Chapter 6

The mountain in their village is very big and deep. I heard from the old people that there were tigers in the depths of the mountains a long time ago. Therefore, the villagers usually stay in the periphery. People like Song Ruan who are well protected by their families rarely even go up the mountain.

So when Song Ruan went up the mountain this time, she was just like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden, and was curious about everything she saw.

Supplies are scarce now, and anything edible will easily be snatched up, but Song Ruan actually found many newly grown oyster mushrooms.

This type of mushroom usually grows after rain, and grows in large patches on rotten trees.

This kind of oyster mushroom is very appetizing whether it is fried with chili oil or served cold.

After a while, Song Ruan picked a lot.

Song Ruan picked wild vegetables and mushrooms while walking and stopping along the way. The small basket on his back was almost half full.

Unconsciously, I went deeper and deeper.

Suddenly, Song Ruan saw a plant with palm-like leaves out of the corner of his eye. Is this… ginseng?

Her father had picked a ginseng before, and the leaves looked like this, she still remembered.

Song Ruan’s almond-shaped eyes suddenly lit up, and she walked over quickly, neatly putting down the small basket on her back, then took out the sickle she had used for work at noon, and squatted down to dig.

Just as she was concentrating on digging, she suddenly heard a rustling sound coming from the woods on her left, and the sound was very loud.

Song Ruan’s heart sank. With such a loud noise, it couldn’t be a human. It could only be an animal, and… it must be a large animal.

Sure enough, not long after, a wild boar half the height of a man appeared. It had long black hair all over its body and two large curved fangs on its muzzle. Judging from its size, it weighed about 300 pounds.

It’s so scary.

At this moment, Song Ruan was still thinking about whether to disappear directly or make some operations.

The ferocious wild boar roared and rushed towards her, and she felt the earth shaking slightly.

Song Ruan frowned slightly, as if she had made up her mind, and ran with all her strength towards the big tree on the right.

Fortunately, after being tempered with the Jade Spring Water, her physical condition improved a lot, and she even ran much faster than before.

The wild boar was chasing her relentlessly and getting closer and closer. Just when the wild boar was about to knock her away in the next second, Song Ruan disappeared.

The wild boar had no time to brake and crashed into a thick tree trunk. With a loud noise, the wild boar fell to the ground instantly.

Of course, Song Ruan couldn’t see this scene. At the moment, she was in her space, feeling extremely scared and reflecting on whether she had been too impulsive.

The cruelty of wild boars is well known. When they get angry, they are no different from lions and tigers. If something went wrong during the tug-of-war, she would have lost her life.

After waiting for a while, Song Ruan carefully left the space, only to see the wild boar weighing more than 300 pounds lying unconscious on the ground.

Song Ruan observed the clue for a while before approaching carefully, touching the wild boar with his hand, and putting it into the space.

Let’s just keep this wild boar on the mountain in the space and wait for her to think of an excuse to slaughter it and eat the meat.

It was getting late, so let’s stop exploring the mountain today. Song Ruan returned to the small bamboo basket along the same route.

Huh?

Song Ruan was shocked to find that there was a pheasant that was trampled to death in the route that the wild boar had just chased her.

Is there such a thing? Song Ruan was dumbfounded. This was like waiting for a rabbit to come to you.

In this way, Song Ruan gained another benefit from this trip up the mountain.

When she returned home, the team was about to get off work, so Song Ruan quickly made a fire and cooked.

She planned to use half of the pheasant to make chicken stewed with mushrooms, and use the other half as broth for drinking tomorrow morning.

The staple food is coarse noodle dumpling soup, to which is added an egg and wild vegetables, shepherd’s purse, picked in the mountains today.

The dish was cold-mixed oyster mushrooms with chili oil, and a plate of amaranth stir-fried with sesame oil fried from chicken skin.

The most important thing is that Song Ruan secretly added some Yuquan water into the food. Yuquan water is good for the body, and she wanted to slowly improve the health of her family.

When the Song family came back from work, they smelled the fragrance from afar.

