Chapter 35: A Trap and a Rabbit
In the next few days, Lin Mengyao would go up the mountain every day, set off in the morning when it was dawn, and only came back in the afternoon.
Because the mushrooms in the mountains are usually the freshest in the morning, if you wait until the middle of the day, although the mushrooms picked are much larger than those in the morning, there are many mushrooms with chapped lids.
In addition, some of them can be plagued by birds or insects, so it is best to pick mushrooms in the morning.
However, Lin Mengyao's main purpose for going up the mountain was not these mushrooms, her real purpose was the trap that had been placed on the mountain the day before.
Today's harvest was good, four of the seven traps were rewarded, and the remaining three were triggered, but nothing was caught.
Three rabbits of seven or eight pounds, and a pheasant, this is the best day of harvest during this time, and it is relatively easy to catch prey now, and when the drought spreads in a few days, it will not be easy to have such a harvest.
The signs of drought are already showing up, and it should have rained at this time of year, but since the spring planting, there has been no rain at all, and the water level in the river is gradually decreasing.
She heard Liu Tongtong say yesterday that now her father, village chief Liu Dashan, has gray hair at home because it doesn't rain, and said that Lin Mengyao will not predict the future, she has long known that there will be a drought, otherwise how would she suddenly want to plant all three acres of land at home into sweet potatoes.
Of course, Lin Mengyao wouldn't tell Liu Tongtong the truth, but she still said it casually in Liu Tongtong, and she didn't really suspect it, so she casually said a reason and was confused.
When I got home, the first thing I saw was Grandma Zhou, sitting under the big tree with a smile on her face, and when she saw Lin Mengyao coming back, she hurriedly beckoned her over.
Grandma Zhou: "Girl, how was your harvest today? I came back earlier than usual today." ”
Lin Mengyao shook her head: "There are almost no wild vegetables on the periphery of the mountain, and there should be a lot of them in the depths, but I didn't dare to go, so I came back first." ”
Grandma Zhou: "Hey, the harvest of the people who went to the mountains to dig wild vegetables today is not much, how can they live in the future?"
Grandma Zhou shook her head as she spoke, her eyes revealing worry and sadness......
Lin Mengyao: "Grandma Zhou, although I didn't dig up wild vegetables in the mountains this time, I caught this. ”
As he spoke, he took out the rabbit in the bamboo basket and showed it to Grandma Zhou.
Grandma Zhou: "Girl, how did you catch this hare running so fast?"
Lin Mengyao: "I found a rabbit nest when I went up the mountain yesterday, and I made a small trap somewhere, and I saw this rabbit when I went to see it today." ”
Lin Mengyao was telling the truth, she did set a trap in front of the rabbit nest, but she concealed the number of rabbits she caught.
Grandma Zhou: "You children still have good brains, we old guys only know how to run after rabbits, and we can't even see a rabbit hair." ”
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Back in the yard, looking at the half-dead rabbits in the bamboo basket, as well as the rabbits and pheasants in the same situation in the space, Lin Mengyao still felt that it was better to deal with it earlier and salt it.
Now Lin Mengyao is already familiar with handling rabbits and pheasants, the rabbit's fur is processed and placed in an open place to dry it, and the pheasant feathers are only picked up and collected by some useful ones, and the rest are thrown away.
Then the rabbit meat and pheasant meat are marinated and hung in the space with salt, leaving only the rabbit that has been marinated all the time to stay outside.
After dealing with this, Lin Mengyao walked out of the space again, and stayed in the space for such a long time, and the time outside was only an hour or two, I have to say that the portable space really brought Lin Mengyao a lot of convenience.
Just when Lin Mengyao was about to rest for a while, a group of "uninvited guests" ushered in her yard, and they all came to learn to catch rabbit traps with Lin Mengyao.
It turned out that Grandma Zhou did not go home after leaving, but went to another place where the women in the village chatted, and as soon as she told Lin Mengyao about catching rabbits with a trap, it immediately caused a sensation, and after a while, it spread throughout the entire Xianing Village.
This is why there is the current scene, almost all the children in the village except for the very small ones came, blocking the courtyard of Lin Mengyao's house.
Liu Mengyao crossed a few black lines on his forehead when he knew how they knew that they would make traps, how could he not know that Grandma Zhou still had the potential to gossip.
But since the matter has spread, then I can't help but pay it, and finally decided to leave one person in each family to learn how to make traps at Lin Mengyao's house, and the rest will go home and wait.
And among the remaining people are Bai Zhulan, Liu Qingqing and Liu Xiaomei, and Liu Tongtong, who has the best relationship with Lin Mengyao.
However, in this case, Bai Zhulan and the three of them had no chance to talk to Lin Mengyao at all, because there were a bunch of people around her on the third and outer floors.
By the time Lin Mengyao taught everyone, it was almost dark, and Lin Mengyao was already dry.
After sending everyone away, Lin Mengyao was tired and collapsed on the kang, and for the first time felt that talking was more tiring than going up the mountain......