Although Lin Sanqi and Pan Ye couldn't pick wild vegetables, the spring breeze was blowing on their faces, so they felt like they were on a youthful trip.
When there was no one around, Lin Sanqi took out a bottle of canned lychees from her backpack, opened it, and handed it to Pan Ye along with the spoon.
Pan Ye looked at Lin Sanqi with love almost flowing out.
"Sanqi, what kind of fruit is this? It's so delicious."
"This is lychee, but you can't see fresh lychee in the north. After traveling thousands of miles from Lingnan to the capital, they must have gone rancid."
Pan Ye blinked his big eyes and asked curiously:
"How could it be? I have read a book. In the Tang Dynasty, Concubine Yang Guifei wanted to eat lychees. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty used horses to carry lychees to Chang'an City. Didn't he leave a poem: The concubine riding on the red dust laughs, and no one knows that the lychees are coming.
The distance between Lingnan and Chang'an is even further. In ancient times, horses could be used to deliver the goods in time. Why can't they be delivered to Peking in time now that there are trains and cars? The distance from Lingnan to Peiping should be closer. ”
Lin Sanqi chuckled and explained:
"You are wrong. During the Tang Dynasty, the lychees eaten by Concubine Yang were not sent from Lingnan, but from Fuling, Sichuan. The distance was very close. It could be delivered within two days by expediting 800 miles away.
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If you come from Lingnan, it will take less than ten days and a half to deliver it. During the Opium War, Guangzhou was already fighting foreigners. It took a month for the information to reach the Peking Emperor. If it had been replaced by lychee, it would have been delivered long ago. The lychees are dried. ”
Pan Ye looked at Lin Sanqi with admiration while eating canned fruit:
"Wow, you know a lot. It seems that you must read a lot."
Lin Sanqi boasted proudly: "That's right, I have nothing to do after get off work. I am always reading, and I have read three hundred Tang poems by heart. Hum."
In fact, where was Lin Sanqi reading? He all read this from the Internet when he was studying. It must be said that with the explosion of information on the Internet, even ordinary people have access to a large amount of knowledge.
If it were 1960, anyone with this kind of insight would basically be considered an intellectual.
The two young men were chatting and enjoying the spring breeze. Pan Ye suddenly felt bad when he saw someone peeling bark off a tree on the hilltop opposite.
"Sanqi, look, there are some ladies over there peeling bark off trees."
"Where? Peel off the bark? Be careful of being fined a huge amount by the Garden Bureau."
In fact, both of them knew what it meant for a few farmers to peel off tree bark, so the two young people felt a little depressed.
Lin Sanqi patted her butt and pulled Pan Ye up: "Let's go over and have a look."
Within half an hour, Lin Sanqi and Pan Ye arrived at the top of the mountain opposite and watched curiously as several ladies were sitting on the ground, chopping tree bark with hatchets.
The ladies obviously saw Lin Sanqi and the others. They knew they were city dwellers from Shanjiao Farm when they looked at their attire, so they all smiled cautiously.
Lin Sanqi was a bit shy, so she knelt down and picked up a piece of bark from the basket.
"Auntie, you are busy. What are you going to do with this bark? Use it as medicine or as firewood?"
Lin Sanqi was afraid of embarrassment and deliberately pretended that she didn't understand what the bark was used for.
Several old ladies burst out laughing after hearing this:
"Young man, you don't understand this. This bark is a good thing. It is edible and can fill your stomach. You will not be hungry after eating it."
Lin Sanqi looked around and saw that this was an ordinary piece of tree bark. It didn't have much flavor after smelling it, so she just put it in her mouth and started chewing it.
In the past, he had only seen on the Internet that during the famine years, during the second level of famine, people ate tree bark and Guanyin soil. If they waited until the first level of famine, which was the hungriest, it would be "human cannibalism."
Unexpectedly, a scene in a history book appeared before his eyes. Lin Sanqi was extremely curious, can this bark be eaten? Is it tasty?
Lin Sanqi bit the bark for a long time, and finally bit off a small piece, then put it in his mouth and chewed it. After biting for a long time, he could not taste any taste, and it was even more difficult to swallow.
"Bah, bah, bah, aunt, the bark is so hard and tasteless, how can you eat it?"
Hahaha~~~
Although the old ladies were skinny and skinny, they were all in a good mood. When they saw the young men in the city getting angry, they all burst into laughter.
"Young man, this is not how you eat tree bark, you can't chew it directly!"
"Ah, if you don't just chew the bark directly, how do you eat it?"
An old lady smiled and said:
"To eat the bark, it is best to peel off the entire bark, then tear off the inner layer, dry it in the sun, and then crush it with a stone mill. Add some corn flour or white flour to the remaining powder before you can eat it."
Another old lady joked:
"There are stick noodles and white flour. Who eats tree powder? Now when we eat tree bark, we cut it directly, then boil it in a pot with water for an hour, or soak it in water for a day and night to soften the bark. Eat again.”
Lin Sanqi asked a little reluctantly: "Can you swallow it?"
Several old ladies shook their heads: "I can't swallow it. My throat hurts after eating, and I can't even speak. But there is nothing I can do. If I don't eat, I will starve to death."