The second brother Song Wu couldn’t help but ask loudly while he was still at the door: “Little sister, what delicious food did you make? Why does it smell so good?”

Song Ruan poked her head out from the kitchen: “You’ll know in a minute, wash your hands and get ready to eat.”

After a while.

Everyone in the Song family who was sitting neatly around the dinner table was dumbfounded and couldn’t believe it.

The second brother Song Wu swallowed his saliva and said, “This is too sumptuous, just like Chinese New Year.”

After saying that, he eagerly picked up the chopsticks and reached for the chicken.

“etc.”

Her father Song Baoguo knocked Song Wu’s outstretched hand with a chopstick. Song Wu let out a cry and silently retracted the chopstick with a look of aggrieved.

Song Baoguo ignored him, turned his head to look at Song Ruan, and examined her: “Little sister, tell me first, where did this chicken come from?”

Song Ruan: “Uh, I went up the mountain today.”

“What?” Ye Hongmei shouted, “Why did you go up to the mountain? A few days ago, someone came back and said there were traces of wild boars on the mountain.”

“What if I encounter this?”

Isn’t it just what happened, Song Ruan muttered silently in his heart.

“Mom, look, I’m fine, aren’t I?” Song Ruan smiled, “I don’t know what stepped on this pheasant and it died. I picked it up.”

The third brother Song Cai envied: “Little sister, you are so lucky.”

“We’re lucky this time, but who knows what will happen next time? What if we run into a wild boar?” Song Baoguo looked at his little daughter with a serious expression, “You are not allowed to go to the mountains in the future.”

The eldest brother Song Wen also agreed. After all, he was the most like his father Song Baoguo in the family, mature and steady.

Ye Hongmei watched her precious daughter being scolded, and her worries immediately turned into heartache.

She glared at her man: “Why are you talking to your daughter so harshly? I mean, my little sister went up the mountain so that our family could have something good to eat, and she worked hard to prepare it for us to eat. Is that wrong?”

Song Ruan stood aside, nodding hurriedly to cheer.

Song Baoguo’s serious face immediately collapsed in front of his wife, and he quickly explained: “No, no, I’m not being mean to her, I’m just afraid that she’s in danger…”

The second brother Song Wu was impatient: “Okay, okay, now we know where it came from, let’s start eating, okay?”

He is almost dying of greed.

“Yes, yes, let’s eat quickly.”

Song Ruan quickly picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of chicken for her mother, and another piece for her father.

“Mom eats meat, Dad eats meat, and you, big brother, second brother, and third brother, eat meat too. We’ve been busy with farming lately, and we’ve been using up a lot of energy. You need to eat more meat to replenish your body, otherwise it’s easy for your body to become deficient.”

Ye Hongmei sighed: “That’s true, but nowadays, it’s good enough to not be hungry, so why should we care about this?”

After Ye Hongmei finished her sigh, she found that no one responded to her words. She looked over and saw that everyone was eating with their heads down. In the blink of an eye, most of the plates were empty.

Seeing this, she quickly tasted it.

Wow, it’s so delicious!

She finally understood why they didn’t talk, and she quickly joined the group that was eating.

After they were all full, they began to express their thoughts with full stomachs.

Song Wu was the first to praise: “Little sister, I didn’t expect your cooking to be so delicious!”

This statement was agreed by everyone in the Song family.

Even the mature elder brother sighed: “After eating, I still feel warm all over, so comfortable.”

“Really?” Song Ruan was very happy. This might be the effect of Yuquan Water.

The third brother Song chuckled: “If I had known that my little sister was so talented in cooking, we shouldn’t have been tortured by the second brother’s pig food all the time.”

Song Wu yelled, “Hey, Third Brother, we shouldn’t flatter one and criticize the other. How come mine is just pig food? At most, it’s slightly inferior to my younger sister’s.”

When he said this, even his mother couldn’t stand it: “Forget it, if it weren’t for the high score of my job, I would definitely not have asked you to come back to cook.”

As soon as Ye Hongmei made this joke, everyone burst into laughter.

“Knock knock knock…”

A knock on the door interrupted the family’s after-dinner chat.