Chapter 72: Brotherhood
It is a great thing to go up the mountain to collect prey, and Yu Mingyue will not forget her cousin.
As soon as Yu Mingyue mentioned that she wanted to take Yu Mingyan up the mountain, Yu Zhiqing responded without thinking too much, and he also wanted to take the opportunity of Yu Tianzhou's absence today to share one or two prey with his father's family.
In the past 6 days, although Yu Zhiqing and Yu Tianzhou caught a total of 5 pheasants, 3 hares, and 1 and a half large male muntjac on the mountain, it was because Yu Mingyue and Yu Mingyan did not go up the mountain, and Yu Zhiqing could not find a reason to send a half-prey to his father's house.
When the father and daughter came to Yu Tianxiang's house with two baskets on their backs and two snakeskin bags, Yu Mingyue took the lead in pushing open the dilapidated wooden gate that was lightly covered and rushed into the courtyard.
Unexpectedly, her uncle Yu Zhizong didn't go to the ground this morning, but happened to be at home, so Yu Mingyue not only called Yu Mingyan, but also called her uncle.
At this time, the corn in the mountains had begun to turn yellow, but Yu Zhiqing still took a few people to the slope across his small river, broke more than a dozen small and tender corns and took them up the mountain as bait, so as to popularize the knowledge and experience of making traps for Yu Zhizong, and go to the mountain.
The place where Yu Mingyue set the trap for the first time was the nearest mountain beam from the small mountain to the deep mountain, because the terrain was much higher than the small mountain beams below, and it was very cool when the mountain wind blew when it went up, so the villagers called the mountain beam Liangfeng Slope.
As soon as the two large and two small four people entered the mountain, they went straight to the cool breeze slope.
When he arrived at the first destination, Yu Mingyue didn't follow to see the traps, and directly began to climb the tree full of pine cones, Yu Zhiqing was anxious to see the harvest of the traps, but only told him twice to climb the tree carefully, and after being careful of the snakes and insects on the mountain, he took Yu Zhizong's father and daughter to look at several traps and locks on the mountain beam one by one.
Every time Yu Mingyue climbed a big pine tree, she saw that the other three couldn't see her, and her heart moved, and she collected all the pine cones on the big pine tree in an instant.
It didn't take long for Yu Zhiqing's excited and joyful shouts and Yu Mingyan's exclamations and laughter to be faintly heard on the other side of the mountain beam.
There is prey that has taken the bait. I don't know if it was a pheasant or any prey in the trap, Yu Mingyue no longer fell in love, got off the tree neatly, and ran to the other side of the mountain beam.
"Daddy, what did you catch?" From a distance, I saw Yu Zhizong standing on the side of the mountain beam, smiling honestly and chopping branches, Yu Mingyue rushed over affectionately while asking.
"Hehe, how did Satsuki know that we caught our prey?" Yu Zhizong's thin square face was a little surprised, but he couldn't stop being excited, but just once, he was even more happy: "Hehe, Xiaoyue is so smart, your father just caught a big rabbit in the trap, and also picked up a very good-looking big male chicken on the lock (I like to live on the edge of the mountain, the colorful feathers are more beautiful and gorgeous than the pheasant, and the male is even better-looking. The coat color is very pretty,"
Yu Mingyue heard his eldest father say a few words rarely, and her heart was also happy. Her eldest father Yu Zhizong has always talked little, and only to the family of close relatives, will say so many words, it is really rare to become a chatter like today, I don't know if he was naughty when he was very smart in the past, or is it also like now?
Yu Mingyue sighed that these were only for a moment, and after Yu Zhizong finally finished speaking, he cut down the branches, and then stepped forward and took his hand, and hurried to the side of the mountain beam together.
"Zhiqing, Xiaoyue, this kid is really smart, I haven't asked her to come over to see these two things, she ran over like a clairvoyant, hehe~" Yu Zhizong carried the branch to the basket, and looked at his younger brother Yu Zhizong and praised Yu Mingyue enviously.
