Living in the mountains and forests as hunters

Chapter 72

"Dahu! It's not that my sister is stingy, and it's not that she wants to take care of this job alone. To be honest, if someone is jealous of this job and wants to do it, as long as they are willing to endure hardships, anyone can do it. In this case, others Whether you do it or you do it, it's the same for my sister. There are many villages in this mountain, who can my sister guard against? So my sister really doesn't mean to let you do this job, nor does it mean that you are jealous or something. It hurts feelings to say it, but you are too young, and my sister really doesn't want you to suffer like this. To put it bluntly, if you don't think that you are the head of our family anyway, I want you to stand up and let you You have a face, and my sister wants to raise you and your mother directly, so that you can live more comfortably. I even thought about whether you should be like Dabao and the others, and simply learn to go to school when you are young What. It's just that my sister is a married girl after all, so she can't do this, if she really does it, I'm afraid Uncle Liang will think that I look down on the Zhao family and complain to me!"

My own younger brother, Zhao Yiyi speaks very straightforwardly, without beating around the bush at all. People in the mountains have a straightforward temperament, and they can say whatever they want. After nearly a year in this world, Zhao Yiyi seems to have integrated into it, and she is completely a mountain woman. It's done.

Zhao Dahu also laughed when he heard what his sister said.

"Sister said this, hehe, speaking of this winter, how little rice in your family I ate? This winter, after returning from here, I killed three rabbits and six pheasants. Without you I’m afraid that you may not be able to eat meat at home during the Chinese New Year! Sister, you have done well enough, and your brother-in-law is also good enough. Uncle Liang is jealous and keeps saying that you are a lucky person. , saying that my mother has a good eye for choosing a son-in-law."

"Uncle Liang is not jealous! He wants your brother-in-law to go to the village to sell cheap meat more often!"

"That's right, no one in the village is going to the town to buy meat now, they are all waiting for brother-in-law! We are just a few hunters, and we don't sell our prey to the town very much. The price in the town is several cents lower! Or What Uncle Qi said is right, the villages around us rely on the mountains for food, and the prey is not worth much. There is no hunter in any village, and only in the county, where there are many people, can we sell more money."

"Didn't the town hear that there are more merchants now?"

"The village chief said that since the wolf killing incident last time, there seem to be more people, but most of them are here to collect medicinal materials. Presumably, they also know the reason why the price in our town is the lowest."

"If you say that, then the inn in the town is the most profitable. Anyone who comes here must stay in the inn."

"Sister, why don't many people come to live in that cave in your house?"

"That's not for people to rest their feet. They are all acquaintances, and they can make money there."

"Then how does the inn make money? It's not the same as people who come and go? It's really strange."

"What's strange, they all came from Xiaohe Town. There is a ferry there, and they can go directly by water. Only the people in the nearby mountains will take our mountain road. Ordinary merchants dare to go there. There are beasts everywhere. Mountain road!"

"Ah, that's right. By the way, Wang Daqi went back to the village and said that brother-in-law seems to be getting some kind of award. What's going on, sister?"

"I don't know, who knows what's going on, we mountain people can figure out what's going on with the official, as long as it's not a bad thing, let him go."

The two brothers and sisters talked like this, and they pulled apart without knowing it. Waiting for An Dalang to bring the child back from picking wild vegetables outside, he saw his brother-in-law sitting at the dining table, pulling rice grains, and talking non-stop , couldn't help laughing.Now my family can be regarded as having guests, formerly Wang Daqi and Cai Butou, and now my brother-in-law, there are people in the family, it is lively!
"Dahu, I've only come to live for a few days now, let's go back, there is a vacant room at home."

Thinking of the fact that my brother-in-law likes to dig caves, I couldn't help joking. Dabao and Erbao, who followed behind him, even rushed forward. You talked about the cave at home Son.Hearing that Zhao Dahu's eyes were bright, he turned to Zhao Yiyi and said:
"Sister, why are you like this? You don't tell me such a good thing."

"There is such a big hole there. Didn't you see it yourself? Why do I remember to tell you this. Well, you have someone to show you the way. Let's go and see it first. I guess you don't want to eat right now."

Zhao Yiyi pursed her lips, put away the bowls and chopsticks, and didn't even look at the hesitant younger brother, and let him be dragged by Dabao and the others into the passage beside the stone platform.

Waiting for the three children to walk into the passage, An Dalang asked Zhao Yiyi:

"Why is Duhu coming here at this time? If you go out early in the morning, you probably should be here before lunch. It's too late now!"

