The sixteenth day of the crossing
After experiencing a wolf attack, everyone will be more vigilant and careful in the next few days when they sleep in the wild, and every time they will draw a piece of land and burn a fire along a shallow pit dug around. They are looking for firewood together, as long as it is safe.
The next few days were lucky, and there were no other accidents along the way. A group of injured people also slowly began to get better, the injuries on Qi and Su Jingchen had begun to scab, there was no problem, and the other children also slowly recovered and became lively.
There was no problem with those errands, although there were repeated fevers on the road, but they were not very serious, and the wounds began to slowly open and close and scab over along the way.
All the way smoothly to the post station. This time I went to a big province, Qiping Province. At this point, the escort who escorted them is going to be handed over again, and this time it should be the last.
and Qingling, they are going to join the army all the way, and they are going to part ways here. The confiscated army only rested here for a day before being taken over by another group of escorts and continued on their way. They were sent to Hanyuan County on the northeastern border to garrison the Beijiang Gate. Hanyuan County, on the other hand, is under the jurisdiction of Qiping Province, and it is only a month to the southeast, at the very edge of Qiping Province.
Qingling and the others had to continue north, which was not very far from the place where they had been exiled, and if nothing else, according to the current distance of their group, it would be two or three weeks away. However, this time, because the medicine given by Qingling was very effective, the messengers returned the favor and said hello. So Qingling can stay here for more than two days to rest for a while, and add some things by the way.
The next thing along the way may be because of the reason that the last errand said hello, maybe it was also Qingling who hunted on the road and also knew each other and gave them a part, and this batch of errands and Qingling They went to each other without incident.
It may be that we are finally about to reach our destination, and then everyone's spirits have become a lot better, and even a little excited.
Qingling easily watched a few children tease the little fat man who was learning to walk, and the little fat man has now learned to walk, walking like a fat penguin, swaying and shaking. But falls are rare.
As long as he is put on the ground during the break, he likes to run around behind the butts of a few older children. A few big ones also liked to tease him, and they ran for a while and stopped for a while to wait for the little fat man, who giggled happily and chased after him. It's fun, too.
Qingling rested for a while, and no longer cared about the children. Handed the rattan basket to Su Jingyun to look at, this was the last time she bought it in Qiping Province, so that she could see that the good medicinal herbs were uprooted and wrapped in soil to wrap the roots, and when the time came, they were planting in the place.
Anyway, it's a few days to walk and you'll be there. Now the little fat man is getting more and more naughty, and when he sees anything, he has to pinch it curiously, touch it, or stuff it directly in his mouth. Qingling had to spend a lot of time paying attention to him, and the last time he didn't pay attention, he almost pulled out the leaves of the herbs that Qingling had dug up.
Now she has two excellent Polygonum multiflori in her rattan basket, as well as a small pepper. That's right, it's chili. Qingling is not mistakenly chili. Qingling asked the people of the Su family, and they recalled the previous memories of the past, and there was no chili pepper eaten in the Jiaqing Dynasty. No one knows chili either.
This is cheap Qingling, Qingling likes to eat heavy and spicy food, especially Sichuan food. Along the way, it is nourished with wood aura from time to time to ensure that it lives well to the place where it settles. Qingling is very distressed about this little pepper.
Su Jingyun knew that Qingling valued this grass very much, so she helped her take a good look at it, so as not to wait for the little fat man in the family to come and tease her again. This kid doesn't know what's going on, and the bigger he gets, the more stupid he gets.
Qingling stood up and patted her buttocks, thinking about getting something delicious, and the prey she caught in the past few days was either roasted and eaten, or stewed and eaten. But the seasoning is limited, and the barbecue is a little better, but the stew doesn't taste very good. I'm tired of eating. Qingling plans to change her method and taste today.
Giving Su Jingyun an explanation, Qingling walked away to look around. A little further away from the crowd, there are meadows nearby, and the grass on the ground grows dense and tall. If you pay close attention, you can spot pheasants, but these chickens are not as stupid as they are now, these wild chickens are very sensitive, and some can fly a short distance. It's usually hard to catch them.
