80s Taoism

Nie Tong lowered his head and refused to say anything.

"Forget it. In the future, when you are willing to speak out, you can tell me." Zhang Jiaohua picked out another chopstick of chili sauce, "This chili sauce is really delicious."

"If you like it, next time, I'll bring you a can," Nie Tong said.

"Forget it, if I want to eat, I'll just come to you for a while." Zhang Jiaohua said.

After eating, Qi Xia pulled Zhang Jiaohua aside and said, "I know about Nie Tong's family. His family is really miserable. The family gave birth to a younger sister the year before last, and all the things in the house were taken away by family planning authorities, and the house was also demolished. Nie Tong's parents ran away from that time and have not come back. No one in the village knows where they went. The house at home was demolished, and Nie Tong's grandparents nailed a very simple house with the demolished wooden boards. You are on a tight schedule, and you can make do with it. Later, you harvested wild tea in Meiziao, and Nie Tong and grandpa went to the mountains to pick wild tea, and you could earn some money a year. Who knew that grandma Nie Tong fell ill and spent all her money, and died of illness last year. Now there are only two people in the family, Nie Tong and grandpa. The uncles in his family saw that grandma and grandpa Nie Tong were in charge of Nie Tong, and they didn’t care whether grandma and grandpa Nie Tong lived or died.”

"Where's his sister?" Zhang Jiaohua asked.

"His parents took him away. Sigh, every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite." Qi Xia said very deeply and melancholy.

Zhang Jiaohua looked at Qi Xia puzzled, "What troubles does your family have?"

"I wish I was born in Meizi'ao." Qi Xia said.

"Why?" Zhang Jiaohua didn't understand.

"Then I will be able to play as well as you guys. Even the mutes can play so well. If I had practiced with you earlier, I would have played better than the mutes." On the basketball court these days, Qi Xia was abused into a dog by Mei Zi'ao's kids.

After eating in the school cafeteria for less than a week, Zhang Jiaohua couldn't take it anymore. Zhang Jiaohua has to practice Zhuanggong every day, even in junior high school, he still persists every day. Poor and rich in martial arts, the daily consumption of martial arts training is not ordinary, and if conditions permit, medicines must be concocted to make up for the deficit. Even if you don't concoct drugs, you have to eat a lot of meat every day to supplement your consumption. But in school, even if Zhang Jiaohua is rich, it is impossible to buy meat that can supplement his consumption. After a week, Zhang Jiaohua felt a feeling of starvation.

"Mute, do you want to eat meat?" Zhang Jiaohua asked.

"I want to eat." The mute nodded quickly.

Zhang Yuanbao also clicked his mouth, he was actually not as serious as Zhang Jiaohua and Dumb. When he arrived at Yidushui Middle School, how could Zhang Yuanbao persist? But he was tall and had a good appetite, and his stomach was often half-starved for the little food in the school.

"I can't go on like this, I have to find a place to get food." Zhang Jiaohua said.

"Beggar, do you want to steal the chicken?" Zhang Yuanbao asked.

"Steal your head. Do I need to steal the chicken?" Zhang Jiaohua gave Zhang Yuanbao a blank look.

"That's not what I meant. I was worried that Runtian would go back and sue secretly. I was killed by this yellow-haired girl, and every time something happened, she would definitely go back and sue." Zhang Yuanbao actually wanted to steal chickens with Zhang Jiaohua, but seeing that Zhang Jiaohua didn't plan to steal chickens, he felt a little regretful.

Next to Yidushui is a rice field, and groups of turtle doves can often be seen lining up on the ridge of the field. But on this day, the group of turtledoves did not find many thin threads on the ground, but found a lot of food on the ridge. They happily shared the food, but they didn't notice that the thread was slowly moving. With a sudden pull, thin ropes were wrapped around the turtledove's feet. The suddenly frightened turtledove jumped into the air, but before flying far, more than a dozen turtledoves fell down in a string.

Five teenagers got out from the bushes at the side, and quickly pounced on them, catching those turtledoves. These five teenagers were naturally Zhang Jiaohua, Dumb, Zhang Yuanbao, Qi Xia, and Nie Tong.

"Beggar, how do these turtledoves eat?" asked the mute.

"Let's go, find a place to roast and eat." Zhang Jiaohua led the way to a stream not far from the school. That's a great place for a picnic.

This creek is the downstream of Baixi, but it is called a crossing when it gets here.

Zhang Jiaohua found a place with a relatively wide river surface and relatively shallow water at the edge of Yidu River. The most important thing was that there was a tidal flat beside the river. Without Zhang Jiaohua's instructions, the mutes had quickly gathered firewood around them. The children in the mountains are all masters of wild survival. As long as there are matches, it is impossible for the people in the mountains to go hungry. Of course, it is really not easy to imagine such a high-end food like Jiaohua.

Zhang Jiaohua had scouted the terrain here long ago, so he was able to easily find a place with clay, which is different from ordinary soil. The fertility of the clay is very poor, the viscosity is too high, and it is difficult for the roots of the crops to breathe in it, so where there is a lot of clay, the plants grow very poorly. Such places are often barren, and only those weeds and thorns with strong vitality regardless of meat and vegetables can survive stubbornly.

