Chapter 20: Gifts
When the two siblings got home, Du Jiang and Yao Meixian got up quickly, looked their daughter up and down, and only felt relieved when they found out that she was fine.
Du Jiang looked at the prey his two sons had brought back and felt ashamed. His daughter must have been craving for meat. She kept complaining that she couldn't eat wild vegetable porridge and dried wild vegetable cakes every day.
As a father, he was incapable of finding food for his child. After a day's journey, he had to go up the mountain to hunt.
This is his incompetence as a father.
Yao Meixian pulled her daughter with tears in her eyes, "Dalang! Did you hear there were wolves on the mountain? Why did you go up the mountain just like that? Mom is very worried."
Du Wanwan hugged Yao Meixian and whispered in her ear: "I went to negotiate with the wolves and asked them not to come down the mountain."
"Really?" Yao Meixian knew her daughter's ability and asked quietly, "Did they agree?"
Du Wanwan didn't say anything, just nodded. Yao Meixian smiled and murmured, "It's good as long as you agree. It's good as long as you agree."
Du Wenjun, who was not far away, heard vaguely, but could not understand what his mother and elder sister were talking about. Seeing the prey, he quickly got up and prepared to clean it up.
"Mom! Go to sleep! We'll take care of the prey tomorrow."
Du Jiang, Du Wenjun, Du Wenguan, Du Wenhuo, and Yao Meixian all rolled up their sleeves to clean up the prey.
"Da Lang! Go to sleep, mom will be here soon."
I haven't seen meat for a long time. After collecting so many prey, my daughter will eat for a long time. The child always frowns when eating. I know she can't eat, but there is nothing I can do.
They were on the way to escape famine and had just separated from their family, so they couldn't grab any chickens or ducks. They were all taken away by the second and third sons' families. They couldn't even steam an egg for their child.
"Mom!" Du Wanwan saw Yao Meixian leading the family to collect the prey and took out a hare and a pheasant. "Give these two to the woman. She just gave birth to a child and needs them to increase her milk production."
"Hey! Mom will be there soon."
Giving birth in the wilderness, without some nutritious food to supplement, will definitely not produce milk. Without milk, the baby will starve.
She is also a mother, so naturally she doesn't want to see her newborn baby crying because of hunger due to lack of milk.
What's more, it was the daughter who rescued the mother and son, so we can't just stand by and watch. It is said that good people should be done to the end and see the Buddha through to the west.
My daughter went out hunting tonight, probably to save the newborn baby.
Carrying the hare and pheasant, Yao Meixian walked to the carriage and handed them over to the driver.
The uncle was startled, stood up and thanked him, and watched the man walk away before he told Xiaolu to get up and clean up. The servant didn't call him, because the boy was a eunuch and didn't know how to clean up these things.
When Mrs. Qian heard the noise, she got off the carriage, saw the pheasants and rabbits on the ground, and asked where they came from.
The uncle replied that it was sent by Du Dalang's mother. Mrs. Qian was so moved that her eyes were filled with tears. She silently prayed to the Bodhisattva to bless Miss Du with all her wishes and a smooth life.
The little boy couldn't get any milk and was crying from hunger. She had no choice but to give him some rice soup. It was fine for one or two days, but for a long time, how could the little boy bear it?
They couldn't get to Liang County, and they couldn't get any good food, so they could only watch. Unexpectedly, Miss Du actually sent some meat, so they quickly prepared it and stewed it for the princess, and it was guaranteed to increase her milk supply.
Du Wanwan didn't think too much about it. It was just a piece of cake. Besides, these prey were not hunted by her, but given to her by the Black Wolf Boss.
She is just offering flowers to Buddha, not worth mentioning.
After watching the family clean up the prey, he lay down, closed his eyes and went to sleep.
Although the captain of the guard trusted Du Wanwan, he was still on guard all the time and did not dare to relax. Huo Sien was the same. He hardly slept all night. He was really scared when he heard Du Wanwan say there were two or three hundred wolves.
If they didn't come down the mountain, it would be a false alarm. If they really came down the mountain, their Huojia Village would be doomed tonight.
After a whole night of fear, everything turned out to be safe and sound, without even a single hair of the wolf being seen.
The captain of the village protection team looked at the white sky, then looked at the dark mountains in front of him, and smiled.
"Du Jia Dalang is indeed a god. If he says that wolves won't come down the mountain, then wolves really won't come down the mountain."
Whatever he says from now on, I will believe it and never question it again.
Yao Meixian got up in the morning and stewed a pot of pheasant soup for her family. If she made it for her daughter alone, she would definitely share it with her three younger brothers.
Anyway, there is still some meat, so let's be extravagant and stew a pot of pheasant soup for everyone to drink and enjoy the smell of meat.
There was chicken soup stewing in the pot, with pancakes stuck on the side. The whole family gathered around the pot, eating and drinking happily.
Yao Meixian picked up the two chicken legs and the chicken breast and gave them all to Du Wanwan. The three boys in the family had chicken necks, chicken wings, chicken butts, and chicken feet in their bowls.
Du Wanwan laughed: "Mom! You are too partial. My brothers are growing up and need to eat good food."
He picked up the chopsticks, put a piece of chicken in each of his brothers' bowls, and forced them to eat.
Du Jiang advised his daughter: "Da Lang! Just eat. You are pushing the cart, it's hard and you will get hungry easily."
"No matter how hungry I am, I can't eat the chicken alone while my brothers are gnawing on the bones." Du Wanwan passed a chicken leg to Yao Meixian and a piece of meat to Du Jiang. "Dad and mom have worked hard, you guys eat too. One chicken leg is enough for me."
Du Jiang and Yao Meixian wanted to take the food back, but Du Wanwan covered the bowl with her hand and threatened them with an unhappy look on her face.
"If you don't eat it, I won't go out to get game meat anymore."
The couple looked at each other, sighed slightly, lowered their heads and began to eat in silence.
Although the family doesn't have delicious food, they are not selfish and will not quarrel over food.
Yu Hanyan was also eating pheasant. She heard that her sister risked her life to get it for her so that she could produce milk. Even though she couldn't eat it, she forced herself to eat it.
A pheasant, except for the head and tail, the rest went into her stomach.
Needless to say, after eating the meat, her milk started to come in at noon. The child fell into a deep sleep after eating and no longer made any noise. The more she looked at him, the more grateful she felt to Du Wanwan.
If she hadn't caught pheasants and rabbits in the mountains at night, her son might have continued to cry with hunger. In order to avoid suspicion, she didn't deliver the food herself, but asked her mother to do it.
It can be seen that my aunt is also a kind person. She gave away such fat pheasants and rabbits without hesitation. When she returns to southern Xinjiang, she will definitely send someone to thank them for saving her life.
Huo Sien's family also stewed wild rabbit in the morning. The whole family sat together and ate contentedly.
After eating, everyone set off. There was no conversation along the way. We walked for dozens of miles. When the sun was about to set, we found a place to rest.
As soon as they stopped, five wolves came down the mountain. The people in Huojia Village were terrified. But when they saw the pheasants and rabbits in the wolves' mouths, they were all amazed.
I don’t know what these wolves are going to do.
They said they were coming to attack them, but that didn't seem to be the case. There were more than five wolves, and they were holding prey in their mouths?
It doesn't look like he's here to fight, but rather to give gifts.
(End of this chapter)
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