Living in the mountains and forests as hunters

Chapter 24

The mutton steamed buns are delicious, Dabao and Erbao are a little full, touching their round belly, watching their uncle pouring down another big bowl, they are secretly happy, not because of their uncle's big appetite , but thinking, looking at the way my uncle eats, it is not the way my family used to plan to eat food, let alone some vegetable porridge like clear soup with little water, and I can hear the sound of my stomach swaying .

It seems that what Uncle said, it is true that the two of them will not be hungry.Not a lie to comfort them.Since my uncle's family can really support my brother, I must work hard in this family, try not to let my brother become a burden, and please my uncle and aunt, so that the good days of eating happily like this are gone.

What I ate tonight was meaty!Usually, it is not necessarily delicious in a year!Although it didn't look like it was tight meat when my aunt cleaned it up, it was oily.

Dabao turned his head to look at his younger brother, his lips were stained with oil, and he was still holding a bowl in his hand, ready to add more, as if he was afraid of wasting it, the corners of his mouth could not help but burst into laughter for the first time.

Although Dabao and Erbao are twins, it may be because of the elder brother, who is more sensible than the younger brother, and can also wink more. Seeing that his uncle and aunt finished eating, he hurriedly stood up to help clear the table, and even imitated Zhao Yiyi's noon wash Put the bowls and chopsticks into the pot of the stove, scoop up hot water, wash them diligently, and wink to Erbao to wipe the table or something.

Looking at the two children like this, Zhao Yiyi also knew that not letting them do the work would make them uneasy, so she let it go, treating Quan as her own children, and turned around to do her own thing, sitting on the kang, Continue to make the shoes of the two children.

When An Dalang saw this, he rubbed his head and continued to build the kang without making soil embryos. In fact, this kang can be made quite quickly. It's half done.Seeing the heated kang already in rough shape, An Dalang turned to Zhao Yiyi and said:
"Tomorrow I'll go to the village and bring those soil embryos here. Do you have any rulers here? Or get two bamboo tubes and put some broken rice in them. I'll ask the people in the village to help bring them all at once. It’s all finished, so we can pack it up tomorrow, hurry up, and at night, this big treasure and the others can sleep in their own kang.”

After Zhao Yiyi heard this, she nodded immediately, kept her hands on her hands, and said:
"That's not bad, you are also a fool, you can do this today, such a heavy thing, heavy and heavy, one person desperately picked it back, if there is something wrong along the way, no one will know, yes Come on, you go tomorrow, bring Duhu too, he hasn’t been to our house yet! Just come here so that we can talk to Dabao and the others, and sleep together, there are some haggis at home, so give it to Duhu tomorrow Bubu. This child is also short of meat! I know my mother, I’m afraid she will put away all the meat that was sent last time and make it into bacon or bacon. It’s ready to be eaten during the Chinese New Year! The big tiger is growing What about your body! By the way, you just bought some eggs so that you can cook custard for your children. Eggs are the best way to replenish your body. Looking at these two children, their bodies are very weak. Look at this small face and thin chin It can be used as an awl. I also want to order radishes with my mother, radish stewed with lamb bone soup, to warm up this winter. Also, I just made sour bamboo shoots, you send a jar to my mother, tell her, put The coolest place in the house can be opened and eaten in 20 days, whether it is washed and stewed, or served cold, it is best served with rice."

After all, they are the real brothers of the original body, and they were close in the past. Today, seeing Dabao and Dabao's twinkling eyes when they ate haggis, Zhao Yiyi couldn't help but think of Dahu again. Not eating as well as these two children, I felt a little distressed, so I thought about bringing my younger brother to stay for two days and make up for him, but after thinking about it, I was married after all, so I couldn't handle it well. It's too obvious to think about her natal family, otherwise An Dalang will think too much, even these two children, I'm afraid they are a little sensitive in their hearts, so they said something else in a hurry, doing something about getting things from their natal family Appearance, let An Dalang listen more balanced, it doesn't matter if you don't say it, but a lot of ideas popped up all of a sudden. The bamboo shoots were not sold to the system. What a mistake. Now these two children and I live in such a cave where you can see the bottom at a glance. It seems inconvenient for me to do something. And said:
"If you have a lot of soil embryos this time, it's just right to re-make the food storage area separated by the wooden shelf, and it will be stronger. Make a shelf to separate the toilet. The food storage and the toilet storage. Yes, it's only eight or nine feet away, and you don't mind looking at the diaphragm."

Zhao Yiyi originally wanted to make the storage room more secret, but as soon as she said this, she suddenly thought that there are two more children in this family. Although they are juniors, they are boys after all. The toilet is in the room. Going to the toilet every day is not very convenient. If there is not a shelf for hanging clothes on the side to cover up, I don't know how to go to the toilet. I really need to tidy up!

