Chapter 65: Buying a pig as a companion

When Yu Mingyue woke up, she saw that the sun had turned west, and she was annoyed.

Ben just felt too sleepy, and wanted to take advantage of the time when the adults went to the fields to catch up on sleep, and then find an opportunity to encourage her father to go up the mountain, but now she woke up at this hour, but it was too late.

"Alas, it seems that we can only wait until tomorrow to go up the mountain, and I don't know if there will be any wild animals on the mountain that fall into the trap today." It would be a pity if the wild thing died.

Seeing the smoke coming from the chimney on the roof of the stove room, Yu Mingyue suppressed the disappointment in her heart and went straight to the stove room.

"Grandma, why didn't you wake me up?" After sleeping for three or four hours, Yu Mingyue was a little embarrassed.

Kong Mingying was cooking rice in the pot, and when she saw her granddaughter who had just woken up, her face was flushed, and her heart was even more pity: "What are you doing, children just sleep more, and if you are sleepy in the future, you will have to sleep like today, and when you go to school next year, you have to get up early and sleep late every day like a little buffalo with a lock, and you can't be wild for a day and be lazy for a while, hehe~~"

Thinking that she was said to be a little buffalo who had been put up with a lock and pulled to plow the field, Yu Mingyue couldn't cry or laugh, but when she saw her grandmother's face full of pride and sense of achievement, her expression of wanting to laugh changed to a coquettish face.

"Hehe, grandma, I really want to go to school, when I go to school, I will study hard, grow up quickly, and earn more money to buy a lot of delicious things and new clothes for grandma and grandpa." When you grow up, it will be more reasonable to have more ideas and means to make money, and what Yu Mingyue is looking forward to most at now is to grow up quickly.

"Haha, that's good, Xiaoyue must remember to study hard when she goes to school, and grow up quickly." Kong Mingying was very happy, but in a blink of an eye, there was a little bit of a moo: "When our Xiaoyue grows up, grandma and grandpa are also old, and no matter how beautiful the clothes are, Xiaoyue wants to save the money she earns and save it for future use, and when she can see that you will live well in the future, grandma and grandpa will be satisfied." ”

Kong Mingying originally wanted to say that she would save it and give it to her child in the future, but she suddenly felt that her granddaughter was still young, and it was not appropriate to say that she didn't understand it, but there was some sadness in her words. After all, she is almost sixty years old, and she really feels that her days are numbered, and she is still a little worried that she will not see Yu Mingyue grow up.

Yu Mingyue's heart was really uncomfortable at this time, in her previous life, she saw her relatives pass away early one by one, and that kind of sadness and helplessness surged up again at this time.

Yu Mingyue suddenly didn't want to talk about the topic of "time" anymore. The passage of time means growing up for her, which she has always expected, but for her older relatives, it means getting old and having to die.

"Grandma, did my grandfather and dad collect the vegetables? My mom went too? This is the most exciting topic for Yu Mingyue's family today.

Kong Mingying was obviously happy: "Hehe, today your mother went to the field to order vegetables." The old man of your grandfather, I don't know what to think, called your father into the mountain after three o'clock, saying that he was going to go around the mountain and pick some pine nuts and cone chestnuts by the way. Speaking of this, there was some resentment and worry in his tone.

"Up the hill?" Yu Mingyue regretted that if she hadn't fallen asleep, she would have followed anyway: "Why don't you call me, I want to go too." "I don't know what kind of wild things can fall into those traps.

"Don't go, Xiaoyue, you have to be obedient, there are wild boars in the mountains and forests that can bite people, I used to say that you didn't believe it"

Kong Mingying chattered again, popularizing the knowledge of danger in the mountains and forests to Yu Mingyue, Yu Mingyue listened honestly for a while, and saw that her grandmother was getting more and more energetic as she spoke, and finally reluctantly used the excuse of finding grass to feed the rabbits, and went out with a small basket on her back to find Kong Xiaoyu who was harvesting vegetables in other fields.

Knowing that her mother has a strong temperament, Yu Mingyue has always been worried, for fear that her mother will carry something heavy one day, and she will lose an adult and hurt the little brother in her stomach.

