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Hunter Li handed the cleaned pheasant to Old Lady Xu. Old Lady Xu gritted her teeth and took out the remaining flour from her luggage to make noodles.

The noodles were put into a large pot of chicken soup made from pheasants. The pheasants caught by Hunter Li were very fat, and a thick layer of oil floated on the soup.

The chicken had been simmered for an hour, and when Old Lady Xu poked it with chopsticks, the meat and bones separated.

"Milk, it smells so good!" The three little ones of the Xu family have been surrounding the earthenware pot since Grandma Xu started stewing the soup. Now they are all swallowing their saliva, and their saliva is half full.

Old Mrs. Xu first served Feng a large bowl of chicken soup, put all the chicken thighs in it, and then took the skeleton and put it in the bowl to stew again in the evening.

Old Mrs. Xu filled a clay pot with water, leaving a lot of soup and meat. However, with ten mouths to feed from the two families, chicken soup and noodles were totally insufficient.

"Auntie, the child is young and eats first." When Mrs. Feng saw that what Old Lady Xu brought to her was pure chicken soup and noodles, she quickly refused.

After pushing for a long time without any result, Feng picked up the bowl and prepared to pour it back into the pot to cook together.

"Auntie, just put them in and cook them together." But she was no match for Old Lady Xu. After all, she was the most quarrelsome person in the Xu family.

Old Lady Xu stuffed the bowl back into Feng's hands without giving her any time to discuss it. "Eat it! If you don't eat more, what will the children eat? There's still plenty in the pot! I know what's going on!"

Feng was deeply moved and had to lower her head and drink the soup in silence.

Hunter Li was holding his child outside and teaching Xu Da archery. She thought to herself that she would let her husband and aunt tell them later so that they wouldn't have to make special arrangements for her in the future.

The children are still young, and she can't be the only one to be taken care of.

While Old Lady Xu was making the soup, Zhang had already picked a lot of wild vegetables from nearby. She washed them and handed them to Old Lady Xu, then put them into the soup, filling a large earthenware pot.

The pheasant soup has a strong flavor, and only a little salt is added, but it tastes surprisingly delicious!

Not to mention the Xu family, even Li the Hunter felt that this was the best meal he had had since fleeing the famine.

Hunter Li didn't ask where the flour came from, just like when Xu Ning showed him the telescope.

Old Mrs. Xu thought that if she kept the flour, she didn't know when she would encounter bandits again. Instead of giving it to others, it would be better to eat it all at home to supplement her nutrition.

After breakfast, everyone, whether adults or children, was given a boiled pheasant egg. Old Mrs. Xu hid the remaining pheasant eggs, planning to put them into the wild vegetable porridge in the evening.

There are many wild animals in the deep mountains, and most people dare not come in. Naturally, there are a lot of wild vegetables. Xu Da discussed with Li the hunter, "Brother Li, if we go out now, we don't know if the bandits are still waiting on the road. It's better to stay for two days and pick more wild vegetables."

There was nothing to eat on the road outside, so the Xu family had to stock up on some wild vegetables so that they could carry them to the next town.

Hunter Li had no objection. He also planned to hunt for two days and then take some skins to the next town to exchange for some food and cloth. "Brother Xu, the weather is getting colder now. We haven't left the northern territory yet. We have to prepare jackets and quilts in advance, in case it snows suddenly one day."

Old Mrs. Xu was also very worried. The weather in the north could change suddenly. The Xu family's thick clothes were thrown away when they fled. Now they didn't dare to go back to look for them, and they were probably gone.

However, Old Mrs. Xu did not show it, so as to avoid worrying the whole family. The fact that the whole family is still together is much better than for other people in Xujia Village.

Old Mrs. Xu sighed secretly, saying that people still have to learn to be content.

Xu Ning had eaten a full meal in the morning, so he put the eggs in his arms when he couldn't eat any more. Then he took Xu's second child and went into the bushes.

"Wow, so many little red fruits!" Xu Xiaobao opened his mouth wide. Xu Ning thought it was fun, so he picked a little red fruit and threw it into Xu Xiaobao's mouth!

Xu Xiaobao chewed habitually, then realized that his second sister was teasing him and smiled embarrassedly.

Xu Dabao was also very excited. He picked a few large leaves and spread them on his hands, then carefully picked the small red fruits and placed them on the leaves.

Xu Ning picked a few and ate them first, then slowly picked some and put them in Xu Dabao's hand.

When Xu Dabao had no more leaves in his hands, he ran back to the cave. When he came back, he was seen holding a basket.

"Daya, the basket was woven by grandpa!" Xu Dabao handed it to Xu Ning to see as if he were presenting a treasure. His previous backpack was also woven by old man Xu himself.

Xu Dabao takes good care of this wicker basket. In order to make it last longer, Xu Dabao puts a layer of large leaves on the basket and carefully supports the bottom of the basket with both hands.

Xu Ning and Xu Xiaobao looked at him and smiled at each other, then followed his example and picked the small red fruits and gently put them into the basket.

At noon, Old Mrs. Xu came over to the bushes and called out, and the three little kids of the Xu family came out reluctantly.

"Hey, where did these three little cats come from?"

