Quick Transmigration: When Can I Just Lay Down and Wait to Die?

Chapter 292 The Little Deaf-Mute of the Era 8

With that in mind, Liu Yuxi began looking for a place to release wild eggs.

They placed two pheasant nests in some bushes, and to make the performance as convincing as possible, they put eight or nine wild eggs in each nest.

Then she tugged at her older sister's clothes, "Big sister, eggs, eggs!"

"Where is the egg?" Upon hearing Liu Yuxi's words, Liu Yumei first looked around excitedly, but since she couldn't find it, her gaze fell on Liu Yuxi.

Seeing Liu Yuxi's little finger outstretched, he immediately ran in the direction she pointed. Looking at that clump of bushes, he thought to himself, "That's it, that's it. My second aunt also found the pheasant and eggs in the bushes."

Pheasant? She couldn't catch it by herself, so she quickly waved to Liu Yushan and Liu Yuhe, who were looking this way. The two brothers were a bit far from the sisters and had just heard the commotion and were looking this way.

Seeing Liu Yumei waving, they quickly ran over. "What's wrong?" "Shh! Er Yatou said there are eggs." Liu Yumei pointed to the bushes next to them. "Really?" "Really?" Their voices were filled with undisguised surprise.

"Really, the three of us will go around them. If there's a pheasant, we can't let it get away." "Okay!" "Okay!"

The three of them, who had agreed beforehand, slowly made their way to the bushes and then saw the two chicken coops and the wild eggs. They quickly went over and picked them up.

"It's a pity there were no pheasants. I must have spoken too loudly at the beginning and scared them away!" Liu Yumei became more and more annoyed! She must control herself next time.

The three carefully placed a dozen or so wild eggs into the wild vegetables in their baskets. They didn't go home just because they had wild eggs; they still had to dig up the wild vegetables.

After all the baskets on their backs were full, they took Liu Yuxi home.

"Grandma, Grandma, we're back!" As the voices of several people came out, Zhang Dani, who was busy in the kitchen, shouted, "You're back, so what are you yelling about! Pick out some wild vegetables first, we'll have them for lunch."

"Okay, Grandma, Grandma, look what we found!" Liu Yumei put down her basket, pulled Zhang Dani to the basket, and then lifted the wild vegetables on top to reveal the wild eggs inside.

"Whoa!" Zhang Dani quickly slapped Liu Yumei's hand away, carried the basket to the kitchen, and carefully picked out the wild eggs inside, a total of seventeen.

"You didn't go deep into the mountains, did you?" Although she was happy that the children had found wild eggs, she still had to tell them what needed to be told, so she asked Liu Yumei, who had followed them in.

"No, no, it's just the place where we usually dig for wild vegetables, in the bushes. It's a pity there are no pheasants!"

"Why are you so greedy? It's good enough to have wild eggs, but you also want wild chickens. Your second aunt was lucky to catch one. As for wild eggs, look how many people in the village can find them."

But you guys better keep your mouths shut. Don't talk nonsense outside. Keep an eye on the bushes whenever you're foraging for wild vegetables; you might find some next time!

Zhang Dani chuckled as she spoke, "Don't worry, Grandma, we discussed it when we came back. From now on, we'll dig for wild vegetables near the bushes, hehe!" Liu Yumei was also happy, as if she could see countless wild eggs waiting for her to collect in the future.

After Zhang Dani put down the wild eggs, she asked Zhang Dani to go out and gather wild vegetables. In summer, there are plenty of wild vegetables. The tender ones are for people to eat, and the slightly older ones are chopped up to feed the chickens. If there are any left over, they are blanched, dried, and stored for winter.

This is how we usually dry the vegetables in our own vegetable garden; green beans, eggplants, and flat beans can all be dried. Of course, we also pickle vegetables; the most common pickled vegetables here are pickled mustard greens and green beans, as well as chives rolled with chili peppers.

As for soybean paste, it depends on the harvest. If the harvest is good and there are extra soybeans at home, a pot of soybean paste will be made.

Soybeans were a rare commodity at that time; you can tell by how many times a year ordinary people could eat tofu.

There are no off-season vegetables available at this time of year. If we don't prepare these now, all we'll have left in winter are cabbage, radishes, and potatoes. You get tired of eating anything if you eat too much of it, let alone the same three things every year.

The children in the family are busy with these tasks every year, so they are naturally good at it and quickly processed several baskets of wild vegetables.

Liu Yushan used a rusty, chipped machete to chop up the old wild vegetables he had picked out, and then threw them in front of the chicken coop. The family raised a total of six hens, but no roosters, because roosters cannot lay eggs.

It's not that we've never raised chickens before. When the hen stops laying eggs, we need to hatch chicks again. Since you can't tell the sex of the eggs, if there's a rooster among the chicks that hatch, we'll raise a rooster that year. But we'll only raise it until Chinese New Year, haha. That year, we'll have an extra dish of chicken stew with mushrooms on our New Year's Eve dinner.

Unfortunately, we don't have a rooster at home this year!

Liu Yuxi has always followed Liu Yumei around, doing whatever Liu Yumei does. She is very worried now. Forget about going to school, she can't even find a reasonable reason to say new words.

The original owner was completely deaf, unable to hear any sound. This kind of pharmacological deafness is irreversible. Although people nowadays are not very knowledgeable, most of what they say is based on experience.

When the doctor at the local clinic learned that the original owner was deaf, he asked her family to take her to the county hospital. Her family did take her there, but the doctors there couldn't do anything. They had encountered children who had become deaf due to gentamicin injections before, but none of them had been cured.

Since information doesn't circulate much these days, why doesn't she just pretend she's not deaf for good? Doctors in small towns these days who can still work normally aren't that skilled; she should be able to fool them.

As for going to school, just thinking about it makes my scalp tingle. Sigh! I'll think about it later.

Having made up her mind, Liu Yuxi started to put it into action. In this family, only Zhang Dani would often speak loudly. Why? To scold her son, her daughter-in-law, and her grandchildren. In the countryside, an old woman's scolding can be heard halfway through the village. So, she decided to follow her grandmother around for the time being.

After a while, besides the phrases the original owner had learned, Liu Yuxi would occasionally say to her uncle during meals, "You little bastard!" and to her three older siblings, "You little brats!" There was no way around it; Zhang Dani was the loudest when she said those two phrases!

At first, her family was confused. Her mother even spanked her for cursing her uncle. It wasn't until her second sister was crying loudly that she remembered something and asked her mother, "Mom, didn't you say that Er Yatou couldn't hear? She never used to say those two sentences. Can Er Yatou hear us now?"

Auntie Niu was startled and quickly stopped Niu Xiaolan: "Wait, Second Sister-in-law, who did Er Yatou learn this from?" Niu Xiaolan subconsciously replied: "I didn't teach her!" Then she realized what she meant.

The family's eyes immediately turned to Zhang Dani, making her feel a little guilty. She retorted sharply, "What's wrong with me scolding my son and grandson?" Then she realized what she had said. The family's gaze then shifted to Liu Yuxi.