Chapter Eighty-Three: Roasted Grasshoppers
Here she is catching grasshoppers with three small ones, the women over there have begun to wash the pot and cook, and the men have also used baskets to buckle more than a dozen sparrows, which is considered a bit of a harvest.
Although the sparrow is small, it is also meat, so I plucked the hair and cleaned it up, and chopped it directly and put it in the wheat porridge.
They also caught a lot of grasshoppers here, and the three orchids also learned to use dog tail grass to string together, and they made strings of grass, which looked quite like that.
When the wheat porridge was almost ready, they also threw the strings of grasshoppers into the fire where there was still ember, and after a while, the smell of barbecue protein came out, which was very fragrant.
Because they pulled off the grasshopper's wings before the skewers, and the size was not big, so they didn't have to roast it for too long, and when the thin grasshopper legs were burned, they happened to be cooked.
Everyone used slender wooden sticks as chopsticks to pick out the grasshoppers that were a little burnt and black.
Qian Yan picked up a little finger, shook the ashes on it, and then blew the ashes on the grasshopper's body, and then put it in her mouth.
Well, although there is no oil and salt, it is still quite fragrant.
Except for Li Hao, everyone else gathered around to eat, this thing has basically been eaten by the people who farm, and they are not strangers, even if they don't encounter locust plagues, locusts will appear every summer, so the people here still know how to eat.
Li Hao really hasn't eaten it, no matter how he trained in the barracks, he also has food to eat, and he doesn't have anything to eat outside, at most he has a little game, and he really hasn't touched this kind of bug.
Wang Kun and Wang Qian happily ate together, they were also farmers when they were young, and when they were eight years old, they encountered a famine, and their families died, so they sold themselves and bought the general's mansion.
Because of his good performance and outstanding qualifications for learning martial arts, he was assigned to Li Hao, the young master of the General's Mansion, as a guard, and later followed him into the barracks, and they have always been by his side to protect Li Hao's safety.
Speaking of which, they can be regarded as growing up with Li Hao since childhood, so the relationship between the three of them is not comparable to that of ordinary masters and servants, and there is some brotherhood in it.
Li Hao saw that everyone was eating deliciously, especially Qian Yan was eating, he didn't dislike it at all, and he couldn't help but pick up a ash that shook it, put it in his mouth and tasted it.
As a result, it was really delicious, fragrant and crispy, and there was no disgusting feeling of chewing insects as he imagined, so he grabbed it together.
Fortunately, the four of them caught a lot, plus there was sparrow wheat porridge, everyone could eat seven or eight percent full.
After eating, we began to discuss how to go next.
They also saw smoke in the village in the distance, indicating that the village on the side of the road had not been looted.
Of course, it cannot be said that it is safe, and it is also possible that the village is not inhabited by the original villagers.
Luckily, it was in the opposite direction to what they wanted to go, and they didn't have to pass by the villages, and they didn't have to go there to check around.
Wang Kun said beside him: "I just took a look on the road, there are many footprints and rut marks on the road, all of which are relatively new, and they should have been left by people passing by in the past two days."
Since there are people passing by, this road should be safe, so it's best for us to mix in the crowd and follow along, and we can take care of each other when the time comes.
It's better for our donkey cart to unload a cart and take turns pulling the cart to go, and go faster.
It's no better than in the mountains, you can stop and rest at any time, there are wastelands on both sides of the road, and there is no game to hunt, let alone grain, all of which have owners.
If we collect other people's grain, we may still be besieged by the villagers, so it is better to hurry as soon as possible and rush to Handcheng or the next town to buy it.
If you can, you can also sell these worn-out jewelry and exchange them for silver money, which is more convenient to use and will not be noticed. ”
Everyone agreed, a donkey pulling two carts, it does look a little strange, there are a lot of men, it is not difficult to take turns to pull one, and it can also let women and children who can't walk sit on the cart.