Jinqiaokan, Hongjiayuan.

The five brothers lined up and sat under the eaves to bask in the sun, each with frustration written on their faces.

Alas, they hadn't lit the fire yet. I want to borrow a fire from my neighbors, but the doors are closed and I can't knock on them.

When the knock is urgent, the cries of women and children will be heard inside, making them look like bandits who are about to rob their homes.

Without fire, you can't boil water or cook. wanted to drink raw water, but the fifth child didn't let him. It is not that the water in the well is not clean, and if it is not boiled, it will cause illness......

So I could only sit there, licking my chapped lips and listening to the rumbling of my stomach in a daze.

"Xia Wei starved to death in Nanchao, Duke Qi Huan starved to death in the palace, and King Chu Ling and King Zhao Wuling...... Is this the fate of kings? The third brother shed the tears of the unwilling king.

"......" the fourth brother has only one word to comment on this.

By noon, the king's oxen were mooing with hunger......

That's easy. The fourth child opened a bag of rations and poured rice into the pig's trough, and the big buffalo immediately came over, smelled it, and lowered his head to eat.

"Why is this rice red?" King Jin felt strange. "Shouldn't all rice be white?"

"Red, red rice." The second looks very understanding.

"The cow is very delicious, and we have no problem eating it." The fourth groaned.

"Nonsense, this was supposed to be our rations." The third child gave him a white look.

"No, I mean, we eat raw rice too, right?" Zhu Di proposed.

"You eat first." The third child is noncommittal.

"I, I'll come." The second brother volunteered, grabbed a handful of red rice grains directly from the pig trough, stuffed them into his mouth and chewed them vigorously.

As a result, the tooth flowers were all sour, but they still didn't swallow it......

"Bah, what's the smell......" King Qin spit out his mouth full of scum, and poured a scoop of well water regardless of it, and then he eased up.

"Well, it doesn't look like you can eat it raw." King Yan came to a conclusion.

"That's right." King Jin nodded.

King Qin: "Vomit, vomit......"

Zhu Zhen, who was hungry, looked at these unreliable brothers, and felt deeply worried about whether he could survive to the autumn harvest.

In fact, he racked his brains this morning to find a way to make a fire, and even tried to drill wood to make a fire, but it ended in failure, and his hands were still blistered......

Zhu Zhen looked at the blood bubbles on his delicate palms, and silently apologized to Master De, it turned out that it was not so simple to make a fire.

"No, let's go back. Father doesn't want us, does he? At this time, the fifth brother, who had been very quiet, spoke: "It's better to let him down than to let him lose his son, right?" ”

The fifth brother is always like this, putting life first. And of course his own.

"That's not good, we can't let our father down!" The fourth brother said categorically: "I won't go back if I starve to death!" ”

"That's right, fight for it! What is this difficulty? We will be able to overcome it! "The third brother is not to be outdone.

The third and fourth are in a different situation.

"You, you two will steam steamed buns first...... "The second brother is not so strong, and he doesn't want to stay here."

~~

Just when the mood of several highnesses was at a low point, the amiable voice of Tang Jiachang sounded at the gate of the courtyard.

"How many brothers are resting?"

The brothers raised their heads listlessly, and their eyes lit up. I saw that Tang Jiachang was carrying a bag of dim sum in his hand and a small jar.

"Oh, you're hungry, aren't you?" Tang Jiachang handed the dim sum to Zhu Fan and said, "You're welcome, I bought it for you from the county seat." ”

"Okay." Zhu Fan was full of praise, tore open the oiled paper, grabbed a piece of dim sum and stuffed it in his mouth.

"Don't ......" the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and four younger brothers stopped together, but they didn't stop the second.

"You, you eat too......" King Qin crunched and ate with a mouth full of scum, and delivered the snacks to his younger brothers.

Please, you just offended someone, alas, how dare you eat something given by someone? There should be a limit to not having a heart or lungs......

If you don't do it like this, you'll be poisoned!

