Chapter 4: The Mystery of Life
Ye'er shook her head, maintaining a stunned expression, and slowly lifted a mud-covered ...... from the mud Egg!
"Found it!" Ming Jiuniang was overjoyed, stepped forward to touch it, Ye'er also helped, and the two of them found a total of sixteen wild duck eggs!
Finally no longer have to be hungry, Ming Jiuniang was so excited that she burst into tears.
Who said her golden finger was useless? After that, she would rely on picking up duck eggs, and she wouldn't starve to death!
Ming Jiuniang carefully held the duck egg with her skirt, and held Ye'er with the other hand, avoiding everyone and returning home like a thief.
She couldn't let anyone know that she had found a duck egg.
Because it is difficult to find, no one in the village will bother to find it, that is, the children by the river, and occasionally they can find one to take home and eat.
But if it was known that she had found so many at once, the reeds by the river would be swept away, and it would be difficult for her to succeed.
When she returned home, she changed her dirty skirt and had to boil eggs before she remembered that there was no pot at home.
Ye'er squatted on the ground and looked at the duck eggs, as if if if he was not careful, the duck eggs would grow wings and fly, so greedy that there were two shiny saliva hanging on the corners of his mouth.
Ming Jiuniang was amused by his appearance and said, "Is it okay for my mother to make you a roast duck egg?"
Ye'er nodded again and again.
Ming Jiuniang beat six duck eggs in the bowl, stirred them with chopsticks, washed the wild onions that she had picked on the way back just now, cut them into green onions, sprinkled them on the yellow and clear egg liquid, and then put the bowl on the fire and roasted it.
Ye'er stared at the red flames and licked the bottom of the bowl, her eyes reluctant to blink.
Ming Jiuniang touched her head and put the remaining ten wild duck eggs into the broken jar under the bed, planning to wait for Xiao Tiece to come back in the evening before eating.
The thighs must be hugged!
The duck eggs in the bowl were quickly cooked, although no ingredients were added, but for the hungry Ming Jiuniang, the aroma was enough to move her to tears.
She found a spoon and fed Ye'er first when it was cool.
But Ye'er sensibly pointed at her and motioned her to eat first, obviously his saliva was flowing all over the ground.
"Okay, that mother eats first!" Ming Jiuniang took a small bite shallowly, her lips and teeth were fragrant, so fragrant that she wanted to swallow her tongue.
However, Ye'er was obviously hungry too, and she fed him spoonful by spoonful.
Ye'er ate half of it, and although she didn't seem to be satisfied, she closed her mouth tightly and refused to eat it again.
Ming Jiuniang knew that he wanted to keep it for herself, so she was very moved and touched his head: "Okay, mother eat." ”
Sweeping away the remaining duck eggs, her stomach was finally less empty, and she swore that she had never eaten anything so delicious!
After eating this meal, she began to think about the next meal again.
After eating the last meal and not the next meal, it was her.
And she can't just want to eat, she has to think of ways to get money.
The quilts at home are all used as clothes, and men of all sizes can't wear clothes, how can this work?
But it was too difficult for her to make money for the first time, and she didn't have a good way to go about it, so she decided to take the well-fed Ye'er out for a walk in the mountains.
Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, and there are many birds in the mountains, she may be able to get more useful information.
The mother and daughter said to go, the door didn't need to be locked, and of course there was no such expensive thing as a door lock, so they went out directly.
There are indeed many birds in the mountains, but there are too many, noisy and noisy, and it hurts to hear Ming Jiuniang's brain.
Forget it, the most infuriating thing is that she didn't hear any useful news at all!
However, she found that she could not always hear the birds, and she could only hear them when she felt distracted or actively listened.
Good luck can't all be in one day, so she comforted herself so much that she decided to pick up some dry firewood, and by the way, see if there were any wild vegetables to eat, and then go back.
"Hurry up, hurry up!"
