I traveled through time and space to hunt and support my family in ancient times
Chapter 4: Chasing Pheasants
Continuing up the mountain, Jiang Yue let Jiang Xue hold her hand. Although her face was expressionless, she was moved in her heart.
Jiang Xue looked up: "Brother, why do I feel like I'm very happy today?"
Jiang Ming turned his head and said, "Because I told my elder sister to trap rabbits."
Jiang Xue: ...Brother, do you want to know first before you talk?
Jiang Lei said like a little adult: "Don't let Uncle San take it away!"
Jiang Ming said viciously: "Grandma has spoken. If he dares to snatch it, I will beat him!"
When they got to the mountain, Jiang Xue and Jiang Lei used branches to hit the grass, saying that they wanted to scare the snake away first.
Jiang Ming carefully observed the traces left by the animals and found a good location to set the trap.
Jiang Yue especially wanted to say that even a hungry snake can be eaten, and there is no need to set traps to catch rabbits, it is faster to find a rabbit's nest and block it.
A pheasant flew by, and Jiang Yue sighed in her heart, wishing she had a bow and arrow. With her skills, she would never let the pheasant slip away.
Jiang Ming picked up a colorful feather and gave it to Jiang Lei: "It would be great if I could become Luotou's disciple?"
Jiang Xue jumped up and down: "That won't work. How did Lao Luotou lose his son? How did his leg become lame? We are still farming now! Brother, don't even think about being a hunter! If something happens to you, we will be bullied to death by those people."
Jiang Xue's eyes turned red as she spoke.
Jiang Ming hurriedly comforted her, "I was just saying that. You can just take Damei and Leizi here to dig wild vegetables, but don't run too far. I'll go in to take a look and set a few traps, and I'll be back soon."
After Jiang Ming left, Jiang Xue asked Jiang Yue to sit on a rock and told her to shout if anything happened and not to run around. Then she took Jiang Lei to look for wild vegetables nearby.
Jiang Yue broke off a branch out of boredom, broke off the leaves and branches to make a smooth stick, and then sharpened the pointed end.
Although she couldn't change too quickly, she still had to find an opportunity to change, otherwise she would starve to death first.
Several brothers and sisters are really good to her. She is either touched or on the way to be touched all day long. Her parents and brothers and sisters protect her unconditionally. Only her mentor did this in her previous life. Thinking of her mentor, Jiang Yue felt a pain in her heart and couldn't help crying.
Jiang Yue closed her eyes and sorted out her thoughts when her ears suddenly moved and she seemed to hear something...
In the woods behind, a clump of wild grass was rustling and shaking.
There are wild animals!
Jiang Yue tilted her head and saw the little sister and brother digging hard with their backs to her about ten meters away. She stood up gently and followed them quietly.
Jiang Yue followed the movement for a long time, until the scenery in front of her changed and the surroundings became silent.
The weeds fluttered a few more times, and Jiang Yue, like a kitten, bent her body and burrowed into the place where the movement was. She pushed aside the leaves and her eyes lit up.
Hey! It's a pheasant!
Only the wing was injured!
When the pheasant spotted someone, it flapped its wings desperately to try to escape, but one of its wings was bleeding and it couldn't fly at all.
In a flash, Jiang Yue pounced on the chicken like a tiger and pinned it under her.
This pheasant is really unlucky. It escaped the pursuit of its natural enemies, but ended up here.
One pheasant is enough to satisfy the cravings of a family of six.
As for eating enough, Jiang Yue was also confident because the grass she just passed by looked like a field of large-leaf taro.
After pulling some weeds and tying up the pheasant tightly, Jiang Yue returned the same way and stopped near a patch of wild taro.
These wild leaves are slightly smaller than the taro leaves in the previous life, but that does not prevent its roots and stems from being rich in starch and able to fill the stomach.
The leaves of taro are poisonous, so you must be extra careful when handling them. The juice left by the rhizomes can also cause allergies, and it will make people feel itchy all over their body if they get in contact with it.
Without any tools, just a sharpened wooden stick, Jiang Yue only picked out the easy ones to dig. Just enough to eat, and save the rest for tomorrow's digging.
He pulled some vines from nearby trees and made a simple net bag to hold a dozen taro. He put the stick on his waist, held the pheasant in one hand and the taro in the other, and returned with a full load.
Over there, Jiang Xue and Jiang Lei quickly dug a basket of wild vegetables and picked a handful of small wild fruits. When they turned around to present their treasures, they found that Jiang Yue was missing.
Suddenly, there were cries of despair.
