Splendid Pastoral: The Strong and Hot Wife

Chapter 11 Entering the Mountain for the Second Time

The next morning, Xu Xiaomi got up to cook at dawn, and after a simple wash, his parents also woke up.

Xu Xiaomi thought about it last night.Today is the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, and there is only one day left before the Chinese New Year. Although, the family has some food for the time being, but is it really going to be the New Year and there will be no food?She doesn't want to go hungry.

So, she wanted to try her luck in the mountains again today.After my father got up, he took a broom to sweep the floor, and my mother helped wash the dishes and serve food.

Xu Xiaomi took the washing water and put it in the yard and shouted to the parents in the house: "Father, mother, wash your face!"

Xu Erqiang put the broom away and walked to the washbasin to wash his hands. Xu Xiaomi said, "Father, let's go to the mountains today and dig a few traps along the way. We didn't see any traps along the way. I want to try."

"Okay! Let's take our tools and go into the mountains after dinner!" Xu Erqiang washed his face, dried his cloth and put them in the house for dinner with Xu Xiaomi.

At this time, Er Niu got up, and Xu Xiaomi told him to wash up and eat, and then went into the mountain.

As soon as Er Niu heard that he was about to enter the mountain, Er Niu was so happy that he was about to jump up. After three or two washes, he went into the house and stood beside Xu Xiaomi.

Xu Xiaomi brought him white rice porridge, and then handed him a pancake made from a mixture of black flour and white flour in the morning.

Er Niu reached out to take it and took a bite of the cake and said, "Sister, our family finally eats white rice. When I went to my grandpa's house for Chinese New Year last year, I saw my grandma bring a bowl of white rice to Brother Bao. I have never eaten it before!" Thinking about when I can have a meal of white rice..."

After hearing this, the parents quickly turned their faces away, and Xu Xiaomi knew that this made the parents feel uncomfortable again.well!This is all caused by poverty. The child has not had a bowl of white rice porridge at such an age. How sad it is!

But they can't help it!Are there any parents in the world who don't want their children to have the same food and clothing as others?But if they have that ability!
Xu Xiaomi reached out and touched Er Niu's head and said: "Er Niu wants to eat, we will eat it every day from now on, I believe my sister can do it, eat it! After eating, let's go up the mountain and beat the wolf back!"

After speaking, Xu Xiaomi got up and took a clean cloth, wrapped four cakes and put them in the basket.Walking out with the basket in hand, my father also finished the porridge in the bowl a few times, got up and went to the yard to get a hoe and put the knife in Xu Xiaomi's basket.

At this time, it was already dawn and Xu Xiaomi went to look at the little pheasants in the cage, and added some vegetable leaves to the cage.Seeing that Er Niu came out after eating, he put Er Niu on his back and took Er Niu to the back of the house with his father.

After entering the forest, she found that their family had cut a lot of branches here in the past two days, and it felt much brighter when they walked in.

After walking about two miles along the previous road, I came to the place where they caught the little pheasants.

Xu Xiaomi consciously walked into the withered grass inside the chicken coop and shouted softly to Xu Erqiang: "Father, bring the hoe here."

Xu Erqiang went over with a hoe, and Xu Xiaomi asked him to dig a hole in the withered grass.Xu Xiaomi himself took out a knife and cut off a few branches from the big tree next to him, removed the leaves, divided them into two-foot-long sections, and sharpened the small ends.About a dozen should be enough.

At this time, Er Niu was helping his father throw the soil out of the pit.Xu Xiaomi walked over to have a look and dug it. It was two feet deep and wide, but there was more than one meter to dig.

Xu Xiaomi saw that the color of the soil was black, only the top one foot was yellow. She observed carefully, and the soil below was dug out in pieces. She took it over to see if it was coal. ah?
After repeated confirmation, she was sure that it was coal.The father continued to dig and saw that it was more than one meter deep. She said to the father and son in the pit: "Father, let's dig this deep and come up!"

Xu Xiaomi lay on the edge of the pit and stretched out his hand to pull his brother and father to put the hoe away, and stretched out his hand to support Er Niu's buttocks up. Xu Xiaomi grabbed Er Niu's hand that was as black as a chicken paw and pulled him up.Looking at Er Niu's cat face, he laughed.

Father Xu Erqiang also laughed when he saw it. Er Niu saw that his sister and father were laughing, and he also laughed when he saw his father's face was full of flowers.

The father and son giggled for a while, Xu Xiaomi pointed to the black coals and said, "Father, let's hide these in the withered grass, so as not to make too much noise and attract the attention of animals."

As she spoke, she began to mow the dry grass with the knife again.Xu Erqiang and his son put the coal into the deep withered grass, and when they were all put away, Xu Erqiang asked, "Daughter, this doesn't seem to be soil?"

Xu Xiaomi looked at it seriously and said to his father: "Father, this is coal. Don't tell others. If I guessed correctly, someone should have known that there is coal here a few years ago. Otherwise, how could someone spread the news about it?" What about the saying that there are monsters on the mountain? It’s just that I don’t know why the people who discovered these haven’t come to mine yet.”

