Chapter 145 Digging up Yams
The next day, everyone got up, had breakfast, and went to help build the house. Xu Zhiyi followed them out and came to the foot of the mountain. Today, since she was alone, she could use the mountain as cover to enter the space and have a good walk around the mountain.
After climbing halfway up the mountain, he found a bush, observed that there was no one around, and then slipped into the space.
I first went to take a look at the seeds she had soaked, and saw that they seemed to be sprouting a little. I guess I could take them out and plant them outside in a couple of days. As for the small piece of land she had planted in the space, it didn't look like anything special, but it was also sprouting a little. Then I fetched water in a wooden basin and watered the plants.
After watering the fields, I carried the basket and walked up the mountain. There were only wild vegetables growing on the hillside. I wondered if there would be anything deeper. This was just a space. There shouldn't be tigers or wild boars like in the deep mountains outside, right?
As she walked deeper into the mountains, she observed her surroundings. She saw nothing but trees and grass. She only saw a few pheasants passing by.
After she had walked for half an hour, she saw a small patch of yam vines. She quickly went over and squatted to confirm. It was indeed there. She had dug them many times in her hometown before she went out to work.
He used a stick to dig at the root of the vine and stopped only after digging out four big yam. Xu Zhiyi looked at the big yam and was very surprised. One must weigh at least more than two kilograms!
When I put them in the basket, four of them almost took up half of the space in the basket, and I planned to dig out the rest after I finished eating.
On the way down the mountain, I picked up another nest of eggs, thirteen in total, put them in the basket, covered them with grass, then went down to the hillside and picked a handful of purslane.
Seeing that she had almost finished her walk today, she listened carefully and found no movement outside before leaving the space. After coming out, an idea suddenly popped into her mind: could she catch as many pheasants as she wanted in the space?
In order to do this experiment, I directly used my mind to imagine that five pheasants would come out, but there was no response. In the final test, I could only catch three at most. I just don't know if I can catch three every day.
After putting the two pheasants back into the space, take the remaining one back for a snack! It just so happened that she came to the mountain alone today, so she said she was lucky to run into it again!
As soon as Xu Zhiyi came down from the mountain, he met three village women at the foot of the mountain. They saw Xu Zhiyi holding a pheasant and a basket, which looked like they were all wild vegetables.
Another fat lady looked at Xu Zhiyi and couldn't help asking, "Hey, girl, the wild vegetables in your basket are so tender! I wonder which mountain you dug them from?"
Xu Zhiyi heard her and saw that her tone was okay, so he stopped and replied: "Auntie, I don't remember either. I just remember that I went in the direction of the mountains."
When the fat lady heard the direction of the deep mountains, she immediately backed off: "Deep mountains? Oh, forget it! If we encounter a big insect, we will die. It's not worth it for a few wild vegetables."
Then he warned Xu Zhiyi: "Girl, don't go to the mountains again next time. You won't always have good luck."
The two women on the side couldn't help but nodded in agreement when they heard this.
"That's right! Just a few months ago, a hunter in the village had his arm bitten off by a giant insect."
"Also, don't think that you can get something good just because you caught a pheasant in the mountains. You may not get something good every time you go down there!"
Xu Zhiyi nodded: "Thank you three aunts for reminding me, I will remember it."
Seeing that Xu Zhiyi was so easy to talk to, the three of them couldn't help but chat with him a few more words.
"Girl, where did you flee from? But you are lucky to be assigned to Cuilin Village. I heard in the town that those who fled from famine in the past few days were all assigned to remote mountain villages."
"Hey, girl, we are just curious, we don't mean anything else, don't think too much!"
Xu Zhiyi: "Aunts, you also say that we are lucky. We didn't know where we were assigned to. At that time, we only knew the name of the village. We just followed wherever the constable took us."
"Oh, let's not talk about it. I'm busy at home now and I have to go back to help. I'll go back first."
"Why…"
The three women wanted to speak more, but unexpectedly Xu Zhiyi said goodbye and left.
"This girl is very pretty, and is as pretty as the beauty in our village."
"Oh, now that you mention it, I should have asked her if she was engaged."
"However, the conditions of these families who fled famine are quite good! Although I heard from the village chief's daughter-in-law that they emptied their family savings to build houses, but after all, they still have a mule cart."
"You have a short vision. These people who have fled here from famine have only been given a few acres of land per household. Once the grain tax is paid, they may not even have enough food to eat. Our village has at least 11 acres of land. Once the grain tax is paid, the remaining grain will at least keep our families from starving."
Xu Zhiyi passed by the homestead and saw that everyone was busy, but he didn't pay much attention to this side.
After returning home, I tied the chicken's feet and put it into the kitchen. Then I took out a sweet potato, washed it, peeled it, cut it into two halves, picked up the big one and took a bite. It was crispy, refreshing and sweet.
After coming out of the kitchen and walking into Shen Changan's room, she saw him massaging his legs and asked with concern, "What's wrong? Is it because you've been walking around a lot these two days and your legs hurt?"
Shen Changan looked up at Xu Zhiyi and shook his head: "No, I can't help my family now, I just don't know what to do!"
Xu Zhiyi held out a small piece of yam in his other hand and said, "Do you want to eat it? I just dug it from the mountain."
Shen Changan took it doubtfully and found that he had never seen it before: “Madam, what is this?”
"Yam can be eaten raw. Try taking a bite. It's crispy and sweet."
Upon hearing this, Shen Changan took a bite and chewed it. The taste was indeed crispy and sweet, but he was just curious. He had never seen this before. How did his wife know that it was edible?
"Wife, how did you find out that this...yam is edible? Before my leg was injured, I found all the edible things on the whole mountain just by smelling them, but I have never seen this yam before."
Xu Zhiyi: "Silly, you don't even know it's edible. Even if you've seen it, you wouldn't recognize it! I discovered this by accident. The Xu family didn't give me enough to eat, so of course I had to go to the mountains to find food. I discovered this when I was almost hallucinating from hunger."
"I was so hungry at the time that I didn't even consider whether it could be eaten. I thought that even if it was poisoned to death, it would still be full."
When Shen Changan heard Xu Zhiyi's words, her heart ached. Thinking of how she had been abused by the Xu family before, she hated those people in the Xu family.
It would be best if the Xu family members suffered retribution on the road while fleeing famine this time, and went to see the King of Hell. Otherwise, when he meets them again in the future, he will definitely chop them to pieces.
Then he pulled Xu Zhiyi to sit on the bed, put his arm around her waist and said, "My dear, the Xu family treated you like this. If you meet them again, I will give you revenge."
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