Tian Xing'er stared at the bunch of wild fruits that Su Qingluan handed over, looked at it carefully, and then asked with a strange look: "You don't want to eat it?"
"I just wanted to ask if it's edible—and if it is, then I'll give it a try." At least the color looks appetizing.
Liu'er was originally putting on her socks, but when she heard Su Qingluan's words, her expression became strange: "Before this," she reminded him in a cryptic way, "you just fiddled with my feet for a long time without washing your hands, and you're just trying to eat wild fruits like this?"
Although she didn't have smelly feet, Liu'er thought that even she would probably feel disgusted with the hand that had just touched her feet - not to mention using such a hand to pick up food!
Su Qingluan was speechless after hearing this: "...I'm not that crazy. I still have you guys..."
Tian Xing'er stared at the bunch of bright red berries, which looked very tempting in color and shape, and smiled cunningly: "I can confirm that this fruit is edible. As for what it tastes like——" She quickly plucked a fruit and stuffed it into the unprepared Su Qingluan's mouth, "Why don't you taste it yourself?"
Su Qingluan was caught off guard by her and didn't react at all. She subconsciously bit the small berry.
I never thought that the bright red berries, which were only the size of the tip of my little finger, could have such a strong killing power.
Su Qingluan only felt a slight knock of her teeth, breaking the thin layer of skin of the berry, and the rich juice inside gushed out instantly.
She had never expected that this small fruit looked so harmless, but its lethality was even greater than that of the sour hook!
In just a short moment, Su Qingluan felt that all the teeth in her mouth were sour. Because of the strong sour taste, Su Qingluan felt her whole body tremble, and the hairs all over her body stood up in an instant!
And although she herself didn't notice it, the moment she bit into the berry, her expression was even more abstract than Picasso's portrait!
Tian Xing'er watched Su Qingluan's facial expressions with great interest, and was overjoyed. "How's it? Doesn't this taste 'good'?"
"..." Su Qingluan was so jealous that she couldn't speak. She could only nod and shake her head from time to time. The main thing she said was that she was mentally disturbed.
"Why are there so many wild fruits here, but they are all so weird?!" Su Qingluan had a sad face and was doubting her life.
Tian Xing'er and Liu'er naturally didn't know what "ghostly" meant, but that didn't stop them from understanding what Su Qingluan meant. Liu'er giggled, accidentally twisting her ankle, and couldn't help but frown and gasp as she explained to Su Qingluan:
"In our Huaxi Village, there are wild fruits all over the mountains and fields. The delicious ones have been picked long ago to satisfy our hunger. How could we have the chance to pick them so slowly?"
"If it weren't for the famine, I don't think anyone would want to eat this deadly wild fruit," Tian Xing'er frowned in disdain. "Eating it on an empty stomach will only make your teeth and stomach ache."
"I remember there were 'suan gou' (sour hook) in early summer." Su Qingluan looked up at the bunches of red berries. "I didn't expect that it's already autumn and these wild fruits are still there."
"These wild fruits are everywhere, and they won't be fully harvested until winter," Tian Xing'er sighed. "It's a pity that apart from the birds and insects in the mountains, I guess no one would want to eat such expensive food."
Su Qingluan felt the remaining sourness in her mouth and nodded: It’s no wonder that no one picks and eats the fruits all over the mountains if they are so sour.
If you want to eat this wild fruit, you probably have to add a lot of honey. However, in those days, whether it was honey, malt sugar or white sugar, they were all very expensive, and ordinary people would not be willing to spend such a large amount of money on condiments.
The people who had fallen to the point of picking wild fruits to eat were probably at a level where they could not get enough food. It was unlikely that these people who had no food to eat would buy luxury condiments like sugar.
The three of them chatted about wild fruits, but little Su Xueyan remained surprisingly quiet. Su Qingluan turned around and smiled: the little girl had fallen asleep quietly leaning against her with her head drooping.
"Should I wake my sister up?" Liu'er said worriedly, "She'll be uncomfortable if she sleeps like this for too long, right?"
It was more than just uncomfortable. Su Qingluan stared at her little sister, her neck hunched up in a ball, and thought that if she continued sleeping in this position, her whole body would probably ache as if it had been disassembled and reassembled when she woke up!
However, this little girl has a small problem - if she is woken up in the middle of her sleep, she will cry for a long time and is prone to enter a "non-violent non-cooperation state."
In short, the third girl of the Su family is still very grumpy when she wakes up.
After weighing the difference between "coaxing the child" and "carrying the child" to see which one was more energy-saving, Su Qingluan shook her head at Liu'er and said, "Forget it, don't call her. I'll carry her back."
Fortunately, it was not too stressful for Su Qingluan to carry a little girl who was just over three years old - the most important thing was that if Su Qingluan wanted to carry the little girl who was in a bad mood after waking up, it would not only take effort but also energy.
However, considering that Su Qingluan had a backpack on her back, Liu'er said that she was the only one with empty hands and could help Su Qingluan.
Just like this, when they came, the four of them were jumping and having fun, but when they left, they seemed like wounded soldiers who had lost a battle, limping and supporting each other, looking very pitiful and a little ridiculous.
Su Qingluan complained in her heart, but she still couldn't forget to keep exploring the way. While exploring, she secretly made a note in her mind: If I go out again next time, I must bring some powder or incense to repel mosquitoes, snakes and rats, otherwise it would be too tiring to explore the way manually.
The little girl Su Xueyan slept soundly, but Su Qingluan was very tired - although the weight of a little girl of three or four years old was not too exaggerated, she still weighed more than ten pounds.
As the saying goes, "A journey is no light debt." Even though a dozen pounds is nothing to Su Qingluan, she has to pay attention to the road conditions along the way and carry a child weighing more than ten pounds to prevent her from slipping and falling, which is very tiring.
Especially after the three of them returned to the village, Tian Xing'er wanted to send Liu'er home, and Liu'er returned Su Qingluan's backpack to her.
Carrying her sister on her back in one hand and carrying the backpack in the other made Su Qingluan's life even more difficult.
Su Qingluan considered putting her sister in a backpack and carrying both the backpack and her sister on her back.
But putting aside the question of whether her younger sister could be put into the backpack, the key issue was whether the backpack could bear her younger sister's weight - she couldn't afford to take the risk.
Although she had heard the song about the "small backpack", Su Qingluan looked at the backpack woven from bamboo strips in her own home and felt that it was a different kind from the one in the song that could hold a person.
Feeling that her sister was about to slide down, Su Qingluan quickly put the backpack on the ground and carried her sister up on her back.
Did she have to carry the backpack in front and her sister on her back? Su Qingluan thought with a wry smile.
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