This time they still set up tents by the stream to rest, mainly for the convenience of getting water.
When Qi heard that Song Wan was going hunting in the mountains, she pulled someone over and carefully warned them, "Be careful in everything you do. If you encounter a ferocious wild animal, don't act recklessly."
"I know." Song Wan nodded. Qi was concerned about her. Even if she was not afraid of those wild animals, she had to appear to be at ease.
"Don't worry, when I come back from hunting wild boars, I'll ask mom to make braised pork for me." Song Wan smacked her lips. She hadn't eaten braised pork in all these days since she came here.
"It's not that easy to hunt wild boars." Qi stroked her daughter's hand and muttered, "You and Song Qi and the others should just wander around the periphery and hunt some rabbits and come back."
Song Wan pursed her lips, thinking that if she said she could catch it, then she would definitely be able to catch it.
Just like that, under Qi's worried and concerned gaze, Song Wan took his two followers, Song Qi and Gu Wu, into the mountains.
Wei came over, holding her slightly bulging belly, and comforted her, "Mother, Awan has inherited her grandfather's skills and is very skilled. You don't have to worry too much."
"Of course I know all this, but Ah Wan has been away from me for five years, and as a mother, I can't help but worry about her." Qi took her second daughter-in-law's hand and changed the subject, "You've been in a hurry to travel these days, so you must have been hurt."
Wei shook her head, lowered her eyes to look at her belly, her eyes gentle, "My daughter-in-law is very good, and the child is very well behaved, not making any noise at all."
"Be good." Qi touched him and suddenly said with nostalgia, "Mother remembers when she was pregnant with his father, she was in so much pain that she vomited everything she ate. At that time, your father said that she must be carrying a tough boy. Later, it turned out to be just as he expected. After Qin'er could walk, he didn't like to stay in the house. Ten servants couldn't keep an eye on him."
"My daughter-in-law had no idea that my husband was so naughty when he was a child." Wei's eyes were jealous. She thought of her husband whose whereabouts were unknown, and felt a dull pain in her heart.
"When he proposed to me to marry you, he knelt outside my yard obediently for a whole night." Qi knew that Wei was thinking about her son, so she smiled and joked.
Sure enough, when Wei heard this, her cheeks turned slightly red.
In fact, she knew that the Wei family was a royalist party. As the grandson of Weiyuan Marquis, Song Qin wanted to marry the second daughter of the Wei family, but it was not something that could be achieved by kneeling for a night.
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. You're feeling heavy right now. Earlier in Luzhou City, Ah Wan asked Song Qi to buy some sour apricots. I'll make you some easy-to-eat sour cakes later to keep for the journey."
"Thank you, mother."
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Song Wan took Song Qi and Gu Wu straight into the deep mountains and forests.
The forests in autumn are mostly covered with dead branches and leaves. If you step on them, you will sink into them.
"Miss Song, if we go any further we will reach the border of Xinzhou." Gu Wu glanced at the endless forest and couldn't help but remind her.
"What happened in Xinzhou?" Song Wan frowned. She had just used her mental power to explore and found a wild boar cave in front of her, where a family of three lived.
Song Qi and Gu Wu exchanged a glance, then explained for him, "Miss, you don't know, the prefect of Xinzhou is Yao Xu, the uncle of the current emperor."
The Duke of Ping'en, who holds a high position of power in the current court, has three sons and one daughter. His daughter is the late emperor's Concubine Li, the current empress dowager.
Song Wan understood, which meant that the person in charge of Xinzhou before was their enemy.
So she said, "Don't worry, I won't go over there. There's a wild boar hole ahead. Let's take it down."
Song Qi...
He deserved to worry for so long. He should have thought of it earlier. In the eldest lady's mind, the most important thing was her own food.
They were all influenced by Gu Wu. How could their eldest daughter have the idea of trespassing into Xinzhou?
"Listen to my orders later. After I capture the two big ones, you two will catch the small one." Originally, Song Wan wanted to catch them all at once, but she thought that if she was too powerful, these two people would seem useless.
After all, they had followed her for so far, which made them feel a little involved, so that Gu Wu wouldn't turn around and call her a witch.
She hasn't forgotten what happened on Qingyun Mountain.
