Chapter 9: Digging for Wild Plants and Snakes

Grandpa handed the fire chopsticks (chopsticks made of iron, used for charcoal fire) to my brother, and said that he was careful to burn his hands and went out to work. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info brother took chopsticks to turn over the spicy on the charcoal fire, and then burned it and then took it out and put it on the kang, and it took a few seconds to burn a spicy one, and it was accidentally burned or burned. My brother is a master at a glance, thirty or forty of them are not mushy, and they will all be burned after a while, and then my brother frowned and thought about it, stretched out his hand and divided it in half, thought about it, and rowed back a few, and rowed back a few, Zhang Xingming is happy, forty-year-old people look at how old children, it's really interesting.

After a long time, Zhang Xingming said: "Give me five, and you can eat the rest." ”

My brother was a little surprised, looked up at Zhang Xingming, and asked, "Really?" Zhang Xingming nodded, crawled over, took five, and put one in his mouth, fragrant, crispy, this taste is too special.

The elder brother threw all the spicy shells into the brazier, and when the shells fell on the charcoal fire, they were instantly burned red and softened, turning into ashes. Then my brother grabbed the cooked spicy food in his hand and ate it, nodded while eating, and said vaguely: "It's not called Changhong in the afternoon, let's go find it, find it back, let's divide it, and you can share more." ”

Zhang Xingming threw the four spicy spicy foods in his hand into his mouth and said, "If you don't call her, you won't come?" She must be afraid that you will go by yourself, you see, you have to come after eating." As soon as he finished speaking, a small face appeared outside the window, not a long red. looked into the house, Changhong ran into the house, followed by Changyan behind the buttocks, one year younger than Zhang Xingming, long and thin, Changhong took off his shoes and climbed onto the kang, sat down by the brazier, and said: "Your family still lights the brazier now, my dad doesn't get it, it's really annoying (warm)." You are spicy? This smell is so fragrant, more fragrant than (meat)." My brother pretended to look out the window, stuffed all the spicy food in his hand into his mouth, and said, "How can you burn spicy food without a brazier?" Changhong took out more than a dozen spicy from his pocket, took the iron chopsticks, then pinched one, put it on the charcoal fire with the iron chopsticks, and handed it to Changyan after burning one, Changyan leaned on the edge of the kang and reached out to take it and put it in his mouth to eat, Changhong went to burn the next one, Zhang Xingming saw his brother staring at the spicy on the fire chopsticks, and kept swallowing spit.

"Do you want to get it in the next morning (afternoon)?" Changhong asked his brother while eating.

My brother hesitated a little, glanced at Zhang Xingming, and asked, "Are you still going?"

Changhong was not happy and said, "I ask you and you ask him Gaha, he is so small." ”

The elder brother said: "I have to watch the younger brother, I don't dare to go if he doesn't go, what if my grandmother beats me." ”

"How delicious are you going? Changhong looked at Zhang Xingming, and his mouth was still tempting.

Zhang Xingming looked at his brother and said to Changhong: "No, don't go in the afternoon, let's go again tomorrow, I'm tired." ”

"Don't pull it down," Changhong handed the last spicy to Changyan, put down the fire chopsticks, thought about it, and said, "Why don't we go dig vegetables, there are many young and old over there, and my mother-in-law Ding bitter butterfly brain or something." "Rural children are just playing when they dig wild vegetables, beating stubble, picking up mushrooms, it's all playing. (Not old or young, a lot of meaning.) Mother-in-law is a dandelion seedling, bitter butterfly is bitter green, brain sensei is kohlrabi, a kind of wild garlic)

"If you don't go, you'll have to rob me again. "My brother is still thinking about making foreign spicy food, so he doesn't want to dig wild vegetables.

"I won't rob you, whoever digs it counts, there's an old nose over there. (Old nose, a lot of meaning)

"Then why don't you dig it yourself?" the elder brother obviously didn't believe Changhong.

