Chapter 3 Into the Mountains
Hearing Lin Yao's words, Butcher Liu gradually reacted, yes, why should he fight for this moment, he can still get money if he leaves them, and he can get five taels of silver for nothing, why not.
After thinking clearly, he immediately changed his pitiful expression, tilted his head and said, "Okay, just one month, if you can't make up five taels of silver after a month, then you just wait to go to jail, phew!" With that, he walked away.
After solving him, Lin Yao turned her head and found that her vicious aunt was long gone.
Heh, run fast.
After the incident, Lin Yao took Yao's mother and Xiaodouding home.
When she got home, it was dark, Lin Yao hadn't eaten for a day, she was already so hungry that her chest was close to her belly, so she hurriedly rummaged through the cabinets, but in the end, she didn't have anything to eat except for the basket of wild vegetables that Xiaodouding had just dug up, brown rice and salt that were about to bottom out.
Alas, this clever woman is difficult to cook without rice, you must know that in the previous life, I never had to worry about money, when I was studying, I thought the food in the school cafeteria was unpalatable, so I rented a small apartment to buy ingredients to cook by myself, and over time, the cooking skills grew up, and the mouth became more and more mouthful, this Lin family is now a difficult household in the village, and even the minimum vegetable seeds can not be bought, so they can only rely on digging wild vegetables and eating brown rice to survive, and sometimes it is a problem whether they can eat three meals.
Lin Yao sighed helplessly, resigned herself to scooping a large scoop of brown rice, and began to wash the rice for cooking.
This brown rice is the worst rice, most people in Taohua Village eat coarse rice, few people eat brown rice, it is not easy to cook and hurts the stomach.
Yao's mother looked at the big scoop of brown rice and wanted to say something distressedly, but thinking about the suffering her daughter had just suffered, she pouted and didn't say anything, forget it, just celebrate her daughter's new life.
And Xiao Douding didn't have so many ideas, seeing so much brown rice, he felt that he could eat a lot at night, so he happily asked directly, "Sister, why do you cook so much today?" ”
Looking at Xiao Dou Ding's happy appearance, Lin Yao was slightly sad, this Xiao Dou Ding is only five or six years old, no matter who is in the palm of his hand in modern times, he is coquettish and playful in the arms of his parents, but he is so happy to have a full meal here.
"Well, Xiaobao is growing his body, so he should eat more." Lin Yao said with a smile while burning the fire.
Hearing this, Xiao Douding grinned happily and jumped on the side, "yes, great, you can eat to your heart's content!"
After the meal was cooked, Lin Yao filled everyone with a full and thick bowl of brown rice and wild vegetable porridge, "Mother, Xiaobao, eat." ”
There are some wild vegetables added to the brown rice, and it looks very unappetizing, but if it comes, it will be safe, Lin Yao still frowned and took a sip on the edge of the bowl, and as soon as she entered it, Lin Yao wrinkled her little face, it was still unpalatable, astringent, hard and bitter, although this wild vegetable porridge was a rare delicacy for the original owner, but it was really unbearable for her who was used to a fine life, but in order to survive and have the strength to improve her life, she had to endure the discomfort and devoured it.
And the little bean on the side also gobbled it up, but he ate very satisfied, usually the family is reluctant to make such a thick porridge water, afraid that after eating this meal, this meal can be several times more than the usual amount of food, so the little bean ding eats very happily.
Yao's mother looked at her children's gobbling appearance, and quietly touched her tears sadly.
"Yaoyao, it's useless to be a mother, if my mother had gone to inquire about that Liu butcher earlier, she wouldn't have let you almost marry that guy with a human face and a beast's heart, and she wouldn't owe five taels of silver, alas, how will we orphans and widows live in the next few days." As she spoke, Yao's mother finally burst into tears uncontrollably.
Lin Yao hurriedly swallowed the food in her mouth and comforted, "Mother, what are you talking about, isn't it good for me, it's okay, I'll go to the mountains tomorrow and look for something to sell, in fact, as long as the family is healthy together, it's better than anything else, right, don't cry Mother." ”
"Well, I will also help my sister make money, don't worry, don't cry." Xiao Douding hurriedly went up to help Yao's mother wipe her tears and comfort Yao's mother.
"Up the mountain?" As soon as Yao's mother heard that she was going up the mountain, she thought of Father Lin's death, and her face suddenly turned pale, "Yaoyao, it's too dangerous on the mountain, let's not go."
Lin Yao also knew that Yao's mother thought of the dead father of the original owner, "Mother, don't worry, I'll just go around the outside of the mountain, don't go into the mountains, it's okay."
Hearing that it was just walking around the mountain, Yao's mother relieved herself, nodded and stopped crying, and began to eat with her children.
After eating and cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, Lin Yao simply rinsed and fell asleep tiredly, and Xiao Douding on the side found Lin Yao's exhaustion and obediently leaned on her and fell asleep.
The next morning, a ray of sunlight outside the house shone directly on Lin Yao's face through the hole in the window.
"Hmm~" Lin Yao stretched out her hand to cover the sunlight in her eyes, and couldn't help but stretch.
