6. Tranquility
Seven days have passed, taking care of one big and one small every day, watching Ah Hao counting on him wholeheartedly, watching the baby drink and sleep well in his hands, Geng Qiu's originally restless heart gradually quieted down.
Far from the modern lights, there is neither a cell phone nor an internet, and there is no need to think about annoying families. All day long is to take the children to wash and cook or something, this kind of primitive life is something Geng Qiu had never imagined before, but it unexpectedly brought him peace of mind. The unwillingness and resentment that I had worked hard to suppress in my heart gradually dissipated. In fact, the biggest knot in his heart is still his grandfather and grandmother. He always remembered that the two old men raised him with love, but he also remembered that after Geng Cong, the changes of the two old men, that kind of unique love had been greatly discounted.
One night in particular, he clearly overheard the conversation between the two elders. It turned out that these two old men would join forces with their stepmothers and force them to come back to City A. The stepmother didn't want him to get the family property, and the old man didn't want him to fight with Geng Cong for the family property, but also wanted him to stay by his side, they clearly knew that their son and his son's family would not come back, and the older they were, the more they hoped that there would be children and grandchildren around them. Although the two elders did these things behind their backs, Geng Qiu thought that he was brought up by the old people, so he came back according to their wishes. It's just that since then, he has had a knot in his heart for the old couple. However, thinking of his grandparents at such an age, Geng Qiu still hoped to go back to take care of them, but now, listening to the baby's crying, Geng Qiu hurriedly went to make milk powder.
Geng Qiu brought cabbage, radish and fat chickens have all been eaten, and even there are only twenty eggs left. Ah Hao's body is also much better, although he still doesn't have much strength, he no longer sleeps all day, and occasionally gets up to move, but Geng Qiu is worried that he will catch a cold, after all, the weather is still very cold. Although Ah Hao is a man, Geng Qiu has some common sense, knowing that people in confinement cannot catch a cold, suffer from cold and blow wind, which is not good for health. It is easy to get confinement disease. So every day is just at noon, when the sun is at its strongest, let him go outside to a leeward place to bask in the sun for a while.
"Ah Hao, there is no food. I'll go outside to look for any wild vegetables, but it's hard to eat all the porridge. Geng Qiu said. Because he had to feed the child rice soup, he was cooking porridge these days. Whether it is stir-fried cabbage, stewed radish, fried eggplant, or stewed dried beans, Ah Hao likes to eat it very much, and he doesn't care whether he drinks porridge or eats dry rice. Geng Qiu thought he was a person who loved vegetables.
In fact, it's because Ah Hao hasn't eaten fresh vegetables for a long time. After escaping to the mountains, where can you bring as many vegetables as you want, and there are no vegetables to bring in winter. Cabbage and radish are kept in the cellar, and even if they bring too much, they can't stand it and it will spoil.
"Well, be careful, don't go far, I'm afraid of beasts. At this time, I'm afraid there won't be any wild vegetables. Ah Hao said.
Geng Qiu really didn't go too far, but he had already traveled all over the nearby places, he had to collect firewood and grass every day, and he didn't see wild vegetables, so this time he walked farther along the river. I just found some wild celery that had just grown, which was very tender and hadn't grown much yet. He had just picked up two handfuls, enough to fry a dish, and he came back.
"This wild vegetable is not delicious." Ah Hao frowned and looked at the dish in Geng Qiu's hand and said. Wild celery has a strand flavor, and fried bacon is not bad. But the bacon they brought with them was almost all fat, and it was used as oil. Sure enough, Ah Hao didn't eat much of this dish. Even Geng Qiu himself didn't think it was so delicious. So after the meal, he took two oranges out and one with Ah Hao. It's a cold day, and I eat cabbage and radish every day, and the oranges are all well put in and eaten without taking them out.
"Ah, and oranges, Brother Qiu, where did you get them?" Ah Hao shouted happily. He didn't know at all that he had already eaten two at the time of his birth.
"It's delicious, eat another one." Geng Qiu didn't know how to answer him, so he simply handed him another one, these oranges were all small, and none of them were enough to stuff his teeth.
Ah Hao only cared about eating oranges, and sure enough, he forgot where the oranges came from. In fact, in the past two days, he also felt that Geng Qiu was a little different, such as staring at Geng Qiu's hair, because Geng Qiu had short hair, while he himself had long hair. And those chocolates or something, things he hadn't eaten before, as well as milk powder for feeding children, thermos cups for boiling water, mineral water bottles for cold boiled water, etc. But Ah Hao didn't have the energy to think about it, and sometimes he wanted to think about why, and his head hurt badly, anyway, Geng Qiu was always by his side, and that was enough. He didn't care why.
The two mules were very clever and well-behaved, and they looked for food in the neighborhood during the day, and of course they traveled farther and farther, because in some places some young grass sprouts had already emerged, which was much more delicious than dry grass. At night, he returned to the mouth of the cave to be the door god. For these two mules, Geng Qiu is simply in love with them. It's so obedient, he doesn't have to worry about it at all, it's much easier to raise than people.
Wild celery was not very tasty, and after a few meals between the two, Geng Qiu felt that he should find a way to improve his life, so he wanted to go to the river to catch fish. In this river, when he goes to wash every day, he can see small fish swimming by, but to catch fish, you have to have props, nets and hooks, and you can't do it with your bare hands.
Geng Qiu had no choice but to run around, and finally found some dead vines, tried for a long time, made an ugly little basket, filled it with some uneaten fried celery, and threw it into the water. Not to mention, I really caught some small fish, and when I went down the basket, I saw a school of fish drilling into the basket, and then I quickly lifted it, and there were a lot of small fish in it. The big ones are half the size of a palm, and the ones that are too small are thrown away, and most of them are crucian carp and carp.
