Chapter 12: A Taste of Childhood
Flocks of chickens and ducks, pigs and sheep are full of mountains, and rice fields are connected into a line!
The yard is full of green vitality inside and outside, holding the fried egg cake that his grandmother has just come out of the pot, breathing the air with the aroma of earth, Li Mu sighed in his heart.
That's the taste of home!
"Amu, don't stand outside, come in and have a cup of oil tea!" Grandma looked at her good grandson with a bowl of tea and smiled, and some of the old flowers' eyes were slowly full of satisfaction and love, this is the eldest grandson, but considerate!
"Okay grandma, it's a little cold outside, you go into the house first. Li Mu looked back at the kind face that was almost encroached upon by the old age spots, and his slightly stiff body was panicked, maybe he should really think about it.
"Amu, you just come in! It's not like you'll leave tomorrow and have time to watch, eat well!" The old mother couldn't see the sound of help, Li Mu had no choice but to go back to the kitchen and sit by the stove and drink the oil tea made by his grandmother in a ceramic pot.
"Dad, is there still work in the field today?" After eating three or four egg cakes with this tea, Li Mu wiped his mouth and looked up at his father, who was swallowing clouds and spitting fog, and the younger brother on the side unconsciously shrunk his neck.
"The seedlings have been planted, and the corn weeding in the field is still early!" Daddy was smoking a cigarette, looking at the roof with a little misty eyes, and didn't know what he was looking at, but didn't respond, and Mom responded indifferently.
"That's it, then I'll go for a walk in the mountains!" Li Mu was still a little happy when he heard that the farm work at home was almost the same, and he really couldn't do it without doing farm work for three or four years.
Grandma's ears suddenly improved, Li Mu's voice was not too loud, but when she heard it, she immediately looked at Li Mu nervously and said, "Amu, you can't go! You see that your brother is not finished yet, what if you make something else?"
Her nervous look made Li Mu a little depressed, and she glanced at her little brother fiercely before she smiled and said, "Okay, I'll listen to grandma!"
"Alas, that's right! I know that my good grandson is the most obedient, Xiaoyuanzi, you are more like your brother to study, and you don't have anything serious all day long!" The little brother innocently watched his grandmother babble endlessly, and finally got up angrily and left, and sat down obediently after being glared at by his father.
"Mom, didn't you say that you were going to my third aunt's house to play mahjong today?" Seeing Li Mu and Li Yuan, my mother reminded my grandmother with an embarrassed smile, and my grandmother suddenly got up and left, seeing Li Mu stunned for a while.
"Hey, when will grandma play mahjong?"
"Hahaha, brother, how about I didn't do anything bad this time, right?" Without waiting for his parents to speak, the little brother who was hiding in the corner suddenly raised his voice to beg for reward, but in exchange for his mother's white eyes and his father's malicious tiger eyes, he sat down aggrieved again.
"Hey, your kid has a future! He even taught his grandmother to play mahjong, but can she see it clearly?" Li Mu really didn't expect his grandmother to learn to play mahjong, and he had to admit that his younger brother's trick was still 6, at least grandma wouldn't have nothing to do with her neighbors to make conflicts like before, a good thing!
"Your brother bought her a reading glasses, this is not in the hall to rummage through the cabinets!" The mother slapped the younger brother angrily, and looked at the grandmother who was coming in and out of the hall with an angry mouth, Li Mu smiled and got up to help.
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After sending his grandmother away, Li Mu began to look for tools, a raincoat to wear in the mountains, a machete to open the way, and various spices.
"Are you really going to the mountains?" asked the old mother with some concern when she saw it, to be honest, she really didn't want her son to go into the mountains again, she almost didn't scare her to death yesterday.
"Mom, I haven't been to the mountains for many years, so I'll just walk around our mountain area if it's okay. Li Mu said with a confident smile, he didn't want to go to the mountains, but the problem was that he still had a simple stone frog river crab task that he hadn't completed!
"Okay, you still have to worry about how old he is, remember to take Huya with you! Yuanzi stay at home well, and go to school tomorrow!" Daddy patted the cigarette ash on his leg and got up to explain, and walked out with his hands dangling behind his back, apparently planning to go to the field for a walk.
"Hey, you old immortal, this temper has been getting bigger and bigger recently, isn't it? The old lady is too lazy to care about your three things, and you also consciously cook at noon!" The old mother stomped her feet and went back to the house angrily, Li Mu and Li Yuan brothers looked at each other and shook their heads, and they were busy with their work.
