Yao Xiaoqing was under a dead pine tree and saw a dark brown lump bulging at the root of the tree. He poked it with a shovel to reveal the white flesh inside.
"Poria." Yao Xiaoqing shouted happily, "Mufeng, come on, I found something to eat."
Mufeng and Uncle Chong heard the sound and ran over, "What's for food? Chipotao?"
"Poria, this stuff is more delicious than foot potato."
Yao Xiaoqing used a shovel to shovel the soil away. Uncle Chong and Mu Feng also used stone knives to help dig out. After a while, a piece of Poria cocos weighing about four or five kilograms was dug out by the three of them.
Mufeng broke open a piece of Poria cocos, and a faint fragrance came out from the break. Mufeng and Uncle Chong put it up and smelled it, "It smells good, it must be delicious. The piece is only so big, let's look for it again."
Yao Xiaoqing thought about it and quickly stopped them, "Look under the roots of the dead pine trees."
Mufeng nodded repeatedly, "I understand."
When Uncle Ah Shui and the others saw this, they all started looking for it in the forest. They searched around and found a few more pieces.
Mu Feng dug out a piece as big as a basin under a dead pine tree, held up the Poria cocos happily and laughed, "Come and take a look, this piece is enough for us to eat tonight."
Shan'am said to Mufeng: "Mufeng, I'll give you the biggest piece tonight."
At this time, Jin Mao dragged two big snakes that had gutted the snakes over. Zhi looked at Jin Mao in surprise, "Xiao Qing, come and see, your little monkey can also catch snakes."
"It likes to catch snakes." Yao Xiaoqing glanced at the big snake held by the golden retriever and felt goosebumps all over his body.
"We have meat to eat." The bull's eyes were shining as he looked at the big snake with golden hair still on the ground.
Golden Retriever ran up to Yao Xiaoqing and looked up at her, looking like a child asking for praise for doing something good.
"The golden retriever is so awesome!" Yao Xiaoqing gave it a thumbs up, took out a ham sausage from his hiking bag and gave it to it. The golden retriever happily took the ham sausage and ran up the tree.
The bull picked up two big snakes and hung them on a broken tree branch. He looked up at the dim light shining into the forest through the treetops and said to Yaohu: "Chief, it's getting dark tonight.
Will you live here?"
Yao Hu took a look at the sky, pointed to the hill not far ahead, and shouted to everyone: "Let's go to the foot of the mountain and find a place leeward to stay."
Mufeng nodded and said, "Father, take uncle and the others over first. We'll look for food here."
Yaohu nodded, took the mountain and big rocks, and led Yaya on crutches toward the foot of the mountain. The bull followed him to the foot of the mountain with two big snakes.
Several people found a shallow depression at the foot of the mountain. The bull hung the big snake on a bush, peeled off the snake's skin with a stone knife, and dried the snake's skin on the branches.
Yaohu pointed to a clump of palms and said to the bull: "Use those leaves to wrap the snake meat and burn it."
"Okay." The bull cut two pieces of palm with a stone knife and wrapped the snake meat.
He found a few dead pine trees and chopped them with a stone axe. He dragged them to the foot of the mountain and chopped them with his feet. In a short time, he had a pile.
After cutting the firewood, he found a larger piece of wood and whittled it a few times with a stone knife. He also found some pine needles and took out a drill rod-like thing from his leather jacket. He stepped on the wood and drilled it quickly.
Get moving.
After a while, there was smoke coming out of the stick, and the pine needles slowly started to burn. He put the burning pine needles under the firewood that the bull had set up, and the pine oil on the pine trees helped the combustion, and the fire crackled.
Yao Hu said to Pig: "Pig, we don't have the strength to fight against wild beasts. We need to prepare more firewood and light more bonfires at night."
Thinking about it, he said, "Okay, there is still dry firewood in the pine forest, I'll go chop some more."
Mu Feng, Xiong Niu, and Uncle Shui dragged the pine tree that Pig had chopped down towards the foot of the mountain.
