early and the things could not be moved, he would not leave, and live down first to consume some of them, and it would be easier to go when he was in a hurry tomorrow morning. Zhao Yang told them his thoughts, Zhen'er patted her head and scolded herself for being a pig's brain, saying that since she couldn't bring so much, she would eat a few meals so as not to waste it.
So they began to look for a place to camp and get ready to camp.
It is dangerous to camp out at night near water sources because animals will come out to drink at night. Although the animals in the forest have become extinct in the past few days, Zhao Yang feels that it is better to be cautious. The sisters are not worried about the animals, in their words, that is, they are here to deliver food, they are worried about miasma, in this area, as long as it is a swamp, a depression, there will be different degrees of miasma, morning and evening, as the sun comes out and the temperature slowly disappears. It is said that that thing is very powerful, and it does not dare to be human or animal, and it encounters a light vomiting and diarrhea, a serious illness, and a serious death on the spot.
The three of them used the bucket made of big bamboo that was as thick as Xiaoqian's waist with great effort on the way, and carried a few buckets of water to the bottom of the leeward cliff on a small hill two or three miles from the depression and stopped. Zhen'er placed Zhao Yang on a flat stone, with a felt cloth under his buttocks, and Xiao Qian quickly lit a fire beside him. They alternated back and forth with the two horses before they were able to carry their harvest completely.
Anyway, their strength is really not small. The sugarcane with an arm thickness of more than three meters long, if Zhao Yang is asked to move it, he can carry two at a time when he is healthy, and no more. But compared to the two sisters, Zhao Yang had no face to look at. I saw that they tied five sugarcanes together with mountain vines, and then bundled them one in their left hand and one in their right hand, and they easily carried them over, and their faces were not red or they were out of breath. Zhao Yang, a big man, died of shame.
Zhen'er happily took out the sparse vegetables that had been cleaned when picking, and looked at Zhao Yang curiously, seeing how he was going to cook this dinner. Xiao Qian was also helping on the side, with a sweet smile on her face, she felt that since she was ordered by the Tang Emperor to send an envoy, today was the happiest day on the way.
Under Zhao Yang's command, Zhen'er and Xiaoqian's full cooperation, soon, a sumptuous dinner was on the "table".
I saw a slightly flat big stone, there are several "vegetables", the closest to Zhao Yang is a pile of fire-roasted wild mushrooms, one by one has the size of a fist, are young mushrooms that have not yet opened the umbrella, the method is also quite simple, put oil in the mushroom umbrella cover, a small amount of salt, and roast it slowly over low heat, the taste is fresh and fragrant; Next to it is a pile of white boiled water chestnuts (water chestnuts), which is not small; There are also cold bracken and camellia on the side, which is very common, and the less common ones are a white flower and a water mint, the white flowers are beautiful and delicious, and the water mint is cool and fire-relieving, which is very suitable for their sisters; There are also Zhen'er's favorite toons and toon scrambled bird eggs; In the middle there is a large bamboo bucket of wolf meat stewed lotus root, this bamboo bucket was used as a bucket before, a bucket can hold a basin of water, this big bucket of lotus root, but enough for them to build.
This meal is called a cool, Zhen'er burped, stroked her round belly and lay next to Zhao Yang, very unreserved took Zhao Yang's hand and said, "My sister and I took you out This decision is really right." Do you know, since we were sent by the Tang Emperor to Nanzhao, we have just left the Tang Dynasty, and we have not eaten a good meal seriously, and we have eaten dry food every day for more than half a year, and we have not eaten a mouthful of green vegetables. Years of war have made the relationship between us and Nanzhao very stiff, and the local people we met on the road did not pay attention to us at all, and we could not even find a guide. We came here to beg for help this time, and we didn't dare to be rude to the natives, so we suffered enough along the way, even if there was a fairy treasure medicine to treat us, but in the past few months, we have been killed and injured under snakes, insects, rats and ants, and the people who were injured and killed by eating wild vegetables and fruits by mistake, not a thousand, but also eight hundred. It made us tremble all the way, facing the wild fruits and vegetables all over the mountain, although we drooled greedily, no one dared to touch it again. Thanks to you today, this is the happiest day I've had in a while. ”
To be continued
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