Defeat natural disasters with farming

Since the harvest in the mountains, many villagers couldn't stay in the village anymore, and they had to go there every two or three days, until one time when Ye Zhong was hunting, he met a brown bear, and the brown bear was on his chest. A deep scar was left on his chest, which almost killed him.

Fortunately, Dr. Hao was with the team at that time, he rescued people in time, stopped the bleeding in various ways, and then rescued Ye Zhong, but even so, Ye Zhong was still in a coma for five days.

"When the bear man stood up, it was as tall as four of me," Ye Zhong gestured with pain after waking up, "The melon seeds are like iron hooks, and they swung in front of me in the blink of an eye."

Because of his excessive action, the freshly bandaged wound was torn again, and a faint red blood stain appeared on the clean white cloth.

The corners of Ye Yu's mouth couldn't help twitching. He originally thought that this matter would leave a psychological shadow on Uncle Zhong, but now seeing that he didn't take it seriously at all, and even looked eager to try again, wanting to fight the brown bear again field.

His son Ye Shuan rolled his eyes when he heard the words, "You'd better stay at home and rest honestly. Doctor Hao said that your injury won't heal within two or three months."

Ye Zhong was scolded by his son, he smiled embarrassedly, and retreated to the kang again.

With Ye Zhong's lessons learned, the villagers who entered the mountain became more careful. Once they saw bear footprints on the ground, they would leave as soon as possible. In this way, there were indeed no serious casualties in the village. Injuries such as broken skin or broken bones.

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Ye Yu handed the ointment in Ye Shuan's hand, and said to him, "This is the ointment that Dr. Hao entrusted me to send. He said that the effect is better than the previous one. You can use it when you change Uncle Zhong's ointment later."

Ye Shuan nodded after receiving it, and replied, "Thanks to the medicine prescribed by Doctor Xiaohao, my father's injury is much better than before."

After he said this, he was about to leave when he suddenly thought of something, turned around and took two steps back, "Brother Bao, come with me to my house again, my father brought back a fruit that he had never seen before. I see that it is edible, but I am afraid that it will be poisonous, you read a lot, help me find out what kind of fruit it is."

Ye Yu was also very curious after hearing his description, so she agreed immediately.

Ye Shuan first gave the ointment to his mother, and asked his mother to help his father change the ointment, and then led Ye Yu to the kitchen, and dug out five round fruits from the wicker basket.

The whole is oblate, the green pedicle is slightly cyan, as if it is not ripe yet, but the rest is bright red, a bit like a persimmon.

This isn't a tomato, it's a tomato. Ye Yu was surprised and happy when he saw it, and couldn't help but squeeze it with his hands. The touch of his hand made him more sure that it was a ripe tomato.

Tomatoes can be used to make tomato egg soup, tomato egg noodles, tomatoes mixed with sugar, tomato sauce, each of which is extremely delicious, and can also be eaten raw, and it is also sweet and sour as a fruit.

Ye Yu once searched in the county, but it didn't take long for him to find that the tomatoes didn't seem to have been brought in from overseas, so he didn't find them, and in the end he had to give up regretfully.

He never thought that what he had been looking for for so long would appear in front of him so easily.

Ye Shuan's voice awakened Ye Yu who was immersed in her own world, "Brother Bao, do you know what this is?"

"I read in a miscellaneous book that this kind of fruit is called a tomato. Do you think it looks like a persimmon?" Ye Yu pointed at the tomato and said.

Ye Shuan looked at it carefully for a long time, and then suddenly realized: "It really looks like a red persimmon, so how should I eat it? Eat it directly?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he was eager to try. Looking at him, it seemed that as long as Ye Yu nodded, he would pick up the tomato and stuff it directly into his mouth.

"You can eat it raw, but I'm afraid I'll make a mistake, so I'll cut a piece or two and feed it to chickens and ducks." Ye Yu said cautiously.

Ye Shuan nodded in agreement, and squatted on the ground watching Ye Yu take a kitchen knife and cut the tomato into several pieces, put the seeds inside aside, and then fed one of the small dices to the few tomatoes that were basking in the sun in the yard. chicken.

What made Ye Yu feel relieved was that the chickens ate with gusto, and an hour later, they were still full of energy.

So Ye Yu put the sliced ​​tomato into his mouth. Since he had cut it for a long time, the taste has changed a bit, but it is still delicious and juicy. The long-lost sweet and sour taste exploded in his mouth, making his eyes sour. .

