231: The family shares canned peaches
Yu Erye had never eaten canned food in his life, and he never expected that peaches in bottles would be so delicious.
Yu Xiaoye also took a sip of the soup and found it very sweet, but not the cloying sweetness that comes with saccharin. It was a fresh sweetness.
She drank some canned soup and was about to eat the peach, but suddenly she realized that her mother only brought bowls and chopsticks for her and her brother. She didn't have any for herself. Yu Xiaoye picked up the peach in the bowl and put it to her mother's mouth and said:
"Mom, take a bite and try it first."
Xu Ying twisted her neck and hid aside, saying with disgust:
"I don't eat it, I don't like it!"
Yu Erye raised his head and said:
"Mom, you haven't eaten it, how do you know it's not delicious?"
Yu Xiaoye knew that his mother was reluctant to eat it. Although canned fruit was junk food to Xu Ying in her previous life, even this kind of "junk food" was a luxury these days and ordinary people couldn't afford it.
Now that I finally have such a precious bottle, the mother will definitely want to leave it all for her child and won’t be willing to eat a single bite herself.
Yu Xiaoye guessed her mother's thoughts, and she pushed it into Xu Ying's mouth:
"Mom, just have a taste, just have a taste!"
Seeing her daughter being so considerate, Xu Ying turned her head and gently bit a small piece. The sweet and sour taste immediately melted on the tip of her tongue. Xu Ying said happily:
“It’s really delicious and sweet!”
Yu Erye saw his mother smiling happily after eating the peach his little sister had brought him. Then he remembered something. He looked at the small piece of peach on his chopsticks that he had eaten, which was only the size of a thumb. He also imitated his little sister's actions and put the remaining piece of peach flesh to his mother's mouth:
"Mom, you eat."
I thought my mother would eat the peach he gave her with a smile on her face, but her expression changed instantly:
"Eat it yourself!"
Yu Erye was so scared that he quickly took it back and put the last piece into his mouth.
Why does my mother eat the food given by my younger sister, but not the food given by him?
Yu Erye didn't understand.
The last piece of peach entered his mouth. He chewed it back and forth, reluctant to swallow it. Finally, it all turned into water. Yu Erye drank the sweet soup in the bowl again. Seeing that there was still some thick soup on the wall of the bowl, Yu Erye couldn't help but lick the bowl.
Xu Ying snatched the bowl, glared at him and took it away.
Good things cannot be eaten all at once. After the brother and sister finished a piece of peach each, Xu Ying covered the can and put it away to eat tomorrow.
The brother and sister shared a piece of sweet peach cake and a handful of crunchy glutinous rice strips.
Yu Erye ate another half of the greasy dough stick, which made his mouth smell delicious and his stomach feel full of satisfaction.
In his entire life, Yu Erye had never eaten so many delicious foods at once. After he finished eating, he remembered the origin of these things. Yesterday, Xu Ying told him that she had become a sworn sister in the county town. She said that they had a very good relationship and would sometimes visit each other. Yu Erye believed it completely.
Then these things must have been given by their god aunt.
Yu Erye kept marveling at how generous this sworn sister of his mother was, giving her so many delicious foods.
Yu Xiaoye felt a little distressed after hearing this. He felt sorry for his second brother's intelligence. His second brother was so easy to deceive that it was unbearable.
In order to prevent her second brother from appearing so gullible, Yu Xiaoye explained that when she went there, she brought some dried mushrooms and fish and shrimps caught from the river, so the aunt gave her so many good things.
Yu Erye's face suddenly became clear after hearing this: "Oh, no wonder, I was wondering why they would give us so many good things for no reason——"
Xu Ying rolled her eyes at him and said nothing.
After lunch, Xu Ying sent Yu Erye away again, and then she and Yu Xiaoye urgently made bed sheets and quilt covers at home.
Yu Xiaoye first washed the purchased fabric in the yacht's washing machine, dried it, took it out and started sewing.
The quilt they used was the one from the yacht, and the mattress was made from the worn-out cotton jackets and trousers that the three of them used to own.
This suit is in tatters, and the cotton inside is more than ten years old. It is absolutely unwearable.
Three people's old clothes were barely made into a single mattress.
The mother and daughter worked together for an entire afternoon and finally prepared the bedding they needed to take with them when they went out. It was an olive green bedding set that looked very beautiful.
The bedding was ready and it was almost time to cook dinner. Xu Ying folded all the bedding and put it away, preparing to go to the kitchen to cook.
Just as I reached the kitchen door, Yu Erye came back from outside with his trouser legs rolled up above his knees, barefoot, and his toes covered in mud.
Xu Ying asked him coldly:
"Why are you like this?"
Yu Erye didn't say anything, but smiled and walked the basket on his arm towards Xu Ying, letting Xu Ying see it for herself.
Xu Ying took a look into the basket and was surprised to see that it was half full of eggs of different sizes and colors.
Wow, wow, I actually picked up so many eggs.
This time there are not only wild duck eggs, but also many bird eggs the size of quail eggs!
It turned out that after Yu Erye tasted the sweetness of picking duck eggs by the river in the morning, he went there again in the afternoon as if he had opened the door to a new world.
He found a group of wild ducks by the river and followed them in the water for nearly an hour. Finally, the wild ducks came ashore and quacked on the shore. Yu Erye rushed over and drove all the wild ducks away. He then looked in the grass on the shore and saw a group of wild duck eggs hidden in the grass.
Yu Erye was overjoyed. He picked up all the duck eggs and put them into a basket, preparing to take them home to make salted duck eggs for his mother.
The fragrant and greasy salted duck eggs are his favorite!
After picking up the duck eggs, when he was about to leave, he saw a big bird flying into the reeds by the water. He looked into the reeds and saw many bird nests inside.
There must be eggs in the bird's nest!
He took off his shoes, rolled up his trouser legs, went into the water, carefully took out the eggs from the bird's nest, and put them all in the basket.
On the way back, Yu Erye couldn't help but sigh, "Beidahuang is such a great place. There are so many good things in the wild, including mushrooms."
Mushrooms come from wild duck eggs. In their hometown, there are only a few wild vegetables in the wild fields. Where can he find wild duck eggs?
Even if there were one or two occasionally, they would have been picked up by others and it would never be his turn.
It's different here. There are fewer people, the area is large, the soil is fertile, and the grass and water are abundant. As long as you are willing to work hard, you can find good things everywhere.
Yu Erye bared his teeth and asked Xu Ying for credit:
"Mom, look at how many eggs I picked up: wild duck eggs, pheasant eggs, bird eggs, and even a nest of snake eggs—"
Xu Ying also grinned:
"Okay, okay, there are so many eggs, enough for us to eat for a while. We can also pickle some wild duck eggs."
"By the way, Mom, I also killed two snakes, look—"
Xu Ying didn't react for a moment to what her silly son asked her to look at. She subconsciously raised her head and saw Yu Erye suddenly took out two dead snakes with their heads blown off from somewhere.
The long snake body was tied up with a grass stem and hung right in front of her, less than twenty centimeters away from her.
The bloody snake head almost hit Xu Ying's face!
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