Chapter 2: Roasted voles

"Oh, I'm impulsive, porridge is also rice, it's better than being hungry." Back in the room, Wei Yan immediately regretted it, but let him go back with a cheeky face, he would rather starve to death.

"Let's sleep, you won't be hungry when you sleep." Wei Yan closed his eyes, thinking about the meat buns wasted in his previous life, his saliva flowed, and with the hunger in his abdomen, he couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning.

"Squeak~"

Wei Yan heard the sound of the door opening, turned over and sat up.

"Mother."

Wei Yan's mother is a woman in her early thirties, even if she wears a coarse cloth shirt, she does not hide her beautiful appearance, although the hard work leaves her with a tiredness, but it adds a bit of mature charm, it is conceivable that when she was young, she must be a beauty who can make countless young men dream.

"Yan'er, you're hungry." Wei's mother opened a handkerchief, took out a vegetable cake mixed with coarse grains, and put it down in Wei Yan's hand.

"Ah, it's a vegetable cake, it's so fragrant!" Wei Yan was really hungry, so he didn't think much about it, picked up the vegetable cake, took a hard bite, and swallowed it into his stomach without chewing a few times.

With something in his stomach, Wei Yan felt better, and only then did he remember to ask his mother: "Mother, where did this vegetable cake come from?" Have you eaten? ”

"Eat, mother is not hungry." Mother Wei touched Wei Yan's head lovingly.

Wei Yan's hand holding the vegetable cake hung down, lowered his head, and tears rolled in his eyes.

"Mother, you're going to wash other people's clothes again."

"Yan'er, what's the matter with my mother doing some washing, washing and mending work, you can eat quickly, when you grow up, your mother can enjoy happiness."

"Hmmm! Mother, I will definitely get ahead and let my mother live a good life. ”

"I believe that my Yan'er will definitely get ahead." Mother Wei looked at Wei Yan, her eyes were full of satisfaction and pride.

"Mother, don't go and wash other people's clothes, my uncle said that he can find me a job, and when I go to work, I can support my mother after I earn money, and then we will move out of the Wei family, and we don't have to look at their faces anymore." Wei Yan said.

"My stupid son, we can't drink the northwest wind when we move out from here, my grandparents who stay here can give us food and don't let us starve to death, and my mother can save some money by washing other people's clothes, and send you out to school in the future."

Mother Wei stayed for a while and left.

After Wei's mother left, Wei Yan looked at the vegetable cake in his hand, and he no longer had the joy he had at the beginning, but he still swallowed the vegetable cake into his stomach one by one, like swallowing bitterness.

"You can't get by like this anymore, you have to find a way out." Wei Yan walked out of the room, wanting to go out for a walk, and by the way, relieve his depressed mood.

"Yo, take a look, isn't this the ambitious Wei Yan?"

"No matter how ambitious you are, it's not about living in our house and eating our food!"

Wei Yan didn't need to look at it to know who these two sneering people were.

"You two are looking for a beating, right?" Wei Yan rolled up his sleeves and looked at Wei Xu and Wei Shen.

"Just you?" Wei Xu sneered, "Heizi come here!" ”

A black dog slid away, jumped out from behind the two of them, and grinned at Wei Yan.

"You said that you are different from a dog, you don't even know who your father is, and you are also worthy of the surname Wei!" With this dog in front of Wei Xu, Wei Xu also had the confidence to speak.

"You're looking for death!" Wei Yan looked at Wei Xu coldly.

"Wei Yan, just because you want to eat mutton too?" Wei Xu said and took out a small piece of mutton and threw it in front of the sunspot, "In my opinion, you are not even as good as a dog." ”

Heizi rolled the mutton into his mouth in one bite, wagged his tail and circled around Wei Xu, causing Wei Xu to laugh.

"You wait for me, sooner or later I'll stew your dog for you!" Although Wei Yan was angry, he also knew that he couldn't be impulsive, and it wasn't worth fighting with a dog.

"Don't go! I'll see what you can do with me! Wei Xu looked at the departing Wei Yan, still sneering.

"It's just a personal dog fight!" Wei Yan took a sip and walked away.

Leaving the Wei family, Wei Xu spit out a breath of bad luck in his chest, and unconsciously walked to the place where he was basking in the sun in the morning.

By this time, the sun had already set in the west, dyeing the horizon a layer of golden yellow.

Wei Yan found a stone and sat down, leaning on his body, wanting to carefully plan for the future.

"Brother Wei Yan." A crisp voice like a silver bell called Wei Yan back.

"It's Qingqing." Wei Yan looked back and found that Qingqing didn't know when he came to his side.

Qingqing walked lightly to Wei Yan's side, squatted beside him, and said timidly: "Brother Wei Yan, did you bring mutton?" ”

Wei Yan was embarrassed, he couldn't tell Qingqing about his family, it was too shameless.

"The mutton is gone, Brother Wei Yan will make it up for you next time, so that you can eat enough at one time." Wei Yan blushed and threw empty checks.

To be honest, Wei Yanwei was very embarrassed, Qingqing was so good to him, but he killed her, and he secretly made up his mind that he must compensate Qingqing.

"Oh." Qingqing agreed softly, and anyone could see her loss.

Although Qingqing is a very sensible child, it is also a child's nature to be greedy, she has never eaten meat a few times when she is so old, and when Wei Yan said that she would bring her mutton to eat, she was excited for a long time.