Yu Mingyue and Yu Zhiqing didn't have time to speak, but Yu Mingyan laughed: "Dad, you are so stupid, Xiao Tangye and I shouted so loudly just now, Xiao Yue had already listened, where does she have any clairvoyance, you are really, even if Xiao Yue has it, it must be the glasses that can see far and see the big stars in the sky." ”
"Oh, hey, hey, I heard it, I said." Yu Zhizong was stunned for a moment and did not refute, and when he grabbed his head and smiled a little embarrassed, there was a faint trace of loneliness in his eyes.
Yu Mingyue glared at her cousin warningly. How many times have I said my cousin, but I still dare to say that my uncle is stupid, and I must teach her a good lesson when I am empty.
Seeing Yu Mingyan quickly lowered her head and stuck out her tongue in fright, Yu Mingyue also hurriedly interjected the topic: "Big daddy, dad, have you seen the traps and locks on the mountain?" ”
Yu Mingyue knew very well that even if her uncle was stunned, she would be uncomfortable if her biological daughter said something stupid.
Yu Zhiqing, the big man, didn't notice the strangeness of his own brother, nor did he notice the small movements between Yu Mingyue's sisters, at this time, listening to Yu Mingyue ask about this, he also hurriedly collected the two prey on their backs, and took a few people to start a closer look at the remaining places where traps and locks were set one by one.
On this cool wind slope, Yu Zhiqing and Yu Tianzhou dug up four traps these days, and made a few more locks, but after checking for a while, there was no harvest, two of the traps obviously entered the large wild and escaped, and the corn in the two traps was also eaten up, and the other traps were fine.
After resetting the destroyed trap, Yu Zhiqing took a few people and walked to another distant but nameless mountain beam.
Everywhere she went, although Yu Mingyue was curious, she didn't follow to see the trap first, but relied on climbing straight to the big pine tree and cone chestnut tree, and went straight to the space like a thief to collect a large number of pine and cone chestnut fruits.
Four or five big mountain beams turned around, and Yu Mingyue's space was piled up with more than 1,000 catties of fresh pine cones and four or five hundred catties of fresh cone chestnuts, and the three who had been running to the trap also picked up two pheasants and a rabbit one after another.
Although the number of prey is not much, it is enough for the four people who came up the mountain today to rejoice for a while, after all, whether the prey can not enter the trap, and whether it will not escape, but it is determined by several factors, like the first harvest, it can be regarded as a lot of luck that day.
Yu Zhiqing taught Yu Zhizong to set up the last broken trap before he began to divide the prey on the spot.
"Brother, this male and one female two pheasants, and this fat male hare, you take it back, if you want to eat meat, kill this rabbit, the pheasant has cut its wings and raises it very smoothly, and if you feed it for a while, you may be able to hold the nest of baby pheasants out."
When there were no outsiders, Yu Zhiqing was reluctant to call Yu Zhizong his cousin. As he spoke, he put the three prey into the big basket that Yu Zhizong carried on his back, and inserted the folded branches horizontally above the basket to prevent the prey from escaping.
Looking at the prey that was put into his own basket, Yu Zhizong obviously didn't come back to his senses.
"Hehe, thank you, Xiaotang." Yu Mingyan's little face was red with excitement. She also has pheasants to raise, and maybe the big rabbit will give birth to a baby rabbit when she takes it home.
"No, no." Yu Mingzong finally came back to his senses, and hurriedly went to pull Yu Zhiqing, who was inserting branches: "Zhiqing, no, no, you take it back, otherwise you will be scolded, I still have meat at home, I don't need to eat any rabbits, I came today to pick some pine nuts and go back to knock some pine nuts, so as to satisfy Xiaoyan's hunger, these prey can't be wanted, can't be wanted." ”
Yu Mingyue saw her uncle grabbing her father, and her dark face was so anxious that her dark face was flushed, and she hurriedly stepped forward to help insert branches: "Daddy, you can take it back, I have caught a lot of wild things like this recently, and each family should share a share of the prey we came to pick up today, and when my father and I go up the mountain in the future, we will come to call you." ”
After thinking about it, Yu Mingyue told seriously: "Big daddy, sister Xiaoyan, don't tell my grandfather and grandma about this." ”
Yu Mingyue didn't want to say the last sentence, but she knew that her uncle had always been honest, so she still said it, and she also wanted to remind her father by the way, so as to save the two old people from heartache and unhappiness when they went home.
