Chapter 7: The Squirrel Who Won't Leave

After dinner, the two women helped Yang's mother and eldest sister clean up the dining table in the courtyard. Watermelons and various fruits were placed on the table again, and everyone chatted around the table in the courtyard.

After staying for more than half an hour, the eldest sister and eldest brother-in-law got up and said that they were going home to sleep. Their family lives in the courtyard next to it.

After they left, Yang's mother also went back to her room to sleep. asked Yang Dezhu where the two daughters lived. The Yang family only has two bedrooms, one each for Yang Dezhu and Yang's mother, and there is nothing superfluous. So the meaning of Yang's mother's question is to ask her son who will share a room with her tonight.

Unexpectedly, Yang Dezhu let her leave it alone, just go to sleep first. Although Yang's mother was puzzled by this, she knew that her son had always been a person with ideas. I didn't care too much, so I went in and slept.

After that, Yang Dezhu went into his room, took out a brand new tent and set it up in the courtyard. Then he laid out the moisture-proof mat and thin quilt, and asked the two women whether they were sleeping in a tent or a house. Naturally, these two city kids chose a brand new tent.

Yang Dezhu had expected this, and he didn't say much, so he went back to his room to sleep. He also ignored Liu Qianqian's request to chat for a while behind him.

When he returned to his room, he glanced at the little squirrel in the basket and seemed to be still asleep. When I approached it, it didn't react. Yang Dezhu reached out to touch it, but found that the little squirrel was a little hot. The heart said that this little guy didn't have a high fever.

Yang Dezhu frowned, found the antipyretics, picked a little bit with his fingernails and put it in the untouched egg. I took a chopstick and stirred it well, then rolled a paper tube with white paper, and poured the egg liquid into the little squirrel.

After washing his hands, Yang Dezhu went to bed, and in a daze, he seemed to hear the two women in the courtyard laughing and sleeping until late.

Early the next morning, Yang Dezhu got up early, but after he finished washing, Yang's mother, who got up earlier than him, had already made breakfast.

Hearing her son say something about opening a shop outside, Yang's mother's eyes glanced at the tent without moving.

Yang Dezhu walked over and knocked on it, and said, "Get up, eat." Hurry. ”

"Don't eat, sleep a little longer. Don't be noisy. I don't know which one of them was in it, and I muttered a sentence like a dream, and then it was lifeless.

"Huh? A snake crawled in, run. Yang Dezhu pretended to exclaim.

With a "bang", the zipper of the tent was unzipped and two girls in close-fitting clothes hurriedly crawled out. It wasn't until they heard Yang's mother's giggles that the two girls reacted and were fooled. came over and hammered Yang Dezhu a few pink punches with a resentful face.

The two girls knocked Yang Dezhu into the house and began to wash. And Yang Dezhu was not in a hurry to go out. Then come the little squirrel and see if the little guy has survived.

Maybe it was Yang Dezhu's indiscriminate treatment last night that had an effect. When Yang Dezhu lifted the top of the basket, the little squirrel was already able to move. Seeing Yang Dezhu outside the basket, he squeaked twice.

Yang Dezhu took another egg and knocked it open, put it in the basket, afraid that the little squirrel would not be used to it, so he grabbed the hazelnut and put it in.

Maybe it was Yang Dezhu's breath that it was more familiar with, or maybe it was really hungry, so the little squirrel leaned over to the egg and drank it.

After drinking an egg and eating two more hazelnuts, the little guy actually patted his stomach very humanely. He looked very satisfied.

Yang Dezhu chuckled lightly and said, "If the injury is healed, I'll let you go." So he took the basket to the hillside in the backyard and laid the little squirrel on the ground.

Who knew that although the little squirrel looked around, it didn't leave. And when Yang Dezhu walked back with the basket, it actually followed. Yang Dezhu stopped, and it climbed down Yang Dezhu's trouser legs to his shoulders and sat down.

Yang Dezhu reached out and took a hazelnut from the basket and fed it to it, and it actually took two front paws and hugged Gege and jumped and gnawed.

Seeing that the little squirrel was not leaving, and that he looked a little human, Yang Dezhu did not force it, so he took the little guy back to the front courtyard to eat.

When he came to the courtyard, the food on the table had been set, and Yang's mother and two women were waiting for him.

"Huh? Little squirrel. Where did it come from? Liu Qianqian's eyes were sharp, and she saw the little squirrel on Yang Dezhu's shoulder at a glance, and got up to greet her. When she arrived in front of Yang Dezhu, she reached out to touch it, but the little squirrel jumped to Yang Dezhu's other shoulder and looked at her vigilantly.

"Hey, this little guy is so funny. It can't be yesterday's one, right? Obviously, Liu Qianqian already knows everything that happened yesterday.

"But that's it, I saw it all this morning and wanted to let it go, but it didn't go." Yang Dezhu said.

As he spoke, he sat down at the table and began to eat. Yu Liya couldn't help but take a closer look at the culprit who caused her foot yesterday. I saw that the little squirrel's body could be more than 20 centimeters long, with long golden hair, and a tuft of snow-white white hair on his forehead and chest. A pair of eyes were dark and bright, and they were wandering around curiously looking at the people and things around them.

