Qiao Hongmu was hurt, let go of Qiao Hongliang, grabbed the flat shoulder with one hand, and glared at Qiao Jiayue angrily: "You are a girl, you dare to beat me, see if I don't kill you!"

He snatched the flat pole and was about to greet Qiao Jiayue.

At this moment, Qiao Hongliang grabbed Qiao Hongmu's hand and bit it hard.

Qiao Hongmu was so painful that he pushed Qiao Hongliang out and waved his flat shoulder again.

"Qiao Hongmu, have you eaten the bear's heart and leopard gall, dare to come to my house to bully my younger brothers and sisters!" At this time, Qiao Hongzhi came back.

When he saw the situation in front of him, he didn't think about it, he rushed up and grabbed the flat burden, and pressed Qiao Hongmu is beating.

Qiao Hongzhi is younger than Qiao Hongmu, but he can't bear that he is a master of fighting, and he is not timid at all against Qiao Hongmu, and Qiao Hongmu screams.

"Qiao Hongzhi, you wait for me, I want to tell my mother to go. Qiao Hongmu broke free, ran to the door with a smoke, put down a cruel word, and went home to complain.

Qiao Hongzhi clapped his hands and snorted, "It's just a bed bug that will sue, dare to come to my house to spread wild, see if I don't kill you." ”

He turned around, smiled at Qiao Jiayue and Qiao Hongliang, patted his chest and said, "Yue'er, Xiaoliang, it's okay, big brother will protect you." ”

Qiao Jiayue looked at Qiao Hongzhi's heroic appearance, and her eyes couldn't help but get wet.

Qiao Hongzhi couldn't help but be anxious when he saw it, and stepped forward to pick up Qiao Jiayue, "Show the eldest brother, where did you get hurt?"

The three of their brothers, under the influence of their parents, love their youngest sister very much, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are little princesses in the palm of their hands.

Qiao Jiayue wiped her eyes, pursed her lips and said, "Big brother, I'm fine, are you hungry?"

Qiao Hongzhi put Qiao Jiayue down, he was actually very hungry and had no strength in his body.

He saw Qiao Hongliang picking up dried sweet potatoes on the ground, so he took a piece, blew it casually, stuffed it into his mouth and ate it.

Qiao Jiayue's eyes turned red, she ran into the house and took out the big bowl under the bed, "Big brother, there is something to eat." ”

Qiao Hongliang whispered, "Abba came back just now to do it." ”

Qiao Hongzhi glanced at Qiao Hongliang, "I said Xiaoliang, you speak loudly, Abba is not happy with you like this." ”

Qiao Hongliang pursed his lips and spoke, Qiao Hongzhi had long been used to him like this, so he just said a few words.

He opened the bowl on top and looked at the bowl of white porridge underneath, and his eyes instantly straightened.

He swallowed, "Yue'er, this is for us to eat?"

Qiao Jiayue only felt sour in her heart, "Yes, eldest brother, third brother, you eat quickly." ”

After saying that, she ran into the house, took out the bag of rice that she had just opened, poured about two catties into her clothes, and then hugged it out.

"Big brother, there is still rice here, let's cook a little more for Abba and Auntie to eat. ”

Qiao Hongzhi and Qiao Hongliang only ate two tablespoons, even if Qiao Jiayue said so, they wouldn't eat it all at once.

The brigade has no food, and each family has been allocated some dried sweet potatoes and banana taro.

Their village is located in a high mountain, the land is barren, and they mainly grow rice and sweet potatoes, but before the satellite was released, the cadres of the brigade forced most of the rations to be handed over, and this year the whole village will naturally go hungry.

It is now the end of April, and it is the time when the green and yellow crops are scarce, and every household can only tighten their belts and go to the fields and mountains to find all kinds of wild vegetables to eat.

As for the other villages, depending on how the cadres of the brigade do it, the situation is better, and there are banana taro, dried sweet potatoes and dried mustard greens to eat together, no matter how bad it is, just like the alpine brigade.

