Chapter Twenty-Six: Distress on the Mountain
"Xiao'er, are you cooking? What delicious food did you make? Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info" Lee's eyes looked around and saw that everything was covered in an iron pot. The girl was cleaning the stove and packing up the firewood, and it was obvious that the meal was finished.
Li wanted to step forward and lift the lid of the pot to take a look, but Xiao'er immediately stopped him: "Second uncle, it's getting dark, why don't you go back to cook?"
"You've made meat dishes, haven't you? We'll be here tonight. ”
"Don't dare to let the second aunt settle, we have already split up, and my family doesn't have more than 20 taels of private rooms to cook more meals to greet the second aunt. "For those who want to sell themselves, Xiao'er will not give her a good face.
"You girl is quite vindictive, it's been so long, you see you eat meat every day now, and yesterday you bought a cart of things to go home, and spent a lot of silver, but poor my family can't open the pot. ”
Xiao'er looked at Li coldly: "At the speed at which the second aunt saves private money, you will soon be able to eat and drink spicy food, and the delicacies of the mountains and seas are not a problem, but remember not to sell your nephews and nieces again, otherwise it will be you who will suffer, otherwise the ten taels of silver and twenty-three taels of private house will be divided into two hundred taels of silver, and the second aunt will have everything to buy a few ox carts, right." ”
"You girl, you speak with thorns at a young age, you don't know who you look like, the third is such an honest and easy-going person, you don't look like the third child, it shouldn't be that Liu stole someone. Li Shi was also angry when he heard Xiao'er's words, and he didn't choose to speak.
Shen Chengyao heard this as soon as he walked in, and his face turned green with anger: "Go out, don't spray feces all over your mouth here!"
"You just steal people, go back to your parents' house for the night in three days, who knows what you do. My mother works at home every day, and she goes back to her parents' house to visit relatives once a year, and she is accompanied by her father. Xiao'er knows that the requirements for women are really harsh now, and if Li's words are listened to and believed by others, then Liu's will be miserable, so she has to clarify for Liu.
"Xiao'er, a little girl, don't talk nonsense. Although the Liu family behind Shen Chengyao was angry that the Li family slandered herself, she didn't want her daughter to be said to be uneducated because of this, and her reputation was more important than her daughter.
Xiao'er is not a real little girl, so she also knew that Liu was talking about her for her good, so she didn't say anything more.
At this time, Shen Zhuang's shout came from the courtyard: "Li, where did you die? It's dark, you don't cook, do you want to starve me and your father to death?"
Li Shi's face darkened when he heard this, and he had to call her after they were all separated, and replied loudly in the direction of the courtyard dissatisfiedly: "Mother, I haven't cooked my own food, Jinghua and they are all hungry."
"What's the matter, the family won't move you? It's okay if you don't do it, you take out your twenty-three taels of private room, and I don't need you to do it."
Li Shi was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't dare to speak again, but just glared at Xiao'er hatefully and left.
Xiao'er's glance at Li was completely immune, she stared at her casually, she didn't feel pain, she took the little sister in Liu's hand: "Mother, the meal is ready, you and your father go and freshen up and get ready to eat." ”
Hearing this, Jing Rui also took action: "I'll bring a bowl of chicken to grandpa and grandma." ”
"I'm going to call the fourth uncle's family to come over for dinner. ”
"Good boy. Shen Chengyao was very relieved to hear this, his child is a good one. Not only did they prepare the meal, so that they would have food when they got home, but they also knew that they would send a delicious meal to their grandmother who had already separated from the family.
Shen Chengyao felt that his greatest achievement was marrying the Liu family and giving birth to such a few sensible children. Sometimes he feels that he is useless and cannot provide them with enough food and clothing, but he will try.
The two families gathered around to talk about family cooking, and had dinner happily, Xiao'er's cooking skills were once again recognized, in Jingjie's words: "Xiao'er's sister's green vegetables are better than the meat I have eaten before."
Lu Shi scolded with a smile: "Then why do you keep eating chicken?"
"Sister Xiao'er's vegetables are delicious, but the meat she makes is even more delicious!" everyone laughed.
On the second day, as soon as it was dawn, Shen Chengyao took his three children into the mountain, and Shen Chengyao also carried a bow and arrow, planning to try his luck to see if he could catch some prey.