Now that the expected mutton is gone, it is inevitable that she will be disappointed.

"Qingqing, don't worry, Brother Wei Yan will definitely talk this time, and it won't take long to get you mutton to eat, um, or other meat." Wei Yan made a discount, in fact, he didn't have that much confidence, after all, this was living in ancient times, and those previous survival skills were useless at all.

"Well, I believe Brother Wei Yan." Qingqing nodded, happy again.

"Huh." Wei Yan touched Qingqing's head and smirked.

"Brother Wei Yan, look, I dug up a few wild potatoes again, let's eat wild potatoes." Qingqing took out four wild potatoes and put them in front of Wei Yan.

Qingqing's mother died of dystocia when she gave birth to her, and her father married her a stepmother, but the stepmother treated her very badly and often didn't give her food.

Qingqing takes advantage of the winter to dig up more wild potatoes and store them, because once the snow freezes, it will be difficult to find something to eat.

So Wei Yan didn't want to eat Qingqing's things, but Qingqing repeatedly asked, Wei Yan had no choice, so he had to say that he would bake two, one for each of them.

Qingqing was very happy and took the initiative to find firewood, although it was barren here, there was no shortage of trees, so after a while, Qingqing brought a large bundle.

As soon as the two of them started a fire, they met a flock of sheep, and a very stocky young man beckoned to them: "Wei Yan, Qingqing~"

"Junko, you're back from herding sheep, come here, we're planning to roast wild potatoes to eat." Wei Yan happily beckoned to the young man.

"Hey, hey, you see what good stuff I've brought." Junko ran over after pushing the sheep aside.

"What? Brother. Qingqing leaned over curiously.

The Shunzi in Wei Yan's mouth is Gao Shun, who is also Qingqing's brother.

When Wei Yanwei came up, Gao Shun took out a black thing from the small bamboo basket hanging from his waist.

"Ah, it's a mouse," Qingqing screamed and hurriedly ran away, "My brother is dead, use rats to scare people." ”

"Haha, Qingqing, don't be afraid, this vole has been killed by me, don't bite." Gao Shun said.

"I said straight, that's what you call the good stuff? Tease me? Wei Yan looked at the mouse in Gao Shun's hand with a look of disgust.

"This is a vole, it's delicious to roast and eat."

"What! You're going to eat rats! ”

"What's wrong? You're not afraid of rats, are you? ”

"Nonsense, how could I be afraid of mice! But can this rat eat it? ”

Wei Yan has an innate resistance to eating mice.

"The vole is delicious, this is what I finally caught, I guarantee that you will eat it once and want to eat it a second time." Gao Shun said as he took out a few more mice from the bamboo basket, a total of four.

The four rats were not very large, they were a little thin, and the largest was only the size of a palm.

There was a famine everywhere, and there was nothing for the rats to eat.

Gao Shun skillfully disemboweled the rat and cleaned the internal organs by the river next to him.

Firewood is ready-made, so there is no need to be busy.

Gao Shun's methods are so old that it is not the first time he has done this kind of thing, and he does not use other tools, he directly throws the mouse into the fire, and turns it over from time to time with a wooden stick.

The pungent fragrance immediately came out, desperately burrowing into the noses of the three of them.

Wei Yan's throat rolled and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

After the rat is skinned, the remaining meat is very small, so it cooks quickly.

Gao Shun pulled them out of the fire with a wooden stick, and they looked like black masses, and their claws were charred.

Gao Shun picked one up and threw it to Wei Yan, Wei Yan resisted in his heart, but finally couldn't resist the temptation, and carefully tore off a piece from his hind leg and put it in his mouth, once it was not delicious, he would spit it out immediately.

"Well, it's delicious, it's delicious." Wei Yan almost didn't bite his tongue off.

The rat meat is so delicious, it smells good, and it tastes even more delicious.

"Qingqing." Gao Shun took another big one and handed it to his sister.

"I don't want it." Qingqing turned away and shook her head vigorously.

"I'll eat this." At this time, the wild potatoes are almost ripe.

"Okay, then you can eat wild potatoes, Wei Yan and I are two of us." Gao Shun saw that Qingqing didn't eat, so he divided the vole with Wei Yan.

"Junko, where did you catch the vole? Shall we catch it tomorrow? I'll go with you. Wei Yan finished eating his share, and he was still a little unsatisfied.

"How can there be so many voles, I have been staring at this litter of voles for several days, and I was almost taken out by others, if I wasn't clever, I would have been taken away by Xiaojin in the next village." Gao Shun said.

"Alas, it's not okay to do this, we have to find a way to get food, we can't go hungry anymore." Wei Yan said.

"It's easy for you to say, now there is a famine everywhere, I herd sheep for Landlord Liu's family, and I only take care of one meal a day, we are so small, where can we get food." Gao Shun said, throwing out the leftover rat head.

Wei Yan watched the black rat's head draw a beautiful parabola and landed not far away, and a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, remembering the sunspot who bared his teeth at him today.

"Kuroko, Kuroko, it's not that I'm ruthless, if you want to blame, blame the wrong master."

"What did you say?" Gao Shun didn't hear what Wei Yan said, and asked again.

"Do you want to eat dog meat?" Wei Yan hugged Gao Shun's shoulders and smiled evilly.

"What do you want to do?" Gao Shun gave a cold war.