Chapter 32: Chopping Wood (2)

When he came to the suburbs and entered the forest, Luo Qingyan instructed everyone not to make loud noises, so as not to scare away the wild things. Not to mention www.biquge.info there are wild animals here, and you can occasionally see one of hares and pheasants. In fact, Jin Huaxin and the others also wanted to catch wild things when they saw them, but unfortunately they couldn't reach out and couldn't catch them at all. There is no way to run through dead branches and weeds in the woods, and people can't outrun animals, let alone pheasants.

Luo Qingyan instructed Jin Huaxin and Shao Feng to chop wood, and asked Jin Huadong to follow her around. Luo Qingyan was holding a handful of stones in his hand, and when he saw a pheasant and a hare, a stone was directly hit in the head and killed.

Jin Huadong followed Luo Qingyan and waited to pick up the prey, which made him beautiful, his mouth was almost behind his ears, how much meat did he need! He hadn't tasted meat for a long time, he was hungry to death, and finally he couldn't take the prey before he went back to find his brothers.

Although Jin Huaxin and Shao Feng were chopping wood, they were also paying attention to Luo Qingyan and them at any time. When they had almost finished chopping wood, they saw my brother come back with several pheasants and hares in both hands. The two hurriedly put down the firewood in their hands and went to pick up their younger brother.

When Jin Huadong saw his brother, he immediately invited merit and said: "Big brother, Brother Feng, you see, this is Xiao Yan's prey, Xiao Yan is really powerful, and he can kill a pheasant with a swish." Now we have meat to eat. It's just that there are too few wild things in this vicinity, and it took me a long time to find these things. ”

Jin Huaxin took the hare in his brother's hand, and his eyes lit up, "Is this really Xiao Yan's prey?"

Jin Huadong nodded hurriedly, "Of course it's true, Xiao Yan said that now that it's cold, you can hunt more wild things, or you can leave them for a longer time." It's all meat, and it's meant to nourish our bodies! Hehe, I've not smelled of sticky meat for a long time, and I'm dying of hunger. It's okay now, Xiao Yan has this ability, and we can eat meat often in the future. Jin Huadong danced happily.

Jin Huaxin glanced at his younger brother, "Do you think that in this winter, wild things are so easy to find, don't bother Xiao Yan, she has helped us enough." ”

Shao Feng also nodded and said: "Yes, our family owes Xiao Yan a lot, without Xiao Yan, we don't know where to drink the northwest wind! We all have to be self-reliant in the future, and we can't rely on Xiaoyan for everything. ”

Jin Huadong was scratched on the back of his head by what the two elder brothers said, and he was also ashamed, "Then big brother, can I learn kung fu from Xiao Yan, I think she can have a tie with Brother Mingxuan, she must be very powerful." Later, I learned to be able to hunt on my own. ”

Jin Huaxin and Shao Feng's eyes lit up when they heard this, yes, it would be good if they could learn martial arts from Xiao Yan. Several people took this idea to heart.

The brothers wanted to go to Luo Qingyan, but they saw Luo Qingyan coming back with a few pheasants. In fact, these pheasants were taken out of the space by Luo Qingyan when he saw that Jin Huadong was not in front of him, how easy it was to encounter wild things in this wood, so he could only smuggle some from the space and not kill them, but he was fainted. And Luo Qingyan is holding all hens, and they have already laid eggs.

Luo Qingyan walked in front of the brothers, "These pheasants in my hand were all knocked out by me, and they didn't die." Let's find some neat branches and go home and build a nest for them, surround them, and give them wings. The tails are all cut and raised to lay eggs to eat. ”

Jin Huadong was even happier when he heard it, "Really Xiaoyan, then I must take care of it, so that Xiaoyue will have eggs to eat every day." ”

Luo Qingyan smiled and said to Jin Huadong: "Don't worry, as long as you raise it well, you can eat eggs every day." We're almost done chopping firewood, so let's find some more long branches and we'll go home." Let's go into the city after dark, try to keep a low profile, and save any trouble. ”

Jin Huadong looked at Luo Qingyan with a twist, "Xiao Yan, you are so good at kung fu, can you teach us?"