Xu Dabao's basket was already full, but Xu Ning was being naughty and refused to give it back to him. Xu Xiaobao saw that the basket was full and stuffed the fruit into his mouth. When he couldn't finish it himself, he gave the fruit to his brothers and sisters. In the end, all three of them had red jam on their faces.

"Grandma, come and eat!" Old Mrs. Xu squatted down and took the basket from Xu Dabao. Xu Ning wanted to feed the small red fruits into Old Mrs. Xu's mouth, but Xu Xiaobao got there first. As a result, Old Mrs. Xu's face was also covered with jam!

"Hahahaha" the three little ones laughed, and Old Mrs. Xu couldn't help but laugh too.

Mrs. Feng came out with the child in her arms and walked around. She smiled when she saw this scene. She seemed to have returned to the past before the natural disaster happened.

She couldn't help but think how nice it would be if there were no natural disasters, the children would grow up happily and the elderly would live out their lives in peace.

Unfortunately, God always makes things difficult for the unfortunate people...

Zhang used another basket woven by Old Man Xu to put the wild vegetables washed from the stream. After blanching them with water, she tied them into small bundles with clean ropes and hung them in a ventilated place in the cave to dry.

Outside the cave, Xu Da and Li the Hunter had already set up traps around and were walking back to rest, while Old Man Xu was sitting in the cave weaving the third basket.

The weather was too hot at noon, so Old Mrs. Xu made a pot of pure wild vegetable soup.

There are a lot of wild vegetables and the soup is very thick, so you can taste a lot of wild vegetables in every sip.

The adults were all very satisfied. They had no lunch on the way to escape the famine, so this time they stayed to store food, and they couldn't finish the wild vegetables nearby, so Old Lady Xu cooked a big pot.

Xu Ning took her bowl of half-cold wild vegetable soup and took a sip tentatively. She immediately stuck out her tongue in discomfort. The bitter taste rushed to her forehead. Xu Ning's brows were knotted. To her, the wild vegetable porridge was too unpalatable.

Wild vegetables themselves are bitter, but these are the wild vegetables that Old Lady Xu specially rinsed and stewed until they were soft. Old Lady Xu was not reluctant to add salt. After all, they all had to work, and they would have no strength if they didn't eat salt in the hot weather.

But there was no other seasoning except salt, so Xu Ning felt it was unpalatable.

Xu Ning felt a little guilty. When she was a child, the wild vegetables she ate were all soaked in water several times and then stir-fried with pork, lard, soy sauce and oyster sauce. They were fresh and juicy, and she would savor them for a long time when she thought about them.

Xu Ning swallowed his saliva and thought, if there is no pork, eggs will do.

"Grandma, I'll go pick up pheasant eggs this afternoon!"

Xu Ning put down the bowl and patted his chest to make a promise. Old Mrs. Xu touched the back of Xu Ning's head which was prickly, nodded, and continued to drink the wild vegetable porridge.

At this moment, Xu Ning remembered the boiled eggs he had not eaten in the morning, so he took them out from his clothes, peeled the eggshells, separated the egg whites and yolks, mashed them into a bowl, and mixed them with the wild vegetable paste.

After mixing it well, take a sip. Mmm, it tastes much better!

"Delicious!" Xu Ning inhaled it quickly, fearing that if he swallowed slowly he would taste the bitterness.

Xu Ning finished eating last, added some boiled water to the bowl, and drank up all the egg yolk at the bottom of the bowl. Then Xu Ning put down the bowl and stopped eating. She was still a child, and a bowl of thick wild vegetable soup was enough.

But although he had enough vegetables, Xiao Hongguo was not full.

Xu Ning stretched out her red-dyed fingers, grabbed a handful from the basket, stuffed a big bite into her mouth, and ate happily with her cheeks puffed out.

The bitterness of wild vegetables is finally gone!

Xu Xiaobao was stunned watching Xu Ning's operation. The curious little baby immediately followed suit and peeled the eggs he was reluctant to eat. After taking a sip of the egg and wild vegetable paste, his eyes lit up.

"Wow! What my sister cooked is delicious!" Xu Xiaobao quickly recommended it to the adults, as no one had eaten the eggs yet.

The adults in the Xu family wanted to save some for the younger ones, and Hunter Li wanted to save some for his wife. Xu Ning immediately raised his hand and said, "I won't eat it, even if you give it to me!"

"Yes, Grandpa and Grandma, Dad and Mom, you guys eat!"

"Xiaobao has eaten, he doesn't want to eat anymore!"

"Husband, you eat!"

There was no other way. The “adults” looked around and decided to follow suit and peel the eggs.

For a moment, the adults sighed with satisfaction and the children cried.

Xu Ning grinned, revealing a mouthful of teeth that were dyed red by the small red fruits.

In the evening, Xu Ning just came out of the bushes with a dozen pheasant eggs that he had exchanged for the treasure chest, and saw his father happily holding a bowl filled with the white stuff.

Xu Ning moved closer out of curiosity and almost dropped the pheasant eggs in his arms!

Oh my god! It’s full of bugs! There are so many fat, white bugs that they fill the entire bamboo tube!