Chapter 54 Grandma, my third aunt knows Kung Fu
Nowadays, chestnut trees are not the kind that only grow a few meters high after being improved in later generations. They are all very tall. This chestnut tree is probably quite old, and it has grown even taller. Su Mo estimated that the highest point is about 20 meters.
The lower parts have long been knocked down and picked. The rest are hanging high. It takes some courageous people to climb up and hit them, otherwise they can only wait for the chestnuts to ripen and fall naturally.
Su Mo silently memorized this place, and when she comes here in the future, she will ripen the chestnuts for easy picking.
"It's okay. If you can't pick chestnuts, there are other things. Let's go pick pine nuts." Su Mo comforted the children.
Children's emotions always come and go quickly. The three children soon became excited again, chattering and taking Su Mo to pick pine nuts.
In one afternoon, everyone picked up most of the pine nuts in the backpack.
Don't ask Su Mo why an adult picked up the same amount of pine nuts as a child. First, it was because Su Mo's backpack was bigger, and second, it was because Su Mo smuggled some into the space. Otherwise, it would be very tiring to put them all in the backpack.
Seeing that it was getting late, Su Mo took the children to prepare to go back.
Su Mo and a few children walked down while chatting. When passing a slope, a gust of wind came from behind. The intuition cultivated by the end of the world made Su Mo immediately do a 540-degree roundhouse kick and kick directly at the source of the wind.
Su Mo's fighting ability in the apocalypse was weak, that was relative to those zombies with special powers. For normal species in normal times, Su Mo's fighting ability was enough to easily defeat one or two, not to mention overwhelming them.
All of this was just an instinctive reaction on Su Mo's part, and she moved subconsciously. But because her body had not been trained, Su Mo's kick directly pulled a tendon, causing her to grimace in pain, and most of the pine nuts in the basket on her back spilled.
Everything happened so fast that the three children were all scared silly. After a long while, Lu Fengqin spoke: "Auntie, what's wrong?"
"Something flew over just now, and I kicked it there." Su Mo pointed to the bushes where the object had just fallen.
The thing just now was moving too fast, and she couldn't see it clearly. She just felt that it was a little soft, and it should be some animal.
Su Mo rested for a while, used her supernatural power to relax the injured muscles, and then went to the grass to see what it was.
After pushing aside the grass, there was a gray hare lying inside. It looked quite big, probably about three or four pounds. At this moment, it had been kicked by Su Mo and was spitting blood.
Su Mo raised her eyebrows. When did she, a cannon fodder, have the life of the heroine? A hare actually came to her door.
Su Mo grabbed the hare's ears, lifted it up, and said with a smile: "Look, hare, we have meat to eat tonight."
After the three children recovered from their initial shock, they looked at the hare and remembered Su Mo's actions just now. Su Mo's eyes were really happy, excited and admiring.
"Aunt San, you, you are so awesome, you kicked a hare to death with one kick." Lu Guodong began to stutter when he spoke excitedly.
Boys all admire the strong, and they naturally admire those who are good at fighting. Lu Guodong looked at Su Mo at this moment with great admiration. He announced that, besides his uncle, Aunt San was the second person he admired.
"It's a coincidence." Su Mo waved her hand humbly.
Damn, my feet are still hurting now. It seems that I still need to exercise starting tomorrow.
The two little girls also shouted happily, "Auntie, you are so great. We have rabbit meat to eat tonight, haha..."
Su Mo was afraid that the children's laughter would attract others, so she made a gesture to silence them.
"Hush! Keep your voice down, don't attract others, or there will be no rabbit meat to eat."
The three children immediately stopped and dared not make too much noise, but they were still very excited, and their tanned faces were all black and red.
"Quick, help Auntie pick up the pine nuts, we will go back early and eat rabbit meat tonight." Su Mo called them over to pick up the spilled pine nuts.
The three children came over quickly to help Su Mo pick pine nuts. Their speed was simply too fast.
Su Mo: ...
After picking the pine nuts, Su Mo put the wild rabbit into the backpack and covered it with a handful of wild grass.
