Chapter 8 Wild Rice

Yesterday I had a day off, and I ate and drank the blood-replenishing things I cooked, and I felt a lot better, and I basically didn't feel any blood loss.

I didn't wait any longer, this delay, I could only boil potatoes as the staple food for the past two days, and there was a bag of boiled potatoes and brood eggs in the storage bag. Keep it for the road to eat.

By the way, there are also wound medicine and snake repellent medicine prepared by my father and mother when they are there, so you have to save some of them.

Alas, why is that person who snatched the house so wasteful, he doesn't even know a prescription, and he will run out of it by then.

Thinking about it, Mo Yue took out the spirit bead and a spirit stone. When he got into his pocket, he closed the door and walked towards the village chief's house.

The village chief is the captain of the hunting team in the village, and it also happens that he has gone into the mountains at this time and is not at home. The village chief's wife is at home.

There was a knock on the door. A small head poked out of the door, "Who are you looking for?"

Mo Yue looked at this little head that was not as tall as herself, and knew that it should be the youngest son of the village chief's family. "I'm looking for the village chief's aunt, are you at home?"

"What are you looking for my father and mother, my father is not here!" the little head that stretched out frowned, as if it was a little displeased.

"Is that auntie at home? I'm looking for her for something. Mo Yue made herself look a little anxious.

"My mother doesn't have time to pay attention to you. The little head pursed his lips, withdrew his head, and slammed the door shut.

When Mo Yue didn't know what to do outside the door, she heard the sound of the door opening from the courtyard inside the door, and then a gentle voice asked, "Xiaocheng, why did the door fall so loudly?" Hearing this voice, Mo Yue stopped the idea of going home.

"It's okay, mother. "Just listen to the voice of the little head just now.

"There was a knock on the door just now, who was it?" asked the gentle voice again.

"I don't know the little girl, and she said she was looking for you, hmph, what can the little girl do, I didn't let her in!" the little head's voice said again.

Mo Yue, when I heard this, I knew that my feelings were still my own small problems. Mo Yue thought that there was no play, and she was about to go back again. As a result, I heard footsteps in the courtyard coming this way. "You child," said again at the tender voice.

The "squeak~" door was opened. A gentle figure behind the door was revealed. A goose egg face with apricot eyes and willow eyebrows, the corners of the mouth are raised, with a three-point smile, about 20 years old. The end is gentle and virtuous.

As soon as the door opened, Mo Yue raised her little face with tears on it. When I heard the footsteps walking towards the door just now, I twisted my thigh, it hurt.

"Child, what's wrong with you?" the village chief's wife seemed a little startled when she opened the door.

Suck ~ "Auntie, do you have any wound medicine at home? My father and mother came back this time and was injured." I feel distressed. As he spoke, tears welled up in his eyes. Pathetic.

"Is your father and mother seriously injured?" asked the village chief's wife.

Mo Yue made a thought for a moment and returned. "No, they didn't bleed when they came back before. I thought, I wondered if the medicine had run out, so I immediately ran out to buy some for them. Me, I don't know where to buy. It's up to you. He sobbed and stopped.

"Auntie, do you have any medicine for wounds? I have money, I'll buy it." Really!" said that, he reached out of his pocket and took out a spirit stone and a dozen spirit beads.

The village chief's wife looked distressed, she was really a good boy. Thinking about it, he said, "Wait a minute, your uncle has almost taken it away from the mountain, and there is some left at home, but there are not many, so I will take it for you." With that, he went back to the house.

When he came out again, he came out with two small porcelain vases in his hands. "This is what your uncle used to go into the mountains, you can take it back. As he spoke, he handed it to Mo Yue.

Mo Yue, after taking the medicine bottle, was about to hand over the spirit stone, but the village chief's wife refused to accept it. In the end, he was helpless, "Then you can give me those ten spirit beads." Wound medicine is not very valuable, you should go home quickly. ”

Saying that, the village chief's wife led her son back and asked Mo Yue to hurry home.

Mo Yue looked at the closed door and sighed in her heart, although she didn't know much, she also knew that this wound medicine was not cheap, two bottles of wound medicine could sometimes save lives, a spirit stone was about the same, but she only received ten spirit beads. Thinking about it, Mo Yue stuffed the spirit stone under the crack in the door, people are good to themselves, but they can't really accept it so calmly.

After stuffing the spirit stone, Mo Yue got up, wiped her tears, and went home. After a while, he opened the door again, bypassed the house, and went to the back mountain.

Mo Yue didn't know, but fortunately went home. Mo Yue's father and mother haven't shown up for so long, and the village has the idea of coming here to take a look. Is it that the person is gone.

Mo Yue came out to borrow and buy medicine this time, and went home when she was done. The spirit stone she stuffed was seen by the village chief's youngest son. He picked it up and went out to follow Mo Yue. Because it was far away, Mo Yue didn't know either. He saw Mo Yue enter the door, and immediately ran back. told the village chief's wife that Mo Yue's family used to live so far away from the foot of the mountain behind the village. The village chief's wife also knew who it was. No, when the village chief came back, I told him. It is equivalent to knowing in disguise that the couple is still living there. I stopped thinking about going to see.

