There was no kerosene in the kerosene lamp at home, so Qi Shufang rested early after eating, and before going to bed, she carried a chicken coop in the corner of the fence courtyard to the hall, and the mouth of the chicken coop was pressed with a stone to prevent the four hens and one rooster inside from escaping.

The hand-woven wicker chicken coop is very simple, with a small mouth and a bulging belly, which is very beautiful.

Among the four hens, there is an old hen, a total of ten chicks hatched, or dead or killed, leaving the other three hens and a little rooster, all free-range, never fed a grain of grain, let a few chickens in the river and the grass to forage for themselves, or dig some wild vegetables and weeds in the field and chop them up, or dig some earthworms, or catch some insects in the crops to feed them.

Hey, since you have chickens, what about eggs?

Qi Shufang, who was already lying on the bed, hurriedly recalled her memory, and was frustrated to find that eggs are not available every day, and the eggs that are picked up every other day are saved, and she is reluctant to eat them.

This body is too bad for itself, isn't it? I don't want to eat, I don't want to wear it.

Qi Shufang didn't like to treat herself the most, so the next day she took the chicken coop out, took away the stone and let the five chickens out of the cage, and when she found that there was an egg under the chicken coop, she immediately felt it out and washed it, and then put it in the pot and added water, and when she boiled the eggs, she put a bamboo grate in the pot by the way, and distilled a bowl of dumplings left over from last night.

According to local customs, they don't eat meat on the first day of junior high school, but meat is in front of them, who cares about this? At least Qi Shufang doesn't pay attention to it.

Qi Shufang ate a delicious meal, just washed the dishes, the four children of the uncle's family and the three children of the second uncle's family came to pay New Year's greetings, there was nothing to eat at home, Qi Shufang took out seven cents from her pocket, and one person gave one dime as New Year's money.

She turned out the savings of this body yesterday, and put it in the inner pocket of the padded jacket, most of which died with needles and threads, leaving a dozen yuan outside, and she was not at ease if the door of the hall was not locked, but she didn't expect to use it so soon.

Qi Shufang also went to pay New Year's greetings to her father-in-law, she is a married daughter-in-law, Father He didn't give her New Year's money, but said: "The third family, the third child is not at home, you have worked hard, if there is anything you can't do, squeak, don't carry it yourself." ”

Qi Shufang smiled and agreed, about the two sisters-in-law to climb the mountain, there is a custom of climbing on the first day of the new year, not climbing on the Double Ninth Festival, she doesn't know why, anyway, in the memory of this body, it is like this, but now many people can't eat enough, finally there is no need to work after the New Year, who is willing to climb the mountain to consume strength?

Wang Chunling and Zhang Cuihua were reluctant to go, so Qi Shufang went by herself, asking her two sisters-in-law to help her watch the door, without the sadness of General Tie guarding the door, Qi Shufang sighed secretly.

She's not going to climb the heights, she's looking for meat, and she doesn't want to wait until the next Chinese New Year to have meat to eat.

The Helou Production Brigade is a small mountain village, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the side without mountains leads directly to the Red Sun Commune, these mountains look very close, but in fact they are far away, and Qi Shufang walked for two hours to reach the foot of the mountain.

Qi Shufang went to the highest, largest and most precipitous West Mountain, which was several mountains stretched together, densely wooded, withered grass was almost a man high, and a gust of wind blew, making people faintly chill. It is said that except for the disasters and famines in those years, the members of the club were very hungry and looked for food inside, and no one dared to go deep in normal times, only dared to wander around the periphery. It was too dangerous inside, and even at that time there were many people who died in droves. Another reason is that few people are proficient in hunting, and ordinary people can't hunt their prey even when they see it, and they often return empty-handed.

For Qi Shufang, this mountain is really trivial, how sinister the environment in which she grows, that time she can't go into the deep mountains and old forests, that is the real danger, the grass and trees are mutated, the animals are mutated, and many towering trees will attack people.

As soon as she entered the mountain, Qi Shufang released her spiritual power.

Thankfully, her mental power is not only still there, but it is higher than before the crossing, and I don't know why.

It is not the spiritual power ability that only the spiritual power, all the people with the ability have, the higher the spiritual power cultivation, the higher the level of the ability, the higher the attack power or purification ability, storage ability, etc.

The spiritual power was released, and she could sense the grass and trees within a radius of several miles, Qi Shufang tightened the huge back basket, holding a few stones in her two palms, of which the thumb and index finger of her right hand had pinched one. The conditions are difficult, only in the most primitive way, she has tried, and the strength is still there, even if there is only one-tenth of what she had before the crossing, there are hundreds of pounds of arm strength.

Sensing movement on the left, a stone shot out at lightning speed, so fast that it cut through the air, and at the same time hit the first target that Qi Shufang found.

A feathered pheasant.

