4. Pick up bird eggs and rabbits
"Sister, look, I picked up a big bird's egg!" Taotao held a duck egg in his hand and offered treasure to Li Manman, which duck should have laid the egg, this season the wild duck has not come over for the winter, it cannot be a wild duck egg. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Taotao is amazing!" Li Manman praised his younger brother without hesitation, "Go and put it in the basket!" Go pick it up again, and my sister will make you scrambled eggs to eat! ”
"Good!" Taotao put the eggs in the basket and happily went to the grass to find them.
Li Manman walked to a puddle, dug a pit on the side with his hands, brought in the water, tied a few branches where it met the puddle, wrapped the root grass, and then picked up half of the steamed buns he was carrying into crumbs and sprinkled them inside. This is still the fishing method I learned from the people in the TV documentary "Survival in the Wilderness" in my last life. After getting it done, Li Manman didn't make a sound, standing on the green grass with his calf, looking at the scenery in front of him, the deep water in the distance was covered with reeds, and from time to time there were white water birds flying, there were more snakes there, and the water was deep, and adults generally did not allow children to go there, scaring children There were water ghosts, and there were black snake spirits with heads like a fight. Li Manman was scared enough when he was a child, but when he was digging for the dam later, he did catch a big python.
"Rabbit, hare!" The army shouted, and a gray thing rushed towards Li Manman, who suddenly threw the stick in his hand, as if hitting the gray rabbit, but the rabbit ran past Li Manman, and Li Manman chased after him, and the army, the second army, Taotao, and the old girl all ran after him.
"Run to the left, Great Army! Let's plug it up! Second Army, Taotao, old girl, don't run too fast, you fall! Li Manman looked at the three little guys who were stumbling and was terrified.
Maybe Li Manman's stick just now really hit the vital point, maybe the rabbit was weak, anyway, in the end, Li Manman pounced forward and caught the rabbit in his hand.
"Oops, it's so heavy! There's definitely a lot of meat! Li Man shook the rabbit in his hand and said with a smile. I saw it first! "The army hurriedly made a gesture, and was afraid that they would not be able to eat rabbit meat." I stoned it! "I smashed the stick!" "I chased hard!" The three little ones scrambled to show that they had helped.
"All the credit, come to my house at noon today to eat rabbits!" Li Manman found Bagencao to program a rope to tie the rabbit firmly. "Great, there's rabbit meat to eat!" The second army shouted happily, and the old girl also snorted. In the central rural areas of the 80s, there were very few days when meat could be eaten all year round, and most of the chickens, ducks and pigs raised at home were used to sell for money, and the family counted on these things for a year's use.
Li Manman has been back for so many days, and she has never eaten meat, although she was almost vegetarian in her previous life for the sake of her body, but there was oil and water in her stomach, but now she has none, so looking at the fat rabbit, her mouth is also flooded with saliva.
Look at the sun in the sky, there is still a while before noon, Li Manman beckoned everyone to sit down and rest for a while, the wind blew gently, the fragrance of grass came to the nose, and several people counted the harvest around the basket: two duck eggs, Taotao picked up one, and the second army picked up one; six eggs, two for the army, and four for the old girl; A rabbit.
"Only my sister didn't get anything!" Taotao said dejectedly, I can't believe that such a powerful sister will not pick up anything. Li Manman looked at his younger brother who was discouraged, and his heart was warm.
"I caught a fish!" Li Manman said to his younger brother, "Let's go, let's go see how many there are?" ”
"I'll go too!" "I'll go too!" "And me!" The other three also asked curiously. Li Manman nodded and led them to the small pond.
In the shallow puddle, two half-foot-long fish were eating bait, and a few small fish were swimming.
"Wow! Lots of fish! Taotao exclaimed in surprise, and at the same time looked at her sister with admiration, Li Manman was also surprised, she didn't expect that the current fish were so stupid, and a little bait could attract a few.
"Let's get them! At noon, there is both rabbit meat and fish! Li Manman rolled up his trouser legs, dipped it into the puddle outlet, blocked the outlet with mud, and beckoned his little friend, "You come to catch the army, the second army, Taotao, and the old girl don't go into the water, go and bring the basin." ”
The army hurriedly rolled up his trouser legs, went down to the puddle, and began to catch the fish, the fish was slippery and not slippery, it was very difficult to catch, and the two people took a lot of effort to catch the fish, a total of two larger ones, four smaller ones, just enough for a pot of soup at noon.
The three little ones gathered around the basin and caught the fish with their hands, having a great time, Li Manman washed his legs and feet, put down his trouser legs, walked over, and brought the basin to the basket.
"Sister, let's go home! It's noon! Taotao looked at the fish and rabbit and hurried home.
"Don't burn birds' eggs?" Li Manman looked at the anxious appearance of several children and asked deliberately.
"No, next time I'll burn it, eat rabbits today!" The army and the old girl said in unison, and Taotao and the second army also nodded quickly, afraid that Li Manman would not agree.
"Okay!" Li Manman deliberately thought for a while, nodded and said, "Dajun, you carry the basin, the water in the basin doesn't need to be so much, a little bit is enough, I'll carry the basket, and the three little heroes will open the way in front!" ”
The little ones walked in front with their chests puffed up, and the army carried a few fish, and Li Manman carefully followed behind with baskets containing eggs and rabbits. It is relatively safe for the ducks to be placed in the bay, and they are often released, and they have formed a reflection, so they can come back in the evening and rush home.
Back in the village, it was time to make lunch, Lin Xiujuan watched her daughter come back with a string of children, the three small ones in front were grinning and full of energy, and the two older ones in the back were holding things and greeted them.
"Mom, we've got a rabbit! And fish, so many! "Taotao saw her mother and began to offer treasures." Big grandma, you want to eat rabbit and fish at noon! The second army and the old girl also asked happily.
