Xu Dabao's basket was already full, but Xu Ning was being mean and refused to give it back to him. Xu Xiaobao stuffed the fruit into his mouth when he saw the basket was full, and when he couldn't finish it himself, he gave it to his brothers and sisters. In the end, the three of them had red jam on their faces.
"Grandma, come and eat!" Old Mrs. Xu squatted down and took the basket from Xu Dabao's hand. Xu Ning wanted to feed the small red fruits into Old Mrs. Xu's mouth, but Xu Xiaobao got there first, and as a result, Old Mrs. Xu's face was also covered with jam!
"Hahahaha" the three little ones laughed, and Old Mrs. Xu couldn't help laughing too.
Feng came out with the child in her arms and smiled when she saw this scene. She seemed to have returned to the past before the natural disaster.
She couldn't help but think how wonderful it would be if there were no natural disasters, the children would grow up happily and the elderly would live out their lives in peace.
Unfortunately, God always makes things difficult for the unfortunate people...
Zhang used another basket woven by Old Man Xu to put the wild vegetables washed from the stream. After blanching them with water, she tied them into small bundles with clean ropes and hung them in a ventilated place in the cave to dry.
Outside the cave, Xu Da and Li the Hunter had already set up traps around and were walking back to rest, while Old Man Xu was sitting in the cave weaving the third basket.
The weather was too hot at noon, so Old Mrs. Xu made a pot of pure wild vegetable soup.
There are a lot of wild vegetables and the soup is very thick. You can taste a lot of wild vegetables in every sip.
The adults were all very satisfied. They had no lunch on the way to escape the famine, so this time they stayed in the granary to store food, and they couldn't finish the wild vegetables nearby, so Old Mrs. Xu cooked a big pot.
Xu Ning took her bowl of half-cold wild vegetable soup and took a sip tentatively. She immediately stuck out her tongue in discomfort. The bitter taste rushed to her forehead. Xu Ning's brows were knotted. For her, the wild vegetable porridge was really too unpalatable.
Wild vegetables themselves are bitter, but these are the wild vegetables that Old Lady Xu specially rinsed and stewed until they were soft. Old Lady Xu was not reluctant to add salt. After all, they all had to work, and they would have no strength without salt in hot weather.
But there was no other seasoning except salt, so Xu Ning found it unpalatable.
Xu Ning felt a little guilty. When she was a child, the wild vegetables she ate were all boiled several times and then stir-fried with pork, lard, soy sauce and oyster sauce. They were fresh and juicy, and she would savor them for a long time whenever she thought about them.
Xu Ning swallowed his saliva and thought, if there is no pork, eggs will do.
"Grandma, I'll go pick up pheasant eggs this afternoon!"
Xu Ning put down the bowl and patted his chest to make a promise. Old Mrs. Xu touched the back of Xu Ning's head which was prickly, nodded, and continued to drink the wild vegetable porridge.
At this time, Xu Ning remembered the boiled eggs he had not eaten in the morning, so he took them out from his clothes, peeled the eggshells, broke the egg whites and yolks, put them into a bowl, mashed them, and mixed them with the wild vegetable paste.
After mixing it well, take a sip. Hmm, it tastes much better!
"Delicious!" Xu Ning inhaled quickly, fearing that if he swallowed slowly he would taste the bitterness.
Xu Ning finished eating last, added some boiled water to the bowl, and drank up all the egg yolk at the bottom of the bowl.
Then Xu Ning put down the bowl and stopped eating. Her body was still that of a child, and a bowl of thick wild vegetable soup was enough for her.
But although Xiao Hongguo had eaten enough vegetables, he was not full.
Xu Ning stretched out her red-dyed fingers, grabbed a handful from the basket, stuffed a big bite into her mouth, and ate happily with her cheeks puffed out.
The bitterness of wild vegetables is finally gone!
Xu Xiaobao was stunned watching Xu Ning's operation. The curious little baby immediately followed suit and peeled the eggs he was reluctant to eat. After taking a sip of the egg and wild vegetable paste, his eyes lit up.
"Wow! What my sister made is delicious!" Xu Xiaobao quickly recommended it to the adults, as no one had eaten the eggs yet.
The Xu family wanted to save some for the younger ones, and Li the Hunter wanted to save some for his wife. Xu Ning immediately raised his hand and said, "I won't eat it, even if you give it to me!"
"Yes, Grandpa and Grandma, Dad and Mom, you eat!"
"Xiaobao has eaten, he doesn't want to eat anymore!"
"Husband, you eat!"
There was no other way, so the "adults" looked around and decided to peel the eggs anyway.
For a moment, the adults sighed with satisfaction and the children cried.
Xu Ning grinned, revealing a mouthful of teeth dyed red by the small red fruits.
In the evening, Xu Ning just came out of the bushes with a dozen pheasant eggs that he had exchanged for the treasure chest, and saw his father happily holding a bowl filled with something white.
Xu Ning moved closer out of curiosity and almost dropped the pheasant eggs in his arms!
Oh my god! It's full of bugs! There are so many fat, white bugs that they fill the entire bamboo tube!
Those bugs looked like enlarged versions of bee pupae, and the way their bodies squirmed made Xu Ning's scalp tingle after just two glances.
"Milk! Milk! Eggs, eggs!" Xu Ning stuffed the pheasant eggs into the hands of Old Lady Xu and ran back to the cave as if escaping.
When Xu Ning was a child, he heard from his grandfather that this kind of insect is edible. As for how to eat it, Xu Ning didn't remember it before and doesn't really want to know now.
It turned out that Xu Daya didn't eat insects, so Xu Da deliberately saved the insects to roast after dinner. Xu Ning went to sleep after dinner.
"Crack, crack"
But the cave was so small that even if Xu Ning lay on the quilt and covered his ears, he could still hear Xu Xiaobao chewing excitedly, as if he was eating potato chips.
Xu Ning took a sneak peek and saw Xu Da holding a thin bamboo stick with insects on it and roasting it over the fire. Xu Dabao and Xu Xiaobao were eating small bites of the food in their hands, but their eyes were fixed on the bamboo stick in Xu Da's hand.
Is it really that delicious? Xu Ning looked tentatively towards the fire.
Old Mrs. Xu and Old Man Xu had already eaten a few roasted insects and went to bed. The nutritional value of insects is actually very high, but they were reluctant to eat them and saved them for their children.
Zhang was still sorting the wild vegetables that were drying in the sun. Feng coaxed the baby to sleep. Hunter Li fed her a few roasted insects and sat next to Xu Da to help roast them.
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