Chapter 14 Wild Pheasant
"Fubao, kid, slow down a bit."
Zhang Yanzi saw her daughter running ahead and became extremely worried, so she quickly followed.
The sound of the three people walking scared away the rat that was drinking water.
"Mom, look, there are so many wild vegetables." The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law didn't stop until Jiang Fubao stood somewhere and shouted in surprise.
The two men pushed aside the weeds and walked over.
There was actually a small pit there.
Very shallow.
It's like a washbasin buried in the ground.
The pit was surrounded by wild vegetables.
"Hey, this is Artemisia annua!! Chop it into small pieces and rub it with coarse flour, add some lard and make it into a pancake. It smells so good! It's a pity that there are so few of them, so it's hard to find them. I didn't expect there are so many here. Come on, Swallow, come pick some vegetables."
Zhang Jinlan didn't care about the wild beasts at all. She forgot about them the moment she saw the wild vegetables.
Her eyes lit up, she squatted on the ground, put her hands together, and grabbed Kuku.
There were only shadows left on my hands.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are very fast.
After a while, the wild vegetables occupied one third of the basket.
Jiang Fubao discovered that the wild vegetable called Artemisia annua by her grandmother was different from what she had imagined.
It is not the Artemisia annua from which artemisinin can be extracted.
But it is ordinary wormwood.
It is indeed an imaginary world, the names of wild vegetables are different.
Seeing their concentration, Jiang Fubao strolled around slowly by himself.
Just now she carefully examined the puddle and found a black hole as big as a pipe from which water was leaking.
The water level stopped rising only when the pit was completely filled, and it did not overflow, just like an automatic water-replenishing machine.
It's amazing.
Therefore, the soil in this place is full of water, so the trees grow lushly and there are also a lot of weeds and wild vegetables.
Fortunately, I belong to the inner circle.
Otherwise, he would have been discovered by the villagers long ago.
There are no wild vegetables here.
No weeds will remain.
Like a swarm of locusts.
Jiang Fubao complained in his heart.
Along the way, the bare ground speaks for itself.
[Oh oh——my claws hurt so much. 】
suddenly.
Jiang Fubao heard the sound of birds not far ahead.
Listening to the sound in his heart, it seems that his claws were injured.
Still a male.
It is probably a big bird. It will taste good whether you roast it or stew it in soup.
But she was too weak.
Can't catch.
Jiang Fubao returned to the puddle and said to Zhang Jinlan, "Grandma, I heard some noise over there, it sounded like a bird, let's go and see if there are any bird eggs." She concealed the fact that the bird was injured.
After all, it cannot be explained.
"Bird? Yan Zi, you stay here and pick some vegetables. Fu Bao and I will go over and take a look."
Bird eggs are much more tempting than wild vegetables.
Zhang Jinlan led her granddaughter all the way there with a look of anticipation on her face.
After walking through the bushes, the two saw a wild pheasant under a tree.
Its claws were bleeding and it was thrashing back and forth.
Wild pheasants don't fly high, but they run very fast and are difficult to catch.
Zhang Jinlan smiled so hard that her upper lip didn't touch her lower lip.
"Fubao, just stand here and don't move. Grandma is going to catch wild pheasants." She spoke in a low voice and Jiang Fubao nodded.
She didn't want to make things more complicated at such an important moment.
I thought it was some big bird.
It turned out to be a wild pheasant.
What a strange sound.
But the feathers of this wild pheasant are so beautiful, so colorful.
The tail has patterns and is very long, like a phoenix feather.
It looks like she is wearing a pearl necklace around her neck.
Just as Jiang Fubao was quietly admiring the wild pheasants.
Zhang Jinlan rushed towards the tree with a quick step. The pheasant sensed the danger, flapped its wings, and flew to a height of more than two meters, but it did not hold on for long before its body fell down.
A chicken is a chicken after all.
Unlike birds.
It can never truly fly.
Just as it tried to fly again, Zhang Jinlan grabbed its wings.
【Ohhhh, let me go, you stinky human! 】
“Ohhhh—”
The voice in Jiang Fubao's heart mixed with the sound of a rooster's crows.
"A-nanny is awesome! We caught a wild pheasant. I want to drink chicken soup and eat chicken meat!"
Jiang Fubao was very happy.
"Okay, since Fubao wants to eat it, then we won't sell the pheasant and let him eat it!" Zhang Jinlan originally wanted her son to take it to the town and sell it.
I heard my granddaughter wanted chicken soup.
She didn't hesitate for a second.
I agreed immediately.
Half an hour later.
The grandfather and grandson went down the mountain.
The wild pheasants were hidden in a basket and covered with wild vegetables.
For fear of running into villagers, some chopped firewood was placed on top of the wild vegetables.
"Hey, sister Jinlan, are you coming down the mountain? What's in your backpack? Are they wild vegetables? Tell me where to find them. My family is so poor that we can't even afford to eat. I searched all morning and only found three wild vegetables. These are barely enough to fill our stomachs. My grandchildren, you'll have to pity them. They're so hungry that they'll be starving."
As soon as I came out of the mountain path, I ran into the village widow Ma Qingmei.
Her deceased husband's surname was also Jiang.
The two families are of the same clan.
For fear of bringing up her sorrow, the villagers never called her by her husband's surname but her full name.
She gave birth to four sons and grandchildren.
There are twenty people in the family.
More than the Jiang family.
Ma Qingmei saw Zhang Jinlan and the other two.
His eyes rolled.
Pretend to be pitiful.
"How could that be possible? They are just some dead firewood. Oh, it's so difficult. My Yamato took his younger brother and sons to the town to find work. Our family is so poor that we can't even afford brown rice porridge. I looked for the whole morning, but there was no sign of wild vegetables. I had no choice but to come back. I can't go back empty-handed.
There was no one at home to chop wood, so I thought I could just pick up some dead wood to burn for a fire. But that didn't work, so I just boiled some water and added some salt to fill my stomach. Sister Qingmei, you are so lucky that you can dig up wild vegetables, unlike me, which are very moldy."
Zhang Jinlan is not stupid.
She interrupted Ma Qingmei.
Pretending to be more pitiful than her.
It seems to be saying, at least you have three wild vegetables to eat.
And I can only drink water to fill my stomach.
This made Ma Qingmei's face turn red and green.
"Okay, I'm going home to boil some water. I didn't even have breakfast, and I'm so hungry that I'm seeing stars. I'm leaving, Sister Qingmei."
Zhang Jinlan was too lazy to talk to her any more.
After saying hello, he left with his daughter-in-law and granddaughter.
"Bah! What the hell, do you think I'm stupid? I heard some noise in the basket, maybe they caught some bird. You're so stupid, you didn't even tell me about the wild vegetables. Eat it, it'd be better if I eat a poisonous bird, I'll poison your whole family to death!"
Ma Qingmei spat a mouthful of thick phlegm at the backs of the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren.
He swore a few words in a low voice and walked away with his hips twisted.
"This widow Ma is getting worse day by day. She shows all her scheming and she thinks everyone else is stupid, but she is smart. She has lived a simple and straightforward life for her whole life."
After walking away, Zhang Jinlan turned around and glared at Ma Qingmei's back.
"Mom, you guys are finally back. Did you dig up any wild vegetables?"
As soon as she entered the house, Sun Pingmei asked impatiently.
"We found it. What about you?"
Zhang Jinlan put down the backpack and asked back.
"No, there's not a single hair on it, it's all weeds, eh."