Qi Shufang ran over quickly, she had a lot of strength, and the tutorial was fast, so she quickly picked it up, it weighed two or three pounds, and the pheasant's head had been smashed by her with a stone, and her breath was naturally gone.

"A chicken!" Qi Shufang happily threw the pheasant into the back basket, and continued to move forward, not walking for a few minutes, the stone in his hand had been shot forward quickly, and it was another pheasant, the feathers were not very beautiful, but they were also very fat, two catties heavier than the first pheasant, and the head was also crushed, Qi Shufang was used to beating mutant animals, and the head of the mutant animal was killed immediately.

With a natural golden finger, Qi Shufang's back basket was soon filled with four pheasants and three hares, and she also met a small pheasant and a little hare on the way, she did not shoot them, and also found a nest of wild eggs, a total of seven.

Seeing that there was a stream between the two mountains, Qi Shufang walked over, took out a pheasant and disemboweled, cleaned it without plucking its feathers, smeared a layer of coarse salt that she carried with her, and then pasted it with a ball of red mud on the chicken, picked up some firewood and lit it with a match to roast it. The mountains and forests were full of firewood and dry, and at the same time, she found that the soil in the mountains was red clay and very sticky.

She has been looking for food outside all the year round, and has already practiced the ability to survive in the wild, just a flower chicken is not difficult for her at all, roasted until the red mud is dry and cracked, gently crushed, and the chicken feathers fall with the mud, revealing clean chicken, fragrant.

The appetite of this body turned out to be very small, I don't know if it was because she used her mental strength and strength, and she was hungry very quickly today.

She ate the whole chicken cleanly, and although there were no condiments other than salt, it was still tender and delicious. This pheasant has about three catties of hair and intestines, and more than two catties of blood and water from the hair and intestines, which is just enough to be full.

Qi Shufang hiccuped regardless of her image, took a short break, and decided to hunt more prey, making air-dried chickens and air-dried hares that could be preserved for a long time, and she had all these skills. The unpolluted environment is really beautiful, the pheasant is so delicious, I can't wait to eat it in my mouth every day, Qi Shufang licked her mouth, and thought about it endlessly.

She has read this history and knows that although the workers in this period have wages to receive and regular food, because men are born with a large amount of food, high work intensity, and large consumption, those grains are simply not enough to eat.

He Jianguo sent her twenty yuan a month, and he also sent clothes, so he had to return one or two.

Qi Shufang beat chicken blood, walked around the mountains and fields, and beat six pheasants and five hares, stuffed the back basket, and used a branch to kill four carp, two black fish, and a grass carp in a mountain stream.

Loaded on.

Qi Shufang carried a basket on her back, carrying a fish, and the basket was covered with thatch, she was afraid that she would find out that she was carrying so many fish and felt that she was too weird, so she dodged and took advantage of the fact that it was almost dark before entering the house, and before going down the mountain, she ate a pheasant called Huahua to her heart's content.

Wang Chunling heard the movement and walked out of the hall, and said through the fence wall: "Shufang, why did you come back so late?

"Ah, sister-in-law, I have eaten, and I brought two rolls at noon. Qi Shufang poked her head out, looked at Wang Chunling in the dark sky, thought about it, retracted and picked up a pheasant and handed it to her across the fence, looking at Wang Chunling with a surprised face, she whispered: "Don't make a noise! I don't know who dug the trap on the periphery of Xishan, there are a few pheasants and hares in it, I fished it, sister-in-law stewed it for our father and children to eat, and I will also send one to my second sister-in-law in a while." I plan to marinate and dry the rest and send it to Jianguo. ”

"Thank you, Shufang. Wang Chunling suddenly smiled, quickly took the pheasant, and ran into the house quickly, for fear of being discovered, and soon there were surprises one after another in the hall.

The second uncle's family lived in the back, Qi Shufang turned the hall and shouted, and handed it to Zhang Cuihua, sure enough, she was the same as Wang Chunling.

Qi Shufang came back and prepared to deal with all the prey, while disemboweling the hare with a kitchen knife, peeling off the rabbit's skin and leaving it for tomorrow, while boiling water, finally boiling a large pot of boiling water, it was already dark.

Qi Shufang was stunned to find that there was no kerosene at home, and without kerosene, there was no way to light a kerosene lamp, and without a kerosene lamp, there was no way to illuminate it. Eating people is soft-mouthed, not to mention that Qi Shufang didn't ask for it, but borrowed it, Wang Chunling gave it to her happily.

In the faint light, Qi Shufang's movements were fast, her fingers were flying, as if there was an afterimage, and she quickly cleaned up the pheasants and hares, smeared with coarse salt inside and out, but unfortunately there were no other seasonings, so they could only be simply pickled, and a few fish were also marinated in this way, and they were placed in empty bowls and empty basins, and hung on the beam after twelve hours, or dried naturally, or dried in the sun.

The coarse salt that was not much in the house disappeared in an instant.