Father's Farmer's Wife: Farming Makes a Fortune

Chapter 22 A Litter of Rabbits

"Ying'er damn it, quick, quick." He lowered his voice and waved to Nanmenyue in front of him.

Nanmenyue turned around and looked in the direction of his finger. Under the dark tree, there were a few small figures bouncing around.

"Rabbit!" She cried excitedly, threw off the branch, and leaned over cautiously.

She thought the rabbits would jump into the mountains, but she didn't expect them to all run towards her when they heard the sound.

Nanmenyue squatted down quickly, grabbed three of them, handed them to Yu Laosan to hold them steady, and stepped forward to grab the two behind them.

Nanmen Yuele only grinned when she got the five little bunnies. She didn't care about the branch anymore, she lifted up her skirt to pick up the rabbits, and hurriedly walked towards the wooden house.

The little rabbits in this litter must have been taken out of the fire by the mother rabbit, and when they saw Nanmenyue approaching, they thought it was the mother rabbit who had returned, so they ran towards her.

The fire has burned out, but the female rabbit has not been seen, and it is estimated that she has died in the sea of ​​fire.

In front of the wooden house, Qi Ying'er sat on the stone and looked forward to it. It was dark and the fire was extinguished. His mother hadn't come back yet, so even though she was hungry, she couldn't rest assured to eat.

Seeing that he was still waiting there, Mrs. Zhuang came over and called him again: "Your good boy, go eat, your mother will be back in a while."

This child has no mother since she was young, and since Nanmenyue came, she has been clinging to her everywhere, and she can't think of anything the moment they are separated.She didn't even dare to think about what Qi Yinger would do if Nanmenyue's family turned around to find her.

Qi Yinger shook her little head like a rattle and refused to go: "Grandma, it's getting dark today, I'll go pick up my mother." In the past, when her mother came back from the field late, grandma always let him hold her hand. Lantern to pick up.

Mrs. Zhuang picked him up and sat by her lap and softly comforted him: "This is a mountain top, unlike the fields in the village, there will be beasts appearing in the mountains at night, and they will take you away."

When Qi Yinger heard that there was a beast, he became anxious again: "What if the beast took my mother away?" He broke free from the old woman, but still wanted to find his mother.

Mrs. Zhuang didn't let go, so he just kept shaking, crying while shaking.

Nanmen Yue heard the crying all the way, thinking that something happened at home, she held the litter of rabbits tightly in her pocket, and quickened her pace.

Hearing the movement, Qi Ying'er quickly stopped crying, and when he saw a huge figure running from afar, he burst into tears and laughed instantly: "Mother, mother!" He shouted at the top of his voice, the louder he shouted.

Nanmen Yuepao was out of breath and didn't even bother to answer him. Before he approached, she called to Mrs. Zhuang to quickly bring the bamboo basket she wove in the afternoon.

Mrs. Zhuang saw that there seemed to be something wrapped in front of her, so she hurried back to the house and took out a numbered bamboo basket, which was used for going up the mountain on a bamboo back, and the shoulder straps on the back were not finished yet.

"What good things did you catch again?" The old woman put the bamboo baskets in place, moved forward and opened the lapel wrapped by Nanmenyue, "Oh, what a lovely rabbit." The nest of bunnies in the house is a joy in my heart.She grabbed the rabbit ears and put them into the basket one by one.

Only then did Qi Ying'er dare to come over to have a look, this nest of fluffy things looks like the mice that mother caught back a few days ago, thinking of those two mice, Qi Ying'er remembered the long-lost smell of barbecue, and couldn't help swallowing. saliva.

"Mom, do you have meat tonight?"

Nanmenyue patted off the fragments of rabbit fur on her chest, knelt down and picked up Qi Yinger, "Yes, mother will catch a big fat rabbit for you and come back. You listen to grandma at home, and mother will be back soon." .” She carried Qi Yinger to the dining table and sat down, letting him eat first.

He went back to the house and found the lantern, lit a candle, and walked to the place where he had just found the rabbit.

Third Yu was carrying a hoe and was still on his way back when he saw Nanmenyue walking towards him holding a lantern, he felt warm in his heart, "Mother Ying'er, thank you."

She is really a considerate woman. She was afraid that she would not be able to see the way back when it was dark, and she would not even have time to eat when she got home, so she came back to pick him up with a lantern.

Nanmenyue vaguely heard Yu Laosan's words, but she couldn't hear clearly, "You go back first, I'll go find that burned rabbit myself."

Yu Laosan smiled awkwardly, it's not right to go forward, and it's not right to follow behind, he was just being sentimental, and thought that Nanmenyue was here to pick him up, so it turned out that she was looking for the burned female rabbit of.

"You just look around the rabbit that you just found. The rabbit's nest should not be far away." He shouted at Nanmenyue, hiding his embarrassment.

Nanmenyue didn't look back, but just waved at him, meaning to let him go back in a hurry, she knew where to look for it.

Yu Laosan turned around and wanted to leave, and seeing that it was getting dark, she was not at ease with the girl left here, so she walked away with Nanmenyue.

Nanmenyue walked to the place where the little rabbit was just caught, picked up the branches she had thrown there, picked off the leaves that got in the way, tied them into a simple broom with thick branches, and began to rummage through the hot ashes.The rising ash foam blows towards her face, choking her to cough.

Oldest Yu approached, and he chopped off a few branches with a machete, imitating Nanmenyue, and started a carpet-like search in the opposite direction.After sweeping far, he felt that the branch had touched a hard object. He squatted down and groped, and the feeling was unmistakable, "Mother Ying'er, hurry up, here, I found it."

Nanmenyue dropped the branch and ran over, lowered the lantern to take a look, and it turned out to be a rabbit that had been burnt, slightly swollen and hot to the touch.She asked Oldest Yu to carry the rabbit, and then she held up the lantern and rummaged around, and found two little rabbits whose fur had also been burned off, and sniffed them on the tip of her nose.

She threw the rabbit she found to Mr. Yu again, searched around again, and confirmed that no fish had been caught. She asked Mr. Yu to bring the machete, while she carried the lantern in one hand and the rabbit in the other towards the river. Let's go, we can finally eat meat tonight.

Nanmenyue found a relatively flat river surface, scraped away the water plants, and handed the lantern to Yu Laosan for him to hold, then took the machete from his hand, raised the rabbit, raised the knife with his hand, and the rabbit's head followed the rabbit. The claws were chopped off, the stomach was disembowelled, cleaned and held in the hand, shaking off excess water.

Seeing that she had finished tidying up, Oldest Yu handed her the lantern: "Go ahead, don't let the aunt and the others wait at home for too long." Since he has bad legs and feet, he can't let her walk slowly with him.

"Keep the lantern. I can't spare my hand to hold it. It's okay. The weeds are all burned up. You can see the fire light next to the wooden house. You can't go wrong."

Nanmenyue divided the rabbit into two hands and held it, and walked away first. The family members were waiting for dinner, and when they went back to fix the rabbit, the third brother Yu probably could go home.

"Be careful on your way."

(End of this chapter)