When Du Ba came out with the dog, Xiucai Niang was crying with half a pot of braised pork stained with soil. Several children from the Xiucai brothers' family were sitting on the ground and crying around the little uncle.

Xiucai stood in front of his mother with an unteachable face, waiting for his mother to throw away the meat, and he didn't look at the circle of nephews who were not highly conscious enough.

Many people who have eaten meat are squatting on the side of the road to watch the excitement.

Du Ba walked straight to the door of Xiucai's house, swept around and saw the meat in the pot, scratched his head and asked embarrassedly: "Uncle Xiucai, did you throw away your meat?" ”

The big black dog leaned forward with a whisk and a wagging tail.

Don't think that Wang loves to eat bones, the most important thing for its owner is bones, it wants to eat meat, fragrant and soft meat!

"Thrown!" Du Xiucai replied in the affirmative.

Du Bale went directly to serve the pot of meat, planning to add food to the big black dog.

"As a scholar, how can Du Zhilu eat the food that comes to him? Wagging your tail and begging for mercy for a pot of meat, what about your backbone? What about your festival? Du Xiucai stared at Du Ba sternly, obviously it was hard to imagine that Du Ba, who had read the book, would do such a thing.

Du Ba is still a little afraid of the master who is said to be the strictest in the family studies, although he has been graduated for several years, it can be seen that Du Xiucai still has a sense of awe. However, seeing so many people looking at Du Ba, he felt that he absolutely couldn't admit it.

What's more, Du Ba didn't feel that he had lost his temperance, he looked at Du Fuzi suspiciously, grabbed the hairy head of the big black dog and lifted it to Du Xiucai's side, and said: "Master, I didn't eat the food that came to me, I didn't wag my tail and beg for mercy, you said the wrong person, you want to eat it!" It's the one who wags its tail, too! As he spoke, he pointed the dog's head at Du Xiucai.

"Wang!" The big black dog's tail wagged even more happily.

Du Xiucai pointed at Du Ba, and then pointed at the big black dog, his face turned pale with anger, "Really! What a humiliation! Sven ......"

"Master, Du Siwen's family has moved to Xiaodu Village, so don't ask others to sweep the floor." Du Ba interrupted Du Xiucai's words empathetically.

While the two were talking, Xiucai Niang had already sneaked home with a nest of soil-stained meat. One of Du Xiucai's nephews also locked the door of the house very intimately and locked Du Xiucai outside.

Seeing that there was no meat to eat, Du Ba dragged the big black dog home. The people who watched the excitement also dispersed. In vain, Du Xiucai stood in the cold wind and was not understood.

Ten miles and eight villages were lively and lively to the queen of heaven to cry, a few days later I heard that many monks blocked the county yamen to meditate. The soup kitchens in several temples in the county town are no longer available. Many people in the county town clamored not to remove the monks from their official positions, and even turned into bloody conflicts in the end. Families who heard the news were even more afraid to go out.

The Empress Dowager is over the age of old, and she is the successor of the first emperor. The Empress Dowager's family is not obvious, and her master is an official monk who has passed away for many years, and once served as the right ruler. Most of the Empress Dowager's younger brothers and nephews are also officials in the court. I heard that this time Emperor Jiayuan suddenly ordered the monks not to be officials anymore, the empress dowager tried her best to stop it, but in the end she couldn't resist the emperor, and the queen of heaven who couldn't bear the decline of the people was so sad that she went.

In short, the boiling imperial court, which was originally because Emperor Jiayuan suddenly forbade monks to be officials, added fuel to the fire, and monks from all over the country sat in the yamen to oppose this decree.

Now that the Empress Dowager has died suddenly, monks of various factions have taken the opportunity to request a transcendent puja for the Empress Dowager. Buddhist masters from Yunguo, Beichang and other countries also rushed to Kyoto in an attempt to plead with His Majesty to retract his fate.

Master Xile sent a message that he was going to attend the Dharma in many countries, so that Du Xiaoxi could stay at home.

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"Brother Xiaotu, is it good-looking? Do you want it? Du Xiaoxi asked Liu Yao with a wreath on his head.

Liu Yao smiled and nodded. Then he pointed to the garland in Du Xiaoxi's hand and shook his head.

In the spring, there was no work in the field, and the Du family, who did not kill pigs at home, was idle. Du Niang's daughters-in-law made sweatshirts for the family. Du Xiaoxi and they had nothing to do, so they rushed to the mountains to play.

Digging wild vegetables, picking mushrooms, picking flowers, catching fish, Du Xiaoxi's various fantasies about the southern water towns have been realized one by one.

Du Qi and Du Ba took their sister-in-law and brother-in-law to the mountain to pick mushrooms today.

Digging wild vegetables and picking mushrooms should have been the work of the little girl, but it turned out that there were too few girls in the Du family. In the end, the task of enriching the table fell to Du Qi and Du Ba.

"This, this, and this, see clearly. Don't pick it indiscriminately! Du Qi ran to the forest to pick a lot of samples, and sent them to a few people one by one, indicating that only these kinds of mushrooms were picked.

Poisonous mushroom poisoning is very common in Shanshui County, and every year at home, you can hear who has eaten poisonous mushrooms and is gone. Based on this fear, many people do not eat mushrooms. It is also sold directly.

The Dujia vegetable garden is large, and there are always a lot of wild vegetables on the mountains by the river throughout the year. The Du family also occasionally eats a mushroom in winter. Grandma Du saw that this group of grandsons were listless at home, so she drove a group of people up the mountain to pick mushrooms. Wait for the mushrooms to dry and send them to the grocery store at home to sell.

Du Xiaoxi and Liu Yao finally picked up a basket of mushrooms according to the samples of the seventh brother, and then poured out two small garlands of flowers.

Liu Yao pinched Du Xiaoxi's hand with one hand, put the other hand in front of his mouth and made a silent gesture, and then pointed behind Du Xiaoxi and motioned for her to look over.

Pheasant!

A pheasant with a long flowered tail walks under a tree in the distance.

"Let's catch it!" Du Xiaoxi leaned into Liu Yao's ear and said softly, and the two of them cautiously touched in the direction where the pheasant was.

"Girl! Bunny! Homecoming! Du Ba shouted and ran towards the two.

Du Xiaoxi and Liu Yao stopped in unison, and looked at the big pheasant that disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Liu Yao saw Du Xiaoxi's disappointed face, and squeezed her hand again.

Du Xiaoxi pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled, glaring fiercely at Du Ba who ran over.

"Girl, what are you waiting for me for?" Du Ba didn't know why.

"There was a pheasant there just now, and I was scared away by you starling!"

"Huh?" Du Ba looked embarrassed, "Oh, is that male or female?" Mother, I'll go see if there are any eggs. As he spoke, Du Ba walked towards the place Du Xiaoxi pointed to.

Du Xiaoxi couldn't tell the difference between the male and female, so he pulled Liu Yao to follow, hoping to be a little surprised.

The place where the pheasant stayed was a weedy nest, Du Xiaoxi saw Du Ba rummaging through with a stick, and he also picked one from the side and knocked it in the grass to look at it.

The palm of his hand was pinched, Du Xiaoxi looked at Liu Yao, and followed Liu Yao's hand to the place he pointed.

"There are eggs!" Du Xiaoxi snorted and ran over with Liu Yao.

I saw a dozen flower-skinned eggs lying quietly in a slightly sunken grass nest. (To be continued.) )