Chapter 170: Rooster
Two days passed in a flash, and on a cold and windy night, Li Guan and others finished the porridge, washed the pots and pans, and put them in the shack. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The two girls of the Bai family and Uncle Guang returned to the county seat yesterday morning, the rice shop of the Bai family needs to be taken care of, and Bai Weiwei's grandparents are old and can't do without someone to take care of them, so Li Wan and them have been helping to soup porridge for the past two days.
Bai Weiwei walked to the corner of the shack, picked up the sack containing the grain and looked at it, there was only a small half bag of miscellaneous grains mixed with millet buds, she sighed, tied the mouth of the bag and put it back.
Hearing her sigh, Shi Yue, who was fiddling with pots and bowls, asked, "How much food do we have, can we survive tomorrow?" ”
Bai Weiwei shook her head, not to mention such a little food for a day, it is just a meal, and it has to be boiled very thin to be enough for the victims in the town.
Li Guan's eyes darkened when he heard this, and he thought of Gu Chengyu and Dong Linzhi, not knowing if they would have food or not, and when they would be able to come back. If they don't come back, they won't be able to open the pot tomorrow.
Everyone's mood was a little heavy.
Chu Fang and Feichen walked in with dry firewood in their arms, talking and laughing.
"Miss, have you and Miss Bai cleaned up, let's go back if we pack up, Xunfang must be waiting for us to make dinner, and if you don't go back, it will be cold." The ibis whispered.
"You're hungry." Li Wan stood up with a smile, patted the dust on the cuffs and placket, and beckoned Bai Weiwei, "Weiwei, let's go back." ”
"Okay."
A few people came out of the shack and returned to the little girl's house together.
Their own food was about to run out, the rice was eaten yesterday, and there was still some white flour left, so Xun Fang cooked a pot of gnocchi soup very economically.
If it was in normal times, they wouldn't have looked at this kind of food, but now it is not easy to have a mouthful of food, and everyone does not dislike it, even Li Guan is holding a pottery bowl and eating it in small bites.
Seeing that the little girl was sitting on the small bench and snoring, her face was full of soup, she couldn't help but smile slightly, and gave her some gnocchi in her bowl.
A bowl of pimple soup went down to the stomach, and I felt that my stomach was full of soup and water, which was not solid at all, and even the whole person felt empty.
Li Guan put down the bowl, sat under the eaves, looked at the gray moon in the sky, and involuntarily thought of all kinds of delicacies made by Hui Niang, and the greedy hara was about to flow out......
She rubbed her stomach and let out a long sigh, forget it, let's sleep, I won't be hungry when I fall asleep.
She stood up and was about to go back to bed, but she heard what seemed to be movement in the collapsed cowshed not far away, and her heart tightened, and she immediately became vigilant.
"Uncle Zhou."
Zhou Guan, who was eating pimple soup, came out with a bowl: "Miss, what's wrong?" ”
Li Guan pointed to the cowshed: "It seems that something is wrong." ”
Zhou Guan's face changed slightly, he put the bowl on the windowsill, picked up the sword standing in the corner of the wall, and walked lightly towards the cowshed.
"What's wrong, what's wrong?" Chu Fang and the others came out of the house one after another.
Li Wan made a booing motion, and they quickly closed their mouths and watched Zhou Guan enter the cowshed with bated breath.
Soon, with a long and mournful roar, Zhou Guan walked out of the cowshed with a smile.
Li Wan and the others almost dropped their jaws in shock, only to see that he was holding a fat rooster in his hand, and the bright red cockscomb was quite eye-catching.
Zhou Guan took a rope and wrapped it around the rooster's foot and threw it on the ground.
At this time when even the rats were dead, there was still such a fat rooster living under their noses, Li Guan and the others ran over in amazement to watch.
Shi Yue seemed to have never seen such a living thing before, and looked at the big that was arrogant even if he was tied up, and stumbled: "This, what is this?" ”
"Haven't you seen a rooster?" Bai Weiwei said.
Shi Yue blinked: "Of course I've seen it, but at this time, how did this rooster survive until now?" ”
Yes, such a fat chicken should have been caught and eaten a long time ago.
Li Guan and the others were also puzzled.
Zhou Guan smiled: "I also found some chaff crumbs in the cowshed, and this thing probably survived on those chaff crumbs." It was so clever that it knew how to hide inside and steal food, and if it had escaped, it would have been caught. ”
Li Wan asked Xiaoya: "Is this the chicken you raise at home?" ”
The little girl looked at the chicken, shook her head and said, "No, my chickens and pigs were slaughtered and eaten as early as the snowstorm a year ago." ”
"That's a strange chicken." Bai Weiwei looked emotional, seeing the rooster lying on the ground crowing highly, full of momentum, she couldn't help but say, "I think this chicken is different from other chickens, maybe it's a fetish, it can bring us good luck." Otherwise, let's keep it! ”
Raising chickens? Are you kidding?
People have nothing to eat, how can there be surplus grain to raise chickens?
Li Guan shook his head violently: "No, no, no, I think we should just slaughter it and eat it, it's not a waste of food to raise it." ”
The others nodded approvingly.
They haven't opened meat for a long time, and such a big live chicken is jumping in front of them, not slaughtering and eating, and still raising it, isn't it difficult to get along with themselves.
Bai Weiwei was reluctant, but the minority obeyed the majority, and she could only watch Xun Fang boil the big into a pot of chicken soup.
Everyone drank soup and meat to their heart's content, and was as happy as the New Year.
There was finally something tangible in his stomach, and Li Wan fell to the ground and fell into a sweet sleep.
"It's on fire! It's on fire! ”
In the middle of the night, she was suddenly awakened by a shout, and the people in the same room, Chu Fang and others, also woke up, and everyone looked at each other.
Zhou Guan's anxious voice sounded outside the house: "Miss, it's not good, the shack is on fire!" ”
What the?
Li Wan jumped up, casually dragged a piece of clothing and put it on his body, opened the door and ran out.
She stood in the courtyard and looked towards the east side of the town, and sure enough, she saw the light of the fire, and the surrounding houses like Xiaoya's house could still live, and the people who did not live in the shack ran towards it.
The shacks are made of wood and hay, and the winter is already dry, and a little spark can burn, let alone such a big fire.
Li Wan was so anxious that he couldn't do it, the shack was full of old people and children, and the fire broke out in the middle of the night, if they didn't have time to escape, wouldn't they be buried in the fire? And those shacks were specially built by them for the homeless victims in the town, how could they just burn them down?
She pulled her legs and ran toward the shack.
Zhou Guan hurriedly caught up.
When the others got dressed and came out, they only saw the backs of the two of them, and they hurriedly followed them.
When they arrived at the shack, the fire was already very large, the raging fire went straight to the sky, the people outside the shack were fighting the fire and saving people at the same time, and the chaotic figures and cries made Li Wan have a moment of trance. (To be continued.) )