13. Look for food

Yao Xiaoqing was under a dead pine tree, and saw a lump of black and brown bulging at the root of the tree, and poked it with a shovel, revealing the white flesh inside.

"Poria." Yao Xiaoqing shouted happily, "Mu Feng, come on, I found something to eat." ”

Mu Feng and Uncle Worm came running when they heard the sound, "What to eat?" Foot plank? ”

"Poria cocos, this thing is better than the foot plate."

Yao Xiaoqing shoveled away the soil with a shovel, and Uncle Worm and Mu Feng also took a stone knife to help plan, and after a while, a piece of Poria cocos weighing about four or five catties was dug out by the three of them.

Mu Feng broke a piece of Poria cocos, and a faint fragrance emanated from the fracture. Mu Feng and Uncle Worm put it on and smelled it, "It's so fragrant, it must be delicious, it's so big, let's look for it again." ”

Yao Xiaoqing thought about it and hurriedly stopped them, "You look for that dead pine tree root." ”

Mu Feng nodded repeatedly, "Got it." ”

Uncle Ah Shui and the others all searched in the woods, and everyone searched around and found a few pieces.

Mu Feng dug out a basin-sized piece under a dead pine tree, and happily held up the Poria cocos and laughed, "Come and see, this piece is enough for us to eat tonight." ”

Shanami said to Mu Feng, "Mu Feng, I'll give you the biggest piece tonight." ”

At this time, the golden retriever dragged two large snakes with snake gall bladders. Yan looked at the golden retriever in surprise, "Xiaoqing, come and see, your little monkey can also catch snakes." ”

"It likes to catch snakes." Yao Xiaoqing glanced at the big snake that the golden retriever was holding, and felt goosebumps all over his body.

"We have meat to eat." The bull's eyes lit up as he looked at the serpent whose golden retriever was still on the ground.

The golden retriever ran to Yao Xiaoqing and looked up at her, looking like a child who had done a good deed and begged for praise.

"The Golden Retriever is amazing!" Yao Xiaoqing gave it a thumbs up, took out a ham sausage from the mountaineering bag and gave it to it, and the golden retriever happily took the ham sausage and ran up the tree.

The bull picked up two large snakes, hung them on a broken branch, looked up at the dim light shining into the forest through the treetops, and said to Yaohu, "Chief, it's getting dark, will you stay here tonight?" ”

Yaohu looked at the sky, pointed to the hill not far ahead, and shouted to everyone, "Let's go to the foot of the mountain and find a leeward place to live." ”

Mu Feng nodded and said, "Father, you take Uncle and them over first, and we will look for food here." ”

Yaohu nodded, took the mountain and the big stone, and led the girl to the foot of the mountain with a cane, and the bull followed him to the foot of the mountain with two big snakes.

At the foot of the hill they found a shallow hollow, where the bull hung the snake on a bush, peeled off the skin with a stone knife, and hung the skin on the branches.

Yaohu pointed to a clump of palms and said to the bull, "Wrap the snake meat with that leaf and burn it." ”

"Okay." The bull cut two slices of palm with a stone knife and wrapped the snake meat.

He found a few dead pine trees and cut them with a stone axe, dragged them to the foot of the mountain, and chopped them with his feet, and in a moment he made a pile.

After chopping the firewood, he found a large piece of wood, sharpened it with a stone knife a few times, and came back with some pine needles, took out a drill pipe-like thing from his leather coat, stepped on the wood and drilled it quickly.

After a while, smoke came out of the sticks, and the pine needles slowly ignited. He put the burning pine needles under the firewood set up by the bull, and the pine trees were burned with pine oil, and the fire crackled and burned.

Yaohu said to Yan: "Yan, we don't have the strength to fight against the beasts, we need to prepare more firewood and light a few more bonfires at night." ”

Thinking about it, "Okay, there is still dry firewood in the pine forest, I'll go cut a few more." ”

Mu Feng, the bull, and Uncle Shui dragged the pine trees that they had cut down towards the foot of the mountain.