Luo Qingyan looked at Jin Huaxin and Shao Feng's expectant eyes, and said with a smile: "If you are not afraid of hardship, of course I can teach you." ”

The brothers jumped up happily when they heard this, "We are not afraid of hardship, great, Xiao Yan, thank you." ”

After receiving an exciting answer, the three brothers began to go their separate ways. Everyone ate the dry food they brought at noon, and they didn't feel hungry, they were full of energy. After everyone carefully found some branches around the chicken pen, they neatly tied up the chopped firewood and tied it to the back seat of the bicycle. Put all the dead prey in sacks. Four pheasants were tied up and hung on either side of the handlebars of the two bicycles. One of the four men pushed a bicycle in front, and the other held a hill-like stack of firewood in the back, and walked cautiously towards the city. A few people stopped and stopped and rushed into the city after dark. It's winter, it's colder at night, and there are few people walking around after dark. A few people pushed their bicycles to the house smoothly, and everyone was tired and hungry.

After all, Luo Qingyan has martial arts, which is much better than the other three, and he is a little distressed when he looks at the three brothers who fell on the bed when they entered the house. They should have been at the age of being spoiled in the arms of their parents, but they experienced the hardships of life too early and were forced to grow up.

Luo Qingyan didn't rest, calmed Shao Jun and Jin Huayue, who were excited, got a basin of hot water, took a change of clothes and entered the wing, plugged in the door and entered the space. On this day, I was covered with dirt, so I quickly went into the bathroom, took a shower, and then took a bath for a while. There's plenty of time in the space, and it doesn't take much time to get out of the space after cleaning up.

I made a shower in the house, then poured out the water and started cooking. There was boiling water sitting in the kettle on the stove, and he directly cleaned up the two pheasants, disemboweled, and quickly chopped the pheasants into pieces. Cook the stove vigorously, blanch the chicken pieces with boiling water, and then burst the pot and stew directly on the stove. I prepared several large potatoes and cut them into pieces and put them in the pot to stew with the chicken for a while, and I also put some mushrooms picked in the woods in the suburbs today. It didn't take long for a rich aroma to come out of the pot.

Shao Jun and Jin Huayue waited for their brothers and sisters to come home, and they were already hungry before they had dinner. The two little guys kept following Luo Qingyan and kept staring at the meat in the pot. This time, smelling the aroma of meat, he sucked saliva greedily, and he couldn't wait to eat the meat in his mouth.

Taking advantage of the chicken stew, Luo Qingyan boiled water on the earthen stove in the courtyard. In the first few days, Luo Qingyan asked Jin Huaxin and them to go out and pick up some broken bricks that no one wanted to demolish the house, and built an earthen stove in the yard, which was smaller than the big stove in the countryside, and a small pot was set on it. The pot was prepared by Luo Qingyan in the Forbidden City, and when the weather is warmer, he can cook outside, which can save a lot of coal.

When the water was boiled, he called up the three brothers who had fallen on the bed and told them to go to the side room to wash themselves. In the wing, Luo Qingyan burned a charcoal basin just now, and it was not cold at all. After boiling the water, the rice was washed and prepared to stew the rice, and Luo Qingyan made more considering that everyone was hungry. The firewood brought back is very good to burn, so add two and leave it alone.

The few live chickens brought back had already woken up, Luo Qingyan took scissors to cut off their wings and tails first, tied them in the gate hole first, sprinkled them with some corn residues, and waited for tomorrow to deal with them.

By the time the three Jin Huaxin brothers had washed it, a large pot of chicken stewed potatoes and mushrooms had already come out of the pot. Shao Jun and Jin Huayue, the two little guys, had been waiting at the dinner table for a long time. A large pot of rice has also been simmered, Luo Qingyan put the rice into a large basin, and then produced the pot in the pot and distributed it to everyone to chew and eat, but it was fragrant.

