Chapter 34: Wild Chicken
“Jiaojiao’s luck is amazing; maybe today she’ll really find a wild chicken!”
“She’s not just lucky, but also capable. What young girl can catch such a big snake?”
Yun Jiao, praised in various ways, smiled even wider.
“Let’s put the firewood here first, and then let’s go pick bayberries.”
Yun Liuliu: “I remember there’s a wild bayberry tree ahead, let’s go find it.”
Yun Xiaowu pouted: “No, those bayberries are too sour, only you can eat them. When Jiaojiao was two, you picked those bayberries for her, and her saliva flowed all over her clothes.”
Yun Jiao also remembered this, but she also wanted to taste everything.
After all, there were no fruit trees in the sea, and she was most curious about edible plants and fruits.
But those bayberries were so sour that her little face wrinkled up, and her saliva flowed uncontrollably.
Just thinking about it now makes her mouth water.
Of course, Sixth Brother, who fed her the bayberries, was also beaten until he cried.
Yun Liuliu was unwilling: “Boil them with sugar when we get back.”
In the end, they still went to pick some bayberries.
The wild bayberries were small and sour; just smelling them made her mouth water.
Yun Jiao, who remembered the taste but not the beating, picked a bayberry that looked very red and popped it into her mouth.
Then she had a jolt, and her pretty little face instantly wrinkled up from the sourness.
“Why are you still eating it?”
Yun Xiaowu quickly took the bayberry out of her mouth.
Yun Jiao took a while to recover before mumbling, “That one looked so red.”
It looked more delicious than other bayberries.
The older brothers were speechless; what a gluttonous girl.
“Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go. If we stay here smelling this, I won’t be able to control my saliva.”
Finally, they arrived under the guava tree.
Yun Xiaowu rolled up his sleeves and climbed the tree: “This is our secret base, good thing no one else has found it.”
This area was already quite remote, and the guava tree was in the jungle, surrounded by thorny vines. It was unclear how Yun Xiaowu and the others managed to get here.
“Jiaojiao, here you go.”
Yun Xiaowu picked two guavas and came down, handing a large one to Yun Jiao.
Guava is also called Chinese guava. It looks like a small melon and feels a bit soft to the touch. Yun Xiaowu could break it open with his bare hands, revealing beautiful red pulp inside.
The pulp was red, and it tasted good and sweet, making it one of the favorite fruits of the people here.
The only downside was the many seeds inside, which required constant spitting.
“Delicious.”
Yun Jiao also liked eating them, and sometimes she swallowed the seeds without spitting them out carefully.
“If it’s delicious, pick more.”
Seeing her brothers nimbly climbing the tree, Yun Jiao also wanted to try.
However, before she could even start climbing, she was discovered and stopped.
“Jiaojiao, you stand down here, don’t come up.”
Yun Jiao reluctantly said “oh.”
She then found another edible wild vegetable nearby and went to pick it.
First, she poured all the contents of her basket into Ninth Brother’s basket on the ground; morel mushrooms couldn’t withstand rough handling.
While searching, she parted some grass and suddenly found herself face-to-face with a wild chicken lying in the grass.
Yun Jiao: !!!
Her movements were faster than her thoughts, and she quickly covered the wild chicken with the basket she was holding, which still contained wild vegetables.
“Cluck cluck cluck…”
The trapped wild chicken immediately let out a scream and flapped its wings.
Then Yun Jiao watched as several more wild chickens flapped out of the nearby grass and flew away, including one with very vibrant feathers.
That was a rooster; the others were hens with short tails and dull gray feathers.
“Holy crap! So many wild chickens!”
“Ahhh… what did we miss!”
“They all ran away, we can’t catch them.”
Wild chickens can fly and run very fast.
Even though Yun Xiaowu and the others heard the commotion and got down from the tree as quickly as possible, they still couldn’t catch a single one.
They immediately regretted it and slapped their thighs.
Watching so many wild chickens fly past them was no different from missing out on a fortune.
“Wait, I still hear wild chicken calls.”
They quickly followed the sounds of the wild chickens and found Yun Jiao, who was now squatting with her little butt sticking up, lying on the ground.
At this time, Yun Jiao’s hair was messy, her fair little face was a bit dirty, but her eyes were exceptionally bright and spirited.
“Brothers, wild chicken!”
Fearing the wild chicken in the basket would fly out, she was lying on top of the basket herself, but she didn’t dare press down too hard.
As soon as Yun Xiaowu and the others heard this, their eyes lit up.
“I’ll get it, I’ll get it, I’ll catch it.”
The brothers pushed each other, tripped each other, all in a rush to be the first to reach Yun Jiao and catch the wild chicken themselves.
All their tricks were used on their own brothers.
Yun Xiaoqi, who tripped and fell flat on his face, angrily punched the ground: “Fifth Brother, you’re going too far!”
Yun Xiaowu didn’t care; he even pushed his own twin brother aside.
In the end, the wild chicken was caught by Yun Xiaowu.
He laughed heartily amidst the wild chicken’s screams.
“This is truly a case of ‘what you wish for, you get’! Our Dragon Phoenix Soup is secured. This wild chicken is quite plump.”
Of course, wild chickens are not as plump as domestic chickens, especially hens.
They were only a little larger than pigeons.
“It’s a pity that all those wild chickens ran away earlier.”
“Oh no, there were wild chicken eggs too, and they’re broken.”
After Yun Jiao moved the basket, she discovered wild chicken eggs underneath, but they were likely crushed by the wild chicken struggling inside.
Yun Xiaowu’s eyes lit up: “There were so many wild chickens earlier, there might be more wild chicken eggs around, let’s all look.”
They did find some.
Yun Liuliu beamed: “I found a wild chicken coop here, with five wild chicken eggs inside.”
“I found some here too, three!”
Yun Jiao also found some; the nest she found had seven eggs.
Afterwards, there were no more, even if they found a wild chicken nest, it was empty.
A total of fifteen wild chicken eggs, and everyone was beaming.
“Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go home.”
They never expected to be so lucky to find so many good things in the mountains.
Carrying firewood, wild vegetables, a snake, and a wild chicken, they descended the mountain with high spirits.
The wild chicken was still alive and kept clucking incessantly.
“You kids went into the mountains? And caught a wild chicken?”
Yun Xiaowu nodded: “We encountered a group initially, but unfortunately, the others flew away, and we only caught this one.”
“You’re so lucky to catch a wild chicken while collecting firewood in the mountains.”
The people they met were envious but not resentful; it was just one wild chicken.
Although supplies were scarce now, living by the sea meant they could still eat meat regularly.
Everyone liked wild chicken too, after all, too much seafood made them enjoy other meats.
But a wild chicken only had so much meat, and with so many people in their family, everyone would only get a bit of soup.
