Chapter 8: The Rat's Mouth Takes Food
No wonder Zhao Daman thinks too much, the grain in the famine year is precious, and it is an old forest in the deep mountains. Ye Sang said that he wanted to take advantage of the dark moon and high wind to make some food, which can only be reminiscent of the word "steal".
"Big brother, what do you want." Ye Sang chuckled, she couldn't take revenge on a group of villagers who couldn't figure anything out.
As for saying that she is disfigured and has to be kept alive......
The scar on her face is like a crescent moon, not ugly, and there is a shopping mall behind her that can feed a large family.
She didn't care about being widowed. Although her husband Zhao Chen said that she should wait for him, but if Zhao Chen really came back, she might not be able to adapt to it.
"I was chasing this snake when I found a few vole burrows in the mountains. Snakes love to eat voles, which is why there are snakes this season. ”
Speaking of this, Ye Sang threw the snake he had just caught on the ground: "Roast it and add food, and our family will go to find voles tonight." ”
A snake may not be a delicacy for ordinary people, but it is definitely a good meal for people who may eat tree bark and easy seeds in the desert.
Ye Sang was lost in the primeval forest when he went on a mission, he had no water and no food, and he had to eat everything in order to survive. Snake meat is one of the most delicious foods in game.
"Voles are cunning and especially fond of stealing food! The beast also likes to make holes, and one often makes several holes. ”
Thinking that the food at home was stolen by voles before escaping the famine, Zhao Lao Er's face was full of anger: "If our whole family goes out, no matter how many we catch, it will be a great thing." ”
"Yes, we're working together as a family to catch voles."
"You misunderstood, our purpose is not to catch voles, but to find the food hidden in the vole's nest." Ye Sang corrected the family's goals.
Autumn voles like to steal a lot of grain, and will run to people's homes to steal grain overnight, since ancient times, they have been hated and disgusted by farmers.
But voles steal food not to solve the problem of food and clothing for a day, but to survive the winter. Therefore, a large amount of stolen food is often hoarded in the cave, enough to be eaten until the end of next spring.
And now, it's early autumn.
"There's food in the vole's nest?"
The second room of the Zhao family was confused, they only knew that voles ate food, and they had never heard that voles would have food.
"If you believe me, you will find out with me in a moment."
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The sky was getting dark, and most of the surrounding villagers were resting, but the second room of the Zhao family was carrying a hoe and a basket and sack, and walked towards the forest.
The family swept to the end of Ye Sang's snake chase in the afternoon, and by the bright moonlight, they soon found the holes of three or four voles on the ground.
Zhao Sanlu, Zhao Sigu and the pregnant sister-in-law Sun each took sticks to guard the three holes. When you see the vole come out, knock it out with a stick.
The rest of the people were all digging the last hole under Ye Sang's arrangement.
"Sister-in-law, will there really be food in the vole's hole? And will there really be five or six pounds? ”
Along the way, Ye Sang told the family that voles would hoard a lot of food, but the family was still skeptical.
Five or six catties of grain, that's the ration of their family for more than a month.
If they dig a few more nests, they don't have to worry about food on the way to escape the wilderness in the future.
"Most of the voles are on the edge of the field, and if you go deep into the mountains, the possibility of encountering vole holes is not necessarily very high." Ye Sang calmly analyzed.
She didn't really dare to guarantee how much food she would have in the vole's nest tonight.
Voles hoarding food is something she had seen in books. Because of the shocking amount of food hoarded by voles, it is still fresh in my memory.
But no matter how much there is, she will replace all the food in the vole's nest with the food she bought in the mall.
If it goes well, she can use this method in the future to take out the food bought in the mall logically, and it will not arouse the suspicion of the second family.
"Why is this vole's burrow so deep?"
The family dug for a long time, only to see the vole's burrow turn left and right, and there were several forks.
They even dug up a lot of soft grass and some rice bran.
"At this depth, you should be digging the granary of voles soon."
That is, after Ye Sang said this, golden grains of corn and millet mixed with grass seeds, wild chestnuts, and pine nuts gushed out.
"There really is food!" Zhao Daman was so shocked that he lost the hoe in his hand.
"So much!" Zhao Lao Er squatted down in disbelief, his hands trembling to touch the grain.
"Daman's father, we are not mistaken." Li also squatted down to touch the grain.
Since the uneven distribution of food between the families, the Li family has been very worried about the future days of escaping the famine. Now when I see the food, I can't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Mother, it's food. You just read that right. ”
Zhao Sanlu and Zhao Sigu were originally guarding the entrance of the vole cave, and when they heard that there was food, they hurriedly ran over to see the excitement.
"The vole escaped!"
I don't know who this sounded, and everyone saw a few voles escaping from the two holes, looking at the second room where the grain was digging, and squeaked angrily.
Zhao Sanlu and Zhao Sigu wanted to chase after them with short legs, but they were shouted back by Ye Sang: "Leave them alone, it's the right thing to take the food away." ”
"Little sister-in-law, if it weren't for our ...... If we hadn't been obedient, we would have had more meat. You hit us! ”
The two children watched the vole run away, or because of their dereliction of duty. Both of them hung their heads and their eyes were red.
"Hit you?"
Ye Sang looked at the two children who were waiting to be beaten, and suddenly remembered the picture of being beaten in his childhood because he didn't study kung fu well.
Comparing her heart to her heart, when she was so old, she couldn't dig wild vegetables, let alone make a fire.
"Voles may get sick if they eat vole meat. My intention was to kill them so that they would not continue to spoil the crops! ”
Ye Sang rubbed the two little heads and tapped lightly on them: "I have also taught you a lesson, go and help." ”
"Really? Then we're not wrong! The little sister-in-law is the best. Zhao Sanlu and Zhao Sigu were relieved, and their eyes were still shining with tears.
Zhao Sanlu bore the brunt of the attack, jumping directly into the vole's granary, holding a large handful of grain and stuffing it into the cloth bag.
"I'm here to help, too!" Zhao Sigu looked serious, clenched his small fists, and jumped down.
The family worked together and really dug up five or six catties of grain from the vole's granary.
"Dad, mother, big brother and sister-in-law. We have food, but we must not talk about it. ”
Back at the place where he was sleeping, Ye Sang reminded the family.
"That's enough food for our family for a month. Second, good things are quiet. If this matter is known to the eldest mother, it will cause other rights and wrongs. ”
"Yes, what my brother and sister said makes sense." Zhao Daman admired Ye Sang's younger brother and sister very much.
I helped divide the family and found food.
Unlike him, he is obviously the eldest son in the family, but he is a cripple who can't help anything.
"Okay, that's it, let's all sleep." Zhao Lao Er also agreed with Ye Sang's decision.
Everyone knows very well in their hearts that this bit of food is not enough for the people in the village to share, let alone let the big house see it.
When Dr. Sun and Honghong rushed over, what they saw was the scene of the second room of the Zhao family preparing to sleep.
"Great, you're finally back!"
Doctor Sun had joy on his face, and his smile in the dark night quickly retracted: "That's the case, I have something to look for Ye Sang." ”