Chapter 27: Chestnut

Grandma sighed and said: "During the fasting process, the more they hunt, the tighter the muscles on their bodies will be, and the weight will increase when their body is not large, so that when they are against fierce beasts and even fierce beasts, their body size will be more advantageous." โ€

Jin Mang suddenly realized that she had a lot of combat experience, so she knew very well that strength, speed, and skill were important when facing enemies, but size could not be ignored.

For example, those judo and taekwondo fighters tend to have nothing to do with sumo wrestlers because the latter is not at all the size of the former, and sumo wrestlers have a thick layer of fat, you can hurt them, but it is difficult to hurt them.

However, it is not the size of the body that has an advantage, and the small size is a disadvantage, depending on the specific situation.

But in any case, without compromising speed, the heavier the weight, the better.

Even after receiving such an explanation, Jin Mang still felt uncomfortable.

It's one thing not to starve, but it's instinct for creatures to crave food when they're hungry. Jin Mang would feel such a gaze from time to time when he was eating, some from Qingfeng Qingsui, and some from other adult elders.

The children, including Jin Mang, were apprehensive, but Grandma was accustomed to this, and she ate so comfortably.

In her words: "When they live to my age, they won't have to go hungry." โ€

The terrain after passing through the swamp is easier to walk, and you can often see mountains on the way, but those mountains are not particularly high, and Jin Mang estimates that this should be a hilly area.

At this time, it looked bare, and the ground was so dry that cracks spread. No matter how much they save, the water they save is still decreasing at a rate that is visible to the naked eye.

Jin Mang has not been idle these days, in the process of hurrying, she has been observing the surroundings, and finally the effort paid off, this evening, she found a small clump of yellowish green behind a rock.

Just as everyone was going to camp here, she got out of the grain cart and rushed over to move the stones.

Sure enough, just as she expected, the ground beneath the rocks was slightly wet, and a large number of insects were scattering and escaping.

If you're not mistaken, there must be underground water veins underneath this.

Thinking like this, after the insects were all gone, Jin Mang began to dig up with his bare hands. The further you dig, the wetter the soil becomes.

Seeing this, how could others not understand her purpose, and stepped forward one after another to help.

Then that night, the people of the British tribe were digging the earth and filling the water, until there was no more water, and it was almost dawn, and they were about to set off again.

It's just that they were so tired the night before that everyone began to doze off uncontrollably halfway through the journey.

In the end, seeing that this was really not possible, Lan Ya simply found a place in the shade and let everyone rest for a while.

This will be unbearable for everyone, you must know that even Grandma helped last night, and Jin Mang and their children did not sleep, but they slept on the grain cart for a while before.

Therefore, this will make the others lie on the ground, just in case, Jin Mang and they will not sleep.

In fact, everyone's stomachs will be hungry, they haven't hunted today, they can only starve first.

- There are fewer and fewer prey along the way, sometimes not a single rabbit is seen all day, even if the adults don't eat, but the children of Jin Mang will inevitably starve.

It's still a small thing to be hungry for half a day like today.

Jin Mang got down from the grain cart, looked at the mountain next to him, looked up and said to Grandma, "Grandma, I'll go to the mountain to have a look." โ€

Grandma turned her head to look and saw that the mountain was too small, so she nodded and said, "Don't go to the other side." โ€

The other children were also a little nervous, but Grandma's gaze swept over, and they all fell silent.

They don't have the strength and cleverness of Jin Mang, and their grandma will definitely not agree to it.

Jin Mang went up the mountain to find something to eat, even if it wasn't meat, but maybe he could dig up some sweet potatoes or something.

The mountains were bare, the trees were almost dead, and the ground was only a few dry vine leaves. Jin Mang dug in the places where there were vine leaves, but most of them found nothing, and occasionally he could dig up some rotten rhizomes, and he couldn't tell what they were at all.

She touched her stomach and licked her dry lips, it was so uncomfortable.

Just as he was about to give up, Jin Mang dug up a ...... the size of a pigeon's egg Chestnut?

She bites hard, peels off the meat and puts it in her mouth, and the unique sweetness of the chestnut bursts in her taste buds, and the taste is very charming.

It's really chestnuts!

Jin Mang's eyes lit up.

She searched around for a while, and it didn't take long to find a dead tree that looked like a chestnut treeโ€”this was just her guess, after all, although Jin Mang had seen chestnut trees, but only before, not to mention that the tree in front of her had changed beyond recognition.

When Jin Mang was a child, he went to the mountains to play with Jin Meili and Zhong Xiuxiu, and a family in the village contracted to plant half of the mountain chestnut trees in the mountains, but they were young and did not dare to attack the chestnuts like hedgehog balls, and when they went, the chestnuts had not yet borne fruit.

So at that time, they went for bamboo shoots.

The chestnut forest was originally planted with bamboo, and although it was later dug up after being contracted, there were still some small bamboo shoots that were left behind.

Jin Mang and the others all love to eat tender bamboo shoots, so they went to the chestnut forest to dig bamboo shoots.

As a result, they dug up several sweet chestnuts at that time.

- The chestnut was the fruit of the previous year, and it was buried in the soil to keep it for a year.

At that time, it took them half a day to dig only a few, that is because the chestnut forest has a master, chestnuts will be picked when they are ripe, those chestnuts are the outer shell cracked naturally and fell down, sometimes not waiting to be buried will be picked up, the number is very limited.

But...... As far as Jin Mang knows, there should be no one eating chestnuts on Anze's side, does that mean ...... Will there be a lot of chestnuts buried in the ground?

Jin Mang swallowed, and then began to dig around the tree.

Sure enough, after a while, she dug up chestnuts, and in about ten minutes, she had a large handful of chestnuts in her hand.

Jin Mang was so hungry that she simply sat down and began to peel chestnuts.

After eating a handful, she dug again, dug and ate, so, she kept eating five or six handfuls, she touched her stomach and got up, and then ...... Continue digging chestnuts.

Finally, after digging a small pile, Jin Mang looked at the sky and stopped.

Just as she was about to descend the mountain, she was suddenly stunned.

Something was heard, it seemed to be ...... The back of the mountain?

Doesn't sound like an animal, but like a quarrel?

Want to check it out?

Jin Mang hesitated, intending to take a sneak peek, she meant to see how many people there were in this human tribe on the same path as them on the migration route, however......

Seeing the picture at the foot of the mountain clearly, Jin Mang turned around and ran without saying a word.