Punch: From third-rate anchor to top chef

Chapter 610 514. Finally met someone
Chen Xu looked at Li Xiao, but if he didn't know in his heart that he would rely on Li Xiao for food, Chen Xu had to do something.

While arguing, the two picked out a few that tasted okay, but they didn't see enough, so the two went to pick some more.

Li Xiao looked up at the big tree above his head, and couldn't help but doubt his life.

"Chen Xu, tell me the truth, how did you go up to pick the fruit from such a tall tree?"

Chen Xu smiled a little embarrassedly, "Cough, what, I picked it up on the ground."

Li Xiao glanced at him, then at the ground, and saw that there were indeed a lot of fruits on the ground, but they were all rotten. After finally seeing one that was intact, Li Xiao hurried over to pick it up.

Then threw it away in disappointment.

It turned out that only the side of the fruit that Li Xiao and the others saw was good, and the rest, the part next to the ground, was already rotten.

Just as Li Xiao and Chen Xu were looking at the fruit tree at a loss, a voice suddenly came from behind.

"What are you doing here?"

Li Xiao and Chen Xu looked back, only to see a child who looked about thirteen or fourteen years old.

When Chen Xu saw this child, his eyes lit up, "It's a little wood, do you remember me?"

The boy called Xiaomu nodded, "Brother Chen."

Li Xiao looked at the two of them, "Do you know each other?"

Chen Xu nodded, "I lived in his house before."

After finishing speaking, Chen Xu looked at Xiaomu again, "Aunt Liu and the others, are they alright?"

Xiaomu nodded, "Very good, thank you for the money you left behind."

Hearing what Xiaomu said, Chen Xu scratched the back of his head in embarrassment, then turned to look at Li Xiao.

"Their conditions were not very good. I had some cash with me at the time, but not much, so I left some money for them."

Li Xiao nodded without asking further questions.

Chen Xu looked at Xiaomu again, "Take us to your house later."

Little Wood nodded and looked at Li Xiao. Before Li Xiao could react, he heard Chen Xu say: "His name is Li Xiao, you can just call him Brother Xiao."

Little Mumu nodded, called "Brother Xiao", then looked at the tree above the two of them, and asked, "Brother Chen, Brother Xiao, do you want to eat this fruit?"

Chen Xu nodded, and then Li Xiao saw the little wood climbing up the tree in threes and fives, and then began to shake the fruit on the tree.

I saw the fruit on the tree began to crackle and fall down.

Li Xiao and Chen Xu opened their mouths and looked at the scene in front of them.

Seeing more and more fruits, Chen Xu quickly said: "Enough is enough!", and Xiaomu stopped.

Although the shaken fruits were somewhat bruised, they did not hinder eating, so Li Xiao quickly picked up some, and even picked some that were in good condition, and put them in the refrigerator in the car, intending to keep them for later eat.

After all, the taste of this fruit is really good, sweet and sour, very crisp, full of juice, not astringent at all.

The three of them just held a pile of fruits and walked towards the village.

After walking for about half an hour, Li Xiao saw a house not far away.

Although Chen Xu said that the conditions here are not good, Li Xiao looked at the houses and felt that they should be fine. After all, compared with the adobe houses in Tashi's village, the houses here are generally brick houses.

But when Li Xiao walked in, he changed his mind. Some people were sitting at the door eating breakfast. Li Xiao couldn't see what they were eating, but everyone who saw it looked like they were eating breakfast. Very thin, and some children even have thin limbs, but they have a big belly.

These children are all caused by severe malnutrition.

Seeing Li Xiao looking at the child with a big belly, Xiao Mumu thought that Li Xiao had misunderstood, and quickly said in a low voice: "He is just like this because he can't eat good food, and he is not pregnant."

Li Xiao was taken aback for a moment, first he was surprised why Xiao Mumu felt that he had such an idea, and then he was surprised why Xiao Mumu knew that the child's big belly was due to malnutrition.

It's not that Li Xiao looks down on Xiao Mumu, it's that this place is too backward, and it seems to be isolated from the world. Generally, there are very few people in this kind of place who believe in science and understand science.

So Li Xiao asked: "How do you know that he is like this because he can't eat good food?"

Xiao Mumu pursed his lips, "Doctor Zhou told us."

Doctor Li?Li Xiao was a little puzzled.

