Chapter 13

"Grandma, grandma." Before entering the yard, I heard several children shouting.

Su Qinghe just woke up, and was hugged by her grandmother to play on the straw mat.

Hearing the excited voices of his brothers, he was also a little curious about what happened, so he poked his head out.

Mother Su thought it was funny to see her little granddaughter stretching her neck so much, she loves to watch live action at such a young age.

"Grandma hugged us to see what brother and the others are doing." Mother Su picked up Su Qinghe and walked into the yard.

Before reaching the door, there was another sound of "Pu Chi Pu Chi".

Then there were several children yelling, and some of them seemed to have fallen.

Hearing Su's mother's heartbeat speed up, her pace also quickened.

"What happened?" Wasn't she happy just now?

Who knows, I was dumbfounded as soon as I walked outside the door.

Su Qinghe was also stunned by the scene in front of her. Her eyes were wide open, and her little hands were tightly clutching grandma's clothes and forgot to let go.

"Ah." Is this rolling around on the ground?
The few people who were clean when they went out came back covered in dirt, their clothes, faces and hands, as long as they were exposed outside, seemed to be covered with a layer of dirt, even their hair was not spared, and many of them could be seen weeds.

"Did you fight with someone?" Mother Su thought subconsciously.

Because of the two daughters-in-law, the children in the family can now play with the children in the village.

Although I used to run outside all day, I would also stay at home to play, but since I made a lot of friends, they go out every day and don’t go home until meal time.

Coming back so early today, making it look like a cat, it's hard not to make people wonder if something happened.

The children didn't know what grandma was thinking, and they didn't care whether they were dirty or not, so they showed off to grandma with grinning mouths.

"Grandma, look." The little finger pointed to the side.

Mother Su followed the direction they pointed, and saw Siwa lying on the ground, and there seemed to be something moving in her arms.

"Slightly, slightly." Still call.

"This, what is this?"

"Chicken, grandma, we caught the chicken." Siwa tightly locked the chicken under her body, her little face was so excited, if it wasn't for the fear that the chicken would run away, she would have jumped up and gestured twice.

Mother Su didn't react for a while, "You caught someone else's chicken?"

I really can't blame her, the chicken is like a few children, it can't see its original appearance at all, and its feathers are covered by a layer of soil.

"Pheasant, we caught it on the mountain."

Finally, several people and children worked together to tie the chicken with a rope and tie it to a pole next to the manhole cover.

Su Qinghe sat on the straw mat and looked curiously at the pheasant that had lost its strength. This was the first time she had seen a live pheasant.

I heard that the pheasant can fly, how could it still be caught, it was caught by a few brats.

The chicken had been fighting with a few brats for so long, and was exhausted. It lay on the ground with its eyes closed, as if resigned to its fate.

"Be good and call grandma if you have something to do."

Su Qinghe nodded without looking back, indicating that she understood.

Mother Su helped a few children to take water to take a bath, so there was probably a layer of mud under the tub after taking a bath.

But the children didn't care at all, they were so happy, they were still thinking about catching chickens tomorrow.

"Rinse the bathtub with water after washing, then pour this bucket of water in, and wash again." Mother Su was worried, fearing that they would not be able to wash it clean.

"Grandpa said that there will be chicken coops near the place where the chickens are caught, and there will be eggs in them. Let's find eggs tomorrow." Erwa suggested.

Soon others echoed, "I want to take the basket."

Before tomorrow, they had already thought about what to do when they got the eggs.

"I want scrambled eggs."

"Egg custard."

“Egg stew is delicious.”

Su's mother almost laughed out loud when she heard them report the name of the dish outside, she must be greedy.

After taking a bath, the four children put on their clothes consciously, holding a laundry tub in their arms, which was filled with the clothes they had just changed.

When passing by her sister, Sanwa suddenly thought of something, put down the laundry tub, and squatted on the ground to look through her pockets.

"It's broken." Sanwa took out the crushed raspberry from her pocket.

He remembered that his sister liked to eat them, and they had almost picked the raspberries at the bottom of the mountain. He searched for them for a long time before finding them.

But I forgot when I caught the chicken, and now it's all crushed.

His hands were also stained by the juice, his eyes were dimmed, and his face was full of disappointment.

"Yeah." Su Qinghe was a little surprised, she didn't expect this brother to remember her when he was playing outside.

"Ah." Su Qinghe raised her hand with difficulty and patted his arm to comfort him.

It's okay, don't be sad, you can have chicken soup today.

"What's wrong with Sanwa?" Mother Su went to fetch laundry soap for them, and when she came out, she saw Sanwa with a drooping face, and her younger sister stretched out her hand to pat him hard.

"Grandma, it's broken." Sanwa showed her the crushed raspberry in her hand.

Thinking it was a big deal, Su's mother was worried that the relationship between their siblings would be bad at the beginning, but she didn't expect that Sanwa would be particularly responsible as an older brother.

Whenever there is something delicious, the first person that comes to mind is my sister, and I want to leave any delicious food to my sister.

"Didn't Sanwa catch the chicken with his elder brother and younger brother, and the younger sister can drink chicken soup then."

Hearing that my sister can drink chicken soup, Sanwa perked up again, "Give my chicken soup to my sister too."

