Crossing the famine, I am a poor fish, and my descendants have to work hard

The hillside they chose this time was quite far from the official road.

After parking the car, everyone started preparing to cook, steam dry food, and make pancakes.

We won't stop at noon, so we need to prepare more dry food.

Zhang Xinbai unloaded the cart and hurried to let the horses go. The horses were really tired after walking all day. They needed to be fed some beans.

Qian Xiaohui also started cooking.

She was going to steam some buns. Then she would take out the wild dates she had picked earlier and steam some buns with dates in them. The buns could be eaten as lunch.

Find the wild dates, wash them, and set them aside to drain the water.

Take out a large bowl, put a small bowl of sugar in it, dissolve it in hot water, and then add the old dough starter.

Take out the wild dates, cut them into small pieces and remove the pits.

Find a bowl, take the flour, pour in sugar water and chopped dates, add a little oil, and knead into a uniform large dough. Leave it here to rise.

After the dough has risen, cut it into small pieces and knead it into the shape of steamed buns.

Put them into the pot one by one. Add water to the pot and put the steamer in it.

Wait until the pot is full. Cover the pot and add firewood to steam. Generally, steam for another quarter of an hour after the pot boils!

Take out the bracken and prepare to stir-fry the mutton and bracken. Then blanch the mutton offal.

The bracken has been blanched in boiling water before, so you just need to wash it and cut it into 3 cm long strips, then you can wait to fry it.

Wash the mutton and cut into strips. Cut the green onion and ginger into strips. Chop the garlic into minced garlic.

Heat the pan with oil, add the mutton and fry until fragrant, then add the onion, ginger and garlic and continue frying. When the aroma comes out, add the bracken and continue frying. When cooked, serve.

It is also very simple to cook mutton offal, mainly because the mutton offal has been cooked before.

Chop some green onions and minced garlic. The mutton offal has been cooked and cut into shreds before, so you can use it directly.

Heat the pan with oil, add chopped green onion and minced garlic, stir-fry until fragrant, then add the mutton offal and stir-fry. When you see that the mutton offal is a little bit stretched, start adding hot water.

Be sure to add hot water, otherwise the color of the mutton offal soup will not be milky white. Then add salt and a little pepper.

Stir well and it’s ready to eat after boiling.

It was time for the steamed buns to be taken out of the pot. I picked up the buns with chopsticks and put them into the basin, and put another pot of steamed buns into the pot to continue steaming.

Invite everyone to eat.

We found a wooden board to use as a table, put fried mutton and fern on it, and then each person had a big bowl of mutton soup.

The steamed buns were placed in a basin on the table. Everyone took a sip of mutton soup and a bite of the jujube steamed buns.

This steamed bun is made with dates and brown sugar. It is sweet and delicious. Usually, white sugar and brown sugar are rare and are rarely used to steam buns. They are reserved for people who are in confinement after childbirth.

At that time, I only ate one pound of brown sugar during the confinement period. This steamed bun from their house used almost half a pound of it.

Mainly because my mother said that I should eat better. Otherwise, fleeing from famine is hard enough, and if I don’t get more nutrition, my body won’t be able to bear it.

Qian Xiaohui thought about it and agreed. She could cook many dishes now and had recipes. She could also read, do arithmetic, read accounts, keep accounts, and use an abacus.

Once I’m settled, I’ll be able to make money with my skills and buy more brown sugar for my mother and family, so we can eat better on the road!

After dinner, the second pot of steamed buns was ready, so Qian Xiaohui picked out the steamed buns.

Li Zhijuan used the hot water in the pot to wash the bowl clean.

Wash dishes cleanly with hot water.

After finishing the miscellaneous chores, a few people went to practice swordplay.

Now that there are so many people and eyes, they have all changed back to branches. The swords my mother gave me are all well placed in the carriage.

After all, iron is too eye-catching.

Zhao Yuanzhen continued to study Chinese medicine.

After everyone finished washing up, they went to bed.

Zhao Yuanzhen was drowsy in the middle of the night and felt something was wrong. It was too quiet.

The night watchmen usually get up and walk around the rest camp a few times.

Why is it so quiet today?

There was no sound at all, no footsteps, and no whispers of their voices.

Zhao Yuanzhen quietly lifted a corner of the carriage curtain. There was no moonlight tonight and it was very dark outside. Only a little light from the campfire could be seen through it. She saw the night watchman lying on the ground.

The torch in his hand also went out.

Those who were not on night patrol were also lying down, probably unconscious.

Is it some drug or poison?

Zhao Yuanzhen took Zhang Zijin's pulse and found that Zijin was fine, just asleep.

She guessed that it was because they were in the carriage and she was afraid it would be cold at night, so she tidied up the curtains in the carriage before going to bed.

This prevented the drug from entering the body. That's why she and Zijin were fine.

Zhao Yuanzhen took out the cooling oil. This was bought by Zhang Xinnian and his men last time when they were dealing with the corpse. After they smelled it, Zhang Xinnian took it back.

She covered Zhang Zijin's mouth and quietly woke him up.

Zhang Zijin was startled, then realized it was his grandmother. He nodded immediately when he saw his grandmother signaling him.

Zhao Yuanzhen moved her hand away.

"It seems that all the villagers have been drugged and have passed out. I'm going to go check on your parents. You take your sword and stay in the carriage.

