Chapter 15 Preparations
After Sanniang entered the house, she didn't see Wuya, so she wondered if Wuya was injured, and turned her head and thought again, if he was injured, how could he not say anything.
In fact, Li Xiao was injured.
She didn't know how thick the wolf's skin was, and she was afraid of it like a wild boar. In a tense situation, the force of the arrow is greater than usual, and it is a continuous archery, and the first 6 arrows are okay with nothing. After the second eight arrows, her entire left hand trembled slightly. She rubbed her wrist. Fortunately, there are rabbit skin gloves, otherwise your fingers would have blood.
She took the medicated wine and rubbed her wrist. before returning to the main room. Sanniang smelled the smell of medicinal wine. Busy asking if it was injured.
Li Xiao laughed: "I went out to get the bow for too long today, and it was a little sour, so I wiped some medicinal wine." Then he stretched out his hands for Sanniang to look at, Sanniang saw that she was not injured, and then looked at her body, and said, "I'll help you rub it."
Li Xiao couldn't wait for someone to rub her immediately, so she immediately took the medicinal wine and said, "Just the wrist of your left hand." Sanniang was distressed when she saw it and said: "The bow is heavy, take it for a day, and it's strange if your hands are not tired." Next time, let your dad hold it for you." Li Xiaoen sighed, thinking, my father holds it, in case of a situation, my father can't shoot arrows, and I don't have a bow in my hand. The two are not dumbfounded.
Erzhu came in and saw it, and also asked, seeing that Li Xiaoshou was fine, he also thought that he was holding a bow, so he was relieved. The family does it on the kang. Erzhu told everyone what happened on this day: "No wonder your grandfather scolded us and said that we had no talent for archery. That's true. You haven't seen your sister shoot an arrow, that's a quasi-one. One stone. I didn't react, and the wolves, wolves, and dogs were all dead."
Sanwang Sixi listened to it and felt that although it was a bit exaggerated, he also believed it. 7 wild dogs, 1 roe deer, 4 pheasants and 3 rabbits. At the end of the day, everyone will believe in this result.
Sixi said: "Fifth sister, can you shoot it for me tomorrow?" Sanwang also nodded.
Li Xiao sighed and said, "Okay, no problem." And then there is the fact that we won't be going up the mountain for a few days, and we should be able to eat for a long time at home." Sanniang continued: "If you can eat it, you can eat the things at home until the end of the New Year." If you save it, you can eat it until your grandfather and they come back." Then I smiled thinking about things, thinking to myself that my man and girl are really capable.
Everyone sat on the kang and talked together, and they didn't know where Grandpa had gone.
Li Xiao went to bed when it was almost time, and he began to feel sleepy. Sanniang saw it and thought she was tired during the day. Let Li Xiao and Erzhu drink a bowl of ginger soup alone, and let everyone go to sleep. Li Xiao fell asleep on the bed. The others got up early in the morning and tossed and worried for a day, so they all fell asleep quickly.
Li Xiao got up as usual the next morning, because everyone slept in the same bed the first day, and they were not used to it, and when Li Xiao woke up, she forgot that she still had her mother by her side. A carp stood up and got up. Immediately woke up Sanniang and Erzhu next to him.
Li Xiao hurriedly apologized: "I thought it was my own bed, hehe, hehe." Then hurry up and get dressed and go to the ground. Then he ate, carried the arrow on his back, and put the rope from the basket in his satchel. She didn't dare to place a quiver at random. When the equipment was finished, everyone woke up except Wufu.
Li Xiao heheed twice, and said flatteringly: "You don't want to see me shoot arrows, do you want to go out for a walk"? Sanwang and Sixi suddenly came to the spirit. Speed of getting dressed.
Li Xiao took out the dry food and said, "You eat some first, otherwise you will be hungry later." Erzhu also said that let them eat more, it is cold outside. After eating three wang and four joys, the three of them went out.
