Chapter 17: Bird Hunting

The mountain wind is blowing slowly, and the winter of Baiwang Mountain is not so cold, but the cold wind in the forest is still like a sharp blade, blowing and hurting people's faces.

Zhou Jiumei was born as a peasant girl, and when the wind blew, the red on her round face became more and more obvious, like two red faces on her black skin. Don't look at it like this, now that after the conditioning of space water, Zhou Jiumei's aching skin every winter has improved a lot, Zhou Jiumei thought that it was the water and soil in the south and didn't think much about it, but felt that the skin on her body was slowly and tenderly much better.

Don't look at Zhou's love and shyness, but she is full of responsibility, holding Wu Nuandong to protect her little face, lest the mountain wind blow rough her immature little skin, so that Wu Nuandong can't go down to explore it.

"Sister-in-law Zhou, I can go by myself." Wu Nuandong said seriously.

Zhou couldn't help but rub Wu Nuandong's little face, her serious little appearance was particularly rare, and she couldn't complain that the martial arts family liked to spoil her. Zhou Jiumei already likes children, Wu Xia Zhi is too naughty, not a day is honest, Wu Qiuzhi is weak but like a little adult who doesn't need to worry about it, Wu Shanhe is strictly looked at by his sister-in-law, Zhou has no chance to get close, but under the influence of Zhao, he and Wu Nuandong became more and more intimate.

"No, sister-in-law is not tired, wait until you are walking farther, just let Nuan Nuan play by herself, okay?"

Wu Nuandong nodded indiscriminately, it was indeed a few degrees cold in the mountains, and she could still feel the chill of the wind when she was wrapped tightly.

Late winter and early spring is the time when the animals begin to emerge from their burrows to feed, and it is also the most ferocious.

The old man did not go to the deep mountains and old forests, but stopped at the edge of the deep mountains.

Only then did Zhou Jiumei put down Wu Nuandong, took her hand and followed behind the old man to investigate the traps one by one. Five traps, three intact, one that appears to have been broken by the animal, and the other with two pheasants that have froze to death.

For such a harvest, the old man had long expected it, Wu Xinghai neatly wrapped his neck around the two pheasants, hung them out, and said to Wu Nuandong with a smile: "Nuan Nuan, let your sister-in-law make you fragrant roast chicken to eat at noon today." ”

Wu Nuandong was shy, the few little ones in the Wu family were not here, where was she embarrassed to eat alone. Usually the old man takes people to hunt and eats some dry food in the forest, but now he deliberately wants to fire at noon must be for her. After all, Wu Nuandong is not really a five-year-old girl, so she won't be so squeamish, so she hurriedly refused, "Nuan Nuan doesn't eat it, keep it and go home to eat together!" ”

Wu Xingyi glanced at Wu Xingxia, Wu Xingxia sighed and shook his head at his younger brother, Wu Xingyi was helpless. Obviously, Nuan Nuan is becoming more and more sensible, how can my sister-in-law not see it! If it is yin or yang all day long, the four uncles don't care, otherwise the family will not be stiff.

"Nuan Nuan is so good!" Wu Tiande was very relieved to see that the girl was so caring, and rubbed his daughter's little face with a thick palm, "Wait for Dad to hunt back a lot of delicious food for you, so that we can eat warmly and fully." ”

Wu Chunxi also squatted down and hugged Wu Nuandong, his handsome eyes showed a smile, "Big brother will take you to catch birds and pigeons for a while, although there is not much meat, but it is also very fragrant to roast." ”

"Good!" Wu Nuandong knew that the finch pigeon in Wu Chunxi's mouth was a small house finch (sparrow), in her previous life, she often went to the night market to buy fried house sparrows, and when she ate them, they squeaked in her mouth, and they tasted a bit like chicken, which was still very good. Wu Nuandong slapped happily and looked at Wu Chunxi expectantly.

The old man smiled, comforted Wu Nuandong's mood, and then reassuredly arranged the candidates for hunting in the forest. Wu Tiande, Wu Xinghai group, Old Man, Wu Xingxia and Wu Xingyi group, divided into two directions to start tracking the prey. Zhou Jiumei took Wu Chunxi and Wu Nuandong to pick wild vegetables or catch some wild birds for dinner.

