Chapter 142 I'm Afraid I Can't Protect You
On this day, Gu Yan and Li Wanqing were very busy. They made a lot of buns, dumplings, steamed buns, flower rolls, meat patties and wontons.
Li Wanqing also steamed a large pot of rice and fried a few dishes that both of them liked, and put them all into the space.
This is the dry food they brought with them when they went hunting these days.
The next day, the two of them set off with their children.
The two of them agreed to go back to the place they went last year.
If you have more time, go a little further.
Along the way, Gu Yan and Li Wanqing collected pheasants, rabbits and pheasant eggs as they went.
The older herbs were also harvested.
Finally, eighteen days later, they arrived at the forest where the tiger was killed.
Without the tigers, this forest became the territory of small animals such as squirrels and sika deer.
Gu Yan came here just to see the sika deer.
Gu Yan looked around to make sure there were no large animals here.
He started digging traps. This time he dug three traps in total. When the sika deer came back at night, he quietly went behind the herd and killed two of them with arrows.
While the deer are in chaos, they drive them towards the trap.
There was a crackling sound, and sika deer fell in one after another.
After the sika deer had run far away, when Gu Yan was cleaning up the trap, he found that there were a total of thirteen sika deer, big and small, in it.
"Wife, come here quickly. I'll go in and lift it up, and you just put it away." Gu Yan said excitedly.
"Okay, be careful." Li Wanqing walked over.
Gu Yan jumped into the trap and saw that some deer were still alive, but were injured by the bamboo thorns in the trap: "Wife, bring me a basin. Deer blood is a good thing. I can't waste it."
Li Wanqing swiftly took out a large stainless steel basin and handed it over.
Gu Yan stabbed the sika deer's neck one by one, and when the blood had almost flowed out, he lifted it up and handed it over.
Li Wanqing touched the sika deer with her hand and put it into the space.
After setting three traps and working for more than an hour, they finally collected all the sika deer into the space.
They were going to spend the night here and had no plans to go anywhere else.
This forest is a mixture of coniferous broad-wood forest and deciduous broad-wood forest.
Pine trees account for the majority of them, and the pine nuts on the trees are large and full.
Gu Yan and Li Wanqing started collecting pine cones again. Gu Yan took a big bamboo pole and hit the treetops hard.
Li Wanqing put the pine cones she had cut into a sack, and when the sack was full, she put it into the space.
After collecting twenty sacks in a row, Gu Yan had knocked down all the pine cones at the bottom of the forest, and only then did the two men stop.
"Come, eat two buns and take a rest. We still have to pick mushrooms later." Li Wanqing brought Gu Yan into the space.
After working for a long time, Gu Yan was indeed hungry. He ate two buns and a meat pie, then sat on a chair and leaned against the back to rest for an hour.
Then he asked Li Wanqing to send him out. After Li Wanqing coaxed the child to sleep, they went out to pick mushrooms together.
It’s a little late to pick mushrooms now, and some of them have rotted.
However, this place is rarely visited by people. Apart from animals, no one comes here, and there are many intact and good mushrooms left.
Gu Yan and Li Wanqing also picked out the good ones.
The two men stopped fighting until the sun was about to set.
"Wife, is it almost done?" Gu Yan said as he looked at the sack full of mushrooms behind him.
"Let's not pick them up today. Go and hunt two pheasants. We'll have beggar's chicken tonight.
There's also cornmeal porridge, and I'll grab a bowl of pickled cucumbers." Li Wanqing looked at the sky and decided not to finish.
These days they pick up mushrooms whenever they see them in patches, and now there are three sacks of mushrooms in the space.
If they ate it themselves, it would be more than enough. However, Li Wanqing wanted to give some to Manager Liu and Li Ya Ren respectively, but this was enough.
"Okay." Gu Yan agreed and left with his hunting tools.
It took less than twenty minutes for him to come back with two pheasants.
After plucking the feathers and removing the internal organs, Li Wanqing went back to the space to clean the chicken and stuffed the chicken's stomach with mushrooms, onions, ginger, garlic, salt and other seasonings.
The surface of the chicken is also coated with salt and soy sauce, and then wrapped in lotus leaves.
Li Wanqing came out of the space with two chickens wrapped in lotus leaves.
Outside, Gu Yan had already lit the fire and prepared the mud.
Gu Yan took the chicken and covered it with mud himself.
Then the pheasant, covered in mud, was thrown into the fire.
Li Wanqing took out a small table, two small stools, a teapot, two teacups, two apples, a few oranges, and a handful of dates.
I found these jujubes a few days ago on two jujube trees. The jujubes on them were bright red.
Although a lot of them fell to the ground, there were still many left on the tree.
Li Wanqing asked Gu Yan to chop them all down, and the two trees were filled with a sack of stuff.
"Gu Yan, come over here and have some tea and some fruit. And take a rest." Li Wanqing poured two cups of tea and picked up one to drink first.
Gu Yan added a few more firewood to the fire and came over to sit down and drink tea.
"Is my son still not awake?" Gu Yan asked.
"No, he's sleeping soundly." Li Wanqing looked at the bed in the space again.
Xuanxuan was sleeping soundly like a little piglet.
Since having children, two out of three sentences these two new parents say are about their children.
Neither of them felt anything was wrong and even enjoyed it.
After another half an hour, Li Wanqing said, "Okay."
Gu Yan went to the fire and dug out the two mud balls.
Li Wanqing also took out two bowls of cornmeal porridge, a small bowl of pickled cucumbers, and a small bowl of pickled bamboo shoots from the space.
The two of them drank porridge and ate the fragrant beggar's chicken with some pickles.
While eating, he chatted: "Wife, tomorrow we will go to the valley we discovered last time.
There is a small river there, and bison and wild sheep like to go there to drink water.
There are also many small animals there. Let's stay there for a few more days and try to catch as many as possible.
We didn't dig many medicinal herbs this year, but if we could get more wild cattle and sheep and sell them, it would be enough to cover our family's expenses next year."
"Okay, our family's expenses are not that high, we can definitely take care of it.
If that doesn't work, we can just sell one herb. You know I have a large amount of each of these precious herbs in my space, such as ginseng, seven-leaf lily, and spring grass." Li Wanqing said.
"I know, but it's better not to take out the medicinal herbs in the space unless it's absolutely necessary.
Your space is too amazing, and those medicinal herbs are too precious. If an ordinary person comes across one in his lifetime, his ancestors' graves would smoke.
If you take it out every now and then, you'll be finished if someone with ulterior motives spots you.
It's also because I'm incompetent. If something really happens, I'm afraid I won't be able to protect you." Gu Yan said worriedly.
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