Eighty-one Edible plants
Shan Dayu shook his head and explained: "I heard that it is a gathering of survivors, and the forest road conditions are not good, so you have to clear the way out before you can drive out, and the army's supplies are all in the car." After saying that, he was so angry that he couldn't open his eyes.
Li Ting was looking at Sun Bin's sunspots, and the two of them also looked depressed, thinking that they were tired for a day today, and now they are a little unbearable.
"Let's go to bed first. After speaking, he took out the cut barbecue from his backpack and handed it to the sunspot, Li Ting lay directly on the ground, the ground was cold and hard, it was not hot in autumn, and people should not catch a cold when they slept like this, but they had just arrived, and they did not prepare wood and hay, so they could only make do with it overnight, and wait for tomorrow.
Before dawn the next day, Li Ting was still sleeping, when suddenly a small group of soldiers came to the camp, beating gongs and drums and calling out the civilians in the camp.
Li Ting was sleepy-eyed, barely got up from the ground, this sleep was really choking, not to mention, the most important thing was cold and damp, the cold hit people, so that Li Ting couldn't stand snoring, and when she woke up, the snot began to flow wantonly, obviously injured and windy, and got the wind cold.
Following Shan Dayu all the way into the crowd, Li Ting asked Shan Dayu: "What is this for? Tell us to get up before dawn, won't it force us to work?" ”
Shan Dayu looked sad and said, "I guess it is, we can't be raised for nothing." ”
Li Ting lowered her head and thought about it, and said, "If you are full, you will admit to working." ”
At this moment, a man who looked like an officer came out of the soldiers who came to him, and he saw that the people were almost gathered, holding a plant with a rhizome in his left hand and a bullhorn in his right hand and shouting: "Everyone, pay attention, look at me." Through the efforts of the army, yesterday I finally experimented with an edible food, which is the one I hold in my hand. ”
As soon as these words came out, the camp became a mess in an instant, and people asked nonsense.
"Is it really edible?"
"Where can I find this grass. ”
"Do you eat the roots, do you eat the roots?"
The scene was chaotic, and several radical refugees wanted to rush up and snatch the plants in the hands of the officers.
At this time, the soldiers of the squad suddenly fired a few snatches into the sky, which barely suppressed the chaos of the refugees, and the crowd gradually became less talking and questioning.
Li Ting was on tiptoe, wanting to take a closer look at the so-called food in the officer's hand, but there were too many people in front of her, and they all squeezed forward desperately with the same idea as Li Ting. Looking back at the sunspots, the big man of 1.9 meters has an advantage, as long as he pokes there, he simply stands out from the crowd.
Li Ting hurriedly walked to the side of the sunspot and asked the sunspot: "Brother sunspot, have you seen the plant clearly?"
Kuroko stood quietly in the crowd, staring at the plant in the officer's hand without blinking, and said, "I don't know, the plant is incomplete, only a few leaves and rhizomes on the roots, it's hard to judge." ”
Seeing that the crowd was gradually quieting, the officer raised the plant again and shouted with a loudspeaker: "Don't worry, everyone, each of my team members will take this plant to everyone to identify in a while, but it should be remembered that this plant can only be cooked and eaten by rhizomes, and the leaves and flowers are poisonous. After saying that, the officer pointed to the gate of the camp, and people realized that they didn't know when, there was suddenly a small table at the gate of the camp, and on the table were the two soldiers, and a few military cloth bags and paper and pencils, which should be the place where they could exchange huàn food.
After the officer had finished speaking, he returned to the soldiers, took out several of the plants from the cloth bag, and handed them to the soldiers for them to take to the refugees for identification.
There was another burst of chickens and dogs, and Li Ting and the others finally saw the whole picture of the edible plants.
The three-foot food is full of rhizomes and leaves, the leaves are tender and juicy, each piece is the size of a palm, and the heart-shaped appearance makes people remember it at a glance, but the stem is relatively slender, and the thickest part is as thick as a thumb. The roots of the plant are clumped together, tightly interspersed with slender and long plant roots, on which there are egg-sized lumps, and the skin is pitch black with circles of patterns, and the color of the fruit inside cannot be seen, but when you see it, it looks like a taro before the end of the world.
After seeing it, many refugees took advantage of the fact that it was still dawn and hurried to find someone they knew to prepare for departure. After the end of the world, there is not much to eat, most of them are brought out of S City, after such a long time, there is not much left of them, and some people can only live on the rice soup sent by the army, in such a state, the refugees have even begun to wonder if they can still reach City A alive. Fortunately, there is hope again.
