As Mrs. Shu said, Mr. Shu's cooking skills are indeed not very good.
A pot of porridge was cooked into dry rice, and the vegetables were small fish and river shrimp stewed with green vegetables and leaves. The big pot was so dark that it was simply miserable.
The only advantage is that the portion is large enough to make the little ones burp.
After eating and drinking, the family went up the mountain neatly, carrying sickles, shovels and other tools.
On the way, several boys enthusiastically shared their goals for going up the mountain today.
Shu Qingsong: "I want to catch a wild boar like my third uncle, and then ride it down the mountain and around the village!"
That picture is so majestic just thinking about it!
When Shu Mingli heard the word "wild boar", his stomach tightened, and he quickly shook his head and left.
In contrast, Shu Qingbai's wish was much more simple: "I want to catch a few pheasants and pick up a basket of pheasant eggs."
"Don't do it!" Shu Mingliang reflexively covered his buttocks, "I don't want to see pheasants anymore!"
If he does it again, his butt will probably be scrapped!
The two Qings turned to look at Yan Yan at the same time, "What about you? What prey do you want?"
Yan Yan clasped her fingers and counted like a mantra: "I want a lot of ginseng, a lot of deer antlers, a lot of Ganoderma lucidum..."
Every time Xiaotuanzi said something, Mrs. Shu's heart skipped a beat, and finally she covered her mouth with her hand, "That's about it. You can't be too greedy."
If the old god is offended, everything will be over.
Yan Yan smacked her lips and said, "Okay, let's get these. Grandma, what about you, what are you looking for?"
"Grandma doesn't choose. She wants whatever she wants. But it would be better if she could find something that can be used as food."
Yan Yan was surprised: "Don't we have a lot of meat at home? Isn't there enough to eat?"
"Of course that's enough." Mrs. Shu smiled, "But no matter how delicious the meat is, you can't eat it every day. You have to eat some food to fill your stomach, right?"
"It seems so."
Yan Yan pressed her tongue against the gap between her teeth. In fact, eating too much meat is not good because it can clog her teeth too easily!
There are often villagers coming and going at the foot of the mountain, but nothing good can be found. When you get halfway up the mountain, the variety of animals and plants becomes richer.
There are all kinds of wild grasses, vegetables, birds and insects.
Seeing the hares scurrying around and the jumping birds, Shu Mingli was stunned.
"When I came here before, I never saw it being so lively in the mountains. What's going on today?"
Mrs. Shu knew it in her heart, but she didn't say it clearly. She said calmly: "Maybe they have been in the forest for a long time and wanted to come out for some air. Why do you care so much? Just catch them."
"No need to get started, I have this..."
Shu Mingli proudly raised the bow and arrow in his hand, and then aimed at the hare grazing not far away.
With a "swish", it hit the hare's thigh.
"Wow!"
The scene was filled with exclamations, and Yan Yan was so excited that her hands turned red.
"Uncle Third is so powerful. When I grow up, I will become as powerful as Uncle Third!"
Being praised so much by his niece, Shu Mingli felt secretly happy and felt as if he had endless strength in his body.
Draw the bow and shoot, then draw the bow and shoot again, basically every shot will yield something.
The small ones include hares, pheasants, turtle doves, the big ones include wild goats, wild deer...
Yan Yan, who had threatened to hunt for treasure on the way up the mountain, immediately forgot all about her purpose and started running around with her brothers to pick up prey.
Despite her short legs, she ran very fast at critical moments, and her short legs suddenly appeared as ghosts!
Mrs. Shu and others carried bamboo baskets and dug up wild vegetables, dandelions, red thorns, and wild chrysanthemums nearby...
Only old man Shu was still thinking about the ginseng mentioned by Yan Yan. He stuck his butt out and dug through the grass from grass to grass. In the end, he couldn't straighten his waist and couldn't find anything valuable.
Mrs. Shu put a large cluster of dandelions she had just dug into the basket and sneered at him: "As a human being, you still have to be down-to-earth. If you want to eat a fat man in one bite, how can it be so cheap?"
"I'm not doing it for myself, I'm doing it for the third and fourth children!"
Old Man Shu argued angrily: "If we really find a personal ginseng or something, wouldn't the wife of the third and fourth child be found?"
"Ah, yes, yes, then you can find it."
Mrs. Shu responded perfunctorily, then dug out a large cluster of wild vegetables with a shovel.
She shook the mud off the roots of the vegetables and was about to throw them into the frame when she suddenly found a gray stick-shaped object stuck in the vegetables.
In the sparse grass not far away, there are many gray sticks of the same shape growing, some are so old that they are black, some are forked, and they look like antlers.
"What is this? Why have I never seen it before?"
Mrs. Shu was curious and raised the shovel to dig out another one to see what it was.
As a result, Old Man Shu rushed over with a quick stride, and like a knot protecting a treasure, he tightly circled the piece of gray stick, "Don't dig randomly, this is a treasure, what should I do if it breaks?"
"Baby? What baby?" Mrs. Shu quickly took back the shovel, fearing that she might accidentally injure the baby, and even lifted the basket to the side.
Old Man Shu: "I don't know them either, but my intuition tells me that they are very valuable!"
Mrs. Shu: "..."
I really want to shovel this damn old man away with a shovel!
"Don't stare at me. I'll dig one out first and take a look. Maybe it's really a good thing?"
Old man Shu smiled and stroked his beard, turned back and snatched the shovel from the boss's hand, and started digging carefully.
Then - digging deeper and deeper, digging deeper and deeper...
The gray stick was only as long as a finger, but the thin roots underneath continued to extend into the soil, and it took me a long time to dig without reaching the end.
Old man Shu was paralyzed from exhaustion. He sat on the edge of the pit and gasped, "Oh my God, what the hell is this thing? How can it grow so long?"
This is a rhythm that will tire him to death!
"Grandpa, what are you digging for?"
Yan Yan, carrying a hare, passed by and asked curiously.
"Baby, grandpa is digging for treasure."
Old Man Shu took a gulp of cold water, moved his arms, and continued digging.
As soon as Yan Yan heard that there was a baby, she couldn't walk and stretched her neck to watch the fun.
"Hey, isn't this black... what kind of black bacteria is it?"
The old couple turned to look at Xiaotuanzi at the same time, "Do you know him?"
"I think we know each other..." Xiaotuanzi tugged at the soft flesh on his face, not sure yet.
"Then is it worth anything?" Old Man Shu asked the question he was most concerned about.
Yan Yan pointed to the gray stick that grew out, "This is worthless."
Old Shu's face collapsed, he put down his shovel and wanted to strike.
Xiaotuanzi continued with a sweet voice: "But there is something very valuable underneath it, it seems to be called... called Wulingshen!"
"Wuling ginseng?" Old man Shu has never heard of this name, but everyone calls it "ginseng", so the price will definitely not be cheap.
So, just dig and you’re done!
Mrs. Shu had the same idea as him, so she stopped digging for wild vegetables. She raised her hand and called a few people to come over, and a group of people started digging.
After digging more than two feet deep, I finally made a new discovery.
"Is this an ant nest?"
Old Man Shu muttered, bent down and dug along the abandoned ant nest, and finally pulled out two black eggs the size of eggs.