Du Tianli cursed so hard that his throat almost smoked, and he ate the wild vegetables with tears in his eyes and a heavy heart.
The palace guards collapsed on the ground like dead pigs, and no matter how Du Tianli cursed at them, they would not move at all.
It wasn't just Jiang Xu and Sang Dasheng who were stealing food. The palace guards who went out to look for food found food that was better than wild vegetables and stuffed it all into their mouths.
Some were lucky enough to find half-eaten wild fruits by the birds, and they stuffed them into their mouths without hesitation.
Du Tianli was so hungry that he was like a beggar.
Over there, the Xiao family finished eating the watermelon, urinated twice, and happily started a barbecue feast.
"Sister-in-law, give me some of the Rhus chinensis salt you made last time. I want to try it."
Xiao Yunzhan remembered that he had not tasted the saltwort salt he had made later, so he decided to try it with the barbecue.
The eldest sister-in-law looked at Lin Yiran and said, "The salt is with the fourth sister-in-law."
Lin Yiran raised her eyelids to look at Xiao Yunzhan, then lowered her eyelids to look at the salt wrapped in oil paper on the ground.
"You already have salt to eat, so why do you need salt from Rhus chinensis?"
Xiao Yunzhan flipped the barbecue on the stone slab and said casually,
"I'll try the salt from the Rhus chinensis tree I made later to see if it tastes sour. The salt I made earlier wasn't very sour."
If the salt made later is not very sour, it means that the salt extracted from the small fruits of the early Rhus chinensis is not very sour.
Then when he led his troops to fight in the deep mountains and there was no salt, he would look for this kind of saltwort that had just borne fruit.
However, it is not easy for the newly borne Rhus chinensis to produce salt. The reason why it produces salt now is because it has not rained and the weather is too hot.
When Lin Yiran heard this, her eyelashes drooped and trembled slightly.
Holy crap, is it possible that the salt from Rhus chinensis is sour?
Last time she added a lot of salt, so the sour taste is a little lighter?
"Oh, okay, I'll give it to you."
Lin Yiran stood up and walked towards where her backpack was.
With her back to the crowd, she took out the cloth wrapped with saltwort, quietly added a large amount of salt into it, stirred it evenly with her hands, and walked back calmly.
"Here, here you go."
Lin Yiran spread the cloth wrapped in salt in front of Xiao Yunzhan.
"Okay, thank you for your help." Xiao Yunzhan responded while turning the meat.
The sister-in-law smiled and glanced casually. When she saw the spread-out salt, her brows furrowed slightly.
She got this bag of Rhus chinensis salt, and she didn't remember there was so much salt.
There are so many that it looks like the cloth can’t even wrap them all.
The sister-in-law glanced at Lin Yiran with a smile in her eyes and handed a piece of lettuce leaf to Xiao Yunzhan.
"Thank you, sister-in-law."
Xiao Yunzhan took the lettuce, picked up the roasted meat, dipped it in some salt from the Rhus chinensis tree, wrapped it in the lettuce, and stuffed it into his mouth.
Sure enough, it wasn’t very sour. He remembered this and decided to look for the early small fruits of Rhus chinensis to make salt.
(Years later, after Xiao Yunzhan led his troops deep into the mountains, no matter how tender the Rhus chinensis he found, the salt he made was always very sour. It was not until this moment that he realized that it was Lin Yiran who had tampered with the salt. He could only smile helplessly...)
Lin Yiran was turning over the sweet potatoes by the fire and secretly glanced at Xiao Yunzhan.
Seeing him eating the barbecue calmly, she felt relieved.
I escaped another disaster, that was a close call.
A wild boar leg was served with lettuce. The whole family ate their fill, their mouths glistening with oil, and they looked very satisfied.
Lin Yiran baked the sweet potatoes very well this time. She watched them closely, looked at the time on her phone, and turned the sweet potatoes over every two minutes.
After the aroma of roasted sweet potatoes is released, when you break them open, they are soft, glutinous and sweet.
The two children's eyes were narrowed as they ate. This was the first time that Lin Yiran had eaten too much after being out for so many days.
With watermelon, roasted sweet potatoes and barbecued meat, it’s hard to go hungry.
After eating, Lin Yiran took the opportunity to go out to urinate and secretly washed herself from head to toe.
It's so hot, and she's almost miserable without washing up all day.
Old Madam Xiao looked at the water in the pottery jar, which was not much less, and her expression paused slightly. She quietly poured out a water bag.
Then he calmly poured some water on the cotton cloth and wiped his face and hands.
When the sister-in-law opened the pottery jar, her expression paused slightly.
While no one was paying attention, she took out the empty water bag and filled it up, then poured a little water into her palm and rubbed her eyes casually.
We don’t know how long this drought will last, so it’s always a good idea to save some money.
Lin Yiran came back after washing up at this time and saw that the water in the ceramic pot was half gone. Worried that it would not be enough for everyone, she quietly added some more water to the ceramic pot.
Seeing that no one was using water, the second sister-in-law pulled Xiao Lingyan over.
The moment the pottery jar was opened, my second sister-in-law's eyes widened.
Oh my god, how come there is almost no less water?
She saw with her own eyes that her mother and sister-in-law came to use the water, and also used it to wash lettuce and pork legs. How could there be so much left? It would be good if half of it was left.
Thinking that Lin Yiran was the last one to leave, what else could she not understand?
Yao Wenhong's eyes flashed slightly, and he decisively took the lid of the pottery jar, blocked the hole in the lid, poured a lid of water, and took Xiao Lingyan out of the cave to wash her little butt.
She hardened her heart and washed herself as well.
It wasn't that she wanted to waste water, but her third sister-in-law hadn't washed yet, and there was too much water left in the pottery jar, which would make her suspicious.
Fortunately, my fourth brother's wife added water after my mother and eldest sister-in-law used water, otherwise my eldest sister-in-law and mother would definitely find out.
After Yao Wenhong cleaned Xiao Lingyan, she asked her daughter to bring Xiao Linghui out as well.
While everyone was packing their backpacks, she quietly poured another lid of water and rinsed Xiao Linghui inside and out.
After washing like this, I feel much more comfortable all over.
Looking at the half pottery jar of water left, Yao Wenhong finally felt relieved.
After Zheng Yunyun knew that her second sister-in-law had washed Ling Hui, she hurried over to wash up.
Seeing that there was only half a pot of water left, she simply dipped some water into the cotton cloth and wiped her face and hands.
Xiao Yunzhan estimated that everyone had washed up and gone to bed, so he slowly came back.
.......
"Ling Yan, tomorrow is your birthday. Do you still want to eat roasted sweet potatoes?"
After Lin Yiran lay down, she put her arms around Xiao Lingyan's neck and held her in her arms very naturally.
She really liked this outspoken little girl, who didn't have the shyness of the ancients at all.
Thinking of her second sister-in-law saying that tomorrow was Xiao Lingyan's birthday, she leaned close to Xiao Lingyan's ear and asked with a smile.
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