Mo Yue didn't know anything. I don't know that I borrowed to buy wound medicine and solve a lot of hidden dangers for myself. Or, don't worry about it for a short time, someone finds out that Daddy is dead. Came to bully and hurt her.

When he went up the mountain, Mo Yue took out the simple spear prepared in the storage bag. Hold it in your hand and play with the grass that grows half a man's height. It is said that the grass scares the snake. It's not easy to find wild rice in the haystacks.

Mo Yue can be regarded as very lucky. But in the middle of noon, Mo Yue found a clump of wild rice. He shook his spear and paused before passing.

Walk to the edge of a wild rice plant and see that its ears are bent. It seems that it should not be light. He twisted a grain of rice and pulled it off. The index finger and thumb twisted a handful, the shell fell off, and the husked rice grains were round and full. Like a small pearl. That's good.

I put my hand on the thin stalk under the panicle and shook it gently, and I found that some rice grains had fallen off, although not much. So Mo Yue took out a cloth bag from the storage bag, found a few branches, and took out the needle and thread that had been placed in it before, or improved. The needlework was later remembered when I wanted to prepare a cloth bag to hold rice, and I remembered that I loaded it casually, for fear that the cloth bag would be scratched and leaked. It's a useful time.

I saw Mo Yue remove the branches with branches, open and fix the mouth of the cloth bag, and tie the improved mouth of the cloth bag around her waist with a ribbon.

Then he took out the dagger, walked to the bush of wild rice, pulled down the ear of rice to his chest, and put it right on the mouth of the pocket, and then gently cut it with the dagger, and the ear of rice was put into the pocket, because there were very few grains of rice that were pulled outside. As for picking it up, forget it. You can find your cow. A clump of rice is not small, Mo Yue, there are three bags of cloth bags as high as Mo Yue. It's enough for Mo Yue to eat for a while.

The harvest was in the second half of the day. Mo Yue was hungry in the middle, so she took out the food she had prepared before, ate it and padd her stomach before continuing.

However, the rice straw of these rice is also good, and it is very good to use it to start a fire, so he waved the dagger again, and collected the rice straw one by one, which is much simpler and easier than harvesting the ears of rice, and it was quickly put away, bundled a few times, and thrown into the storage bag. Unexpectedly, after harvesting the rice straw, I could find a nest of brocade eggs. It's all gone.

Mo Yue began to go to the other side of the woods, she remembered that when she came before, there was a big hole under a tree, which was more than enough for her, and she was going to spend the night there tonight, so she had to clean it up.

Not too far, soon to the hollow of the tree. I don't know how it was formed. Use a handful of rice straw left over from the previous harvest and bundle a bunch of small brooms. The hole in the tree was cleared, a bundle of rice straw was laid, and a layer of hay brought out from the house was laid, and then the thin mattress that was stuffed in the storage bag before going out was taken out and laid on. It's very comfortable to sit on and try.

Then he cleared up the weeds that had grown recently, dug a small pit, and made a fire with the dry branches he had picked up on the road, and lit a fire, and it was dark.

Because Mo Yue was away from home, she did not practice the "Yijin Sutra", but meditated directly in the tree hole.

For under the fire there were two layers of thick branches, and on top were half-thick branches, and in the middle were thin branches and the hay that led the fire. In this way, add another firewood before going to bed, and it will be almost until dawn.

In the morning, I still take out the prepared food and pad my stomach. As for saying that I didn't have a barbecue last night, I didn't have a barbecue, or something. Mo Yue just wanted to say that she still wanted to live well, and if she didn't have strong strength, she wouldn't die. Do you really think that the nose of the beast is all decoration? I can't smell the smell of your barbecue and cooking? The dried meat at home is fine.

Walking around again today, the plan is to go in a bit. First of all, I will use this tree hole to find out the surroundings, and I will rely on this main source of food in the future. I'm still a kid. I don't know how long the house will be able to live, or how long it will be hidden. If it is known that both parents are dead, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will have crooked thoughts.

Shaking his head, he headed east again.

Although it is said to be a back mountain, this is a hill stretching out from the north, and the house of the family is in the west of the mountain, so all the time, I have been walking around the west side of the mountain, not far from home, and it is convenient to go back. It was also the last time I went around, and I found the tree hole, and the rice was gone, so I moved my mind to explore the east.

Luckily, I didn't get into the grass because of my safety, but I received some rice soon after I came out this time, which is also very good. There is still less grass in the west, and I have to go to the east several times by digging a lot of hay and going back to start the fire. When you come out of the hole in the tree and out of the forest, and look east, you can see that from the middle of the mountainside, there is a patch of green and yellow grass, and there are also bare stones on the ground. Not much, though. There are a lot of grasses that look half a man tall, dry and green. One by one, one by one. Sure enough, there are few people coming, and you can see it.