Chapter 37: Can Do and Have to Do
The reason he couldn't get up yesterday wasn't just because he was beaten, but also because he had done heavy work that he had never done before that day, and his body was severely overdrawn.
Now I take good care of myself for two or three days, eat and drink well, and massage to relax my muscles from time to time every day, and apply herbal medicine externally. Only by taking all these measures can I achieve the miraculous results I have now.
Not knowing this didn't stop him from continuing to apply the medicine: "Little sister, do you still have the herbs from yesterday? My leg still hurts a little."
The other injuries on his body healed quickly, but the soft tissue contusion on his right leg was not so easy to heal and would take at least half a month.
Sang Yu had just woken up and was sitting there in a daze. When she heard his words, she nodded blankly: "Also, I'll apply it to you later."
After she finished speaking, she continued to be in a daze. When she saw Xie Qiujin starting to clean up the ashes from yesterday's burn, she suddenly stood up and said, "Mom, spare the eggs!"
Frightened by her sudden cry, Xie Qiujin trembled all over. It took a moment for her to come back to her senses. She scolded him, "What nonsense are you talking about so early in the morning, kid? Where did you get the egg?"
"I buried it yesterday. Wait until I dig it out."
Sang Yu reached out and groped in the ashes. It was just some ashes and it wasn't dirty. He could wash his hands while washing his face later.
The round bird eggs seemed to still retain a trace of warmth, and each one was covered with wood ash, looking gray.
Sang Yu didn't feel disgusted at all. She only breathed a sigh of relief after counting and confirming that she had found all the bird eggs.
She brought it back with great difficulty, so don't waste it.
The ash on the eggshell was blown away by a slight breeze, revealing the spotted eggshell.
These bird eggs are of different sizes and colors, so they should not be laid by the same species of bird. This way, it would be easier for Sang Yu to eat them.
There is no need to worry about a bird population being wiped out because of overeating.
When they saw that the pile in front of her was bird eggs, everyone looked away, looked at the sky, the ground, and the mud wall around them. It must be said that the wall was plastered really well.
No one dared to meet Sang Yu's eyes. It was not that they had not eaten bird eggs before. They had eaten them once last time, and they could still remember the fishy smell.
After looking around, Sang Yu guessed what they were thinking by looking at their expressions, and had no choice but to eat first.
She tapped the bird egg in her hand lightly on the mud ground twice, and peeled it open along the sunken crack, revealing the egg white inside that was baked to a slightly yellowish color.
He reached out and took a pinch of salt from the salt shaker and sprinkled it on the egg whites, then Sang Yu took a bite of most of it.
As for the taste, I can’t say it’s very delicious, but it’s definitely much better than the unsalted scrambled eggs I had last time.
The bird eggs slowly roasted by the residual heat of the firewood have a light woody fragrance, and with the addition of salt, the fishy smell is not strong.
After Sang Yu finished one, he went to get the second one. Bird eggs are not meaty, but it is nice to change the taste occasionally when you are tired of eating cattail leaves.
Seeing her finish eating two bird eggs as usual, the few people who were watching her gradually felt a little insecure.
Could it be that the unpalatable bird eggs last time were just an accident, and the real bird eggs actually taste good?
They didn't want to eat the mulberry, but they didn't force them. After eating their own portion, they went to smash the tree roots to apply medicine to the father and son.
After she left, several people looked at each other: Do you want to try it?
Sang Xingjia has always been obedient. Following his parents' eye contact, he picked up a bird's egg and imitated Sang Yu's method of cracking it open, sprinkling salt on it, and putting it into his mouth.
His expression was ferocious for a moment, which scared several people into thinking that he had eaten something poisonous, but fortunately he quickly returned to normal.
The bird's eggs tasted indeed good, but he only remembered to imitate Sang Yu in sprinkling salt, but forgot that she sprinkled it evenly over the entire egg.
All the salt he sprinkled fell in one place, just touching the tip of his tongue. It was so salty that he couldn't even control his expression.
"Jiaer, these bird eggs, are they... edible?"
Sang Yongjing carefully observed his expression, and his original intention of asking whether it tasted good or not changed to asking whether he could eat it.
Judging from his expression just now, this bird egg doesn't look like it's edible.
"Not bad, it feels almost the same as an egg." His father asked, and Sang Yongjing quickly swallowed the bird egg in his mouth and replied.
When Sang Yu came back, the remaining bird eggs on the ground had disappeared. After applying medicine to the father and son, she talked about her thoughts yesterday.
There are some things that she didn't say, and the Sang family really didn't think about them carefully.
To put it nicely, they didn't have to worry about anything in the Sang Mansion. To put it bluntly, they were spoiled.
They just thought that they could rely on their own hands to provide their family with enough food to eat and live a peaceful life, and they never considered other issues.
"Yu'er, as you said, building a house really can't be delayed. I'll go with you to the canyon to take a look."
Sang Yongjing made the final decision. His leg was not injured, and although his body was sore at this time, it was not serious.
"Okay, let's make plans as soon as possible." Sang Yu agreed immediately.
After walking through the street with stalls and arriving in front of the canyon, Sang Yongjing was frightened by several corpses at the entrance of the canyon before he had time to marvel at the hidden world in the canyon.
"This, this, this..." He spoke incoherently. Not to mention a dead person, he had never even seen a seriously ill person.
Sang Yu took his hand and walked forward, explaining quietly: "These people are just like you, Dad. After chopping wood, they were robbed of their money. They are exhausted and can only wait to die here."
She could find an excuse to cover up the truth and make Sang Yongjing feel that the life and death of these people had nothing to do with him, but why should she do that?
This is not the capital, nor is it the Sang Mansion. What their family needs is not a cowardly, weak and incompetent loser who needs to be protected by others.
Instead, it requires a real man who can take on responsibilities, is strong and brave, and is responsible for family affairs.
She can temporarily take on the responsibility of supporting the family and make decisions for them, but being able to do something and having to do something are completely different.
A family cannot be supported by one person alone. Everyone must be strong and work together to support the family.
Sang Yongjing was startled when he heard this, and when he turned around to look at the dead bodies, his mood was completely different.
He had also been robbed of his money and beaten, but before that, he had never thought of anything else except resentment towards that person.
If he had no family, would he also be one of those waiting to die there?
Without giving him too much time to be sentimental, Sang Yu pulled him to a higher place and said, "Dad, look."
Sang Yongjing subconsciously looked down and saw a stream running across the canyon below, with huts and thatched houses on both sides and a light white mist floating in the air in the canyon.
What a beautiful fairyland on earth! I’m afraid the utopia described in ancient people’s articles is no more than this.
Compared to here, the shed they live in now is too simple.
Almost at the first sight of this place, Sang Yongjing had already made up his mind to move here and build a house.
"Yu'er, I think this place is well-populated and close to water. It's a good place to live."
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