Xie Tianqi found something after walking for a long time, so she excitedly ran over and started picking.
Xie Yushu left the cloth bag to him and said
"You pick it here first, while I walk around!"
"Okay, sister, go ahead! Don't go too far, call me if you need anything!"
"I'll whistle if something happens. If you hear such a whistle, come and find me!"
After speaking, Xie Yushu bent her index finger
"Whoosh~" I blew it
A clear and sharp sound sounded, and within seconds it echoed in the mountains!
"Wow! Sister! When did you know how to whistle like this? Teach me!"
Xie Tianqi heard the whistle and asked for advice in a novel way
"I've heard it played by others, and I'll be able to do it myself if I try it! Aren't there several young men in our village who can play it?"
"That's true, but they can't play it as well as you, and they're not as loud!"
"I'll demonstrate it to you once, and you can practice it yourself!"
After Xie Yushu finished speaking, she showed Xie Tianqi a demonstration. Xie Tianqi blew "Hoo! Hoo!" for a few times, but she couldn't produce such a clear sound, so she tried again and again in anger!
"Okay, you pick the fungus first, and you can practice this later when you go back to rest!"
"Oh, okay!"
Although Xie Tianqi was reluctant, she still went to pick the fungus!
Xie Yushu walked and stopped in the mountain forest. The mountain road was not easy to walk. In some places, the thorns were taller than people. It was stuffy and hot. She walked around for a long time before she stopped in a withered mountain forest because she found that her feet were dry. Things that look like rabbit cakes look a bit like yam beans.
Xie Yushu picked up a stone and smashed a small ball open. Sure enough, there was snow-white powder inside! It’s really yam!
I originally planned to look for food here, so Xie Yushu brought a pickaxe, so she immediately picked up the pickaxe and started digging under her feet!
The soil was too dry, so the first few picks were very laborious. Fortunately, it became easier once we dug out a knee-high ridge. The soil and stones fell in large chunks, and after a while, a ridge was dug out. The arm-long yam may have been fertilized by the leaves in the mountains over the years, making the soil very fertile. The yam was thicker than the handle of the pick in her hand.
It’s really a perfect road!
This yam grows so well. Although it is a little cramped due to lack of water, it is still food, and it has the effect of strengthening muscles and bones and replenishing qi. For people who have been hungry for a long time, eating it will not only make them hungry, but also nourish them. Body, kill two birds with one stone!
Xie Yushu quickly got up and took a closer look. She saw that there were yam eggs in the land in front of her, which was about an acre. If there were yams underneath, wouldn't it mean that people in several nearby villages could survive?
Nothing makes her happier than now!
Although she was confident that she could survive this time when people were starving all over the place, she still felt very heavy every time she saw other people looking like skinny skeletons. Some people's eyes were straight and glowing green when they looked at them. She didn't have the courage to look at him, and she didn't dare to think deeply about whether someone had exchanged his child for him!
Now that's good, the people in the few remaining villages add up to just over 200 people. If you divide it by one point and carry it for a few more days, maybe there will be a turn for the better!
Xie Yushu was extremely excited at the moment. She looked up, ran to a tall tree, climbed up, and whistled ten times in succession towards Xie Tianqi's position!
After a while, I heard the sound of footsteps.
"Sister, are you okay?"
Xie Tianqi was out of breath from running, and Liu Qiang and Liu Nan, the youngest of the Liu family, came with him.
"What's wrong?"
Liu Qiang also asked breathlessly.
Seeing that the Liu brothers had also come over, Xie Yushu asked unexpectedly
"Why are you here too?"
We walked around for a long time but didn't find anything useful, so we walked back. Then we heard a whistle. I thought it was you, so come and take a look!
Xie Yushu climbed down from the tree neatly, picked up the yam and said
"Just in time! Look, yam!
This thing is not only very hungry, but it is also a warm and tonic medicinal material. It can strengthen muscles and bones, replenish the middle and replenish qi, all of which. With it, all of us in Sanli and Wutun can survive! "
"Is this thing edible?"
Liu Nan asked in disbelief, pointing to something like a dry tree stick in Xie Yushu's hand.
"Yes! Haven't you eaten before?"
"No!"
"Oh, my sister said you can eat it, you can definitely eat it. My grandpa is a doctor, and my sister and grandpa have recognized the medicinal materials!" Xie Tianqi saw that Liu Nan didn't believe it, so she immediately spoke out to defend Xie Yushu.
No wonder, at this time, unlike later generations, yam was already on the table as a dish, and it might just be used as medicine!
Xie Yushu said
"Its properties are a bit like white potatoes. You'll know after you try it! It's almost noon, so we'll have it for lunch! I'll collect firewood, and you can dig a few more roots."
After hearing this, the three of them picked up shovels and pickaxes to dig. Anyway, in these famine years, we have eaten all the grass roots and tree barks, so what’s left of eating a tree stick?
When Xie Yushu lit up the fire, the three of them dug out more than a dozen yams. When the fire burned down to only charcoal, Xie Yushu took a shovel and shoveled a few spades of fine soil over the charcoal, then threw the yams on the fine soil and roasted them. It was already hot, so the yam became fragrant after being thrown on the fine soil. Xie Yushu looked at the heat and turned it over, and it was ready to eat in less than a quarter of an hour.
A few people were roasting in the tropics, and they were already very hot and sweating. But when the roasting was done, everyone picked up a few sticks and put them in their backpacks and hid in the shade of the trees to eat!
Xie Tianqi had unconditional trust in Xie Yushu, so she peeled off the skin and put it in her mouth without caring about the burning.
"Hiss! It's so hot!
Um! It smells so good! Almost like a sweet potato! "
The Liu brothers also started to eat
"Hey! That's good! This thing can be used as food!" Liu Nan said to his elder brother
"I should have told Xiaobei and the others to bring more backpacks!" Liu Qiang replied.
"It's okay if you don't have a backpack. Don't we all have ropes? Tie them up with ropes. Let's take a break later and dig as much as we can! I guess they will have pigs and sheep when they go back today, and there will be water. I'll definitely do it tomorrow. If someone follows, everyone will have to grab it when the time comes!"
Although she had no idea of eating alone, she could still imagine how hungry people would feel when they saw food!
"Tch! No one can steal anything from our brothers yet! It would be great if we don't steal from them!"
Liu Nan refused to cut it after hearing what Xie Yushu said.
"Uh~ That's true. However, although there are not many yams in this patch of yam, each family can survive by sharing some of it. We discovered it first. We have dug enough, so we should share it with others. After all, it belongs to the fellow villagers! "
"Then let's dig enough first before we talk!"
After Liu Qiang finished speaking, he clapped his hands and picked up the shovel to dig yams!
Liu Nan was almost done eating and stood up and said
"We are your favor for this matter now! Thank you!"
"Nothing, it's a gift from nature! Didn't you help us during the morning hunt?"
After a while, Xie Yushu and Xie Tianqi also finished eating, and the two siblings also joined the team of digging yams.
It became easier to dig after getting taller. In less than an hour, Xie Yushu dug up a big armful, which weighed about sixty kilograms. She had to carry water when she went back, and she might have to carry some prey, which added up to about one hundred kilograms. , with her current physical strength, it is already the limit to resist these, so she stopped digging!
She wanted to take this opportunity to find medicinal materials! The original owner knew some medical skills and was a general practitioner and chief physician. Of course she wanted to combine traditional Chinese and Western medicine and carry forward her medical skills. After all, treating diseases was her true calling!
It is also the foundation for her to settle down in this strange world!
