Although there was no starvation to death this winter, because the weather was too cold, everyone was not happy, and the food and consumption at home were at the bottom. Some of them couldn't open the pot anymore, so they went to other homes to borrow food.

After the beginning of spring, everyone began to be busy in spring, and as soon as March arrived, the weather began to get hot. This made the old people in the village feel very unusual.

Li Xiao got up in the morning and went into the mountains, and the sisters at home had to help with the work, and the two brothers had to clean the courtyard. The children in the family also knew that Li Xiao was powerful, and when Li Xiao repeatedly promised that nothing would happen, her spoiled brothers and sisters would cover her up.

On the mountains in spring, it is still so cold, and the snow on the ground has no meaning of melting at all. She stepped on the snow, carried a basket on her back, and two wooden guns, one tied to the basket and one in her hand. Seeing movement in the distance, slowly pass by, and then gently peel off the snow on the ground. The corners of the mouth are slightly curved upward, and it is a pheasant. As soon as I got up, I saw two pheasants and some small birds flying next to me.

Li Xiao pursed his lips, knowing that he had failed again. She hadn't eaten an egg for a long time since the last chicken in the family was taken to the dowry. Only on the New Year's Day, relatives and neighbors send some food that is available. I just want to try to catch a few live pheasants and go back. It's a pity that she doesn't know how to hunt, and after a year of groping, she can only roughly find the traces of pheasants, and every time she scares the pheasants away. Unless she throws a wooden gun, but is hit by such a large wooden gun, the pheasant is dead.

Seeing the pheasant fluttering away, Li Xiao hurriedly put down the wooden gun in his hand and threw it out with a stone. In such a hurry, the stone did not hit the pheasant, but hit the branch above. The snow fell from the branches, and only the two scared ones fell from mid-air. Li Xiao hurriedly stepped forward and pounced, grabbing one. Then he took a rope and tied the chicken's feet. Throw into the basket of plums. By the time she got it done, the other pheasant was gone.

Li Xiao was happy, rummaged around, and searched for a long time before finding the pheasant's nest. Li Xiao wiped the sweat from his forehead, carefully peeled off the grass around him, and found that there were more than 10 wild eggs inside.

Li Xiao carried a basket with a pheasant in one hand and a wooden gun in the other, and walked back leisurely. Humming a little song in his mouth, thinking about the process of catching the pheasant just now. It turned out that pheasants were afraid of snow in the trees. The face is full of joy. She forgot it was noon.

The whole family was planting seedlings in the field, and seeing that it was almost noon, Sanya and Siya put down their work and went home to cook with Wufu. Several girls and boys are all older, and they can all work in the field, originally Li Wufu should be Wuya, but Wuya said that he would not take him anything. In the end, there was no way, so Sanniang took him to the field. Usually let him play in the field. The man who went home to cook at noon was taking him back. In the afternoon, Wuya watched him at home. Sanya and Siya entered the house with Wufu, only to find that there was no one at home. I knew that the fifth sister had run out again, and when the meal was finished and I hadn't come back, I was a little worried. Sanya loaded the food and carried the basket to the field, and Siya waited anxiously at home with Wufu.

Li Xiao walked and walked, feeling so hungry, looked at the sky, found that the sun was in the wrong position, shouted badly, and hurried home. When she arrived outside the house, she happened to bump into Siya and Wufu, who couldn't wait. Quickly showed a smile and flattered: "Fourth sister is in a hurry, I was wrong." I brought something good and hurried in. ”

Siya saw the pheasant in Wuya's hand, and her eyes lit up: "Did you come back so late to catch it?" “

Li Xiao nodded hurriedly. As he entered the yard, he said, "Is there a way to stop it from flying, she flies so high, and I wasted a lot of energy when I caught it." ”

Siya said, "I don't know, tie it to the pillar first, and wait for Dad and them to come back and ask them." “

When Li Xiaoyi heard this, he took Siya's hand and said, "Fourth sister, I still have good things in the basket, come and take a look." "Thank goodness, it's not broken, I trotted all the way back." "Siya also looked into the basket and saw a basket of hay and wild eggs." Happy to say where did you get it, so much. Wuya smirked twice, and said to send the chicken coop quickly, and the pheasant tied her feet with a rope and tied it next to the chicken coop.