"Liya, what are you staring at the little boss when you don't eat?" Liu Qianqian quipped.

"Whoever looks at him, I can't look at the little squirrel. This little thing hurt me yesterday. Julia grimaced at the little squirrel. Although she knows that this is the culprit, women are born to like furry things, and Yu Liya can't hate this cute little squirrel.

The little squirrel was so frightened that he jumped on Yang Dezhu's head, and returned to Yu Liya with his teeth and claws, but he didn't seem to be afraid of her.

This move made Yang's mother and Liu Qianqian laugh.

While teasing the little squirrel, he ate breakfast, and after the meal, Yang Dezhu was about to go to business. Taking advantage of the fact that the weather was not too hot, he was going to the second sister's house to transport the mountain goods back first. So he got on his motorcycle and went out. The little squirrel was still sitting on his shoulder.

The second sister's house is not far away, and she will arrive after Shuanghe Bay, so Yang Dezhu is not riding fast, in fact, he is afraid that the little squirrel will not be able to catch it and fall. But then he realized that this little thing was so clever that if it felt like it was going to fall, it would grab it by the collar or the hair. And when the locomotive is slow, it will still run around. It seems that he is worrying about it.

After Shuanghewan, Shanghewan Village, where the second sister's house is located, is already in sight. Yang Dezhu was not in a hurry, and patiently let the little squirrel adapt to the locomotive, and his speed slowly accelerated.

The second sister is about thirty years old and has always been close to Yang Dezhu, when she saw Yang Dezhu coming over with a little squirrel, the sister and brother teased the little squirrel and laughed.

I stayed at the second sister's house for a morning, and when the weather got hot near noon, the second brother-in-law also came back. The second brother-in-law is also in his thirties, although he is not as honest as the eldest brother-in-law, he gives people a sense of shrewdness and ability. At the beginning, Yang Dezhu handed over the business of purchasing mountain goods to him, which was to take a fancy to this.

The second brother-in-law was very happy when he saw that Yang Dezhu was there, so he threw aside the mountain goods he collected and went to cook lunch himself. At noon, I went to buy two bottles of cold beer and drank it with Yang Dezhu.

I was full of wine and food, and I took another nap and escaped the hottest time. At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Yang Dezhu held four big bags full of mountain goods, and the second brother-in-law held the second sister and marched to Yang Dezhu's house together.

This small, closed basin surrounded by mountains is actually divided into roughly four large flats by two winding rivers. Later, four natural villages were gradually formed on these four flat lands. Yang Dezhu's family and the second sister's family are at the north and south ends of the spindle-shaped plain in the middle. Yang Dezhu's house in the south is called Xiahewan Village, and the second sister's house in the north is called Shanghewan Village. Crossing the bridge from Shuanghe Bay in the middle to the east and west is Wanzuo Village in the west and Wanyou Village in the east. This is the approximate geographical division of this mountain country.

And because there is only one exit from the basin, and it is blocked by Camel Ridge, the traffic is inconvenient. Therefore, off-road motorcycles have become the most important means of transportation in and out of the mountain countryside here.

Yang Dezhu was holding the goods, and he didn't dare to ride too fast. So when he got home, the second sister was already chatting with Yu Liya and Liu Qianqian. And the second brother-in-law naturally went to find the eldest brother-in-law.

Yang Dezhu parked the motorcycle, stacked the bag, and covered it with a rainproof plastic sheet. The little squirrel was also busy, jumping onto the bag from time to time, and then climbed onto Yang Dezhu's shoulder again at some point. Yang Dezhu gradually got used to the little squirrel's village. He worked on his own, while also throwing nuts such as hazelnuts, walnuts, etc., that occasionally peeked out of the bag to the little squirrel. Then it will obediently go to the side and grind its teeth.

After finishing his work, he drank some water. talked a few words to the second sister who stopped him, Yu Liya and Liu Qianqian. Yang Dezhu went to find his two brothers-in-law. One is that we are going to have dinner at home tonight, and everyone has to help. The other is that two brothers-in-law are needed to help carry the mountain freight to the county seat tomorrow morning, so I have to say hello to them in advance.

I didn't see the two brothers-in-law when I went to the eldest sister's house, only the eldest sister was choosing vegetables. Yang Dezhu asked the eldest sister to go over early. Then, according to what the eldest sister said, I wanted to go to the small bath behind my house. When I got to the stream, I saw two brothers-in-law soaking in it and bragging about it. He was also busy sweating, so he also took off his clothes and went in to take a bath. The little squirrel did not dare to go into the water and squeaked by the river. Yang Dezhu grabbed it and put it on top of his head. The little squirrel was scared at first when he looked at the river below, but after a while he became familiar with it, and touched the water in the river with his paws. Yang Dezhu held it and immersed it in water, revealing only one head. I didn't expect this guy to take a bath, and he didn't want to come out when he soaked in. It didn't take long for me to learn to swim.

Three men, a naughty squirrel, laughed and laughed all over the mountain, until the skin was a little white, and then they planned to go home for dinner. But before he could reach the door, he heard a quarrel in the courtyard, and Yang Dezhu thought to himself, could it be that the two city girls were sick again and quarreled with the two sisters. So he hurriedly walked into the courtyard.