"Brother, why don't you take me?" Li Yuan didn't know what to mess with, got a small bag, walked to Li Mu's side with a smile, Li Muli ignored him, turned around and went out.
"Huya go!" shouted and walked away with the basket on his back and a machete in his hand.
Li Yuan stood at the door and watched the eldest brother and Huya frolicking and disappearing at the intersection with a melancholy expression, but thinking of his father's explanation before leaving, he sighed helplessly and obediently went back to the house to watch TV, there was no way what happened yesterday to make Dad hold his breath in his heart!
Li Mu's house is at the end of the village, and when he comes out of the yard, he turns left and there is a small intersection up the mountain. Along the way, stop and look at the corn seedlings of about three inches around, pick a few goat's milk fruits and throw them into your mouth, sweet and sour have a unique flavor.
"Huya, you can't go to the field to mess around!" Seeing Huya running for a while, chasing butterflies and dragonflies from time to time, Li Mu hurriedly admonished.
At this time, the corn seedlings are still very fragile, and if the tiger teeth rush into other people's fields, it is estimated that someone will have to come to the door to ask for an explanation. Now that I'm an adult, I can't let people block my home anymore, what a shame!
Barking!
Huya seemed to understand, as if urging the master to hurry up, but after being told by Li Mu, the rules were not good and he stopped running crazy. At this time, the sun slowly showed half of its face from the top of the mountain, and it was very beautiful to be red and not dazzling.
As the sun shines on the mountain, the mist slowly dissipates, revealing a lush mountain forest, with cheerful bird calls along the way, and small squirrels can be seen walking through the forest like ghosts from time to time.
Half an hour later, he entered the forest area, looked left and right, and finally Li Mu chose the thorny forest slope that was not close to his own mountain forest. The reason why I chose to go this way is mainly to consider two aspects, first of all, the thorn forest slope is close to the Zhulao River, where there are the most stone frogs and river crabs, and it is easy to complete the task.
The second aspect is that Li Mu's mouth is greedy, and there are a lot of sorghum picks and black rice on the thorn forest slope, and when he was a child, he didn't go into the mountains to be beaten for food. There is also wild bayberry, but this time is not ripe to get about May low.
After entering the mountain forest, it is an uphill road, and the tiger fangs, which have always been very aggressive, have begun to slow down, and the tongue sticks out and follows Li Mu, and a pair of ears are erect and swaying back and forth from time to time, and the slightest wind and grass in the forest immediately reveals Bai Sensen's fangs.
"It's okay, there's no need to be so nervous when you enter the mountain!" Li Mu looked a little funny, there are not many opportunities for Huya to enter the mountain, after all, it is not a mountain running dog.
Moreover, in recent years, with the continuous deepening of the country's mountain protection and afforestation and the work of returning farmland to forests, the price of mountain goods has not been able to rise.
There are almost no more people running the mountain.
It was not easy to go up the mountain after the heavy rain just now, because there were few people walking, the road before was blocked by tree branches, Li Mu waved the machete in his hand from time to time to open the way, because it was in the morning, and there was no need to worry about snakes or anything, the speed was not bad, and after more than an hour, I finally climbed the ridge, and then went down the mountain to the thorn forest slope.
"Ha, come to Huya to eat a black rice!" The dark black rice hung heavily on the branches, Li Mu tore off a handful and threw it in his mouth and chewed it, Huya saw him eating and was a little anxious to circle around.
Throwing one to it, the tiger tooth jumped up and caught it, and after moving his mouth, he sat on the ground and vomited. The sweet and sour taste of black rice is obviously not its dish, and the aggrieved big eyes are watery that makes Li Mu a little embarrassed, and finally laughs and gets up and runs down the mountain.
Huya, who was still sitting on the ground and vomiting, saw that the owner ran away, and immediately got up to chase after him, because there were a lot of leaves on the road, and it had rained and it was very slippery, so he accidentally rolled all the way down.
", Huya, you're doing something!" The sound behind him frightened Li Mu and hurriedly jumped to the side of the road to look at the rolling Huya, this guy rolled for more than ten meters before being blocked by a tree, it is estimated that he was dizzy and lay down and shook his head for a few seconds before he stood up.
Poof, hahahaha!
Seeing the tiger teeth like that, Li Mu couldn't help but laugh, and a burst of laughter echoed in the empty mountain forest, startling a group of wild animals!