The three families slept soundly, and Zhang Shi got up early to make noodles with the leftover chicken soup from last night, starting a wonderful day.
After eating, Yun Shenghua got on his donkey cart and went to the county town, while Old Man Yun took the seeds he had prepared to the rice paddies to start seedling cultivation.
After wiping the chicken fat from her mouth, Yunling placed the herbs she had gathered the day before in the yard to dry. Then she took out some dead branches, made a few cuts on their surface, and used her special ability to extract the spores from the black mushrooms and place them in the cracks. After that, she moved the dead branches to a shady place.
Because this was Yunling's first time trying to cultivate, she didn't dare to do too much, so she finished quickly.
Yun Ruochun, having eaten chicken the night before, had been longing to prepare something delicious. So, she brought along some leftover chicken scraps from the previous night and invited Yun Ling to go up the mountain again to catch wild crabs.
Yunling was naturally happy to do so, since she hadn't picked enough medicinal herbs yet.
The two hit it off immediately and followed the path from yesterday up the mountain. However, after entering the deep mountains, they chose to walk on another side. After crossing a few large rocks, they saw a mountain spring gushing down. Yunling squatted down, scooped up a handful, and brought it to her lips. The spring water was very sweet and refreshing, a hundred times better than the water from the apocalypse.
Yun Ruochun took out the chicken carcass from the basket, cut it into pieces with scissors, placed it in shallow water, and weighed it down with a stone, waiting for the crabs to bite.
Before long, Yun Ling had only picked less than a third of the herbs in her basket when Yun Ruochun exclaimed, "It's taken! This wild crab is really fat!"
Yunling hurriedly ran over and looked at the wild crab in Yun Ruochun's hand, but she couldn't tell for a moment whether it was really fat.
In the apocalypse, due to severe pollution of the marine environment, marine life mutated one after another, including two-headed six-eyed fish, lobsters half the height of a person, jellyfish that looked like octopuses, and crabs with pincers that could snap necks. As a result, Yunling sometimes couldn't tell whether people were eating seafood or seafood was eating people.
However, if Yun Ruochun said that the wild crabs were fat, then they must be fat. Yun Ling looked at the other places and saw that although there were one or two biting at them, there were still fewer. There must be some clever ones hiding and refusing to come out.
Thinking of the wild crabs, Yunling activated her supernatural ability. Soon, a swarm of crabs emerged from the crevices in the rocks. Delighted, she was about to grab them when she saw their imposing pincers and instinctively recoiled.
"aunt!!"
When Yun Ruochun ran over and saw so many wild crabs, her lips almost curled into a smile. Without Yun Ling's help, she used both hands to pick them up and throw them into the basket like picking beans.
Yunling was truly impressed and couldn't help but exclaim again:
"Auntie, you're amazing."
Yun Ruochun smiled.
"That's all I'm capable of."
Since it was still early, Yun Ruochun took out an axe to chop firewood. She had burned a lot of firewood last night to eat pheasant, and since there was good food to eat today, she naturally wanted to prepare more.
Yunling wasn't idle either; she continued to gather herbs and fill the basket.
When the two returned home from the mountain, Zhang was preparing dinner. She had caught a handful of small shrimp in the river that day and was thinking of using them to steam eggs. Although it wasn't as delicious as the pheasant from the previous night, it was still a tasty dish for an ordinary day.
But when she saw the wild crabs in Yun Ruochun's basket, she immediately stopped thinking about steaming eggs. She quickly soaked rice to cook porridge, and then poured all the wild crabs into a basin to wash them.
Wild crabs are not uncommon, but it takes a lot of effort to make them delicious. Unlike the plump and roey hairy crabs that can be steamed, making them into crispy crabs requires a lot of oil. Oil is used sparingly, so how can we afford to use it like that?
Therefore, the best way to cook it is to make wild crab porridge.
After Zhang finished dissecting the wild crab, he added shredded ginger, salt, wine, and a tiny bit of pepper. This pepper was a gift from Yun Shenghua's employer, and they had been saving it for two or three years, reluctant to use it.
After mixing the ingredients well, Zhang lifted the lid of the pot and poured all the wild crabs into the porridge. The wild crabs turned bright red as they came into contact with the heat. After cooking for a while, Zhang sprinkled in some chopped green onions and served it.
The sunset was absolutely beautiful today. Yun Shenghua moved the table to a spot facing the main entrance, and the family enjoyed wild crab porridge while watching the sunset.
The porridge was sweet and flavorful. Apart from the scallions, Yunling didn't mind having scallions in her dishes because she thought they looked nice and green, but she absolutely wouldn't eat them.
She always felt that scallions had a strange texture; she couldn't quite describe what it tasted like. However, she really liked cilantro, which goes well with scallions.
Yunling pushed the chopped scallions aside, and Zhang Shi smiled upon seeing this:
"If you don't eat scallions, you won't grow tall."
"Mother, that's nonsense."
If Yunling wanted to grow, she could grow taller than a tree, but she would be captured and turned into a monster.
Zhang smiled and scooped all the scallions from Yunling's bowl into her own, then used a spoon to separate the scallions from the pot and ladled out a bowl of them.
Yunling was overjoyed when she saw the bowl of wild crab porridge without any scallions.
**
Ever since they had a couple of good meals, Yun Ruochun would call Yun Ling to go for a walk on the mountain every day. Because Yun Ling was there, the two of them would always gain something, more or less.
Yun Shenghua has gained a lot of weight these days and looks much more energetic. This change has not been noticed by Liu Shi. She is now certain that the third branch of the family is hiding the weight gain from the first branch of the family.
She secretly resented them for not considering their kinship, so she sent her youngest grandson to live with Yunling.
This grandson is six years old this year, the same age as Yunling. He should be the sixth child in the family, hence the name Yun Xiaoliu. He is naturally active and loves to play around. Now that he heard his grandmother ask him to keep an eye on Yunling and find something delicious, he was naturally delighted.
He learned from Yun Chu that Yun Ling and Yun Ruochun had gone up the mountain, so he ran up the mountain in a fit of anger. After he got up the mountain, he didn't shout or call out, but just kept walking deeper and deeper. As fate would have it, he actually found Yun Ling and Yun Ruochun, who was catching a wild rabbit.
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