These years of being the queen mother!

Thanks to the 'exercise' of going out to look for food, a few days have passed. Although Yang Lingyue's small face is still sallow, and her hair is limp and burnt yellow, overall, she is much better than when she was weak when she first traveled, um At least Yang Lingyue has the energy and strength to start tentatively inquiring about news.

Although the dilapidated temple where the brothers and sisters Yang Lingyue and Yang Mingda lived was dilapidated and located in the wilderness, they walked along the muddy path in front of the temple, winding all the way down, passing through uninhabited bushes with various animals jumping around, and then straight Going down, in a short time, you can see scattered thatched huts at the foot of the mountain.

Obviously, there is only a mountain with a ruined temple on the top of the mountain, and the village at the foot of the mountain is still very popular.Due to the remote location, the folk customs here are relatively simple. At least when they meet the brothers and sisters who are like little beggars and beg for life alone, most people in the village have a heart of compassion. Drought, the food in every household is not enough for their own food, even if they sympathize with the siblings, it is impossible to help the siblings, so since the mother of the siblings passed away some time ago, the siblings have depended on each other, and they have lived until now...

Yang Lingyue didn't know how the original owner got sick. In general, it was nothing more than a few words of melancholy and illness.When Yang Mingda went out to look for food, Yang Lingyue also had a general impression of the original owner through his surreptitious inquiries.This girl is a thoughtful, cruel father, sad about her mother's death, and worried about her younger brother's future, so it's strange if she doesn't get depressed and become ill after going back and forth like this.I didn't catch the cold and developed a high fever, so I just left, and the inside was replaced by Yang Lingyue from the 21st century.

Yang Lingyue rubbed her head, glanced at Yang Mingda who was carefully digging wild vegetables with a wooden stick, stretched silently, and then followed Yang Mingda with a wooden stick, digging and picking edible wild vegetables.

Perhaps it was because of her dying heart (going back to the modern age), she accepted her fate and worked hard to fill her stomach, so Yang Lingyue didn't bother to inquire about the current era. Judging from the clothes of the woodcutters who passed by the mountain to chop firewood, the left and right were nothing more than ancient times.

After picking a basket of wild vegetables, Yang Lingyue and her brother stopped holding hands and took a basket of wild vegetables to the stream to clean the wild vegetables.

This creek is some distance away from the ruined temple where the siblings lived. Some time ago, Yang Lingyue had been ill, so she was afraid that her sister would leave him like her mother, even if Yang Mingda went out to dig wild vegetables with her sister. , Did not let my sister go with me to clean wild vegetables by the stream.This time was the first time Yang Lingyue, who only had a little memory of the original owner, went to the creek.

The small stream meanders down from the valley, the stream is clear and bright, and has a sweet taste.Usually, the living water of the siblings is taken from the stream.Yang Lingyue racked his brains to make two big bamboo tubes, and when they were full, he didn't have to fetch water for a day.

It's only the end of spring now, the sky is still a little bit cold, and the water in the stream is a little scary. Yang Lingyue didn't follow Yang Mingda's example, throwing away her shoes and socks, and stood barefoot in the middle of the stream to play in the water and catch fish and shrimp.

Yang Lingyue squatted by the creek, carefully washed a basket of wild vegetables, and filled two large bamboo tubes with water. Just when she was about to ask Yang Mingda to go ashore and return to the ruined temple, a long and long tree suddenly appeared in the water. The black shadow was taken aback.

"Brother Ming, don't move, be careful of the water snake."

Yang Lingyue's eyes widened, and when she was about to find a wooden stick to scare the snake, she saw Yang Mingda reach out to fish the water quickly, and when Yang Lingyue's heart was pounding with fright, Yang Mingda grabbed the snake's head with one hand and pinched the snake with the other. Seven inches, laughing at Yang Lingyue, who was poor and nervous on the shore, his mouth parted, showing the roots of his teeth.

"Sister, we have meat to eat."

