Chapter 9: Discovery
"Up the mountain?" Ye Sangwan's gaze looked at the mountains behind Yun Heng and fell into deep thought.
In fact, Banyuepo Village is surrounded by mountains, with rocky mountains with dangerous peaks, cliffs with thousands of rocks and ravines, and earthen slope mountains rising from the ground.
As the old saying goes: relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to draft the water, it seems that this Banyuepo Village has not taken this to the extreme.
In addition to the hunters who knew how to hunt, there was also Grandpa Song who was collecting medicine, and occasionally saw a few women picking wild vegetables and men collecting firewood, and no one seemed to be willing to run into the mountains.
Perhaps, this mysterious group of mountains can become a cover for her space.
"If it's convenient, I'd like to go!"
Yun Heng looked at her eyes and her happy appearance, and his mood also became extremely good: "It's naturally convenient." ”
The two parted outside Ye Sanwan's house and agreed to meet at the foot of the mountain in a quarter of an hour.
A quarter of an hour later, Ye Sanwan went to the appointment with three little tails who were ready to go.
From a distance, I saw Yun Heng dressed in a slim suit, with ropes tied at the wrists and ankles, a bow and a bamboo basket with arrow feathers on his back, and a sharp dagger hanging from his waist.
He stood alone in the shadows of the trees, looking at the birds playing on the branches, the breeze was light, and the tail of his hair was flowing with the wind.
As if sensing Ye Sangwan's arrival, he turned his head to look at Ye Sangwan, and his eyebrows suddenly twisted into the word "Chuan".
Yun Xiang waved her hand at Yun Heng, "Big brother, Ah Yan and I will dig some wild vegetables at the foot of the mountain, it won't affect your ......" and Sister Wanya fell in love.
Ye Chuan raised the firewood knife in his hand and said, "I'll cut firewood......"
This is full of desire to survive, Ye Sang is puzzled.
That's not what they said just now.
"Let's go." Yun Heng glanced at Ye Sangwan, his voice was slightly deep, as if he had magical power.
It wasn't until Ye Sangwan walked about a hundred meters behind him that he realized why he wanted to join him?
"Whew!" As soon as a sky-piercing arrow roared, a gray rabbit was heard squeaking in the trembling grass not far away.
When Ye Sangwan approached, he found that the arrow feather had hit the gray rabbit's hind legs, and the arrow had pierced into the soft soil through the hind legs...... She was reminded of the terrible death of the ox cart in the morning.
Ye Sangwan swallowed his saliva and stared at Yun Heng with a wordless expression, with a touch of awe for him in his eyes, no! Fear, to be exact.
"What then! I went around the neighborhood, and I saw that there were many dead trees in the neighborhood, and there should be a lot of mushrooms...... "After saying that, I ran away as if there was a ghost.
Yun Heng: ......
Didn't my mother say that if you like someone, you have to show your excellent side in front of her?
Mother said that after seeing his father shoot a pheasant with an arrow, did she have a deep affection for her father?
He showed, and then what?
Isn't the problem with the pheasant being shot?
He was so angry that he strangled the ignorant gray rabbit......
Next, he picked pheasants to hunt, and in less than half an hour, the basket was full of colorful pheasants, and a string of ...... hung on the outer edge of the basket
Ye Sangwan, who was far away, continued to hear the wailing of pheasants, like a cold-blooded poisonous snake slowly crawling over his heart......
blamed her for watching too many zombie movies and ghost movies in her previous life, so that countless terrifying conjectures were entwined in her heart, and she only felt a chill in her back at this time.
Yun Heng is handsome, she is handsome, but if she accidentally annoys him one day, what will happen to her...... Tsk tsk, it's too bloody, it's too graphic, and it's too miserable!
She was so frightened that she couldn't control the strength of her hand, and she actually crushed a cluster of fresh tea trees......
She shook her head to shake off the messy images, and then performed a disappearance technique on the spot, and in a flash, she reached the vegetable field downstairs of the staff dormitory in the space.
Originally, this land was paved with lawn, but then somehow, it was turned into a vegetable field, after all, it was approved by the above, and this land is about five acres wide, which can meet the basic needs of planting enthusiasts for the time being.
Walking to the place where the sweet potatoes were planted, Ye Sangwan raised his hoe and dug up two sweet potatoes with the roots of the sweet potatoes.
Looking at the thick stems hanging on the more than a dozen large and small sweet potatoes, Ye Sangwan clasped his hands together: "Thanks to the high-quality labor provided by the eldest sister/aunt/aunt, I will let these sweet potatoes carry forward in Banyuepo Village!" ”
After digging the sweet potatoes, Ye Sangwan took out two more potatoes, this time just digging the potatoes, the potato seedlings were useless, there was no need to increase her labor.
After finishing these, Ye Sangwan's small bamboo basket was already full.
In addition to sweet potatoes and potatoes, she also picked up some oyster mushrooms, tea tree mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms and the like, and also dug up some wild notoginseng.
Panax notoginseng has the effect of stopping bleeding, wild notoginseng is more precious in modern times, and the front line is fighting, so there should be a shortage of such medicinal materials.
"Eldest sister! Eldest sister~, where are you? ”
It was Ye Chu'an's voice, his tone was brisk, something good must have happened.
Ye Sangwan hurriedly stood up and shook the small sapling next to him as if it was experiencing a fifteen-level typhoon: "Chu'an, I'm here!" ”
About a stick of incense, Ye Sangwan saw Ye Chuan and the other three people covered with grass seeds and dead leaves.
