She picked up the young prime minister while fleeing famine

"Found it, this is it, a bamboo shoot." Banxia said casually, pointing to a bamboo shoot that was up to her knees in front of her when she heard someone ask.

"What? These are bamboo shoots, you can't eat them!" the man exclaimed in shock.

In the past, when food was scarce, it wasn't that no one ate bamboo shoots, but they were hard, bitter, and very difficult to process, so gradually no one ate them anymore.

They are currently fleeing famine, and it is spring and summer. There are plenty of wild vegetables on the mountain, so there is no need for them to eat bamboo shoots.

"That's because you didn't handle it properly. Bamboo shoots need to be sliced ​​and blanched in boiling water to taste good. They can also be dried into bamboo shoots. Just throw some into the pot when you want to eat them," Banxia said without even asking how they were prepared.

It's easy to imagine that people at that time had a limited variety of dishes and could only cook by steaming and boiling. How could you expect them to make any complicated dishes?

Regardless of what Yao Dahe and the other person thought, Banxia started digging anyway.

She was strong, and in no time she dug out a big, white bamboo shoot. After digging this one, Banxia went to dig the next one.

"Big River, shall we dig it or not?" The man leading the way hesitated.

He had never eaten bamboo shoots before, but he had heard that they were not tasty and that they would lick one's lips.

"Dig!" Yao Dahe glanced at Banxia, ​​who was digging enthusiastically, and joined in.

Whether it tastes good or not, bamboo shoots won't kill you. As long as it's edible, you can never have too much.

Banxia, ​​who was digging enthusiastically nearby, was horrified when she saw Yao Dahe pick out a bamboo shoot that was almost as tall as himself and prepare to dig it up.

"Brother Dahe, that one is too old. You should dig one like mine, this tall. The old ones are inedible." Banxia had no choice but to remind him.

Yao Dahe was taken aback. He glanced at the small bamboo shoots that Banxia had dug up, then at the huge bamboo shoots in front of him, and finally obediently dug up a small one.

Men are so rough around the edges; they always think that the bigger the food, the better and more cost-effective it is. In fact, many things can only be eaten as tender shoots.

It wasn't the right season, so there weren't many bamboo shoots to dig up. Fortunately, they weren't small, and Banxia estimated that two shoots would be enough for the six children to have a meal.

She has now accumulated quite a few snacks, and if she eats them together, one stick per meal is enough.

Thinking that it wasn't too hot today, and that the bamboo shoots could be kept for three to five days without peeling, Banxia kept three days' worth for herself, and peeled the rest and put them in her basket.

Yao Dahe and his companion saw this and followed suit.

It's worth mentioning that their rampant cutting of bamboo in the bamboo forest finally angered the bamboo rats.

Perhaps because this place is deserted and there are no natural enemies, the bamboo rats have jumped out fiercely to try to bite people.

This is for Banxia Le, what an absolutely adorable little cutie!

Banxia accepted all comers, using up all three of her remaining wooden arrows and even shooting down two more with her slingshot.

Yao Dahe also had a good harvest. The moment they saw the bamboo rats, the two grown men completely forgot about digging bamboo shoots.

They got right to work and, under Banxia's direction, blocked several bamboo rat burrows. The two of them caught a dozen or so bamboo rats in total.

This is more than the number of rabbits caught from the rabbit burrow that day.

However, this caused too much commotion, and even though they had no natural enemies, the bamboo rats knew how dangerous it was.

After that, no matter how hard the three of them tried, they never saw any more bamboo rats. Several bamboo rat burrows they found were also empty.

However, Banxia actually found some nuts while digging through a few bamboo rat holes, namely chestnuts and pine nuts!

This means there are chestnut trees and pine trees that produce pine nuts in these mountains!

Banxia was incredibly excited at the time, but when she looked up, the sun was already quite late.

She didn't have time to go up the mountain to search slowly, and she had already found quite a lot of food today. Yao Li Village wouldn't linger for a few chestnuts.

Thus, Banxia had no choice but to carefully store the chestnuts and pine nuts, and put some of them together with the yam seeds she had collected before.

Although the quantity is small, once she reaches a safe place, these can all be planted. Then, will she still have to worry about not having seeds?

Yao Dahe and Banxia had no idea what Banxia was thinking. After killing so many bamboo rats, even Yao Dahe couldn't help but smile slightly.

These bamboo rats don't have as many burrows as rabbit burrows, so the two of them can block them all. With just the two of them, they can harvest so much prey. How could they not be happy?

As for these unfamiliar creatures, Banxia said they were bamboo rats and large rats, which the bamboo rats ate without any difficulty, since they were all meat.

So when the three of them returned to the camp with nearly twenty bamboo rats and a full basket of bamboo shoots on their backs, they astonished everyone once again.

All three had a string of unidentified animals hanging from their waists, each weighing at least two pounds.

This is the harvest of three people, not the harvest of thirty people.

Immediately, everyone looked at Banxia with the same excitement as mice seeing rice.

They knew each other well, and Yao Dahe and his companion had never found so many prey before.

Sure enough, when asked, the two said that the bamboo rat was discovered by Banxia, ​​and that it was an animal that hid in the bamboo forest to eat bamboo.

"There are even animals that specifically eat bamboo, isn't that too strange?"

"Exactly! Bamboo is so hard, how can such a small thing have such good teeth?"

The people of Yaoli Village have always lived on the northern border of Xinjiang, where bamboo is scarce and they have never seen bamboo rats that eat bamboo.

For a moment, everyone curiously surrounded Yao Dahe and his two companions, wanting to see what the bamboo-eating animal looked like.

When I saw the bamboo rat's huge incisors and heard that it used to chase and bite people, I was quite startled.

But more than anything, I felt joy; with so much meat, I could have a few more bites.

"Make way, everyone, please make way." Banxia squeezed her way out from the crowd of onlookers in Yaoli Village.

"Big sister, let me help you with that!" Qi Juanbai waited outside the crowd because he couldn't squeeze in. When he saw Banxia manage to get through, he immediately went to help her.

The little guy hugged a bamboo rat that Banxia was hanging on her body with both hands and lifted it up with all his might.

Seeing this, Qi Changshan stepped forward to help lift one up, and then it was Liancheng elm.

Seeing this, Lian Chengmo, who was holding Lian Chengshuang's hand, rushed forward to help and took off the straw rope that was hanging around Banxia's neck to string the prey.

The three boys each held one, while Lian Chengmo carried the other two.

However, these five bamboo rats were tied by their feet and strung together on a vine by Banxia, ​​so each of them had to hold one and could only "advance and retreat together".

Seeing the boys pushing and shoving each other and almost falling over, Lian Chengmo carefully followed behind, carrying two bamboo rats. Banxia burst out laughing.

"Sister Banxia, ​​you're so great! Grab the succulents!" Lian Chengshuang, who had somehow let go of her older brother's hand, ran over and hugged Banxia's leg.

"So-so, so-so!" Banxia, ​​who was secretly laughing, looked down and met the little girl's sweet smile, and hurriedly said modestly.

But, don't you feel completely charmed?