Chapter Forty-Nine: Taste the herbs and potatoes
"Sister, I heard the news!"
At this moment, an abrupt boy's voice sounded, followed by hurried footsteps, and then a tiger-headed boy appeared at the door of the back garden and ran along the winding corridor in this direction.
This boy is none other than She Yu's younger brother, She Hu.
She Yu's eyes lit up, and she quickly turned around, with an excited expression on her face.
She Hu ran over in three steps and two steps, and walked in front of She Yu.
"How? Is there any news from my brother? ”
She Yu asked anxiously.
"Yes...... He is still alive, it is said that he and the county lord Zhao Wanqi were locked in the back garden of the East Wangfu in Youzhou Town, and escaped when the city of Youzhou was broken, and the two returned to Suide City, the county lord Zhao Wanqi was taken back to the post station and then returned to Luoyang, he then went somewhere, and after that, no one saw him again......"
She Hu finished knowing in one go, and then looked at She Yu in a daze, hesitated for a while, and asked Ai Ai.
"Sister, will he come to you?"
She Yu shook her head slightly...... Sighed.
"Even if he comes to Taiyuan City, what if Daddy and Auntie don't like him. Even if you return to our house because of your feelings, it won't change anything...... Xiaohu, you don't understand...... Go ahead...... Otherwise, A-Niang will let Chunhua come to you again......"
"Sister, I understand, actually...... In fact, A-Niang also misses him a little and feels very sorry for him...... It's mainly Daddy, since he accepted Mingzhu, it's like a different person...... Then I'll go back to practice martial arts first, I promised him, I want to protect you. ”
After She Hu said this, he turned around sullenly and went back along the corridor where he came......
She Yu smiled slightly, and after watching She Hu disappear, Fang turned around and walked straight to an old tree in front of him. This is a thick old locust tree, probably because of "malnutrition", and there are cracks everywhere on the torso.
She reached out with two slender fingers, poked through the gap, and then reached out, between them a one-inch-long, willow-leaf-shaped throwing knife.
"Auntie, give me three years, and I will protect him forever on your behalf!"
She Yu's wrist flicked, and the flying knife between her two fingers swished, detached from her wrist and turned into a streamer......
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The backyard of Shefu in the North Gate Bay of Suide City.
With a squeak, a door slowly opened, and a young man in a coarse cloth shirt walked out of the door, this young man was She Yi.
He had been living here for a few days, and no one dared to disturb him, there were not many people in the city, most of them lived near the west gate, one was convenient for the government to manage the relief, and the other was convenient for the courage to help each other.
So many people died in the city, and at night the ghosts cried and wolves howled, like a ghost town. Not only that, but wild wolves are often seen foraging in the city in the middle of the night. She Mansion is in the north of Suide City, where few people come here, at least She Yi hasn't seen anyone other than him in the days he has lived here.
The front yard of Shefu was a mess, and it was almost turned upside down by Xia Bing, and all the valuable things and food were looted. Fortunately, no one has touched the small kitchen in the backyard, there is a little food in the small kitchen, and no one has touched his and She Yu's room, he can just live in his own house.
In August, the weather starts to get cold and rainy, the grass in the yard is knee-high, and at night you can often hear the sound of wild cats and rats squirming.
She Yi was so bold that he was not afraid of these, and after finding his handful of soil in a dry well in the city, he concentrated on processing "bullets". This thing, but he will walk the rivers and lakes in the future and pretend to be a necessary artifact to step on people, and it will always be beneficial to get more bullets to carry.
Tomorrow is August 15, and he is thinking about going to Baishui Mountain to have a look. He remembers that he found potatoes there that day, the potatoes have a relatively short growing period and high yields, which are suitable for sowing in the north, and if this potato is popularized, at least it can ensure that these refugees have enough food and clothing for the previous years.
