Wu Chao: Take the whole family to escape the famine

Chapter 413 Highland Barley Seeds
The five villages including Lishui Village, Jimu Village, and Ahu Village are quite different from the traditional nomads in the Western Regions. Because they are close to the Central Plains, the villages are all fixed in one place, and the houses are all wooden houses.

The elderly and children stay in the village, while the men and women drive cattle and sheep with felt bags and graze around.

Village head Ha Kun has four or five children, a pair of elderly parents who must have never eaten a full meal after the locust plague, and the whole family is dark and thin.

I don’t know how hungry I was, the child and the old man couldn’t wait to grab the potatoes in the bag and wanted to eat them raw, Shen Yuan hurriedly stopped them, and then told Bai Yixue to light the fire, she quickly washed the potatoes and cut them into thin slices, and soon there was a big mess A pot of potato porridge, each scooped a bowl.

After filling their stomachs, the children secretly looked at Shen Yuan with timid and awe-inspiring eyes, but they did not dare to approach him.

It wasn't until Shen Yuan gave each of them a piece of cake that they dared to come over and talk.

The older girl speaks the Central Plains dialect, and asks unskillfully with wide Chengqi eyes.

"Is my sister sent by Changshengtian to save~~us?" Changshengtian is the supreme god of the grassland people, and the children actually regard Shen Yu'an as sent by their god. Hearing this, one can't help but be moved.

Softly said to the children: "Of course not. The reason why my sister came to deliver food to you is because your father saved the lives of our villagers seven years ago. This is called good and evil will be rewarded."

After hearing this, the child had a smile on Zihei's face, nodded heavily and said, "Yeah, good and evil are rewarded, my father often said that too."

Seeing that their stomachs were swollen, Shen Yuan asked them how long it had been since they had gone to the toilet.

Three of the five children said it had been four days, and two said it had been five days.

Shen Yuan hugged the smaller girl, rubbed her belly clockwise, and told them softly.

"Usually rubbing my stomach like this is good for gastrointestinal peristalsis, which is good for defecation."

The older girl hurriedly translated for everyone to listen to. After hearing this, the other children lifted their bellies and rubbed their bulging bellies.

At this moment, Mrs. Ha Kun, the children's mother, came over and said a few words to the older girl, and the older girl said to Shen Yu'an: "My mother asked my sister if there was any medicine to treat it. Many children ate strawberry If I can’t come out, my stomach is swollen and painful.”

Shen Yu'an picked up a potato and told them seriously, "Take the potato to make porridge, moisten the intestines, eat it for a few days, and it will be excreted. It is more effective than medicine."

The girl hurriedly gestured to Mrs. Ha Kun. After hearing this, Mrs. Ha Kun put her hands together and thanked Shen Yuan gratefully. Then she said something to the girl, and the girl translated.

"My mother told me to spread the news to other villages, and let everyone cook potato porridge to drink, so that they don't have to suffer." After the girl finished speaking, she took a group of children and ran out of the house to spread the good news everywhere.

The village chief Ha Kun was in a hurry to distribute food to the neighboring village, so he was so busy that he didn't come back for dinner.

So Shen Yuan and others took a rest early under the arrangement of Mrs. Ha Kun.

Early the next morning, just as Shen Yuan and the others got up, the village chief Ha Kun came over with a smile on his face.

"The food has been distributed to the villages, let everyone fill their stomachs first, and talk about it later when there are difficulties."

Then he greeted everyone to have breakfast.

He also treated Shen Yu'an and the others as distinguished guests, and there was a small plate of beef jerky on the table.

After breakfast, Shen Yuan pointed to a snow-capped mountain to the west and asked the village head Ha Kun, "Uncle Ha Kun, do you have a rug at home? Lend us two rugs. This is the first time we have seen a snow-capped mountain, and we want to climb the snow-capped mountain to enjoy the scenery." .'
The village chief Hakun said with a smile, "There is no food, but every household has felt bags, but it is cold on the mountain, so you have to bring a sheepskin coat, and you must pay attention to safety and not climb too high."
"Okay, don't worry uncle, we will take care of safety." Shen Yuan nodded.

In the afternoon, the village chief Ha Kun sent a few burly men with felt bags on their backs to follow Shen Yuan and the other five to the snow mountain.

Bai Yixue and the three hidden guards were really like Shen Yu'an's children, and they wanted to climb the snow mountain to enjoy the scenery, but they didn't expect Shen Yu'an to actually try to grow barley on the side of the snow mountain, because the altitude is high enough only there.

After the man on the grassland filled his stomach, his strength was also high. At two or three o'clock in the afternoon, he arrived at the place designated by Shen Yu'an, a leeward lawn on the mountainside, and then he hurriedly set up the felt bag , and told Shen Yuan and the others to pay attention to safety before leaving.

"Sister Yu'an, the scenery here is really nice, the endless view makes one's heart open." Bai Yixue was wrapped in a sheepskin coat, looking down the mountain with emotion, it is not difficult to see from her smiling face that she is in a very good mood.

"Let's go then, let's climb the snow mountain." Shen Yuan was also dressed thickly, and greeted with a white breath.

"It's so late, I'm afraid it's not safe, tomorrow first." Bai Yixue hesitated.

"It's okay, as far as you climb." Shen Yuan said as he picked up a small hoe, and seeing Bai Yixue's strange face, he explained with a smile, "There are many rare medicinal materials on the snow-capped mountains, and they are picked when they come across it."

The two talked about walking up the mountain, and after climbing several hundred meters up the mountain, they were out of breath. Bai Yixue was intoxicated by the beautiful snow-capped mountain scenery, while Shen Yu'an found a flat place behind a big rock, and built a few square meters of land. The highland barley seeds were planted, and another round of water added with auxin was poured.

Then came out from behind the stone, Bai Yixue was lying on the lawn, looking at the sky in the distance, her mind was unprecedentedly peaceful.

It was already evening, the setting sun was like fire, Shen Yuan came over, lay down side by side with Bai Yixue to enjoy the gorgeous sunset, and did not go down the mountain until the sun was about to disappear.

The next morning, Bai Yixue was enjoying the sunrise on the mountain, while Bai Yixue was still intoxicated by the beauty of the snow-capped mountains, while Shen Yu'an was worried about the barley planted. Fortunately, the barley had already grown, and it was green in just one night.

On the third day, the earing began.

When I came back on the fourth day, it was already ripe, and there was no problem with the grains being full.

"Axue, Axue, come and see, I found a strange crop here." Shen Yuan pulled Bai Yixue over, Bai Yixue went over to take a look, took a few more grains and chewed them in his mouth, and said pleasantly, "Really It's edible, it tastes like wheat."

"That's right." Shen Yu'an also looked both surprised and happy, "It seems that this kind of crop is very suitable for growing in the alpine region of the Western Regions."

"Yes, pick them quickly." Bai Yixue hurriedly took out the bag she was carrying, poured out the water bottle and other things inside, "Collect them, if you can collect more of these seeds, maybe you can give them to His Highness the Night King , let His Highness the Night King use it to negotiate with the King of the Western Regions to gain support and benefits."

"That's right, that's right, I think so too." Shen Yu'an giggled, and together with Bai Yixue collected all the highland barley seeds, carrying a whole big burden down the mountain.

(End of this chapter)