Li Ting and a few people got together, Li Ting took their backpacks that were about to bottom out, and said to everyone: "We don't have much food." Save a little, eat two meals a day, and you can survive for two days, or let's try it too, see if we can find that kind of food, no matter how bad it is to beat a rabbit and pheasant, it is much better than sitting on a mountain now. ”
Sun Bin was a little skeptical: "We have all experienced the dangers outside the camp, in case we encounter something spicy, we may not be so lucky to come back alive." ”
Shan Dayu shrugged his shoulders, and said in a rather cold tone to see the world: "Spicy things, I don't want to go out even if the sky falls." But the facts are in front of me, if you don't go out, you won't have anything to eat, if you don't go out, you'll starve to death, there are many kinds of deaths, and the only thing I don't want to experience is the feeling of starving to death. Speaking of this, Shan Dayu patted Li Ting's shoulder, and then said: "The choice of buns is very much in line with my appetite, if you don't dare to go, you will wait here for the master to get back to eat, we will eat, you watch." Brother Hei, what do you think, do you want to go with me?"
The three of them discussed passionately for a long time, but Kuroko didn't say a word, and stood silently on the side in a daze. Hearing Shan Dayu ask him, Heizi raised his head to look at everyone, nodded, and said that he would go together.
Sun Bin is helpless, he is not a timid person, since the three of them have decided to go out, he naturally can't let himself fall behind: "I didn't say no." You have to be a little prepared before you go, you can't just carry a backpack with the four of us, at least you have to prepare a few bags that can hold things. ”
This requirement is indeed a bit difficult for strong people, they brought out a lot of backpacks when they went out of S City, but now people are lost, divided families, where are there so many things that can be used by them, and they have to burn high incense to get some equipment in the pyramid.
Li Ting pondered for a long time to no avail, so she could only shake her head and say, "Then what do you say?" ”
"There is a way, but I don't know if you are willing or not. Sun Bin said.
Shan Dayu said: "Don't buy lawsuits, just talk about the point." ”
Sun Bin pointed to the backpack in Li Ting's hand and said, "There is food here, or rare meat, we can use it to exchange for what we want, whether it is a backpack or something else." ”
"It's not going to work, it's definitely not going to work. Li Ting immediately hugged her backpack tightly and didn't let go, the boss in her heart was unwilling, and her head shook like a rattle, saying that we went out just for food, how could we still give precious food to others?
Shan Dayu seemed to agree, stared at Sun Bin with an appreciative face, and said loudly: "What a clever plan to sink the boat, if you don't enter, you will die, what do you have in your head, how can you come up with such a good way." After speaking, regardless of whether Li Tingtong agreed or not, he snatched the backpack and threw it to Sun Bin for him to exchange, Li Ting originally wanted to resist, but Shan Dayu's strength was too great, and almost without struggling, Li Ting's backpack was snatched away by Shan Dayu.
Li Ting looked at the sunspot with a sad face, her eyes were accusatory, and she almost shouted at the sunspot to express her dissatisfaction.
Kuroko turned his head to look away, as if he didn't know anything about the food being taken.
After only a while, Sun Bin walked back with a backpack, and together with a few travel backpacks covered with dust and mud, Li Ting was looking at the backpack with meat, which was already empty, and there was obviously nothing left.
"Sun Bin, why didn't you leave some breakfast? Li Ting shouted uncontrollably.
Sun Bin smiled awkwardly and said, "I forgot." After saying that, quickly divide the backpack, the meat in the bag turned out to be about four catties, and it can be exchanged for three backpacks, which is definitely a big bargain for the dead before the end of the world, after the end of the world, it depends on what the person who sells the backpack thinks.
Four backpacks, exactly one for each person, several people were hungry, and by the light of the morning glow, they followed a large group of people into the dangerous forest again.
There were a lot of people coming out this time, nearly a third of the people in the refugee camp had come out, most of them were in groups, and a small number of people were acting alone, and the army only sent a few squads to protect them and help with patrols, but the number was not large, and I don't know if it was because of the shortage of personnel, or because of some other reason.
Li Ting and the four of them have been following the team at the beginning, the army said that there are not many edible plants, every time they are found, they attract a large wave of refugees to rob, after experiencing another bloody robbery incident, Li Ting They finally decided to go to a place away from the crowd to find it, first, there are not so many people to rob, and secondly, it can also ensure the personal safety of a few people.
Soon the four of them crossed the jungle and crossed the lawn, and after a two-hour trek, during which they also killed two sneaking beetles, and several came to a small stream.
As soon as Li Ting saw the creek that suddenly appeared in front of her, she couldn't close her mouth with a smile, her back molars were about to leak out, and she didn't greet a few people, she climbed to the creek first and picked up the water and started drinking, although the creek was not deep, it was clear and sweet, and the taste of drinking in her mouth was similar to Nongfu Spring. Li Ting suddenly realized, no wonder there is an advertising slogan that Nongfu Spring is a little sweet, Li Ting drank the stream water like this, it was really a little sweet.
Before he finished drinking a handful of water, Sun Bin and a few people pushed away the grass and leaves and walked out, and when they saw Li Ting squatting there drinking water, Sun Bin hurriedly shouted: "Li Ting, why did you drink this water, is this water in the last days drunk casually?