"How about Gu Wu and I go first?" Song Qi was following Qi's orders to protect the eldest lady, so how could he let Song Wan go first?
What's more, this wild boar is not like a human and is extremely ferocious.
"No need, I'm afraid you can't control it." Song Wan said without waiting for Song Qi to react, he used his internal energy to stand on tiptoe and stepped onto the tree trunk.
The original owner's lightness skill was not very good, but Song Wan recently discovered by chance that mixing a little mental power into the exercise could achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Now her lightness skills are no worse than Song Er's, which makes Song Wan very surprised. After all, in the end times, no matter how good the supernatural powers are, one cannot fly.
Song Qi looked at the young lady who disappeared in a flash and could only sigh helplessly, "Just listen to what the young lady says."
Gu Wu was so stunned by Song Wan's exquisite Qinggong that he almost forgot what he was doing. He quickly bowed and apologized, "Seventh Brother Song, I have a secret order from the master and I have something very important to do."
Song Qi wasn't too surprised. He could roughly guess what it was, so he waved his hand to show his understanding. "Then Brother Gu Wu, go quickly. I'll help you explain it when you see the young lady."
"Thank you, Brother Song Qi." Gu Wu thanked him sincerely, and then simply left, and the direction he left was Xinzhou.
Song Wan quietly came to five meters away from the cave entrance. This angle was just enough to see the situation inside the cave clearly.
I don’t know what they ate to get so fat, almost as fat as domestic pigs. They are completely unlike other wild boars which are supposed to be thin and strong.
"Miss." Song Qi finally caught up.
"Go find some vines. Don't use this small one. Let it grow some flesh. Just tie two big ones." Song Wan instructed him.
"Yes, I'll go right away." Song Qi got up and left to find a rattan.
When Song Wan saw that everyone had left, he used his mental power to drag the two people out.
By the way, they also sealed their mouths so that they couldn't make any sound.
The little one felt an inexplicable pressure and was so scared that he started yelling and running around, and soon disappeared.
Song Wan knocked out two wild boars. Song Qi came back and heard the wild boars' howling. Fearing something might happen, he grabbed a few vines and ran back.
"You're back just in time. Tie them up quickly." Song Wan withdrew his mental power and glanced at Song Qi.
Song Qi...
If I remember correctly, he had been gone for less than a quarter of an hour. It was so easy to catch this wild boar.
"Why are you still standing there? It's getting late. You have to go back and make the braised pork." Song Wan urged.
Song Qi didn't have time to think, and hurried forward to tightly wrap the wild boar's four hooves.
"By the way, where is Gu Wu?" Song Wan suddenly realized that one person was missing.
"Gu Wu said that General Gu instructed him on other things." The General Gu that Song Qi mentioned was Gu Yanji.
Song Wan frowned when she heard this. This Gu Wu was indeed not very obedient. He ate her food and was lazy and didn't work.
"Forget it, leave him alone." Song Wan jumped down from the rock and clapped his hands, "Let's drag the wild boar back first."
Qi didn't expect that Song Wan could really kill wild boars, and two such fat ones at that.
When Song Qi brought the wild boar in front of her, she was really shocked. After the shock, she was filled with deep worry.
Fortunately, Song Qi explained on the spot that the eldest lady was not injured at all. Only then did Qi feel relieved and ordered people to collect the wild boar meat.
There was enough pork for now. Song Wan lay on the grain cart, gazing at the clear blue sky, muttering, "If only there were potatoes."
"What are potatoes?"
Gu Yan stood anxiously beside the grain cart, staring at her with lowered eyes.
Song Wan tilted her head to look at him, then thought for a moment and explained, "It's a yellowish-looking one, about the size of a woman's fist. Wash it, peel it, cut it into small pieces, and cook it with the meat. After it absorbs the broth, you can eat it with rice."
"Miss Song described it so clearly, where have you seen it before?" Gu Yan observed anxiously and calmly. He could confirm that there was no such thing in the Great Yue Dynasty.
"Not only have I seen it, I've even eaten it." Song Wan curled her lips, her tone rather melancholy, "But I haven't had it in years, I've almost forgotten what it tastes like."