Seeing this, Chen Xu said, "Doctor Zhou is a barefoot doctor here. I heard that my ancestor is still an imperial doctor. He saved me before."

Li Xiao nodded in understanding.

After a while, several people came to Xiaomu's house, only to see Xiaomu put down his own back basket, and walked into the house first.

Only then did Li Xiao see clearly that the small wooden back basket was filled with branches.

Xiaomu first poured a bowl of water for each of them, then picked up the back basket and entered the house.

Li Xiao was indeed a little thirsty, so he didn't care if he couldn't finish his job, so he picked up the bowl and took a sip, feeling a burst of sweetness slipping from his mouth.

Chen Xu saw that Li Xiao was a little surprised after drinking the water, so he laughed "hehe" twice, and then said very triumphantly, "How is it, isn't it sweet?"

Li Xiao nodded.

Seeing this, Chen Xu was even more proud, "This water is mountain spring water, pure natural, non-polluting, and delicious. Go fill a pot before you leave."

Li Xiao raised her eyebrows, coincidentally, she thought of going together.

He thought the same way, not to mention anything else, but when he was tired, if he could drink such a bowl of sweet spring water at that time, he would be so happy.

After the two of them drank the water, they turned around and went to the kitchen, only to see the little wood burning a fire, so Li Xiao stepped forward.

"Is there anything we can do for you? Just ask."

Xiao Mumu shook his head, "It's okay, Brother Xiao, you and Brother Chen can go in and rest, I'll do it myself."

Seeing this, Li Xiao didn't force himself, so he followed Chen Xu into the house.

"Brother Xu, why haven't you seen Xiao Shitou's parents?"

As soon as this was mentioned, Chen Xu's expression was not very good.

"Oh, don't mention it." Chen Xu sighed, and then looked out the door, making sure that Xiaomu was not here, and then continued: "His parents said they went out to work, but they never came back. I didn’t ask anyone to deliver a letter or anything.”

Speaking of this, Chen Xu shook his head again, "I heard that I left a long time ago. I have been away for several years and I haven't even written a letter. Don't look at the isolation here, but there will be people every month. When going out to buy, some people have children who go out and write letters back, so those who go out to buy will also go to the mailbox to have a look."

Li Xiao didn't know what to say for a while, and at this moment, Xiaomu came into the house with tsampa and buttered tea.

"Brother Chen, Brother Xiao, you haven't eaten breakfast yet, this is the tsampa that Aunt Liu gave me, please eat some."

Li Xiao and Chen Xu looked at each other, but they were not polite, they picked it up and ate it, after all, they really didn't eat in the morning, and they were a little hungry at this time, and there were a lot of these things outside, so the two of them were not bad. Money, the big deal is to buy more and send it to the children.

But one thing Li Xiao is very curious about now is that Xiaomu and the others don't look like people from the Tibetan side.

So Li Xiao asked Chen Xu when Xiaomu went out.

Chen Xu has nothing to hide.

"They are indeed not Tibetans. I heard that they seem to be residents of a nearby province. Then it seems that because of some natural disaster, a bunch of people fled here. They found such a place by chance and settled here. .”

Li Xiao nodded clearly, no wonder the mandarin they spoke was very standard.

While the two were chatting, Xiao Mu came in from the outside again.

"I'm going to set a trap, do you want to follow?"

Li Xiao nodded without hesitation, not because she was curious about how to get into the trap, but because she was bored and wanted to go out for a stroll.

Seeing that they wanted to be together, Xiaomu didn't say anything, he just brought some more water and gave Li Xiao and Chen Xu a basket.

Chen Xu's basket was empty, and Li Xiao's basket contained dumplings.

Not far from Xiaomu's house, there is a forest.

This forest is not the same as the one on that kind of mountain. It is not the kind of upward slope, but the whole slope is downward. If you look at it from above, you can't see anything in the depths of the forest at all, you can only see a piece of darkness.

Xiaomu didn't say a word, and walked down first, reminding Li Xiao and the others to be careful while walking down.

Li Xiao and Chen Xu also followed.

It wasn't until they went downhill for about 10 minutes that the terrain calmed down.

I saw the little wood stopped in front of a hole, and then pulled some grass from around to block the hole.

Seeing this, Li Xiao asked, "What is this for?"