Lin Sanqi thought of the wild vegetables she had just encountered with several children, so she reminded:
"Ladies, it's spring now. You can pick some wild vegetables to eat. It's better than eating tree bark, right?" Several old ladies laughed bitterly after hearing this:
"We are old and can't walk anymore. Look where are the wild vegetables in the surrounding mountains? The wild vegetables that can be seen have been picked by people long ago. If we want to pick them, we have to run deep into the mountains. We can't run, we have no strength. Only the bark can be eaten.”
"Even eating tree bark is given to us by others. Not all bark can be eaten. Only the bark of willow, elm and poplar trees can be eaten. If others don't let us, we can't even eat the bark."
Pan Ye listened quietly and wiped away tears.
Lin Sanqi also sighed heavily. This is still the suburbs of Beijing. Farmers in the capital are in such difficulty. How do people in other parts of the country live their lives?
Thinking of this, he thought of the scene when the train passed through Henan after returning from Guangqi. It kept stopping at every station and all the curtains had to be closed.
This damn natural disaster!
Pan Ye touched Lin Sanqi and whispered: "Do you have anything to eat? Can you give some to the ladies?"
Ouch, Lin Sanqi finally woke up and quickly took out an oil paper bag from her backpack:
"Auntie, come here, there are six scallion pancakes here, just two for each of you three. Eat them quickly."
The three old ladies were stunned for a moment, but then they became ecstatic. They took the cake and hid it in their clothes, as if they were afraid of being seen by outsiders.
"Thank you, thank you young man, thank you girl, you are really the compassionate Guanyin."
Pan Ye quickly avoided it and kindly reminded: "Auntie, eat the pancakes quickly."
The three old ladies were all embarrassed: "Eat it, we will definitely eat it, but we want to take it home so that everyone in the family can try it. It has been so many days since we have eaten such delicious pancakes."
Lin Sanqi stood up, took out three more 5-yuan notes, and an old lady gave one to her. With the old people's gratitude, she pulled Pan Ye away quickly.
On the way back, Pan Ye was still frightened thinking about the scene just now.
"It turned out that I thought our family was the most difficult. We were so poor that we pawned all the valuable things in the family. After leaving the city and coming to the countryside, I realized that the lives of farmers are really difficult. Lin Sanqi, you said this When will the day end? ”
Lin Sanqi thought to herself, where is this? Last year was very difficult, this year will be very difficult, and next year it will be extremely difficult. In the face of such a long-term natural disaster, if the entire country does not collapse, then it is really the leadership of the upper level that is smart. .
But as a little time traveler, I am not the Sea Dragon King, so I can bring rain to the drought-stricken areas and alleviate the disaster.
When the two returned to the farm, they saw a large group of people gathered around the farm, and everyone was pointing.
Lin Sanqi and Pan Ye instantly became interested in gossip and stepped forward quickly:
"What's wrong?"
"Hey, Chief Lin is here. Chief Lin, look, these hunters are bringing wild wolf carcasses to collect their rewards."
Lin Sanqi squeezed to the front and took a look. There were eight bloody wild wolves lying on the ground. Several hunters were chatting happily with Dean Shen and Vice Dean Ji.
Pan Ye saw the wild wolf and looked left and right but couldn't see anything:
"Sanqi, this is a wolf, why is it similar to a dog?"
A hunter next to him laughed after hearing this:
"Little girl, wild wolves look similar to big dogs, but don't underestimate them. These beasts are very aggressive and very smart. It was hard for 10 of us to kill these 8 wolves, and that's all. After escaping five wolves, we still have to go up the mountain to get back.”
Another hunter also followed the popular science saying:
"In the wild, the position of the tail can be used as a reference feature to distinguish wolves and dogs. For example, a dog's tail is usually curled upward, while a wolf's tail is downward. Also, a wolf's tail is shorter and thicker than a dog's. , the hair is relatively fluffy and often hangs down between the hind legs. ”
Dean Shen felt happy when he saw that most of the wolves were wiped out:
"Okay, our Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital keeps what we say. You will go to the warehouse to collect 800 kilograms of stick noodles later. The reward for the remaining five wolves that escaped is still valid. Grandma, if anyone dares to attack our Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, I will let all the wolves die. ”
When the hunters heard this, they all nodded and bowed with joy.
Even if one person can only share seven to eighty kilograms, these grains, combined with some wild vegetables, are enough to support the family for a period of time.
Dean Shen waved his hand again:
"Old rule, skin the wolf. Let's have a dinner tonight and eat wolf meat!!!"
Great~~~
All the staff at the Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital were beaming with joy, and the one who felt the most relieved was Zhu Guangquan. His daughter is still lying in bed and has not fully recovered.
Ye Wenyao and Ye Shanmin's family have been expelled and are probably still on their way back to their hometown at this time. You can imagine the miserable life of this family after returning home.
The old people couldn't chew wolf meat, so in the evening Aunt Li used shepherd's purse and pork as stuffing and made shepherd's purse dumplings, which made the old people very satisfied.
Lin Sanqi specially left 50 raw dumplings for Dean Shen to take back to the city.
The sky was slowly getting dark, and suddenly, someone was yelling outside again, which was particularly harsh and scary in the silent night.
When Lin Sanqi heard this, she was shocked. She quickly took out the pistol from her arms and rushed out. Could it be that the wolves came for revenge? (End of chapter)