Traveling through ancient times, storing supplies and not fleeing famine

These two days, Xia Shengsheng has been weeding in the fields and taking care of the children at home reading and writing.

Nothing much happened.

Several children can already write their own names and a few simple new words.

Liu Yiyi made the fastest progress. In just two days since she started practicing writing, she had already learned more than twenty characters from the Thousand Character Classic. She could also remember their appearances completely and write them out neatly.

Xia Shengsheng felt that if Liu Yiyi was a boy, he would definitely be a candidate for the imperial examination in the future.

It’s a pity that girls are not allowed to go to school nowadays.

Xia Shengsheng was not idle during these two days. While the children were practicing on their own, she was carefully taking notes on the book she bought from Qiqi.

I did go up into the mountains once, but I didn't find the medicinal herbs that Qiqi wanted.

We caught a lot of pheasants and rabbits these two days, but Qiqi didn't collect them, so we had to eat them ourselves.

If there was nothing left to eat, Xia Shengsheng would make it into cured chicken and cured rabbit.

When Xia Shengsheng went up the mountain, he found wolf feces, but he did not see or hear any traces of wolves.

Xia Shengsheng felt that she was still quite lucky.

After all, wolf meat is neither tasty nor valuable.

If she really met him and had a life-and-death fight with him, it would be easy to get hurt and would be a waste of effort.

It’s better not to meet anyone, and it saves you the trouble.

When Xia Shengsheng was feeling lucky, she was feeling lucky.

In the distant mountains.

A man in black clothes, with his hair standing up high and a resolute face, was protecting a boy about ten years old.

They were surrounded by packs of wolves.

There are probably about twenty or thirty of them.

The leader wolf stared at the prey in front of him with a fierce and determined look.

The other wolves in the pack were also making dripping whimpering sounds.

All are waiting for the order from the leader wolf!

At this moment, the man held the sword tightly in his right hand, and the sweat on his head kept sliding down and dripping onto the back of his hand.

And blood could be clearly seen flowing down his arm from the cuff.

When I looked up, I found that there was a bloody hole in his chest.

The young man he was protecting behind him had no expression on his fair face and showed no fear at all.

One hand held a dagger with a cold glow, and the other hand tightly grasped a crescent-shaped jade pendant.

He seems to be ready to die.

After a long stalemate, the leader wolf seemed to smell something?

A howl of command.

Ouch...

After receiving the order, all the wolves rushed forward.

The man held up his already broken body and swung his sword at the attacking wolves.

The other hand was still tightly protecting the boy behind him.

A wolf suddenly pounced from behind and bit the boy's arm tightly.

The boy used the hand holding the dagger to stab the wolf's eyes fiercely. Blood flowed all over the wolf's face, but the wolf had no intention of letting go. Instead, it bit even tighter.

The man who was protecting him, after cutting off the head of a wolf that was biting his thigh, took the sharp sword in his hand and cut off the head of the wolf that was biting the boy with one stroke.

As the wolf's head separated from its body, the teeth that were biting the boy's arm slowly loosened and fell off.

The boy gritted his teeth and endured the pain without making a sound!

"Master, climb the tree!"

The man used one hand to block the wolves' attack, and with the other hand he supported the boy's legs, helping him climb up the tall tree trunk.

After the boy sat firmly, he stretched out his hand and said, "Uncle Quan, come up quickly!"

The man called Uncle Quan looked back at the boy and smiled at him. "Good boy, climb higher so I can show you Uncle Quan's skills. If you are down there, Uncle Quan won't be able to show his skills."

Just as he finished speaking, a wolf pounced on him again and bit his shoulder tightly.

The man's eyes were bloodshot, emitting a bloodthirsty light.

The veins on his left hand bulged as he struck the wolf's head hard.

One, two, three...

The wolf was beaten to death.

Ouch...

The leader wolf gave another commanding voice.

Then all the wolves pounced straight at the man.

Biting on his arms, biting on his legs, biting on his waist.

"Uncle Quan~"

The boy who climbed up the tree couldn't help shouting.

Time passed by minute by minute.

With his extraordinary perseverance, the man actually wiped out the entire wolf pack.

When he killed the last wolf, he finally couldn't hold on and fell in a pool of blood.

The boy changed his cold expression and climbed down from the tree crying.

Looking at the wolf corpses scattered all over the ground and his Uncle Quan who had been with him for many years lying among the corpses, he pounced forward.

"Uncle Quan, Uncle Quan, wake up. You are the only one left here. Please don't leave me, okay?"

The boy cried and shouted for a long time, but the only answer he got was the silent forest. There was no longer Uncle Quan, who had been with him for many years and who would smile every time he saw him.

Gradually he accepted the fact that Uncle Quan had left him.

Just like accepting the departure of his parents.

He knew that such a strong smell of blood would definitely attract other wild animals.

He couldn't stay here for long, so he relied on his small body to carry a 1.8-meter-tall man on his back and walked forward with difficulty.

After taking just two steps, he fell down. He carried Uncle Quan on his back again, took two more steps and fell down again. He walked again and fell down again.

Later, he simply dragged Uncle Quan's body and moved little by little.

Until I am exhausted, until I can't move anymore.

Until I closed my eyes.

……

Xia Shengsheng collected all the starch that was dried outside.

After two days of drying, the starch is dried very well and is snow-white.

"Mom, this is so beautiful! It's as white as flour. Can I eat this too, Mom?"

Liu Sicheng looked at the snow-white starch and felt that it must be delicious. In fact, in his eyes, there was probably nothing that was not delicious.

"Of course you can eat it. We'll try making vermicelli later. We can also make you noodles dumplings in the evening. But we don't have meat at home, so we can make potatoes and eggs."

Xia Shengsheng estimated the weight of the starch, about five kilograms.

This is the starch produced from more than 40 kilograms of potatoes.

On average, eight or nine kilograms of potatoes can produce one kilogram of starch.

Although the amount is small, the starch is of high purity and the vermicelli made from it is delicious.

"That's great. There are delicious foods again. Mom is so nice." Liu Sicheng said while clapping his hands and jumping around.

"Okay, come and help! If you want to eat something delicious, let mom teach us how to make it. If you keep yelling, my second brother will hit you on the head again."

Liu Sicheng stuck out his tongue and followed Xia Shengsheng.

Liu Ercheng went to help fetch water. Xia Shengsheng was afraid that his small body would hurt his shoulders, so she didn't let him go, but he still disagreed.

It's not tiring to carry back half a bucket at a time.

Xia Shengsheng couldn't do anything to him and could only let him take care of himself.