HCB Chapter 152 Set off again
Chapter 152 Set off again
Time flies like a white horse passing by.
Although life in the cave is dull, there is also a lot of joy. Moreover, each of the villagers is good at making a living and cannot bear to have any leisure time for a moment.
In addition to daily training, fishing, making cured fish, grinding kudzu root powder, and making vermicelli, a straw raincoat was also made for everyone, including the children.
It can be said that they had a very fulfilling winter and made adequate preparations for the journey ahead.
Shen Zhiqiu thought that it was impossible for everyone to walk through the mountains all the time, so he asked everyone to convert the single-wheeled carts into two-wheeled ones, and he also made dozens of more. Now they have more than 120 carts.
When we can go down the mountain, the cart can be converted into a two-wheeled flatbed cart, which can hold more things, and the children can take turns to rest when they are tired.
They packed their bags and set off again. It was spring and the flowers were blooming. The weather was neither too cold nor too hot for traveling, and there was a slight breeze blowing on their faces.
Except for the night and early morning when the temperature is still relatively low, other times are really the best time to travel.
The guys' physical strength did not decrease due to the winter rest, because they were really busy in the cave.
The men and young men were pushing two-wheeled carts. After walking for a long time, they couldn't help sweating and felt out of breath.
But it is much better than when we were traveling in the summer.
The person at the front was Shen Zhiqiu, wearing a gray suit, a bamboo straw hat on his head, and long brown rain boots on his feet that covered the waistband of his trousers.
This is still normal. It should be said that this group of people are almost all dressed like this, which is consistent with their identity as refugees.
But with his handsome face, he doesn't look like an old farmer at all.
The man was carrying a cute baby on his back, with small hands that fed him water from time to time.
Behind them were Shen Youyou, her mother, and her grandmother, each carrying a large bamboo basket on their backs and holding a bamboo basket in their hands.
After eating fish in winter, at this season, all things are reviving, and because of the snow, the dry earth is also coming back to life.
Many wild vegetables have also emerged.
In the past, Shen Zhiqiu's family thought that having fish and meat to eat was much better than eating wild vegetables.
But after eating fish for so long, they really wanted to find some wild vegetables to clear their stomachs.
In the words of Uncle Fugui, "Well, after a whole winter of eating meat, I realized that eating too much meat can cause constipation. My legs are numb from squatting in the toilet, and I can't even defecate."
In fact, it is not really that exaggerated. After all, they also have kudzu root, yam and dried bamboo shoots to eat.
But green wild vegetables are really rare!
Therefore, many women and girls do not need to push the carts. They are responsible for picking some wild vegetables along the way, frying them with palm oil, and they taste very good with rice.
"Hey, it's a bit steep over there, walk over here."
Li Jingshu saw her daughter walking towards the hillside through her mother-in-law, and she couldn't help but reach out and pull her.
I was afraid that if I wasn't paying attention while walking, my daughter would roll down the hillside.
Shen Youyou sniffed: "Why do I always smell a bad odor?"
Hearing this, not only her father, mother, grandparents, but also several sisters around her started sniffing.
The movements were quite uniform, and they took a deep breath, but they smelled nothing.
Shen Youyou pointed to the bushes in front and said, "The smell is coming from that direction."
Shen Mazi and his companions went to check the bushes and said they saw wild boar feces.
This is not surprising at all. The temperature in early spring is not as cold as in winter.
The hibernating animals also came out to look for food. There were also many more birds on the journey this time, singing actively on the branches.
Occasionally you can hear birds singing at night, but the sound is particularly scary, like a baby crying.
In the blink of an eye, it was noon and everyone was ready to take a break and cook some food.
There is no need to rush now, because there will basically be no shortage of water along the way.
Even though there hasn't been much rain since the beginning of spring, as the old saying goes: Spring rain is as precious as oil!
But the previous heavy snow had stored rainwater in many low-lying areas.
They also brought a few bags of water, and since they no longer had to feed any animals, they could filter out clean water and boil it for drinking.
Shen Zhiqiu looked around at the people, looked at the wild vegetables in the basket, and said, "Let's just have a simple lunch. We can make some vegetable soup and some dried fish. If you want to eat something good, we can talk about it in the evening."
When the others heard what the leader said, they had no objections. After resting for a while, several women set up the pots and prepared to cook.
Before setting off, Shen Zhiqiu asked Li Jingshu to divide the women into groups, and at noon every day, several groups took turns cooking.
Just make them simple so that everyone can have more rest at noon.
Shen Youyou quickly took her backpack, which contained mostly wild shepherd's purse.
This is the "first fresh" wild vegetable in early spring. It can be stir-fried, mixed with cold vegetables, cooked into porridge, or made into shepherd's purse and meat dumplings. It tastes delicious and has a sweet fragrance.
"Aunt Fugui, I dug up a basket full of wild shepherd's purse. Let's use it to make soup. It will definitely be very delicious!"
Today it happened that Shen Fugui's wife, Tietou's wife, and Douzi's wife were cooking.
She took the bamboo basket carelessly and said, "Oh, this wild shepherd's purse is so tender!"
In fact, various wild vegetables have already emerged with the warmer weather.
Wild vegetables such as shepherd's purse, wild onion, and Houttuynia cordata are more tender than each other.
Several other women also started setting up the pots, and some squatted to pick wild vegetables. They all worked efficiently, and in a short while, several full bamboo baskets of wild vegetables were processed.
It wasn't just Shen Youyou who picked wild shepherd's purse, there were several other people who also picked mostly this kind of vegetable.
While these people were busy cooking, the others took this opportunity to rest.
Shen Zhiqiu was still asking Shen Mazi: "How is it? Is the pig manure dry or wet? Are there wild boars nearby?"
"It's still wet. It looks like it can't have gone far. How about I take someone to look for it?"
Without waiting for Shen Zhiqiu to speak, Gao the hunter, who hadn't hunted for a long time, felt a little itchy when he saw the pig manure:
"Xiao Sanzi, how about Ma Zi and I take them there? If we can hunt some wild boars, it will help us change our taste. We've had enough of fish. Now our mouths are full of fishy smell whenever we talk."
Mainly in the winter, they eat fish whenever they can, and they will only eat some fish when they really can't eat any more, just to change their taste.
In the past, everyone's eyes would sparkle when they saw fish, but now they all want to hide when they see fish, especially after the emergence of wild vegetables.
Some motherworts don’t need to be cooked or dipped in soybean paste. When you see them, you can’t help but pick some and put them in your mouth.
Shen Zhiqiu had no words to say about Gao Hunter's abilities, so he nodded and agreed, but he asked them not to go too far, otherwise they could just forget about it if they couldn't find the hunter.
After all, when it comes to large prey like wild boars, it is easy for something to happen if too few people go, but if too many people go, it will be unsafe for those who stay behind.