Yao Xiaoqing found another piece of Poria under the pine tree that Yu had cut down.

Shan Emu and Hua found a small bundle of rhizomes and handed them to Yao Xiaoqing, "Xiaoqing, can you eat this thing?" ”

Yao Xiaoqing took it and found that it was Codonopsis, "You can eat it, this is called Codonopsis, it is a good thing to replenish qi and blood." ”

Alas! Yao Xiaoqing sighed in her heart: If you can hit a pheasant, the stewed pheasant with codonopsis will definitely taste good.

Hua looked at Shan Emu and smiled: "Mother, Xiaoqing knows a lot of food. ”

Shan Emu nodded, "Xiaoqing is blessed by the gods. ”

A few people in the pine forest with their hands on the back of the pine needles, carried to the foot of the mountain and spread them on the ground, and the mountain Eminem and the flowers spread the animal skins on the pine needles.

Everyone sat around, and Yun Amu dug off the excess soil on the Poria cocos and buried it under the fire.

Mu Feng sat there, locking the unmade back basket.

It was getting dark, and the snake meat wrapped in palm leaves and the poria under the ash pile exuded a burst of fragrance.

Mu Feng pulled the cooked Poria cocos out of the fire with a wooden stick and placed it on the palm leaves that Yao Xiaoqing had spread. The bull took the snake meat out of another fire and put it on top.

Yaohu took out a stone knife, cut the snake meat into sections, and said to Yao Xiaoqing: "Xiaoqing, distribute the food to everyone." ”

Yao Xiaoqing was stunned for a moment, and when she saw that everyone was looking at her, she stood up and said to Yao Hu, "Yes, leader." ”

A piece of snake meat was put in front of everyone, and the poria was distributed to everyone, Yaohu said to everyone: "Let's eat!" Everyone picked up the snake meat and ate it.

Yao Xiaoqing took a bite of Poria cocos, the powder was faint and tasteless, but it was not unpalatable. Seeing that everyone was gobbling up a piece of snake meat, and seeing that the snake meat was really difficult to swallow, he gave the snake meat to Yaohu and took Poria to eat it.

Yaohu put the snake meat back in front of her, "Xiaoqing, you eat." ”

Yao Xiaoqing picked up a piece of Poria cocos, "Father, I like to eat this." ”

Mu Feng looked at Yaohu, "Father, Xiaoqing doesn't like to eat snake meat, and it used to be eaten by Grandma. ”

Yaohu paused, turned his head to look at Yao Xiaoqing, "Father doesn't know, Xiaoqing doesn't like to eat." ”

"Hey, hey!" Yao Xiaoqing smiled stupidly.

Yu looked at her and laughed, "Xiaoqing, snake meat is delicious." ”

Yao Xiaoqing looked at him and said with a smile: "Brother Yan, I like to eat pheasant, venison, and goat meat. ”

"Okay, brother, I'll get you back from the deer." Yu said seriously.

Thinking of the barbecue powder in the bag, Yao Xiaoqing smiled and nodded, "Okay, when you call back, I'll make something delicious for you to eat." ”

Yao Xiaoqing and Mu Feng went to the puddle not far away, and under the light of the fire, Yao Xiaoqing saw small insects at the bottom of the water, and he didn't know if it was a larvae of a leech or something.

Carefully fill the pot and kettle with water, go back and boil the elderberry in a pot, and give it to a few injured people to drink.

He boiled the water in the kettle and said to them, "I see worms in the water, so you will drink the boiled water as much as you can in the future, and I will put the boiled water in the kettle." ”

The bull looked at her and asked curiously, "Xiaoqing, why do you want to drink boiled water?" ”

Yao Xiaoqing looked at him and smiled: "Uncle, I'm afraid that those worms will make a home in your stomach." ”

The bull looked frightened when he heard this, covered his stomach, and nodded again and again, "Listen to Xiaoqing's drink of boiled water." ”