Yu Mingyue knows that although her father and her uncle are brothers who don't meet often and haven't lived together since they were children, they have a very deep friendship, for example, at this time, her father wants to help his brother's family when he finds an opportunity, and although her uncle is stunned, he is caring about his brother in his own way.
After thinking about this with emotion, Yu Mingyue looked at her cousin, and when she saw that her cousin nodded at her very clearly, she was relieved.
Yu Mingyue knew that her grandfather would never go to her grandfather's house, let alone her grandmother, as long as her uncle and cousin didn't take the initiative to say it, her grandparents would definitely not know.
After a period of persuasion, Yu Zhizong, who has always been honest and not good at words, could talk about Yu Mingyue's father and daughter, and after listening to his brother's assurance that he would not be scolded when he went home, he finally smiled and accepted the three prey with a grateful face.
There were not many prey, but fortunately, both families had already prepared, put baskets on the spot, took out the snakeskin bags brought by each family, and began to climb trees, pick up pine nuts and pick pine nuts.
I came up the mountain at eight o'clock in the morning, and when I picked the four snakeskin pocket pine nuts, and picked up two small baskets of cone chestnuts, and dark yellow and light black persimmons, I looked at the sun that was a little westerly, and the time was already two or three o'clock in the afternoon.
Looking at the results of the harvest, Yu Mingyue was very satisfied. The big male chicken that she caught indicates that her mother's meat for today's birthday has been settled, and the more than 1,000 catties of fresh pine nuts and six or seven hundred catties of cone chestnuts in her space show the huge harvest.
Although it was inconvenient for Yu Mingyue to use the space at will in front of the three of them, at the end of this day, Yu Mingyue had already harvested more than 3,000 catties of pine nuts and more than 1,000 catties of fresh cone chestnuts.
Yu Zhiqing and Yu Zhizong put the two large snakeskin bags of pine cones in each family and put them on their backs with ropes, and Yu Mingyue and Yu Mingyue also carried only half a basket in their back baskets, about five or six catties of cone chestnuts and small persimmons, and immediately went home.
Because I had already walked into the big deep mountain at this time, the distance from home was much farther than that of Liangfeng Slope, and I was carrying heavy loads, so it took nearly two hours to go down the mountain.
Before she finished going up the slope after crossing the river, Yu Mingyue saw at a glance that her grandfather was already waiting at the head of the slope.
Yu Tian took a few big strides to meet him, and distressed helped Yu Mingyue and Yu Mingyan lift the small basket on their backs, and asked Yu Mingyue and Yu Zhiqing to go to his house for dinner, saying that the meal had already been prepared and warmed.
Although Yu Mingyue was hungry and felt that her legs were sore and her feet were weak, she was still like her father, she refused her grandfather's kindness to let her return after eating, and when she walked to the door of her grandfather's house, she directly rushed home with her father with a small basket.
It was not too dark in the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the sun would not set until after six o'clock, and it would be dark at about seven o'clock, but Yu Mingyue still felt that it was a little late to go home today, and she was a little worried that the male chicken would not be stewed well at dinner.
"Dad, the next time you go to town, you and my mother should buy a watch." Seeing that she was about to get home, Yu Mingyue said what she had already thought in her heart as she walked.
Yu Mingqing, who was bending over to walk, was stunned for a moment, and the baby's face couldn't help showing a trace of bitterness, but he looked sideways at Yu Mingyue and smiled: "Well, when Dad enters the city, I'll buy a watch for your mother, and I'll buy one too." "Entering the city, I'm afraid there is no chance, thinking of this, Yu Zhiqing is even more bitter, and the bitterness in his eyes is stronger.
Yu Mingyue probably guessed his father's thoughts, pursed his lips, and finally didn't say anything, just lowered his head and struggled forward.
"Hey, Satsuki! I picked something good up the mountain, show it to Uncle Chen. ”
"Mingming, don't help yet, you can play tricks, the bigger you are, the more ignorant you are."
"Hehe, this kid"
Yu Mingyue had just walked to the intersection of Niu Road and the highway, when she heard several familiar sounds coming at the same time, she looked up with joy in her heart, and saw Chen Mingliang running towards her with a smile, and when she looked back, she saw Wang, Liu, and Chen standing on the side of the road in front of her house. R1152