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Seeing his sister's chattering look, Ming Heng looked closely at each tree stump, stomping and stomping on the ground from time to time, and sometimes knocking on the tree stump with a hatchet, becoming more and more curious.

"Sister, what are you going to do? What's so interesting about this tree stump?"

Qiao Mingjin looked at him and smiled, and said mysteriously, "It's all money."

"Money? Where did you get the money?" Ming Heng hurriedly looked around the tree stump, but he still didn't understand why after just looking at it for a while.

Standing up, he asked, "Sister, do you mean that this stump can be exchanged for money? If you sell firewood, you can fill half a car with it. It's just that the stump is not easy to get up. I don't know how deep it is buried, and there are many roots. , it’s not easy to dig.”

Qiao Mingjin looked at the younger brother and smiled, but she could see that she thought of the tree stump.good.

But now she has no money, no strength, no leisure, and most importantly, no ability.Although this thing is a good thing, she can't do it now, and she has to find another suitable opportunity.

Seeing Mingheng's curious face, waiting for her answer, she just smiled.She didn't want to say what she would use these tree stumps for, children's mouths are faster.Of course, it doesn't mean that she doesn't trust Mingheng, but this tree stump won't hinder anyone here, and when she is ready, she might be able to make a fortune from it.She doesn't want to make wedding clothes for others.

He smiled at Mingheng, and said that these tree stumps are very useful, but they don't have the ability now.Ming Heng looked at her sister's appearance, so he didn't ask any more questions.

Several people walked into the mountains again.

Qiao Mingjin looked at the sack in Ming Qi's hand. In just a short while, the black fungus had picked half of the bag. Even if it dries, it will shrink, and it won't swell after soaking?This half bag is enough to eat for a long time.

I was very happy, and I praised the two children again and again, but the two children were very happy.

Xiao Wan'er was even more happy, she didn't have to be carried on her back anymore, she jumped up and down and ran forward, bending her small body from time to time to look for black fungus.It made Qiao Mingjin happy and sad after seeing it...

After a while, several people walked to a mountain stream.

The river is four or five feet wide, and both sides are covered with dense cattail grass.There are also footprints of hares and pheasants on the ground by the river, and they must have found this place to drink water.

If you make some traps here, it is possible to catch some wild animals.

Qiao Mingjin stopped here with her three children and asked them to stay where they were while she walked along the stream.

When she came to a place where the aquatic plants were particularly dense, she didn't want to but startled a few wild ducks and flew towards the high place, which shocked her.

Seeing the flying wild duck, the three children quickly ran over: "Sister, sister, live with it!"

As soon as the words fell, the shadow of the wild duck disappeared.

Seeing the joy of pouncing pheasants, several children wanted to pouncing on everything.These wild ducks are much heavier than pheasants, one can only be worth two or three pheasants, and the selling price is also more.

"Hey, why did you run away?"

Ming Qi and Xiao Wan'er looked at the rippling stream and the swaying grass, very discouraged.

Qiao Mingjin looked at them, smiled, and said, "The wild duck is gone, maybe there will be wild duck eggs in the grass."

"Mother, is it true? Will there be wild duck eggs?"

"Sister, let's go find it."

"What are you looking for? It's on the opposite side. How do you get there? There's no bridge." After Ming Heng finished speaking, Ming Qi glanced at the grass on the opposite side, and then sighed.

Qiao Mingjin glanced at the three little things, and said to Ming Qi, "Give the bamboo pole to sister."

After receiving the bamboo pole handed by Ming Qi, he poked it into the middle of the stream until it touched the flat river bed, and poked it hard again, the bamboo pole went down a little more, and it took some effort to press it again.

It seems that the bottom of the river bed is not mud.

Qiao Mingjin poked the bamboo pole in several places on both sides, and then lifted the bamboo pole up.I pressed the wet part of the top of the bamboo pole with my hand and compared it with my body. It was fine, but the position below the shoulders was not covered.The river is not too deep.

I compared the bamboo poles horizontally again, and I knew it in my heart.

Said to the three children: "You three stay here, sister go to the other side and have a look."

"Sister, the river is so wide, how do you get across?"

Qiao Mingjin smiled and said, "Then you can take care of it."

As he said that, he stepped back about ten steps, held up the bamboo pole and began to trot. The river was not too wide, so there was no need to run too fast.When he reached the river surface, he used a bamboo pole to throw a stick on the river surface on his side, and his whole body flew into the air. Taking advantage of the inertia, he jumped to the other side of the river all at once.

On the other side, the whole person threw himself forward, but luckily he didn't hit the ground.Hey, I haven't played for many years, and I can't even stand still when I jump over.

When she stood still and looked back at the three children, she found that the three children all opened their mouths wide and looked at her in a daze.

Qiao Mingjin smiled with her mouth raised.

"Wow, sister, how did you do it?"

"Wow, mother can fly!"

