In a blink of an eye, Ningxia and her friends had been living in their new home for four days. Just as Ningxia had guessed, someone was arguing in a corner on the hill.
"How about we get the pork belly and roast it?"
Lao Liao grabbed the meat and said, "We spent a lot of effort to get such a small pig. Let the Ningxia girl cook us a few good meals when we get down the mountain. Don't waste it now!"
Old Chen rubbed his head and said, "That's all I said. So? Just something to eat?"
Lao Liao took the meat back and put it away, then casually threw a chicken over and said, "Roast this!"
A group of people sat in a cave like beggars. They could only be identified by their voices, and there was no clean spot on their faces.
Behind them there was a pile of meat of various sizes. If Ningxia was here, she would be extremely happy. Unfortunately, she was sleeping soundly at the moment and had no idea that a surprise was waiting for her.
"Sister Xia Xia, are you up?"
When Ningxia got up, Lin Yi had already been up for a while and was cooking porridge.
Ningxia didn't bother to be polite with him. She took the bowl and started drinking. It was amazing to eat sweet pancakes and steamed buns for a few days and suddenly drink salty porridge. She was so happy.
"Why are you up so early?" Ningxia chatted with Lin Yi while drinking porridge. Judging from the guy's attitude, he probably got up at dawn.
Lin Yi also picked up the bowl and took a sip. "I woke up and got up. Sister Xia Xia, what are we going to do today?"
"Wake up Sangsang later while the weather is cool. We'll go into the mountains and see if we can find something to eat." Ningxia was also worried. Li Gang and his friends had helped them so much, and she wanted to repay the favor as much as possible.
"Okay." Lin Yi put down the bowl and rushed into the house to coax Sangsang to get up.
Sangsang was a sensible child and didn't make a fuss. After being woken up, he sat for a while and then turned over and got out of bed.
Lin Yi helped her put on her shoes and change her clothes, then took her out and put the porridge in her hands. Only then did Sangsang wake up.
"Eat quickly, and then I'll take you to brush your teeth."
Sangsang nodded and drank it sip by sip, enjoying it very much.
"Sister Xia Xia, shall we go in?"
Several people stood in front of the pine forest they had entered last time.
Ningxia shook her head. "Let's walk around the area. The roads inside are too difficult to walk on and the visibility is poor. I don't think we'll find anything."
Lin Yi nodded, took Sangsang's hand and walked away.
They were extremely lucky today. Not long after they started walking, they found a field of cassava in the dense forest on the Shandong side.
Ningxia's eyes lit up, and she didn't even care about the wild onions in her hand. "Lin Yi, dig out the wild onions and come back to me."
He left a word and ran straight into the woods. Fortunately, although Ningxia was too excited, he did not forget to hit it with a stick first to see if there were any living creatures in it.
After making sure it was safe, Ningxia held a machete in his left hand and a shovel in his right hand, chopping the green plants that blocked his view while paying attention to whether there was anything going on around him.
Only after clearing a piece of open space did Lin Yi take Sangsang in.
Sangsang was responsible for picking up the trash on the side, while Lin Yi and Ningxia were responsible for digging with shovels and knives. There was no other way because they didn't have hoes.
The cassava was already fully ripe at this time of year, but Ningxia thought it could still grow, so she only dug a third of it. Even so, she still harvested nearly a basket of cassava.
There are bunches of fruits connected under the short tree, which looks very pleasing to the eye.
"Okay, let's stop digging. We'll come back for the rest in two days." Ningxia planned to go back home first with her two children in a backpack.
"Sister Xia Xia, there are mugwort leaves over there. I'll take Sangsang over to pick some. Don't run around. Let's wait for you to come back and find us." Lin Yi didn't want to waste time running back and forth, so he planned to get some more useful things back.
Anyway, it was near home, and mugwort didn't grow in the woods. It was just on the ridge of the field beside the road. So I just let them go. "Just wait here for me to come back. I'll be quick."
Although it was said to be fast, it took Ningxia more than half an hour to return to the original place. The two brothers and sisters were sitting on the edge of the field waiting for her. Ningxia looked around and saw a large pile of mugwort leaves that had been cut and neatly piled together by Sangsang.
"Sister Xia Xia is back." Lin Yi went up to her, took the backpack, put the mugwort leaves in it and put it on his back.
Ningxia didn't stop him and walked forward holding Sangsang's hand.
Ningxia didn't expect to find a few ginger plants by the river, and she was very excited, "Lin Yi, come here! There are some ginger plants here!"
Only after digging out the five ginger plants with their roots and soil did Ningxia smile with satisfaction.
This thing is hard to find, and the price at the Dawn Base was quite high before.
Ningxia looked at the few tender ginger plants and didn't want to wander off any further. "Let's go back and plant the ginger and green onions!"
After returning home, Ningxia transplanted the ginger and the wild onions she had just dug into a large flowerpot. She moved the ginger to the center for fear that it would not get enough sunlight.
After all, this is not only a seasoning, but also a medicine!
Wait, medicine, something flashed through Ningxia's mind, but she didn't think about it too much. She decided to wait for the squad leader and the others to come back and ask about the situation first.
Ningxia spread the dug cassava on a few large leaves in the open space in the stairwell and spread the cassava on them one by one. This thing will not go bad if it is not eaten in a short time.
"Sister Xia Xia, are we still going out?" Lin Yi poured all the mugwort leaves into the yard.
Ningxia shook her head. "Pick up the clothes and cotton drying in the yard, and then put the mugwort leaves out to dry. When they're dry, we'll fumigate the house. After that, go read a book with Sangsang."
Lin Yi nodded and buried his head in his own work.
Ningxia didn't want to cook at noon, and there was really nothing to do, so she simply roasted some cassava to try.
The cassava this time is much bigger than the ones I found before. Although not very sweet, it has a soft and sticky texture, which is not bad to eat occasionally.
"Let's go, take the laundry we've packed these days and go to the river to catch eels." Washing clothes was secondary. Ningxia was craving fresh meat. When she was digging ginger in the morning, she saw some small holes on the stems by the river that looked like vents. Maybe she could find something there.
When they got to the river, Ningxia was responsible for catching eels, while Lin Yi and Sangsang washed clothes.
After digging through a large area of mud, Ningxia still didn't catch an eel. But the good news was that she did catch one, because just now half of an eel's tail slipped out of her hand and she didn't catch it.
By the time Lin Yi and the others finished washing clothes, Ningxia had only caught three medium-sized eels and two small crabs.
"Xia Xia! Crabs!" Sangsang shouted, pointing at the crabs in the bucket.
"Of course you can. You've read a lot these past two days and you even know it's a crab."
"Hehe, my brother just told me that Xia Xia caught crabs."
"Stop joking, roll up your trouser legs, and come down to help me catch them."
There is no need to mention Sangsang, he is just there to make up the numbers.
With Lin Yi's help, they were indeed faster than on their own. In a short while, they caught more than ten fish. It looked like a lot, but after they were cleaned up, the three of them each took two bites and they were gone.
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