After a while, Lin Yao opened his eyes, looked at the broken adobe walls and dirty wardrobes around him, and reacted for a while before accepting the fact that he had crossed over.
Rubbing the bed now, he found a bowl of porridge on the table in the hall, and Xiao Douding was playing with stones by himself at the door.
"Sister, you're awake!" Xiao Douding found that Lin Yao was awake, and hurriedly pounced on her, arched her waist, and happily pointed to the porridge and said, "Mother went to wash clothes, this is the meal that my mother left for you, sister, eat it quickly." ”
"Well, my sister knows, good, let's go play." Lin Yao touched Xiao Douding's head and went to eat.
When I opened the bowl, it was still wild vegetable brown rice soup, so I swallowed it with all my strength and washed the dishes and chopsticks.
Looking at the impoverished Lin family, Lin Yao decided that he should go up the mountain to find something to sell, firstly, he had always dealt with the mountains in his previous life, and he knew medicinal herbs, so he should find something to sell after entering the mountain, and secondly, the Lin family was located at the very edge of Peach Blossom Village, not far from the mountain, so it was very convenient.
After thinking about it, she said hello to Xiao Douding, and told him to watch the two chicks obediently at home, and go up the mountain with a bamboo basket on his back.
"Chirp, chirp ......" As soon as she went up the mountain, there were bursts of bird calls on the mountain, looking at the woods in front of her, which were much taller and more lush than modern times, Lin Yao couldn't help but take a deep breath, the air was extremely fresh, and she suddenly felt refreshed.
She first probed around the periphery, and found that there was nothing but some wild vegetables and grasses, and the villagers in this place usually came to pick some wild vegetables when they were idle, so she thought that she should not find anything of value here, so she walked into the mountains again.
Came to a place that was a little deeper than just now, although there were no ferocious beasts here, but there would be some poisonous snakes occasionally, so there were very few villagers involved here, and Lin Yao in his previous life had gone up the mountain more often and had some ways to deal with poisonous snakes, so this could be regarded as giving Lin Yao more opportunities to pick.
It's summer, and the forest is already full of small red wild fruits lining the green leaves, and some colorful wildflowers blooming all over the place.
Lin Yao folded a wooden stick and explored the road in front, skillfully and carefully looking at every inch of land, and saw many wild vegetables picked by Xiaodouding along the way, but she was really not interested in wild vegetables, thinking that if she didn't harvest them when she came back, she would pick them back.
Walking and walking, an orange fruit suddenly appeared in front of her, Lin Yao hurriedly took a closer look, and found that it was a wild pineapple, yellow, orange and orange standing on the fruit stem, although it was only the size of her two fists, but it was also very good, this wild pineapple is generally not big, but it is generally very sweet, Lin Yao quickly picked the pineapple and put it in the back basket.
She searched around and found two more pineapples, only three small pineapples, although they couldn't be sold for much money, but it was good to bring them back to Yao's mother and Xiaodouding to supplement vitamins.
After putting all the pineapples in the back basket, Lin Yao continued to move forward to find them.
Gradually, Lin Yao found some herbs, although most of them were some medicinal materials for the treatment of bruises, but the quality was quite high, and occasionally picked some more precious medicinal materials, Lin Yao picked half a basket before and after.
Walking again, a large tree suddenly appeared in front of me with many bright yellow fruits.
It turned out to be a lemon! Lin Yao, who reacted, widened his eyes in surprise, you must know that in her previous life, Lin Yao liked to drink fruit tea the most, and she would also make fruit tea of various flavors by herself, and this lemon was naturally one of the essential raw materials.
According to the memory of the original owner, people here think that lemon is too sour to be edible, and they can grind it into powder and make it into tea bags, so that no one knows what the raw materials are.
The unique flavor of lemon is sure to be well received.
Most people here advocate tea, but green tea is too bitter, and most women and children still like to drink desserts, but most of the desserts are difficult to taste.
And their own fruit tea has both the fragrance of tea, as well as the sweetness of fruits, the most important thing is that you can customize fruit tea without raw materials according to the physique of different people in different seasons.
After taking a closer look, Lin Yao found that this lemon tree was very large, and she decided to go into the mountains for the past two days to pick and cut these lemons into slices, some of which were lined with fresh to make some drinks, and some of which were dried and stored for later use in cold weather.
After picking half a basket of lemons, he felt that it was almost over, so Lin Yao put the herbs on top of the lemons, and the Lin family's status was biased, and they didn't have to worry about others seeing what they picked, so Lin Yao didn't have to hide it, and went down the mountain with confidence.
When I got home, I saw Xiao Douding happily feeding the chickens with wild grass, and Yao's mother had not come back yet.
Lin Yao took out the three pineapples in the basket and washed them, and beckoned Xiao Douding to come over and eat pineapples.
"Sister, what is this, can you eat it?" Looking at the yellow, orange and orange fruits in Lin Yao's hand, Xiao Douding drooled a little, thinking that these fruits were delicious, but he had never seen a pineapple, so he was a little hesitant.
Also, it's normal for small beans to not know, wild pineapples are very small, and they are generally not found on the outskirts of the mountain, so most people here don't know what pineapples are.