Chapter 7: Poria Cocos
"Grandma, second uncle, grandma, second uncle." Huang Yiyun sat in place, a little uncomfortable, and slowly stood up and shouted.
"Big sister, why did you fall into the thorny ravine, be careful, grandma helped you out." Huang Li was the closest to Huang Yiyun, and after hearing the shout of the eldest sister, he came after a while.
Seeing that the eldest sister had blood marks on her face, and her bare hands and feet were pierced by those thorns, Huang Li said quite distressedly.
"Grandma, don't come down, the eldest sister will climb up by herself, these thistles are strange and prick people, when the time comes, the eldest sister will feel distressed, grandma, you see, what is this." Huang Yiyun lifted the back basket behind him forward and handed it to Huang Li.
"Are these pheasants and wild eggs? Big sister, you caught it. Huang Yiyun was carrying a basket behind him, Huang Li didn't see it, at this time, after seeing the eldest sister grabbing a pheasant and a few eggs, Huang Li's face showed joy.
took the back basket handed over by the eldest sister, lifted it up, and then pulled the eldest sister up.
Huang Li carefully plucked the thorn thistle from the eldest sister's body.
"Grandma, don't be busy, look at what else is under the back basket." Huang Yiyun took Huang Li's busy hand, pulled the back basket, and showed Huang Li's soil cocos that he had excavated.
"Big sister, what is this, can you eat it." Huang Li took the soil poria root handed over by Huang Yiyun.
Huang Li first sniffed it, then wiped it with his sleeve, and then carefully peeled the skin of the soil cocos with a firewood knife, put it in his mouth and took a small bite to eat it, Huang Li's eyes lit up and said, "Big sister, where did you find this thing?" ”
"This is when the eldest sister is resting on a tree trunk, and when she sees a vine wrapped around the trunk, she pulls it out casually, grandma, look there, and there is more." Huang Yiyun had already thought of his words, and out of the corner of his eye, after seeing that there was a vine with Poria cocos on the side of a big tree, he changed the topic and pointed to the vine road.
"Big sister, you rest first, grandma will dig." After Huang Li heard the eldest sister say that these edible roots were dug out from the bottom of the vines, Huang Li suddenly became energetic, picked up the hoe and immediately dug carefully.
At this time, the second uncle heard Huang Yiyun's shouting voice and also looked for him.
After seeing what Huang Li was digging, he hurriedly stepped forward and helped Huang Li dig up.
After Huang Li's mother and son dug up the edible soil poria roots, they were overjoyed, looked around, and hurriedly looked for the vines of the soil poria.
It's just that the nearby Poria cocos have been dug up a lot by Huang Yiyun, not to mention, plus this year's drought and lack of water, many Poria cocos have also been killed by drought, not to mention, even the surviving Poria cocos are a little thin.
The three of them worked for most of the day, digging a basket full of soil and poria roots, and if there was no more, some of the nearby ones were dug clean.
Harvesting a basket of soil poria is enough for their family to eat for more than a month, plus there are more than 100 pieces of river mussels, with these foods, this winter is enough for their family to survive, and when everything grows and wild vegetables grow in the next spring, at least until next autumn, they don't have to worry about starving to death.
"Mother, uncle, eldest sister, you are back. Big sister, what's wrong with you? Outside the door, after Huang Liu's saw Huang and Li's three people come back, Huang Liu's hurriedly greeted him.
But after seeing the scratches and blood stains on the eldest sister's face, Huang Liu suddenly wiped the scratches on Huang Yiyun in distress.
"Grandma, second uncle (father) eldest sister." A few little dolls in the family were playing on the side, and after seeing the three of Huang and Li come back, they surrounded them one by one, looking at the back basket behind the three of them.
There was a look of longing and anticipation on their faces.
A few babies are young, and they also hope that grandma and they can bring back food when they go out, so that their family will not starve.
"Mother, my daughter is fine, now that the weather is cold, stay in the house if you have nothing to do, don't come out, lest my daughter feel distressed after getting sick when she gets cold. And a few of you little ones, in the future, don't play in the yard, if you want to play, go to the house to toss, lest you get sick when the time comes, and you will be comfortable. Huang Yiyun shook Huang Liu's hand, and after seeing that Huang Liu's hand was cold, Huang Yiyun suddenly felt a little distressed.
Now that autumn is in the near future, I am afraid that it will snow heavily.
The boss's family, who came and went, only had two or three clothes that could be changed, two sets of summer clothes, and one set of cotton jackets.
The cotton jacket is still patched with cotton for many years, and it doesn't care about warmth at all.
"The eldest sister is right, it's okay in the future, don't go out of the house, the house is also burned on the kang, today the eldest sister found a basket of food for our family, and this winter can be passed." Huang Li also agreed with what the eldest sister said.
Now that the weather is getting colder, and there are no clothes to avoid the cold, in case it is cold, no one sees a doctor, and there is no medicine, don't say adults, children can't bear it, there is a case, I'm afraid that people will be gone.
"Today's daughter-in-law is late to see your mother, so I came out to greet her, and my daughter-in-law will not be in the future." Huang Liu nodded and replied.
also knows that Huang Li is for the good of himself and his children.
Huang Liu said as he unloaded the basket from Huang Conghe.
After seeing that inside the back basket were pieces of black roots the size of an adult's finger, Huang Liu asked Huang Li, "Mother, how to deal with these." ”
"Mother, after these are washed with water, just put them aside to dry, if we want to eat them in the future, cut them directly and cook them with the river mussels, or, after we roast them over the fire, they should taste similar to those of eating sweet potatoes." Huang Yiyun saw Huang Li looking at him, and hurriedly said to Huang Liu.
"Okay, my mother knows, my mother will take it in, wash it, and dry it." Huang Liu picked up the basket and went directly to the kitchen.
"Hey, big sister, is this a pheasant? How did you catch it? After the sixth sister Huang Yizhi heard the 'cluck' sound from the back basket behind her eldest sister, the sixth sister walked behind the eldest sister, looked up, and saw a big pheasant in the back basket, and said a little excitedly.
"I just grabbed it with my hand. However, this pheasant can't be eaten for the time being, so why don't we raise it first? In the future, it will be fed to the sixth sister." Huang Yiyun smiled and scratched the sixth sister's nose and replied.
"Sister, and me, I also feed the chickens. The seventh brother helps the sixth sister. In the past, the elder brothers and sisters at the head of the family had something to do, only himself and the sixth sister rested at home, and now the seventh brother saw that the sixth sister had something to do, and the seventh brother hurriedly raised his hand and said.
Not to mention how cute it is.
"Okay, you feed the chickens with the sixth sister, but when you walk, don't go too fast, be careful of falling." Huang Yiyun touched the seventh brother's withered yellow hair, and said with some sadness.
Now the seventh brother is four years old, but the child was born less than two years ago, there was a famine, he couldn't dress warmly and couldn't eat, and now he is four years old, he looks like he is only two or three years old, he has just learned to walk, and his walking is not very stable.
"Uh-huh. The seventh brother knows. Seventh brother Huang Yiwen nodded a little happily.
Looking at Huang Yiyun from the side, it was a little scary, afraid that the huge head would be directly broken off from the small neck.