You are not allowed to come out until I tell you to. If anyone dares to break in, just chop him with a sword. Have you made a note of this?"

"Okay, I've got that in mind, grandma. You should be careful too."

Zhang Zijin nodded seriously. He would not hold back. Then he quietly found his sword and held it in his hand.

Seeing him like this, Zhao Yuanzhen felt relieved and calm, thinking that he was a good child who could achieve great things.

Then she lay down in the carriage, lifted a small corner of the curtain, and slid down on her stomach. After getting off the car, she used the shelter of the carriage and squatted to move to her daughter-in-law.

He covered Li Zhijuan's mouth and put some cooling oil under her nose. Afraid that she would not wake up, he was about to apply some on her temples.

I felt her lips moving under my hand and quickly held her down with my other hand.

Li Zhijuan opened her eyes wide and tried to resist, but Zhao Yuanzhen's other hand pressed too tightly.

"It's me, don't move, don't make any noise, we've been drugged, lie down and recover.

Let your sister-in-law and Xin Shu smell this. If they don't wake up, apply a little more on their temples. Then give this to your sister-in-law, and then wake everyone up one by one.

Remember to do it quietly so as not to alert the enemy. Let's pretend to be unconscious so that we can catch them all in one fell swoop."

Li Zhijuan nodded quickly. Her mother was so strong that she could hardly breathe.

Zhao Yuanzhen took his hand away from her mouth after seeing her nod, and then took her pulse again. It turned out that she had been drugged.

The drugs used to knock out the sleep are usually made from Datura flowers. After people inhale them, they will have a strong sense of sleepiness, which is why people will faint after inhaling the drugs.

"Mom, I understand. I'll go right away."

Then she took the cooling oil and turned to her sister-in-law. She and Qian Xiaohui were sleeping next to each other, so she just needed to turn over.

Seeing that she had gone to carry out the mission, Zhao Yuanzhen used the cars of various families as cover and found her eldest and second sons.

Both of them fainted. It was obvious that the drug was not sprayed only once.

She woke them up and told them her plan again, asking them to save the middle-aged man first.

The battle may start at any time, so you have to ensure the number of people to fight.

He handed them the cooling oil and then walked towards the old house.

They were on the back slope of the mountain, so the chance of being drugged from above was low, and the wind from above could not blow over. Looking at the direction in which her hair was blown, she judged that the person who drugged them should be on their left, where there happened to be a small hill.

There shouldn't be many people, at least not as many as them, otherwise they would have robbed openly, like the bandits last time. But accidents can't be ruled out, for example, they were more cautious this time.

Zhao Yuanzhen went to wake up Sun Zhang first.

“Mom, it’s me, don’t talk or move, we’ve been ambushed.

I'll get you the antidote. Let them smell it. If they don't wake up, apply it on their temples. When they wake up, continue to lie down. When the enemy comes, I'll call you, and then you can take action."

Sun Zhang nodded, feeling very nervous and scared. Why are there bad guys again? Why do these bastards always keep harassing their village?

Zhao Yuanzhen handed her a bottle of cooling oil and then continued to rescue people.

About 10 minutes later, Zhao Yuanzhen heard rustling sounds in the distance.

coming.

Zhao Yuanzhen quietly returned to the center, where the carriages were parked.

She took out her sword, and her sword remained guarding the space.

It was pitch black now, and no one could see.

After a while, voices were heard.

"I'll go check and see if anyone is awake. You guys wait here for my signal!"

The person who was speaking looked short and thin. He hunched over, walked lightly, and walked slowly over. After a round, he found that everyone was asleep.

He whistled once long and once short and waved his hand.

Watching my own people coming over.

"They're all fainted, we can do it now!"

Then everyone started to prepare for action, and Zhao Yuanzhen found that there were indeed not many people, only about a dozen people. They were all wearing black clothes, black hats, and black scarves covering their mouths.

The armed preparations are quite sufficient!

The division of labor was very clear. Six people went to search, two people were on guard, and the rest ran towards the carriage parking area.

Zhao Yuanzhen's carriage was the most conspicuous and luxurious, so a man went straight to the carriage. He jumped on the carriage, opened the curtain, and just as he walked in, he heard a scream.

"What's wrong? Is that the fourth brother screaming? Fourth brother? Fourth brother!" Someone heard the scream and immediately became alert.

After further observation, it was found that only the fourth brother had abnormalities.

A man in black shouted, "Let's go and take a look."

A dozen people, except the one on sentry, started moving towards the carriage.

Zhao Yuanzhen became worried. Zijin was the only one in the car and was afraid that he might not be able to handle it.

Then he stood up and rushed over, signaling and shouting:

"Do it!"

The men in black were obviously startled. What's going on?

Qian Xiaohui and Li Zhijuan, hearing their mother-in-law's shout, jumped up immediately and took out their swords from the carriage.

The two people who were on guard outside were about to shout when they were knocked unconscious by a pickaxe from the villagers.

The men in black didn't care what happened in the carriage anymore and just wanted to retreat quickly.

"Retreat, disperse and retreat."

A man shouted and walked around the carriage to run up the hill.

Zhao Yuanzhen jumped on the carriage, and ran on the carriages of various families, caught up with the man who was about to climb the hill, and stabbed him directly from behind. The man twitched and fell down.

Apparently, he was killed instantly.