After carefully looking at the cave, he simply pulled An Dalang to light the candle, and drew in the cave, dividing the north part of the cave into east and west parts directly from the middle. In the storage room, the one to the east is the toilet, so that the toilet can be placed. The middle of the two rooms is naturally built with an earthen wall, while the part facing the south is simpler, and the one on the west is against the stone wall. A two-meter-wide and one-meter-high earth wall is built, and wooden shelves are placed on top of the wall to allow the storage room to be ventilated. , just make a door curtain, and the toilet in the east and the partition in the south are just shelves, but the side facing the heated kang is nailed with wooden boards. This is where the toilet is directly used as a changing place, and it is also convenient to change clothes in the future.There is a place to put clothes inside.The same is a cloth curtain as the door, and the children and An Dalang usually go outside to solve the problem of personal grain reincarnation. People in the mountains are used to this. The so-called toilet is actually Zhao Yiyi's space alone, no one talks to it. She robs, she has a place even if she does other things, doesn't she!
"By the way, ask Dahu if anyone in the village has made rattan boxes. If there is no new one, you can buy an old one! You always have to get a box for these two children to put clothes in, right? The space between the outer wall of the room and their new kang is not small, and it is very low! Boys should always have something they can use.”

With two more people, Zhao Yiyi carefully planned the cave, drawing out the two necessary rooms, and there were no more than twenty square meters. Looking at other places, Zhao Yiyi felt that, sure enough, this cave is still small. She is used to living in this world where she doesn't have to worry about space, and she has become fond of Lang Kuo's environment!Perhaps what An Dalang said, building a house outside next year is really on the agenda.

Not to mention what Zhao Yiyi thought in his heart, in An Dalang's eyes, it was that his daughter-in-law was trying to find a way for his family's good life, while the two children felt that it was because their aunt was accepting them with great care and taking their lives into consideration. It is very detailed and everyone is very satisfied.

"Well, it's true, it's just right, there is a wall in the middle, and a board can be embedded in it, so that I can put candlesticks and so on. You said last time that there is no place for lighting! But I will buy it again tomorrow. It’s just two baskets of soil embryos.”

"Buy it, it's good to have it all done at once! Anyway, you got some money from selling wild boar meat last time. It's not like everyone doesn't know about it, and no one will say anything. There are two more people in the family, so it's time to tidy up the house Well."

After Zhao Yiyi said this, she turned around and went to her box to take out the money pot, counted a hundred copper coins and gave it to An Dalang.Then I took four bamboo tubes from the shelf, scooped out broken rice from the rice jar, filled them up, and put them aside, and took two pieces of green cloth. And put it together with the bamboo tube, then turned around and said to An Dalang:

"I still have some cloth heads here, which are more than three feet long when put together. They can be made into clothes, and they are sold as rags. Such a large piece of cloth can be worth thirty or forty yuan in total. You take this and exchange it with them." The people of the tribe must be willing to exchange soil embryos. It is probably better than giving copper coins. After all, it is cheaper! Anyway, you just need to prepare more. It is better to give them the pawn money for helping them transport the broken rice. Copper coins are good, you can buy eggs for the remaining copper coins. There are four people in the family, and when the tiger comes, there will be five people. If you buy thirty, that is twenty coins, it’s okay. The weather is not too bad. It’s only for half a month, and it won’t go bad. If there are many eggs in the village, you can order some more. We eat delicious food during the Chinese New Year. Chickens don’t lay eggs very much in winter. It’s hard to buy these eggs! There are not many dried vegetables at home, you Also ask, buy some back, we are busy picking mushrooms in autumn, and we have completely forgotten this important thing. It can be seen that we are still not careful in our lives, and we can’t live on pickles and sour bamboo shoots all winter! Dried vegetables are still need."

Zhao Yiyi said the same thing, the two children didn't think so, but An Dalang knew in his heart that it wasn't that the family didn't prepare vegetables for something, but that apart from selling them to the grocery store, there was only enough left over for two people. For two or three months, now that I brought my nephew back with two extra mouths, isn't it just not enough to eat? My daughter-in-law was afraid that she would make the child feel uncomfortable after hearing it, so she took the responsibility on herself, so How could he not like his daughter-in-law.Hastily said:
"That's right, I was busy making money a few days ago and neglected it. I was busy running around. You are alone in the mountains and it's hard to go out. It's really my fault. If I stay at home for a few more days, If there is such a thing, it doesn’t matter if it’s a daughter-in-law. It’s not enough in the village. Uncle Lin’s family must have it. This autumn, because of Uncle Lin’s injury, their family dug a lot for fear that they would not have food in winter! Waiting for the family to fix it Well, I’ll just go there once. Anyway, the last time I talked about going to the villages to collect things, it’s probably done by now, and I should go and collect them. Tomorrow, the big tiger is coming, just right, it’s time to Sometimes let him take two small children to protect you and walk around, so that you don’t dare to go out alone. Well, by the way, Dumb is here, just let him take a change of clothes and take a bath in the hot spring. Didn't you say that it's inconvenient to take a bath in winter at your mother-in-law's house! We live in the mountains, and there are still such advantages."

