Chapter 51 Grain Reserves

The sound of "uh" sounded, it was the sound of Li Yangqing's stomach being too full and burping.

"Hahaha...... Yangqing girl, this is the first time I've seen you burp too much!" Sun Liya pointed at Li Yangqing's stomach and smiled "hehehe", Li Yangqing saw that both of them were staring at him, and lowered his head with some redness.

Sun Chong was embarrassed when he saw Li Yangqing, and explained: "Isn't this too delicious made by Yangqing!" I'm exhausted! Hehe! ”

"Yes, yes, yes, I shouldn't laugh at Yangqing girl, but you've been acting like a little adult, and I think it's a little cute to see you act like this! Hey, hey, hey! Sun Liya continued to tease.

Li Yangqing raised his somewhat reddened face, relying on his young age, and counterattacked: "Really? That powerful sister, you are cute. ”

The three of them were too full to eat, so they rested for two quarters of an hour while Li Yangqing and Sun Liya were laughing at each other.

"Alright, enough rest, it's time for us to do something! I've cut the meat into small pieces, so I'll be ready to cut it into thumb-sized pieces in a minute. "As the only elder here, Sun Chong has spoken, and everyone has rested enough, knowing that the meat can't be left for a long time, and tonight will be finished after staying up late.

Li Yangqing has a sickle and a kitchen knife, Sun Chong has a kitchen knife himself, and he can only cut meat for two people, and Li Yangqing is responsible for cooking their cut meat jerky, as well as filtering and drying the jerky.

In this way, I was busy until the second half of the night, and I haven't finished it yet, so it seems that I won't be able to get out of the hole tomorrow, so I have to deal with these dried meat and wild vegetables and mushrooms first.

"I'm so sleepy, let's rest! Wake up early tomorrow and do things again. Sun Chong looked at the moon outside the cave, and saw that Li Yangqing, who was not light, was tired, and both of them blinked and dozed off from time to time, so he proposed to rest and do it tomorrow.

After Sun Chong finished speaking, the two put down their work, went to the grass nest in the corner to lie down, closed their eyes for a moment and the shallow snoring gradually started, Sun Chong did not go to sleep immediately, but packed up his things, added firewood before sleeping in the grass nest.

The next day, when the sky was just dawning, Sun Chong woke up, Sun Chong did not dare to sleep like the two of them, only dared to sleep lightly, after all, it was in the mountains and forests, and it was necessary to pay attention to the movement outside at any time and beware of danger.

Sun Chong saw that the two were asleep, and did not wake up the two, so he started to cook by himself, and added some wild vegetables and mushrooms to the remaining half of the pig's blood from yesterday and cooked them together.

The two of them woke up in a blur, smelling the aroma of food, they both opened their eyes energetically, cleaned themselves up and sat down by the fire, "Uncle Chong, you got up really early, and you cooked for us to eat." ”

"You children should sleep more, my cooking skills are not as good as yours, and if it is not delicious, you should also enjoy it."

"Second uncle, for us, being able to eat enough is better than the discomfort of being hungry, and the taste is Xiao Cai's plate, hehe!" Li Liya grabbed the chopsticks and put the vegetables in her mouth.

The three of them quickly ended the morning meal, Sun Liya and Sun Chong continued to cut meat, Li Yangqing looked at the dried meat that was roasted on the shelf on the side, and felt good, and used the basket to collect a batch of dishes and put them on the shelf outside the cave entrance to prepare for the sun to dry them later, leaving some fresh wild vegetables and mushrooms to eat today and tomorrow, and the others were also put outside to prepare for drying and storage in the next few days.

After these were done, Li Yangqing poured the salted water into the pot and began to cook the cut jerky, and after a batch of cooked meat was out of the pot, the cooked jerky was filtered and filtered first, and then put it on the shelf and slowly roasted it over the fire, so that the same steps were repeated batch after batch, until the ugly time of the evening, and finally all the jerky was put on the shelf and began to roast.

Tomorrow only need to be taken outside to dry for a few days, this morning's dried meat, wild vegetables, mushrooms have been received in the hole early, so as not to get wet outside at night, the three of them did not cook, so they ate some boiled jerky that night, and fell asleep after eating.

Today, the three of them got up very early, Li Yangqing and Sun Liya began to make morning food, Sun Chong put the roasted dried meat, fungus, mushrooms and other wild vegetables outside to dry, since the rainstorm some time ago, the sun came out every day during this time, there was no rain, the day was so good, it was a good time to dry things.

Today's morning food is relatively light, Li Yangqing boiled mushroom fungus soup with water, added a little bit of dried rabbit meat that Sun Chong hit last time, ate one when he was alive, and the rest was smoked and dried, just added to enhance the taste, Li Yangqing was reluctant to add more, he has eaten more meat recently, and it is right to save more in the future.

Now there are more than 20 catties of dried mushrooms and fungus and a smoked rabbit in the cave, the purslane and mushrooms picked a few days ago are still drying, and the pig offal is still being smoked, Li Yangqing has not added salt, and now there is not much salt, the dried meat is kept for later eating, and the smoked pig offal and rabbit are responsible for the daily consumption during this time.

Sun Chong finished his work and began to eat morning food, "I'm going to go out alone today to see if I can catch some small animals or pick some wild vegetables back, and the two of you will stay in the cave to guard and dry the dried meat and these dry foods, don't run around outside, wait for me to come back." ”

"Okay, then Uncle Chong, you have to be careful, if you can't hit the prey, just pick more wild vegetables, don't take risks, and rely on you to take us out in the future!" Li Yangqing was not at ease.

