Nowadays, chestnut trees are not the kind that only grow a few meters high after improvements in later generations. They are all very tall. This chestnut tree was probably a few years old, and it had grown taller. Su Mo visually inspected it and estimated that the highest point was 20 meters.
The low places have been knocked down and picked up long ago, and the rest are hung high up. Only those with some courage dare to climb up and pick them up, or they can only wait for the chestnuts to mature and fall naturally.
Su Mo silently wrote down this place, and when she comes later, she can ripen the chestnuts and pick them up.
"It's okay. If you can't pick up chestnuts, there's something else. Let's go pick up pine nuts." Su Mo comforted the children.
Children's emotions always come and go quickly, and the three children soon became excited again, chattering and taking Su Mo to pick up pine nuts.
One afternoon, everyone picked up most of the pine nuts in their baskets.
Don't ask Su Mo why an adult picked up as much as a child. First, it's because Su Mo's backpack is larger, and second, because Su Mo smuggled some into the space. Otherwise, it would be so hard to carry everything in the backpack.
Seeing that it was getting late, Su Mo took the children and prepared to go back.
Su Mo and a few children were chatting while walking down. As they passed a slope, a gust of wind came from behind their heads. The intuition developed in the last days made Su Mo immediately perform a 540-degree roundhouse kick, directly towards the source of the wind sound.
Su Mo's combat effectiveness in the apocalypse is weak compared to zombies with special powers. For a normal species in a normal era, Su Mo's combat prowess, let alone beating, can easily deal with one or two.
All this was Su Mo's instinctive reaction, and she acted subconsciously. But because her body had not been trained, Su Mo's kick directly strained her tendons. She grimaced in pain and spilled most of the pine nuts in her basket.
Everything happened so fast that the three children were frightened. After a while, Lu Fengqin said, "Third Aunt, what's wrong?"
"Something flew over just now, and I kicked it there." Su Mo pointed to the grass where the object fell.
The thing was moving too fast just now, and she couldn't see it clearly. She only felt it was a little soft, and it must be some kind of animal.
Su Mo rested for a while and used her powers to soothe the strained tendon, and then went to the grass to see what it was.
Pushing aside the grass, there was a gray hare lying inside. It looked quite small, probably weighing three or four pounds. At this moment, it had been kicked by Su Mo until it vomited blood from the mouth and was in the northwest.
Su Mo raised her eyebrows. When would she, a cannon fodder, have the heroine's life? A hare actually arrived at my door.
Su Mo grabbed the hare's ears, lifted it up, and said with a smile: "Look, hare, we have meat to eat tonight."
After the three children recovered from their initial fright, they looked at the hare and remembered Su Mo's actions just now. They looked at Su Mo with such joy, excitement and admiration.
"Third, third aunt, you, you are so powerful, you actually kicked a hare to death with one kick." Lu Guodong started to stutter when he spoke so excitedly.
Boys are all admirers of strength, and they naturally admire those who are good at fighting. Lu Guodong looked at Su Mo with great admiration. He announced that besides his third uncle, his third aunt was the second person he admired.
"It just so happens." Su Mo waved her hand modestly.
Damn, my feet are still hurting at the moment. It seems that starting from tomorrow, my body still needs to exercise.
The two little girls also shouted happily, "Third Aunt, you are so awesome. We have rabbit meat to eat tonight, haha..."
Su Mo was afraid that the children's laughter would attract other people, so she made a silent gesture.
"Shh! Keep your voice down and don't attract other people. Then there will be no rabbit meat to eat."
The three children immediately stopped and did not dare to make too much noise. However, they were still very excited, and their tanned little faces were all red from holding back.
"Quick, help Third Aunt pick up the pine nuts. Let's go back early and eat rabbit meat tonight." Su Mo called them over to pick up the spilled pine nuts.
The three children hurried over to help Su Mo pick up the pine nuts, not too fast.
Su Mo:......
After picking up the pine nuts, Su Mo put the hare into the basket and pulled a handful of weeds to cover it.
