Chapter 147 It’s OK, I can still hold on
There were three pheasants and five hares, which was quite a good harvest.
Gu Xiaoxi was more interested in the fur of wild rabbits, so he chose to skin them.
Lu Jiansen boiled some water and prepared to pluck the pheasants.
Gu Xiaoxi suddenly felt that this was a waste of water, and immediately switched jobs with Lu Jiansen, "I want to pluck chicken feathers, you peel the rabbit skin."
"Okay." Lu Jiansen let the little girl do as she pleased and took the half-skinned rabbit from her.
Gu Xiaoxi used a little water symbolically, and with just a few strokes, he plucked the feathers of the three pheasants.
Just as she was about to dissect the pheasant, Si Nanyu and Qi Shuangshuang came back.
"Xiaoxi, do you know that we just saw three sika deer." Qi Shuangshuang couldn't wait to say as soon as she came back.
Her face flushed slightly because of excitement.
Gu Xiaoxi was a little surprised. "Three? I only saw one."
"But they are gone now. It seems like the parents of that sika deer left together. Unfortunately, the antlers of the other two sika deer have already ossified."
Also, sika deer run very fast and they can't catch them.
"We are lucky today. After we deal with these pheasants and rabbits, we will go look for more." Gu Xiaoxi felt that the energy was coming.
When Qi Shuangshuang heard this, she immediately went to help carve the chicken.
Si Nanyu felt that he could not handle the wild rabbit skins, so he helped to handle the pheasants.
Gu Xiaoxi went to Lu Jiansen again to help peel the rabbit skins.
Seeing that she was quick at skinning the rabbit, Lu Jiansen started to help chop the rabbit meat.
The four of them worked together to prepare the pheasants and rabbits, and Gu Xiaoxi also peeled the yam that he had dug earlier.
Afterwards, she started a fire nearby and put the wolfberries and chicken that she had quietly dried earlier into a clay pot, preparing to make yam and chicken soup.
Lu Jiansen braised the other two chickens.
Smelling the fragrance, Qi Shuangshuang couldn't help but sigh, "I just had dinner, and I feel like eating again."
Gu Xiaoxi smiled and said, "Then let's steam some rice. We can take the food with us and have it as a midnight snack in the mountains. This way we can come back later."
"I think it's okay!" Si Nanyu immediately helped to steam the rice.
Gu Xiaoxi asked Qi Shuangshuang to watch the fire while he processed the rabbit skins for the second time.
After the hare skin was processed, she looked up at Qi Shuangshuang and said, "Shuangshuang, do you like rabbit skin gloves or rabbit fur scarves?"
Qi Shuangshuang said without thinking: "Gloves! The gloves you wear are so beautiful."
"I'll make you a pair of gloves." Gu Xiaoxi took out a pair of scissors and needle and thread, sat by the fire and started sewing gloves.
Qi Shuangshuang's heart was warmed, she was so happy.
Gu Xiaoxi's hands are very fast. By the time the chicken and rice are cooked, her gloves are also ready.
Qi Shuangshuang tried it on and her eyes narrowed with smile.
"Xiaoxi, I think the word 'skillful' is the right word to describe you. The gloves are so pretty!"
It's so beautiful that she doesn't want to wear it.
Most importantly, it fits her hand perfectly and is very comfortable to wear.
"Let's go too!" Lu Jiansen had already prepared the food and tools.
"Well, let's go!" Gu Xiaoxi packed up his things and put on his cross-body bag.
Qi Shuangshuang came over and hung a sachet on her bag. "It contains insect repellent made by my grandfather. There are many insects in the mountains at night."
"Thank you!" Gu Xiaoxi took out a flashlight from her bag and gave it to her.
Qi Shuangshuang smiled and said, "I brought a flashlight, too."
"Mine is brighter, it's modified." Gu Xiaoxi winked at her and put the flashlight in her hand.
Lu Jiansen glanced at the little girl, then lit a windproof lamp outside the tent before picking up his things and setting off.
The direction the four people were heading was the direction where Gu Xiaoxi had discovered the ginseng before.
All four of them were holding flashlights, and although they weren't very fast, they were quite meticulous in their search.
However, after an hour, they only dug up some Chinese herbal medicines.
Another hour later, there was still no sign of ginseng.
The few of them walked farther and farther, until ten o'clock in the evening, when Gu Xiaoxi finally found a ginseng.
The age is not long, probably only about seven or eight years!
She waved to Qi Shuangshuang who was five meters away, "Shuangshuang, there is a ginseng plant here that is less than ten years old. Do you want to dig it?"
Qi Shuangshuang was stunned for a moment, "Let's dig!"
Now that I'm here, I can't go back empty-handed.
"Then you and Si Nanyu come and dig, and we'll look around."
"Coming." Qi Shuangshuang immediately ran over and started doing it.
Ten minutes later, Lu Jiansen also found a ginseng, but his daughter said that the ginseng was only three years old, so he had to give up reluctantly.
But Gu Xiaoxi couldn't bear to leave!
When Lu Jiansen turned around, she gently pulled out the ginseng completely and planted it in the companion small space.
Anyway, just plant the short-lived ginseng like this. Time passes quickly in a small space. As long as they survive, there is no need to worry about not having a hundred-year-old ginseng.
By the time Qi Shuangshuang and Si Nanyu dug out the ginseng, Gu Xiaoxi and the others hadn't found any more ginseng.
The four of them discussed it for a while and then continued to go deeper.
At midnight, everyone lit two torches and stopped to have a midnight snack.
Gu Xiaoxi drank chicken soup and said with some emotion: "This hundred-year-old ginseng is really hard to find!"
Si Nanyu couldn't help but laugh and said, "If it's really that easy to find, it can't be that expensive, and you can't buy it even if you have money."
In fact, you are lucky if you can find ginseng that is more than ten years old.
And they found three a day.
This luck is already very enviable!
Lu Jiansen rubbed the little girl's head lovingly and said, "As long as we are patient, we will find it."
If you can’t find it this time, try next time, and the next time!
After eating, everyone rested for half an hour and then continued on their journey.
At two o'clock in the morning, they still found nothing, but they had already dug up a bag full of common herbs.
At three o'clock, Gu Xiaoxi was already yawning due to sleepiness.
What to do? She always goes to bed early, but now she wants to sleep!
Lu Jiansen took her hand and said softly, "Let's find a place to rest first."
"It's okay, I can still hold on." Gu Xiaoxi didn't want to be the one who held back.
After all, it was I who asked to go out at night.
"Or, let's just rest here!" Si Nanyu suddenly said.
He felt that Qi Shuangshuang must be very tired too, but she was just trying not to say anything.
Lu Jiansen nodded, "That's fine."
He put down what he was holding, let the little girl sit on the bag, took a knife and cleared the weeds around.
Gu Xiaoxi sat for two minutes and then got up. He picked up some dead branches from around, dried them quietly in the wind, and lit a fire directly on the ground.