Hearing this, Gu Qingzhu was also a little surprised, she turned around and walked under the bamboo, followed the bamboo whip to find the tender whip, and took a step forward, it was still the direction of Gu Daya's digging of the soil, but the position was half a foot wrong.

"I don't believe it!" Gu Daya snorted angrily and dug violently, and the hoe suddenly touched a hard object, only to hear a crisp sound, the tip of the bamboo shoot broke in response, and the jade bamboo shoot flesh was immediately stained with mud.

"Hmph, you're obviously deceiving me for having short legs!" Gu Daya picked up the winter bamboo shoots and glared at it.

"Haha, you have long legs, why do you have a bamboo shoot that is fixed." Gu Qingzhu was amused by her flamboyant and dancing claws.

The two were laughing, but they heard an exclamation from outside the forest, "What are you doing here?" Listening to the voice, it was clearly Zheng Zhaodi.

"Could it be that someone came to steal bamboo shoots in broad daylight?" The two girls looked at each other, picked up their hoes, and ran towards the sound.

When the two of them ran to the edge of the bamboo forest, they saw Gu Erni carrying a hoe and a basket, and was arguing with Zheng Zhaodi: "This is a public place in the village, don't let you walk, you have the ability to circle up and make a royal garden." ”

"This is only the garden of the Qingzhu family, what are you going to do with the guys? You sneaked your hands on it yesterday, and you dare to come today, we are worried that we can't hold the thief, see if I don't beat you all over the ground looking for teeth! Gu Daya rushed over with a hoe.

"Nonsense...... Nonsense...... I didn't steal bamboo shoots! ”

Gu Erni didn't expect that there were two people in the bamboo garden, she could bully the thin Zheng Zhaodi, but when she met the village chief's strong Gu Daya, she was dumbfounded, not to mention Gu Qingzhu, who was full of anger, she retreated in a panic.

"There's something missing in my garden, but I didn't say anything about losing bamboo shoots, you rushed to admit something!" Gu Qingzhu made a hoe and blocked her way.

"I ...... I ......" Gu Erni was so remorseful that she couldn't bite off her tongue, she stammered and quibbled, "Zhuyuan...... Of course, there are only bamboo shoots in the bamboo garden, what else can be missing, you ...... What do you want to do, bully more and less! Gu Qingzhu, I'll go back and tell Grandma right away, saying that you are bullying me with outsiders! ”

"I want to beat you, do I want to find someone else?" Gu Qingzhu was a head taller than Gu Erni, she grabbed her cousin's collar, made her cough, and continued to raise her eyebrows, "I just want to tell you that I have buried a trap in the garden, and if an uninvited person is caught and breaks his leg by clipping, he will blame me, let alone let me save it!" ”

"That's right, let her have no legs and feet, and be scolded for being a thief for a lifetime." Gu Daya was helping on the side, snorting coldly.

"If a broken leg and a broken foot cannot be cured, how much blood will be shed, and won't it be dead?" Zheng Zhaodi thought about that terrifying scene and couldn't help but shudder.

Gu Erni was completely frightened by the tragic situation of the three of them one by one, her face turned pale for a while, cold sweat was dripping on her forehead, and she said vigorously: "I don't want to break my legs and feet!" ”

"You go back and tell the second aunt, keep her heart and do something serious, don't always fight the crooked ideas of the side!" Gu Qingzhu let go of her collar and pushed it hard.

"Get out of here, or I'll see you hit it once." Gu Daya waved her fist to scare her.

Gu Erni staggered a few steps forward, lifted the basket, carried the hoe, and ran away without looking back.

"What are you going to do? It's okay to fool around for a while, but it's not a long-term solution after all. Gu Daya looked at Gu Erni, who had disappeared in a smoke, and turned her head to ask.

"You're all lying to her, and I'm supposed to be true." Zheng Zhaodi patted her chest, just now don't say that Gu Erni was a thief and her legs were weak, even if she was also frightened by the beast trap.

"Just endure today, Ming'er, I got up early and dug it up to sell it in the county, no matter how much, it will be safe to be in the bag, and it will save people from worrying." Gu Qingzhu sighed slightly.