Ye Chuan was carrying two pheasants in his hands, and the baskets in Ye Sangyan and Yun Xiang were filled with wild onions and straw mushrooms.
When Yunxiang saw the sweet potatoes and potatoes in Ye Sang's late bamboo basket, she asked an epic question: "Sister Wanya, what is this long red-skinned monster and this pebble-like thing?" ”
A striped red-skinned monster? This adjective...... There is really your Yunxiang girl!
Ye Sang rolled his eyes, "This red-skinned one is called a sweet potato?" It seems to be called a sweet potato, I just got it when I was bored digging the ant hole, I saw that the ant gnawed with relish, I couldn't help but bite it, it was really crispy and sweet.
I think it tastes even better when cooked!
And this, when you shave sweet potatoes, it grows next to it, No, look at this, it has been bitten by mice, and it will definitely be eaten! ”
"But...... I've been back to the mountain so much, how come I haven't seen it once? ”
"It's the first time I've seen it, after all, these two things grow underground, who will have nothing to do with plowing the ground?" suddenly thought of the excuse he was talking about just now, and explained: "Maybe it's because I'm more idle......"
Ye Chuan poked the sweet potato with his index finger, and accidentally broke a little skin, and a layer of white pulp oozed out of the broken skin, and he wrinkled his nose with some disgust: "Then how to burn this thing?" ”
"Burn! Anything can be burned! Ye Sangwan had an idea, "It's still early, why don't we burn it and eat?" ”
The three of them were not interested, and even frowned in disgust.
However, seeing that Ye Sangwan was very sure, the three of them had to cooperate with his acting, collecting firewood and digging pits.
In her previous life, she had been to a farm, and there was a project in that farm called Kiln Sweet Potato.
The mud is quickly built up in the shape of a triangular tower, leaving a fire mouth to become a kiln, and the fire is burned inside until the mud is red, you can lift the top end, put in the sweet potato, smash the red mud, so as to have better contact with the sweet potato, and then spread a thin layer of mud on the top to prevent air leakage.
Wait about two quarters of an hour and you'll be able to enjoy the delicious food!
When the kiln was opened, Yun Heng smelled the fragrance and came.
As a senior lover of roasted sweet potatoes, every winter, the uncle who takes out roasted sweet potatoes in the factory attracts customers by relying on the fragrance of roasted sweet potatoes.
Therefore, living up to expectations, the sweet smell made several people exclaim continuously.
"Eldest sister, it's so fragrant! I feel like there's a sweet smell......"
"That's right! Sister Wanya, let me try one first! ”
Ye Sangyan also rarely showed a smile, but he just sniffed his nose implicitly, his smile deepened, and his eyebrows and eyes were curved like the first moon.
Ye Sangwan pulled out the sweet potato steak, divided two for each person, and divided a small potato, "Eat!" Try it, and if it's delicious, we'll dig some back tomorrow and plant some in the ground. ”
Ye Chu'an, the little gluttonous cat, couldn't wait, so hot that he bared his teeth and kept grunning, and praised while eating, "Eldest sister, this thing is really delicious!" It's sweet and glutinous, no wonder ants love to eat it...... Eldest sister, I love to eat too! If I could eat this three times a day, I wouldn't be a picky eater! ”
Yun Heng glanced at Ye Sangwan in surprise, "Can this thing still be planted?" ”
Ye Sangwan took an untouched sweet potato in the basket and stood up, and on the rather thick stem, there was a bunch of sweet potatoes hanging from the vine, and the growth was extremely gratifying, "Look! This one tree can bear so much fruit, and it still grows in the barren mountains.
If you transplant it to the field and take care of it, you might be able to bear more! ”
"Okay! Then I'll look carefully for the next few days. Dig some for you and come back and try them out. Yun Heng didn't have much hope for this thing in his heart, after all, if this thing could really become a staple food, someone should have discovered and advocated it a long time ago.
Ye Sang saw that everyone was eating with relish, but she was not interested in planting, and she sighed slightly.
Feeling that the chicken and the duck were talking, she should have pulled Zhu Chaozhang with him, and he must have been excited about it, but when he thought of his trembling legs, he retreated again.
"Eat! It's time to go down the mountain after eating. It's dark and there are wolves! Yun Heng said as he handed her a peeled sweet potato.
Ye Sangwan was surprised, and glanced at the three people next to him carefully, seeing that their eyes were shining at them, and the expressions of eating melons seemed to be very consistent everywhere.
She coughed dryly twice, took it generously and gnawed, and after taking a bite, she found that Yun Heng was still staring at him, she took a deep breath, her cheeks were hot like fire, and she shyly lowered her head and picked up a sweet potato and threw it to him, "You eat it too." ”
Ye Chuan took a bite of the potato, his face full of pity, "Eldest sister, the taste of this yellow skin is not as good as that of sweet potatoes......"
"Actually, this one tastes pretty good, and if you eat it with dipping sauce, it's even more memorable!"
Ye Sangyan asked suspiciously, "Eldest sister, how do you know?" Isn't this the first time you've dug this thing? ”
"This ...... I thought of the all-purpose dipping sauce that I learned by chance...... Next time we'll try it, try ......"
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That night, Yun Heng had a dream.
I dreamed that the sweet potatoes transplanted in Ye Sang's late harvest ushered in a bumper harvest before the frost fell, and more than 100 stones were harvested from half an acre of sweet potatoes.
This is not the first time that such a predictive dream has happened.
The last time, when he retired from the army and didn't know where to go, he dreamed of Ye Sangwan as a child, and this time he returned to the village under the guidance of that dream......