Chapter Seventy-Four: Digging Water Chestnuts and Catching Loaches

Shen Shuang carefully built the kiln with small yellow clay adobe stones, and then began to let Xiaoshan make a fire.

After handing over the task of burning the fire to Xiaoshan, Shen Shuang began to clean up the pheasant that she had slaughtered and emptied her belly, and she stuffed the ingredients she had taken from home, such as chopped ginger and garlic, sun-dried mushrooms, stirred salt and dried chili peppers, into the pheasant's belly, and smeared the whole body of the pheasant with coarse salt.

Because there was no tin foil, and there was no lotus leaf to be found for a while, Shen Shuang simply wrapped the pheasant with the cabbage leaves brought by the family, and after finishing all the work, the hill where the fire was burning there had almost burned the clods of soil to white.

Estimating that the time was about the same, Shen Shuang took out the firewood that had not been burned, and then pushed the pheasant that had been wrapped into the kiln with a stick, and also threw the sweet potatoes and potatoes he took from home into it before the kiln collapsed.

"Xiaoshan, help my sister cover these rocks with dirt."

Xiaoshan was already very curious when he stood aside and watched his sister take out a chicken from the back basket, but he didn't expect her to bury the delicious chicken in the ground.

Although he was a little anxious to know why he did this, he obediently helped to cover the hot stones with a layer of earth.

Shen Shuang breathed a sigh of relief, she was obese and sat on the ground after doing this, stretched out her hand to wipe her sweat, and saw Xiaoshan frowning and looking at the buried pheasant, she smiled and beckoned him over.

"Xiaoshan is very curious why my sister buried the pheasant in the soil?"

Xiaoshan nodded like garlic, and although he knew that the seeds planted in the ground would grow something delicious, he still felt strange to see the chickens buried in them.

"The little house we built just now is called a kiln, and when you heat it up, you can throw the chicken in it and use the heat of the clods to cook it, just like you would cook a meal."

Saying that, Shen Shuang paused again, and pretended to speak casually, "In the future, we will learn more about this knowledge when we study more in Xiaoshan." ”

Xiao Shan was stunned, thinking of the torn thousand-character text, his eyes were a little gloomy, Shen Shuang touched his head, thinking that it would take more than half an hour for this kiln chicken to dig out, so he pulled him up, "Let's go, let's go with my sister to see if there is any fruit nearby." ”

The little wolf cub had already run to the side to catch the little dragonfly when the hill was busy, and it was having a lot of fun at this time, Shen Shuang called it, and the little thing ran over with little short legs with joy, and then the two wolves went to the vicinity and began to wander around.

The area is full of damp swamps, low-lying areas and overgrown with weeds, and it makes sense that people from Xishan Village don't dare to come here, because if you're not careful, you might fall into it.

Shen Shuang naturally didn't dare to take risks, after all, she was fat, and if she really fell into it, she would definitely die, so she was also very cautious when walking, but fortunately, there was a little wolf cub in front of her to explore the way, and Shen Shuang found that as long as she followed it, she was not afraid.

Although it is dangerous here, Shen Shuang, who has learned biology, is rich in animal and plant resources in the swamp, there are reeds by the lake to weave grass mats, and the young leaves of Song grass and moss grass all over the ground can become pigweed, but no one here comes to cut, and these plants are naturally crazy to grow.

In addition, there are many other fresh wild vegetables, which can not be seen at the foot of the mountain that is often frequented, and Shen Shuang is not in a hurry to pick, but pays attention to remember what is there, and then comes to pick it with a basket on his back.

The area of the swamp is very large, this swamp is some distance from the foot of Xishan Mountain, after walking for about a quarter of an hour, Shen Shuang raised his eyes and saw a lake not far away, and there were many water birds flying around.

Xiaoshan knew that it was dangerous here, and every time his mother led him to pass by this neighborhood, she would tell him not to come here, but he was not afraid of having a sister by his side, not to mention the vain of opening the way.

The more Shen Shuang looked, the more she felt that the ground was full of treasures, although she said that she was not in a hurry to pick things, but she saw water chestnuts growing in muddy water, and after trying to know that it was not a swamp, she couldn't help but go down and dig several and Xiaoshan as fruits to eat.

Seeing that half an hour was about to pass, Shen Shuang washed his feet in a nearby small ditch before hurried back to pull the kiln chicken out.

Because the time was not controlled, the kiln chicken was a little burnt, but the fragrant smell still made the two sisters and brothers drool, and even the little wolf cub lying on the side was also screaming to eat.

Shen Shuang knew that this little wolf was not much different from other wolves that ate raw meat, after all, people still gnawed wild fruits, so he immediately threw some meat for it to gnaw.

Shen Shuang set aside the two big chicken legs and planned to quietly feed her father and mother tonight, and then she would destroy the not-so-small pheasant with Xiaoshan and the little wolf cub.

After eating, Shen Shuang felt very satisfied, thinking that she was forced to eat salted boiled vegetables all day long, but fortunately, those days were gone, otherwise it was thanks to her stomach.

