The only clay pot was broken. Except for Fu Ning, who was not very sensible yet, Luo Shi and Fu An's grandparents all looked gloomy.
Yu Ying took some red mushrooms from the house and walked out. She also took some unprocessed wild vegetables and nuts from the yard, and then washed them.
While cleaning the red mushrooms, Fu An stared at her without blinking, his eyes as wide as bells, for fear that she would poison them.
Yu Ying didn't care. While washing the wild rice noodles, she ate a few. The sweetness melted in her mouth, and the bitterness in her heart was diluted a little.
But when she was eating wild fruits, Fu An couldn't help but swallowed several times. Even the little girl Fu Ning was so greedy that she started sucking her fingers, which was so pitiful.
It's not delicious to eat alone, but eating too much of this fruit is not good, so Yu Ying only filled a small half of the bowl, and didn't give it directly to Fu'an Funing, but gave it to Luo Shi.
Luo Shi saw a vague shadow and knew it was Mrs. Yu. Because Mrs. Yu was treating Erlang's leg today, her attitude became much better and she asked, "What's wrong?"
Yu Ying took Luo Shi's calloused hands and put the wooden bowl into her hands. Her attitude was not cold, but not warm either. She said lightly: "Eat wild fruits first to cushion your stomach."
After that, he turned around and went back to continue his work.
Luo Shi was holding the bowl, his face was a little stunned, and he couldn't adapt to Yu's kindness for a while.
At this time, Fu An came over, stood beside his grandmother, and whispered: "Grandma, I'm watching, she didn't do anything with this fruit."
Although the voice was small, it still fell into Yu Ying's ears.
Yu Ying squatted down next to the fire shelf, and while pulling the firewood that still had sparks in the fire, she thought for a moment, and her tone was a little more teasing: "Since you dare to treat my legs and eyes, are you afraid that I will poison you? "
When Luo Shi heard this, he was silent for a moment, then he fumbled for a wild fruit and put it into his mouth.
Originally, I just wanted to make sure there was no problem before giving it to the children, but after tasting the sweetness of the wild fruit, my face suddenly froze.
All the sweet wild fruits around here have been picked. Except in the mountains, there are no such sweet fruits.
"You went into the mountains?!" Luo Shi's face became serious.
Yu Ying didn't hide it from her: "I entered, but didn't go deep."
Luo Shi's face became more serious and said: "The wild beasts and poisonous snakes in the mountains are extremely dangerous. I don't know how many people in this village have been buried in the belly of the beasts, and I don't know how many people have been poisoned by poisonous snakes. Others are walking around the mountain. You, how dare you enter the mountain?!"
Luo Shi's tone was a little anxious, but Yu Ying knew that Luo Shi was kind-hearted, so she was not angry. She only said slowly: "If I can survive, I will naturally not go into the mountain."
She knew that the ancients were in awe of mountains, but she didn't know that they were so afraid.
She stood up and looked out of the yard, towards the twilight village in front of her. All she could see were dilapidated thatched houses.
Not only the Fu family is poor, but the entire Lingshui Village is poor.
Yu Ying asked her helplessly: "If we want to survive, we will only eat wild vegetables without oil and salt every day. Can we survive this kind of life? Even adults can bear it, but children can bear it? Erlang in the house Can you bear it?"
She paused and then said: "I also know that there is danger in the mountains, and I am also afraid, but I can't just sit back and wait for pie to fall from the sky."
How could Luo not know what Yu said?
Luo Shi couldn't refute. She lowered her head and handed the bowl with the fruit to her grandson after a while: "Take it and eat it with Ning Ning."
Fu An hesitated for a moment, glanced at Yu Ying, and then at the wild fruits that were still dripping with water in the bowl and salivated. He couldn't help but swallowed, not knowing whether to give in or not.
But after a while, he figured it out.
He just doesn't deal with the Yu family, why should he have trouble with Chi?
He took the bowl and ran to his sister's side. He didn't eat but fed one to his sister first.
After little Funing ate a sweet wild fruit, a smile suddenly appeared on his dirty little face, and his little tiger teeth were looming.
