At dinner, Ding Wenan fed Xing'er some millet porridge. The child eats happily and happily, and being able to eat is the happiest thing for him. Xing'er is already one and a half years old, but it may be because he has not had enough to eat for a long time, he looks malnourished, and he is younger than a child who is less than a year old. For such a young child, Ding Wenan really didn't know how to take care of him, so he could only hold the child in his arms and read him poems and tell stories. The child was treated like this by his father for the first time, he was curious and happy, and obediently nestled in Ding Wen'an's arms, not to mention how cute it was.

This night, father and son slept together warmly.

The next day, Ding Wenan got up early in the morning, boiled rice porridge, ate a big bowl by himself first, and then called Xing'er up and fed him a small bowl. After the child finished the porridge, he fell asleep in a daze. Ding Wenan tied Xing'er to his chest with strips of cloth and went out with a basket on his back. In the basket was Ding's father's hunting bow and arrow, and Ding Wenan practiced "radio gymnastics" again in the morning, and his health was better again. Nowadays, although the strength of archery is not enough, the accuracy is not bad, and it should be able to shoot some small prey.

He is going into the mountains to hunt for treasure. Use the method of the An family of the Ming Dynasty to find one or two ginseng lingzhi to exchange money to buy food, so as not to continue to starve after eating the villagers' things. After entering the mountain, Ding Wen'an released the exploration robot. However, there are really very few herbs in this mountain, and no ordinary herbs have been found, let alone valuable medicinal materials such as ginseng and reishi. However, along the way, he found a pheasant nest, and Ding Wenshan caught two pheasants and picked ten wild eggs.

Halfway through, Xing'er woke up, facing the mountain scenery that she had never seen before, Xing'er was very curious and excited, and her little head turned around.

Ding Wenan touched his little head and told him not to laugh loudly. The child nodded vigorously, he looked small, but he was very smart, and he understood the meaning of Ding Wen'an's words.

Thinking that he would return if he couldn't find the ginseng Ganoderma lucidum, the exploration robot finally found a ginseng. However, the age of this ginseng is not high, only about 80 years. There may still be ginseng in the nearby mountains, but this mountain has been searched by the exploration robots, and it is confirmed that it is really gone. Ding Wenan took the ginseng back home, and he couldn't make a big fortune, and it was not bad to make a little money. This ginseng should be able to sell for a few dozen taels of silver, enough for him and his son to spend for several years.

Back at home, Ding Wen'an put Xing'er on the bed, and then handed Xing'er the wooden Luban lock that Ding's father bought for his grandson to Xing'er to play, and he carried two wooden barrels with a wooden stick to the river to fetch water. The strength of the body is still too small, Ding Wenan can't pick up two full buckets, he can only fill half of each bucket and slowly move home.

"Brother Wen An?" Ding Mancang, who also came to the river to fetch water, widened his eyes in surprise, and hurriedly said, "Brother Wen An, that, you wait for me for a while, I'll carry the water home, and then I'll help you carry the water." ”

Yin Gong! This Song family is gone, everything falls on Brother Wen An, Brother Wen An is just a weak scholar, how can he provoke so many two buckets of water? He had to hurry up and help—he completely ignored that Song was a woman, and the heavy work of carrying water should have been done by men, not women. But in the eyes of the villagers, Ding Wen'an is a weak scholar, he shouldn't do heavy work, and the Ding family's affairs should be done by the Song family. This is also one of the reasons why the Song family couldn't bear it and finally ran away with someone, of course, the most important reason is that Ding Wen'an's family is too poor.

After Ding Mancang finished speaking, he strode away, and when Ding Wenan moved to the house and poured two and a half buckets into the water tank, Ding Mancang ran back, took the bucket and stick from Ding Wenan's hand, and strode to the river to pick up water.

Ding Wenan rubbed his nose and deeply realized why the ancients would say that "useless is a scholar".

Someone helps carry water, so he'll do the rest! Lighting the fire on the stove and boiling a pot of hot water, Ding Wenan began to clean up the pheasants. Cutting the abdomen, taking internal organs, and plucking chicken feathers, Ding Wenan has to do it as smoothly as he can. He's done this kind of thing in several worlds. When Ding Mancang returned to Ding's house with two buckets full of water, his eyes widened when he saw Ding Wenan cleaning up pheasants.

"Brother Wen, Brother Wen An, where did these two pheasants come from?" Ding Mancang's saliva couldn't help but flood his mouth, chicken, meat, I haven't eaten meat for a long time.

Ding Wenan raised his head and smiled: "I went up the mountain this morning, and I was lucky to hunt two pheasants." ”

"You hunted this pheasant?" Ding Mancang couldn't believe it. Brother Wen An is a weak reader, can he defeat a pheasant? Even he had a hard time knocking down pheasants, okay.

Ding Wenan smiled: "Don't look at my weak appearance and small strength, but my accuracy in archery is very high." I learned archery with my father when I was a child, and although I haven't touched the bow and arrow again in these years, I haven't forgotten my skills. ”

"It turns out that Brother Wen An learned archery from Uncle Shiqiang, no wonder." Ding Mancang was stunned, looking at the pheasant in Ding Wenan's hand, and his saliva finally rushed out of his mouth.

Ding Wenan saw him like this and smiled: "Let's have dinner at my house tonight." ”

"No, no." Ding Mancang refused, although he was very much like eating meat, but Brother Wen's family was too poor, how could he eat Brother Wen's family's food in the future?

"That's it, let's have dinner at our house today." Ding Wen'an said, "I still have something to ask you to help with." ”

"If there's anything you want me to help with, just say it." Ding Mancang patted his chest and said.

Ding Wen'an: "You can help me light the fire first." ”

"Okay."

Ding Wen'an asked Ding Mancang to chop the two pheasants into very small chicken pieces, put them into two large pots, add the water from the full pot, and then put in the wild vegetables he picked, and stew two large pots of chicken soup.

"Mancang, you help me go and notify every household in the village, and let them bring their own bowls to fill the chicken soup." Ding Wenan instructed Ding Mancang. He didn't have extra bowls in his house, so he couldn't pack the chicken soup for the villagers to deliver to his home, so he had to let the villagers bring their own bowls to Ding's house to fill the chicken soup.

"What? You don't want to give chicken soup to the whole village? Ding Mancang was surprised.

"yes. How could I have stewed both pheasants otherwise. It's just that this amount is still not much, and each family can only divide two or three pieces of meat. Ding Wen'an said.

"I thought you stewed pheasant soup to keep it and eat it slowly with Xing'er." Ding Mancang Road.

Ding Wenan smiled: "The weather is so hot, where can the chicken soup stay for a long time?" It's going to break. Hurry up, go call someone. After we finish distributing the chicken soup to everyone, we will eat the rest slowly. ”

"But don't you have nothing to eat after that?" Ding Mancang was worried about Ding Wen'an.

"Don't worry, in addition to pheasants, I also picked a few wild eggs, and I won't be hungry for Xing'er."