Erzhu saw that the children were going out, so he pulled Sanniang back to lie down. The husband and wife hugged Wufu and fell asleep again.
Li Xiaoxian took his two elder brothers to run around Lijia Village, and then went to the big tree on the side of the mountain before remembering that he didn't put the wooden gun back when he went down the mountain yesterday. Sanwang Sixi was already so tired that he couldn't breathe, holding on to the big tree and panting.
Li novel: "It's here, usually there are few people here, but now there is no one." Then he took a dagger and dug a hole in the big tree, and walked about 50 meters back. Then draw the bow and shoot the arrow, right in the pit.
Sanwang and Sixi looked happy, and came again. Li Xiao looked at the two brothers who were like children, very speechless, and shot a few more arrows. He stepped forward and drew an arrow and asked, "Do you want to learn?"
Sanwang Sixi's eyes lit up and nodded in unison: "I want to learn." Before their old man taught them three days, the old man except for scolding, did not shoot an arrow, resulting in their lack of interest, today I saw Li Xiao's archery, and yesterday I heard my father and second uncle say hunting, they all came to be interested, and they all wanted to learn archery.
Li Xiao planned to take good care of her left hand, but her left hand couldn't shoot arrows, and she didn't dare to go up the mountain. I just want to practice my right hand on the side of the mountain. In case the left hand is injured next time, the right hand can be counted on. By the way, I pulled my two brothers to exercise. Well, let her father come back, and her mother will have to exercise too. In this way, the two people who slept were also counted.
The three of them quarreled for a while, and then picked up some firewood on the side of the mountain before going back. After arriving home, Erzhu and his wife had already cooked, and Erzhu also stewed a large pot of meat, saying that it was for everyone to satisfy their hunger, but in fact, he wanted to taste the wolf.
At the dinner table, Li Xiao said that he wanted to teach everyone archery. Because of the shadow of the old man before, Sanniang refused to learn.
Li Xiao asked Sanniang to make all the grain into cakes and dry food, and try to cook all the meat. Sanniang listened, although it was very strange, she still did it one by one.
Li Xiao told the men in the family the reason. Li Xiaoyi said rhetorically: "It's okay now, everyone is making biscuits and dried food." After a while, there will be no food left at home, and people from other places may come to our village. What happens when the chimney of our house is smoking, and the smell wafts out"? The three people who listened suddenly shuddered.
Then it's time for the whole family. Sanwang Sixi followed Sanniang to make the food at home as mature as possible, and then put it in the cellar. Li Xiao followed Erzhu to the side of the mountain to chop firewood, originally Erzhu was going to go by himself, so let Li Xiao help at home. Li Xiao was afraid of things coming down from the mountain, and he wanted to protect the second pillar. Li Xiao deliberately broke a bowl and knocked a basin. Sanniang, they are in a hurry.
Originally, the amount of food she was cooking now was large, and Wuya was still helping, Sanniang couldn't stand it, so she sent her out with her father. The name is good, my mother is not worried about your father, you go with it, now my mother is busy, if you want to learn cooking, wait for next year's spring mother to teach you. In this way, Li Xiao followed the second pillar every day except for the first day, and followed the second pillar every day.
In the next 10 days, the two pillars were cut so that the firewood had been piled up to the top of the wall. The food made by the three of Sanniang filled the cellar. Even some of the other empty rooms were placed. Li Xiao made 20 arrows and 5 wooden spears out of pheasant feathers. A total of 40 arrows were placed in the quiver barrel, and there were 7 wooden spears standing next to the wall. When Sanniang saw this posture, she also vaguely thought of something.
Sanniang finished making clothes. Li Xiao asked her mother to make a pair of gloves and a pair of insoles for each person from wolf skin and rabbit skin. In sewing wolf skins separately at the joints. Warm. Sanniang also did it one by one.
Li Xiao asked her father to take her two brothers to cut wood. Then bury it next to the wall. Li Xiao continued to be his own arrow.