"Brother Xiaoxu, you are so amazing!" Gathered at the edge of a small puddle, a group of children praised Chen Xu vigorously.

"What is this?" Chen Xu shook his head slightly, and with a slight mention of the bamboo pole in his hand, a fist-sized frog was hung on the twine and was fished, and before it had time to escape on the grass beside him, it was grabbed by the two children who had been waiting for a long time and put it into a closed fish basket woven with fine rattan next to it.

Four or five hours have passed since he woke up, and Chen Xu has not eaten a mouthful of hot food.

After rescuing Chen Jiang, he felt that his whole body was about to collapse from hunger, not only him, but the whole family was still in a state of hunger.

There was nothing to eat at home except for half a scoop of soybeans, so Chen Xu could only rely on himself and decided to find food from nature by himself.

The Great Qin Empire in the two hundred years BC, except for the few people, there are many other animals that can not be described in words, especially in their remote mountains and villages, not to mention other beasts, fish and frogs in the ditches, snakes and rabbits in the grass, wild birds in the mountains and forests are everywhere, as long as you are willing to work hard, there is endless game in spring, summer, autumn and winter, but the premise is to be able to catch.

For example, frogs are everywhere, but if you want to catch one in a ditch pond with your bare hands and feet, it is almost the same as the probability of picking up money while walking, and you need to be extremely agile, and the number of catches in a day without tools cannot replenish the physical energy consumed back.

There is also fishing, all kinds of fish in the ditch, even in the depth of the water dozens of catties of big fish, although everyone knows that the fish is delicious and nutritious, but the lack of fishing tools, can only be a visitor to the abyss fish, occasionally catch one or two to improve the life can be, but want to use the fish to maintain a life that is absolutely impossible.

Therefore, the primitive state of survival of capturing wild animals is gradually abandoned by human beings, and is replaced by reclaiming farmland to plant crops, although the planting time is long and the yield is not high, but the victory lies in the stable output, as long as there is no disaster year of drought and flood, the crops generally planted will get a relatively stable harvest, so spring ploughing and autumn harvest have become the typical characteristics of Chinese farming civilization, and farming has also allowed human beings to gradually move from the mountains to the plains, and the survival and the land are firmly tied together.

Ten minutes later, Chen Xu threw the fishing rod in his hand and said, "Dashi, you guys fish, I'm going back to cook dinner for my mother and sister!" ”

"Hey, good!" The young man was so excited that he hurriedly grabbed the fishing rod that Chen Xu looked so simple that it couldn't be simpler anymore, and then began to follow Chen Xu's example and start fishing for frogs in a serious way.

And Chen Xu went home with a half-basket of lively frogs.

After changing the medicine twice in a row and drinking two bowls of medicine, Chen Jiang's poisoning symptoms basically disappeared completely, except for the calf and a little swollen, there was no abnormality in his mental state and physical condition, and he was sitting in the yard with his daughter cleaning up a bunch of wild vegetables at this time.

"Brother, what did you catch and come back!" The little girl dropped the wild vegetables in her hand and came up to meet her.

"Oh~" Chen Xu opened the lid of the fish basket, and with a grunt, a big frog jumped out, but was slapped back by Chen Xu.

"Wow, it's a frog, so fat!" The little girl shouted excitedly, and then took Chen Xu's hand and pulled it in front of Chen Jiang, "Mother, my brother has caught a lot of frogs and come back, and you can eat minced meat at night!" ”

Chen Xu wiped his forehead, it's okay, it's okay, it turns out that ancient people were also called frogs.

Chen Jiang was also very excited, although his son fell from a tree and was in a coma for three days, and it seemed that he couldn't remember anything before, he didn't seem to have become stupid, not only cured his snake venom, but also was able to catch so many frogs to solve the problem of eating for the family.

Chen Jiang's eyes turned red again.

It seems that the son has been in a coma for a few days and has become much more sensible when he wakes up.

Could it be that God is going to favor our family?

"Little sister, go find a knife for me!" Chen Xu looked around, but he couldn't find a tool to peel the frog.

"Brother, here!" The little girl happily ran to the eaves and pulled out a knife from the crack in the wall and handed it to Chen Xu.

Then Chen Xu looked at the bronze dagger with no handle and rust, and fell into thought for a long time.

He was deeply skeptical that this knife could kill frogs!

But it seems that only this thing can be used at the moment, so Chen Xu sat on a stone, grabbed a frog from the fish basket, cut the frog's neck back and forth with a bronze dagger, and sure enough, found that the skin was not broken, and then tried to stab the frog's belly with the tip of the knife, the frog was poked and only rolled his eyes, Chen Xu was also angry and only rolled his eyes, and finally sighed and threw the knife on the ground.

Is this a knife? Blind to this mighty title.

However, even without a knife, he couldn't stop his desire for food at this time, and Chen Xu quickly retrieved a few spikes that were ten centimeters long from outside the courtyard.

This kind of tree thorns are extremely hard, grow on the saponaria tree, and it is also a traditional Chinese medicine, Chen Xu has not crossed the front of the old house There is a big one, the old man also likes to pick up the fallen honey locust to wash clothes and wash hair, it is a very common tree in the countryside.

Grabbed a frog from the fish basket again, looking at a mark on the frog's neck and a few red dots on its belly, Chen Xu mourned for the frog for three seconds, and then ...... A long thorn pierced the frog's head and pinned it to the trunk of the almond tree.

Half an hour later, a pile of peeled snow-white frog meat was piled up in a broken tile basin, almost three catties in size.

Chen Jiang also cleaned up the wild vegetables.

There was no special kitchen at home, and a simple stove made of a few stones was in the open space next to the thatched hut, and the little girl was very skilled in lighting the fire with flint, adding firewood, and soon the fire was blazing.

There is no pot, and there is only one crockpot for cooking.

And there is no seasoning, only a little salt, and the oil is even more gone.

Since Dad Chen Hu joined the army, the family has hardly eaten meat again, even fish are rarely eaten, Chen Jiang will not catch, occasionally the village people look at a family of three pitiful, catch a roe deer and elk and other large beasts, will also give them some, but the food in this era is very scarce, so this kind of opportunity is also very rare, can not be met twice a year, so the family has been malnourished for a long time, otherwise Chen Xu's predecessor would not have climbed to the tree to dig the bird's nest and fell down, digging the bird's nest is not fun, It's just trying to get a few eggs.

Add water to the clay pot, put all the frog meat in it, then add a little salt and put it on the stove to start cooking.

"Little sister is optimistic about the fire, I'll go out!"

Chen Xu saw that it was still early, and it was about an hour before it got dark, so he put the frog's head and internal organs into the fish basket after a word of advice, and then carried it out.

"Xu'er be careful!" Although Chen Jiang didn't know what his son was doing when he went out, he still gave a word of advice.

"Brother come back early!" The little girl also shouted softly, and then looked at the stove intently.