That's when everyone understood. Yao Xiaoqing nodded and smiled: "No wonder I wasn't poked to death, okay!" We've got pigs to feed. ”

"Qinggu, do you want to take the boar out to eat grass?" Asen asked curiously.

Yao Xiaoqing shook his head, "No, let's wash the dishes and wash the water in the jar, add some pumpkin skin and grass to feed it." ”

Yao Xiaoqing and Ah Worm sent the little pig to the pen and put it in the pen, and saw it lying there humming weakly.

Ah Shui went to pick up some hay and put it in the wooden trough, looking at the little pig a little worried, "Xiaoqing, do you say you can feed it?" ”

Yao Xiaoqing also had no experience in this area, shook his head and said: "I don't know, let Shan Eminem cook the pumpkin peel and feed it later, try it, can you feed it?" ”

Ah Worm is optimistic about raising wild boars, "Ah Shui, let's try it. Look at the wild ducks, hares, cattle and goats, don't we feed them too? It's getting warmer, and we're going to have to net some ducks and raise them. ”

Ah Shui shook his head, "Go now, the duckling is not there yet!" ”

Yao Xiaoqing looked at the two of them, "Uncle worm, genius is warming, let's open the ground first, and then it's too late to catch wild ducks." ”

Ah Worm nodded, "Okay, let's go back and eat food first, peel the pig skin after eating, hand it over to Ah Yun, and then open the ground." ”

After the three of them returned to the cafeteria to eat food, Yao Xiaoqing arranged the manpower to do the work, and said to Taro and Hua: "You two go with me to the bamboo forest to dig bamboo shoots." ”

"Xiaoqing," Taro looked at her, "what are the bamboo shoots?" Can you eat it too? ”

"It's just a young bamboo that has just emerged from the bamboo forest."

Yao Xiaoqing turned back to Yun Amu and said, "Eminem, you keep a piece of pork belly, let's eat bamboo shoots and roast pork in the afternoon." ”

Ah Shui's eyes lit up, "Xiaoqing, if the bamboo shoots can be eaten, that bamboo forest can get a lot back." ”

Yao Xiaoqing looked at him, "We can get a lot of them back, and we can't dig up all the bamboo shoots, we have to pick those dense bamboo shoots to dig them up, and the bamboo will grow thicker." ”

"Yes, if we don't dig it, we won't be able to use it." Ah Shui thought that when he went to cut bamboo, there were holes in the bamboo forest that wild things arched out, "Xiaoqing, I think it's better to let Uncle Worm accompany you, there are also wild things in the bamboo forest." ”

"It's okay, the flowers stayed in the tribe and the Eminem to plant the taro, and the seeds from the cave to dry in the courtyard." Yao Xiaoqing turned his head to look at Ah Shui, "Let's bring some food, Shui Bo, you have a few more people in the afternoon, take the basket to the bamboo forest and carry the bamboo shoots."

"Okay." The two nodded in response.

Yao Xiaoqing, Ah Su, and Ah Worm carried a basket and a bamboo tube on their backs, and walked towards the bamboo forest with stone hoes. The three of them stepped on the soft humus of the forest, and saw that the withered trees were also revived, and the grass sprouted tender yellow buds from the loose soil.

From these signs, it seems that the belated spring has come.

After such a cold winter, there is no almanac reference. Yao Xiaoqing didn't know whether the weather would be good or bad next. Only soldiers can come to block, and water can cover the earth.

After walking for more than two hours, the three of them arrived at the bamboo forest.

Looking at the bamboo forest that was still verdant, Yao Xiaoqing had a feeling that things were wrong. Approaching a bamboo, he plucked a young leaf, placed it horizontally to his lips, and blew a crisp and pleasant birdsong.