"How do you know it's coal!" Xu Erqiang asked puzzled.

This daughter seems to know a lot, how did she know it was coal?I don't know myself.

"Father! Zhang's kitchen has this coal in winter. I saw it in Zhang's."

Xu Xiaomi can't say that she is from the future. I've seen this a lot, so I can only tell a little lie.

"Oh! Can this be burned?" Xu Erqiang didn't know that this black thing could be used as firewood.How can it burn when it looks black?It's black before it burns.

"Yeah! It can be burned! Daddy bury it in the soil with the tip pointing up and step on the soil tightly. Let's dig some more in front and look for the motherless vine!" Xu Xiaomi said while packing up the tools.

Xu Erqiang buried the branches and climbed up, covered the pit with the branches and leaves obtained by Xu Xiaomi, and spread the dead grass cut by Xu Xiaomi on the leaves.

The first trap has been dug. Xu Erqiang really hopes that some prey will fall today, and he can also have a prosperous year.

Xu Xiaomi took his younger brother to leave marks along the way where they hadn't been before, and saw his father following up.

The first trap here is already about 100 meters away, and the second one can be dug here.She put down the back basket and his father saw that the place was surrounded by dead grass.There are only a few big trees two feet away, which is really a good place to dig traps.

So, without delay, I started digging immediately. When I dug to a depth of more than two feet, coal was also dug out here like the first one, and Er Niu was still doing the work of digging the soil.

Xu Xiaomi still cut off the branches on the tree, went to the leaves and small branches, divided the big ones into sections and sharpened them for later use.After she finished cutting the dry grass, the father and son's traps were also dug.

Xu Xiaomi still pulled Er Niu up first, and his father buried the branches up, covered the branches and leaves, and spread withered grass...

Soon, the father and son dug six or seven traps.The motherless vine also stepped on a lot.

This time they walked a long way, which seemed to be two or three miles farther than the place where they picked peppers last time.Here the woods are denser and the trees are bigger.

The ground is full of dead branches and leaves, digging traps here actually dug out water.Xu Xiaomi was afraid of getting his father's shoes wet and told him not to dig them.But Xu Erqiang said that digging traps here is the best place.I had no choice but to let him dig.

When I dug to a depth of two feet, there was no soil or coal underneath, and what was dug out was yellow sand.Er Niu used the back basket they brought to get the yellow sand up from below bit by bit.

Xu Xiaomi is still doing the work of cutting branches and cutting branches, sharpening and cutting dead grass.

After all this was done, she grabbed a handful of wet yellow sand and looked at it.It was found that there were pieces of shining crystals mixed in the yellow sand.She thought it wasn't sand gold, right?

She didn't see this one, but she just checked it on Du Niang. At that time, someone asked her to go panning for sand gold. She didn't know what sand gold was like, so she went to Du Niang to check it out. The pictures she saw were like this Well, this refined gold is the softest gold——platinum!

Unexpectedly, this mountain is really a golden mountain!However, she can't even eat enough now, how can she have the money to sell mountains!

Maybe the people who find the treasure here are the same as me!Temporarily incapable of stepping on or stepping on.However, no permit was issued.

Therefore, I can only step on it secretly, and I am afraid that others will find out and rob him or report to the official, and then claim that there are monsters. People in this era are most in awe of ghosts and monsters... Yes!It must be so.

As before, Xu Erqiang dug until he was shoulder-deep and stopped digging. He lifted his son up from below. The previous few times, his daughter helped him up. handle!"

Xu Xiaomi was temporarily interrupted when his father called out from his thoughts.She reached out and took her brother's hand and pulled him up.

She wanted to tell her father that there was gold here, but she didn't dare to say it. She was afraid that her father would ask her how she knew it, so what would she say?

So, she closed her mouth and found a place with grass to sit on the withered grass. She saw that there were green leaves in the withered grass. She took a closer look and found that there was still grass that did not wither in this winter?In her memory, the only grass that is green in winter is Ophiopogon japonicus.

oh!yes!Isn't this Ophiopogon japonicus or what?This is a good thing!She was as happy at this discovery as anyone who had discovered the New World of America.

I saw that she dug out the roots of each plant carefully, and looked elsewhere after digging here.When the father built the trap and saw that she was busy digging, he asked, "Girl, what are you digging?"

"Father! Ophiopogon japonicus is also a kind of medicine. Come and help me dig them up and plant them behind our house. There are so many here!" Xu Xiaomi said while digging.

Xu Erqiang and Er Niu hurried to help. When digging Ophiopogon japonicus, Xu Xiaomi also found wild onions, which can be used as seasoning.

The condiments are too scarce here, and wild onion has become her ideal condiment.Mai Dong, who had dug most of the basket, was also hungry, so Xu Xiaomi took out the cakes he had brought, one for each of them, and the father and son sat on the hay and ate them.

(End of this chapter)