Chapter 18 Little Milk Kitten
When both sides were almost baked, Zhou Heng sprinkled some of the seasoning powder he brought to add to the taste, and the game was ready.
A string of more than twenty pieces, he took a bite directly in his mouth, chewed it, crunchy, delicious.
How do you describe the taste? It's like grilled chicken? Not exactly, it's more tender.
After eating a bunch, he found that the big yellow dog was staring at him - his roast eggs were not yet cooked, but now he was also hungry, and he was hungry to smell the fragrance.
Zhou Heng took off a bunch, a handful of insects were in the palm of his hand, and stretched out his hand.
The big yellow dog immediately ate it.
This handful must not be enough to eat at all, it smacked its lips and licked its mouth to taste it.
Forget it, you will definitely not be able to eat enough by eating this, Zhou Heng took out the rice cake he brought and handed it to it, this is what fills his stomach.
The eggs will have to wait a while for them to be cooked. This thing can't be baked in a hurry, otherwise the shell will be roasted in a while, and everything inside will flow out.
Although dogs also eat raw eggs, since they decided to let them eat cooked ones, let's eat them better.
Eating raw eggs fuels its wild nature, and it is easy to catch chickens at home, or steal eggs to eat.
Zhou Heng also roasted the rice rake he brought by the way, it was burnt and fragrant, which was better than eating cold.
Just grilled insects as a dish, it also has a unique flavor.
I haven't eaten this for many years, and in addition to being delicious, it can be regarded as a feeling.
After eating and drinking, you can almost rest, and you can leave to go down the mountain and go back.
The water column that had been blown up earlier had already flowed down at this time, and the villagers saw it for a while, and they didn't know what it looked like.
Zhou Heng walked back all the way according to the original road, the mountain road was full of twists and turns, sometimes close to the water going down, sometimes far away from the water, but the sound of rushing water could be heard.
The most surprising thing is that there is a water flow that encounters a protruding giant rock block, and flies out directly, forming a waterfall twenty or thirty meters high, and the water droplets splash everywhere, which is very spectacular.
Standing in the distance and looking back at the waterfall, when the sun shines, a rainbow is lit up, and it feels different in an instant.
When people say that the mountains are green, they are always connected to the water show, and if the mountains and rivers are beautiful, most of the scenery will not be bad. It seems that the green mountains need to be embellished with green water.
With this spring, the whole mountain seems to be alive, like the finishing touch, and the scenery is much more beautiful.
This spring is not only beautiful, but also nourishes the entire village.
Looking at it, Zhou Heng felt quite accomplished.
When I went back, I came across the bamboo shoot field again, and I could dig it when I went back by the way.
This kind of fine bamboo shoots is relatively common in the mountains, and when you go back to stew meat or stewed chicken, there is a clear fragrance, which is a mountain delicacy.
Zhou Heng's hands and feet were very fast, and he was hula hula breaking the bamboo shoots, because the bamboo shoots were very dense, and it was not troublesome to break them. It only took more than ten minutes, and the basket on my back was almost full.
But there are still a lot of bamboo shoots underground, and it's a pity that he can't get them back, so he should have carried a big basket out.
However, the basket is big, and if it is full, it will be very heavy, and there are many uphill and downhill slopes along the way, and there are no roads in some places, and he may not be able to carry it back.
Forget it, let's leave it at that, there are a lot of this small basket, at least enough for a family to eat several meals, and people can't be too greedy.
In the afternoon, when I was about to reach the head of the village, I saw a lot of people in the village from a distance, all watching the excitement there.
At noon this day, when they were working in the fields, they heard a sound in the distance, and then water came out of the mountains, and they could see how high the water column was.
As for what exactly happened, they don't know.
Later, after ten minutes, they saw water flowing down.
At first, I didn't care, thinking that the flow would be gone after a while, and I didn't take it to heart. Who knows, this water has never been broken, such a thick stream, down at once, continue to flow down.
The ditches, ditches, streams, and so on all along the way filled the river with water.
At this moment, everyone became curious, wondering what was going on?
It is a good thing that there is a living spring in the village. Such a thick flow of water, if it flows down day and night, you won't have to worry about water when you farm in the future!
People watched and talked excitedly about this spring that didn't know where it came from.
When there is water, every family rejoices.
As soon as Zhou Heng came back, his parents were afraid that he wouldn't know, so they were happy to tell him about it.
The spring passed by the side of the mountain that their family had contracted for, and there was a small pool of water next to it. So close, you won't have to worry about irrigation in the mountains in the future.
Looking at the smiles on his parents' faces, Zhou Heng was also very happy.
Li Yunlian helped him carry the basket on his back, and said with a smile: "This is the result of your day, are you tired?"
There is a joking meaning in the words, who goes into the mountains like this for a day, and does not know how many bubbles their feet have walked, before they come back with this little bamboo shoot? This is sorry for the worn shoes.
However, my son is not the one who does this, so if there are extenuating circumstances, don't laugh at him.
Li Yunlian is still happy.
The thin bamboo shoots in this large basket have to be peeled first, and then soaked in water to soak out the astringency and earthy smell inside.
Stir-fried meat or stewed chicken, it's all good!
After pouring out the bamboo shoots, he found that there were still a few fat roots at the bottom of the basket, and said with a smile: "You still recognize this? It's not easy to find, right?"
