"Wow! Sister, you really found a cantaloupe! I want it, I want it!"
Jiang Jie was so happy that he jumped up and down and wanted to eat the melon.
Yuanbao Wei Zhan and Hu Zi were simply stunned.
I didn’t expect that Yingbao could find the melon she said she would, and it was exactly the same melon as that day. It was so magical.
"Wow! There are eggs!" Hu Zi's eyes lit up.
His house was burned down and the chickens were gone. His grandmother said that they would have no eggs to eat from then on. Unexpectedly, Yingbao went into the bamboo forest and found a basket of eggs.
"Haha! I want to eat boiled eggs!" Hu Zi likes to eat boiled eggs and also likes to drink egg tea.
But now without honey, egg tea will definitely not taste good, so boiled eggs are still more delicious.
Yingbao picked a cantaloupe and handed it to Yuanbao, "Try one first."
Yuanbao took it, pinched a few fingernail marks, smashed the melon with a few clicks, and shared them with his younger brothers.
The group ate as they walked, and by the time they got home they had already shared two melons.
Yuanbao was still not satisfied, so he took out a cucumber from another basket and asked, "What is this?"
Yingbao: "Hugua."
"Is it edible?" Yuanbao put the cucumber under his nose and smelled it: "It has a slight fragrance, and tastes different from cantaloupe."
Yingbao: "Yes, you can eat it. Youyou has already eaten one."
Not only did she feed the cucumbers to Yoyo, she also chopped up the cucumbers that were almost growing big and fed them to the chickens, which ate them with great delight.
The dozen or so chickens in the cave seemed to have gained weight, and each chicken laid an egg every day without stopping. In the past few days, they had already collected dozens of eggs, filling two rice-washing baskets.
Yuanbao took a bite of the cucumber and muttered, "It's okay, but not as sweet as the cantaloupe."
The children accompanied the deer back home, and Jiang Jie immediately handed Chunniang a cantaloupe: "Mom! Sister found another cantaloupe!"
When Chunniang saw the two baskets full of melons and vegetables on the deer's back, she was so shocked that she became numb.
What kind of incredible luck is this for my daughter? She keeps finding cantaloupes one after another. This is incredible.
"And eggs! My sister even picked up a basket of eggs from the bamboo forest!"
Jiang Jie jumped around A Niang excitedly, "Boiled eggs! I want to eat boiled eggs!"
Chunniang said "oh", took the basket of eggs from the little girl and took it to the kitchen.
Da Ni and Er Ni came running over, looking surprised: "Ying Bao found the melon again? Which bamboo forest did you find it in? I want to go there too."
Yingbao silently handed them a cantaloupe: "I'll take you there after lunch. Eat the melon first."
Chunniang took out the cucumbers from the basket one by one and asked, "What are these?"
"Hugua, I bought some seeds from the peddler and planted some in the bamboo forest. I forgot about them a while ago, and just now I went to look for them. I found that quite a few fruits have grown."
Yingbao didn't blush or feel nervous, she was able to make up the lie calmly.
Chunniang had no doubt at all and asked, "Anything else?"
"There are still some. I'll pick some more in a couple of days." Yingbao helped A Niang take out all the cabbages and put them on the floor of the kitchen.
After the bandit incident is settled, she will move out all the things in the house, pile them in the bamboo forest, and frame the bandits.
At this moment, Jiang Cheng and Jiang Quan pushed back two large square tables from the bamboo forest. These were the only two pieces of furniture left in his house.
Fortunately, the two large tables were not left at home, otherwise they would have been burned like the other furniture.
With vegetables and eggs, the lunch was a bit more sumptuous.
Yan Ru picked a handful of garlic from the field and made a cold salad with cucumber slices. She also used cabbage leaves to make a bowl of egg and vegetable soup, and made a cold dish with cabbage stalks, adding some dogwood to it, which was salty and spicy.
In addition, a large pot of white rice was cooked. After the white rice was served, the rice crust at the bottom of the pot was roasted crispy and crispy. Each child broke off a piece and chewed it with a crunching sound.
Hu Zi and Jiang Jie were a little disappointed that they didn't get to eat the boiled eggs they had been craving for, and they even had a hard time eating their rice.
