"Sister Awan!" Song Yao smiled like an adoring fangirl.
Song Wan held the bird's eggs in one hand and held her niece, An Nan, in the other. She couldn't free her hands to rub Song Yao's head, so she called out, "A Yao, come and help me get the bird's eggs."
Song Yao's eyes lit up, and she hurried over to offer help.
The dozen or so that Song Wan took out plus the ones she won from Daniu made a total of twenty.
The place where the bird eggs were roasted was not far from the place where the fish were roasted before, both were close to the river.
Gou Wa and his friends quickly started a fire. The fire didn't need to be too big. They just piled some small branches on it and buried the bird eggs in it. They would be cooked in a quarter of an hour at most.
After the hot bird eggs were cooked, carefully peeled off the shells, made two shallow cuts on the surface with a knife, and then sprinkled them with special seasoning powder. Song Wan brought a whole bag, which was a powder made of salt grains, dogwood, and various edible spices ground in proportion.
The bird's eggs are salty and fragrant with a hint of spiciness. Sprinkle seasoning powder on the surface of the eggs and then roll them over the fire twice to fully bring out the aroma.
It’s so delicious!
Song Wan said two at a time without stopping.
There were twenty bird eggs, she ate eight herself, Song Yao ate four, Song Yuan and Song Yue ate three each. Anan had a small stomach, so Song Wan peeled two for her to satisfy her craving.
"Sister Awan, will you come tomorrow?" It was the first time for Song Yao to eat roasted bird eggs. When she was in Yunzhou, her mother rarely let her and her sister go out.
"Let's roast something else tomorrow." Song Wan smacked her lips, savoring the taste of roasted bird eggs, still wanting more. "We've taken all the eggs."
"Roasted chestnuts are delicious too!" Gou Wa said nostalgically, "It's a pity that there are no chestnuts now."
"Are roasted chestnuts delicious?" Song Yao was confused. "I've only eaten chestnut cakes."
"What does chestnut cake look like? Is it as sweet as sugar cake?" Gou Wa had never eaten any delicious cakes. The sugar cake was given to my niece by her sister-in-law's sister-in-law when she gave birth to her little niece.
But my little niece still hasn't grown teeth and can't eat it, so my sister-in-law gives her a piece of candy every few days to satisfy her craving.
Song Wan had never eaten chestnut cake before, and like Gou Wa, she looked at Song Yao curiously.
"It's not delicious, not even as delicious as roasted bird eggs!" In Song Yao's eyes, those sweet cakes were not delicious. She liked to eat meat and roasted bird eggs.
Song Wan looked disappointed. She thought chestnut cake would be as fragrant and sweet as rose cake.
Song Yuan was standing aside, taking in the expressions and actions of several people, and couldn't help laughing. She found that this eldest cousin would always be particularly innocent whenever she mentioned something related to food.
The three boys from the Jiang family and Qi Fu trained for half a day and were exhausted.
But as they walked along, they could smell the aroma of roasted bird eggs, which aroused their gluttony.
"Master, Master! I want to eat roasted bird eggs too!" The speaker was the youngest Jiang Shan, who looked a little dumber than his two brothers.
Qi Wu calmly pushed him aside and said sarcastically, "Who is your master? Don't yell."
Jiang Shan complained, "My father said that if you pay the money, you will be the master!"
Qi Wu snorted coldly, "What you paid was tuition. Your father lied to you."
Jiang Shan doesn't care, Song Wan is his master.
Master Song Wan no longer had any roasted bird eggs, and even if she had, she wouldn't give them to them. "If you want to eat them, go get them yourself. Didn't I just teach you tree-climbing techniques yesterday?"
When this was mentioned, Jiang Da's mouth twitched, "Master, we are not hungry." He didn't want to jump from one tree to another like a wild monkey like he did yesterday.
It was a pity that his stomach was very disrespectful. As soon as he finished speaking, it started to growl, as if in protest.
Jiang replied, “…”
Jiang Er was the most thoughtful of the three brothers. He laughed out loud without any hesitation, which made his eldest brother lose face and roll on the ground. He could not keep his success.
Considering that everyone seemed not to have eaten enough, Song Wan made a temporary decision to take everyone to hunt pheasants and rabbits.
As someone who had never played these two games before, Gou Wa was the first to jump up and said, "Great!"
Goudan also took the simple slingshot given to him by Daya, and he and Gou Wa followed Song Wan arm in arm with a group of friends, chattering excitedly all the way.
The road in the mountains was difficult to walk on, so Song Wan simply held Anan in her arms with one hand and asked the other girls to follow closely.
