"Big sister, this must be several dozen kilograms. We won't have to worry about going hungry for at least a few days.
But this thing, besides being used to make soup or porridge, can it be eaten raw?
Don’t forget, we didn’t even have a pot, and water was so precious.”
While Chaoge was putting the dug yams into his backpack, Leng Furong came closer and asked in a low voice.
"This thing is simple. Just throw it into the fire and roast it until it's cooked."
At this time, the only refugees around were those who were digging yams with them, and a few refugees who occasionally passed by and walked slowly up the mountain.
Chaoge was not afraid of these people having bad intentions. Anyway, Uncle Dong and the others were around, so he directly told Leng Furong how to eat yam.
“Like a baked sweet potato? Really?
But people in our village used to dig it up and eat it, and it was indeed very numbing to the mouth.”
After Uncle Dong heard Chaoge talk about how to eat yam, he couldn't help but ask about the doubts that had always been in his mind.
“Uncle Dong, this yam must be mouth-numbing when it’s raw, I didn’t explain it to those people, I just wanted us to dig more ourselves.
This yam is not only good for keeping you from getting hungry, it is also a good thing. If you have rice and enough water, you can cook porridge with it, which is also good for your body."
"Really? How do you know all this?"
Uncle Dong looked surprised and asked casually.
But how could Chaoge not understand that Zhou Dong just wanted to find out their background.
"Some of my ancestors were doctors. I know a little bit about pharmacology and simple medical skills. This yam is both a medicine and a food. Uncle Dong, just eat it without worry."
Only by showing off some of his abilities appropriately can these people truly protect him at critical moments. Chaoge is not stupid, but he doesn't want to be too high-profile either.
"Ah? That's great. Many villagers in our village couldn't stand the suffering of fleeing famine. Many of them are sick. Can you help them?"
Zhou Dong never expected that Chaoge actually knew some medical skills. He thought they were a wealthy family, but he didn't expect to have such an unexpected gain.
“I’m happy to do this little favor, but without the herbs, I’m helpless.
Uncle Dong, let's hurry up the mountain, my aunt and the villagers are waiting for us."
After hearing what Chaoge said, Zhou Dong realized that he was happy too early.
Deep in the mountains, no one wants to fall behind, and no one can guarantee what kind of danger they will encounter.
Uncle Dong called the remaining villagers and took Chaoge and the others up the mountain at a faster speed.
Knowing that Chaoge knew medicine and that Chaoge had brought them to dig up so much food, Uncle Dong became even more enthusiastic towards Chaoge and his siblings than before.
Including his fellow villagers, they became more friendly than before.
From time to time, he would chat with Chaoge and the others while climbing the mountain to get closer to them.
For this reason, Uncle Dong also asked Daqiang to help carry Leng Xiaoran on his back, which helped to reduce a lot of burden for Chaoge's siblings.
Just taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, Leng Furong asked the question that had been holding back for the entire journey.
"Sister, weren't you from a poor family before? You, your family is a doctor, and you still..."
Leng Furong didn't ask the rest of the question, but Chaoge understood what she meant.
She quickly made a gesture to keep quiet and lowered her voice: "My family is indeed poor, but when my mother married my father, she gave him some medical books as a dowry. I learned a little from them since I was a child."
This is true. The original owner's mother had some medical books, but her mother did not know any medical skills and never taught the original owner. Chaoge didn't know why.
After climbing the mountain for most of the day, the temperature became lower as we got closer to the top, and the suffocating feeling of the heat was no longer so intense. However, everyone became more and more uncertain, not knowing how long it would take to reach the top of the mountain.
This mountain is also strangely designed. It is impossible to reach another peak from the side. Only after climbing to the top can you continue forward.
But after climbing the mountain for most of the day, they had consumed a lot of physical strength and energy. Fortunately, they were young, and Chaoge persuaded the siblings to drink some water from the space stream from time to time, so everyone was able to hold on.
The closer they got to the top of the mountain, the more small prey they found. Occasionally, a pheasant would fly over the refugees' heads, or a rabbit would run by quickly. Whenever Leng Liecheng saw a hunter among the refugees shooting prey with a bow and arrow, he would become anxious and envious.
He started learning martial arts at the age of five and has been practicing archery for six or seven years. His accuracy is definitely impeccable. Unfortunately, he doesn't have a bow and arrow.
“I didn’t expect that there are so many prey on this mountain.
If I had known I would come out, I would have brought a bow and arrow with me, and we would have had meat to eat."
“Hey, how could I know so much in advance?
Don't worry, we'll have meat to eat when we get to Xilin County."
Chaoge's casual words of comfort were unexpectedly heard by Zhang Shufen who was standing in front of him.
Zhang Shufen's expression brightened, and she moved closer to Zhou Dong, lowering her voice, "Boss, your guess is right, it seems that their relatives in Xilin County are also wealthy, otherwise Xiaoge wouldn't have said that.
No, we have to be nicer to them later."
"You have long hair but short vision. Don't you see that there are people all around you? You have this thought in your heart, and I know it even if you don't say it out loud."
Uncle Dong was speechless when he saw Zhang Shufen's ignorant look. He really regretted telling her his plan that day.
While the couple was talking, a hunter among the refugees took out a bow and arrow and shot a hare.
The eyes of the refugees who witnessed this scene lit up instantly.
Before the hunter could run up to retrieve his prey, a group of refugees had already swarmed over and opened fire!
In the end, the hare was snatched away by a vicious-looking man, but the refugees seemed to be crazy. They didn't care about the man's ferocity at all. They just pressed the man to the ground and took the hare away.
Chaoge and her siblings' faces turned pale with fright when they saw the refugees fighting over a wild rabbit!
"Big sister, it's a good thing that you picked up the dagger the other day, and it's also a good thing that Brother Daqiang and Uncle Dong and the other villagers protected it, otherwise, who knows how much bloodshed that pheasant would have caused.
These people are really crazy. On such a steep mountain, they not only blatantly robbed other people's prey without any care, but also beat them up.
I think the rabbit was not killed by one arrow, but was killed in several fights.
Many people rolled down the mountain and it is not known whether they are still alive.
Why......"
Leng Furong and her brother were once again broadened their horizons and saw the ugly and shameless side of human beings.
Chaoge thought it was normal. If she didn't have the golden finger, she couldn't guarantee that she wouldn't steal other people's food when she was about to starve to death.
“You haven’t seen it before, but now I’m letting you see the faces of different people, which can be regarded as a kind of understanding of life.
Okay, let's go quickly, Uncle Dong and the others have left us far behind."
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