Sun Chong nodded, put on his back a basket and a bow and arrows, and walked out of the cave with a tiger head fork and walked towards the mountain forest, Li Yangqing and the others sent him outside the cave, and watched him until they couldn't see him, and then the two returned to the cave.

From time to time, the two of them went out of the cave to turn over the jerky, wild vegetables and mushrooms, and at other times both of them used vines to weave back baskets in the cave.

The two of them were busy until the night, the back basket was also prepared, a fire had been lit in the cave, Sun Chong had not come back, the two of them were a little anxious wandering at the entrance of the cave, looking at the black mountains and forests, looking forward to Sun Chong's appearance, "Sister Liya, let's make dinner first!" Uncle Chong will definitely come back, maybe it's too dark on the road and delayed! ”

"Okay, let's do it now, and when the second uncle comes back, we can eat a hot meal immediately."

Sun Liya took Li Yangqing's hand to the stone stove, Li Yangqing was going to stew pig offal tonight, although this thing was smoked, it was easy to spoil without salt, and when the water in the pot boiled, the cut offal was put in one go, and some mushrooms were added to improve the freshness, sprinkled with some salt and stirred, and simmered slowly over low heat.

Sun Liya paid attention to the movement outside while lighting the fire, and the sound of "click" came, as if something was stepping on a branch, Sun Liya guessed that Sun Chong might have come back, looked up and said to Li Yangqing who was looking at the pot intently: "Sister Yangqing, I heard the voice, it should be the second uncle coming back, let's go out and have a look." ”

"Okay." Li Yangqing smoked a burning firewood in the fire as a torch for lighting, took Sun Liya's hand and walked to the entrance of the cave, and as soon as he arrived at the entrance of the cave, he met Sun Chong, who was about to come in.

"Uncle Chong, you're back."

"Second uncle, come in, I'll help you get it." Sun Liya took a bundle of dry firewood that Sun Chong was holding and put it in the corner.

Li Yangqing followed Sun Chong into the cave with a torch, Sun Chong put down the bow and arrow and the tiger head fork and handed it to Li Yangqing to put it away, squatted down and put down the back basket, and sat on the ground to rest.

The two people who hadn't seen Sun Chong for a day, and when they saw Sun Chong coming back, they felt a sense of security and dependence, and they all surrounded Sun Chong.

"Second uncle, why is your face hurt? His clothes were torn. After Sun Chong sat down, the two of them clearly saw that Sun Chong had a few bleeding wounds on his face, and there were also wounds on his hands, as if they had been cut by something, and his clothes seemed to have been torn open by something.

"Uncle Chong, have you encountered something? Are you injured anywhere else? I'll get some medicine for you. Li Yangqing got up and went to the corner to pick up his cloth bag, found out the wound medicine that Sun Chong had treated his trauma last time, and hurriedly ran to the two of them.

Li Yangqing sprinkled some medicinal powder on Sun Chong's injured face and hands, looking at the wound, it was not deep, but it looked a little scary.

Sun Chong looked at the two pairs of concerned eyes looking at him, "Don't worry, I didn't encounter any big danger today, I just found a few pheasants in one place, chased them for a while, and I saw that I could catch the pheasants, I didn't look at the road under my feet, I stepped on the air and rolled into the thorns under the hillside from the inside, scratched my hands and face, and my clothes were cut, although I was injured, the pheasants were also forced into the thorn bushes by me, and after they couldn't fly around, I spent some time shooting them with a bow and arrow, and it took some time and effort to get them out, You see I've caught three pheasants! I also picked some mushrooms and wild vegetables. Sun Chong stretched out his hand and put down the back basket beside him to show the two.

"There really are three pheasants! That's great! Sun Liya exclaimed happily.

"That's good, since Uncle Chong didn't suffer other injuries, the meal is ready, Uncle Chong should be hungry too, I'll serve you food!" Li Yangqing got up and put the wound medicine first, then came to the pot, began to cook, gave Sun Chong a big bowl full of chopsticks, and brought it to Sun Chong, Sun Chong thanked him and took it and ate it.

Li Yangqing and Sun Liya went to the fire to eat around the pot, the pig offal simmered over low heat is different, the soup is delicious, more chewy than pork, plus the reason for smoking, there is a grass aroma, and the three of them are very satisfied.

In this way, the men were busy on the mountain for another week, packed their luggage and dry food, carried baskets one by one, brought weapons, and prepared to set off for the descent in one morning.

The mountains and forests in the morning are shrouded in heavy fog, a white expanse, and the ghosts are intertwined with the trees, like a confused dream, the eyes can only see within three zhang, accompanied by the sound of insects and birds, occasionally mixed with the cries of unknown animals, a breeze blows, the fog spreads a piece, the face of the person is gently blown away by the wind to break the veil, the vision is terrifying, the close view is the tree that grows arbitrarily.

"Click, click", the dead branches and broken trees under the feet were stepped out of rhythm by the feet of the three people, and the soil that had been shrouded in shadows for many years was soft, and I often worried that my feet would be sunk in.

"Uncle Chong, when will the sun come out? The mountains and forests without the sun are terrible, and I don't know when the fog will disperse? Li Yangqing mentioned his throat and looked nervously at the trees shrouded in white mist not far in front of him, the most fearful thing for people is the unknown, and he doesn't know where he will go next.

Sun Chong, who took the lead, didn't look back, but just clenched the tiger head fork in his hand even more, "Don't worry, I'm here!" I'm familiar with the way back, I'll take you out, the mountains and forests are not like outside, the sun should have come out outside, the sun is not strong in the morning, the sun is blocked by the dense growth of trees, it can't shine in, and it will be good in the morning. ”