Qiao Hongzhi and Qiao Hongliang's eyes were firmly fixed on the white rice in Qiao Jiayue's hand, their eyes were straight, how long had they not seen so much rice?

"What are you still doing in a daze, hurry up!" Qiao Jiayue urged.

Qiao Hongzhi came back to his senses, first went to take down the clay pot, poured the paste that Qiao's father had just cooked into another bowl, washed it slightly, carefully grabbed two handfuls of rice, and put it in without washing.

The rest of the rice hit the sack and hid it.

The three brothers and sisters gathered around the fire, and Qiao Jiayue asked some words intentionally or unintentionally.

Decades later, she has long been vague about many things about her childhood, and now she desperately needs to understand everything around her.

Qiao Hongzhi is a big grinning person, he doesn't have any scheming at all, where does he know that his young sister is talking.

"If it weren't for the blind command of some instructor and let us plant some North Korean rice, how could we have lost our harvest so much that we almost couldn't even pay the public grain?"

Qiao Hongzhi was filled with righteous indignation when he mentioned this, "Yue'er, don't go out recently, you have food and hide it, those big children will come to rob it." ”

When he was looking for food in the mountains, he didn't fight with other people, he was used to it, but his younger siblings were different.

"Big brother, we ......"

Before Qiao Jiayue could speak, Qiao Hongzhi interrupted, "Strange, Yue'er, why is it tasteless?"

He sniffed, a puzzled expression.

Qiao Jiayue said softly: "Maybe this rice is not good." ”

"If it doesn't taste good, others won't smell it. Qiao Hongliang said.

Qiao Hongzhi suddenly realized, "That's right, some people's noses are smarter than dogs, and they can still smell what they ate yesterday the next day." ”

Qiao Jiayue was secretly frightened in her heart, it seems that she should be careful in the future.

"Big brother, you are talking nonsense, how can anyone be so powerful. ”

"Whoever said it, our fourth aunt can smell it. ”

Qiao Jiayue really couldn't remember the appearance of this fourth aunt and the relevant information, so she could only nod vaguely.

"By the way, eldest brother, what about the second brother?" In her memory, the appearance of the three elder brothers was actually blurred, and she only vaguely remembered some characteristics, after all, they all died early, and there were really not many memories left.

"Oh, he's still in the mountains, and I'll leave him to watch the fern. Qiao Hongzhi remembered that he had taken his second brother down the mountain, got up and took a straw rope and a log with sharpened ends at both ends, and ran out like the wind.

When the white porridge in the clay pot was almost cooked, Qiao Jiayue put it away, and then pulled Qiao Hongliang to wait at the door.

The mountain village is not small, and the mountain brigade has four squads, but on the high mountain, terraces are opened along the mountain, and the land is barren and difficult to work.

Originally, the village with towering ancient trees, because of the support for the country's construction of large-scale steel smelting, there are only two or three century-old trees left in the village, and the rest are bare.

As the sun set, Qiao Hongzhi walked with a load of fern grass, while Qiao Hongyuan carried a small sack of cat grass on his back, their steps were heavy, and their long shadows dragged on the ground.

Qiao Jiayue and Qiao Hongliang hurriedly stepped forward to help.

Qiao Hongzhi waved his hand, threw the load of fern on his shoulder on the ground, and sat on the ground panting, "I'm tired to death." ”

Qiao Hongyuan slowly put the sack into the house before sitting down to rest.

But when he was resting, his eyes swept the room, and he frowned slightly when he caught a glimpse of some details.

Qiao Hongzhi entered the door last, and the door was open, so that passers-by could see it clearly.

"Daddy hasn't come back so early, let's eat first. Qiao Hongzhi said, and he went to the cupboard and brought out the bowl of paste.

Qiao Hongliang took out the rice porridge that Qiao Jiayue had cooked before.