Siya looked at the sweat on Wuya's head, and felt distressed, "You hurry up and go in and wipe your sweat, don't get sick." Eggs, pheasants, I'll get them. You take your fifth brother into the house to rest. “

Siya watched Li Xiao obediently enter the house, and then put more eggs into the chicken coop. Tie up the pheasant, then close the gate and go to the field.

The other people in the field didn't think much about it when they saw Sanya coming back, and usually Siya stayed at home to wash the dishes and clean up, so they continued to work. These should have been done by the five girls, but these two sisters felt sorry for her every time, one came back to deliver food, the other stayed to clean up, and only after cleaning up did they go to work in the field. Sanniang looked at the child, and said to Erzhu while eating: "Wuya is 5 years old, Sanya and Siya can help in the kitchen when they are five years old, Wuya can't do anything now, and goes to the field all day long, even Wufu wants us to take it to the field." You go back and talk about her. “

Erzhu ate in his mouth and nodded his head.

In the afternoon, Siya came back later than usual, and everyone didn't say anything. Sanya looked at Siya, and Siya nodded. whispered, "The fifth sister got a pheasant and came back, and there were wild eggs." I want to surprise everyone when I go back, so I don't want to say it." Siya responded happily, and the adults didn't care when they saw the two children whispering.

When they came home in the evening, they went into the yard and saw pheasants fluttering, and the pheasants flew up, because their feet were tied with ropes, and they fell down again. And they all gathered around the coop.

Uncle asked, "This is caught by five girls?" The four girls nodded. Li Xiao, who heard the movement in the house, walked out of the house and saw everyone watching around the chicken coop.

Li Xiao came over and said, "Grandpa, is this pheasant beautiful?" I caught pheasants, and I took out wild eggs, and when the wild eggs hatched, there were many baby pheasants, and when the pheasants grew up, they could lay a lot more wild eggs, and we had eggs and chickens to eat. As soon as he finished speaking, there was silence in the courtyard.

Li Xiao felt that the atmosphere was wrong. I heard it, and the eldest brother said, "Mother, why does this pheasant look like a rooster," I don't know who laughed out loud, and the whole yard laughed, Wufu didn't know why, and laughed stupidly. Only Li Xiao had a black face.

Li Xiaozuo looked to the right, and then said weakly: "He is not very beautiful, not to mention that the rooster doesn't have a cockscomb?" How does it not have a cockscomb? Sanniang pulled Li Xiao and said, "Don't talk nonsense when Wuya goes out, let people listen to jokes, the rooster has a cockscomb, where does the pheasant get the cockscomb." Li Xiao suddenly wilted. It's really a shame to be thrown home, with my head down, and my mouth is broken, it turns out that wild roosters don't have cockscombs. Grandma looked at the five girls, suddenly distressed, and said, "Five girls, don't pay attention to them." Go back and ask your dad to take it for an old hen and hatch your eggs. Just do as you say. Then he glanced at Da Zhuang and led Li Xiao into the house.

The old man went to Lao Sun's house in Wu Village early the next morning, and Lao Sun's family moved to Wujia Village later, and the family had no land. Mr. Sun's sister married a restaurant manager in the county, and since then the chickens in their restaurant have been supplied by their family. So the family has a lot of chickens, and the Sun family is the richest family in Wujia Village. The old man carried the pheasant to Sun's house, and when he came to Minglai, he said that he wanted to change the hen that was hatching eggs. The old man of the Sun family immediately agreed, and gave 10 more eggs. Regardless of the season, pheasants are worth more than domestic chickens. Especially when their family is sent to the restaurant.

The old man changed the hens, returned to Li's house with the eggs, packed up the chicken pen, and went to the field. Li Xiao went up the mountain as usual, and when he returned home from the mountain, the pheasant had been replaced by a hen. She happily fed the chickens with wild vegetables.