In her previous life, she was in an orphanage with many children. Song Wan was not tall at that time and could not compete with other children for food, so most of the time she could only eat a bowl of potatoes with meat flavor, and only occasionally could she taste the braised pork.
After listening to her description, Gu Yan thought anxiously that the food called potatoes might be grown in the northwest.
It is located northwest of the border town, adjacent to the Qiang tribe. It might be a product of a foreign tribe, and she picked it up by chance.
"Oh, I almost forgot to tell you that your Gu Wu ran away."
Gu Yanji heard this and coughed violently. He explained, "Miss Song, Gu Wu is my bodyguard, not my Gu Wu."
Song Wan looked at him like he was a fool. "Does it make any difference?"
Gu Yan was anxious and helpless. "Of course there is. Miss Song will understand later."
"And he was only ordered to investigate something for me. He didn't run away."
Song Wan said "oh", what she actually wanted to express was that she understood it now, and understood it very deeply.
This Gu Wu is an ungrateful person who can never be fed. She let bygones be bygones and fed him four white flour buns in one meal, but in the end, he was still thinking about his former leader.
Song Wan had already made up his mind that he would not get any share of the braised pork later.
"I won't talk to you anymore. I'm going to play with the little kids for a while." Song Wan stood up, jumped off the grain cart, and ran away without looking back.
Gu Yan is anxious...
Why do I suddenly feel that those two little brats are a bit annoying?
When Song Wan came over, Gu Chang was playing in the mud with his uncle Gu Yu.
Seeing her coming, he quickly called out "Second Aunt~"
Song Wan touched his soft face, not bothering to know what he called her. She glanced at the ground and asked casually, "What are you playing?"
Gu Chang was more lively than Gu Yu and said cheerfully, "This is the yellow mud that my uncle found. It's bigger than our fist."
"Let me see." Song Wan picked up a piece of so-called yellow mud, took a closer look, and her eyes widened. Isn't this the potato she had been thinking about!
She scraped off the mud on it and confirmed that it was a potato. She almost jumped up with excitement.
"Sister Awan, what's wrong with you?" Gu Yu carefully tugged at her sleeve, his delicate little face full of worry.
"It's okay, I'm happy." Song Wan put down the potatoes, picked up Gu Yu, and tossed him, "Ayu, you are such a lucky star!"
After saying that, she kissed him hard on the face again.
When Gu Yan came over with difficulty, she saw this scene and stopped suddenly.
Gu Yu was shocked by what happened suddenly to him.
He was a little flattered. After returning to Song Wan's arms from the air, he quickly hugged her neck, but his little face was red.
"Sister Awan," he whispered, "Ayu is already five years old."
Gu Chang, whose uncle had taken away his favor, was not willing to be outdone. "Second aunt, I want to have a share in the yellow mud too."
Song Wan didn't ignore him either. After letting go of the little bun Gu Yu, she wanted to pull the little bun Gu Chang into her arms and play the tossing game with him.
But someone got there before her and grabbed Gu Chang by the scruff of the neck and walked away from Song Wan.
"Second uncle, why are you picking me up?" If you asked Gu Chang in the past who he liked most besides his parents, it would definitely be his second uncle Gu Yanji.
But if you ask him now, Gu Chang will definitely reply that his favorite person is his second aunt.
"Gu Yanji, how can you bully a child!" Song Wan glared at him.
Gu Yan quickly let go of her hand. She felt inexplicably guilty being stared at by the two children and the adult.
He said rather angrily, "Achang is no longer a three-year-old child. You shouldn't get so close to him for no reason."
Gu Chang failed to complete the tossing game, and his wish was dashed. He immediately pouted and said, "Second uncle is bullying me!"
Gu Yu also looked at his second brother with disapproval.
Song Wan couldn't bear to see the little bun sad, so she naturally stood on the opposite side of Gu Yan's anxiety and coaxed the bun softly, "Don't cry, don't cry. We won't give him potatoes later."
Gu Yan is anxious...
"Second Aunt, what are potatoes? Are they delicious?" Little Gu Chang blinked his eyes in tears and asked in confusion.
"That's it." She pointed to the yellow mud lumps of varying sizes on the ground. "These are delicious potatoes."
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Braised pork and potatoes are really good~
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