Ye Shuan also took a sip, and was so sour that he narrowed his eyes instantly.

But sweet and sour appetizers are not just talking. He held his gurgling stomach and said with a bitter face: "It's delicious, but I'm hungry."

Ye Yu looked at the sky and found that it was still early, so she asked, "Do you have any leftovers from the morning?"

Ye Shuan nodded quickly and said, "Yes, there is half a pot of porridge left in the morning."

Ye Yu talked to Ye Shuanniang, and after getting the consent, he heated up the oil, laid an egg, and scrambled a tomato egg.

Eating scrambled eggs with tomatoes and porridge, even Ye Zhong, who had been lying on the kang for a long time and had no appetite, lifted his spirits, and drank two big bowls of porridge with his appetite.

He rounded up the remaining scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and said reluctantly after eating: "If I knew this thing was edible, I should uproot it."

Ye Yu asked him, "Uncle, where did you find it?"

"In a forest, oh yes, I went there with your elder brother at that time, he should know the place." Ye Zhong replied after thinking for a while.

Ye Yu was thoughtful. He had to go to the mountains with his elder brother. Tomato seedlings could be transplanted. Even if they didn't succeed, they could be replanted with the seeds from the tomatoes.

Before he left, Ye Shuan's mother specially stuffed two tomatoes into his hands, "Take them back for your parents to eat."

Ye Yu didn't refuse, but only instructed: "The seeds in the tomato can be planted in the ground, just dig a shallow hole. It is not suitable to water too much before germination, just keep the soil moist."

Ye Shuan listened earnestly and nodded repeatedly. He patted his chest and said confidently, "Leave the tomato planting to me."

Going home with two bright red tomatoes, Mother Ye took a look, but couldn't see clearly. She thought it was a persimmon, so she wondered, "Have the persimmons ripened so early?"

Ye Yu raised his hand and said, "It's not a persimmon, it's a food I've read in a book called a tomato, but it looks a bit like a persimmon."

"Tomato?" Mother Ye stopped what she was doing, took the tomato and looked it over carefully, and then said after a while: "This name is quite appropriate. Is it delicious?"

"I think it's delicious, and it's easy to grow. Let's just take out the seeds and plant them in the vegetable bed." Ye Yu said, "By the way, I have to ask my elder brother to take me to the mountains and transplant the seedlings back. .”

Ye Hai, who heard his name, raised his head from the table full of wool, and was a little dazed for a while before he realized, "I picked these tomatoes at the outskirts of Songshan with Uncle Zhong. I remember that there were still four seeds on that plant. The five green ones should be immature."

"It's not far away, I'll take you there later."

But Mother Ye said worriedly: "Why don't you let your father go, the mountain is not safe, you have small arms and legs, what if something happens to you?"

Ye Yu waved his hand, "I have to see if there is anything else nearby."

He thought for a while, and then said: "At worst, I'll make an appointment with brother Xu, and he can bring Jia Yi and others along."

Mother Ye relaxed a little when she heard Jia Yi. They have lived together for such a long time, and the villagers basically knew that the ten guards including Jia Yi were specially trained, and their skills were much better than ordinary people. Master, they may not be able to compare, after all, their age is here.

She agreed, and the rest of the family had no objections.

Ye Yu avoided the sun at noon and went to find Chu Xufeng in the middle of the afternoon. The two agreed to meet tomorrow by the fence gate at the back of the village and go into the mountain together.

The next day Ye Yu woke up early, took something to eat, and then took the basket that Ye Mu had packed up. She put the straw hat on Ye Yu's head while chattering, "You don't need to dry it out, even if it's hot. Take off the hat, and put a kettle in the back basket, which contains iced mung bean soup, the ice is specially exchanged by your grandma with points in the ice cellar, remember to drink it with Brother Xu and the others."

This year, the ice cellar finally came in handy. The ice was stored well in winter, and the outermost ones began to melt until recently. Therefore, Father Ye made a rule that every household in the village can change the ice, but there is a limit. To exchange a piece of ice the size of a child's palm, only one point is needed, which is really not cheap, and there are few people who exchange it. others.

In order to reassure his mother, Ye Yu listened very carefully, and Ye Mu let them leave when her mouth was dry.

Ye Yu is wearing clothes that are easy to move around, and the cuffs and trousers are tightly tied, for fear of encountering thorny thorns and small branches in the forest and scratching his arms and legs. There is also a plant called Lalayang, It is often entwined on trees, and the tiny barbs are hard to guard against.