The root of the five-fingered peach has a milky aroma when cooking the soup, and some people think that it is a coconut fragrance, but it tastes good anyway, and it is said to be quite good for people.
It has the effect of clearing heat and relieving the lungs.
How can I say that? In places like theirs, people who have a headache, brain fever, diarrhea, or something like that don't usually go to the doctor, just get something to eat by themselves, and that's fine.
The hospital is far away, inconvenient, and expensive, and it is a luxury to go to the hospital to see a doctor.
Even the current rural medical insurance has great benefits, but this habit passed down from generation to generation will not be thrown away all at once.
When Zhou Heng was a child and played with adults in the mountain, he saw them digging this, and when he went down the mountain today, he passed by and met him, so he also dug two or three back.
He smiled and said, "I saw it by accident, and I didn't look for it on purpose, and sometimes I can't find it when I look for it." ”
What I learned unintentionally when I was a child, I can't forget it when I want to it later, and I don't know why.
My mother is doing dinner, Zhou Heng doesn't have to worry about it, he sits in the yard and rests, the amount of exercise today is a bit big, so he has to rest.
When I was a child, I ran in the mountains as if I didn't know that I was tired, but after so many years, it seems that I can't compare now.
Suddenly, he heard a slight "whoosh" sound, and he wondered, "Where is there a kitten?"
When the little milk cat was young, it didn't "meow", it was all "meowing" with a sharp voice, and the voice was thin and sharp.
Li Yunlian said with a smile while breaking the leaves of the bamboo shoots: "Go and see, it's placed next to the window of your room, and it's ventilated there." ”
Zhou Heng let out an "ah" and ran back to the room to take a look, hey, on the table by the window, a little milk cat was lying softly in the temporary cat nest, whispering "whoosh".
It's really too small, it is estimated that it is not as big as Zhou Heng's hand, and his blue eyes are wet, as if they are about to condense water.
The temporary cat nest was made from a sieve at home, and there were several old clothes in it, either from Zhou Heng's childhood or Wang Rui's unwanted clothes.
It was softly padded in several layers.
When the little milk cat saw Zhou Heng coming in, her little head immediately pouted, her eyes followed him, and she kept barking.
Any animal is beautiful when it is small, especially a small milk cat, which makes people have no resistance.
The big yellow dog also followed silently, watching quietly, there was another member of the family.
Zhou Heng liked it very much, held the cat in his hand, walked out and asked, "Mom, where did this kitten come from?"
"Lao Liu's cat has three cubs in this litter, I went to ask for one, and when I grew up, I helped catch mice. Li Yunlian replied.
If there are more crops in the countryside, there will be more mice, and it is good to have a cat.
I used to raise it, and after five or six years, the cat was well-behaved and obedient, and was willing to catch mice, but one day, I ate someone else's poisonous mouse and died.
I haven't raised it for more than a year, but there are too many mice at home, so I still have to raise another one.
Like this kind of domestic small native cat, other people's cubs can go and ask for one, no money.
Zhou Heng held the little milk cat in one hand, feeling that it was too small, and I was afraid that it was not even stable, so he couldn't help asking: "This cat is so small, it will be weaned, can we feed it?"
"It's a full moon, not small. Of course you can't feed it! Of course you can feed it. Li Yunlian said lightly.
She has gone from raising her own children, to helping to raise her grandchildren, to having countless poultry and livestock at home, what is the problem with raising a little milk cat?
She may not know the cat food brands sold in the city, but with rice soup and small fish, it is completely possible to feed a cat.
Zhou Heng was teasing the cat, and at this time, someone outside shouted: "Yunlian, go quickly, bring the basket, the bucket is okay!"
Li Yunlian was working on the bamboo shoots, and when she heard the sound outside, she hurriedly put down the work in her hand, and asked while going to get the bucket: "What are you doing?"
"In the pond on the east side, there are a lot of jumping fish! The voices outside became quieter and quieter, and it was clear that they had run away.
In the distance, there was a roaring sound.
Zhou Heng took his mother's bucket and said, "Mom, I'll go." ”
When he was a child, he saw many times that when water was flowing downstream, the fish in the pond downstream would desperately jump upward.
This is the nature of fish, they like to swim upstream, any small ditch, there is this phenomenon, even if a ditch is releasing water outward, that place will surround a lot of fish to jump up.
When I was a child, there were many ponds, and sometimes I could scoop a few fish with a sieve. If you don't happen to have any tools at hand, you can just take off your clothes and wrap the fish back.
Of course, the undressers are children, and if they get dirty with their good clothes, they will inevitably be beaten when they go back. But if you have fish to eat, you will be happy to have an extra bowl of food at home.
But now, many ditches have dried up, and such a grand occasion has not been seen for a long time.
Zhou Heng ran over, exactly like he imagined.
The place that exploded today flowed here, and the water became more and more, and when it flowed to that pond, the fish in it jumped all at once.
Those fish were so bold that they swam dozens of meters away against the stream, and they were flapping on the shallow beach one by one.
There are still a lot of fish, and the scene is really a bit spectacular, and people who have never seen it will definitely not be able to imagine it.
There are already quite a few people who are getting it.
Zhou Heng didn't let his mother come over, but rushed to come over by himself, in fact, he was afraid that she would fall, because no matter how many fish there were, if you want to get it, you have to go into the water to get it.
Wet places are easy to slip, and if you fall, it's not a trivial matter.