Chapter 4: Birds' Eggs

The three younger brothers all have big heads, small thin necks, big eyes protruding, and skinny bodies. Compared to the children in the other rooms, they are the thinnest.

Du Yuhan hated Liu Cuilian's ruthlessness and partiality even more at this time, and also hated his grandfather Du Dachuan's inaction.

These were his own grandchildren, but he didn't care. Also, there are a lot of his grandchildren and granddaughters, which are not rare at all.

When the two younger brothers saw their sister come in, they knew that they were eating with a bowl in their hands.

The second Du Haichao is eight years old, very sensible, and will not compete with his sister for food. But the younger brother Du Haisheng was only four years old, and when he saw his sister coming in with a bowl, he showed a look of longing.

Du Yuhan sat on the edge of the kang and beckoned to his little brother and said, "Haisheng, come here, sister has something to eat here, come and eat some." ”

As soon as the little guy heard that there was really something to eat, he immediately quickly climbed up to Du Yuhan.

Du Yuhan hugged his younger brother and handed the bowl to his mouth. The little guy only drank a little gruel in the morning, he wasn't full at all, and he was hungry all the time, so he drank it from the porridge bowl that Du Yuhan was carrying.

Du Haifeng didn't say anything when he saw the eldest sister's behavior when he entered the house, he knew that it was useless to say, the eldest sister always took care of their younger brothers first.

Just thinking of his grandmother's eccentricity, he couldn't help but redden. They are all the same children of the Du family, why should their second room be treated so unfairly?

Although Du Haisheng was only four years old, he also understood some things, and after drinking some porridge, he raised his head and pushed it to Du Yuhan and said, "Eldest sister eat." ”

Du Yuhan looked at his sensible brother and smiled: "The eldest sister has eaten, shall we give your second brother a meal?"

Xiao Bu nodded and said, "Give it to the second brother." ”

Du Yuhan handed the porridge bowl to his second brother Du Haichao and said, "Haichao, drink the rest of the porridge and I'll brush the bowl." ”

Du Haichao shook his head and said, "Sister, I'm not hungry, you can drink it." ”

Du Yuhan said: "I've already drunk it, hurry, don't let the eldest sister still have to hold the bowl." ”

As he spoke, he shoved the bowl with little porridge left into his brother's hand. Du Haichao had to drink the rest of the porridge.

Du Yuhan packed up and instructed his younger brothers and said: "You stay at home, don't go out if it's too cold outside, and the eldest sister has to go to collect firewood." ”

Du Haifeng hurriedly said: "Sister, I'll go with you, I can carry it back a little more at a time." ”

Du Yuhan looked at his younger brother, who was shorter than him, and nodded: "Okay, you go with me, Haichao is watching the little brother at home." ”

Du Yuhan's sister and brother walked out of the house with straw ropes again.

Du Haifeng walked beside Du Yuhan and complained: "The elder sister of the uncle's house is older than you, and grandma instructed you to collect firewood alone, who doesn't want to stay in the house on such a cold day." ”

Du Yuhan said: "The lobby sister is about to get married, and of course the uncle and aunt must let the cousin take care of her." Besides, our second room has always been angry, of course, there is work for me to do first. ”

There is a mountain to the north of Xikou Village, but the mountain is not high, but the area is very large, and there are no fierce beasts, so children and adults often go to the mountain to collect dry branches and go home to make fires.

Because it was walking against the wind, the speed was a little slower, and Du Yuhan took Du Haifeng to walk for half an hour before reaching the foot of the mountain. The siblings scattered and began to pick up dry branches.

Du Yuhan watched her brother separate from her and entered the space consciously, and took out the quail eggs she had found last time in a restaurant in the space mall.

Although small, quail eggs are highly nutritious and are the only ones that can act as wild bird eggs.

There are a lot of eggs in the space, and others will recognize them as eggs when they see them. But pheasants were rarely seen on the mountain, so she had no excuse at all, only the boxes of quail eggs she found to use.

She found a few places in the woods to camouflage a few nests and put some quail eggs in them. After getting ready, she shouted at her eldest brother Du Haifeng: "Haifeng, come on, what do you see I encountered?"

Du Haifeng heard his sister's shout and immediately ran over.

Du Yuhan happily pointed to a nest of bird eggs and said, "Haifeng, look, I touched a nest of bird eggs. ”

Du Haifeng looked at the more than ten bird eggs in a bird's nest in the grass on the ground pointed to by his sister in surprise, and shouted excitedly: "Sister, great, this bird egg can be taken home and cooked and eaten." ”

Du Yuhan nodded happily and said, "Yes, you can cook and eat it when you go home, and add some nutrition to the second brother and younger brother." You are also looking around, I just saw a wild bird fly away and followed this nest of eggs. ”

Du Haifeng nodded excitedly and began to search carefully. It didn't take long to find a litter, which made ten-year-old Du Haifeng very excited.

This is food, as long as you hide it secretly from others, you can give your brother several meals.

Du Haifeng was stimulated by the bird eggs he found, and continued to search, and after finding three more nests, he never found them again.

Du Haifeng was already very satisfied. I didn't expect to follow the eldest sister out to collect firewood today and have such a surprise.

In the past, he and his eldest sister had come to collect firewood and touched bird eggs, but he had never touched several nests at once, so he was so lucky today.

Du Haifeng carefully put all the bird eggs together and counted them for a long time, there were forty-three, which was really a lot.

Du Haifeng said: "Sister, we can't let the milk know about this, otherwise we won't want to eat any of them." ”

Du Yuhan nodded and said, "Then you still need to say that we can't all take it home, we have to hide it a little." I took some of the kang home and cooked it secretly. Eat it at night while you go to bed. If you give it to the younger brother, you will break it and mix it in the porridge, so that he will not accidentally say it. ”

Du Haifeng nodded and said, "Yes, we must be careful." Where are we going to hide these eggs?"

Du Yuhan said: "I will dig a small pit, spread hay, and put the bird's eggs in it and bury them. Let's remember the location, and we can bring some back when we come to collect firewood. ”

As soon as they said they would do it, the siblings dug a small pit with thick branches and firewood knives, spread hay, gently put the eggs in it, and covered them with a layer of hay and leaves, and no one could find it.

The siblings each carried a bundle of dry branches on their backs, and each carried a few eggs in his pocket. Both of them were careful along the way, for fear of breaking the eggs.

After eating, the two sisters and brothers' hearts were hot, and they didn't even feel cold when the whirring wind blew on their bodies.

After returning home, Du Yuhan quickly hid the bird's eggs, but he couldn't let people outside their second room find out, otherwise it would cause a family war.

The Du family only eats two meals in winter, except for one in the morning, and the other meal is not eaten until two or three o'clock in the afternoon.

When Du Yuhan and his younger brother came back, the family was already cooking. It's Du Yuhan's aunt and lobby sister who are doing it.

Cooking is a good errand, and you can steal a few bites when people are not paying attention, such a good thing is not their turn in the second room.