The forest in this season is filled with shades of green, and the warm sunlight shines through the leaves, forming mottled shadows on the ground. When Ye Yu enters, it's as if he's entered a primeval forest, with lush vegetation everywhere.

There were six of them in a group, except for the three of Ye Yu and the others, there were three guards standing at the two ends of the line, one behind the other, each carrying a gun and a machete on their backs.

Ye Hai took the lead, and told Ye Yu and Chu Xufeng as they walked, "Be careful, both of you, there are many animals on the mountain, and we have set up some traps, don't step on them."

As for the three guards, he doesn't need to worry too much. They are all people who have entered the mountain several times, so they should know what to do.

With a smooth wooden stick in his hand, he tapped the bushes, fearing that a snake would suddenly jump out of it.

Ye Yu was no exception. He raised his eyes and looked at the dense bushes in front of him. Some people say that roads are made by stepping on them, but this sentence is not true in the mountains and forests. Will regrow weedy shrubs.

No one spoke along the way, only Ye Hai occasionally stopped to look at the roadside traps. If there were prey in them, he would take them out and restore the traps. If there were no prey, he would clean up the messed up traps.

Ye Yu saw all kinds of active animals, some of which he could recognize, and some of which looked so strange that he didn't know them at all, but if he asked Ye Hai, he would get the answer.

After walking for about an hour, Ye Hai stopped. He pointed to a tomato seedling growing beside a pine tree and said, "Do you see that?"

"However, there were a few uncooked ones left before, and it seems that they have been eaten by animals."

Ye Yu cautiously leaned over to have a look. After confirming that it was a tomato seedling, he nodded and said, "That's right, that's it."

After he finished speaking, he took out a shovel from the back basket and dug out the tomato seedlings along the side. When he dug to the root, he found that it was not one plant, but two plants, and the roots were entangled.

In order to improve the success rate of transplanting, Ye Yu also specially dug a ball of soil on the spot to wrap the roots of the two tomato seedlings, and then put them into the basket together.

After this is done, Ye Yu's goal of entering the mountain will be almost achieved.

But it was rare for him to enter the mountain once, and he didn't want to go back so early, so he asked his brother, "Is there any fruit on the mountain that I haven't seen before?"

Maybe you can find some fresh fruits and vegetables that you can eat.

But Ye Hai shook his head, "It's nothing, they're all wild fruits that you can't eat or you've seen before."

After he finished speaking, he suddenly paused, and changed his words: "There is one that I have never seen before. The root is red, and the leaves are a bit like spinach. I don't know if it can be eaten."

Ye Yu quickly said, "Take me to have a look."

Ye Hai responded, then turned around and led them to another place. Before Ye Yu followed, he looked back at the place where the tomato seedlings grew. He didn't know how the seeds came from, maybe the birds brought them here. Bar.

It was really tiring to walk in the mountains and forests. Ye Yu's physical strength was not good, so he had to rest for a while after walking for half an hour.

Chu Xufeng looked at the sky, it was getting hot now, accompanied by the calls of various birds and cicadas, which made people very upset.

"Let's take a break," he said.

As soon as the words fell, Ye Hai nodded, "It's time to eat something."

In Ye Yu's back basket are the goat milk cake that Ye's mother put in in the morning and a long and thin strip of dried pork. The former is soft and sweet, while the latter is salty and slightly spicy. It can be full with two or three bites of mung bean soup.

Because the kettle containing the mung bean soup was wrapped with a layer of cotton cloth, the ice inside melted slowly, and it is still a bit chilly.

He shared the food with Chu Xufeng and the others. The guards especially liked the firm and elastic pork jerky, and they basically finished a pack.

Ye Yu said: "Come and learn how to cook later. Pork jerky can be regarded as a must-have dry food for going out." It is convenient and delicious.

Chu Xufeng handed Ye Yu a piece of bacon, "Smoked venison, try it and see if you like it."

There are often red deer on the mountain. They look strange, but they have a lot of meat, which can be called a large prey, and there are a lot of them. It is the most common prey that villagers hunt in the mountains. Red deer meat has a strong taste and is usually roasted. Eat, heavy oil, heavy salt and chili noodles, and some people make it into bacon, which tastes good.

But it was the first time for Ye Yu to eat smoked venison. He put it in his mouth and tasted it.