Everyone sat down around the table, no one moved their chopsticks, and they all waited for Luo Qingyan. Luo Qingyan served a big bowl of rice alone, "Today I stewed a big pot of rice, everyone can eat it hard, and so is the chicken, don't leave it behind." Don't even look at it, hurry up and eat with chopsticks. Saying that, he first sandwiched a big chicken leg for Jin Huayue. Everyone saw Luo Qingyan move the chopsticks and picked up the chopsticks to pick up the meat, but the first piece of meat was invariably placed in Luo Qingyan's bowl. Luo Qingyan was very happy and moved to see everyone's actions, "Okay, don't take care of me, everyone is hungry, hurry up and eat." ”

Now everyone is welcome, bury your head and eat. Everyone has long been hungry for the aroma of the food, and now the meat is in the mouth, there is nothing to say, it is too fragrant. No one spoke at the table, only the sound of eating and chewing. In the end, not to mention the meat and vegetables, even the vegetable soup was mixed with rice.

A few half-sized children were overwhelmed, and they didn't want to move anymore while holding their stomachs. The little girl Jin Huayue also took Luo Qingyan's hand and asked, "Sister Xiaoyan, can we still eat stewed chicken in the future?"

Luo Qingyan smiled and pinched the little girl's face, "Of course, if Xiaoyue wants to eat it in the future, my sister will make it for you, and when the chickens we raise in the future lay eggs, you can give Xiaoyue steamed egg custard to eat every day." ”

Jin Huayue slapped happily, "Great, I must raise chickens well, and I will have egg custard to eat every day in the future." ”

Everyone went to bed after cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks together, and today I was tired enough, plus I was full of food, and I just wanted to lie in bed and sleep. This night everyone who is extraordinarily fragrant.

The next morning, after breakfast, everyone began to build a nest for a few chickens, a total of four chickens, and it didn't need to be a big chicken nest, just circle a small place in the corner of the backyard wall, and then build a nest. Everyone worked together, and with Luo Qingyan's command, it was finished in the morning.

A few chickens quickly adapted to their new home after being put in. Luo Qingyan thought that he had to get some rice bran or wheat bran for these chickens to make food, and it was impossible to feed them every day, because there were not enough people to eat! It would be good to plant vegetables next year, and even in winter, he could chop up the Chinese cabbage and mix it with some bran or wheat bran to feed the chickens.

The next day, Luo Qingyan rode out on his bicycle early in the morning. She didn't want to waste time, so she found a place where no one was in the space and went home, processing a big bag of wheat bran in the space, and said that she bought it from an old farmer, and with the trust of the Jin Huaxin brothers in Luo Qingyan, no one would doubt it.

Luo Qingyan knew that she couldn't stay in Kyoto all the time, so she asked Jin Huaxin and Shao Feng, two older children, to learn to cook every day when she cooked, otherwise she wouldn't even be able to cook when she left. Fortunately, after a period of study and practice, the two of them have no problem cooking some simple meals, but the taste is much worse.

The brothers all wanted to learn martial arts from Luo Qingyan, so Luo Qingyan asked them to start by squatting every day and lay a good foundation first.

Luo Qingyan saw that the lives of these children were okay for the time being, and he wanted to go home. Calling a few people together, "I'm going to go back to my hometown in the next two days, I've been out for a few months, although my grandfather is gone, but it's my home after all." And my grandfather's old comrades-in-arms are also close to me, they must be worried about me, I have to go back and see. Don't worry, I will definitely come back to celebrate the New Year with you before the Chinese New Year. And you're too young to go out to work, but we can't sit back and eat. If the big brother named Lu Mingxuan comes again, ask him if he can find us a job like pasting matchboxes, which can be done at home, and there is no age limit, we can do it. ”

Luo Qingyan was also afraid that these children would suddenly leave their parents, and they would feel uncomfortable without an adult by their side during the New Year. and find some work for these children, and having an income can also make them feel more stable, and she can maintain her life with a little more help.

The Jin Huaxin brothers were very reluctant to hear that Luo Qingyan was going back to their hometown, but they also knew that Luo Qingyan must have other things to do, and it was impossible for them to stay at their house all the time. And they should really find a way to find some work, at least to be able to support themselves and their younger siblings, and not rely on others for everything.