famine queen

Chapter 8 Change the Salt
Jinmang followed Qingsui all the way into the woods, and the mother and daughter soon found a large piece of mushrooms, but what surprised her was...these mushrooms...she didn't know any of them.

City A is a second-tier city, and the area where it is located is not rich in mushrooms, but in modern society, logistics is developed, and there are everything that should be available in large supermarkets, and online shopping is also available.

Jinmang is not particularly fond of mushrooms, but she buys some back from time to time. She has eaten many types of mushrooms, such as shiitake mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, and oyster mushrooms, not to mention common mushrooms, such as matsutake, She has also eaten such rare fungi as colostrum and morel, but the quality is slightly worse.

However... none of the mushrooms in front of her was familiar to her.

This is kind of incredible.

Either these mushrooms are poisonous, or...these are Anze's "specialties".

Jin Mang discovered early on that many places in Anze are similar to the earth, but there are also many places that are completely different from the earth.

Like berries that she has never eaten, animal species that she has never even heard of, and yarn vines that can be used to directly make clothes after being picked, rubbed, washed and dried, and iron-based trees that are so dense and hard that they can be compared to iron ...

"Are all these mushrooms edible?" Jin Mang asked casually.

Qingsui shook his head and nodded again: "Except for a few, I can eat everything else."

Ok?
Is Anze's mushrooms more pure?
Only then did Jin Mang think so, and Qingsui said: "Some mushrooms are poisonous, but eating them will at most give you a stomachache, but some mushrooms are poisonous... Eating them will make people go crazy, and it will consume too much energy. It's terrible, so I can't eat it."

Jin Mang: "..." It's because I haven't seen it.

But after thinking about it carefully, she could understand again.

In her previous life, when she was five years old, her grandfather was critically ill. Everyone worked together to send him to the county hospital, and later transferred to the provincial hospital because of his illness.The meeting was so chaotic, the adults didn't care about her child at all, and when they came back to their senses, they couldn't see Jin Mang. The villagers thought that grandma had taken her to the provincial capital, grandma... grandma already had it at that time Grandpa knew the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease in his heart, but she didn't know it herself, and neither did the villagers.

At that time, Jin Mang was tired from playing in the old house, and found a room to sleep in the dark, not knowing what was going on outside.

It was already dark when she woke up, and the gate of the old house was closed.

——The door was covered by the villagers passing by. Thinking that the Jin family was gone, although the house was broken, some usable bricks and tiles could still be found after all.

The old house of the Jin family was returned later, except that the outer wall was broken inside, and the family had no money to repair it. Dish, let Jinmang add a snack.

The location of the old house is remote, separated from Dajin Village by a big river. The villagers usually don't come here when they have nothing to do.

Grandpa Jin and Grandma Jin stayed in the provincial capital for a month, and Jin Mang stayed in the old house for a month.

It was early autumn, and the vegetables and fruits in the yard had passed the harvest period. The vines of cowpea and loofah were growing vigorously, but they just didn’t bear fruit; I can’t eat it either; I can pick one or two eggplants a week, and sometimes they are pecked by birds; there is a fig tree in the corner of the yard, and I can pick two figs a day on average.

Even for normal children, this little food is not enough to fill their stomachs, let alone Jin Mang, who eats a lot after a small meal.

Jin Mang didn't want to recall how he survived that month.

Fortunately, she is a cheerful person. Although she has such a special experience, except for the fact that she likes to store things and practice martial arts, her body and mind are extremely healthy, and she is not a shadow at all.

——As for why he likes to practice martial arts because of this, it was because Jin Mang felt that if he was able at that time, he could just climb over the wall, or kick the wall down, and he didn't have to suffer that month at all.

Jin Mang had tasted what it was like to be hungry. If he was really hungry, as long as he could fill his stomach with something, what was the stomachache?
It's better than being hungry.

In fact, picking mushrooms is just a job in leisure time, a pastime after hunting is completed and a lot of physical exertion is exhausted.In the past few days, Qingsui's hunting frequency has been far higher than usual. Some of the prey are frozen, and some are roasted and eaten.

Jin Mang eats very full every day, and eats more than five meals a day, and he can hardly bear it anymore.

She's not going to be fat, is she?
However, she cared more about something else.

"Mom, when will Father come back?" Jin Mang asked worriedly.

Qingsui frowned slightly, "It will take a few more days, there are not many tribes with salt, he may have to go farther."

"Father going alone?" Jin Mang tilted his head.

Anze human beings also talk about family ties. Although they usually live in their own territories, they will also unite in certain things to form tribes that outsiders call.

Salt mines are rare. In order to be able to occupy them for a long time, the people of the tribe will unanimously externalize them.

Qingfeng and Qingsui have always hoped to find a salt mine, so that they no longer need to exchange salt with other tribes.

According to Qingsui, exchanging salt itself is a dangerous thing, and the journey will pass through the territory of other beasts. During the hunting process, there may be disputes with the master beasts, resulting in casualties.And trading is also a dangerous thing. Once the two sides can't reach an agreement... Some tribes with evil intentions are unwilling to exchange hard-earned prey for salt, so they will squat and rob the salt-exchanging troops.

"Of course not." Qingsui said: "Your uncles and aunts will go together."

Jin Mang breathed a sigh of relief, she had never seen other relatives besides her parents.Because the breath of the cubs will attract other beasts to attack, non-direct relatives will not touch the cubs of the tribe.

After waiting for half a month, when even Qingsui started to get anxious, Qingfeng came back with a big leather bag on his back.

It's just that he doesn't look very good, there is a wound on the back of his exposed hand, and a piece of his scalp has been cut off.

Jinmang's eyes were tearing apart, but Qingsui breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he came back alive, everything would be fine.

"Brother, have they all come back together?" Then she thought of other relatives.

Qingfeng nodded, "We had good luck this time, we only encountered two robbery teams on the way back, except I encountered a tricky one, the strength of the other enemies was mediocre, it's just..."

He sighed and said, "The tribe with salt has changed. They behave differently and are more greedy. This time we got a lot less salt than in previous years."

(End of this chapter)