HCB Chapter 162 Hidden Worries in My Heart
Chapter 162 Hidden Worries in My Heart
Youdao relies on mountains to feed mountains and water to feed water.
Shen Youyou and his friends have really put this sentence into practice along the way.
Today, we not only killed a group of wild boars, but also harvested so much wild quinoa.
Especially this time no one was injured, which is very encouraging. In the previous few times, there were more or less people injured. It seems that the tricks everyone learned in winter were not learned in vain.
What's more, the wild quinoa tonight was so delicious that even the little kids who said it was smelly at the beginning ate it very happily. They didn't like it very much when it was served cold, but they liked it fried with bacon and quinoa, and their cheeks were bulging from eating it.
Shen Youyou felt that this was just like eating durian. When you smelled it for the first time, you would say, Oh my god, it’s too stinky, how can I eat it!
Maybe after you finish eating one, you will think: It smells so good!
There are also sweet kudzu root cakes. They look so sweet when they eat them! Their bellies are so round.
They also ate a lot of wild artemisia because it can promote the secretion of digestive juices such as saliva and gastric juice, stimulate appetite, and strengthen the spleen and appetite.
Artemisia selengensis also contains a large amount of dietary fiber and natural glue.
These substances can promote gastrointestinal motility and are beneficial to enhancing the gastrointestinal digestive function of the human body.
Moreover, Artemisia selengensis has more effects than just this. Eating more of it has many benefits. It can also clear the liver and gallbladder, promote diuresis and reduce jaundice, and it also has a significant protective effect on the human eyes.
It not only contains rich flavonoids, but also contains a large amount of carotene.
After people eat wild wormwood, they can also promote retinal development, enhance optic nerve function, prevent vision loss, relieve eye fatigue, and prevent eye diseases.
It is also rich in vitamin C and a variety of amino acids that are beneficial to the human body.
It can also promote the regeneration of human immune cells and enhance human immune function.
After dinner, the kids who needed to sleep all went to sleep, but the old people, men, women, and even the half-grown children like Shen Youyou were still picking wild quinoa.
In fact, the adults also asked them to rest first, but children in ancient times matured early, and half-grown children like these already knew how to share the work with their elders.
They knew that their grandparents had done more work than them after a whole day's journey and must be more tired. Even as they were picking wild vegetables, their eyelids were fighting each other, and no one chose to go to bed at this time.
Shen Zhiqiu yawned, tears streaming down his face, and heard Master Shen say, "I don't know what's going on outside right now. Are we going to win or lose the war? Will we arrest the militiamen?"
After these words, those who were originally feeling a little sleepy became a little more awake.
Doctor Guo sighed, "We don't know why there is so much chaos outside. We have been walking in the mountains, but we haven't met anyone, and we can't get any news. Logically, there are tens of thousands of people fleeing famine, so at least some people should choose to walk through the mountains!"
Hunter Gao disagreed: "Many people are unfamiliar with this mountain range and are afraid of ferocious beasts. Even if they were to walk in the mountains, they probably wouldn't go as deep as we do."
In this era, the deep mountains and old forests are full of dangers. Many people really dare not go into the mountains because they cannot be prepared. If they encounter conscription, they will beg for mercy. At worst, they will be conscripted. At least there is a glimmer of hope.
But if you encounter wild beasts in the mountains, how can you beg for mercy from these beasts? That is a sure death!
Shen Zhiqiu also understood what the old man meant. He could not expect to walk in the mountains for half a year without seeing the end, especially not knowing where he had gone and how far the road ahead was.
The old man is a little impatient and may want to go down the mountain to take a look.
But Shen Zhiqiu had a different opinion. Although it was difficult to travel in the mountains, they were still able to protect themselves if they encountered wild beasts. Compared to the man-made disasters outside, the mountains were much safer.
Moreover, he had secretly asked their "little navigation" this question a long time ago.
The answer I got was: "Although I don't know which mountain we are on now, I estimate that we have walked almost two-thirds of the way!"
From July last year, to December, to resting until now, I set out again, almost half a year has passed.
If we walked down the mountain and took a horse-drawn carriage along the official road, we would have arrived earlier.
However, fleeing from famine by walking through the mountains would waste a lot of time. He had thought about this clearly from the beginning, but he was not afraid of the long journey, but was afraid of not being able to protect himself.
He was even worried that once we got to the north, people in the north would accept us refugees, since there was no disaster or war there.
Ordinary people live a stable and prosperous life, why should they take in refugees like us who are worse off than beggars?
When refugees arrive, they eat the food grown by others and share their land. Unexpectedly, the refugees are difficult to discipline, and there are also those who cheat and deceive, causing chaos in public security.
This issue has always been weighing on his mind. Apart from his daughter, he doesn't even dare to reveal it to his wife, for fear of dampening everyone's enthusiasm.
Seeing that Shen Zhiqiu remained silent, Master Shen asked directly, "Little Third Son, should we go down and find out what's going on?"
Shen Zhiqiu thought for a moment and replied, "It's not that we can't go and investigate, but we can't send everyone down. Find 20 or so skilled people to go down and take a sneak look and observe. If we don't find any conscripts, we can investigate again. We must first ensure everyone's safety."
Li Quan said, "Why don't I take Da Hu and Er Hu with me? We don't need to go with so many people. If we go with three people, we will be smaller and move faster."
Shen Zhiqiu's eyelids jumped, and Shen Youyou, who was picking vegetables, also felt a jolt in her heart when she heard this. She had a bad premonition.
"no!"
The father and daughter said in unison. In fact, they both thought of the fate of the three people in their previous lives, and they had a vague premonition that nothing good would happen this time.
Shen Youyou and Shen Zhiqiu looked at each other and understood each other's thoughts.
Shen Zhiqiu advised: "I still suggest not to take risks yet. We haven't been on the road for long. Let's walk a little bit and see what the situation is. Maybe we can meet someone! And I have a feeling that we shouldn't go down the mountain."
After hearing this, everyone's honest and simple faces turned serious, because for so long, the third brother's words were like he had opened his third eye, and everything he said was accurate.
Sometimes I hear a few old men and women muttering, wondering if this is the ancestors of their Shenjia Village protecting them and giving the third brother a hint.
So when he heard what Shen Zhiqiu said, even Master Shen gave up the idea.
Although there were a lot of wild vegetables to be harvested, there were even more people working. Except for a dozen kids who went to bed early and a few men who were on guard tonight, the remaining two hundred people picked vegetables together. By almost dawn, all the wild esparto grass had been picked.
Hunter Gao woke up Shen Mazi and the others who were on duty today, asked them to wash their faces and wake up, and then told everyone to wash up and rest.
It would be best to get up early tomorrow and go down the mountain to cut the remaining wild vegetables.
When Shen Youyou heard this, she realized that she would not stop until she had cleaned up all the food she saw. Fortunately, Artemisia selengensis was a very common weed with extremely strong vitality.
Even if they harvest it all this year, it won’t die.
Because the root system of wild wormwood is very developed, it crisscrosses underground and the roots are quite deep.
New stems and buds will continue to grow in the spring of next year, and they only cut wild vegetables and do not dig up the roots, so it will not affect its ecological environment.