On the way back, the three were very excited, but they didn't dare to speak. They just exchanged glances with each other and communicated in a way that only they could understand.
Su Mo found it funny watching from behind. It turned out that children were the most interesting.
After arriving home, Su Mo said to the children, "Go back and tell your mother and grandmother that your aunt will bring the rabbit meat over when it's ready. Ask them to make it as a staple food and stir-fry some vegetables."
The three children nodded vigorously, and then ran home.
They were very happy to have rabbit meat, but they wanted to share what had just happened with others even more. When
the three children returned home, they happened to meet Li Yue'e and her mother-in-law who were returning from work. Lu Guodong rushed over, grabbed Li Yue'e's hand and shouted, "Grandma, my third aunt knows kung fu."
"What the hell?" Li Yue'e looked puzzled.
"Just now, when we were going down the mountain, we encountered a hare, and my third aunt just kicked the hare to death with one kick." Lu Guodong gestured while speaking.
"Your third aunt kicked the hare to death with one kick?" Li Yue'e asked. Why didn't she believe it? Could it be that the hare was dying on the road, and the third family didn't see it, so they just kicked it.
"Yes, yes, yes." This time, not only Lu Guodong, but also Lu Fengqin and Lu Aiqin nodded repeatedly.
Liu Yuzhi knew her children better. Seeing this, she said, "Don't worry, tell us everything carefully."
The three children chattered and told the details. At the end, they added, "My third aunt said that you just need to cook the rice and vegetables. She will cook the rabbit meat and bring it over later."
Li Yue'e and Lu Guihua were shocked to hear this, but Liu Yuzhi was calm in her heart. She said that the third child's family was not an ordinary person.
Li Yue'e thought about it, but she was still worried. "No, I have to go and take a look." After saying that, she hurried over.
Don't really pick up a dead rabbit, be greedy for those two pieces of meat, and let the whole family down, that's not okay.
When Li Yue'e came over, Su Mo was boiling water, and the wild rabbit was placed on the ground beside her.
Li Yue'e went forward and touched it. It was still warm and soft. It must have died not long ago. It also looked fat. It didn't look like it died of illness. Could it be that Lao Sanjia really kicked it to death?
"Lao Sanjia, did you really kick this rabbit to death?" Li Yue'e asked doubtfully.
"You can say I kicked it to death, but you can also say it hit itself to death." Su Mo said, "When I was a kid, my family asked someone to teach me some self-defense techniques. When I saw something running towards me, I would just kick it. Maybe it ran too fast and hit my foot, killing me." Li
Yue'e believed it. Before, the team had also picked up wild boars that they had hit to death. If they ran too fast and couldn't stop, they would have hit themselves to death.
She said that it was impossible for a delicate and weak rabbit from the third family to kick a rabbit to death with one kick. It turned out to be a coincidence.
After the water boiled, Li Yue'e helped Su Mo to remove the rabbit's fur. Su Mo wanted to throw away the dirty insides, but Li Yue'e couldn't bear to do so and washed them. It was also good meat.
After finishing the rabbit, Li Yue'e prepared to go back to cook. Before leaving, she said, "Don't cook the staple food here. Hold my piece and eat it later."
"Okay." Su Mo nodded.
She didn't have any quirks that made her unwilling to eat with the elderly. She had been alone for a long time in the end times, and it was good to have family around now.
She remembered that there were radishes that she had exchanged in the village a few days before the Long March, so she prepared to make a rabbit meat and radish stew tonight.
After taking the radishes out of the bamboo basket, Su Mo was Spartan. Damn, she forgot that the radishes here were red-skinned, and she planted white radishes in her field.
Forget it, she would push it to the supply and marketing cooperative when the time comes, saying that it was a new variety from the south, and she would buy it to try.
Su Mo first braised the rabbit meat, and after it had been stewed for a while, she put the chopped radish in, and stewed it for half an hour on low heat. After the radish was well seasoned, she took a large earthenware pot and shoveled all the food into it.
After cleaning the pot, Su Mo added another pot of water, letting the remaining fire heat the hot water, and then she took the backpack, put the earthenware pot on it, and carried it to Lu's house.