Yao Huang let out a long breath, this time was the shortest time she had traveled through, but in just half a month, it was the one that had the most profound impact on him. Without force value, human life is so fragile in the general environment. After this crossing, Yao Huang put away his previous laziness and became more diligent in his cultivation. At night, she replaced sleeping with cultivation, and God knew that she liked to sleep the most.

Thinking of Premier Zhou, Yao Huang felt a trace of regret in his heart, he originally thought that he could follow behind the great man and watch how they fought the world, but who knew that Lu Dao only saw the great man and came back, which has to be said to be a big regret.

War! Yao Huang sighed in his heart, every world realm cannot avoid the existence of war. The war in this world is just around the corner, but now she has a certain ability and should be able to protect the people she cares about.

Coming down from the mountain, when Yao Huang passed by the open space of the ancestral hall, he saw young people practicing martial arts, and the elders were trying their best to make money, intending to pay the ransom to let their children escape this war. Although the village made money by growing peanuts and making pine flower preserved eggs, fifty taels was a large amount, and many families could not get it all at once, so the older people took advantage of the leisure time to do some small business or go out to work for a short time, trying to earn enough ransom money before reaching Anping County under the conscription order.

"Sister, I'm back." For Yao Huang to enter the mountains from time to time to cultivate, the people of the Yao family have become accustomed to it. Hearing her sister's voice, Yao Hong only responded, unlike the previous times, she always had to pull her to ask if she had suffered in the mountains, whether she was tired, whether she slept well, and so on.

"Sister, are you eating pumpkin today?" Yao Huang entered the door and saw Yao Hong holding a pumpkin in his hand, and couldn't help but make a bitter face. She doesn't like to eat pumpkin the most.

Yao Hong smiled, "Zhilu said that you don't like to eat pumpkin. I don't even grow it at home, so how can I use it for cooking. This is the pumpkin wine that Aunt Li just delivered. ”

"Pumpkin wine? What is that? Yao Huang asked curiously.

"Naturally, it's wine. Drink alcohol. ”

Yao Huang looked at the round, big and plump golden object suspiciously, no matter how you look at it, it is a ripe big pumpkin, where is the wine? What about containers?

Yao Hong understood Yao Huang's doubts, and said with a smile, "The wine is in the pumpkin." ”

"Ask for an explanation!"

Yao Hong put the pumpkin on the table, took out a small urn, and used a knife to make a small triangular hole in the pumpkin, and the liquid in it flowed from the pumpkin into the urn. Suddenly, the air was filled with the smell of wine.

"When the pumpkin is almost ripe. Poke a hole in it with something, put in an appropriate amount of koji, and seal the hole with mud. The pumpkin continues to grow, catalyzing the fermentation of the koji in the melon, so that the pumpkin belly produces pumpkin wine, which has a very fragrant and natural taste. ”

Yao Hong poured a small half bowl of pumpkin wine and handed it to Yao Huang, "Taste it!" ”

Yao Huang took the bowl half hesitantly and expectantly and put it to his mouth. After a small sip, I was immediately overwhelmed by the fresh and natural aroma of the wine.

"How?" Yao Hong asked with a smile.

"It's delicious." Yao Huang nodded, "It's a little sour, and the pumpkin aroma and the wine aroma are blended together." The taste is very special. ”

Yao Hong had an expression of "I know that you will like it" and said, "Compared to pumpkin wine." Pumpkin meat is more delicious, soft and delicious. The aroma of the wine and the pumpkin aroma are perfectly combined, and the wine flavor and sweet and sour taste are stronger than that of pumpkin wine. It's more enjoyable than just drinking. What do you think? Would you like to take a bite? ”

Yao Huang shook her head violently, even though the pumpkin wine was really delicious, she really had no love for the pumpkin meat, even if it was fried to a crispy and soft sweet pumpkin pie (a child's favorite), she didn't like to eat it.

"You're a mouthful." Yao Hong used a knife to cut the pumpkin open. Looking at the size of the pumpkin, it should be very heavy, and the meat inside should be very thick, but now after cutting it, the melon flesh is less than half of what Yao Huang believed. The reason for this is that it is fermented and decomposed by koji and melted into sake.

Yao Hong cut the pumpkin into small pieces and put it in a bowl, and there was no need to cook it anymore, it was already a dish. She walked into the kitchen and took out a plate of yam cake and put it in the basket, and handed the basket to Yao Huang, "Erya, you go and send this plate of yam cake to the fourth aunt." ”

"Okay." Yao Huang lifted the basket and walked towards the Li family. The matter of the yam was revealed to the people in the village by the Yao family, and everyone only knew that the wild fruits picked by the Yao family in the mountains had the same taste as potatoes, and the pastries made were delicious.

After returning from the Li family, Wenren Qianye and Yao Qing had already arrived at home. Seeing pumpkin wine and pumpkin meat, Yao Qing was very happy, he had eaten this pumpkin meat once when he was young, and he remembered it from the bottom of his heart and liked it very much. Because Yao Huang doesn't like to eat, he doesn't grow pumpkins at home, which is one of Yao Qing's regrets. Like Yao Huang, Wenren Chiba was curious about pumpkin wine and pumpkin meat, and after tasting a bite, he fell in love with both.

