Yao Xiaoqing looked at the fat yams in the pig basket and said, "Brother, have you ever seen lumps on the yam vines as big as waterfowl eggs?"
Mufeng nodded and said: "Yes, they are crowded under the leaves in bunches. There are a lot of them."
"That's a good thing. Tomorrow you take Shan Amu and the others to pick all the yam beans."
Pig pulled some straps and said, "It would be great if the food is edible too. I can pick two baskets back."
"If it's edible, pick it first and make seeds." Yao Xiaoqing said with a smile.
The three of them chatted and laughed and returned to the yard. Ah Chong and Ah Shui had already skinned and cut the wild boar into strips and were waiting for Yao Xiaoqing to come back and pickle it.
When Hua saw the kudzu and yam that Mufeng and the others had brought back, she smiled and said, "Mufeng, why don't you guys go get some kudzu and poria?"
Zhi smiled and said: "Flowers are great if you can find them, but you are still picky."
Yao Xiaoqing then thought that the people here were familiar with potato foods such as yams and taro, but they didn't know Poria cocos and didn't know where it grew. They should go up the mountain to find some Poria cocos and pound it back into powder to eat.
Mufeng saw the pork on the stone slab and said, "Hey, another wild boar was caught in the trap?"
Ah Chong shook his head, pointed at the wild boar meat and said to Mu Feng and Zhi: "This is what Xiao Qing and Ah Cai caught."
Mufeng and Zhi gave Yao Xiaoqing a thumbs up, "Xiaoqing, you are so awesome!"
"Hehe!" Yao Xiaoqing smiled sheepishly, "I was lucky, I met a stupid pig and stuck its fangs into the trunk of the tree..."
Mu Feng and Zhi's eyes widened, "There is such a good thing, ugh! Why haven't we encountered it before?"
"Mu Feng, who has encountered something good?" Yun Amu's voice sounded.
Everyone turned around and saw Yun Amu walking into the yard carrying a basket on her back. Mu Feng and others hurriedly went up to take down their baskets, which were filled to the brim.
Hua looked at the things in the basket and laughed, "I just told Mu Feng why they didn't find Poria cocos, and Amu found it."
"I found three pieces, and when I dug them out there was a basket full," Yun Amu wiped the sweat from his face, "Xiao Qing, look at those mushrooms, are they all edible?"
Yao Xiaoqing nodded, "Pour it out first and clean up the mud and rot."
He poured the mushrooms in the basket on the ground, and Yao Xiaoqing picked out a few bright red mushrooms with white spots on the surface, and a few more with red skin...
"Amu, from now on you just pick up the ones I taught you last time. Don't pick them up if you don't know them. If you eat them, you will be poisoned."
Yun Amu glanced at Mu Ya, nodded and said, "We remember it." Mu Ya turned around and curled her lips, sat on the bamboo bench and watched everyone laughing and talking coldly.
After Shan'am and the others came back, the yard became even more lively.
Shan Amu took two women to make food, and Yao Xiaoqing taught them to use sophora flowers, kudzu root powder and duck eggs to steam some sophora flower cakes.
Yun Amu led two women to clean the kudzu root, Mu Feng and Zhi pounded the kudzu root powder, Yao Xiaoqing fried salt and marinated the pork, Hua and Da Amu cleaned the mushrooms, strung them with thin vines and hung them on the fence.
Before the things in the yard were packed away, Muba and the male bull entered the yard carrying more than a dozen wild ducks, followed by Dashi Heshan carrying a basket of fish. Now everyone was busy.
It seems that there is a lot of food recovered. There are nearly thirty people, and the food consumed for each meal is not a small amount. They also need to store food for the winter.
It was getting dark, and a bonfire was lit in the yard.
For dinner, there were flower pancakes with kudzu root powder, pork intestines, small intestines, and pork belly fried with wild garlic sprouts. There was not a single thing left in several large pots of food.
Putting down the bowls, everyone started busy again.
Some of the men pounded kudzu root powder and poria cocos powder to filter out impurities, soaked and precipitated, some used flint to grind arrowheads and stone spears, and some used sun-dried bear bones to grind bone spurs and bone knives.
Yao Xiaoqing and the women strung together the marinated meat and wild duck with ropes and hung them on the shelf. He piled some fragrant leaf branches and pine branches under the shelf for smoking. After the fish was washed and soaked in salt water, he cut it into small pieces and skewered it.
Hang the fish on a bamboo pole to dry.
Blanch the remaining wild vegetables with boiling water, squeeze out the water and spread them out in the dustpan to dry in the sun. After finishing all the work, everyone already has backaches.
Yao Xiaoqing straightened up and looked up at the stars in the sky and the disk-like moon, thinking that it was the fifteenth day of January again.
Yaohu held up his straw sandals and shouted: "Xiaoqing, go to bed early."
"Yeah! I'll go take a shower." Yao Xiaoqing looked at a group of men carrying straw sandals and smiled.
Yun Amu scooped the hot water into the bucket, carried it into the toilet, walked to her side, and said softly: "Xiaoqing, you are tired! Yun Amu has mixed the hot water for you, go and wash up and go to bed.
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Yao Xiaoqing smiled at her and said, "Thank you, Eminem! You guys are also cleansing yourself and relieving your fatigue."
Yun Amu smiled and said: "Hua said that you can sleep better by burning your feet with hot water, so I'll try it too."
When Yao Xiaoqing came out after washing up, he saw that Dashi, Xiong Niu and Mu Feng had spread the animal skins in the yard. The three of them were lying on the animal skins with their backs spread out, snoring.
After looking at the food hanging in the yard, Yao Xiaoqing opened the door of the bamboo shed, got into his sleeping bag, and soon fell into a deep sleep.
The next day, when it was getting a little dark, Shan Amu and Hua and the others got up and made food.
Yaohu woke up the sleeping adults, and everyone ate their food quietly.
The few people who hunted brought food for the road, leaving behind the sleeping Yao Xiaoqing and Yaya, as well as Muya and Wolf, and a group of people went to the place where kudzu and yam were piled.
The four people, Big Rock, Shan, Mu Feng, and Xiong Niu, carried backpacks, bows and arrows, and stone spears, and walked towards the cliff with rock salt. It was already bright that day, and Yaohu and his men began to dig taro and sweet potato.
Shan Amu and several women picked yam beans from the vines, and everyone got busy.
Yao Xiaoqing got up and saw the wolf sitting on a bamboo bench digging a barrel. Then he realized that Yao Hu and the others had gone to carry kudzu root.
After she came back from practice and ate the food, she took out the kudzu root powder and poria cocos powder from the bucket, broke it into small pieces and dried them in the dustpan. The bacon that had been smoked for a night was moved into the hole and set up not far from the earthen stove.
Several racks were used to hang the meat. Yao Xiaoqing smiled as he looked at the racks filled with bacon, bacon ribs, pig's feet, and pork liver.
The wolf looked at Yao Xiaoqing who was busy and then looked at Muya who was sleeping soundly. He sighed and went out with the stone knife to continue digging the barrel.
After Yao Xiaoqing hung the mushrooms on the fence, he went down the mountain with a shovel. He opened the kiln, shoveled out the fired shells and stacked them in the corner of the bamboo shed, and then started filling the kiln with shells.
A layer of shells and a layer of firewood were put into the kiln. By the time the two kilns were filled, the sun was already high.
I lit the fire and burned it for nearly an hour. I looked at the sun above my head and found that it was time to cook lunch again.
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