On the way back, the three were very excited, but they didn't dare to speak. They just looked at each other and communicated in a way that only they could understand.
Su Mo looked at it funny from behind. Sure enough, children and everything else are the funniest things.
After arriving home, Su Mo said to several children, "Go back and tell your mother and grandma that the third aunt will bring the rabbit meat over when it's ready. Let them make it a staple food and stir-fry some vegetables."
The three children nodded fiercely, and then ran home.
They were happy to have rabbit meat to eat, but they wanted to share what had just happened.
When the three children returned home, they happened to meet Li Yue'e's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who were returning from work. Lu Guodong rushed over, grabbed Li Yue'e's hand and shouted: "Mistress, my third aunt knows kung fu."
"What the hell?" Li Yue'e looked confused.
"Just now, when we were going down the mountain, we encountered a hare. My third aunt just kicked the hare to death with one kick." Lu Guodong said and gestured.
"Your third aunt, kicked the hare to death?" Li Yuee asked. Why didn't she believe it? The hare happened to die on the road, and the third child didn't see it and kicked it.
"Yes, yes." This time, not only Lu Guodong, but also Lu Fengqin and Lu Aiqin nodded.
Liu Yuzhi knew her children relatively well. When she saw this, she said, "Don't be anxious. Tell the story carefully."
The three children chattered and explained the matter in detail, adding at the end: "My third aunt told you to just cook the vegetables. She will cook the rabbit meat and bring it over later."
Li Yue'e and Lu Guihua were shocked when they heard this, but Liu Yuzhi felt calm. She said that the third family members were not ordinary people.
Li Yue'e thought about it, but still felt uneasy, "No, I have to go over and have a look." After saying that, she hurried over.
Don't just pick up a dead rabbit, covet the two pieces of meat, and bring down the whole family. That's not possible.
When Li Yue'e came over, Su Mo was boiling water, and the hare was placed on the ground aside.
Li Yue'e stepped forward and touched it. It was still warm and soft. He must have died not long ago, and he looked quite fat. It didn't look like he died of illness. Could it be that he was kicked to death by the third family?
"From the third family, did you really kick this rabbit to death?" Li Yue'e asked in confusion.
"It can be said that I kicked him to death, but it can also be said that he killed himself." Su Mo said, "When I was a child, my family asked someone to teach me some self-defense techniques. When I saw something running towards me, I kicked it. My foot, maybe it ran too fast and hit my foot and killed me."
Li Yue'e believed it. Previously, members of the brigade also picked up wild boars that they killed. If they ran too fast and couldn't stop, they would be killed.
She said how could a delicate and weak person from the third family kill a rabbit with just one kick? It turned out to be just a coincidence.
After the water boiled, Li Yue'e helped Su Mo remove the fur from the rabbit. Su Mo wanted to throw away the internal organs, but Li Yue'e didn't want to part with them and took them to clean. They were also meat.
After finishing the rabbit, Li Yue'e was ready to go back to cook. Before leaving, she said: "Don't make the staple food here. I will eat it later."
"Okay." Su Mo nodded.
She doesn't have any quirks that don't want to eat with the elderly. She has been alone for a long time in the last days, and it is good to have a family now.
I remembered that I still had the radishes that Lu Changzheng had exchanged in the village a few days ago at home, and I was going to make rabbit meat and radish stew tonight.
After taking the radish out of the bamboo basket, Sumo was stunned. Why did she forget that the radishes here are red-skinned, and the ones she grows in the field are white radishes.
Forget it, I will recommend it to the supply and marketing cooperative when the time comes, saying that it is a new variety from the south, and she will buy it and try it out.
Su Mo first braised the rabbit meat and simmered it for a while, then put the cut radishes in and simmered it for half an hour. After the radishes were also simmered, she took a large earthen pot and shoveled them all into the earthen pot. inside.
After cleaning the pot, Su Mo put another pot of water and let the remaining fire burn the hot water. Then she took the basket, loaded the earthen pots, and carried it to Lu's house.