"Okay, my younger sister has it, and my third baby has it too. We'll all drink together then." Mother Su coaxed him.

Su's mother didn't dare to handle the chicken. Every time the family killed these chickens, it was Su's father or Su Jianjun's brothers who killed them, and the women in the family were in charge of cooking.

After five o'clock in the afternoon, the working people in the village one after another finished their work and went home to cook.

Wang Xiujuan's sister-in-law arrived home first, and as soon as they entered the door, they saw several children sitting on a small bench, with a laundry tub in front of them.

I was rubbing my clothes "humming, humming". Fortunately, it was summer, and I was wearing short-sleeved shorts, and the ground around me was soaked.

Before they could ask, the children rushed to say that they had caught a chicken.

"so smart."

This pheasant is different from the domestic chicken, it runs much faster, and some fierce ones can even peck people, so they can catch it with just four of them?
Wang Xiujuan couldn't believe it, but when she saw the tied chicken beside her, it had been tossed and limp, lying listlessly on the ground.

"This, this is true." Xu Mei was also shocked, how much effort these children have given up.

After watching the chicken, Wang Xiujuan looked at the children again, "Are you injured?"

"No." Just scratched the skin a little bit, but they are manly, such a small injury is nothing.

When the fourth baby was taking a bath, the place where the skin was scratched was stained with water, and tears almost flowed out.

That's how he was coaxed by the two big ones, and the tears that were just about to fall were held back just like that.

Xu Mei saw that her youngest son was about to speak, but he didn't know what to think, so he held back.

"Fourth baby, did you fall?" The two big ones had thick skins, and they didn't tell the family if they fell, and the two young ones who were often coaxed didn't tell if they were injured.

The fourth baby puffed up his mouth when he heard his mother ask him, and waved his little hand pretending to be an adult, not paying attention to the water on his hand, and the water droplets splashed everywhere.

"A man, a little injury is nothing, man, man, man—" I forgot the words.

Siwa looked to the brothers nearby for help.

"A man doesn't flick his tears lightly." Sanwa answered crisply.

"Yes, a man doesn't flick his tears lightly." Siwa quickly nodded and repeated.

The people around me almost couldn't breathe from laughing, where did I learn this.

"Okay, our fourth child has grown up." Several adults applauded.

Su Qinghe couldn't hear her, and sighed like a grown-up.

"Let's sigh obediently." Wang Xiujuan washed her hands and hugged her daughter.

Su Qinghe didn't expect to be discovered, and began to play dumb, lying on her mother's shoulder and pretending not to understand.

"Playing stupid again." Reluctantly, Wang Xiujuan patted her buttocks, this little girl is very clever.

"What are you so happy about?" The third father and son of the Su family also came back.

"I heard Siwa's voice from a long distance away, who doesn't shed tears easily?" Su Jianjun said cheerfully.

The fourth baby didn't know that his father was laughing at him, so he raised his hand happily, "I, my son doesn't cry easily."

"Oh, our fourth child has grown up too." Su Jianguo joked.

"Yeah." Siwa raised her head proudly, wishing she could raise her head high.

"What's the matter, why are you still washing your clothes?" Su Jianguo said while walking to the well, wanting to fetch water to wash his hands and feet.

"Hey, where's the chicken here?" I was taken aback by the chicken there.

Now Sanwa couldn't sit still anymore, and proudly showed off to her father, "We caught it."

Now, even Su's father couldn't help looking at the children.

Su Jianjun picked up the chicken and looked at it, "This foot is broken."

"Where did you catch it?" Father Su asked.

The children got excited immediately, chattering about where they saw it and how hard it was to catch it.

"Didn't you catch it in a trap?" Su Jianguo was afraid that the child would be ignorant, so he caught the chicken in the trap dug by others.

These days, every family can't eat a few meals of meat throughout the year, so some people have the idea of ​​digging a few traps on the mountain to see if they can catch some game.

"No, it ran out on its own and was discovered by us." Dawa was told by her family that she saw something in someone else's trap that she couldn't catch, and it belonged to someone else.

"Okay, let's have chicken tonight." Su Jianguo nodded, and the family hadn't eaten chicken for a while.

Mother Su also went to the kitchen and brought out a bucket of hot water, "The water has just boiled."

The two brothers each grabbed the head and tail of the chicken, cooperated tacitly, and the blood of the chicken was not wasted, and both took bowls to catch it.

"What do you want to do?" The sister-in-law was also washing vegetables and preparing dinner.

The chicken was caught by several of their children, and they were allowed to decide how to eat it.

Erwa was a little greedy for the stewed chicken that I ate last time, and tentatively said, "I want to eat braised chicken, okay?"

Su Qinghe's eyes lit up when she heard the stewed chicken. She hadn't eaten the stewed chicken for a long time.

Before Wang Xiujuan and the others could speak, Sanwa was the first to disagree. He still remembered to give his sister chicken soup, "No, my sister wants chicken soup."

Erwa almost forgot, clicked her mouth a few times regretfully, and said in a compromise, "Then have chicken soup." Chicken soup is delicious anyway.

The other two people have no opinion at all, they are delicious anyway.

"Thank you, Second Brother." Only then did Sanwa heave a sigh of relief, and smiled at Erwa.

(End of this chapter)

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