At seven o'clock, when the sun was about to set, Yu Mingyue was following her mother to help pull green onions in a villager's green onion field, and Yu Zhiqing and Yu Tianzhou, who had returned home from the mountain, came over.

"Daddy!"

Seeing that her father and grandfather were all happy, Yu Mingyue happily greeted her in a few steps, looked left and right, and asked quietly, "Is there any, is there any?" ”

Others didn't understand what Yu Mingyue meant when she asked "Is there any", but Yu Zhiqing and Yu Tianzhou were clear in their hearts, and both father and son showed a hint of irrepressible pride.

Yu Tianyi picked up Yu Mingyue and said softly: "Let your grandma cook chicken soup for you early tomorrow morning." Yu Tianzhou was very happy that his granddaughter was so smart, and at a young age, he knew that some words could only be "code words" in front of outsiders.

Boiling chicken broth? Mid-Autumn Festival mother was not willing to kill chickens, grandpa said at this time that he could drink chicken soup, it must be that he went up the mountain to catch pheasants today. If he catches a pheasant, grandpa is afraid that he will be reluctant to eat it, but will directly take it into the city and sell it for money, right?

Yu Mingyue was anxious, knowing that this was not the place to speak, so it was inconvenient to ask anything, so she only smiled at her grandfather and father, and nodded her head vigorously: "Hmm." After answering, he didn't ask any more, and directly began to help peel off the old yellow green onion foot leaves.

When it was about to get dark, Yu Mingyue's family returned home with a few families who delivered food, and Yu Mingyue couldn't wait to run to the stove room.

"Grandma, grandma, grandpa, they went up the mountain and caught pheasants today?" As soon as she ran to the door, Yu Mingyue whispered about Kong Mingying, who greeted the door of the stove room.

"Hehe, Xiaoyue, come on, grandma will show you good things." Kong Mingying was happy in her heart, and mysteriously pulled Yu Mingyue into the stove room.

After holding a basin on the stove, Kong Mingying was even more happy: "Look, such two big pheasants, when they are caught, they are still half breathing, and grandma will slaughter them when they are alive, and they can be eaten tonight and tomorrow morning." ”

Looking at the two pheasants that had been stripped of their hair and disemboweled, Yu Mingyue was a little disappointed. Originally, she planned to come back and save pheasants, so as to see if she could develop pheasant farming.

"Hehe, tomorrow our family will be able to eat pheasant." Grandma said that these two pheasants only have one breath, so they can't raise them if they want to, and it's not bad to eat pheasant meat.

As for raising pheasants, as long as the locks and traps on the mountain really work, you will always catch the right pheasants to raise.

Yu Mingyue was about to ask where she caught the pheasant, but she saw Kong Mingying mysteriously bring a small plate from the rice cabinet.

"Grandma, what is this?"

"Wild eggs, your dad picked them up in the mountains today." Kong Mingying said with a hint of disappointment on her face, but with a hint of excitement: "I shone it with a flashlight just now, and the 7 eggs seem to have black shadows that can't be eaten, but grandma thought, maybe put them in the chicken nest and give them a try to our mother who holds the nest, maybe I can bring out the nest of little pheasants." ”

"Well, grandma, let's hold the chicks, and they will definitely come out." Yu Mingyue was excited, even if her grandmother didn't mention it, she would definitely mention it and give the 7 eggs to the hens to incubate.

Now that her grandmother is so uncertain about it, it really saves her a lot of saliva, how can she disagree.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, this place also began to become colder than before, Yu Mingyue was worried that the little pheasants in the wild eggs would be frostbitten and cold to death, so she hurriedly urged her grandmother to put the wild eggs into the chicken nest under the root of the courtyard wall.

Yu Mingyue felt that she was really lucky today, the wild eggs she picked up already had young chickens, and she might not have been scrambled into egg cakes by her grandmother in the afternoon. Fortunately, among the 5 hens in the family, there is one who just lays empty eggs and starts to hold the nest.

While eating dinner, Yu Mingyue began to inquire about her grandfather and father's journey up the mountain.

Speaking of this, Yu Tianzhou was very proud.