Zhou Jiumei told Wu Chunxi to keep an eye on Wu Nuandong and not to stay away from her sight, after Wu Chunxi smiled and agreed, she turned around with a homemade simple bow and arrow on her shoulder, surveyed whether there was any prey nearby, and after nothing worked, she re-fiddled with the traps and restored them to their original state.

"Big brother, how do you catch pigeons?"

Wu Chunxi hooked Wu Nuandong's little pink nose, and smiled dotingly, "Little gluttonous cat, wait!" He untied the machete on his back, cut off a few vines, and made a few vine sieves with his fingers, and then found an old tree, cut a hole with a knife, took some sticky gums, and quickly braided a few rattan sieves, and smeared the gums scattered in the rattan sieves, and found a few wooden sticks to tie the thinner vines, and used wooden sticks to support the rattan sieves not far away, forming an inclination, so as to make it easy to buckle the pigeons.

"Here, Nuan Nuan!" After the trap was made, Wu Chunxi beckoned to Wu Nuandong, took out his lunch ration from his arms, broke some, kneaded it into fine pieces and handed it to Wu Nuandong, and taught her to sprinkle some grain under the vine sieve one by one.

"Big brother, what are you going to eat for lunch?"

Looking at Wu Nuandong's sad little appearance, Wu Chun was happy and teased her, "Big brother eats warm, okay?" ”

Wu Nuandong rolled his eyes, "Big brother, Nuan Nuan will give you food, don't you don't want to eat it then!" ”

Wu Chunxi patted the hem of his clothes, looked at Wu Nuandong condescendingly, his beautiful face seemed to be smiling, and Wu Nuandong who looked at it inexplicably broke out in a little cold sweat, "Yo!" Our stiff big brother who still understands the game is really a little clever ghost! ”

She is not afraid of anyone in the martial arts, she is afraid of this big brother, although the big brother also loves her very much, but those dark and slightly picky eyes are good-looking, but they really make people unable to look directly, it's okay not to laugh, when you smile, you will have a feeling of being seen through by him, plus Wu Nuandong has a 'ghost' in his heart, so he will often be laughed at by Wu Chunxi.

"Big brother, Nuan Nuan will give you food!" Wu Nuandong pitifully took out the brown rice crackers in his arms, which made Wu Chunxi cry and laugh, and he didn't understand why his little sister was afraid of him recently, looming, if it weren't for his high acuity, even he wouldn't be able to find it.

"Good, big brother doesn't eat, tease you!" Wu Chunxi was half-squatting, affectionately hugging Wu Nuandong and fragrant her face, this is a big move that Wu Nuandong put on several brothers when he was coquettish, but the Wu family learned it, and her face also suffered.

This time and space still has men and women to defend the world, men at the age of twelve, women at the age of ten can not sit at the same table, because the Tang Dynasty was opened, and after two generations of female emperors, the degree of harshness on women is not like other dynasties, as long as men and women do not get along alone, other precepts will not be very tricky.

Wu Nuandong blushed with shame, afraid that a twelve-year-old boy would make her an 'aunt in her twenties'.

Perfect bird trap and hide behind a tree, Zhou Jiumei saw that the two were entertaining themselves, so they did not approach, still looking for traces of small prey not far away, so much kung fu had allowed her to catch a nest of hares, two big rabbits immediately twisted their heads, four rabbits, one of them had frozen to death, and the other three were settled in a bamboo basket by Zhou Jiumei, covered with thick weeds and barely saved their lives.

After a winter, the birds were hungry and full, and their stomachs were often growling with hunger, and even if they were a little alert, they had to act rashly. They flew down slowly, vigilantly approaching the vine sieve. When they observed for a long time that there was no movement, they moved under the rattan sieve little by little, and pecked at the broken dry food.

Wu Nuandong dragged the thin vine and almost pulled, was held down by Wu Chunxi's little hand, and told her to wait with her eyes, from time to time, a few finches and pigeons walked in again, Wu Chunxi held Wu Nuandong's hand and dragged it, and the three rattan sieves were buckled down one after another, and the full finches and pigeons had round stomachs and inconvenient movements, plus there were sticky gums stuck to the feathers in the rattan sieves, and they couldn't fly at all, and about ten finches and pigeons were caught in the net.