Fu An fed his sister and took one to taste.
Fu An has not eaten sweet wild fruit for two years since his father went to the quarry. After eating this wild fruit, Fu An also showed a smile that Yu Ying had never seen before.
Yu Ying withdrew her gaze, lowered her head and continued to work, but the corners of her mouth slightly raised unknowingly.
After Yu Ying pulled out the firewood with sparks, she also took out the fragments of the clay pot that were larger than the palm of her hand from the fire, cleaned them and set them aside.
After that, she used a hatchet to chop a piece of remaining bamboo, a piece of thin bamboo about the size of her thumb, directly into eight thick bamboo sticks.
After simply peeling the bamboo skewers, skewer the red mushrooms into the bamboo skewers. After skewering, he placed them across two stones. He got up and went out to the yard to pick up a few larger stones and built a simple barbecue stove about one foot long.
When I was a kid, when there was no barbecue pit, we would use a few bricks to make barbecue at home.
Finally, he put the firewood with sparks into the ditch and used some dead leaves to rekindle the fire.
After the fire stabilized, Yu Ying placed the red mushrooms on top, and finally put the fragment of the pottery pot on the fire for roasting.
After a while, the water stains on the pottery slowly started to boil.
When Yu Ying saw this, she cut the wild amaranth into sections about half a finger long and placed them on the pottery shards.
Because there is no oil, both wild vegetables and red mushrooms are easily burnt or burnt, so Yu Ying sprinkles some water on them from time to time.
After a while, turn over the red mushrooms or use bamboo chopsticks to turn over the wild vegetables.
Gradually, the roasted red mushrooms released a faint roasting aroma.
Fu An smelled the smell and looked at the half-cooked toadstool, thinking that no matter how fragrant the toadstool was, he would never take a bite.
When Yu Ying saw that the wild vegetables were ripe, she put them into a bowl. She picked up the just-washed twisters and squeezed them. The purple-black juice also dripped into the wild vegetables.
Squeeze a few pieces and then stir evenly.
A few mouthfuls of wild vegetables are not enough to satisfy one's hunger, but having one bite to fill one's stomach is better than being hungry.
She handed it to Fu An: "Go in and give it to your uncle first."
Fu An looked at his grandmother hesitantly: "She didn't put the poisonous red mushrooms."
Luo Shi thought about it secretly for a while and felt that Yu Shi was right.
If she was suspicious of her, she shouldn't have let her help heal Erlang's leg in the first place.
And if Mrs. Yu really wanted to poison them, she could just poison them in the water tank at night. Why poison the food now?
Thinking of this, Luo chose to believe Yu for once. She turned to her grandson and said, "Send it in to my uncle."
Fu An listened to Luo Shi's words the most. After getting the right words, he gave his sister the bowl with some wild fruits, picked up the bowl with wild vegetables and trotted towards the thatched house.
Yu Ying picked up the vegetables again and put them on top of the pottery pieces.
In the house.
After the bone was set and reset, Fu Wei slept weakly all afternoon. He didn't wake up until a "bang" sound was heard.
The movement in the courtyard came into the house through the window with the curtains rolled up. He sat up on the bamboo bed and looked out of the courtyard, looking at Mrs. Yu's busy figure.
This Yu family is a little different.
But so what?
Fu Wei narrowed his eyes slightly, withdrew his gaze, looked at his legs tied with bamboos, and fell into deep thought.
Yu's changes, upon closer inspection, are not good for anyone.
At this time, the bamboo curtain was opened, and Fu An came over with wild vegetables and placed them on the edge of the bed.
"Uncle, that woman did it."
Fu Wei turned his eyes slightly and landed on the wild vegetables in the bowl, which looked better than before.
After a long moment of silence, he took it into his hand, picked up some with bamboo chopsticks, and ate it into his mouth.
Fu An watched his uncle eat it closely and asked curiously: "Does it taste different from what grandma makes?"
After Fu Wei chewed it for a while, he tasted a different taste.