In addition, it is to put incense on the pillar and burn some paper by the way. It is said that he caused a landslide and buried 5,000 Xia troops alive. The killing intent is heavier, which is contrary to the harmony of heaven. Now in the willow forest beach, the yin qi is probably heavier than in the city......
As soon as the sky was bright, She Yi got up early, with Tuqiang stuffed around his waist and a dagger sack...... Walk towards the East Gate. In less than a stick of incense, he went out of the city gate, maybe there were many dead and wounded at the east gate and no one lived, and when She Yi went out of the city, he didn't even see the officers and soldiers guarding the gate.
After arriving at Liulin Beach, She Yi looked up at the entire Baishui Mountain, and the mountain close to Liulin Beach seemed to have been cut down with a knife and pressed underneath, forming a "small hill", like a huge tomb.
The original small lake was suppressed, and a new small lake was formed upstream, and the earth, stones, and coal pressed on it...... After a few months of wind and rain, it has changed its appearance, and new shrubs and weeds have grown on it.
After She Yi burned the incense paper, he muttered a few words casually, looked at the way up the mountain, and climbed straight up...... When I came to the mouth of the cave in my memory, I was already on the three poles. She Yi wiped the sweat from her forehead and began to look for potatoes.
This time, in addition to the original potato, She Yi also found one.
She Yi carefully shaved out five or six potatoes the size of a baby's fist, the last time I saw it in a hurry, I didn't look at it clearly, this time She Yi looked at it again and again, and found that these "potatoes" were still a little different from those "potatoes" in later generations.
These "potatoes" are relatively small in size and slightly greenish in color, and when you knock on it, they are hard...... She Yi thought for a while, could it be that this is not a potato? I remember that in later generations, potatoes were planted in the north, and most of them were stored in the cellar after being dug out to prevent them from being frozen and damaged. These "potatoes" grow in barren mountains and mountains, and no one plows them out in autumn, and when winter comes, the weather is cold and frozen.
Squatting on the ground and studying it again, I found a phenomenon that the location of these two "potatoes" is almost in the crack of the stone or under the stone, and the bottom layer of the root is a thick layer of coal.
Or maybe it's because of this special geographical location that they survive the winter......
I don't know if this "potato" is a potato of later generations, if you want to distinguish it, you can only tell after taking it home and tasting it. It is said that there is a legend that Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, and now I say that I She Yi tasted potatoes, and I don't know if I can leave a good story for future generations.
She Yi put away the potatoes and was about to look around again, but at this time, a gust of mountain wind blew, and a little girl's cry was faintly heard.
"Forehead ......"
She Yi looked up at the direction from which the voice came, pricked up her ears, and listened carefully again. The voice should be the voice of a seven or eight-year-old girl, I only heard her crying, not shouting for help or anything. This Baishui Mountain, in the northeast of Suide City, is rarely inhabited nearby, and this side of Baishui Mountain is a barren land, and there are no wild fruits and vegetables in the mountain, why is there a little girl?
Could it be that you climbed from the west side of the mountain and got lost in the mountain road?
She Yi thought for a moment and climbed in the direction of the cry. Nearly half an hour, She Yi finally came to the place where the cry came from.
It was a deep crater made by the flood, three or four meters deep, and under it sat a little girl in a tattered red coarse cloth shirt, and the little girl sat on the ground, looking up at it, and weeping, and beside her there was a small dry branch, and a few red fruits. After seeing She Yi's head poked over, he hurriedly put the fruit behind him, immediately stopped crying, and looked at She Yi nervously.
She Yi smiled.
"Little sister, you've fallen into it, and you're still thinking about the red fruit, so you're not afraid...... Can't get out? ”
The little girl rubbed her eyes with her hands, looked at She Yi carefully, and her eyes suddenly lit up.
"Are you...... You are Brother She Yi, I know you! They all said that you were a big hero, that you saved us, and that my family used to live near Beimen Bay...... A-Niang is sick, the doctor said, it can't be cured, you save A-Niang, okay......"
The little girl stood up and looked at She Yi with expectant eyes.