Song Wan hadn't been into the mountains for several days. The small animals in the mountains probably didn't smell any danger, so they came out one after another in the past two days to look for food.
This was a good opportunity for Song Wan. She held Anan in one hand and waved a whip with the other, breaking the pheasant's wings and legs, and then let Goudan shoot it with a slingshot.
The fluttering pheasant could no longer fly, and it stumbled as it walked, and was soon shot by Goudan's slingshot.
"Wow! I caught a pheasant!" Goudan was so excited that he almost jumped up.
"Well, not bad." Song Wan instructed him, "Go pick it up."
"Sister Awan, I'll go pick it up for you right now!" Goudan knew that if Sister Awan hadn't helped him with the whip first, he wouldn't have been able to hit it at all, so in his heart, the pheasant belonged to Sister Awan.
When the other companions saw that Goudan could actually shoot the pheasant, they all cast longing glances at Song Wan.
They also want to shoot pheasants with slingshots! Doesn’t that look so impressive?
Song Wan didn't mind coming a few more times. As they walked in, she threw a lot of pheasants and rabbits for them to shoot with slingshots for fun, and from time to time she also taught them how to aim more accurately.
Later, Song Yao pulled Song Yue to try several times. Song Yao was more talented and hit the target on the first try. Song Yue was not as strong as Song Yao and it took her three pulls of the slingshot before she successfully hit the target.
In contrast, Song Wan firmly stated, "Ayao eats a lot, so he is strong and can ejaculate."
Song Yao was praised and immediately puffed out her chest, "I've decided, I want to be a female general in the future!"
Song Yuan was holding several rabbits in her hands, all of which were shot by Song Yao and Song Yue. Hearing her sister's words, she smiled helplessly and said, "It's not easy to be a female general."
Song Wan nodded in agreement, "If you want to be a female general, you haven't eaten enough."
Song Yao was immediately discouraged. She clenched her fists and said with determination, "Then I will eat half a bowl of rice for every meal from now on!"
Song Yuan was speechless. When could she become a female general? It wasn't about who ate more, wasn't it all about competing in martial arts and strategy?
"Sister Ayao will be the female general, and Goudan and I will be the generals!" Gou Wa fantasized, "Then we can eat meat every day."
"Then I want to be a general too!" Da Niu held the fat rabbit in one hand and raised his hand. He had just shot it!
He also wants to eat meat every day! He also wants his parents and siblings to eat meat!
"Can I eat meat every day if I become a general?" Song Wan raised this question. If so, then she also wanted to become one.
"Of course!" Daniu had the most say on this matter. "My mother said that she had an uncle who joined the army and came back with two huge gold ingots!"
Song Wan knew that she had a wall of big gold ingots, but any more would never be enough.
"What are gold ingots? My eldest brother used to earn a hundred copper coins every month, could it be more?" Gou Wa scratched his head. He had never seen gold ingots. He only remembered that after his eldest brother earned a hundred copper coins, the family had meat to eat.
So in his eyes, one hundred copper coins was already a lot.
"My mom said that if all the gold ingots were replaced with copper coins, I would be crushed to death!" Da Niu said it clearly, as if he had seen it himself. "And I could eat meat every day!"
Gou Wa was so shocked that his mouth opened wide enough for an egg to fit in.
Song Wan was also shocked. She also wanted to be a general.
In the end, of all the prey caught, Song Wan only took the three hares and two pheasants caught by Song Yao, Song Yue and several apprentices. The rest belonged to whoever shot them.
It seems meaningless to eat alone. Song Wan wants to feed everyone around her until they are fat. She likes people who are a little fatter.
Gou Wa and his friends looked incredulous, as happiness came too suddenly.
Da Niu never expected that he would have meat to eat just after he said he wanted to be a general, so he became more determined to become a general.
Goudan held the slingshot, his eyes welling up, "Thank you, Sister Awan!"
He didn't refuse because his family was too poor. One of the main reasons why Daya went to her grandmother's house was that her grandmother felt sorry for Daya who had never had enough to eat at home, so she asked Daya to stay with her for a few days under the pretext of missing her granddaughter.
This is what Goudan heard secretly while hiding outside his parents' room not long ago.
Mother said that Daya beat her younger brother because she loved him, otherwise why wouldn't she beat other people's younger brothers.
Therefore, although Goudan felt pain every time, he was actually quite happy in his heart.
And every time Daya beat him up, she would pick a lot of fruits for him, so this time he also wanted to bring the rabbit he shot back for Daya to eat.
A dozen or so half-grown children, holding chickens or little fat rabbits in their hands, said goodbye to Song Wan and the others, and ran happily to their homes.