"Hey, didn't we pick up a wild boar yesterday, your father and I went up the mountain today, and we thought about going to the mountain beam again, but there was nothing in the trap, we searched for a while nearby, and found two new traps on the left side of the mountain beam, and not far from one of the traps, we caught these two pheasants."

"Hehe, yes." Yu Zhiqing also danced with his eyebrows: "I thought that everyone said that these pheasants love to look for food by the nest, so I searched for a while in the nearby oak bushes, and I really found 7 wild eggs on a hemp oak tree." As soon as your grandfather and I put together the trap that we had not covered yesterday, we also put in the trap a tender corn that we had brought from home.

It's just that the two pheasants may have been caught by the lock set by the "Orion" yesterday, hungry and thirsty, and only half a life is left today, alas~" Yu Tianzhou said with some regret: "If it weren't for the fear of provoking the big wild boar yesterday, and he was in a hurry to leave, he didn't care about the three destroyed traps on the right side of the mountain beam, otherwise he would have looked for them nearby, and he caught these two pheasants at that time, and took them into the city early this morning, and he would definitely be able to sell them for seven or eight yuan." ”

Yu Mingyue didn't quite agree with this idea. The pheasant is not big, the two pheasants are at most seven or eight catties, now the game does not care about the money, so the thin two pheasants can be sold for 1 yuan and 1 catty, and the nutrition and taste of the pheasant are better than that of domestic chickens, even if they can't be raised, their own family can eat it and sell it more cost-effectively.

But Yu Mingyue didn't dare to say this.

However, at this time, when she heard that the traps had been set up again, and the tender corn that was the easiest to attract prey, Yu Mingyue was even happier in her heart, and secretly made up her mind.

Grandpa and Dad are still dark enough, they put tender corn today, and they will definitely go up the mountain again tomorrow.

Today, my mother collects vegetables alone, and I don't have time to collect the small vegetables sold tomorrow for myself, so I have a good night's sleep tonight, and I will stay at home obediently for half a day tomorrow morning, and I will have to follow my grandfather and them up the mountain in the afternoon, and secretly collect more pine fruits and cone chestnuts.

After making up her mind in a circle, Yu Mingyue saw the adults at the table talking and laughing happily while eating, her heart was very satisfied, and the corners of her mouth became higher and higher.

When she got up early in the morning on August 18, even if the four adults teased Yu Mingyue and asked her to go into the city to help sell vegetables, Yu Mingyue was unmoved.

Watching the tractor drive away, and from time to time there were people on the road or riding bicycles or walking in groups to catch the market, Yu Mingyue, who had made up her mind to stay at home, changed her mind and changed her mind.

"Grandma, Mom, let's go to the market too." Pulling Kong Mingying and Kong Xiaoyu, Yu Mingyue began to pretend to be a child again, playing a little temperament.

It's been a long time since I've been on the street to catch the market.

Now that the family's economy has become much more affluent, Kong Mingying and Kong Xiaoyu, who have not been in the market for a long time, are a little moved.

Most of the pedestrians on the road are from the same village, and after seeing Kong Mingying and Kong Xiaoyu, they also began to invite, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law discussed a few words, and finally decided to take Yu Mingyue to the street.

When Kong Xiaoyu and Kong Mingying came to the door of the wing where Yu Mingyue lived, Yu Mingyue also pretended to put a handful of money in her bag.

"Xiaoyue, what are you doing with so much money?" Looking at the money that could be tens of hundreds of yuan, Kong Mingying was shocked and began to teach Yu Mingyue what frugality is.

"You have to save the money in the private house, you can't look at the money, or you think that the private money is more and spend it lavishly, quickly, put it back in the house, and see what you like on the street, grandma will buy it for you." As he spoke, he pushed Yu Mingyue into the room.

Kong Xiaoyu was also surprised, and was still a little disappointed in her heart. In her opinion, her daughter has always been tight-handed, and she is a thrifty person by nature, and she doesn't need to teach her a word in this regard, but now

Seeing that her mother and grandmother looked surprised and disappointed, Yu Mingyue couldn't cry or laugh.

"Grandma, I don't want to spend money indiscriminately, I want to buy a few little pigs at the market and come back to be a companion for the little wild boar." R1152