Chapter 4 Delicious Bullfrog Soup

Qingyun took his younger siblings and walked lightly towards the stream.

There are a lot of rocks in the stream, and there are more than a dozen fat toads squatting on the stones, two fist-sized toads, with spots on their blue-brown backs, and they are calling vigorously with their cheeks, one after another, as if they are talking about love. The weird cries are what they make.

"Sister, do you want to catch a toad? Toads are poisonous and cannot be eaten. Hua Yun whispered.

"These are not toads, they are bullfrogs. You see, the toads are pimpled, and the spots on their backs are flat and blue. The meat of the bullfrog is delicious! Qingyun explained to him in a low voice.

But what do you use to catch it? Qingyun was worried. There were neither nets nor frog traps.

After thinking about it, I had to return to the slope and pour the wild vegetables and taro in the basket on the ground. She was going to try it with a basket to see if she could get one.

The siblings took the basket and slowly approached the stream.

The little sister hid behind the bushes by the stream, clenched her fists tightly, staring at her sister and brother with bated breath, secretly cheering for them.

Xia Qingyun knew that frogs were very sensitive to moving objects, so the closer she got to the stream, the slower her movements became. In the end, he simply stood motionless in the shallow stream with his back basket in his hand.

Hua Yun also did the same, aiming at a few bullfrogs on the stone to fix his body.

The bullfrog stopped chirping alertly, its bulging eyes spinning. It took a long time before I started singing again.

At this moment, Xia Qingyun suddenly buckled the back basket in his hand, and his body pressed against the back basket.

"Got it! Got it!" The little sister jumped up and shouted happily.

The bullfrog fluttered vigorously in the back basket, and it took Xia Qingyun a lot of strength to turn the back basket over, clinging to his body, blocking the mouth of the basket to prevent them from jumping out.

Back on the slope, she put the basket on the ground again and told her little sister to press it hard. He ran and pulled a few sticks of grass, reached out and pulled the bullfrog out of the basket, and tied its feet together in two strokes.

Then, he helped Xia Huayun put down the basket, and Huayun gained more than her, and even deducted two at once. Each bullfrog weighs two or three pounds, and it can be beaten back to the tooth sacrifice!

Seeing that it was still early, she took her younger brothers and sisters to pull a lot of cattail grass and a few handfuls of water celery by the stream, and then she went home satisfied.

For Hua Yun and Qiu Yun, they don't know what taro and bullfrog taste like, but these novelty things that their sister will know make them feel very interesting. The three siblings walked home talking and laughing.

When she entered the yard, Xia Qingyun first scooped water and called her younger brothers and sisters to wash their hands, and she must urge her family to develop good habits of hygiene.

She found a few rags, wrapped the taro in it, and beat it several times on the ground, so that the taro skin could be easily removed.

After the taro is peeled, there is a layer of mucus, which will itch on the skin, so she directly pours the taro into the basin of water, peels off the skin through the water, and cuts it into small cubes.

The little sister saw the white taro pieces for the first time, and wanted to pick them up to take a look, but was drunk by Xia Qingyun.

"Little sister, remember, raw taro can't be touched with your hands, it will sting your hands!"

"Sister, how do you know so much?" The little sister retracted her hand and looked at her adoringly.

Xia Qingyun smiled, "Because I'm my sister." ”

She responded like this on her lips, and she was also thinking about it in her heart, it seemed that she had to think of a good excuse, and it would be easy for her father and mother to ask in the future.

The bullfrog is also cut into pieces and stewed in a pot with taro and water celery, and the tempting fragrance wafts through the small courtyard.

"It smells so good!" Hua Yun and Qiu Yun twitched their noses together, staring at the delicious food tumbling in the pot.

Hua Yun even felt that it was not bad for her sister to fall ill, she had somehow learned so many things and could make such fragrant meals.

At lunchtime, my father and mother looked at the bowls of taro and bullfrog soup on the table in surprise, and couldn't believe their eyes. The white bullfrog meat mixed with lilac taro chunks and light green cress makes you feel appetizing just by looking at it.

The little sister rushed to tell the three of them about the process of digging taro and catching bullfrogs, and her eyebrows danced vividly.

The mother was so amused by her that she couldn't close her mouth, and her father asked suspiciously, "Qingyun, when did you learn this?" ”

Xia Qingyun bit his lip, pretended to mysteriously let everyone sit down, and said in a low voice: "Tell you a secret, don't spread it!" ”

She paused deliberately before continuing: "When I was seriously ill, I had a dream, in a drowsy mood, that there was a fairy dressed in white, and she said that she was sent by the Queen Mother to save me, and to take me to a place and teach me many things. However, she said that she must not sue anyone about this matter, otherwise it will not work! ”

Hearing her words, my father and mother glanced at each other in surprise, and quickly told Xia Huayun and Xia Qiuyun not to say it.

Seeing that his family believed his lame excuse so lightly, Xia Qingyun secretly laughed in his heart.

"Okay, let's eat, my stomach is already growling!" She rubbed her stomach and said.

"Well, it's delicious! It smells so good! "The family ate with relish, this rare meal was so delicious that the delicious taste almost made them swallow their tongues together.

"Sister, will we all be able to eat such delicious meals in the future?" The little sister asked as she took the last sip of soup and licked her lips.