"It's all in the woods, and I'm afraid of the land, so I don't dare to go. Changhong was a little aggrieved, she said that the place was a little far away from people's homes, and it was about to enter the mountains, and a little girl would definitely not dare, at this time there were wolves and wild boars in the mountains of the Northeast.

"The girl is timid. My brother pouted.

"Dajunzi, you say it again, believe it or not, I'll cut you. Changhong pinched her waist and sat up straight, glaring at her brother.

"What's the eye, otherwise, I'll dig it as mine, and you dig it and give me half of it. "Brother and Changhong settle accounts.

"Do you still want to be a big man?" Changhong was very angry.

"Go ahead, dig the vegetables, whoever digs will be whom. Zhang Xingming thought of the fresh and tender wild vegetables, he was very moved, he hadn't dug wild vegetables for many years, he had to go. Now it is estimated that a lot of vegetables have come out on the mountain, thorny sprouts, bracken, cabbage, mother-in-law, brain, bitter butterflies, wash and dip in sauce, fresh.

The four of them went out of the house, Changhong went home to get the house, the elder brother took out two small baskets from the west room and handed one to Zhang Xingming, and then went outside under the windowsill to take two spear heads (shuttle-shaped ironware, a bit like ancient spear heads, dedicated to digging things on the ground), compared them, and handed the small ones to Zhang Xingming.

As soon as he was ready, Changhong ran into the yard with a basket and a knife (also used for digging in the ground, but it was flat and had a wooden handle) and said, "Is it all right?" Changyan also carried a small basket behind her, followed timidly, and did not squeak, in Zhang Xingming's memory, this girl rarely spoke, so there are very few memories about her, and she always belongs to the neglected one, and her personality is like this when she grows up, not at all like her sister, and then she married to another castle at the age of sixteen or seventeen.

The three of them walked towards the forest with laughter and laughter, but it was the elder brother and Changhong who were fighting, Zhang Xingming looked at it, he was forty years old, and he couldn't do anything to fight with a child of a few years old, so that he felt a little like leading the child into the mountain, Zhong Changyan didn't squeak, so he obediently followed behind the three of them.

When they reached the edge of the field, wild vegetables began to grow. The edge of the field is full of brains and mother-in-law, there are no weeds here, it is easy to recognize, the four of them are digging while talking without words, and when they enter the forest, Zhang Xingming is completely confused, no way, in the previous life, he only followed his brother to pick a few times, except for cat's paws and bracken, which are often seen in the supermarket, I don't know anything else.

Changhong kept chattering, her family is her sisters, Changyan and small, her mother is always leading, Nangou is far away from the fort, she is usually alone, and she is a little excited to have someone to play with. Zhang Xingming followed his brother, followed his example, and saw which one he dig, so he followed the same one.

The forest was quiet, and from time to time a bird of unknown origin swept overhead and chirped. Years of dead branches and leaves form a thick layer of mats on the ground, which is soft when stepped on, and the green grass burrows out of the mat and grows tenaciously upward. The leaves have not yet grown, the forest is not very dark, and some of the dwarf trees are still mostly bare, just a little green.

"Erming, don't move. Zhang Xingming was concentrating on looking for food, and his brother on the side suddenly screamed in a suppressed voice, Zhang Xingming looked up at his brother, and he really didn't dare to move, this is the experience of the previous life, when he was a child, his brother always pulled him up the mountain and down the river together, every time he belonged to the soy sauce guy, just follow a trip, pure accompaniment, nothing works. And every time there is such a situation, he is used to it, and knows that he has either encountered a bird's nest or a long worm (snake).

The elder brother slowly walked to his side, and suddenly stabbed the head of the spear in his hand to the ground, and the grass on the ground moved, and it was really a long worm, more than ten centimeters long, reddish-brown, and the people in the mountains called the ground bark, which was not poisonous, but it would be swollen and hurt for several days when it was bitten.

