Chapter 228: Village Food

Lao Tietou was helpless and could only coax Anan again and again, and only after he promised that he would never smoke tobacco leaves again did Anan smile.

"Grandpa Tietou, smoking too much tobacco is really bad for your health. This time I came back and asked Master to prepare a few bottles of syrup. Master said that if you pour a little out every morning and drink it with warm water, it can effectively relieve chest tightness and cough."

Anan took out the syrup he had prepared and also took a paper bag.

"It contains throat lozenges that can also clear the lungs and relieve coughs. When you want to smoke a cigarette, just hold it in your mouth. After a while, you won't want to smoke anymore."

Lao Tietou felt warm in his heart as he listened to Anan's instructions word by word.

Since he has no descendants in his lifetime, Anan is like his own granddaughter in his heart.

After spoiling her for so many years, this girl was indeed worthy of his love. She often came to talk to him, cared about him, and always remembered a share of good things for him.

It’s worth it to have such a granddaughter in this life.

"Okay, okay, Grandpa, I'll remember this and make sure I take it with water on time every day."

The chrysanthemums on Lao Tietou's face were all smiles. He went back to the house, put his things down, and then took something down from upstairs.

"Anan, look at what this is?"

"What is this? Like a claw?"

Anan took the thing in his hand and looked at it carefully. He felt that it was quite powerful, but he didn't know what made it so powerful.

"This is a life-saving tool. You and your uncle fell off the cliff twice before, and I was almost scared to death by you. So later I thought about making a protective device for you."

Lao Tietou took the claws and put them on Anan's wrist as a demonstration.

"Next time you are in danger of falling, just snap the button and throw it out, and it will hook onto the nearest cliff or tree. With your skills, as long as you can keep your body steady, you will be able to land safely."

"Thank you, Mr. Ironhead!"

Anan liked the gift very much and ran to the woods behind the house to try it again and again before coming back.

"It works great! I love it!"

Seeing that Anan liked it, Lao Tietou immediately forgot all the unhappiness he had during the previous forging process.

"I'm glad you like it. I'll make you a piece of armor next time. You and your uncle's legs and arms are really fragile."

Anan stuck out his tongue, a little embarrassed.

"By the way, Anan, how is your master?"

"Master? Master is very nice. Why are you asking this, Master Tietou?"

Lao Tietou coughed twice.

"Tell me, is it possible that you have kidnapped your master and brought him to our mountain?"

"I don't think so..."

Anan let out a small sigh.

"Master Tietou, do you think I don't want to invite Master to the mountain? I really want to! But Master and his friends were exiled to the village and are under the supervision of the village chief. If they run to the mountain, people will report them as escaping, and then our entire clan will be implicated."

"And... we are on the mountain."

Anan paused before continuing, "Only the people in our village think this place is very, very good. But in the eyes of outsiders, this place is remote and poor. You can't buy anything, and you can't ride a boat or a horse, or go fishing. They can't adapt to life here."

What he said made sense, and Lao Tietou also knew that it was true.

"What about your uncle?"

"Ah? Uncle?"

Anan was a little slow to react, and after a while he said sadly: "My uncle and my master are not the same kind of people. My uncle can't let go of the village, so my master can't go up the mountain. The most important thing is that my master has no interest in my uncle at all..."

Old Ironhead: “…”

The useless Li Xiao!

No one is interested in you, yet you keep running down the mountain every day.

We just went down the mountain, and there was no progress at all!

It's really useless!

"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Let's wait until your uncle comes back. Anan, how many days will you stay this time?"

"I don't know. I'll leave after my uncle and his friends come back from hunting. I told my master that many people in the village get injured during the autumn hunt, so he prepared a lot of medicine for me this time."

Lao Tietou sighed.

"Dr. Yin is indeed a very good person. Anan, you must learn from your master and respect him."

"Uh-huh!"

Anan would have done it even without Grandpa Tietou telling him.

She stayed with Grandpa Tietou for a while, talked with him for a while, and then went to visit other elders.

It was two hours later when I finished visiting everyone.

Except for Grandpa Tietou, every time she visited a house, the elders would give her some delicious food.

It’s not that Grandpa Tietou didn’t give it to her, it’s just that Grandpa Tietou’s cooking skills are too bad.

In this village, Grandpa Tietou is the best in iron-forging and casting skills, but his cooking skills are the worst.

The food he made was so hard to eat that I had to pinch my nose. I had diarrhea and vomited after eating it. It was really horrible.

So the pile of food in Anan’s arms was given by other grandpas and grandmas.

"Xiao Wan?"

Anan walked into the room and called softly, and immediately heard a response.

"You didn't sleep?"

"I slept for a while and woke up again. Anan, have you met all the elders?"

"Yeah! I've met everyone and brought back a bunch of food. Xiaowan, you must be hungry. It's just right for you to eat something to fill your stomach."

Jiang Wan responded, then walked outside step by step on her heels.

There are several small bamboo tubes on the table, and a bowl of yellow rice soup with a sweet fragrance?

It smells a bit like fermented glutinous rice, but the color is wrong.

"Come, Xiaowan, try the bamboo tube rice and bamboo tube fish in our village. This is mango sweet rice soup. There are many mango trees around our village, and we can't eat all of them every year. The women in the village will pick the fruits and bring them back. Some are dried and some are made into sweet soup. It's very delicious."

Jiang Wan's mouth started to water just by listening.

She had eaten bamboo tube rice before, but she had never eaten bamboo tube fish. She had never heard of this mango sweet glutinous rice soup either.

It smells so sweet.

"Well, I only have this big spoon..."

Anan handed Jiang Wan a large soup spoon. She had a large appetite and the small spoon she usually used was not enough for her, so she asked her uncle to make a large soup spoon for her.

Jiang Wan took a sip of the sweet soup, which was fragrant with a hint of wine aroma. The taste was not overly sweet, but rather very refreshing.

Very delicious!

While drinking the soup, she took the bamboo tube rice that Anan had prepared.

The rice grains were pressed into a round barrel shape. When Jiang Wan used chopsticks to pick them apart and felt the stickiness between the rice, she knew that it must be glutinous rice.

Although the Li people live deep in the mountains, the food they eat is no worse than that of people living in the mountains.

Jiang Wan took two bites and finally got to the meat.

It's pickled bacon.

From time to time, you can taste salty and fragrant meat grains in the glutinous rice with a bamboo aroma, and then pick up a piece of soft and rotten fish roasted in a bamboo tube with chopsticks. It is fresh and fragrant and tastes great.

Jiang Wan no longer wanted to talk, her mouth was full.