Chapter 295 A feast
"Wow! Really!"
Jiang Yuzhi ran over after hearing Si Xu's words. After seeing the round watermelons, she couldn't stop her excitement.
"So all the watermelons here can be eaten, right?!" She asked the dumbfounded Yu Sheng excitedly.
Yu Sheng was slow to react and quickly explained: "The kind with red flesh can be eaten after opening it, and the yellow one can't be eaten..."
After hearing this, the others were also very happy. They rushed directly into the wild vines and started to open the wild watermelons one by one.
Seeing this, Yu Sheng hurriedly said, "The ones with vertical patterns are basically edible, don't open them all! Otherwise you won't be able to finish them..."
He just took a quick look and found that there should be more than ten watermelons with vertical patterns. They definitely can't finish them now, so they have to keep some with them to eat later. If they open them all and spoil them, it will be troublesome.
The others still had some reason. After hearing this, they moved the watermelons with vertical patterns and put them together.
Jiang Yuzhi moved two and was out of breath. Just when she was about to move the next one, she suddenly caught a glimpse of something and rushed over.
"Sister Baoer, is this the watermelon that can be eaten?" She pointed to the one that Lin Zhishen had opened before.
Lin Baoer blinked and nodded.
Jiang Yuzhi was so happy that she didn't feel tired anymore. She broke off a small piece of the watermelon with her bare hands and took a big bite.
The juicy flesh nourished her dry lips and tongue, soothed her throat, and the sweet taste made her body and mind happy.
"Great!" Jiang Yuzhi squinted her eyes happily, and ate non-stop. In no time, she ate up the small piece in her hand. After spending
so much time with a group of big men, Jiang Yuzhi had completely lost her reserved and shy girlish demeanor. She was careless in both her sitting posture and her eating habits, without caring about her image.
"Eat slowly, there's a lot." Seeing her mouth full of food, Lin Baoer couldn't help laughing.
At this time, everyone's vertical-striped watermelons were picked out and placed on an open space. Lin Baoer counted them and found that there were twelve in total.
She didn't count them carefully when she redeemed them, thinking that the more the better.
Twelve was enough. There were no more than eleven people in their group. If two people shared one, there would still be half left.
"Take six out to eat, and keep the others for later." Lin Zhishen said.
Lin Baoer agreed.
Upon hearing this, the others quickly moved out six, and without waiting for a knife, some of them were so impatient that they broke the watermelon in half with their bare hands and began to feast on it.
Yin Qiang and Chang Jian did not forget Xiaosong and Uncle Qiao, and moved one over to their side. The others sat on the spot and ate voraciously in the cool weather.
Lin Baoer did not compete with them, and shared the one they opened first with Jiang Yuzhi.
"It's so sweet... I haven't tasted such delicious food for a long time." Jiang Yuzhi ate until tears came out, very pious.
Lin Baoer also took a full bite, and the familiar taste filled her taste buds and relieved the heat all over her body.
In just half an hour, the six watermelons were completely eaten.
Some of them did not eat enough, but in general, everyone replenished the water they had lost at the beginning, and their spirits were much better.
Although this is not as good as water, it is much more useful than water on the spiritual level. It not only replenishes water, but also fills the stomach.
After resting for a while, everyone set off again.
Since the six watermelons were not light, they were divided among Si Xu, Lin Zhishen and Yin Qiang to carry them in turn. Originally, Lin Baoer was thinking whether she and Jiang Yuzhi should help, but Yin Qiang refused.
He held the watermelons tenderly, with a happy face, saying that it was worth it even if it was tiring to carry such a good thing.
Lin Baoer had no choice but to give up.
They had to get to the next shelter before dusk. Although there was sand and stones covering the wild vines, the sand and stones were too narrow to block the night wind, and they could not stay there for the whole afternoon, so they could only speed up their journey to the next shelter.
Maybe it was God's blessing. As they were walking, they suddenly ran into a living creature that was looking for food. From a distance, it looked like a fox, walking along the yellow sand. If it weren't for Lin Zhishen's sharp eyes, no one would have seen it.
The most excited one was Xiaosong. His injury had healed a little in the past two days, and he could barely walk for a while. When he saw the fox, his eyes lit up, "General, can we eat meat now?!"
He swallowed his saliva, and his mouth felt bitter.
In the past two days, he either ate grass or fruit. The watermelon he ate before was really delicious, but he couldn't eat it all the time, and he was suffocated. Now that he saw a living creature, how could he not be excited.
Everyone followed his gaze and swallowed their saliva. Even Si Xu's eyes dimmed.
It would be a lie to say that he didn't want to eat meat after such a long journey.
"I'll go catch it!" Chang Jian volunteered.
They had caught this kind of game many times in the wild and were very experienced.
Si Xu nodded in agreement.
So everyone rested on the spot, and everyone stared at Chang Jian and Yin Qiang moving towards the fox that was still unaware of the danger.
"Can they catch it?" Jiang Yuzhi was doubtful and hesitant.
Although she also wanted to eat meat, if it was fox meat...
Jiang Yuzhi fell silent.
She had never eaten fox before and always found it a little hard to swallow.
Lin Baoer shook her head to indicate that she didn't know.
[Fox meat...hiss.]
She was also very confused.
In the past, there was a saying that the recipes of the motherland were carefully selected by the ancestors. If they were not delicious, they would not be passed down. Just like chicken, duck, beef and mutton, any one of them is delicious.
But fox meat...
She had never heard of anyone eating it, and she didn't know whether it was delicious or not.
And there was another problem. Even if they caught the fox, they couldn't make a fire to roast it, so wouldn't they have to eat it raw?
Lin Baoer shivered with a chill and closed her mouth tightly.
Chang Jian and Yin Qiang lived up to their expectations. The two of them quickly caught the fox. It almost escaped, but Yin Qiang managed to catch it again after eating a few mouthfuls of sand.
In addition, there was an unexpected surprise.
It turned out that the fox was trying to catch an animal that looked like a mouse, so they decided to go all out and catch that animal as well, with a buy one get one free offer.
"Look!" Yin Qiang ran over with the fox in his hand, his face full of boasting, and he was so happy that no one could stop him.
The others were also very happy.
"Uncle Zhong, can you do it?" He brought it in front of Wang Zhong.
Wang Zhong took it and looked at it with a frown, "It's hard to say. There is nothing to make fire now. If you want to eat this, you can only eat it raw."
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