Still, Jinnyima is hungry.

The third, fourth, and sixth swallowed their saliva in unison and looked at the fifth, he was an expert in this regard.

Zhu Hu picked up a piece of hemp cake and looked at it carefully, making sure that it was not just made. Then I broke a little and put it in my mouth and tasted it, then I nodded and swallowed it.

The three of them immediately shot like electricity, munching and swallowing. The second and fifth children also hurriedly joined the ranks of grabbing food.

The dim sum brought by Tang Jiachang was gone in a blink of an eye.

"Looks like I'm hungry." Tang Jiachang couldn't help but wonder: "You can feed the cattle with grain, why don't you cook and eat for yourself?" ”

"No, there won't be a fire." King Qin's cheeks bulged and said vaguely.

"The main thing is that the flint is broken." The king of Jin was embarrassed to admit his incompetence and pointed to the flint stone that was thrown on the ground.

"It doesn't affect the usefulness." Tang Jiachang bent down to pick up half of the flint, put the flint under the flint, picked up the fire sickle with the other hand, rubbed it back and forth on the flint to heat it, and then slammed the flint down several times, and all the sparks hit the flint in the same position of the velvet.

The five highnesses were surprised to find that a cluster of black dots soon appeared on the velvet that they couldn't attract before. As Donald blew softly, the black dots grew larger and larger, began to smoke, and then glowed red......

In the end, Tang Jiachang easily ignited the hay that was used as fire coal with fire velvet, and the bright flames were dancing in everyone's pupils.

"Hey, you, you're a god!" His Royal Highness King Qin gave a thumbs up.

King Jin and King Yan also praised it.

Tang Jiachang didn't expect that this would make these bad boys so admired, so he simply did good things to the end, instructed them to dig out the stove, set the pot up, light the stove, and then taught them to cook.

He first asked King Yan to pour the water, and then said to King Qin, "Put rice in the pot." ”

"Hey, okay." Zhu Fan picked up the rice bag and poured it into the pot.

"Eat less, just eat porridge now. After a few days, the wild vegetables sprouted, dig them back and cook vegetable porridge to eat, and then eat some dried ...... when the farm is busy," Tang Jiachang patiently taught the old farmer the experience of living.

"Oh oh......" King Qin replied as he continued to lower the rice.

"A little more, a little more." Several highnesses with gray faces were still urging on the side.

"There's too much rice." Steaming rice, Zhu Zhen is still experienced.

"Pour water, pour water." The third brother ordered, and the fourth brother tons and tons.

"The water poured too much." Zhu Zhen was speechless and said, "It's porridge again." ”

"Rice again." The third brother ordered again, and the second brother made a fuss.

Tang Jiachang shook his head, how could he last until the autumn harvest with such a waste?

~~

Waiting for the rice to be steamed, the brothers surrounded Lao Tang and asked questions.

They already regarded Tang Jiachang as an old eunuch who knew everything.

"Old Tang, why is our rice red? It can't be new, right? ”

"My little master, brown rice is the color of this. The white rice they used to eat was polished rice after being shelled and licked again. Tang Jiachang smiled bitterly: "We ordinary people don't dare to waste so much, the rice only takes off the husk once, which is the brown rice we eat." ”

"And we are not willing to throw away the bran that we take off, and we can also steam the bran to eat it when it is crushed into chaff." He added.

"Can you eat that?" The brothers are staggered.

"The chaff nest head is very difficult to swallow, and it hurts to eat it, and it can be difficult to defecate." Donald said with emotion:

"But before Emperor Hongwu, we ordinary people couldn't even eat this, and could only eat grass roots, bark, Guanyin soil. At that time, if there was a chaff nest to eat, my family of nine would not starve to death of six. ”

The "......" brothers were silent. They naturally remembered what happened to their family, although they had heard their father talk about it countless times, but they didn't empathize with it this time.

ps. Chapter VII, 2500 Subscriptions and Changes.

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