Chapter Seventy-Five: There Is Food Again
Because of walking sideways in the wheat field, and having to bow your head from time to time to pick up the ears of wheat, of course, you can't walk fast.
When they bypassed the west side of Tuqiaoba Village, and after they went around to the south side, there was another wheat field.
So they walked on and on, and did the same to the wheat fields of the two villages next door, until they had gone out more than four miles and finally came across a field of wheat that had not been harvested.
They didn't enter the two villages behind, but they just glanced at it from a distance, and saw blood stains in the courtyards outside the village, and they knew that they were all the same.
Those people were so mad that they slaughtered all the villages around here!
It is estimated that they have snatched the food, and it is useless for them to go in.
This surviving wheat field is also because it is under the outermost slope, and it should not have had time to harvest.
And on a large downhill slope, probably because of the lack of sunlight, it is slower than the ripening above.
The fertile fields above are not dense, let alone here, sparsely pulled, some grow very low, and some even have some green, which should be left in this way.
Now they are not in a hurry to leave, there is grain to harvest, and they must not miss this opportunity.
They hadn't eaten their staple food for a few days, and although they should have come across the town after a day or two of walking out, who knows what the town was like? What if there isn't? Wouldn't it be even more troublesome when the time comes?
After going out from here, it will be flat, and if you want to hunt, you won't have a place to hunt, let alone dig wild vegetables.
Because there are trees in the mountains, and there are some wild vegetables, the fields outside have long been like wheat, either old, or they have turned yellow and dried up, and they can be seeded.
Or it was pulled out by the villagers who were afraid of grabbing the nutrition of the wheat, and it was very likely that they would starve at that time.
It just so happens that there is a slope here that can be sheltered from the wind or hidden, and if someone comes over, they can't see them at the first time, so I will rest here today.
They first pulled the wheat by the roots with their hands, and pulled out a flat field where they rested.
This wheat field is divided into two layers, there are two or three acres of land, even if it can be harvested in one day today, there is no way to thresh, it is not easy to walk with so many ears of wheat, it is sure to rub out the wheat grains.
That's right, just rub it out by hand, there is no way, now they can't enter the village, they can't use the threshing tools in the village, they can only rely on their hands.
When passing through those villages, Qian Yan and Chou Chou also listened carefully to see if there was any movement inside, and if there were children who survived like the two sisters and brothers, they could also come out.
But it's a pity that they didn't hear it, even if the two of them deliberately passed by slowly, they couldn't stay there for too long, and even if they missed it, they could only admit it.
Except for Li Hao and the three of them, everyone is very skilled in pulling wheat, the three of them have not done farm work, and they couldn't master the strength at first, so they directly took down the wheat ears, and the whole hand was all over the place.
In fact, if there is a sickle, it is the fastest to cut directly, just like the Tuqiaoba Village, directly cut off the ears of wheat, and then dig out the wheat stalks and dry them to be used as firewood.
But they didn't have a sickle in their hands, and even the previous big knives were refined because they were making donkey carts, only shovels and gaotou, so they could only rely on their hands.
Don't ask them why they don't go to the village to look for it, they just don't dare.
They are mortals, they can dodge open guns and arrows, if it is a virus, they can't dodge, so it's better to be careful.
After harvesting the more than one acre above, the ears were first placed on the fine straw mat that had been woven before.
This straw mat was made when refining salt before, and it was very densely braided, and the wheat was just right to put it, and even the wheat grains could not leak out.
Since then, I have been using it to cover the luggage on the donkey cart, and now I use it to put this just right.
More than one acre of land below the slope was used by the men, and the women did not go, and directly rubbed the wheat grains there.
Rub the wheat grains off the ears and put them into the burlap bag that previously held the wheat grains.
Qian Yan also helped rub it together, her hands were relatively delicate, and it hurt to rub them directly with her palms.
He simply took out a rag and wrapped his hands around it, and used it as a glove.
However, because of this layer of cloth, it is not as good as the direct contact of the skin in the palm of the hand to grasp the strength, and people rub two handfuls, but she has not finished rubbing one yet.
The two sisters and brothers are also helping together, and they are much more skilled than Qian Yan.
The two siblings have really done this job, and even when they picked up ears of wheat before, they picked up more than them, maybe the children are low and sharp-eyed, and they still have an advantage.
When they were all done, and it was not early, the women hurriedly set up the stove to cook, and cooked wheat porridge directly in the evening.
They are going to cook it thicker, and then put a little bit of the meat that was marinated before, don't think about the wild vegetables, there are basically no wild vegetables here, and if you go further, there is no wheat field, that is, there is a wasteland.