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Chapter 162: I won’t be hungry if I have my master around
"Hey, Guoguo is back, why don't you come back for a while? You picked up so many wild mushrooms in such a short time? I'll ask your aunts to come tomorrow. We don't have any vegetables at home right now, and this tastes much better than wild vegetables."
Zhou Guo nodded, "Yes, a lot!"
There are also a lot of matsutake mushrooms, but I don’t know if they recognize them.
She carefully carried the basket of matsutake mushrooms to a flat surface and placed it there, surrounding it with wooden sticks to ensure it would not fall over.
Zhou Dacang laughed at her, "What's the big deal? It's just a basket of pine mushrooms. There aren't many in the mountains. They're fenced off specially. If they fall, just pick them up. How many of them can rot? It's not worth the trouble."
Zhou Guo clapped his hands, glanced at him, and said proudly: "You don't understand, come, I'll do it for you for a while."
Zhou Dacang made way for the situation and went to the place where the tree fell with a machete and an axe. He had to cut out the trunk.
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When everyone got tired, they drank some water, took a break, and then continued working.
No one knew how much time had passed. Zhou Guo and the other two had changed two wheels and had sawed down four large trees. The sun was already setting when the old man came back staggeringly carrying a few skewers of grilled fish and rabbits. He was also holding a sack in his hand. It looked heavy and no one knew what was in it.
"Master, you're back. Where have you been?" Zhou Guo asked. He left as soon as he came in and just came out now. There was no sound at all. She was really worried.
The old man handed her the grilled fish and rabbit meat in his hand and said, "I'll just go to the nearby hills for a walk. Come, share these."
After a day's work, everyone is almost hungry.
Everyone took the roasted meat with gratitude and devoured it ravenously.
Some men took a few bites, but when they thought of their wives, children, and parents at home, they couldn't bear to eat it anymore. They found some leaves to wrap the meat in, stuffed them into their arms, and planned to take it back for their families to eat.
Zhou Guo happily ate the grilled fish, which was sprinkled with salt, but her stomach was growling with hunger. She had porridge for breakfast and the porridge for lunch was spread out as dry food.
There was no way. There was no wheat or flour at home, only millet. They couldn't work outside all day and not take anything with them. So the eldest sister Zhou Xing boiled the leftover porridge into a thick consistency and spread it into pancakes in the pot.
To be honest, it wasn't bad, and it was crispy like rice crust. The only difference was that the portion was a little small, and there was no vegetable, so she didn't feel full at all.
Now holding the fish in her hand, she felt that it was extremely delicious. It was still a blessing to follow her master. She had no time to go hunting. After picking up a basket of mushrooms, she no longer had time. The three of them took turns several times, and after they took turns, she had to deal with other cut down trees and shave off the extra branches on them.
After all this busy work, the results are obvious. Eight of the trees have had their branches removed. They have only sawed down nine trees today, and they will have to come back in the next few days.
It was such a waste of time, and she didn't know how long it would take to transport the wood. If she had known earlier, she would have spent money to buy it. She was worried that if it rained later, not only would her family have nowhere to go, but what would she do with all the things at home?
As she ate, she thought that a piece of wood should not be that expensive. She kept spitting out the fish bone in her mouth and couldn't eat a single bite of meat for a long time. If it wasn't for the fact that it would get stuck in her throat, she would have wanted to swallow the bones. Last time, she was so hungry that she even gnawed on the bones.
The old man felt distressed and amused when he saw her eating. "You are really something. Don't tell me you are my disciple when you go out. You can starve yourself to this state even in the forest. There is food everywhere. Even if you picked up two wild mushrooms from the ground and roasted them and ate them, you wouldn't be so hungry."
"Master, you don't know what I have done all day. I would like to catch a few rabbits to gnaw on, but I have to have free time. Look, most of those bare trees below were gnawed by me. If I didn't, they would have to do this work all day." She pointed down with her chin and continued to gnaw voraciously.
After she ate half of the fish in one breath, she felt her stomach was no longer so empty and the strength in her hands and feet slowly returned. Then she remembered to ask, "Master, where did you catch this fish? It's so big!"
The one in her hand must have weighed about four pounds when it was still alive.
"After crossing this mountain and turning three more mountains, there is a canyon. In the canyon there is a waterfall, and below the waterfall is a pool of emerald green water. We caught a few fish in it." The old man pointed in a random direction.
Zhou Guo became interested when he heard about the waterfall, his eyes lit up, "Is it far? Take us there sometime, I want to go fishing too."
"Sir, I want to go too." Zhou Dacang, who was eating fish nearby, couldn't help but come over.
Two pairs of bright eyes looked at him.
The old man looked at them both meaningfully and nodded.
Zhou Guo's eyes, which were shining brightly, suddenly condensed. Hmm? Why is he looking like this? He immediately had a bad feeling.
Zhou Dacang sat back hesitantly and continued to eat his fish.
Zhou Guo looked at the old man a few times, but didn't see any clues, so he continued to eat the fish. It was useless to think too much.
He finished the fish in his hand in a short while, so he was naturally not full.
Li gave her most of the rabbit meat she had cut off, knowing that her daughter was a big eater and that one fish would definitely not be enough, and Sanlang's would probably not be enough either, so she left the rest to them.
After Zhou Guo finished eating, he took out a machete and picked up the larger branches, removed the leaves and branches on top, leaving only the bare stems, and cut them into suitable lengths. He looked around and found a wild vine with good toughness, cut it down, and tied it into a large bundle, intending to carry it back when he left, so that he would not leave empty-handed.
Seeing her sorting such a large bundle of wet firewood, Li was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. "Why are you sorting this? It's still wet. We have to leave it here to dry for a while. We can carry it after it's dried. It will be much lighter then."
Zhou Guo said nonchalantly, "It's okay, mom. I'm very strong, carrying this little thing is like playing. I have to go back anyway, so it's better to take something with me than to go back empty-handed."
The person next to him smiled and said, "Although Guoguo is still young, he works just like a farmer in his 40s. He never forgets to bring back a bundle of firewood after working in the fields every day."
"We can't lose. We don't want to go back to the village and be laughed at. Let's go pick up some dry firewood. We can't carry the wet ones, but the dry ones are enough."
A group of people hurriedly picked up dry firewood in the woods.
After Zhou Guo had tied up the firewood, she saw everyone looking for dry firewood everywhere. She spotted a big tree, climbed up with a few leaps, pulled out the machete behind her, and started chopping at the dry branches. It seemed that no one had chopped the trees here for a long time, and the earliest marks of being chopped were a long time ago.
Zhou Dacang also climbed up the tree.