This time Zhang Jiaohua is going to wrap the turtledove in clay again and eat it as "Called Turtledove". Using the knife I carried with me, I easily dug an earthen stove on the slope of the bank, and piled all the firewood I picked up in the stove. Zhang Jiaohua wrapped several of the turtledoves tightly with prepared clay and threw them into the fire.

"The mute is watching the fire. Go and collect some more firewood and more tree trunks. I will need the fire to roast the turtledoves later." Zhang Jiaohua ordered.

If there is something to eat, everyone will naturally act positively. Zhang Yuanbao immediately took Qi Xia and Nie Tong to the woods not far away to collect firewood.

Zhang Jiaohua put water in an iron bucket brought by several people and put it on the fire. When the water boiled, he threw the turtledove into the boiling water.

These viscera were not useless at all, Zhang Jiaohua took out a ball of fishing line from the small bag he was carrying, hooked the turtledove's viscera on the hook, and threw it directly into the stream. Unexpectedly, the fishing line without a fishing rod would soon start to move. Something was dragging the fishing line vigorously and rushing wildly in the water.

The bucket that had just boiled water immediately turned into a bucket for fish, and Zhang Jiao caught more than ten slate fish in a short while.

"Is this fish so easy to catch?" asked the mute.

"Because it's greedy just like you!" Zhang Jiaohua laughed.

This kind of slate fish is indeed very easy to catch. They are very greedy. If you throw a little bait, they don't even bother to try, and they just open their mouths to eat. He didn't even need a fishing rod, Zhang Jiaohua directly tied a one or two meter long fishing line to a wooden stick, and caught so much in a short time. Of course, this is also because few people in Yidu Water Town use electric fishing machines to fish. Everyone on Yidushui has something to do, young and old, they can make money casually, who wants to get such a dangerous fishing machine?

Zhang Jiaohua went to the bank to chop some thin bamboos, and cut them into bamboo sticks with a knife. After these things were done, it happened that Zhang Yuanbao came back with Qi Xia and Nie Tong carrying a bundle of dry firewood.

"I said you guys have been gone for so long and haven't been seen for a long time. You came here with so much firewood, are you going to set it on fire?" the mute laughed.

"It's not used up this time, and we can still use it in the future." Zhang Yuanbao knew that it was impossible for the beggar to come out just once.

"It's just right, one turtledove per person, roast it by yourself, I have the seasoning in my bag." Zhang Jiaohua handed over a few bamboo sticks to each of them.

Sure enough, everyone is a master of survival in the wild, and the cleaned turtledoves quickly turned into golden-yellow roasted turtledoves in their hands. The oil sizzling from the roasted skin, and the smell of barbecue filled the air.

There are various seasonings in Zhang Jiaohua's backpack, the most important of which are naturally the secret spices prepared by Zhang Jiaohua himself. Of course, salt is essential.

"Beggar, that fish, are you going to stew fish soup?" The mute ate the pheasant in his hand in two or three strokes, and he was not full at all. After a turtledove was cleaned up, there was less than half a catty left, and what could be eaten was two or three taels. How could these half-sized doves be full?

"It's better to bake it. It tastes better when it's baked." Qi Xia said hastily.

"Then grill it and eat it." Zhang Jiaohua didn't think about how to eat these fish, so grilling fish is naturally more convenient.

After eating the fish, the turtledoves were just able to eat, and their stomachs swelled after eating one by one.

"Beggar, why don't we come out to get food every day!" Zhang Yuanbao said.

"You think the turtledove is so stupid that it will be delivered to your door every day for you to eat. There will be no turtledove fooled tomorrow." Zhang Jiaohua shook his head.

"Why don't you bring the leopard here and let it hunt wild animals for us," Zhang Yuanbao said.

"I'll talk about it later." Zhang Jiaohua was too lazy to talk to Zhang Yuanbao. This guy has a big mouth, and he will definitely not be able to control his mouth when he goes back.

Sure enough, as soon as he returned to school, Zhang Yuanbao hiccupped and told about going out to eat wild game today. Some people who like to make reports reported the situation to the head teacher.

Naturally, Zhang Jiaohua received the call from the class teacher Cai Kaiming very quickly.

"Sit." Cai Kaiming asked Zhang Jiaohua to sit down first.

Zhang Jiaohua was not as nervous as ordinary students, and sat down on the stool Cai Kaiming pointed to.

"Have you gone hunting game?" Cai Kaiming asked.

"En." Zhang Jiaohua nodded.

"How did you fight?" Cai Kaiming asked.

"I set up a few turtledoves in the field, and caught some fish in the Yidushui River. I roasted them and ate them," Zhang Jiaohua said.

"When it comes to eating, it's better to make it in the kitchen. When you eat it roasted, there will always be a smell of smoke." Cai Kaiming said seriously.

Zhang Jiaohua was dumbfounded, what is Teacher Cai doing?