Jiang Ming heard the shout and almost fell off the tree. This was on the mountain!
He climbed down from the tree in a hurry and joined Jiang Xue. He carefully followed the traces and chased after them, shouting.
Jiang Yue responded naturally when she heard the shout. Jiang Xue only burst into tears with relief when she saw Jiang Yue's figure. She jumped to meet her and shouted "Sister, sister". Only when she got closer did she realize what Jiang Yue was holding in her hand.
Hey, did I catch a pheasant?
Jiang Yue curled her lips and said, "I picked it up!" Although she was used to being alone in her previous life, she was also a chatterbox in the training hall. It felt awkward to talk like this now.
The pheasant was tied up tightly, with only its eyes rolling around.
Jiang Lei touched the pheasant's colorful feathers and clapped his hands with joy.
Jiang Xue stopped crying: "Sister is the lucky star of our family."
Jiang Ming saw what was in Jiang Yue's other hand, and took it out of habit, and asked with a smile: "Big sister, what is this?"
As he said this, he opened the bag, took a closer look, and his face changed with fear. He threw the taro and the bag into the weeds: "Big sister, this is poisonous and can't be eaten. Did you touch it?"
Jiang Ming never went to school for a day. During the slack season, he would hang out in the village and the woods. It is said that someone who touched this thing got a strange disease when he came back. He said that his body was extremely itchy, and the skin he scratched turned red and ulcerated, and he almost lost his life.
Jiang Ming habitually blamed himself and wiped Jiang Yue's hands back and forth with his sleeves: "If there was water, it would be fine for my elder sister to wash. Why did he forget to bring water?"
Jiang Yue was anxious and had to speak up: "The leaves are poisonous, but the rhizomes are not! They can be eaten after being cooked."
The three siblings looked at each other, and the eldest sister talked a lot.
There was no more explanation, Jiang Yue bent down to pick it up but was stopped by Jiang Ming.
“You can’t pick it up.”
"You have to pick it up."
"can not eat."
"It's edible."
......
The struggle finally stopped when Jiang Yue said, "Feed the pigs first." Unable to persuade his elder sister, Jiang Ming went down the mountain with a bag of taro in his hand, looking disgusted.
It was still early, and not wanting to be seen by the people in front, the group of four went straight out the back door.
Jiang Youshan and Cai were surprised to see the chicken.
Cai only watched for a while and then went to the front to cook. Jiang Xue repeatedly warned her not to reveal the pheasant. Cai nodded repeatedly. There was not much meat on a chicken, and it would be good to keep it for her daughter to nourish her body.
Jiang Youshan took the pheasant, cut its neck to drain the blood, plucked its feathers and gutted it. When it was time to stew it, Jiang Ming had already cooked the taro.
As for why the taro was buried in the stove and burned? Jiang Ming insisted that the taro was poisonous and could not pollute the pot. Jiang Yue gave him a few and told him to burn them. The burned ones were more fragrant!
Jiang Xue picked up a black taro, peeled it, and a fresh fragrance entered her nose. Inside was a yellow flesh that was still steaming.
He whispered to Jiang Ming, "It looks delicious?"
Jiang Ming said calmly: "Feed the pigs first."
Jiang Yue, who was standing by, was watching this pair of funny brother and sister, feeling both amused and helpless. She endured the rumbling of her stomach and watched Jiang Xue throw the taro into the pig trough. What a waste of food!
In a trance, she suddenly remembered the bitterness of living with her relatives when she was a child.
Similar scene, different people.
At that time, a boy from a relative's family was a head taller than her. He suddenly snatched the taro she had cooked. She chased after him to ask for it back, but the boy sneered at her and jumped away, refusing to give it to her.
In the end, she was left with no strength left. She could only watch the boy throw the taro to the sheep. The sheep pushed the taro again and again with its mouth, and the taro rolled and rolled until it became a big dung ball.
Jiang Ming came over gently, "Big sister, what are you thinking about?"
Jiang Yue came back to her senses: "Taro."
Jiang Ming pursed his lips and said, "The pig just ate it, so we can't tell if it's poisonous or not. Let's not eat it for now."
After saying that, Jiang Ming turned his head away guiltily and licked his teeth quietly with his tongue, which still had a faint fragrance.
Just now, under the pretext of testing the poison on the chickens, he went into the chicken coop and secretly tasted a bite when no one was around. It was sweet and sticky, and really delicious!
He wanted to eat up something so delicious at once, how could it be poisonous?
Maybe what the eldest sister said is right! But how did the eldest sister know?
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