They can eat meat today!
Song Wan brought everyone back with a full load. Before they even got home, she had already thought about how to eat it. Two of them were braised for the whole family to eat together, and one was roasted with wild honey and eaten slowly after the meal.
On the other side, Goudan returned home with the fat rabbit in his arms. His parents had already prepared dinner, just like usual.
Coarse grain porridge and wild vegetable pancakes.
Goudan placed the rabbit he shot into his mother's arms and began to take credit, "Mom, this is the rabbit I shot!"
Goudan's mother touched the rabbit, which was so fat that you couldn't feel the bones. She couldn't believe it and asked hurriedly, "Did you steal the game from Ge Hunter's house? Didn't I tell you that children who steal will be thrown away by their parents?"
Goudan quickly jumped to the side, skillfully dodged his mother's shadowless palm, and explained in panic, "I didn't do it! It was Sister Awan who helped me. She taught me how to use a slingshot! I really shot it!" It's just that there is a lot of water in this!
The same thing happened in other villagers' homes.
The result was that after Song Wan had a big meal, she would go for a walk outside to digest the food. When she came back, her arms were full of small baskets filled with fresh young cabbages, half a bag of brown sugar, and even fried radish balls. I don’t know what seasoning they were made with, but they tasted very good even without meat.
Song Wan ate one pill after another, and finally successfully went out to digest some food.
The weather was getting hotter and hotter, and the crops in the fields were growing better and better. In a blink of an eye, Yao Lixuan, Li Hu and others had been in Guizhou for more than a month.
They lived in a temporary thatched hut by the field. Fortunately, it was not cold today, otherwise they would have to spend money to buy them thick quilts.
Song Wan waited and waited, and finally received the letter sent by Yao Li. As Gu Yanji had expected, this Yao Xu was actually so cruel.
She took the letter and ran to the field excitedly. At that moment, Yao Lixuan was weeding the field. The man surnamed Song said that after weeding the field, there would be meat to eat in the evening.
He hadn't tasted a piece of meat since the last time he weeded a large area of crops.
Doing a lot of work every day and not eating meat, Yao Liyun, who was never as good as Li Hu and others, successfully got a lot of work.
After a month of baptism, Yao Liwei was no different from an ordinary farmer except that his skin was not as rough as his.
"Yao Liwei, there's a letter from your father." Song Wan shook the envelope in her hand. "Guess what's written on it?"
Yao Liwei immediately put down his hoe, touched the newly formed calluses on his palms, and asked excitedly, "When did my father say he would come to pick me up?"
"Your father said you're not his son." Song Wan briefly summarized the contents of the letter, "So he won't teach the ransom."
"Impossible!" Yao Liyun didn't believe it! He had endured for so long just to be able to return to Xinzhou smoothly. He didn't want to stay in this shabby place, with endless work to do, sleeping in a thatched hut every day, and opening his eyes to see thatch.
All he ate every day was either radish or cabbage, and the coarse flour buns made his throat hoarse.
"If you don't believe me, just look for yourself!" Song Wan threw the letter to him.
Yao Liwei saw the familiar handwriting on the letter, but he still couldn't believe it. "I am my father's son! I am! My aunt is the empress dowager! The current emperor is my cousin!"
Song Wan gave him a pitiful look, wondering if she had gone too far and made him go crazy with hunger.
Li Hu and the others were not very surprised. They knew their master Yao Xu. After being held captive for so long, how could Yao Xu be willing to redeem them?
They used to live on the edge of a knife, but now that they have been captured, they unexpectedly start growing crops. Apart from not being able to eat meat freely, there seems to be nothing wrong with them in other aspects.
So Li Hu pulled his former master's son and advised, "Master Yao, accept your fate. It's pretty good here."
Yao Liyun shook off his sleeve and shouted angrily, "Don't touch me!"
Li Hu... thought he wanted to touch him, right?
He was not Yao Xu, who even spared his own secret guards. Thinking of the scene he had seen in the study outside Yao's mansion, he suddenly felt fortunate that he was captured.
Song Wan couldn't bear it any longer. "Alright, alright, since your father doesn't want you anymore, you should just work hard here from now on. I won't treat you unfairly."
Yao Liyun: "There's not even any meat, and you still have the nerve to say that!"
Song Wan: "If you don't do your job well, you don't deserve to eat meat."
Yao Liyun didn't know whether he had given in or not, and asked with a sob, "When can we eat meat?"
Song Wan thought for a moment and replied, "Wait until your father brings the silver from the capital, and then I'll let you eat as much meat as you want."
Yao Liyun: "... then hurry up."
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