Crossing the farm gate, the whole family reunites in the disaster year

Cui Zhaozhao wiped off the mud on the black block.

Everyone then saw clearly that she was holding something with pointed ends, shaped like a sheep's horn, and looked a bit strange.

"Brother, look at this, you were pricked by it just now."

I didn't expect that there were water chestnuts hidden in the mud pond. I couldn't see them clearly at night, but when I dug them just now, I could feel that there were many more nearby.

Water chestnuts are a rare delicacy, with a sweet taste and can fill your stomach.

The mud had been exposed to the sun for a day, and the water chestnuts felt warm in his hands. Cui Jingwen poked the small pointed corners and couldn't help feeling a little surprised.

"You can't even eat water chestnuts anywhere else, and you're starving and won't eat them?!"

Water chestnuts mostly grow in the south. When I was a child, they were only sold in the autumn market, and the price was not cheap.

Cui Jingwen looked at the water chestnuts. He hadn't eaten them for several years.

Li Shi squatted down in confusion, dug out a water chestnut from the ground, and looked at it over and over again, frowning.

"It's as hard as a rock. It doesn't look like it's edible at all. Are you sure you're not mistaken, little brother?"

Cui Jingwen patted his butt and stood up: "The outside is the shell, we have to open it, you watch it."

He wanted to show off his skills, but everyone only saw his neck turned red and he was spinning in circles and jumping around.

Cui Jingwen was so angry that he was fuming: "The skin of this water chestnut is too thick, change it for another one."

Captain Yan didn't say anything. He picked up the water chestnut that he had thrown on the ground, wiped it with his sleeve, and with some force, the water chestnut broke into two.

"Is that right?"

Zhao Shi and the others turned their backs and tried hard not to laugh.

The corners of Cui Jingwen's mouth twitched.

He doesn't agree!

Zhao Li held back his laughter and picked up the water chestnut. "Hey, it's actually white inside, like white jade. Can we eat it like this?"

Qinggui squeezed to the front and was shocked when he saw Lingjiao.

"Sir, you can't eat this. Throw it away quickly."

After saying that, he snatched the water chestnut, threw it to the ground quickly, and stomped on it twice out of anger.

"This thing grew like crazy in the mud pond last year. Because of it, we didn't get much lotus root in the mud pond."

Qinggui hates water chestnuts.

There were no water chestnuts in the mud pond before, and I don’t know why so many of them suddenly grew last year. The reeds were covered with dense green leaves, covering the water surface.

"Why did you throw it away? This thing is delicious."

"You can't eat it! This thing is extremely powerful." Qinggui stopped Cui Jingwen. "Someone in our village was starving before. After eating it, they started writhing in pain. The next day, they started having bloody stools. Within a few days, they died. Several people died. No one in our village dares to eat it."

"Just look at the way it looks. It's not something you can eat."

Zhao Shi quickly threw away the water chestnut in his hand, fortunately he didn't eat it.

After hearing what he said, Cui Jingwen began to doubt whether he had made a mistake, but this thing really looked the same as a water chestnut, and had the same white meat inside.

Cui Zhaozhao paused and asked, "How do you eat it?"

"It's eaten like this. I didn't dare to eat it. Some young people in the village ate a lot of it and they said it tasted sweet."

"Not cooked?"

Qinggui thought for a moment and said affirmatively, "That's how we eat it."

Cui Zhaozhao didn't know what to say. There were many parasites in the mud pond, and the villagers would suffer from severe diarrhea after eating it. The problem must be that it was not cooked thoroughly.

And as soon as it was dug out, the mall had already announced it, so she was sure it was water chestnut.

"My mother's hometown has a lot of water chestnuts. I remember she said that water chestnuts cannot be eaten raw and must be cooked."

"this......"

Qinggui didn't know whether he should believe her, but with the bloody lesson right in front of him, he was still full of resistance to Lingjiao.

“Is there any water in the village?”

"Yes, there is. There is a well in the village that can pump water, but it is almost out of water."

Cui Zhaozhao nodded and called on the others to dig water chestnuts together.

If there are really as many water chestnuts as Qinggui said, then Luhua Village will really be revived.

Zhao Li and his companions rolled up their sleeves and started digging without hesitation. Qinggui couldn't stop them, so he simply joined in the digging.

At worst, he can eat it first after we cook it. If he dies, he will die. At least he will die with a full stomach.

Thinking of this gave him more strength. The water chestnuts were scattered on the ground. Qinggui simply took off his clothes and picked up the water chestnuts with his clothes.

Cui Zhaozhao stopped and said, "Let's dig these first."

Cui Jingwen patted the mud off his hands and said, "Let's find a place to cook it."

“I can cook at home.”

Qinggui's house was on the west side of the village, and it took only a few minutes to get there. Before I got there, I saw a woman holding a child, sitting on the doorstep and looking around.

"Why did you come out?"

Qinggui limped a few quick steps, helped the woman up, turned around and introduced them to Cui Zhaozhao and the others, "This is my wife and daughter."

Qinggui's wife looked at the constable in front of her with a pale face.

"His father, what happened?"

"They are sent by the county magistrate to find water for the village. Go and boil some water! The officials need to borrow our pot."

Qinggui's wife was a little nervous. She carried the child and went to the kitchen, looking back every few steps.

It was so dark, the official must have come to borrow a pot to cook. Looking at her daughter in her arms who was so hungry that she couldn't cry, Qinggui's wife wiped away her tears.

I hope there will be some food left after the official finishes his meal.

There was only half a bucket of water in Qinggui's house. Cui Zhaozhao took advantage of the night to secretly buy water from the mall, added it to a wooden basin, and washed the water chestnuts carefully.

After Qinggui's wife boiled some water, Qinggui sent her back to the house.

Cui Jingwen added firewood to the stove, and Zhao Li poured the washed water chestnuts into the pot.

“How long do you cook water chestnuts?”

"About a quarter of an hour."

Water chestnuts are usually cooked in fifteen minutes, but the ones here are a bit old and have thick shells, so it is safer to cook them a little longer.

While the water chestnuts were being cooked, Cui Zhaozhao called his brother and went to the mud pond again. Captain Yan was worried and followed them with a torch.

This time we didn't waste any time and quickly found the water source marked on the map, right in the center of the mud pond.

Cui Jingwen suddenly grabbed Cui Zhaozhao's sleeve and asked, "Do you feel that your feet are a little slippery?"

His mind was full of horror scenes from movies.

Late at night in the wilderness, bloody footprints...

Captain Yan lowered the torch, and the ground was faintly covered with a layer of green.

"The mud pond is completely dry, how can moss grow here?"

Cui Zhaozhao poked his frightened brother and said, "Doesn't moss always grow in places with plenty of water?"

Cui Jingwen unconsciously added, "Maybe there's water underground."

After he finished speaking, he suddenly thought of something and turned to look at Cui Zhaozhao.

Cui Zhaozhao smiled and said, "Then let's go tell the clan leader, Grandpa."

Before Captain Yan could understand what was going on, he had already followed him back.

Found water already?!

He felt that water chestnuts were not strange, but the Cui brothers and sisters were the strangest. Finding water was as easy as drinking water.

You can find water by walking.

When they returned, the water chestnuts had just been cooked, and Qinggui held them tightly in his arms.

"I'm not afraid of death. Let me eat first. If I'm fine after eating, you can eat later."

Cui Zhaozhao was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

"Then you eat first, be careful of the heat."

Several people gathered in a circle and watched him wolf down the food.

The flesh of the old water chestnuts was soft and glutinous, and Qinggui choked and pounded his chest.