Little Wood pointed to another small hole not far from this hole, "This is a rabbit's nest, and so is the one on the left. After a while, you and Brother Chen will be in the hole in front of it. Use this net to block the hole. I'm going to burn the grass on the other side so the smoke will get the rabbits out."

Li Xiao nodded clearly. This kind of thing depends on experience. If someone who doesn't know it, I'm afraid the hole will be trampled down and they won't know it's a hole made by a rabbit, let alone catch the rabbit. .

So the two of them did as Xiaomu said, blocking the entrance of the hole in front, and Xiaomu picked up a handful of half-wet grass from the side, and then lit it with the lighter in his hand.

I saw a burst of thick smoke drifting in from the hole, and after a while, there was a sound from inside. Li Xiao and Chen Xu hurriedly made preparations, holding the rope net tightly in their hands, and after a while, they saw a A big rabbit rushed out, and then five rabbits were caught one after another.

Two of them are bigger, and the remaining three are small rabbits.

Li Xiao looked at the cute little rabbit, and just wanted to touch it, but Tuanzi refused to let go of his hand.

"You can't hug him, you can only hug Jiujiu." Tuanzi was still grinning at the little rabbit.

Li Xiao just thought it was funny, this little thing is still jealous.

But now that there are so many people, it's hard for him to open his mouth to coax the dumpling. He is afraid of being regarded as crazy, so he can only pat the dumpling's head soothingly.

And here, Little Wood glanced at the slightly smaller one of the two big rabbits, frowned and touched the rabbit's belly, then looked up at Chen Xu.

"Brother Chen, this rabbit is pregnant, let's let it go."

Hunters also have hunting rules. Generally, if they encounter this kind of cubs, they have to be released.

Chen Xu was not bad at this bite, so naturally he didn't disagree, but it was Xiaomu, after thinking about it, he still picked up the male rabbit.

"It's okay, Brother Chen, we can eat this one, we won't be hungry."

Chen Xu nodded.

Seeing that neither Chen Xu nor Li Xiao objected, Xiao Mumu planned to let the mother rabbit and the little rabbit go, but Li Xiao quickly stopped him.

"Why let it go, isn't it good to take it home and raise it? This way, when it grows up, the rabbit will eat it."

Xiao Mumu pursed his lips and shook his head, his expression was very bad.

"If you can't keep them, let's not say that they will run away. If the people in the village see them, they will take them away."

Li Xiao was at a loss for words.

As the saying goes, troublesome people come out of poor mountains and bad waters. This is the truth. When people's lives are threatened, who cares about ethics and morality.

Li Xiao sighed, and then asked Xiaomu: "Are there many people in this forest?"

Little Wood thought for a while, then nodded, then shook his head again, "Generally, there are quite a lot of people outside, but if you go inside, no one will go, because some old people said that there are ferocious beasts inside, and they will eat them." Human, but what exactly it is, I don’t know.”

Li Xiao nodded. Originally, he planned to persuade Xiaomu to raise the rabbit directly in the forest if not many people came here.

Now it seems that it is impossible, there are many people outside the forest, and there are beasts inside, so I can only give up.

So Xiao Mu only carried the male rabbit and put it into the basket.

Their luck might be really good today. After a while, they caught another pheasant. Chen Xu even hit a few sparrows with a homemade slingshot, and Li Xiao also picked some mountain mushrooms and wild vegetables.

Seeing that they had almost everything in their hands, they planned to head back home. Li Xiao even went back to the car to get a bagful of rice. Now he really wants to eat rice instead of tsampa! ! !
Back at Xiaomu's house, Li Xiao never expected that Xiaomu had already cooked the dishes.

Because he was going to fetch rice again, Chen Xu and Xiao Mumu didn't follow him, they just said that they would go back to deal with the pheasant and rabbit first, Li Xiao didn't expect that the two of them would have already put the vegetables into the pot very quickly.

"Okay, you guys are fast enough."

Chen Xu smiled "hehe", "Isn't this so that you can eat earlier?"

Li Xiao also laughed a few times, "Is the chicken stewed in this pot? What about the rabbit? Let me fry it for you. It's still delicious when stir-fried."

When Li Xiao said about rabbits, Chen Xu coughed twice, and looked at Li Xiao hesitantly.

"Cough pot...in the pot."

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