The dishes for dinner are very simple, only one is fried shredded pork with green peppers, and the others are vegetarian dishes, but the three of them are very satisfied, a large bowl of pumpkin meat is all divided by them, half of the pumpkin wine is drunk, and the rest is preserved, and I will drink it next time. Xiao Ke Baozi also ate a piece of pumpkin, but his face turned red, and his exhaled breath was drunk. Yao Huang drank three bowls of pumpkin wine, this wine was full of stamina, it was rare for her to get drunk, and she fell asleep as soon as she touched the pillow.

In the middle of the night, Yao Huang finally woke up, and the alcohol had been broken down by the aura in her body. Yao Huang sat cross-legged and breathed well, and soon entered a state of concentration.

The conscription order finally reached Anping County, and the whole county was gloomy, unless it was a rich family, how could an ordinary family come up with fifty taels of silver at one time. There are seventy or eighty families in Qingshui Village, and a total of more than 70 descendants have to join the army, but because they got the news early, every family has been prepared, and many families have worked hard and saved money, and finally scraped together enough 50 taels of silver. There were only about 20 young people who were requisitioned after the last requisition, all of whom had poor living conditions in their families, even if the Yao family had improved in the past two years, fifty taels was still an unattainable goal for their families, including Zeng Qinghua, the son of Zeng Auntie. Zhao Erniu is also in this group of people, and the conditions of their family, fifty taels of silver are not too difficult, and the village chief's family has already made it up. But Zhao Erniu didn't know what to think, so he didn't let the family pay the ransom money, but voluntarily entered the barracks.

Before leaving, Zhao Erniu said angrily to Aunt Hua who was crying, "Mother, don't worry, I will definitely earn your life and come back." ”

"Mother doesn't want any orders, Mother just needs you to come back safely." Aunt Hua is sad, why did this kid make a mistake, and the others didn't have time to hide, why did he concentrate on drilling into danger?

The same conversation also happened between Aunt Zeng and Zeng Qinghua, compared to Aunt Hua, Aunt Zeng is more helpless and sad, at least Aunt Hua is accompanied by her husband, eldest son and daughter-in-law, but Aunt Zeng is alone, her son is her biggest dependence, if her son can never come back, how can she live?

"Mother, I asked Uncle Amu to make various molds, and when the time comes, you only need to fill the mold with syrup, and you can make different sugar paintings." Zeng Aunt was not worried about Zeng Qinghua, Zeng Qinghua was not worried about his elderly mother, as early as when he knew the news of the conscription, Zeng Qinghua began to plan for his mother's life after he left, not only asked the people in the village who had a good relationship with him to help take care of his mother, but also changed the sugar painting into a wheelbarrow, so that Zeng Auntie could push the cart to do the sugar painting business, and she was not too tired to earn money to support her.

Aunt Zeng tried her best to hold back the tears that welled up in her eyes, she didn't want her son to worry about her after leaving, "Son, you must come back safely, my mother is waiting for you." ”

"Don't worry, mother! My son's kung fu is not bad now, and there is no problem in protecting himself. Zeng Qinghua comforted Aunt Zeng, but what he said was not an exaggeration, the young people in the village have a certain amount of martial arts, not as good as the people in the rivers and lakes, but in the ordinary soldiers, the skills are definitely up to three unambiguous, among which Zeng Qinghua and Zhao Erniu have the best kung fu, Zeng Qinghua is flexible, Zhao Erniu has great strength and solid skills.

"Protect yourself! My mother doesn't ask you to get ahead, she just asks you to be safe, my mother will give you money, and when you come back, my mother will marry you a daughter-in-law. ”

In the reluctance of their relatives, a group of young people left Qingshui Village, and the whole village fell into a low ebb for a while, in addition to the fear of their relatives, there was also the fear of the imminent war. The whole village was shrouded in a sluggish and anxious atmosphere, and even the children were not interested in studying, and Chiba punished several children who deserted from class, but the situation still did not improve. Of course, Wenren Chiba was only symbolically punishing these students, and he understood the villagers' concerns.

The boys are not in the mood to have fun, like Yao Qing, in addition to learning literature and martial arts every day, they don't follow Erhuzi and his gang to play crazy, and they sit at home in a daze all day long, so that Yao Huang can't kick him twice. Let him go out to play, the stinky boy replied that he was not in the mood, but he was helpless to hate. Later, Yao Huang tempted Yao Qing with good food, and learned from him that it was not that they didn't want to play, but that they had played all the games and felt bored, so they didn't know what to play.

Yao Huang stretched out his finger and poked Yao Qing's head, "Wait!" Yao Qing walked into his room with admiration and expectation.

When he came out of the room, Yao Huang held a ball the size of a large blue and white bowl, made of pigskin.

"Second sister, what is this?" Yao Qing asked curiously, poking at the ball.

"Football."

"What is football?"

"Literally, it's a ball kicked with your feet."

"Why don't you call it a foot ball?"

"If Rory asks him nonsense, I won't teach you to play football......" (To be continued......)