Yingbao whispered, "Eat quickly, we'll go pick up eggs in the afternoon."
The situation at home was not very good, and there were only a few eggs. My mother and aunt were definitely reluctant to cook one for each person, so they made egg and vegetable soup.
Then she would go pick up another basket and cook an egg for Huzi, Yuanbao, and her younger brother.
"Okay!" Hu Zi and his two younger brothers said in unison and ate their food quickly.
At this moment, there was a sudden noise outside the yard, and it seemed that a lot of people were coming over.
Old man Jiang was startled and immediately picked up a sickle and rushed to the gate of the yard.
The courtyard door creaked open and Jiang Sanlang stepped in first.
"Sanlang!"
Old man Jiang excitedly grabbed his son and said, "You're finally back!"
He looked him up and down and asked, "How did you get into this state? Are you injured? Where are Dalang and Erlang?"
Yingbao and her two brothers jumped up and rushed to their father, hugging his calves: "Dad! Dad, you're back!"
"Dad, are you hurt?"
Jiang Sanlang was in a dishevel at the moment, with dark red blood stains on his clothes and his hair was a mess, looking no different from a refugee who had been fleeing for a long time.
He bent down and patted his children's heads, smiling lovingly: "Dad is not hurt. You can go play somewhere else. Dad's clothes are covered in blood and are very dirty."
Then he said to Chunniang, "A lot of people will come to eat soon. Do you have any rice at home? Cook some more rice for them."
Seeing her husband in such a state, Chunniang felt so distressed that she quickly pulled her children aside and said, "There is still some rice. I will go cook it. You sit down and take a rest first."
After saying that, she took a bowl and filled it with rice for her husband, and asked him to sit down and eat first.
Jiang Sanlang had already washed his hands and face by the pond, sat down and started to eat rice with his bowl.
He ate voraciously as he hadn't had a proper meal for several days.
When Zhou and Yanru heard that Dalang and Erlang had also returned, they hurried out of the yard to look for them.
I saw a large group of people walking towards this side, some of them carrying injured people on their backs.
Jiang Dalang and Jiang Erlang also supported the two injured people and seemed to be okay.
These people quickly entered Jiang Sanlang's yard. Yingbao counted them and found that there were more than thirty people.
They all looked exhausted and dusty, their clothes were ragged, and some of them even had no shoes.
Chunniang and her elder and second sisters-in-law were busy washing rice and cooking, and they cooked two large pots.
As for the dishes, Yingbao happened to have brought back some cabbage, so she blanched it in boiling water, added some salt and made a cold dish, and also mixed some sliced cucumbers.
After the rice was cooked, it was served to more than thirty people. There were not enough ceramic bowls, so Dani picked up some broken bowls from the ruins, washed them and used them to serve the rice. There were not enough chopsticks, so she broke off a bunch of branches and used them instead.
No one mind, they picked up their bowls and branches and focused on eating, finishing the two large pots of rice in one go.
Not only was all the rice eaten up, not even a scrap of rice was left.
After the meal, most of the villagers went down the mountain and returned to the village. The injured people drank the medicine cooked by Yingbao and returned to the village with the help of others.
Only Chen Yin, Wang Ke, Li Dayong and Li Eryong did not go back.
They learned that their wives and children were on the south slope and went straight to find them.
"Sanlang, what took you so long to come back?" Old Man Jiang asked his son. "What have you been eating these days?"
"We were chased by bandits for dozens of miles, and then we hid in the mountains and forests, where we ambushed and killed many of the bandits."
Jiang Sanlang took the cantaloupe his wife handed him and took a bite. He smiled proudly and said, "Those bandits saw that the situation was not good and wanted to escape, but we chased them and they were delayed for a few days."
He pointed to several weapons in the yard and said, "Those were dropped by the bandits. I picked up a few of them because they seemed useful."
Old man Jiang's face twitched and he looked at his son. "How many bandits have you killed?"
He had never killed even a pig in all his years, but his son dared to kill people, and killed quite a few of them. In the past, that would have been something only a murderer would do.
Alas, what a sin.