Hearing this, Yang Lingyue's eyes turned red.She was a delicate girl from the 21st century, and she became a useless person when she came to this ancient time. In terms of survival ability, both the original owner and Yang Mingda, who was three years younger than the original owner, were all scumbags to the extreme.Yang Lingyue thought that besides luck, it was more because of Yang Mingda's love for her sister that she could live to this day.

Yang Lingyue, Yang Lingyue, you are really useless.

Yang Lingyue wiped her eye sockets, imitating Yang Mingda's tone, and said excitedly: "Well, we have some meat to eat tonight. Brother Ming, come up quickly, the stream is a bit cold, don't freeze."

As the younger brother who is dependent on the original owner, Yang Mingda listens to Yang Lingyue very much.As soon as Yang Lingyue opened his mouth, the giggling Yang Mingda grabbed the snake and jumped ashore, then motioned Yang Lingyue to pick up a stone, and brutally smashed the stone to kill the snake.

The snake caught by Yang Mingda is a non-venomous snake endemic to the local area. It is more active during the day and feeds on fish, frogs, tadpoles, lizards, snakes, birds, bird eggs, small mammals, and molluscs.This golden snake with its head smashed was not big, about a catty or so, and it was a pot of meat when cleaned up and cooked, just enough for the siblings who usually eat wild vegetables to have a good meal.

After Yang Mingda smashed the snake to death, Yang Lingyue took over the job of digging it.She picked up a thin piece of stone by the stream, used it instead of a knife, cut the snake open, and cleaned it on the spot.

During the cleaning process, Yang Lingyue saw a few more lobsters showing their teeth and claws, and hurriedly instructed Yang Mingda to catch the big lobsters she saw.

"Can this bug be eaten?" Although Yang Mingda was puzzled, he obediently grabbed the green shell's shrimp.During the capture process, Yang Mingda did not forget to pick up the rocks accumulated in the stream, and luckily caught several crabs of different sizes.

Yang Lingyue thought for a while, then divided the cleaned brocade snake into two, let Yang Mingda take the missing half back to the ruined temple with wild vegetables, shrimps and crabs, while she tore the phoenix leaves to wrap the more snake meat, and stretched The path down the mountain went to a small village at the foot of the mountain, and we planned to exchange the hard-won snake meat for a little edible salt.

Yang Lingyue knew that the ancient salt was divided into green salt and black salt. The former did not contain too many impurities and was expensive, and ordinary people would never eat it, while black salt was darker in color and contained a lot of impurities. There is a bitter taste in the mouth, but it is the main edible salt of ordinary people.Yang Lingyue is well known for her self-knowledge. Even if ordinary people lack meat in their homes, about seven taels of snake meat can't exchange much black salt. So Yang Lingyue's plan is to show pity and take advantage of the villagers' sympathy for her siblings. Swap in as much edible black salt as possible.Of course, if there is no black salt, it is also possible to change to some salty bean paste.

Yang Lingyue traveled very quickly, and going down the mountain was always easier than going up. In a short time, Yang Lingyue arrived at the small flat village at the foot of the mountain with the snake meat wrapped in sycamore leaves.

There are about twenty families in this small village. At this time, the smoke is billowing from the kitchen, and the households whose ancestors have been digging in the soil for generations are busy working in their own fields, paying no attention to Yang Lingyue, who is alone at this time. However, it was Yang Lingyue who took the initiative to find the head of the village with a relatively affluent family, which made the busy farmers focus on Yang Lingyue.

"Isn't this the sister of the Yang family? What can you do with your aunt?"

The head of the village is a kind-hearted middle-aged woman with a good temper.Even if she was stopped by the beggar-like Yang Lingyue, she didn't feel that she had lost her place, and instead greeted her kindly.

Because now she is considered an orphan without parents, even though Yang Lingyue herself has bright eyes and white teeth, she is an out-and-out beauty, but with her patched and tattered clothes, she is considered a beggar. So Yang Lingyue, who had already thought about the possible ridicule in her heart, had a trace of warmth in her eyes, and shyly told the benevolent village official her intention of coming.

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