Yao Xiaoqing picked up another section, bit the sugarcane skin and tore it off, revealing the off-white sugarcane meat inside. He took a bite, it was a little hard, but the taste was sweet. Yao Xiaoqing chewed it happily and praised, "
Sweet—so sweet!”
Taro imitated her and bit the sugar cane. A sweet taste that she had never tasted made her chant along with Yao Xiaoqing: "Sweet! So sweet! As sweet as honey."
Looking at the sugar cane, Yao Xiaoqing felt that what was put into his bowl was his own. He could no longer be happy in vain like yesterday.
After the two of them finished eating a piece of sugar cane, Yao Xiaoqing said to Yuzi with unfinished thoughts: "Let's learn a lesson this time. You go back quickly and call me Uncle Chong. They will come with the hoe, rope, and my shovel. Let's take it."
Get all this sugar cane back, and we will have sugar to eat from now on."
Yuzi smiled and nodded, "Okay, be careful here."
"Go!" Yao Xiaoqing waved to her, walked around in a circle, and inspected the piece of sugar cane.
After walking around in a circle, I felt that there were about seventy-eight percent of the land. If I dug it back now, I could still plant a season of autumn cane.
Yao Xiaoqing suddenly noticed a crisp sound coming from behind him, which should be the sound of someone stepping on a branch.
She turned around suddenly and saw two short women and a short man, carrying several pheasants and several rat-like things in their hands, walking towards her.
Seeing a few people standing in hope and sneaking around, Yao Xiaoqing held the dagger, looked at the three of them and shouted: "Which tribe are you from, and what do you want to do?"
The slender woman looked at Yao Xiaoqing and said with a smile: "A-mei, we are from the Shenlu tribe. A-mei, come with us to the Shenlu tribe and you will have meat to eat every day!"
It turned out that you were trying to abduct "children", but it's a pity that you met a fake child who is young and old.
Yao Xiaoqing looked at her coldly, "I'm not short of meat!"
The woman's scalp was numb due to Yao Xiaoqing's cold eyes. She turned around and winked at the man behind her. The man put down the prey in his hands and walked towards Yao Xiaoqing.
Yao Xiaoqing quickly stepped forward, grabbed the woman, pressed the knife to her neck, and shouted sternly: "Don't move! If you move again, you will die!"
The woman felt a sting on her neck and warm liquid flowing down her neck. She shivered with fright. A foul smell spread in the wind and the ground became wet.
Yao Xiaoqing took a step back in disgust, "How dare you engage in kidnapping business!"
The other woman looked at the blood flowing from the woman's neck and stopped with her eyes wide open in horror.
The short and stocky man looked at the greasy and dirty woman, then at Yao Xiaoqing, who had red lips and white teeth, and swallowed. He showed his yellow teeth and smiled obscenely at Yao Xiaoqing, "Little sister, let go.
She, I will give you both the pheasant and the weasel."
Yao Xiaoqing looked at him and felt sick, "Get out!"
The stocky man looked at Yao Xiaoqing and felt that although she was tall, she was as thin as a bamboo pole. He thought that with his strength, catching a woman would be like catching a pheasant!
He slowly approached the two of them and pounced forward, trying to push the woman away.
Yao Xiaoqing pressed the woman's shoulders, used her strength to rise up, and kicked the short man on the temple.
The stocky man suddenly felt like the world was spinning, his head was buzzing, and he fell to the ground with a "plop", crushing a piece of sugar cane.
"Ah..." Another woman was so frightened that she squatted on the ground and screamed.
Yao Xiaoqing looked back at the woman and shouted: "Tell me, which tribe are you from?"
The woman covered the wound on her neck with her dirt-covered hands and knelt on the ground begging for mercy, "Amei, we are really from the Sacred Deer Tribe, we just want to take you back to be paired!"
Yao Xiaoqing stepped forward and kicked her, pointed at her and shouted: "Get out! I won't spare you if I see you again."
"Yes! Yes!" The woman responded repeatedly, called the timid woman, helped up the short man who fell on the sugar cane, and staggered away deep into the forest.
Yao Xiaoqing looked at the crushed sugar cane and simply broke it off and piled it on the ground.
I picked up a piece of sugar cane and started eating it. After eating the sweet sugar cane, I felt better.
Yao Xiaoqing sat on the sugar cane, put his hands on the ground, looked at the blue sky above his head, and shouted loudly: "Hey - we will have candy in the future!" The crisp shout echoed in the mountain forest.
Taro Zi took a dozen old uncles to the foot of the hill.
Uncle Chong pointed to the sugar cane on the ground, "Xiao Qing, Yu Zi said you found food as sweet as honey, is this it?"
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and nodded, pointing to the pile on the ground, "A lot of them are broken here, you can break a few of them and try them!"
Ah Chong and Ah Chun came up. They didn't even tear off the leaves of the sugar cane. They picked up a sugar cane and broke it into several sections. They tore off the spear leaves and started to chew on them.
Taro hurriedly stepped forward, "Hey——! Uncle Chong, tear off the skin and bite the meat inside!"
Yao Xiaoqing said with a smile: "Taro, eat it and show it to Uncle Chong and the others!"
A dozen or so people ate a few sugar canes and fell in love with the sweet taste of the sugar cane, nodding and applauding from time to time.
Yao Xiaoqing was holding an engineering shovel to cut off the sugar cane at the root. Taro was about to peel off the sugar cane leaves, but she stopped her.
"Don't rush to peel it yet, we have to plant it!"
Taro nodded, "Then I'll go help bundle the sugar cane."
After Ah Chong and Ah Shui finished eating the sugar cane, one of them went over to take Yao Xiaoqing's engineering shovel and started chopping it.
Some held bone knives, and it took more than an hour for more than a dozen people to finish chopping the sugar cane.
Sugarcane leaves left marks on everyone's faces and hands.
Yao Xiaoqing and Yuzi tied the sugar cane with ropes, and A Chunbo and the others put the tied sugar cane on the backpacks and carried it back to the tribe.
Taro Zi looked at the old pockets, some of which had sprouts already sprouting, "Xiao Qing, do you want this one?"
Yao Xiaoqing looked back and said, "Yes! Dig it deeper, dig it back with the roots and soil, and plant it in the open space outside the wall."
Ah Shui responded loudly: "Okay!"
He picked up the engineer's shovel, centered on the old bag of sugar cane, inserted the shovel into the soil, and stepped hard on the edge of the shovel. The old bag of sugar cane was dug up, including the roots and soil.
"Yes! This is a beautiful job!" Yao Xiaoqing gave a thumbs up with satisfaction, "Uncle Shui, if you dig like this, it will be easier to farm when you go back."
Ah Shui was so praised by Yao Xiaoqing that she burst into laughter, "Yes, let's plant more, and we will have something sweet to eat."
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and said: "Uncle Shui, we will have better food in the future!"
Taro said from the side: "Xiaoqing, the sweet one is delicious!"
Yao Xiaoqing looked at her and said, "There are also some fragrant and sweet ones, do you want to eat them?"
Taro nodded honestly, "I think so! I think it tastes good when I hear you say it!"
"When our sugar cane is harvested, I will cook it for you to eat!"
Ah Shui smiled and said, "Then I will guard these sugar canes and wait for Xiaoqing to make fragrant and sweet food for us."
More than a dozen people worked for a long time before digging out all the old pockets and piling them in the open space.