Yao Xiaoqing found another piece of Poria cocos under the pine tree that had been cut down.
Shan'amu, Hua and the others found a small bundle of roots and came back, handing them to Yao Xiaoqing, "Xiaoqing, can you see if this is edible?"
Yao Xiaoqing took it and found that it was Codonopsis pilosula, "It's edible. This is called Codonopsis pilosula. It's a good thing to replenish qi and blood."
Alas! Yao Xiaoqing sighed in his heart: If he could catch a pheasant, the stewed pheasant with Codonopsis pilosula would definitely taste good.
Hua looked at Shan Amu and said with a smile: "Mom, Xiaoqing knows so much about food."
Shan Amu nodded, "Xiao Qing is protected by the gods."
Several people carried pine needles on their backs in the pine forest, carried them to the foot of the mountain and spread them on the ground. Shanmu and Hua spread the animal skins on top of the pine needles.
Everyone sat together, and Yun Amu scraped off the excess soil on the Poria cocos and buried them under the fire.
Mufeng sat there, locking the unknitted backpack.
It was getting dark gradually, and the snake meat wrapped in palm leaves and the poria cocos under the ashes exuded bursts of fragrance.
Mu Feng used a wooden stick to pull the cooked Poria cocos out of the fire and placed it on the palm leaves spread out by Yao Xiaoqing. The bull took the snake meat out of another fire and placed it on it.
Yao Hu took out a stone knife, cut the snake meat into sections, and said to Yao Xiaoqing: "Xiaoqing, share the food with everyone."
Yao Xiaoqing was stunned for a moment. Seeing everyone looking at her, she stood up and said to Yao Hu: "Yes, leader."
A piece of snake meat was placed in front of everyone, and the Poria cocos was distributed to everyone. Yaohu said to everyone: "Eat!" Then everyone picked up the snake meat and Poria cocos and started eating.
Yao Xiaoqing took a bite of Poria cocos. It was pink and tasteless but not unpalatable. Seeing everyone holding a piece of snake meat and devouring it, he saw that the snake meat was really hard to swallow, so he gave the snake meat to Yao Hu.
He took the Poria cocos and started eating it.
Yaohu put the snake meat back in front of her and said, "Xiaoqing, you eat it."
Yao Xiaoqing picked up a piece of Poria cocos and said, "Father, I like to eat this."
Mu Feng looked at Yao Hu and said, "Father, Xiao Qing doesn't like to eat snake meat. He used to give it to his mother."
Yao Hu paused and turned to look at Yao Xiaoqing, "I don't know, but Xiaoqing doesn't like to eat it."
"Hehe!" Yao Xiaoqing smiled silly.
Zhi looked at her and laughed, "Xiaoqing, snake meat is delicious."
Yao Xiaoqing looked at him and said with a smile: "Brother She, I like to eat pheasant meat, venison, and goat meat."
"Okay, brother, I'll hunt deer for you and come back." Zhi said seriously.
Thinking of the barbecue noodles in the bag, Yao Xiaoqing smiled and nodded, "Okay, when you call back, I'll make delicious food for you."
Yao Xiaoqing and Mu Feng went to a puddle not far away. Under the light of the fire, Yao Xiaoqing saw tiny insects on the bottom of the water. He didn't know whether they were leech larvae or something else.
I carefully filled the pots and kettles with water, went back and boiled the elderberries in a pot, and gave them to a few injured people.
Boil the water in the kettle and say to them: "I saw bugs in the water. Please try to drink boiled water from now on. I will put the boiled water in the kettle."
The bull looked at her and asked curiously: "Xiaoqing, why do you want to drink boiled water?"
Yao Xiaoqing looked at him and smiled: "Uncle, I'm afraid those bugs will make their home in your stomach."
After hearing this, the male bull looked frightened, covered his stomach, and nodded repeatedly, "Listen to Xiaoqing and drink the boiled water."