"Sister, I want to go too!"

"No." Qiao Mingjin restrained Mingheng.

She has played this kind of game since she was a child. Their home is a water town with many rivers. If they want to walk across the bridge, they sometimes have to take a long detour.She is impatient, so she often pole-vaults like this.As long as the river surface does not exceed two meters, you can easily jump over it.

Ming Heng is inexperienced, the river water is not as tall as her, but if Ming Heng accidentally falls into it, he will be completely crushed.

"Sister!" He looked at her sister who seemed to be quite easy, ran a little, stretched the bamboo pole, retracted his feet, and jumped over.There's no reason he couldn't.

Qiao Mingjin glared at him: "You practice on the ground over there first."

After hearing this, Mingheng didn't care about anything else, and practiced with his own pocket.When encountering such a river in the future, he will be able to jump across it as easily as his sister without using bridges or water.My sister looked like she was flying just now.He wants that too.

Qiao Mingjin glanced at him, didn't say much, and let him go.She herself walked to the place where the wild ducks were startled just now.I dialed in the grass, but I didn't see wild duck eggs.

She straightened up, and searched around again, and she was lucky to find those places, and finally saw two light blue wild duck eggs, she was overjoyed to see them.

He hurriedly chopped some cattail grass with a hatchet and made egg trays, five in a row, and three in a row before it was finished.He jumped to the other side again.

When Xiao Wan'er and Ming Qi saw the wild duck eggs, they were excited and waited on the opposite side.As soon as Qiao Mingjin jumped over, the two children took the egg and happily held it up and looked at it again and again.

Mingheng was still jumping up and down, Qiao Mingjin couldn't laugh or cry.

Said: "Okay, let's practice again when I have free time. There are still many things to pay attention to. I will teach you later when I am free. Now pull out these cattail grass."

After hearing this, Ming Heng put away the bamboo pole and walked over: "What are you doing pulling these aquatic plants?"

After hearing this, Ming Qi and Xiao Wan'er put the duck eggs away and followed.

"The cattail grass is as tough as silk. This cattail grass is a good thing. It can not only weave straw ropes, but also straw mats and baskets. It can be used for many things, and it can be eaten. It is a kind of wild vegetable."

"Is this aquatic plant still edible?" Ming Heng and Ming Qi didn't quite believe it.

"That's right. The vegetables in our family haven't sprouted yet, and we can't always eat the vegetables they send over. This kind of favor is too much, and it's not easy to pay back in the future. If you buy it with money, it will cost money, and they won't Take it. Now we pull out the cattail grass and cook it at night. No one else knows that this cattail grass is edible, maybe we can sell it for some money tomorrow."

As soon as Mingheng heard that it could be sold for money, he became interested: "Sister, can this cattail grass really be eaten? Can it be sold for money?"

"Yeah. I can eat it. This cattail grass is actually a kind of wild vegetable. The grass on it can't be eaten, what can be eaten is the part under the water and in the mud. Let's sell it to the wine shop, maybe others can spend money to buy it I bought it."

While speaking, he raised his hands.

"Wan'er, don't come here, don't fall into the water. Watch the pheasants over there, don't let them run away."

"Well, Wan'er looked at the pheasant."

She was not happy at first, but when her mother told her to watch the pheasants, she ran to the basket.Fearing that the pheasant would run away, he squatted down in front of the basket, and the two of them opened their arms to protect it.

Qiao Mingjin took a look at her daughter, and then told Ming Qi Mingheng how to pull the cattail grass.

After a while, the three of them pulled out a large pile.

Even the mud in the water was brought out.The long ones are three or four feet long.

Qiao Mingjin cut off the green grass above with a hatchet, leaving only the tender white stems below.In this way, others see it and don't know what it is.

The edible part below is also called cattail.It is very refreshing when fried, and she often ate it in the countryside in her previous life.Sometimes it is also sold in the vegetable market.

The three tied three bundles with straw ropes, and freed up the pheasants to put them in baskets...

I don't know if I can sell it, so I don't want to pull too many. I only packed three bundles.

The three of them dug a few more traps by the stream, thinking that if they could catch some hares or something, they could sell them for some money.

In the afternoon, Qiao Mingjin led the three children to chop more than half of the firewood in Qianshan.

At sunset, Qiao Mingjin was a little exhausted, so she had to ask Ming Heng to go home and bring the ox cart.Before leaving, they took another look at the traps by the stream. They were lucky today, and four hares fell into three traps.

But they are all dusty mountain rabbits.If it is a white rabbit, it can be sold for more money just because of its white fur.But these mountain rabbits are quite fat, and they can be sold for a few copper coins.

Covering the four hares and seven pheasants with pine feathers, the family of four took most of the car to Chai's house...

ps: Thanks to "Xin Ni" and "girlady99" for the reward.Thanks to "Peach Old Demon" for the five votes of evaluation.