Chapter 35 A Rich Harvest
After sitting there for a while to rest, Sang Yu gritted his teeth, put on his things and continued to move forward.
She just didn't believe that a mere bag of golden berries could stump her.
It's just a matter of expending energy. She's not in a hurry. She can just walk for a while and rest for a while, and she can always take all the things out.
Only then did she realize the disadvantages of going into the mountains alone. There were so many good things that one person couldn't take away much.
As she walked along the road, Sang Yu was wondering if there was anything else that could allow her to carry more things out at one time.
A wheelbarrow? A backpack? A handbag? It seemed like none of these things would be useful in the mountains.
How about changing your approach and hiding what you find and bringing it back next time?
It doesn't seem to work either, as it may be easily dug out by animals in the mountains.
Many ideas flashed through her mind, but she rejected them one by one.
Her thoughts were wandering but her steps did not stop, and before she knew it, she had reached the edge of the swamp.
Ever since Sang Xingjia accidentally fell in last time, she had put up a warning mark on the big tree closest to the swamp.
From a distance, the huge cross symbol carved in stone on the tree is very conspicuous.
At this point, she could finally put the cattail bag on the ground with peace of mind, and sat aside to catch her breath and recover her strength.
When he felt that he was no longer so tired, Sang Yu stood up again and looked into the distance.
The plants in the swamp are a little yellower than when I came here a few days ago. Plants always sense seasonal changes earlier than humans. It seems that winter is not far away.
Sang Yu's excitement over the rich harvest gradually subsided, and a feeling of worry welled up in her heart.
There is not much time left for the family, so they have to make adequate preparations before winter comes.
Building a house, storing food, and buying clothes all cost money, so we need to earn some money as soon as possible.
The winter in Lingnan is not as cold as in the northern regions, but it is not a tropical place where you can only wear a thin layer of clothes to survive the winter.
Those who sleep in sheds will probably catch a cold if they do not thicken and reinforce the walls in time when winter comes.
This is also the main reason why Sang Yu has been urging to determine the address for building the house first. Time waits for no one.
If those people had not injured Sang Yongjing and Sang Xingjia, they would have started preparing to build the house yesterday.
Thinking of this, Sang Yu hated those people even more.
They get something for nothing, collude with others, and bully the weak. They are like a group of hyenas wandering around. They never hunt for food themselves, but only steal and rob food hunted by others.
She was determined to find an opportunity to take revenge on those people. There was still a long time to go and she had plenty of patience.
She opened the cattail bag and took out the bamboo shoes from the top. Sang Yu walked as lightly as a swallow to the cattail bush and started pulling them out.
This time she didn't plan to pick too much, just enough for her family to eat for four or five days, and she didn't plan to sell the vegetables for the time being.
Soon, her arms were filled with cattails. She picked a few cattail leaves, tied them up and put them aside.
Sang Yu waded through the water in bamboo sandals and began to search among the reeds that were not submerged in the water. What she was looking for was naturally bird eggs.
The bird eggs we brought back last time had a strong fishy smell and no one wanted to eat them, but eating only cattails every day would not be nutritious, not to mention that there are two injured people at home.
A good cook cannot cook without rice. The biggest headache for a chef is never that the dish is not tasty, but that there are no ingredients.
As long as she has the ingredients, she has plenty of ways to make delicious food.
Since it doesn’t taste good when fried, try burying it in the embers of firewood and roasting it with the residual heat.
This time, Sang Yu walked in. As she deliberately stomped her feet hard, the bamboo raft made a rustling sound as it landed on the water, and a bunch of birds were startled and flew away from the dense reeds in front of her.
The bird was frightened and flapped its wings and flew away, but this was a good thing for Sang Yu. She walked towards the place where the bird had just flown away and had a good harvest.
Just like last time, leave one or two eggs in each nest so as not to exhaust all the fish.
Even so, she found more than ten bird eggs, and her hands could hardly hold them all.
She felt a little regretful. Otherwise, she might bring some rice next time and try to make a simple trap.
If they could catch a bird, it would satisfy their family's cravings.
Since coming to this world, she has never eaten a bite of meat and has almost forgotten what meat tastes like.
After finally reaching the bundle of cattails, Sang Yu looked at the bird eggs in her hand, then at the cattails on the ground, and remembered the large bag of golden berries on the shore. She almost cried out loud.
Since coming to this world, she has been hungry every day and has only had a few full meals recently. She never thought that one day she would worry about how to bring back so much food.
Bird eggs are fragile and need to be stored carefully. Sang Yu was like a headless fly, wandering around thinking of a solution, and his eyes gradually fell on the clothes he was wearing.
Soon, Sang Yu, wearing only his inner garment, was on his back with a bulging cattail bag, a bundle of cattails in his left hand, and bird eggs wrapped in his outer garment in his right hand, humming a little tune as he set off again.
She knew that women in this era were held to very high standards, with revealing one's sleeves while wearing clothes being considered a violation of chastity. For someone like her to walk around outside wearing only underwear was even more contrary to social norms.
But how could there be other people in this deep forest? She was not naked, she had another layer of clothes underneath.
On the way back, Sang Yu walked on the sunny side, where the grass and trees were not as lush as on the shady side, so it was relatively easier to walk on.
We walked for a while and rested for a while. When we were almost at the foot of the mountain, the orange-red setting sun was already hanging in the sky.
She didn't rush downstairs. She put down her things one by one and put on her coat again.
She didn't think there was anything wrong with not wearing an outer coat, but the Sang family couldn't help but worry and ask her all sorts of questions, which made her annoyed for no reason.
After putting on his clothes again, it was difficult to take the bird eggs, so Sang Yu simply left the eggs where they were and went back to take them again later.
The vegetation at the edge of the forest was a little sparse, and from a distance Sang Yu could see several figures standing or sitting by the forest. They were the Sang family.
She was a little surprised and took a few quick steps. Xie Qiujin came up to her and looked her up and down. She was relieved to see that she was not injured.
"Yu'er, why did you come back just now? I, I thought..." As she spoke, her voice became tearful and her eyes were red.
A mother worries about her child even when he is far away. Sang Yu was still a young girl and went into the mountains alone. Her heart was always in her throat, fearing that she would see her covered in blood.
"Mom, I'm fine. I encountered some good things on the way and was delayed for a while. I'm sorry to have made you worry."
Sang Yu comforted her while unloading her things, and then ran back: "There are still some things that cannot be taken away, I will go get them."
Before Xie Qiujin could come to her senses, she saw her running back into the woods in a hurry.
Sang Yu ran very fast when she went out but had to run slowly when she came back. She pocketed the bird eggs in her clothes and walked out carefully.
"Look what I found. Let's have a snack tonight."
First, Sang Yongjing and Sang Xingjia were helped back into the shed and sat against the wall.
Sang Yu couldn't help but poke Sang Xingjia and whispered, "Brother, didn't I tell you to rest your leg? Why did you insist on going to the woods? You didn't listen to me?"
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