Chapter 420 Tasteful
With falling snow, Song Nan moved back several bundles of pine needles and long grass from the pine forest under the cliff, raised another fire at the mouth of the cave, surrounded these damp pine needles and dead grasses and baked them until they were dry, and then simply cleaned up the dry feces and stones on the ground of the cave, and laid the hay pine needles thickly. One floor.
"This will be warm. You can't catch a cold tonight. You have to sleep warmly and feel comfortable early tomorrow morning."
Liu Yuerong silently looked at Song Nan's busy face as usual, but the emotion in her eyes could not be concealed. Many years ago, when she was a little girl, she had an illness, and the two brothers also took care of themselves so meticulously, but that was a long time ago.
"To the way, dinner hasn't been ready yet. You can't be hungry." Song Nan got up and scratched his head and said to himself, looking at the dim sky outside the cave, and walked out.
Liu Yuerong whispered, "It's dark outside and covered with heavy snow. There is nothing to eat. If you are hungry, just be hungry. Let's talk about it tomorrow."
Song Nan smiled and said, "That's not possible. You need to eat to recover from illness, and I can't miss three meals a day. There seems to be nothing in the snowy mountains, but in fact, there are still a lot of edible things. I'll go out and have a look."
Song Nan took the knife and went to the lay. After a while, Liu Yuerong looked at the jumping bonfire and was stunned. After a long time, she suddenly woke up from meditation and found that Song Nan had not yet returned.
Turning his head and looked at the sky outside the cave, it was already dark. He couldn't help but panic. He quickly stood up with the wall of the cave. He felt dizzy and almost fell down. He gritted his teeth and moved to the entrance of the cave and looked out. There was a sound in the dark mountains and fields. The snow fell silently, and it was lonely everywhere.
Liu Yuerong's heart was cold, and Song Nan still left. He was an official of the imperial court and was kidnapped by himself. How could he not find an opportunity to escape? He had mercy on him without taking advantage of his illness. An inexplicable disappointment surged in his heart, but at the same time he felt a sense of relaxation.
There was a bang from under the cliff. Liu Yuerong was shocked, and a trace of ecstasy surged in her heart. She hurriedly shouted to the bottom of the cliff, "Lord Song, is that you?"
Song Nan's voice came from not far away: "It's me, mother, stepped into a snow hole and fell, huh? Why are you standing here? Go in and lie down. It's amazing to catch a cold.
Song Nan appeared at the mouth of the cave stained with snow, with white snow on her hair, eyebrows and eyelashes. With a black thing in her hand, she gasped and appeared in the firelight of the hole. Liu Yuerong concealed her joy, turned back to the cave and sat down, looking up at Song Nan.
Song Nan stamped her feet and was busy for a long time. Then she patted the snow on her body, walked in with a smile, raised the things in her hand and smiled and said, "I said there is something to eat. As the ancients said, there is no shortage of food in the world. What is missing is the eyes that find food."
Liu Yuerong said to himself: Which ancient man said such a thing?
Song Nan sat on the hay with a smile and opened the dead grass in her hand, revealing the things inside. Liu Yuerong opened her eyes for a long time and didn't see what it was. Song Nan smiled and said, "You haven't seen it in the mountains."
"What is that?"
"This is winter bamboo shoots. This is the time when winter bamboo shoots are fat and beautiful. I thought that there should be this thing in the bamboo forest. After digging for a long time, I really dug out three, but it is too few, but absolutely delicious."
"What is that?" Liu Yuerong's bright eyes pointed to several other muddy things and asked.
"This is called Pueraria root, which is also delicious in the mountains. Originally, this thing needs to be cooked before eating, but we don't have this condition, so it's delicious to roast it, just like roast taro."
Liu Yuerong was very surprised. Song Nanming was obviously a senior official of the imperial court, and she was so young. How could she know so many things? She made a fire and made a bed to find these foods she had never seen before. She looked very easy, and she didn't look like a paunuch.
Song Nan began to cook, buried the pueraria root in the charcoal fire and baked it. At the same time, she peeled the winter bamboo shoots and put them into sliced them in a bamboo tube. After adding snow water, she hung them on the bonfire and steamed them. After cooking, she finally clapped her hands and said, "Okay, let's wait to taste the delicious food. The disadvantage is that there is no meat. I just found it in the bamboo forest. There are a few rat holes, and there must be mice in it, but I don't think you like to eat mouse meat, so you didn't make that effort.
Liu Yuerong shook her head quickly and said, "I don't eat mice."
Song Nan smiled and said, "I know you don't eat it, but it's actually quite delicious."
"Have you eaten mice?" Liu Yuerong asked in surprise.
"I have eaten more than mice, bats, green insects, earthworms and earthworms." Song Nan smiled.