The head of the brother's spear was stuck in the ground, and it immediately coiled over the head of the spear, opening its mouth wide. The elder brother dropped the basket he was holding in his other hand, reached over and pinched its neck, loosened the head of the spear, and the worm coiled into his hand.

"Pick up the placket of your clothes and tighten them. My brother said to Zhang Xingming.

Zhang Xingming understood what he meant, he had also done this kind of trick in his previous life, so he immediately used two hands to tie up the placket of the clothes on his body, and his brother handed the head of the snake to the placket of the taut clothes, and the snake bit it, and the elder brother pulled it back, only to see that the taut clothes were tied with brown-red snake teeth, and then look at the snake, it has become a toothless old lady.

My brother was still not at ease, so he let it bite a few more times, looked at it carefully, and sure enough, it was toothless, so he handed the long worm to Zhang Xingming's hand and said, "You can play with it, don't let grandma look at it, it will beat you if you look at it." Zhang Xingming took it and looked at it, there was an adult's index finger thickness, his body was slippery, he spit out the letter, fiddled with it a few times, and it didn't mean anything, so he handed it to Changhong: "Give it to you." ”

Changhong was very happy to take it, and played with it in his hand, if this is a child in the city, let alone a girl, even boys generally don't dare to do anything. Changyan also came over, looked at it curiously, and reached out to touch it a few times, but she was not afraid at all.

In this way, a bird's nest will be digged, an ant grave will be poked (the nests of ants in the mountains are all underground, and a mound of soil will be raised, like a grave), and a pine tower will be picked up (the tower of fruit pine, inside is pine nuts, the tower of ordinary pine trees has no pine nuts, and the fruit pine and ordinary pine trees in the natural forest are mixed together, it is difficult to distinguish), and the afternoon of talking and laughing has passed, Changhong has picked a basket full of wild vegetables, Changyan and his brother have picked most of the basket, and the elder brother has seven or eight bird eggs, two big pine towers, and Comrade Zhang Xingming only picked a little vegetable at the bottom of the basket, and the pine tower has picked up seven or eight, this thing is easy to recognize。 At this time, the pine towers picked up were all dropped last winter, and they were all dry, and it is estimated that the squirrels picked were also careless guys.

Look at the sky, the four of them went back, this way to play all the way to pick, are almost over the bar (the top of the mountain), out of the foot more than ten miles, has been counted into the mountain, if it is dark may not be dangerous.

Walking to the door of grandma's house, it was getting dark, grandpa stood outside the gate and looked here, and saw that they came back and didn't scold, so he said: "How many have you picked up on the mountain?" Zhang Xingming grabbed a few handfuls from his brother's basket to his side, a little ashamed.

Watching the Changhong sisters cross the small bridge and enter the courtyard, a few people turned around and entered the fence gate, grandpa tightened the fence door, and then used a thick wooden pole to top, this is afraid that people will sleep on the mountain at night into the courtyard, when the top door also heard the sound of Changhong's mother scolding Changhong on the other side of the river, came back a little late, how can adults not worry.

After entering the house, grandpa poured out the vegetables picked by his brother and Zhang Xingming, sorted them out, cleaned them up, and grandma moved the table to prepare for dinner, put down the table and slapped his brother's buttocks twice, but he didn't see any strength, and his mouth was very fierce: "If you come back in the dark, I will kill you." "Brother, hehe, hey, take off his shoes, climb up to the kang, grab a bud rice noodles, and stuff it into his mouth.

After eating, washing the feet, grandma and brother took the quilt off the kang cabinet and laid it out, a few people lay down, grandpa began to sing a song for the mother, there is no routine, the Northeast drum, the two turn, pull a scene, think of where to sing, grandpa sang very devotedly, very tasteful, Zhang Xingming lay on the pillow and listened quietly, fell asleep in a daze, and woke up again, it was already the next morning, the smell of scrambled eggs wafting in the house, I couldn't help but drool.

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