Although I haven't thought about it for a while, how to make my daughter-in-law disappear when I bring this thing back, but there is always a way!On the other hand, when I go to my mother-in-law's house tomorrow, I must bring my brother-in-law back!My daughter-in-law has been married for so long, and she went back to her natal family once. I guess she misses her natal family. My daughter-in-law treats me well and my nephew well, so I should treat her more and make her happy too.

Hearing An Dalang's words, Zhao Yiyi was also very happy, and sat back on the kang, the needle and thread moved a little faster, with a smile on her face.

"Yes! You will remember clearly when the time comes."

This is obviously being coquettish, isn't it?An Dalang received it anyway, he smiled innocently and touched his head, turned his head and saw that the two nephews had already washed the dishes, and they were sitting on the half-made kang on one side, with their chins in their hands, looking at the husband and wife. The excitement of the two was being watched vigorously, and they couldn't help but blushed.

"You two, don't hurry up, add some firewood to the stove, add some water to the pot, and wait for the hot water to wash your feet!"

He said to his nephew to do the work, but he turned around and went outside to fetch firewood. He really didn't know whether he was making the child work!Still letting herself do the work, Zhao Yiyi couldn't help laughing when she heard his inconsistency between words and deeds.

Because people in the mountains wear straw sandals on their feet in winter to prevent slipping, the soles of the cotton shoes don’t need to be made too thick, so the shoes can be made quickly, and when the two children and An Dalang are all washed After putting their feet on the kang, the two pairs of shoes have already been stitched together. Let the two children try on the size, take two steps, and they all seem to fit. Then Zhao Yiyi squeezed her neck, relaxed a bit, and said :

"But it's alright, cotton-padded trousers, cotton-padded shoes, these three things are all finished, you can walk around in and out of the yard tomorrow, and you probably won't be able to lock them up in the cave all day long. But it’s okay, you’re still young, you’re not familiar with this mountain, so just walk around without telling the adults, wait for your uncle to come back tomorrow, and show you the way. And the unlined clothes on your body are also useless, I'll make another set for you in a few days, and tomorrow, you will follow me for a walk from this house to the small river, and let's have a look. Okay?"

What's wrong, the two brothers looked at the shoes on their feet, touched the clothes on their bodies, and nodded their heads, the aunt is really good to them!It's only been two days since they came here, so they hurriedly finished all their clothes and shoes. Finally, they don't have to suffer from the cold, and they are better than what they used to wear at home!
Dabao's eyes were filled with gratitude, while Erbao muttered even more:

"I miss my mother. My aunt is just like my mother. She treats us very well. I really want to show my mother that Erbao also has new shoes and new cotton clothes. Don't be envious of other people's children."

After hearing this, the room became silent all of a sudden, these two children are still very filial!Zhao Yiyi took a deep breath, she was also in the period of filial piety, but these two children seemed to be in filial piety for three years!Although people in the mountains are lucky to have something to eat, and there is no rule about not being filial and not eating meat, but it seems that I should pay more attention to it, lest people talk about it.

"Dalang, you have memorized the days when your eldest cousin and brother-in-law lived seven or seven hundred days, and then don't forget to take the children to the grave to offer incense and kowtow to them. Yes, but we can't let these two children be rude and let people talk about it in the future. It will be bad for the children in the future!"

"Hey, I see."

An Dalang nodded, bent down, carried the two children onto the kang, helped them take off their padded jackets, let them lie down, then turned around and helped Zhao Yiyi rub his neck.

"This year is really not a good year. Why is our family caught up with so many life-and-death events!"

As soon as these words came out, An Dalang wanted to slap himself. This is true. Why did he include his daughter-in-law? After all, his daughter-in-law didn’t want to think about her father-in-law who passed away recently. I don’t know what my dad taught me when I’m doing the job, and I’m talking too much at this time!Really, why can't I speak so much!

Zhao Yiyi pursed her lips, turned sideways and blew out the candles, leaving only the eternal fire in the middle of the cave, took off her coat and lay down, with her back to An Dalang, not knowing what she was thinking, and after a while, finally in Anda Lang Lang choked out a word in anxiety:

"Stop talking, go to sleep, get up early tomorrow!"

Released after serving his sentence!An Dalang heaved a sigh of relief, this episode was over, he hurriedly stretched out his hand and pulled Zhao Yiyi into his arms, hugging her tightly:

"You are afraid of the cold, rely on me to keep you warm."

Jiw, so, what I thought this morning was right?Is it okay to throw yourself into your arms when you are fast asleep?Well, this is his own man, he was married, and it is a legal act.Rolling her eyes, Zhao Yiyi closed her eyes calmly.

She admitted that having a firm, hot, generous chest made her feel really good!In the darkness, An Dalang also showed a smiling face, making progress!I can sleep with my wife in my arms!Although it seems that there are still many days left before the consummation of filial piety, I have already gotten closer to my wife, haven't I!It's the same as the couple next to me, isn't it!The daughter-in-law is soft and fragrant, so comfortable to hug!If there are no these two little devils around, it would be better to have a house alone with my wife. Sure enough, it is really important to build a house in spring!

(End of this chapter)