"I said I wanted to follow you to the county seat. I guess there might be something unsatisfactory in the village. I feel uncomfortable. Come out for a walk. Didn't you say last time that he is now a hunter and always follows you?" The old man in the village goes to the mountains, so he doesn’t stay in the village very much. I guess his original partners quarreled with him. The little friends grew up together, and now they are suddenly separated from the big guys. For such a period of time, I was unsatisfactory. When they are sensible and understand the difficulties of others, this matter will be discussed. It’s okay. Let him stay for a few days. When you go to the county, take him around. , just let him relax, or take him hunting for a few days, boy, there are such small chicken stomachs, just think about it."

Zhao Yiyi pursues the strategy of raising boys extensively, and has no worries about his brother's possible friendship crisis. He treats his visit as a guest, and listens to his own reasons. He doesn't ask anything, doesn't care about anything, Right as if I don't know anything.

An Dalang watched his daughter-in-law washing the dishes neatly, listened to the laughter of the children in the aisle, touched his chin, pretended that he didn't know anything, picked up the wooden bucket from the side, and prepared to give it to the vegetable garden. The child was watered.

On the other side, Zhao Dahu followed Dabao and Erbao around their house, and then went to look at the stone platform erected on the cliff. Hearing Dabao's recount of the discovery of the cave at that time, he looked annoyed:

"At that time, I should have stayed here for a few more days. I didn't participate in such a rare event. It was a mistake. It's just Dabao. If you said that there are stone beds here, don't you mean that there are Someone used to live there? How did that person come up?"

"Uncle said, it might have come up from the vines on the other side of the stone platform."

"That's a real skill, this is a cliff, there is no place to rely on, just such a thing, can climb up, who is this person! Expert, definitely an expert. Ah, this is not a treasure Right? Did you find anything else?"

"No, it's just a stone room, a stone bed, and nothing else. My aunt said that there are no bedding or clothes. I guess this place was abandoned and everything was moved away. Anyway, our house has nothing. Yes, it’s not rare at all, isn’t it! It’s the water, but it makes it convenient for us, uncle doesn’t have to go down the mountain to fetch water, it’s a lot more convenient!”

"That's right, by the way, how about this mountain stream? Is the water sweet? Last time, my sister said that I want to make wine when the mountain fruits bear fruit in autumn. If the mountain stream water is sweet, this fruit wine must be better."

"Try it, I think it's good, but it's cooler than drinking water from the bottom of the mountain."

"Well, it's okay, Dabao, I'll sleep with you today."

"That's natural, we just happened to talk together, little uncle, will you go dig spring bamboo shoots with us tomorrow?"

"Bamboo shoots again?"

"My aunt said that the spring bamboo shoots are delicious. We all eat them with stewed meat. You will know in the evening."

What the three children were talking about was very lively, but in a blink of an eye, Zhao Dahu suddenly fell silent again, because he saw the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the box in the stone house, and a book that was obviously made by hand. Longing, seeing him like this, Dabao froze for a moment, then suddenly put the book into Zhao Dahu's hand, and said loudly:

"Little uncle, take it. Auntie said that children who can read will not be deceived in the future. You should follow suit. Stay here for a few days and learn for a few days. Uncle has already learned a lot of words from the county."

"Brother-in-law learned it? He taught you? Didn't you go to the school?"

Zhao Dahu was very surprised. He always thought that literacy was something that one had to go to school to learn. Why did his Orion brother-in-law suddenly know it?
Dabao pulled Zhao Dahu to sit down, and talked about his uncle going to the bookstore to ask the clerk there to learn characters every time he went to the county seat, his face was full of pride, Zhao Dahu's eyes were so bright, he suddenly felt like My mind is clear, everything in this world does not seem to be static, just like learning to read, even if there is no school, you can use other methods, so the thing in my heart that I don’t know how to do , is it possible to achieve the goal in other ways?

Duo really came to his sister's house because of something on his mind. Because of the family accident, he learned to assume the responsibility of the head of the family, hunting, and walking to the brother-in-law's house. In this way, it is natural and original His friends are divided, and he has not realized this change because of the pressure of survival all the time, but a few days ago, when his original friends came to him to play, he once again refused for one reason or another. At that time, his friend finally couldn't bear it anymore, accused him of alienation, and even said that he ignored them because he had a rich brother-in-law, which made him very sad, but he didn't know how to talk to friends They talked about their own difficulties, so they thought about going to my sister's house to avoid it. Think about it, now it seems that this time is really the right time, maybe I should use my brain more, think more about it, what to use? In this way, I can not only gain the understanding and friendship of my friends, but also continue my hunting career.

(End of this chapter)