Chapter 2: Try your luck
Chi Hao touched a handful of tears and said sensibly: "Second sister, let's go to the mountains to find food." ”
Chi Xin is the eldest in the family, but she is only twelve years old, with a yellow and thin face, and a small face with a big palm full of seriousness: "I went to my mother a few days ago, but the mountains have been rummaged by the villagers, and there is no food at all." ”
If it weren't for that, they wouldn't risk being beaten to death and beg the old house for food.
Chi Yue thought for a while, anyway, there was nothing to do, she always had to take a look in person, she looked at Chi Xin with a blank eye: "Let's go up the mountain to try our luck, maybe there is any food that was missed by the villagers?" ”
Chi Xin saw that the family was hungry and couldn't bear it, so she nodded, "Okay, then let's go up the mountain together and have a look." ”
Zhou blocked most of the sticks for the children, and the pain in her body was terrible, so Chi Yue comforted her to rest at home, and the four of them went up the mountain to find food together.
As Chi Xin said, the villagers have scooped up all the common food on the mountain, and even the wild vegetables that are acceptable to eat are only dried rhizomes.
A few little ones quickly hung their heads and became depressed, their hungry stomachs rumbled fiercely, and the little sister Chi Xiaoxue was even more about to cry when she saw it: "Sister, I'm so hungry that I can't walk......"
As soon as she cried, Ji Hao's mouth also deflated, thinking that she was a little man, and she held back stiffly.
The two of them had the same face, their big eyes were particularly attentive to their thin little faces, and even the expression of crying was the same pity.
Chi Xin was bending down to coax them, Chi Yue walked up a small hill and glanced at it, and suddenly her eyes lit up: "I found something to eat!" And lo and behold! ”
The three children immediately came to their senses and ran over excitedly, but they only saw a small field pole growing in the barren grass, the thickness of a bamboo pole, and the outer part was wrapped in slender leaves.
The curvature of Chi Xin's lips drooped down, and she touched Chi Yue's head: "Yue'er, that thing is called wild sugarcane, it is hard inside, the skin is the same as bamboo, and it can't be eaten." ”
When the younger siblings heard this, their little faces collapsed.
"Sugar cane is edible." Chi Yue searched the memories of the original owner, and found that the villagers here did not know how to eat it, and only regarded sugar cane as something like bamboo.
She couldn't help but rejoice, fortunately everyone didn't know, otherwise there wouldn't be so much sugar cane left.
"If you don't believe me, I'll show you." She cautiously descended the hillside, ran to break a sugar cane, and with great difficulty, it was the original eleven-year-old body, which looked like a bean sprout, and could not help but be weak.
Chi Xin followed her younger siblings and watched curiously as she bit open the crust on the outside with her mouth, revealing the blue-white flesh inside, and then took the lead in eating.
Seeing that she was biting with relish, Chi Xin swallowed her saliva: "Can you really eat it?" ”
Chi Yue nodded, took another bite, and gave the peeled sugarcane to the eldest sister and sister: "You taste it, it's sweet!" ”
The younger siblings were young and very hungry, and when they found out that this thing could be eaten, they didn't think too much about it, and immediately happily followed Chi Yue to eat.
The sugarcane juice is sweet, the entrance is fragrant, and the two little eyes are lit up, and they are chewing while struggling: "Good times (eating) ......"
Chi Xin also broke a piece of sugarcane, took a bite hard, blinked her eyes, and looked at Chi Yue in shock: "It's really delicious." Then let's cut some more, so that we can take it back to my mother to taste, she hasn't eaten for two days. ”
The family is poor, Zhou has always left food to the children, and when he was very hungry, he drank fruit belly, and he was much hungrier, and his body became worse and worse.
"Okay, eldest sister, you eat a little first, and then I'll look for food elsewhere." Chi Yue glanced around, although there were some thorns and shrubs, but also because the road was not easy to walk, there were fewer people, maybe there was some food.
Chi Xin told her to be careful, and took the lead in breaking sugarcane, full of energy.
Chi Yue dragged the vines to the slope in the shade of the mountain, and suddenly there was a slip under his feet, and then it was dark in front of him.
Creak?
As soon as she closed her eyes, she opened them again, and unexpectedly entered a strange space, the fog was very thick, and she didn't know what was hidden inside.
There are endless fields in the visible space, and the soil is much more fertile than outside, but no plants are planted, as if it has not been cultivated.
"Welcome the host into the system space."
It was cold, and a serious voice appeared in the fog, but it sounded a little soft and glutinous, like the children's voice of a three- or four-year-old child.