Chapter 4 Kudzu
Xia Cao immediately bent down excitedly, caressed the green plant with both hands, and her eyes widened, carefully looking at the plant. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoWhen you are sure that it is kudzu, you can find a branch and dig down the stem. After about ten minutes, she finally found a brick-sized kudzu, and she held it and laughed.
Xia Maihe heard his sister's laughter and looked at his sister curiously. I saw Xia Cao kneeling on the ground with her legs, holding a black thing in both hands, and the white teeth on her muddy face were particularly dazzling.
Without waiting for Xia Maihe to approach, Xia Cao waved at him excitedly and shouted, "Second brother, come here!" I've found a baby! ”
Xia Maihe pointed to the black thing with a puzzled face and asked, "Sister, what is this?" ”
Natsucho brushed the soil off the kudzu root and replied, "This is kudzu, and you can eat it like a sweet potato!" Second brother, with this, our family doesn't have to go hungry during this time. As he spoke, he looked around to see if there was any kudzu.
"What is a sweet potato?" Xia Mai muttered to herself, but when she heard her sister say that this thing could fill her stomach, she happily forgot why her sister recognized this thing.
Xia Cao was startled when she heard the words of the second brother, she forgot that this was the Great Yan Dynasty and there were no sweet potatoes yet. This dynasty before the Great Yan Dynasty is similar to the ancient times of previous China. It's just that after the Qin Dynasty. Xiang Yu was not forced by Liu Bang to kill himself in Wujiang, but stabbed Liu Bang to death with a sword in the Hongmen banquet. After Xiang Yu ascended the throne, the country was established as Yan, this Xiang Yu was not a reckless man in history, but brave and strategic, and tried his best to govern the fragmented land of the second generation of Qin. Under his rule, people were able to recuperate, and the power of the country was slowly restored. It may be that he is too dedicated, his body collapses quickly, and at the age of forty, he will return to the west and ascend to Bliss early, and the current emperor is probably the sixth generation of Xiang Yu's descendants.
Although sweet potatoes were only introduced to China around the Ming Dynasty, kudzu was discovered very early. Xia Cao knows that Pueraria lobata can not only be used for food, it also has medicinal value, "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Shennong's Materia Medica" and other medical techniques have long been recorded, Pueraria lobata can be used for fever and thirst, deficiency of yin and heat, spleen deficiency and diarrhea. Xia Cao thought about it, if her father and mother asked how she knew Gegen, she said that she had read Li Langzhong's medical books before.
Xia Cao is still relatively lucky, she found that there is a large area of kudzu in this mountain forest, it may be that the villagers do not know the goods, each of these wild kudzu is quite large, and the small one is almost a catty. An hour passed, and the Xia Cao brothers and sisters worked together to dig more than a dozen.
Xia Cao felt that it was almost over, so she said to Xia Maihe, who was full of interest and enthusiasm: "Second brother, it's okay, you don't need to dig anymore, we can't mention it any more." ”
"Sister, don't worry, I have the strength." Xia Maihe said proudly, and raised the kudzu in his hands with both hands, saying that he wanted to prove himself to his sister with practical actions.
"Second brother, let's dig some first, cook some for lunch at noon, if you think it's delicious, how about we dig again in the afternoon." Xia Cao opened her mouth to suggest, but in her heart, she was thinking that we would take such a large number of things with the three of us, would we be able to move it? I guess it's a problem to walk back alone.
Natsukusa and the others rearranged the kudzu again, and decided to move the kudzu back under the sycamore tree first, and then look for firewood. When Xia Cao saw Mai He holding the dozen or so kudzu roots in both hands, she walked back easily, and shouted at her who was stunned and messy in the wind: "Sister, don't keep up yet." ”
Xia Cao sighed in her heart, Second brother, I shouldn't question your strength, you are really a strong cow, even if you question your IQ in the future, I won't question your fist.
Back at the sycamore tree, Xia Cao found a secret place and instructed Xia Maihe to hide the kudzu first, she really couldn't walk. Then she pulled Xia Maihe to sit down and rest.
"Second brother, why didn't you see you have so much strength before." Xia Cao couldn't help but ask a little bit about the curiosity of this strange coffee second brother.
"Sister, you forgot, our water tank was brought back by me, my father said that my strength is genetic, our ancestors are the most powerful, but they have the power of a hundred elephants." Xia Maihe replied, his eyes flashing with reverence for his ancestors.
Xia Cao muttered in her heart, when you came back from carrying water every morning, the original owner of this body was still asleep. I don't know if I know this, I would have dug more if I had known, but Xia Cao won't hit herself in the mouth, and she won't do it when she goes back to digging kudzu.
After resting, the brother and sister continued to work on the business of finding firewood. As soon as he walked for a while, Xia Maihe saw Xia Cao bending down to pick up branches, and he was now unpredictable about this younger sister who was becoming more and more thoughtful, so he asked, "Didn't my sister just say that she would pick it up from a distance?" ”
"Second brother, I just thought of piling up the branches around these twenty zhang into a small pile first, and then piling up a small pile in the next place, so that we will know when there are enough branches, so that it is fast and effortless." Xia Cao's eyes rolled, and she came casually, thinking that I would tell you that it was an excuse for me to want to survey the terrain just now.
Another hour passed, and Xia Cao and Xia Maihe looked at the pile of branches under the plane tree that were about to drown the two, and smiled in unison. Xia Cao sat down, leaned on the trunk of the tree with her upper body, and said to Xia Maihe, "Second brother, I really can't walk." Or we'll just sit here and wait for Big Brother to come back. ”
Xia Maihe, who is the strong sister who takes all the actions centered on her sister, heard her sister's weak tone, and of course agreed in one breath. As he spoke, he took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and slowly opened it, which was the mulberry that the two of them had stumbled upon just now.
The mulberries have turned purple and black, like black agate, and they are watery, as if they will be squeezed out with a pinch of juice. Xia Cao gently took one and put it in his mouth, and the sweet and sour juice had a special taste.
"Second brother, you can eat it too. But we'll have to leave a little bit for Big Brother. After eating one, he said to the second brother who was looking at her and smirked, and the two of them ate one by one.
In the laughter with the second brother, Xia Cao remembered that in her previous life, she was also eating mulberries in the field with her mother-in-law, everything is still so vivid, and now it is indeed a person. Xia Cao comforted himself that since he had come to this world, he would be safe when he came.
When Xia Qiaomu came back from collecting firewood, he saw his two younger brothers and sisters sitting under the tree, giggling and not knowing what to say, but the originally white teeth at the corners of his mouth had turned black, and he couldn't help but feel a little funny.
Hearing the footsteps of someone approaching, Xia Cao and the two looked up, and it turned out that Xia Qiaomu was back, still holding a dying little fox in his hand.