But today, when I got to Qingling, Qingling picked up a few stones, and hit five or six in a few clicks. This time, because Qingling wants to eat in a different way. Choose smaller chickens, so the meat will be more tender. Thinking about it, I felt that it was a little less, so I moved another place and hit five or six more. Qingling happily carried it back.
As usual, there are only six people to be escorted, and there are only twenty or thirty people escorted this time, so there are only six escorts to be handed over. There happened to be one person at a time, and these errands also took it with a smile. Both sides are happy with this mode of getting along.
The Qi family hurriedly came over to help, but Qingling didn't ask them to help, but just asked them to boil hot water. Qingling called the idle child to the side. I said a few words to them. A few children were excited to find the mud, and now they finally had something to do, and it was still such a fun thing, and a few children had a lot of fun.
The little fat man also followed behind, playing with a small tree branch and carrying the dirt.
Adults don't care about them when they watch them playing?
Qingling cleaned up a few chickens, just cut open the stomach to clean up the internal organs of the chickens, and stuffed some fragrant and heat-clearing herbs into it. After plucking the feathers, rub them with salt a few times, and then pick a few broad leaves by the river to wrap the packed chickens.
Then, with the help of a few children, he wrapped them in mud and threw them in the fire and roasted them.
Several adults were also watching in surprise. After waiting for a while, Qingling picked up a mud egg and came out, and several children, even a few adults, were also watching nervously and expectantly.
Qingling picked up a stone and smashed it a few times, and when she picked it up with her hand, the rich fragrance spread. Even the chaplains and other exiles were drawn in.
Qingling looked at the smooth surface and the chicken was plump, and gave the first mud egg to a few children with satisfaction, and another to the messengers, and the others left their business. Qingling divided the remaining ones.
The chicken is very crispy, and it is easy to tear off a chicken foot or chicken wing without effort. The juice is delicious when you take a bite. It doesn't feel greasy at all, and it doesn't feel firewood. Eat it hot and even the bones are crunchy.
Qingling and Su Jingyun ate one more with a little fat man, Su Yunxi and Su Yunyuan ate one with a few small ones, and now they have a second one with Su Mingzhu. Here, Su Jingyun ate two bites, then stopped eating, and vigorously asked Qingling to eat more, and waited for the little fat man who was waiting for food with his mouth open on the side.
Qingling was happy to see him like this, but she felt sorry for him, they didn't lack this mouthful, if it wasn't enough, they could get more next time. directly tore off a chicken leg and handed it to Su Jingyun, as for the little fat man, Qingling directly pulled a fat chicken butt and handed it to him, and he happily took it and continued to gnaw. Su Jingyun didn't say anything more
Every time Qingling came back from hunting, she smiled and took it. The family enjoyed this rare time with satisfaction.
After tasting this new way of eating, everyone thought it tasted good. The next prey is struck by both adults and children who want to eat like this, and the big and small ones suddenly become very active. If Qingling doesn't let her do it, they will do it now, and the little ones are also actively running first and then running, and their faces are serious and touching the mud as if they are doing something big. After eating a few meals of Qingling, they were bored, and they didn't get tired of it.
Qingling protested several times, and later found some wild chestnuts, which repelled everyone's enthusiasm for calling flower chickens. The chestnuts brought back by Qingling have not been collected, and they still have a layer of burr shells on them.
When I saw it for the first time, no one in the Su family reflected that this was a chestnut, and they were surprised. At most, they had seen chestnuts stripped of their burr shells. When the green lings are blown up with stones, and the chestnuts roll out, everyone knows that this is a chestnut.
Qingling didn't pick up a lot of chestnuts, and the adults and children smashed them with stones for a while and cleaned them up. These wild chestnuts are relatively small, but they have a lot of water and are sweet and silky when eaten raw. A few were given to the children, and the others were thrown into the fire, and when there was a crackling sound, the shell was cracked. The roasted chestnuts are also delicious, soft and glutinous.
Everyone also ate with novelty and fun. There were no other problems along the way, but along the way, Qingling looked for some good food from time to time, in addition to walking a lot of roads, it seemed like she was playing. It's almost time to reach its destination. Everyone seemed a little excited.
Although their identities have changed now, they are also different from their original status, and they can't encounter things along the way. But fortunately, their family arrived in Wusu Province one by one.