Crossing the famine: The hunter's wife has good farmland

While Yue Lu and Mo Xiaonian were taking a bunch of ant vegetables home, Fu Cang also came back.

He brought back a rabbit and a large bundle of firewood. The wood blocks were as thick as arms and about a foot long, so they didn't need to be chopped when needed.

Mo Xiaonian gave Fu Cang a thumbs up.

Fu Cang is definitely the most qualified man. He can go out hunting to support his family, and he is also good at doing these housework.

Fu Cang felt that with Mo Xiaonian's praise, no matter how hard his work was, it was all worth it.

Now that Yuelu had sugar in her hands, she could cook more kinds of meals. Tonight, she steamed a pot of rice cakes with sugar, mixed a small bowl of ant vegetables, and cooked a pot of broth with the rabbit's offal, head, and legs. She left the fatter part of the trunk, preparing to brine it and then air-dry it into dried rabbit jerky to eat in the winter.

Mo Xiaonian called Luhua over and asked her to come and eat together.

Luhua had a lot of work to do today. She picked up a lot of firewood, and also the wood that Fu Cang brought back, which she neatly stacked in the corner. Mo Xiaonian felt that Luhua was really a good woman, but she had a bad life.

Luhua was shy and ate very little. When she ate the sweet rice cake, her mouth opened wide in surprise.

She had really never eaten anything so delicious.

Luhua's appearance made Mo Xiaonian laugh, and she pulled Luhua's arm affectionately.

"Is it delicious?"

"It's delicious! This is the best thing I've ever eaten!"

"Then you must eat more. Don't worry, I can find a lot of this kind of food. No one of us will go hungry in the future. From now on, you will be my real sister. As long as I am here, I will never let anyone bully you!"

Luhua's tears were coming out, but she still didn't dare to get close to Mo Xiaonian. After Mo Xiaonian let go of her hand, she silently moved a little further away from her.

Now she also thinks that she has a hard life and will bring bad luck to those close to her. Mo Xiaonian is such a good person, she absolutely cannot bring her own bad luck to her.

After dinner, Mo Xiaonian took Fu Cang to the foot of the pine trees and pointed out the pine cones to him.

"That pine cone has pine nuts inside, so they are very valuable if sold?"

"Can I sell it? I know what's in it. It's very small, but very hard and can't be eaten at all."

“The outer shell is hard, but after you break the hard shell, you’ll find pine nuts inside. They’re delicious and have high nutritional value. There are two kinds of pine nut candies in Wangyou City. One is real, with pine nuts inside. That kind is very expensive and only wealthy families can afford it. The other kind is pine nut candy made with glutinous rice instead of pine nuts. It’s also delicious and much cheaper than the one with pine nuts.

Go up and pick a few for me, and I'll knock out the pine nuts inside so you can taste them and you'll know."

Fu Cang nodded, grabbed the tree trunk with his hands and feet and climbed up.

Mo Xiaonian felt terrified by what she saw, and kept telling Fu Cang to be careful.

Fu Cang knew what was going on, as he often climbed up trees to take bird eggs. He just climbed up to the top and looked at the big and plump pine cones, which were really quite rare.

"Stay away. I'm here anyway, so I can get more of them."

Mo Xiaonian immediately ran far away, and then saw the big pine cones falling from the trees like dumplings.

When Mo Xiaonian saw that this was too much and the two of them couldn't carry it at all, he ran back to the cave and brought the big wooden barrel from home.

Fu Cang saw that it was almost time, so he climbed down from the tree, filled a bucket but couldn't put it all in, so he went back to deliver it.

When the people in the tribe saw Fu Cang carrying back so many pine cones, they thought he was going to use them as firewood and laughed at him secretly. Instead of going through the trouble of making firewood with pine cones, it would be better to just pick up some firewood and save trouble.

Fu Cang curiously picked out a pine nut and asked Mo Xiaonian, "Is this the edible thing you mentioned?"

"Not yet. These are green pine nuts, which need to be roasted over fire before they can be eaten. In fact, it would be better if charcoal was used to roast them. That way, it would be easier to control the heat and avoid burning the pine nuts!

By the way, Fu Cang, when you have time, I will tell you how to make charcoal. You can make a few pots of charcoal. When winter really comes, we can’t always cook and keep warm with open fire in the cave. We can’t stand the smoke.

It would be better to use charcoal. Charcoal has no smoke or open flames, and it is perfect to put it in a charcoal basin for heating. However, if you use charcoal, you must pay attention to ventilation, otherwise it is easy to get carbon monoxide poisoning, which is a serious matter. "

Fu Cang and Yue Lu Luhua who were sitting next to Mo Xiaonian were stunned.

At this moment they felt that Mo Xiaonian might really be a goddess, otherwise how could she know so many things!

Yue Lu blinked and suddenly grabbed Mo Xiaonian's hand.

"Do you have a solution to keep warm in the cave? I'm worried about this. There are so many people living in this cave. Now we have to cook outside. The only way to keep warm is to light a fire near the cave entrance. The hot air can't get into the cave at all. If you can really solve this problem, you will be the goddess of our tribe!"

"Don't worry, grandma. We will definitely find a solution. Look, this pine cone is almost roasted. Fu Cang, bring a stone over and hit it a few times, and all the pine nuts inside will be knocked out."

The aroma of roasted pine cones has spread from the entrance of the cave to the entire cave. It is different from the smell of burnt pine cones before, and it has an extremely special aroma.

Yue Lu also asked Mo Xiaonian her own questions.

Mo Xiaonian explained to them with a smile.

"The pine cones you burned before are different from these. There are no pine nuts there. The pine cones with pine nuts grow on red pine trees. So the pine cones you burned back then would not have this kind of fragrance, and there were no edible pine nuts either."

Fu Cang had already taken a stone and smashed the burned pine cone a few times. Sure enough, the brown-red pine nuts popped out from it.

Mo Xiaonian instructed Fu Cang to smash a few pine nuts, picked out the fragrant pine nut kernels inside, and stuffed one into the mouths of Fu Cang and Yue Lu respectively.

"Try it! This is pine nuts. It is rich in protein, vitamins, and dietary fiber. It is very good for your health!"

The pine nuts are very small, and Fu Cang felt that they were not enough to chew, and they were gone in a flash. Although it was not very satisfying, after eating it, there was a lingering taste on the lips and teeth, which was really unforgettable.