After hearing this, Taro also picked a bamboo leaf, puffed out his cheeks and blew a few hard, but he didn't make a sound, "Xiaoqing, why did you blow the sound?" ”

"I'll teach you," Yao Xiaoqing walked over and picked a tender bamboo leaf and handed it to her, "If you want a tender bamboo leaf, pinch the ends of the bamboo leaf, straighten it, put it horizontally on your lips, and it will make a sound when you blow it gently." ”

Taro followed what Yao Xiaoqing taught, tried it, and the bamboo leaves made a sound of "poof, poof, poof,".

After hearing this, Uncle Worm laughed, pointed to the tender yellow bamboo shoots that came out of the soil and said, "Xiaoqing, is that a bamboo shoot?" ”

Yao Xiaoqing gave a thumbs up to Ah Worm, "Yes, that's the bamboo shoots, just dig this kind of tender yellow, such bamboo shoots are fresh and tender!" ”

"Okay, the bamboo forest is so big, let's not go away." Ah Worm instructed the two of them.

No one has ever dug up in the bamboo forest, and there are chubby, tender yellow bamboo shoots everywhere.

"Good!" The two put down the basket and found a bamboo shoot and dug it up.

It is really troublesome to dig things with a stone hoe, and it takes more than twice as much effort to use a stone hoe to solve the problem that can be solved with a few hoes in later generations.

Taro picked up a bamboo shoot, shook off the soil, and looked at the white and tender bamboo shoot meat exposed at the broken point of the bamboo shoot, "Xiaoqing, can bamboo shoots only burn pork belly?" ”

Yao Xiaoqing smiled, "Let's dig back and try a few more ways to eat, and we'll know if we try." She dug hard with her stone hoe.

Taro nodded, "I like our pickled sauerkraut, it's delicious no matter how you eat it!" ”

"Okay, let's try to pickle some sour bamboo shoots!"

After hearing this, Ah Worm smiled and said, "You two are talking about eating, don't you feel hungry?" ”

Yao Xiaoqing glanced at Ah Worm, "Uncle Worm, there is jerky in the basket when you are hungry!" ”

Ah Worm laughed and said, "I'm not hungry! You two don't just eat it. ”

Taro and Yao Xiaoqing both laughed.

The three of them were busy for a long time, and the bamboo shoots they dug up had filled three back baskets, and there was a pile on the east and a pile on the west.

Yao Xiaoqing sat on the ground with her butt and rubbed her sore wrist, "No, I want to rest for a while." ”

Taro walked over distressedly, took off the bamboo tube and dried meat hanging on the bamboo and handed it to her, "Xiaoqing, drink some water, eat some food, and rest for a while." ”

"Thank you!" Yao Xiaoqing took the bamboo tube and the jerky, drank a few sips, and saw that the two of them were still digging hard there, "Taro, worm, you should rest for a while!" ”

Ah Zhule shook his head, "We're not tired, you can get up after a while, pick up the bamboo shoots and put them in a pile." ”

Yao Xiaoqing sat for a while, but was embarrassed to sit down any longer, and got up to pick up the bamboo shoots on the ground and put them in a pile.

Suddenly, she felt like she was stabbed in the back. When I looked up, I saw four men with full beards, short statures, and dirty bodies, holding stone knives through several bamboos and walking towards this side.

The four of them stared at Taro and her, and the look in their eyes made people feel indescribably disgusting.

"Uncle Worm," Yao Xiaoqing shouted, jumping to Taro's side. The two of them saw the four people who walked out of Zhulong, showing nervous looks.

When the four of them saw that Yao Xiaoqing and the three of them had discovered them, they laughed arrogantly at a few people.

Two of them pointed to Taro and Yao Xiaoqing, "Wow, wow" in a language that several people couldn't understand, and from their eye movements, they could see that they were full of malice.

"They're savages, Xiaoqing, and the taro is behind me." Worm Bo clenched the stone hoe in his hand and used his thin body to block in front of the two.

"I'm not afraid!" Taro's face turned pale, holding the hand of the stone hoe, trembling slightly, "Xiaoqing, you hide behind us." ”

Yao Xiaoqing smiled faintly, "You two deal with one, and I'll deal with the others." ”

(End of chapter)