After eating the kiln chicken, the two siblings couldn't eat the potatoes and sweet potatoes that had been baked, so they simply put them in the back basket, and then Shen Shuang led the hill to the swamp where water chestnuts could be dug.

Shen Shuang likes to eat water chestnuts very much, they are vegetables and fruits, and they like to grow in such swamps or cultivated in paddy fields, but the more troublesome thing is that there are no gloves, Shen Shuang and Xiaoshan dug dozens of water chestnuts together, her hands are full of dirt, and she is so uncomfortable.

There are a lot of water chestnuts growing here, and Shen Shuang is not greedy, seeing that the water chestnuts are almost enough to eat, he no longer digs them, but grabs the loaches with Xiaoshan.

Her movements were very clumsy, but fortunately Xiaoshan's body was light, and her movements were even more sensitive, and the two siblings worked for most of the day, and finally caught twenty or thirty loaches and threw them into the back basket with the silt, and then washed their hands and feet in the small ditch, and walked to the lake not far away.

There were many reeds growing on the edge of the lake, which looked very beautiful, and Shen Shuang's attention was not on these reeds, but on the flying wild ducks swimming in the lake.

She knows that these wild ducks like to lay eggs and hatch ducks in the reeds, since there are so many wild ducks here, there will definitely be wild duck eggs, thinking of the salted duck eggs she once eaten, Shen Shuang didn't say a word, so she took the hill and the little wolf cub and began to drill the reeds to find the wild duck eggs.

Although the reeds were wide and so dense, she was stuck there several times because of her size, but in the end it was the little wolf cub who led the hill to a nest of a dozen duck eggs.

But unfortunately, Shen Shuang was pecked on the back of his hand by a wild duck that was laying eggs, although he didn't bleed, he was in pain.

By the time I had gone back after digging up the water chestnuts and catching the loaches and finding so many wild duck eggs, the sun was gradually setting in the west.

Shen Shuang and Xiaoshan's faces were dirty, but the two siblings, who had gained a lot, didn't care about these things, and walked home very happily.

At this time, it was also the time when the villagers who were working in the fields came home for dinner, and the two siblings met many villagers on the way.

When they saw that Shen Shuang and Xiaoshan's faces and clothes were dirty, they subconsciously thought that she was leading her younger brother out to play crazy until this time before coming back, and many villagers couldn't help whispering.

"It's the first time I've seen Mu Sheng's biological daughter, I didn't expect to be so fat, I grew up in the capital since I was a child, I guess I can't work, right?"

"I heard that she was raised in the family of an official, and she is a pampered eldest lady, and she will definitely not work! I see that I also play when I go out with a basket on my back, where do I know how to work? Even if you go out to pick wild vegetables, you probably don't even know what wild vegetables you can eat. ”

"Hey, to say that this Mu Sheng and his daughter-in-law are honest people, their daughters are a bit of a pity. Forsythia is a good child, and he works neatly and can help the family, but after all, this biological daughter was raised in the capital, and her heart must be wild, and it is estimated that she will not stay in our Xishan Village in peace. ”

"Isn't it, this thin-skinned and tender-fleshed person is still so fat, and he doesn't look honest, leading his dumb brother to play crazy all over the village, and he is a teenage girl, and he is dirty, but how can he get married?"

"Don't you know, the people in the village say that she and the little hunter are digging into the grass."

"I don't believe this, maybe it's a rumor, it's also a sin, a good big girl has been ruined by someone like this, and it is estimated that no man will dare to marry her in the future."

Shen Shuang couldn't help but roll her eyes when she heard this, she didn't want to hear these words, these villagers were busy all day and finally had free time, so they naturally seized every opportunity to spend their free time.

However, Shen Shuang didn't care about what others said about her drilling in the grass, after all, she was already immune.

But others say that she is dirty, Shen Shuang loves beauty after all, she subconsciously looked at her hands, because digging water chestnuts and catching loaches, her originally white and tender hands were dirty, and the nails were full of mud, and the smirking Xiaoshan on the side also had mud on his face, which was really no wonder people misunderstood.

However, Shen Shuang didn't bother to care about what these people said, and led Xiaoshan and the little wolf cub all the way home with a maverick attitude.

Originally, Shen Shuang wanted to hide the little wolf cub in the back basket, but the loaches in it were all dirty, and I don't know if it was because it was disgusted or what, as soon as it was put in, it jumped out.

She had no choice but to run with it, although many villagers knew about wolves, few people had seen real wolves, and because they were covered in white fur, no one thought it was a wolf, some people thought it was a dog, and others thought it was a little fox.

So, Shen Shuang swaggered all the way back to the old Shen family, and some good villagers in Xishan Village spread the 'legend' about her again, and the granddaughter of the old Shen family who came back from the capital led her younger brother to play crazy all over the village, and she didn't know where to steal a puppy.

When Shen Shuang arrived home, she saw a lot of people standing in the courtyard of the old Shen family from a distance, and she could vaguely hear her grandmother Wan's loud voice.

Shen Shuang remembered the gossip she heard in the village today, and always felt that this matter seemed to be related to her, and she couldn't help but stop when she walked to the door.