Hard times have room

Chapter 485
Baolin carried the basket on her back and walked directly to the place that Dongmei had just pointed to her, picking up the mushrooms on the ground along the way.

The weeds in the past were green, and a small wild vegetable was propped up by its leaves like a ball, very fluffy.

Today’s wild vegetables are really ugly. Most of the leaves have been eaten by insects. Only the middle one is old and hard to chew, and the even more unpalatable vegetables stand diagonally there. Only the most central one is left. Location, the white and tender leaves that have just grown out were spared, which is still lucky.

Paulin didn't let them go. Looking at the pile of wild vegetables in the space now, and looking at the wild vegetables she had collected before, the difference was too obvious. How about it.

In the past, there were wild vegetable leaves, and they didn’t taste very good. Now, let’s not talk about it, but chop it up a little and boil it for a while. It shouldn’t make much difference. Well, when it gets warm, just pour it into your mouth, and it’s fast. of.

In addition to the wild vegetables, Paulin didn't let go of those green grasshoppers who were leisurely resting on grass and leaves. These are all edible things.

Sometimes when she saw a bigger fallen branch, Pauline also went to the space, and when she got home and found someone there, she threw the firewood and chopped it there.

When Pauline really entered the forest, those weeds and grasshoppers were gone, replaced by caterpillars that could be seen everywhere, black, in the gaps between leaves, grass and branches everywhere.

Now her first reaction when she saw the mushroom was not to squat down to pick it up, but to overturn the mushroom with a stick, giving no chance to the bugs hiding underneath.

Not every mushroom can have bugs hidden under its canopy, but some of them are enough to make Pauline startled.

Pauline wasn't too afraid of caterpillars, but there were more than just caterpillars under the mushrooms!
Along the way, Pauline found slippery slugs under the mushrooms, with many legs, only two fingers long, fast crawling when there was movement, and black bugs with hard shells. , The kind with the tentacles on its head that keeps moving, the caterpillar curled up under the mushroom can only be regarded as a younger brother in front of these strange bugs.

After walking for half an hour, when she got inside, Pauline could clearly see that there were more mushrooms here, and more things she could pick up.

The further she went inside, the more mushrooms she picked up, but Pauline didn't keep walking blindly. When she got in to a certain level, she swirled around those places, but she didn't dare to go deep. .

Now the sun was already blocked by thick clouds. It was fine when it was outside, and the voices of people kept on going. But when she got to this place, there were only her own voices and the annoying insects.

Sometimes, when I look up, I inadvertently see that the dense trees, one after another, are about to become connected, and looking at them still makes people feel like their hearts are beating.

When I was picking up mushrooms before, I was only happy, and the more I picked up, the happier I became, but gradually, I felt a little chilly on my body. Although I knew that this was a high probability of my heart, I would always be affected. I picked up this mushroom too. Somewhat uncomfortable.

At this time, Paulin missed Dongmei very much. If she was here, the two of them could chat and talk, how wonderful!
After crossing most of the basket of mushrooms into the space, the basket behind her was almost full. After Paulin picked up the pile of mushrooms she had just discovered, she rushed out without stopping.

Halfway through, when she was about to reach the outskirts of the forest, she took half of the mushrooms in the basket on her back into the space. She planned to dig some wild vegetables to bring back later, and saw that there were grasshoppers that were caught. Not time to go home.

When they got to the periphery of the forest, there were more and more people, especially the little babies in the village, who basically walked around in this area, which was very lively.

When Paulin arrived at this place, she was not in a hurry at all. She walked out of the woods slowly, digging wild vegetables in the wild grass outside to catch grasshoppers.

By the time she came home with a bag full of clothes, her parents had already returned from work.

"Paulin, why did you come back? Your face is flushed from the sun, and your whole body is covered in sweat. Remember to come back early next time." Su Hongying walked to Baolin's side and took the bag behind her with a distressed face.

Originally, I planned to let Paulin rest at home today, which is why she didn't wake Paulin up in the morning. Unexpectedly, when she came back, this person was not at home, and she must have gone to the back mountain.

"Oh, it's alright, I'll just go outside for a walk. Who knows that there are so many mushrooms in the woods in the back mountain. If I couldn't hold back for a while, I forgot the time." Paulin replied obediently. As for whether to listen or not, then That's another story.

"Mom, do you want to eat mushroom and wild vegetable soup at noon?" Pauline stared at her mother's face, wanting to see her reaction.

I don't know if her parents are tired of eating mushrooms at home. Now the food at home is reluctant to move. They can only eat whatever wild food they pick up. Her parents should have eaten this wild vegetable mushroom for a long time.

But for a while, she really couldn't think of other things. She really didn't know what to eat. It must be fresh, easy to collect, and even easy to catch. It feels a bit difficult!
"Um, listen to you, you can eat whatever you want to eat." Su Hongying pondered for a while, and finally raised her head to look at Pauline before saying through gritted teeth.

She felt that eating wild vegetables and mushrooms every day, she was about to vomit. This day, it has always been this, no change, even if it was fresh before, now eating it, it will be like that.

I originally planned to wait for Pauline to come back and improve the food, but who knows, I still can't escape.

But she wouldn't say too much, Rory was picky, after all, apart from wild vegetables and mushrooms, she really didn't know what else to eat now.

She will not move the food at home, and she will never move it unless it is absolutely necessary. It is the life-saving food for their family of three. When the situation really deteriorates to a certain extent, they will rely on this food to cook. Now it is absolutely impossible to move, Not for anyone.

"That's fine, I'll eat wild vegetable mushroom soup at noon. In the evening, I'll touch some snails and screws and come back. It's hot, and I pick them out to make soup. This is to improve the food."

Pauline naturally saw her mother's reluctant expression, which is why she proposed to eat other things at night, even if the things she brought back at noon today are enough to eat today.

The main reason for choosing snail screws is that her mother can't make these two things. Every time she makes them, they have a great earthy smell, which is really hard to eat.

(End of this chapter)