Lady Gu 10,000 Years

Winter Bamboo Shoots

In the dimly lit room, Little Bruiser finished his last chicken soup. He held onto his stomach and clicked his lips in satisfaction.

That pheasant is pretty fat. After dividing half of it with his uncle's family, there was still one small pot left. Yu Wan went to the bamboo forest in the backyard and dug two bamboo shoots. He cut it into slices and put it in a pot and ate it until night.

Yu Wan also fed Lady Jiang chicken and meat soup. Madam Jiang only woke up for a moment before she fell asleep again.

People who have been sick for a long time should not eat too much. Compared to the chicken soup, what Madam Jiang needed more was a bowl of light and nutritious coarse rice porridge.

“Kak, tomorrow we eat what?” Little Bruiser asked, his eyes widened as he sat on the bench next to the brazier, wetting his feet.

Yu Wan picked up a piece of coarse cotton cloth and walked over. “The chicken duck is still untouched. I'll fry chicken offal with garlic sprouts for you tomorrow.”

“What is chicken innards?”

“That's chicken offal.”

“What is innards?”

This kid really talks a lot. Yu Wan said, “Stop talking. If you are excited, you will not be able to sleep later.

“Oh.” Little Bruiser obediently agreed and opened his mouth again.

Without waiting for him to speak, Yu Wan glanced at him indifferently. “Excitement is your appearance now.”

Little Bruiser shut up in annoyance.

Yu Wan squatted down and wiped the wet Little Bruiser's feet. After wiping it off, he realized that the child's feet were frozen. Yu Wan picked up Little Bruiser's shoes and saw that there was indeed a small hole underneath.

Yu Wan crammed Little Bruiser under the blanket. “Go to sleep. Don't talk anymore.”

With that, he turned to look for Little Bruiser's shoes, only to find that they were old and worn out.

“Kak!” Little Bruiser called out excitedly.

“Don't I tell you not to talk?” Yu Wanwan looked at him and saw that he had unknowingly been lying on the spot where he was sleeping last night. Seeing that he was staring at her, he quickly moved to Madam Jiang's side and blinked his bright eyes as he said, “Son, I've warmed the bed for you! Come and sleep!”

Yu Wan's expression did not change, but there was an indescribable bitterness in his heart. He curled his lips and said gently, “Oke, I'll sleep now.”

…

On one side, Yu Wan was resting. On the other hand, Madam Zhao went back and forth, unable to sleep.

He recalled what happened during the day and felt that he had seen a ghost!

He had watched the girl grow up. He knows his daughter-in-law very well. Normally, he did not even dare to breathe loudly in front of him. She will call him as “Aunt Zhao”, even more affectionate than his mother!

If he told the girl to go east, she never went west. If he told her to farm, she would not dare to disobey!

Years had passed, and the girl's kindness towards her had never diminished. Even when she had stayed in her aunt's house for an entire year, when she returned, she still did not distance herself from him. Instead, he treated her like a Buddha and even used the several hundred taels he had brought from his aunt's house for her and his son!

This stupid girl listened to everything she said. What the hell is going on? Why did he seem like a different person in just a few days?

However, what angered him the most was not this. That's what his daughter said just now. The poor girl, Ah Wan, actually sent the chicken she took from her to the Old Yu family!

“That damn girl really wants to make me mad to death.. Just wait! When Ah Heng returns, I will have her divorce you!”

…

The next day, Yu Wan woke up again in the morning. There is a little snow at night, but it is not heavy and only drops thinly.

Yu Wan was planning to try her luck in the vegetable field today and see if she could catch any other pheasants. If he could catch one, he would stop cooking and think of a way to go to the market to exchange some money.

However, his luck seemed to have run out. He waited in the vegetable field for two whole hours, but did not see any pheasants. It was noon, and it was time for Little Bruiser to wake up. Yu Wan had no choice but to give up. He cut a bag of chewed cabbage into a mess and went home. When the rotten cabbage leaves are removed, the cabbage core can still be eaten.

Yu Wan went to the kitchen and took out a small bowl of chicken soup last. He added some cabbage cores and sauteed some garlic sprouts and duck chicken offal with a small spoon of oil he had pureed yesterday. He also washed the radishes and wrapped them in sauce. This is their last meal.

The closet is empty again.

A cockroach with garlic sprouts mixed together really tastes really good. Garlic sprouts are a little charred, but full of oil. It tastes salty, smooth, and crunchy. Among the duck chicken innards, Little Bruiser likes two “small yellow eggs” and two pieces of fat chicken liver.

Little Bruiser couldn't stop eating. His little mouth was greasy, and it was only at this moment that Yu Wan was silent.

After breakfast, Yu Wan brought her shovel and basket to a small bamboo field in the backyard. He just thought about it. It doesn't matter if there are no chickens. Winter shoots are also good. Although he did not know whether it was valuable or not in ancient times, as long as it was a vegetable, one would definitely buy it.

There's not much bamboo here. Yu Wan dug carefully and only dug six medium-sized winter bamboo shoots. That's still too little.

Yu Wan's gaze was fixed on the small hill behind the bamboo field. If not wrong, there is a mountain behind the hill. At the waist of the mountain, there appeared to be a green bamboo forest.

“Bruiser, I'll be out for a while. You stay home and take care of Mom.”

After instructing her brother, Yu Wan carried a basket and entered the mountain.

The mountain seemed to be right in front of him. When he actually walked, he realized that there was a greatly exaggerated distance. Fortunately, this body has been heavily farmed, so the constitution is not bad.

The dry clumps on the ground had frozen. Yu Wan was wearing ordinary cloth shoes. The soles of his shoes were not very anti-skid, so he could only walk carefully. With this delay, it was already over an hour later that he arrived in the forest.

There is a lot of bamboo here. They were large, green, and exuded a bamboo scent that was ten times more elegant than his backyard. Just by kissing her, one would feel relaxed and happy.

Yu Wan took out a shovel and began to search for the winter bamboo shoot carefully.

Winter shoots are much harder to dig than spring shoots. Spring shoots grow from the ground and can be seen at a glance. As for the winter shoots, they are hidden underground. It is difficult for an inexperienced person to dig it out.

In his previous life, he planted a lot of bamboo in his hometown. During the fertile bamboo shoot season, her favorite thing is to follow behind her aunt. He'll pick it up when his aunt digs one, until his little basket is full. However, the winter shoots he had eaten in his previous life were not this big.

Very quickly, Yu Wan dug the first winter bamboo shoot on the mountain. Gosh, it's actually twice as fat as a bamboo shoot in his backyard!

Yu Wan continued digging, each one bigger than the previous one. In less than ten minutes, the basket on his back became heavy. Yu Wan dug for longer until she sweated profusely. He only left the mountain in satisfaction after he filled the basket.

As he approached the hill, Yu Wan looked at a river and stopped. Looking at the calm water, she gently licked her lips. It was a cold day and he wondered if there were any fish in the river.