"You're flying the wrong way, you're coming in the opposite direction!"
A hurried and chaotic sound sounded, and suddenly there were countless more birds in the sky, all flying towards the west, overwhelming the sky and being very spectacular.
Ming Jiuniang listened attentively, and struggled to find a few useful words from the chaos.
"The men with bows and arrows are coming again. ”
"Who said they only want the golden eagle's? My brother was shot and roasted and eaten by them!
It turned out that someone was going to hunt the golden eagle.
In Liaodong, the golden eagle is definitely a treasure.
The Golden Eagle King builds a nest on the unclimbable cliff, the wings are open and the length can reach more than a zhang, and the strength is enough to take away a child of six or seven years old, sharp and fierce, it is a very intimidating existence.
Ming Jiuniang knew these because her predecessor had also fought the idea of the golden eagle.
Because the golden eagle is extremely precious, the magnates and even the emperor in the palace want to domesticate the golden eagle as a pet, "the left leads the yellow, the right Qingcang", and it is majestic when hunting.
But golden eagles are so rare that there is an unwritten local law - those who capture golden eagles alive will be exempted from their crimes.
So far, no one has won this award, which shows how difficult it is.
Ming Jiuniang is very sober now, knowing that life is more important than thinking about those who have it, and she is worried that she will be injured by the hunter, so she hurried down the mountain with Ye'er.
She couldn't make trouble for Xiao Tiece, she was a trouble herself.
Ye'er suddenly snorted, Ming Jiuniang was keenly aware of it, stopped and said, "Ye'er, what's wrong?"
Ye'er put her hands behind her back.
A guilty person gives himself away by conspicuously protesting his innocence.
Ming Jiuniang forcibly pulled his hand, only to find that blood beads appeared on his index finger, and he was immediately distressed.
It turned out that it was a thorn.
"Bear with it, my mother will give you a huhu. Ming Jiuniang felt that his current position was safe, so she stopped and patiently pulled out the thorn for him, "Does it still hurt?"
Ye'er shook her head to indicate that it didn't hurt anymore.
Mother gives huhu, he doesn't hurt!
"Silly boy, how did you get it?" Ming Jiuniang touched the top of his head.
Perhaps due to the lack of nutrients, Ye'er's hair is yellow and thin, and very soft.
Ye'er flattened her mouth, revealing a little like a child at this age, and turned around and pointed to a tree that she had just passed by.
There were a number of small trees growing beside the tree, and he had just grabbed a handful and was stabbed.
Ming Jiuniang looked at it and was immediately pleasantly surprised.
It was a pepper tree, and it was full of peppercorns.
There are no condiments at home, so it's also great to pick some and go back to seasoning!
If you can find chili peppers, make a pepper slices, pepper fish, that taste, race fairy.
Thinking about it, her saliva was about to flow out of nowhere.
"Ye'er, you wait for your mother here, your mother will pick some peppercorns, that's it, and I'll be back soon." ”
Ye'er's expression was extremely nervous, and she was about to cry when she grabbed her hand tightly.
Ming Jiuniang was stunned: "What's wrong?"
Ye'er's big eyes were full of worry, and after thinking about it, she pointed to the pepper tree, made a gesture of eating, and then lay down on the ground and closed her eyes.
Ming Jiuniang understood what he meant, and felt that he was too cute like this.
"You mean it's poisonous, right? No, my mother knows, it's peppercorns, it's not poisonous. ”
Ye'er never let go.
Ming Jiuniang explained again and again, and finally persuaded Ye'er to pick a small handful.
When she found the peppercorns, she simply looked around for the peppers, because in the memory of her predecessor, she had seen the little red peppers, although she didn't know them.
People here don't eat chili peppers and peppercorns.
Sichuan pepper is used in small quantities, but pepper is not accepted at all.
The hard work paid off, and it took Ming Jiuniang nearly an hour to finally find the little red pepper she wanted, and went down the mountain satisfied.