Traveling through troubled times to escape famine and cultivate crops as a grain merchant

Li's face turned pale with fright. She hurried forward and wanted to take the snake from Zhou Guo's hand. However, she didn't know where to start when she saw the snake's twisting upper body. She was in a panic, fearing that the snake would bite her.

"Guoguo, give it to me, come on."

Zhou Guo grabbed the snake's hand and lifted it up, comforting Li, "Mom, it's okay, you see it can't bite me."

Li said anxiously: "Hey, child, you are small and weak, be careful not to lose hold on." She was very anxious.

Zhou Dacang stretched out his hand, "Come on, Guoguo, give the snake to your uncle."

"Yes, yes, Guoguo, come on, give the snake to your uncle. This is not a joke. Children can't play with this." Huang squeezed forward and was also shocked when she saw such a big snake.

Everyone in the family was anxious and worried, so she had no choice but to hand the thing to Zhou Dacang.

As soon as Zhou Dacang took it, she heard sounds of relief from the crowd, and everyone in the family patted their chests.

Li quickly pulled her over and asked, "Were you bitten?" She looked her up and down, left and right, and gave up when she found no wounds.

Huang tapped her forehead and said, "You are so brave. How old are you? How dare you catch such a big snake?"

Zhou Guo smiled and didn't argue or say anything.

Anyway, this snake is so big that it is enough for the whole family to have a meal.

After so many days out, the vegetables I brought with me at the beginning have long been eaten. Those who have more chickens at home still have a few tied to the car and are half alive. Those who have fewer chickens at home have eaten some of them long ago to save trouble, and they are reluctant to kill the ones that are left.

The wild vegetables have no oil, little salt and no taste. I have been eating them in bland soup for such a long time and I have to travel such a long distance every day. How can I bear it?

The Zhou family got such a big snake, it was all meat, and the people around them were so envious that their eyes were shining green.

I just regret that I didn’t catch this thing myself.

The family returned happily to their camping place.

Old man Zhou also smiled happily when he saw such a big snake.

Huang said, "Put it in a bag and do it at night."

No one has an opinion.

She thought that the snake was caught by Zhou Guo, so he looked at her deliberately.

Zhou Guo nodded. What opinion could she have? As long as she was not allowed to do it, she had no opinion at all.

Zhou Su tugged at her sleeve and handed her a leaf bag made of large leaves. She took it and saw that it was filled with a bag full of red, black and purple wild fruits. Each one was big and beautiful, neatly arranged and not rotten.

"Sister, please eat this. I specially saved it for you. It's delicious, fragrant and sweet." Zhou Suli said with a smile.

The child was so well behaved that she smiled, touched his face, and said, "Let's eat together."

Zhou Su nodded happily.

The two men squatted aside with a bag of wild fruits and started eating.

She thought the red one was pretty, so she took one and ate it. The fruit was ripe and it fell apart with a light bite. A sweet taste instantly filled her mouth.

Zhou Guo's eyes suddenly lit up. This fruit was more delicious than all the wild fruits she had eaten in her previous life combined. She didn't know what kind it was.

I ate two red ones and then took a black one. The black one was not as fragrant as the red one, but sweeter.

Zhou Su ate them one by one with gusto. His hands were already black from picking the fruits, and now even his mouth turned black.

Zhou Tao came over with her bag of fruit in her hand with a frown on her face, and they all leaned together to eat the wild fruits.

She held the fruit in her hand and pondered. There were too few of them. Otherwise, she could dry them and make them into candied fruits.

The other people in the family were also happy. They would look at the snake in the bag from time to time. They would have meat to eat in the evening. The snake was so big that it would fill a big pot.

With anticipation, the afternoon journey seemed especially easy. Even the two children were extremely excited because they knew they would have meat to eat in the evening.

Huang had said earlier that in this hot weather, things would go bad if left for too long, and since the snake had been caught, it would be better to eat it all at once to prevent its family from smelling the smell and coming to seek revenge.

Can you eat such a big snake in one go?

Everyone was happy. What a big pot it was. Everyone could have several pieces. It had been many years since they had enjoyed eating meat so much.

The younger ones don't remember it at all.

Zhou Guo remembered that the last time she ate snake meat was when she was a teenager. She went back to her grandmother's house during the summer vacation. Her second uncle happened to catch a snake from the mountain. Her eldest uncle killed a chicken in the evening and stewed it together with the snake. The fragrance wafted from far away, and the villagers came when they smelled the aroma. Since there were so many people, she also got a piece and drank half a bowl of soup.

The delicious taste made her remember it for many years to come, and she still remembers it vividly after so many years.

Huang must be reluctant to stew it with chicken, not to mention that they are fleeing now. Even if they are not fleeing, few people in the village would be willing to stew it with chicken. It is good enough to have snake meat to eat, how can they use chicken to pair it with it? They are not the emperor, so they cannot eat it like this.

Finally, as everyone waited anxiously, the sun sank little by little.

As night was approaching, the team stopped.

As soon as they stopped, the family chose a spot and got busy as if they were injected with chicken blood.

Some people prepared the sleeping place for the night, some fetched water, some collected firewood, some processed the snake meat, and there was also Zhou Guo, who dug wild vegetables every year.

The whole family was busy in a hurry, with rare smiles on their faces.

Others were not so lucky. Thinking about their own dinner in the evening and looking at the bustling scene at the Zhou family, they were extremely envious. They looked at them eagerly, regretting that they did not pick up the snake, but let a little girl like Zhou Guo pick it up. Their eyes sparkled with jealousy.

The Zhou family ignored all these looks. Who would care about those when there were delicious food? Cooking was the serious thing.

When it comes to cooking skills, Xu's craftsmanship is better.

Although she had never cooked snake meat before, she thought it would not be wrong to cook it the same way as chicken.

Fry in a pan, add water and stew, add pepper and ginger slices, and you can eat it when it is cooked.

The family members were now gathered around the stove, looking at it eagerly.

Only Zhou Guo was there, carrying a basket and wandering around.

I don’t know if it was because of the snakes in the morning that stimulated everyone, but now more and more people were walking around in the surrounding fields with baskets and sticks. Even many men couldn’t help but dig in the grass, hoping that they could be lucky enough to pick up some game.

Zhou Guo didn't care about these at all. Game was not like these wild vegetables. There were wild vegetables everywhere for anyone to pick up. Why would they pick them when they were fleeing? It was good enough to eat some of the wild vegetables.

If you don't take what God gives you, you will suffer the consequences. You can't let go of the food that is handed to you. Look, she found more than a dozen lantern fruit trees. She had eaten this wild lantern fruit at her grandmother's house when she was a child.

She picked one and tore off the thin red skin to reveal the round red fruit inside. The fruit was bright red and lovely, with a sour and sweet taste, and a unique spicy flavor, the taste of her childhood.

She picked all the grown-up lantern fruit she saw, whether they had red outer skin or not. It was a huge pile, about thirty or forty in total.