It is still oil-free and salt-free, but it has a faint sweet aroma, and the original sour and astringent taste of wild vegetables is also covered up. Although it is not delicious yet, it is already much more delicious than the wild vegetables that were difficult to swallow before. .
After a while, Fu An ran out of the house with the empty smell and said excitedly: "Grandma, my uncle has eaten everything today!"
Luo Shi was surprised when he heard this.
On weekdays, whether it was lunch or dinner, Erlang would give up after just a few bites and would not eat more. Luo Shi did not expect that he could finish it today.
Yu Ying turned her head and looked in the direction of the thatched house, and after looking at those black eyes in mid-air, she withdrew her gaze, picked up the almost-already red mushrooms, and placed them horizontally on the bowl.
The aroma of the roasted red mushrooms was even stronger than before. Little girl Ning Ning didn't know what was poisonous or not. She only knew that the red mushrooms seemed to be delicious, and she couldn't even blink when she saw them.
Due to malnutrition and a small face, his eyes appear to be extraordinarily large.
Yu Ying was filled with panic when she thought of the little girl's death.
She thought that she would try her best to change the fate of the Fu family's elder brother being beaten to death. Perhaps only in this way could the fate of the family be changed.
The third round of wild vegetables on the pottery shards was also ready. Yu Ying put away her thoughts, put all the wild vegetables into the bowl, and continued with the fourth round.
She didn't continue until the fifth time.
After the wild vegetables were squeezed into the sweet juice of wild fruits, they were divided into three portions. Yu Ying asked Fu An to serve them to his grandmother and sister.
Yu Ying had no intention of giving the red mushrooms to them.
After all, a person's ideas are not so easy to change. She thinks the red mushrooms are not poisonous, but people in the Fu family and even the whole village think they are poisonous. At this time, it is useless to argue about right and wrong.
After dividing the weeds, Yu Ying picked up a bunch of red mushrooms, blew on the ashes on them, and then took a bite.
Yu Ying, who had eaten all kinds of delicacies, felt at this moment that this roasted red mushroom was the most delicious of all the delicacies she had ever tasted.
When Luo Shi tasted the wild vegetables made by Yu Shi, he was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt that the wild vegetables he had cooked before were all pig food.
There are obviously no condiments, just a little more sweet juice from wild fruits, so why is there such a big difference?
Just now, although Luo Shi couldn't see it, Fu An's little mouth told all the processes of Yu Ying's cooking.
Seeing Yu Ying eating red mushrooms and eating wild vegetables, Fu An's eyes widened and he said to his grandmother in disbelief: "Grandma, she, she ate toadstools!"
When Fu An said that Yu had eaten a toadstool, Luo was shocked at first, but then began to doubt whether the red mushroom was really poisonous.
After a long silence, Luo Shi finally spoke and asked Yu Ying: "Are those mushrooms really not poisonous?"
Yu Ying said truthfully: "Not all brightly colored mushrooms are poisonous. I have eaten this kind of mushroom before and it is non-toxic. But don't worry, I will not force you to eat it."
Luo Shi hesitated for a moment, and then seemed to give in. He handed the bowl towards her and said, "Give me some too."
When Yu Ying heard this, she looked surprised.
Fu An was even more surprised and quickly advised: "Grandma, those are toadstools, you can't eat them!"
Luo Shi hesitated for a moment and said, "Grandma believes in your little aunt."
Yu Ying was not used to hearing the name "aunt" suddenly, and it was unexpected that Luo Shi's attitude changed so quickly.
After hesitating for a moment, Yu Ying put a red mushroom into Luo Shi's bowl and said, "You should try it first. If you think it's okay, then give it to Fu An and Fu Ning."
Luo Shi took back the bowl and was about to pick up the red mushrooms, but was suddenly snatched away by Fu An. He directly grabbed the red mushrooms with his hands and stuffed them into his mouth. He chewed them quickly like a strong man slitting his wrists and swallowed them down his throat.
With this posture, I dare say he wanted to test the poison first.
But after eating the red mushrooms, his frowning expression gradually changed.
He blinked and thought to himself: Although this toadstool is poisonous, it is quite delicious...
