The next morning, the villagers did not wake up the new villagers in their village, but quietly went to prepare breakfast.
When everyone woke up one after another, they found that almost every household in the village had left breakfast for them on the stove.
The staple foods of Haizhou Island are yam and corn. Yam is similar to sweet potato and has a strong sense of filling.
The breakfast prepared by the villagers was cooked sweet potatoes, which could fill the stomach. As for the taste, it was nothing special. It was similar to the food on the road of exile.
The fugitives scattered among the houses were chewing on sweet potatoes, and they all missed the lunch boxes distributed by Miss Jiang. After breakfast, they had to go to Miss Jiang for advice. They certainly could not always rely on the villagers for food and shelter. These sweet potatoes were the reserve food that the villagers took from the charity granary. The uncles and aunts were already having a hard time, and they should do something.
The first goal is to get rid of those coconuts that are in the way of the village road!
They may not have a solution, but Miss Jiang definitely does!
So there was this scene: when the fugitives finished their breakfast and came out of each household in the village, they met other accomplices one after another, and everyone walked towards the house where Zhaoping Hou lived, which was a strange tacit understanding.
Jiang Lili and her group stayed at the home of a couple who had a son late in life. The uncle was called Tao Xian and the aunt was called Qu Chunfang. Their son was named Tao Yansheng, who was only fourteen years old and very sensible.
There are only three rooms in this house. One room is allocated to the female family members to make a large bunk bed, and the other room is allocated to the male family members to make a bunk bed. Tao Yansheng sleeps on a bamboo chair in the kitchen.
But the Tao couple also had a miserable life. Young and middle-aged people were very rare in the village, but Tao Yansheng was weak and sickly, so they could only be raised as a girl.
Now that Tao Yansheng saw that Jiang Lili and her group had woken up, he hurriedly prepared steamed potatoes for everyone and invited them to have dinner.
Meeting so many strangers for the first time, the boy said shyly, "Uncle and aunt, this is sweet potato, a specialty of our island. I don't know if you can get used to it, so I'll give you this for breakfast. My parents have gone fishing, and they should be able to bring back some seafood this afternoon."
Tao Yansheng was pale and very thin. The coarse linen clothes on him made him look like a clothes rack.
I heard from the Tao couple that Tao Yansheng had no appetite and ate very little at each meal.
Seeing this, Chen couldn't help but ask with concern: "Little brother, have you eaten?"
Tao Yansheng pointed to a small piece of taro peeled off by the stove and said: "I ate half of the taro and can't eat any more."
Everyone's eyes widened when they heard this. This half taro was not even enough to fill their teeth.
But you can't force someone to eat if they don't want to. Just sit down and eat first so that the host can feel at ease.
The boiled sweet potato tasted bland and not as sweet as the yams. Jiang Lili suspected that Tao Yan ate less raw food because it was not tasty.
Jiang Lili really wanted Xiaopang to feed all kinds of breakfast in front of the boy who looked like a skeleton. She was really afraid that the young man would starve to death.
But she had no way to conjure up a rich breakfast in front of outsiders. She could only hand the food over to the pirates later, let the pirates pretend to be people sent by the He family to support her, and ask the pirates to "deliver" the delicious food to her.
The feast couldn't be conjured up, but the seasonings could still be conjured up. The eldest brother took out salad dressing, dried chili powder, pickled mustard greens, beef sauce from his backpack as if he was playing house...
When everyone in Zhaoping Marquis Mansion saw these small jars, they felt like they had seen a savior. They opened the jars one after another and poured the sauces into the sweet potatoes in their bowls. With these seasoning sauces, breakfast became delicious.
Tao Yansheng also smelled the strange aroma emanating from those small jars, which he had never smelled before. Jiang Lili said to him, "Little brother, thank you for preparing breakfast for us. These are the various sauces we brought from our hometown. They are perfect to eat with sweet potatoes. Would you like to try them?"
Jiang Lili picked up a can of non-spicy mushroom beef sauce and shook it in front of Tao Yansheng. The aroma of the meat in the can made the boy swallow his saliva.
Seeing that Jiang Lili hadn't started eating yet, Xin Che also urged Tao Yansheng: "Come and eat something, we are all from the same village."
"Eat more to get stronger."
Upon hearing this, Tao Yansheng walked to the wooden table and sat down in a restrained manner. He had been envious of the tall and upright men in Zhaoping Marquis' Mansion since he saw them yesterday. He also wanted to become such an upright man.
Tao Yansheng peeled a yam, then took a few bites with the beef and mushroom sauce. For a moment, he couldn't control his expression. In his fourteen years of life, he had never eaten anything so delicious!
No wonder I heard that Mr. Hu from the government office carries a small jar of chili powder with him every day. It turns out that these condiments from other places are so delicious!
Tao Yansheng ate two potatoes with the beef sauce. Looking at the obviously dwindling beef sauce in the jar, he blushed apologetically and said quickly, "Sorry, it was so delicious, I couldn't control myself..."
Marquis Zhaoping laughed heartily and said, "Eat it, kid. It's okay. Plenty of food!"
Jiang Lili and others also advised him in this way. Tao Yansheng, under everyone's kindness, ate two large taro in a row and stopped only when he felt full. This was the first time he felt full. He had never felt so strong before.
At this time, Jiang Lili and her group were about to go out. After receiving the signal that Xiaopang had successfully prepared the goods, Jiang Lili prepared to take people to deal with the coconuts on the road at the entrance of the village that could easily kill people.
Tao Yansheng also expressed his desire to go with them.
Seeing Jiang Lili's hesitation, he quickly said, "This is the first time I've felt so strong. I also want to try and see if I can help!"
Tao Yansheng brought back a long coconut-catching pole and a fishing net from home. "I can also run errands and borrow some coconut-catching tools from fellow villagers."
Seeing that Tao Yansheng was determined, Jiang Lili felt it was difficult to refuse. She thought that maybe Tao Yansheng's health would get better little by little after he improved his hot diet. So she let him try it first and just don't overwork himself.
Jiang Lili was about to go out and tell her brothers to gather, but when she opened the door, she was startled to see a huge crowd squatting at the door. "So many people!"
Moreover, everyone had a long pole and a net in their hands, and they were in perfect harmony.
Lu Yuansi stood up and saw what Tao Yansheng was holding: "Miss Jiang, we are all ready, just waiting for your words!"
Jiang Lili now sighed that this choice of settlement was quite good. Those who believed in her lived in the same village, while the ancestors on the right bank who were wealthy and domineering moved to the next village.
"Okay, let's go now!"
Jiang Lili led her group out of the village in a mighty procession.
Master Liao followed closely behind. On the way to the village entrance, he pulled Jiang Lili aside and said, "Sister Li, I asked Xiaopang to put something in your backpack. Please give it to me quickly."
"Oh, okay." Jiang Lili was still curious about what it was, but when she lifted the oilcloth on the backpack, wow, it was the golden hoop toy commonly seen in roadside stalls!
"Does this thing protect against monkeys?"
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