Xia Qingyun thought about it, she only used two taro and a bullfrog for this meal, and the rest was enough to eat another meal. However, the starch in taro is not easy to digest, and eating too much is easy to bloating.

She replied, "You can't eat too much of it, otherwise you won't be able to digest it." Tomorrow we'll go up the mountain again and see if we can find something else to eat. Guaranteed to keep you fed! ”

The little sister danced happily, and she now threw herself to the ground for her sister's admiration.

After eating, Hua Yun rushed to clean up the dishes and chopsticks. Xia Qingyun took her little sister to tidy up the grass. She plans to use them to make a few baskets, and when she catches bullfrogs, she will keep them in them. The tender white grass stems can be cut off to cook vegetables, and the taste is fragrant and tender, refreshing. Moreover, it is also rich in vitamins and amino acids, which is a good food therapy.

The little sister was ingenious and soon learned how to weave baskets, and she saw her sister and brother catch bullfrogs, and the meat of bullfrogs was so delicious that she was eager to try it.

Xia Qingyun was full of emotion in his heart, but a simple meal with a lack of salt and oil made his family so satisfied. Thinking of the brocade clothes and jade food in her previous life, it never brought her such a feeling. Perhaps, God deliberately wants to let himself experience these hardships, so as to regain the lost emotion.

Although this family is poor, the family loves each other and takes care of each other, which makes the dilapidated log cabin full of warmth and warmth. This warmth from his family also made Xia Qingyun's once cold and numb heart gradually awaken and thaw.

In the evening, everyone had a beautiful feast, and Dad specially built a bonfire in the yard to tell the children the stories of the gods and monsters of the country legends around the roaring bonfire. It wasn't until everyone was roasted hot that they went back to sleep.

When they were all asleep, Xia Qingyun entered the space and scrubbed his body with spring water. After washing it once yesterday, the tinea patches on my body have not itched much at the end of the day, and the scratched places before have gradually healed.

It would be nice if there was a small pond under the spring water, and you could soak in it comfortably. Thinking so, the ground under her feet trembled slightly, and a pond actually appeared!

The spring water bubbled in and soon filled the pond, but it never overflowed.

Xia Qingyun was pleasantly surprised again, she jumped into the pond and soaked her whole body in the spring water with bated breath. The warm spring water moisturizes every pore around the body, and it is indescribably comfortable and calm.

"Poof." She exhaled and looked around, as if the space had expanded a little more than yesterday, and the big bluestone had also been raised, with a few more words underneath.

"Seven stars with the moon, wishful treasure pavilion?" Originally, this place was called the Wishful Treasure Pavilion, no wonder I thought in my heart, the temperature of the spring water is arbitrary, and a pond can appear out of thin air.

But why didn't Xia Qingyun find this place before? She couldn't figure it out, so she simply stopped thinking about it. It's better to think about what to eat in the future, you can't eat taro all the time.

The family still lacks basic necessities, and they need silver to buy them. How can I get silver? Although the things in the mountains and fields can be satisfied, they can't be sold for a few dollars.

She first has to solve the problem of having enough food for her family, and then find a way to make money. According to the experience of her previous life, if she wants to make money, the fastest way is to do a rich man's business, and it seems that she needs to do a market research to grasp the consumption situation here to determine the next plan.

Xia Qingyun pondered while soaking in the hot spring, sleepiness hit, and he fell asleep unconsciously.

I don't know how long she slept, but when she woke up and found that she was still soaking in the pond, she hurriedly jumped out and put on her clothes. Oops, if the family finds out that they are missing, it is not easy to explain.

His mind flashed out of the space, only to find that it was still late at night in the wooden house. Fortunately, she was not discovered, she patted her chest and lay down with her clothes closed.

In the next half month, Xia Qingyun took his younger brothers and sisters up the mountain every day, dug up a lot of taro, and caught more than 20 bullfrogs. She asked her father to dig a shallow pond in the corner of the yard, transplant a large clump of cattail grass and wild taro, and put the bullfrog's cage in it, so that even if you don't go up the mountain, you can eat it at any time in the future.

On several occasions, she also dug up a few bamboo shoots and cooked them with bullfrogs and pu cabbage, and everyone praised them again and again, they never thought that bamboo could be eaten, and it was so delicious.

Every night, she went to soak in the pond of Ruyi Treasure Pavilion for a while, and the tinea spottia on her body became less and less, and her skin became smooth and fair, setting off the delicate facial features on her face, and she looked like a different person.

She also secretly mixed spring water into the water tank, and the health of her family gradually improved, and their faces faded from sallow to fullness and ruddy.

Although I haven't thought of a way to make money, the problem of food and clothing has been solved temporarily, which makes the family full of laughter every day.

The spring in Lingnan is rainy, and after several days of rain, the water in the shallow pond gradually fills up, and the green cattail grass and taro grow happily.

The three sisters and brothers had been at home for a few days, and Xia Qingyun saw that they were idle, so they began to teach their younger siblings to read. Hua Yun and Qiu Yun have long envied the children of rich families who can go to the academy to study, so they work extra hard to learn.

Dad and mother were surprised that Qingyun, who only knew his own name before, had become so knowledgeable.

Before Xia Qingyun could explain, his younger brother and sister rushed to say, "It's all taught to my sister by a fairy!" They were now convinced of the eldest sister's words.

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