Chapter 5 Going into the mountains to hunt game
Under the big locust tree, a few mushrooms have grown under the rain water in the past few days. I picked them just in time to stew some fish soup to replenish my health.
Su Xiaoxiao had never felt so hungry before. The stick noodle porridge she ate last night had already been digested by now.
After returning home, Su Xiaoxiao went directly to the kitchen, and skillfully began to scale and remove the internal organs of the fish. After washing them, she went to the yard, built a fish grilling tripod with a wooden frame, and skewered three large fish. Get up, set up a fire below and start roasting.
The fish soup over there was also cooking, so Su Xiaoxiao told Dabao to watch from the side and turn it in circles from time to time so that the fish could be heated evenly.
Su Xiaoxiao found that after she defeated Liu Datou just now, Dabao seemed to admire her very much. Whatever she said, Dabao responded immediately, and his defensiveness was slightly reduced.
Su Xiaoxiao sometimes thinks this kid is quite cute and cute. She went into the kitchen and found a casserole, made soup with the remaining two fish, washed the mushrooms, and added some ginger to remove the fishy smell. The seasonings were limited, only salt, but the fish soup was mainly to replenish the body, so it didn't need too much. Seasonings.
While she was busy, Xiaobao kept looking into the house. She wanted to ask if the fish was okay? But she didn't dare to ask, she was still a little afraid of Su Xiaoxiao. Su Xiaoxiao had already heard her stomach growling.
"Xiaobao, are you hungry? It doesn't matter, the grilled fish will be ready soon!"
Su Xiaoxiao put down the fish soup and went to see if the grilled fish was ready.
Dabao is picking up a piece of fish with his hands and wants to eat it secretly. The grilled fish is now ready. It looks quite good. Although it is only sprinkled with a little salt, the ingredients are relatively fresh, so it is still quite tempting.
"What, you want to eat secretly?"
Su Xiaoxiao came over and Dabao was so frightened that he almost threw away the fish in his hand.
"No, no..."
Dabao looked very panicked. He was obviously a little afraid of Su Xiaoxiao.
"The fish is baked and ready to be taken out and eaten!"
Su Xiaoxiao took down the two grilled fish, helped them pick the thorns and put them on the plate in front of them.
The two children were obviously very hungry and started to wolf it down. Su Xiaoxiao was also hungry. When the three grilled fishes were almost eaten, the fish soup she made was also ready, so she took it to the two children to drink together.
When making fish soup, Su Xiaoxiao discovered that there was only a little salt left at home. Fortunately, fish soup didn't need much salt.
In this era, salt is more expensive than rice, and among the five flavors, salty is the first. The key is to find a way to get some salt. They really don't have the money to buy it, but Su Xiaoxiao remembers that there should be a natural salt lake in the back mountain, and she can learn to make salt.
After eating and drinking, Su Xiaoxiao lay lazily on the kang, looking at the two cute babies, and suddenly thought of her husband who had just lifted her hijab on the wedding night and was hurriedly called to fight on the front line.
Why did she have no memory at all? "Dabao, Xiaobao, Mom wants to ask you if you still remember what your father looks like?"
"Of course!"
Xiaobao is young and it is normal for him not to remember clearly.
But Dabao twirled his fingers as if counting the days, "Our father has been gone for one thousand and sixty-three days."
"ha?"
As Liu Xiaozhuang's wife, Su Xiaoxiao had no impression at all. The original owner didn't even care about her husband who died in the battle.
"When he smiles, he always shows two wine holes. Dad loves us very much, and he helped us build the swing in the yard. In summer, he often takes us to the small river to catch fish..." Dabao can still remember When he got up a little, Erbao looked confused.
Su Xiaoxiao sighed, poor baby, her mother is dead and her father died on the battlefield and will never come back.
It is really unfortunate to have a stepmother like me and a bad grandmother like Granny Liu.
Su Xiaoxiao held the two poor children in her arms and choked up for a moment. She had to treat the two children better in the future and make up for the mistakes she had made.
At night, Su Xiaoxiao and the two children slept on the warm kang. Originally, Xiaobao was sleeping next to Su Xiaoxiao. For some reason, Dabao pulled Xiaobao to his side and hugged her. It seemed that Dabao was still interested in Su Xiaoxiao. Be wary.
Su Xiaoxiao didn't blame them. After all, she had taken the initiative to pinch Xiaobao with her hands. The purple-red pinch marks could still be seen on Xiaobao's tender skin.
The fish was finished and there was nothing to eat at home.
Lazy people will never have food. Early the next morning, Su Xiaoxiao decided to go to the back mountain to take a look and catch some prey on the mountain. If not, it would be enough to dig some wild vegetables.
The two children insisted on following, but Su Xiaoxiao had no choice.
Su Xiaoxiao walked in front with a basket on her back, and Dabao and Xiaobao followed her into the forest on the mountain.
Su Xiaoxiao, a former agent, is used to seeing bullets and bullets, and has killed many people, let alone animals.
Su Xiaoxiao already knew that the dynasty she lived in was called the Former Tang Dynasty, and the customs and customs were somewhat similar to those of the Tang Dynasty. The mountain village where they are located is a small village in Fengbei County called Baihua Village, which is famous for its wide variety of flowers.
After entering the mountain, Su Xiaoxiao really knew that the weather had just begun to get warmer in April, and a green patch of green appeared in the mountains. Some wild flowers whose names Su Xiaoxiao didn't know bloomed all over the hills.
Suddenly, Dabao stopped and whispered to Su Xiaoxiao: "There is a pheasant ahead."
Su Xiaoxiao didn't have a bow and arrow, but the harpoon she made yesterday came in handy. With quick eyesight and quick hands, she threw the harpoon, and with a whoosh, it hit the pheasant's belly, stabbing it to the core.
After Su Xiaoxiao caught the pheasant, she put it into her basket. The two children clapped their hands and said, "Mom, you are so awesome!"
Su Xiaoxiao was so proud that she didn't stop the car and boasted: "What's this? I'll see my mother catch a big tiger for you later!"
"Big tiger?"
Xiaobao didn't even know what the tiger meant, so Dabao explained it to her.
"Big tigers are the most powerful animals. They are more powerful than wild wolves and can eat wild wolves."
"You two, take a look at the ground to see if there are any mushrooms or anything like that, and try not to go far away from here."
After Su Xiaoxiao handed over the task to the two children, she saw something moving in the grass in front of her. Su Xiaoxiao saw that it was not small, it must be some big animal, and she gradually became excited.
If they could catch a wild boar or a roe deer, it would be enough for them to eat for a few days, and they might even be able to sell it at the market.
Su Xiaoxiao didn't even think about it, and rushed towards the squirming grass. When she was about to get close to the grass, she smelled a strong fishy smell. No, the things in the grass couldn't be smaller.
Su Xiaoxiao quickly took a few steps back, holding the harpoon tightly in her hand and getting into a posture. She saw a big tiger with an eye-catching white forehead leap out of the grass and stood in front of Su Xiaoxiao.
(End of chapter)