"Caught a rabbit? So capable? Show me! Lin Xiujuan asked in surprise, and walked towards the two big ones behind, "Good girl, such a big fat rabbit is five or six pounds!" ”
The second sister-in-law came out of the kitchen and saw the rabbit in Lin Xiujuan's hand: "Auntie, who caught this rabbit?" What a fat guy! ”
"These little things were caught, it's really shit luck!" Lin Xiujuan pointed to a few children and said, and said to the second sister-in-law, "Meng Ying, you come to help me slaughter the rabbit, I won't peel it!" ”
"Okay, I'll sharpen the knife." The second sister-in-law went back to the kitchen and took out the kitchen knife, took the rabbit in Lin Xiujuan's hand, Li Manman hurriedly drove the little friend back to the house, they are still young, it is better not to watch this bloody scene.
"Grandma, look at the fish in the pot!" Seeing that everyone was paying attention to the rabbit and no one was looking at the fish in their hands, the army brought the basin to Lin Xiujuan.
Lin Xiujuan saw that there were really a few fish, two of them were half a foot long, and the other few were also a few inches, and she touched the head of the army with a smile: "Why are you so powerful today, how did you catch these fish?" ”
The army was embarrassed by Lin Xiujuan's actions, and said with a red face: "This is the idea that Da Hong thought of catching it, and next time I will do it, I will also be able to catch fish." ”
Lin Xiujuan glanced at her daughter who seemed to have grown up at once, and her heart was full of pride, a seven-year-old child, smart and capable, and there was no child better than her daughter in ten miles and eight villages.
Taking advantage of the time when the second sister-in-law was picking up rabbits, Lin Xiujuan killed several fish, washed them, picked fennel, cooked the fish soup, cut part of the meat bought from the market, refined the oil, made a minced eggplant, and fried a few vegetarian dishes. Finally, the rabbit was chopped up and made into a braised rabbit. A large table was full, and several children looked at the fragrant dishes and drooled greedily.
"Dajun, go see your mom and your dad are at home, let them come to dinner, the old girl is the same, see if your parents are there? Taotao, go see your grandmother, let her bring Xiaoyong to dinner! Lin Xiujuan ordered, after all, it is the prey of the children, and their own house is burned, if they don't call the adults to eat, there may be small words, especially the hearts of the fourth family are relatively small.
The army and the old girl ran home quickly, and Lin Xiujuan took a fish and half a small bowl of rabbit meat and sent it to the second sister-in-law: "Meng Ying, Wuzi won't come back at noon, you can keep it for him to eat at night!" ”
The second sister-in-law knew what the eldest aunt was, so she didn't shirk it, took the dishes, and put them in the cupboard. My family has not eaten meat for two or three months, and the adults are okay, Wuzi is thinking about junior high school, running five or six miles to and from school every day, and he has lost weight, in fact, he is not really without money, but the life of the head of the family is too fine, and he wants to keep the money for Wuzi to marry his daughter-in-law.
"Aunt me, the second army said they caught a rabbit today?" The fourth sister-in-law, Li Mengxia, followed the second army over, stretched out her head to look at the fragrant rabbit meat in the big basin, and felt a little uncomfortable, feeling that Lin Xiujuan was standing at her own advantage.
"Well, a few children were lucky to meet a fat rabbit," Lin Xiujuan glanced at her fourth nephew and daughter-in-law, and smiled, "I saw a rabbit and a few children, and I couldn't share a little bit of it, so I fried it and asked everyone to eat it together, and a few fish were made together, and I added a few more dishes, it's really okay today, let's get together!" ”
Li Mengxia looked at a table full of dishes, in addition to a pot of rabbit meat and a pot of fish soup, there were other meat dishes, and smiled embarrassedly: "My aunt is bleeding today!" ”
Lin Xiujuan smiled, put the chopsticks on the table, and the old girl ran back: "My big, my mother is not at home, my father went to Nanzhuangzi to kill pigs!" ”
"Where's your brother Paulin?" Lin Xiujuan asked. "I haven't come back from the last episode with my mother!" The old girl said heartlessly, drooling as she looked at the food on the table.
"Mom, Mom, Grandma is here!" Hearing her son's shout, Lin Xiujuan looked outside the door and saw her mother-in-law carrying Xiaoyong on her back and following behind the bouncing Taotao.
"It's time to eat!" Lin Xiujuan served the rice to everyone, and before the words fell, the children who were still waiting immediately took action, scrambling to insert the chopsticks into the rabbit meat bowl, sandwiched the meat, and ate it sweetly.
Lin Xiujuan smiled and looked at the children who were rushing to eat meat, and saw that her daughter had made a fish and was slowly picking at the thorns, so she sandwiched a piece of meat for her daughter, and Li Manman smiled at her mother.
Lin Xiujuan put some vegetables in her mother-in-law's bowl, hugged Xiao Yong over, and fed him food, Li Mengxia was also taking care of several children, especially Taotao and Erjun, who often grabbed a piece of meat, so she had to keep mediating.
The meal was full of chickens and dogs, and in the end, the bowl was light, the plate was light, and the pot was also gone. Li Manman looked at the pot that didn't even have a pot left, and pouted: "It's really three lights!" "Stinky girl, what are you talking about!" Lin Xiujuan nodded her daughter's forehead, knowing that she was unhappy that she didn't have a pot to eat, but she couldn't talk nonsense.
Li Manman knew that his mother still had the legacy of being cautious at that time, pouted, turned around and left the kitchen: "I went to take a nap, so I won't help you work!" ”
"Rare! Go to bed! Lin Xiujuan pretended to be angry and said, "Take your brother to sleep for me, and don't let him go out at noon!" ”