Seeing Liu Yuerong's surprise, the expression on her face was quite cute. Under the firelight, a full moon blushed, her eyebrows were bent and her mouth were small, and her facial features were exquisite. She was a beautiful woman, and she couldn't help looking a few more times.
Liu Yuerong didn't notice Song Nan's eyes and whispered, "I don't believe it. You are a senior official of the imperial court. How can you eat these things? If you say that ordinary people can't eat them in the wilderness, you have heard of eating mice, snakes and bark."
Song Nan smiled and said, "Do you think I was born with a golden key? I'm just a poor family in Weizhou, and my status is even lower than that of ordinary people.
Liu Yuerong was stunned and said, "How come?"
Song Nan said, "I am a maidservant and a child. My mother is a little maid of a large family. After giving birth to me, she was kicked out of the house. I was born in such a family."
Liu Yuerong was silent for a long time and whispered, "I'm sorry to mention your sad past."
Song Nan laughed and said, "What sad past? I don't think it's sad at all. It's false. It's reasonable to work hard. It's in vain if you can't grasp it no matter how high the starting point is. There is a saying that heroes don't ask where they come from.
Liu Yuerong pondered for a long time and whispered, "That makes sense. I guess your brothers are definitely not as high as your official position. They must not be as good as you."
Song Nan looked at Liu Yuerong's bright eyes and smiled, "That's natural, but people's success is not necessarily measured by official power, money and glory. In fact, ordinary life can't be said to be a failure; but for me, I like power, money and beauty."
Liu Yuerong whispered, "You are very frank."
Song Nan said, "I know that most people will say that I am shameless, but I am not ashamed, because I came by the struggle within the rules. My promotion and wealth did not make the people suffer. I did not rely on the fish people to get promoted. This is my bottom line, so I dare to say it out."
Liu Yuerong whispered, "Are you alluying about the righteousness of my two brothers?"
Song Nan said righteously: "There are many malpractices in the Ming Dynasty, but overall there are still something to do. It is not that the bad thing is useless, but only a small part of it is bad. At this time, what to save the people from water and fire to create chaos under the guise of Tianxingdao is actually against public opinion, at least against the will of the majority of the people; those People who use words such as 'saving people from water and fire to walk the way for heaven' are actually just for personal purposes.
Liu Yuerong whispered, "I know that brothers have caused a huge disaster for their own selfishness."
Song Nan looked at Liu Yuerong and said, "You have such insight, which shows that you are an ordinary woman who doesn't understand right and wrong. You are not them, so you don't have to blame yourself."
Liu Yuerong sighed softly, "But after all, they are my own brothers."
Song Nan also sighed and was silent. Suddenly, the inside of the cave was silent. The wet firewood in the campfire burned and made a cracking sound, which added to the silence in the cave.
Suddenly, Song Nan came to her senses and shouted, "Oh, Gegen is about to burn." After saying that, he even searched in the charcoal ash with a wooden stick and took out four or five black roots of the roasted pueraria. Liu Yuerong also woke up and smelled the burnt smell at the end of her nose.
Song Nan carefully dried the charcoal ash on the pueraria root. When she took it in her hand until it was not very hot, she pinched both ends and gently broke it open. However, when she saw the yellow orange and orange golden Ge meat exposed, the fragrance suddenly filled the hole.
Song Nan laughed and said, "The heat is just right, but I didn't expect that the outside was scorched and the inside is in the heat."
Liu Yuerong couldn't help muttering in her stomach. She was so ashamed that Song Nan didn't realize it and stretched out her hand and said, "Eat it."
Liu Yuerong reached out to take it and took a gentle bite. She only felt that it was sweet, soft and glutinous with a fresh medicinal smell, and her mouth was full of fragrance. She couldn't help praising, "It's delicious and tight."
Song Nan opened her eyes and smiled and made one for herself. The two sat and ate each other. After a moment, the roots were swept away. The two looked at each other with black hands and suddenly laughed at the same time. It turned out that their lips were all stained with black scorching skin, like two old men with big beards.
The winter bamboo shoot soup is also wonderful. The winter bamboo shoots are delicious. The bamboo tube is boiled and the bamboo fragrance into the soup. The bamboo tube soup is boiled into a light white. Song Nan and Liu Yuerong drank half a tube.
After drinking, Liu Yuerong actually had a beautiful hiccup, which made Song Nan laugh secretly. After eating and drinking enough, she was sleepy. Liu Yuerong was still sick, particularly weak. She lay down on the hay, but she always couldn't sleep.
Liu Yuerong is worried about how to sleep. Two people can lie side by side in the hole. The hay shop under Song Nan is also a double position, but how can she sleep with him?
While hesitating, he only heard a soft sound. Liu Yuerong looked up and saw Song Nan holding a pile of hay to the mouth of the cave to spread it. He curled up on the narrow ground of the cave, and soon there was a slight snort.
Liu Yuerong was moved, but she felt sorry. She struggled for a long time before she fell asleep in a daze.