Geng Qiu was satisfied and packed up the fish and took it back to cook the soup. The two drank a belly, although they didn't put any condiments, but the advantage is that the fish is fresh and pollution-free, and the taste is not bad.
"Brother Qiu, you really have a way. This fish soup is so delicious. Ah Hao praised with a smile.
"Well, drink more." Geng Qiu said with a smile. He knew that if he drank fish soup every day, the two of them would soon get tired of it, so take advantage of the freshness to drink more and increase nutrition.
Geng Qiu thought about Ah Hao's confinement, ate cabbage radish for a few days, and ate wild vegetables, the best nutrition is chocolate and poached eggs in sugar water, and stewed carrots with salted chicken. It's pathetic. He remembered that in the past, a colleague in the office had a child, and everyone would talk about how many chickens, how many pig's trotters, eggs, fish, pork ribs, and even bird's nest, sea treasures and so on. That's much better than Ah Hao's food.
Because there was fish soup to drink, Geng Qiu didn't boil the sugar water eggs for Ah Hao to eat, so he decided to stay and eat them slowly. After three days, the fish soup was really tired of drinking, Geng Qiu looked around, and finally found a few handfuls of fresh wild leeks, took them back and added four eggs to scrambled a big bowl, and Ah Hao ate it with a smile again. Geng Qiu found that Ah Hao was actually quite easy to raise, no, it should be said that both mother and son were very easy to raise.
The weather is gradually getting warmer, the green in the mountains and forests is getting stronger and stronger, this day Geng Qiu found a large piece of local vegetables, this local vegetables are very tender, take it back and fry a bowl, but it is not very delicious to fry and eat, and eat a fresh taste, if you make dumplings, it is very good. They also had a lot of flour, so Geng Qiu decided to wrap back the dumplings and eat them. The kitchen is too simple, there is no way to roll it, so I directly used the bowl to adjust the flour, slowly kneaded it with my hands, slowly chopped the ground vegetables after washing, and then cut some salted meat in it and mixed it for later use, and finally wrapped more than 40 large dumplings, enough for two people to eat a full meal. Sure enough, Ah Hao and Geng Qiu both thought it was delicious.
Twenty days slowly passed while Geng Qiu was worrying about how to get more food, and Ah Hao's face was already a little flushed, and he was obviously much more energetic. Basically living a vegetarian life, both of them began to want to eat meat, Ah Hao couldn't bear it, picked up a bow and arrow, and went hunting. Geng Qiu was shocked and wanted to stop him, but Ah Hao said, "Or, you go?" Geng Qiu wouldn't, so he had to let Ah Hao go, but he didn't feel at ease, so he wrapped him tightly, and told him to come back quickly before letting go.
Ah Hao really knew how to hunt, but he came back in three hours, bringing back three fat pheasants and two fat rabbits, but the others were also so tired that they were panting. Geng Qiu hurriedly brewed a glass of brown sugar water for him to drink, telling him to hurry up and rest. I went to clean up the prey and got a chicken to cook soup first. The stew was thick, and there was only one and a half bowls left with the meat and soup, Ah Hao ate one bowl, and he ate half a bowl. After eating the chicken soup with plenty of oil and water, the two of them obviously ate less rice porridge.
Five days later, Ah Hao went out again, this time with a bigger harvest, bringing back a wild boar of about 100 catties, two pheasants and more than a dozen mountain eggs. Geng Qiu was very excited to see so many prey, but he still didn't forget to ask what kind of difference Ah Hao saw when he went out, because Geng Qiu had walked around the neighborhood many times, and he always wanted to find something different. Ah Hao thought for a long time before he said, "I found a bamboo forest. ”
"Great, I'll go to the bamboo forest tomorrow to get some bamboo shoots to eat." Geng Qiu said excitedly. Although there are many wild vegetables, they do not like to eat many varieties, so it is best to add some fresh vegetables.
Ah Hao didn't take it seriously, but the next day, Geng Qiu really went to dig up some bamboo shoots, and he went directly with the back basket, although the back basket was very large, he only loaded twenty or thirty bamboo shoots, because too much to eat is a waste. Wild boar stewed with bamboo shoots, the taste is not bad.
Thirty-five days have passed in a flash, and Ah Hao's body has basically recovered, eating, hunting, and holding children, but he can't cook, wash clothes, feed children, or anything. So Geng Qiu is like a housewife, busy with housework and taking care of the children every day. After living here for so many days, because of the cold weather, they couldn't take a good bath, at most they just boiled some hot water to wipe their bodies, at first neither of them thought about giving the child a big bath, but fortunately, the weather was cold, otherwise the children would stink, and then they also learned to scrub the child's body like an adult.
The full moon baby has grown up a lot, Geng Qiu feels that he is at least six or seven pounds heavier, almost half of the weight, although he eats rice soup and milk powder, and occasionally drinks some sugar water, but he actually grows very strong, Geng Qiu simply gave the baby a nickname of A Niu. This kid is handsome and handsome, and he is a cute boy who is white and chubby.
Geng Qiu likes Xiao Niu very much. felt that this was a great gift from God, and he accepted that the mother and son were his relatives early on. Xiao Ah Niu is a energetic little baby, with a loud voice, crying, which makes Geng Qiu so anxious that he goes crazy, and lives a busy life of pain and happiness every day, and never thinks about his previous life again.
When he was two months old, the food that Ah Hao brought was almost gone, and the most important thing was that the milk powder was almost gone. Although it is very economical, it is only three catties of milk powder, and the rice soup can only be eaten by Xiao Ah Niu for two months. Seeing that the family was about to run out of cooking, Ah Hao and Geng Qiu decided to leave here and rush to Shanyin County.