Several people soon arrived at their destination, and Shen Chengyao saw that it was this wild fruit, the fruit was full of burrs, and people in the village usually didn't dare to pick it, "Xiao'er, this thing is small, and it's full of hairs outside, can you eat it?"
"Dad, don't worry, I tried it last time, it's sweet and delicious. Xiao'er held a basket in one hand and a pair of scissors in the other, put the basket under the golden cherry seeds, and cut them off one by one. Jing Rui and Jing Hao also started to act in the same way. Shen Chengyao didn't say much when he saw this, and started to work, he was originally a person who did more and said less.
In about an hour, I picked them all up, and I filled three bags of hemp.
Shen Chengyao saw that it was still early, and they all brought dry food, so he wanted to walk around to see if they could meet any prey. The three children had no opinion, and the two brothers wanted to take the opportunity to practice how to stun a pheasant with a stone.
The three of them found a hidden place to hide the three sacks of golden cherry blossoms, and spread some branches and fallen leaves on them.
After the people in the village in the winter, they will organize some middle-aged men to go up the mountain to hunt together in the slack season, generally a few good in a group, Shen Chengyao also often goes with everyone, so he is still relatively familiar with the mountain, and he also knows that there are still no fierce animals nearby, so he can rest assured that he will take a few children, but usually children are not allowed to go into like this, just in case.
After walking for a quarter of an hour, I didn't meet any animals, but I dug up some mountain herbs, and a few people were not in a hurry, walking all the way, and digging when they saw mountain herbs.
The four of them were all digging for herbs, and suddenly they heard a voice coming from the front, the sound of a wolf howling and a man talking. Shen Chengyao's face turned white when he heard this, and he hurriedly asked a few children to climb the tree, which was also the only way he thought of avoiding danger. The three of them also knew the seriousness of the matter, and quickly found a big tree to climb up.
"Whatever happens later, don't come down, know?"
After he helped the three children to climb the tree, he secretly hid, drew his bow and arrows, and aimed ahead. was about to find the right opportunity to shoot out, at this time he thought that the people in the village had encountered the wolves, and after a while, he didn't expect to see two teenagers and four wolves fighting bloodily.
Both had swords in their hands and blood stains on their bodies.
"Damn, wait for the master to go back and pull a team of people over to destroy your clan! "The young man in blue is dying of exhaustion.
The wolves are very alert and good at group combat, and along the way, both of them have already killed four wolves, and these four are chasing after them.
Xiao'er saw two young men on the tree with their backs to back, one against the other, two wolves rushed towards their heads, they swung their swords to block, and the other two wolves also seized the opportunity to open their mouths and rush towards their feet.
The purple-clothed young man swung his sword and slashed at the wolf's head, but the wolf avoided it, only slashed it on it, and kicked the other wolf out with his foot.
The blue-clothed young man swung his sword and stabbed the wolf in the belly, but missed, and jumped again, avoiding the wolf at his feet.
Neither of them could stand still, and the wolf pounced again.
"His grandmother's, she just hugged your son, didn't she kill your whole family, and chased and killed all the way!"
Shen Chengyao had been hiding well, and kept an eye on several wolves, seizing the opportunity to release an arrow, which only hit the wolf's front leg, and the wolf raised its head and howled, and rushed towards Shen Chengyao frantically.
The two brothers in the tree shouted, "Daddy!"
Xiao'er's heart also lifted, and she quickly made a calculation in her heart, and the firewood knife in her hand went out forcefully, and she forcibly cut off the entire wolf's head.
"Brother, Hao'er, don't go down. After saying that, he climbed down the tree.
When the remaining wolves saw that another of their companions had died, they howled louder and pounced on them faster.
Shen Chengyao had already raised the scissors, thinking about fighting with the wolf, who would have thought that the wolf who came in front of him would be cut off with a knife.
Xiao'er quickly came to Shen Chengyao's side: "Dad, is it okay?"
"Xiao'er, what are you doing down, go to the tree quickly. When Shen Chengyao saw Xiao'er coming to his side, his face turned white with fright.
"Dad, it's okay, they'll be able to get it done soon. "She's worried if she doesn't come down, she doesn't have anything in her hand that can be used as a weapon.
All three wolves were entangled by the two teenagers, and one was quickly killed by the purple-clothed teenager. The remaining two of them were more relaxed and quickly done.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.