Ming'er is not a market day, there are few people who come out to buy things, but now it has passed the beginning of the Spring Festival, the land is gradually warming, the bamboo shoots jump fast, three or two days can break the ground, if she doesn't take advantage of it, I'm afraid that the thief will wake up, and he has to steal, and he can't prevent it.

"Tomorrow morning, we'll all come to help." Gu Daya and Zheng Zhaodi said in unison.

"Okay." Gu Qingzhu nodded, and then turned back to the garden to fill the pit.

It is common for people in the mountains to help each other do things, not to mention that the three of them have always been good and sincere to each other, and there is no need to say those polite words that are vain.

"Zhaodi, how did you know we were here?" Gu Daya asked while burying the soil.

"Oh, look at me, I almost forgot." Zheng Zhaodi, who was picking up bamboo shoots behind her, smiled shyly.

"Wasn't Qingzhu out of the mountain yesterday, my father asked me to ask the price of rice noodles in the county, Qingsong said it was in the bamboo garden, I found it, and I happened to see Erni looking around, and I didn't do anything good at it, if I didn't help but shout to her, maybe, you would be caught."

"What can you do if you catch her? It's just a quarrel with the second aunt, chickens and dogs, and I'm annoyed with two ends for three days, and it's better to do something than to quarrel with this time. Gu Qingzhu shook his head tiredly.

Gu Daya and Zheng Zhaodi glanced at each other, tacitly knowing that over the years, the Wu family and the Zhu family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have bullied the big house not once or twice, and Gu Qingzhu easily ignored them.

With Zhao Di's help, the three of them quickly filled in the pit in the garden, Gu Qingzhu made a new plan on where to dig bamboo shoots and how many bamboo shoots to dig according to the size of the bamboo age, the density of the spacing, the order of cutting, and the extent of the damage this time.

Zheng Zhaodi didn't have a bamboo garden at home, seeing Gu Qingzhu doing this, she only felt novel, but Gu Daya didn't expect that there were so many ways to dig bamboo shoots simply, she had to marvel at Gu Qingzhu's cleverness, she has always been top-notch in everything she does, and now it seems that it is not just a matter of working hard.

Gu Qingzhu put the tips of the bamboo shoots that Gu Daya had dug up earlier into the beast trapping cage, which tasted fresh and sweet, and the pheasants that were not easy to find food in winter liked to eat the most.

The three of them agreed to dig bamboo shoots together at the end of the Ming Er Yin period, and when they returned to the village, it was already time to make lunch, and the Sun family was looking for the big girl everywhere, Gu Qingzhu poured all the bamboo shoots in the basket to the big girl, so as not to scold her when she went home.

Qingying is sitting on the stove and boiling bud grain porridge, steaming yesterday's wotou and meat buns on the drawer, and the aroma of rice and noodles is very attractive.

Gu Qingzhu washed his hands, took out the two bamboo shoots dug in the garden, made a longitudinal cut on the bamboo shoot shell with a kitchen knife, and pushed it out along the edge of the knife with both hands, and squeezed out a piece of crispy and tender yellow bamboo shoot meat.

"Sister, what are we going to burn today?" Qingying asked happily while picking bamboo shoots and feeding them to the chickens.

"Make sauerkraut bamboo shoots for a while, keep it delicious!" The winter bamboo shoots are delicate, and after a few hours of unearthing, the roots will change color and become old, and Gu Qingzhu cut off some of them with a knife.

Gu Qingzhu washed the bamboo shoot meat in clean water, cut it into half-finger-length slices with a knife, blanched it in a small pot outside and set aside, turned around and grabbed two handfuls of yellow and clear sauerkraut in the pickle jar, and ripped off two on the dried chili pepper skewers, cleaned and chopped them together.

Qingying sat in the stove and lit the fire, the outer pot was quickly hot, Gu Qingzhu poured a little oil, poured the sauerkraut pepper and bamboo shoot slices into the pot at the same time and stir-fried, the heat stimulated the sour sauerkraut and the freshness of the bamboo shoots, and then mixed the two with spicy, a sour and fresh taste overflowed, making people have a great appetite and saliva is irrepressible.

"Qingying, what delicious food do you cook at home? So fragrant! Tie Dan and Qingchuan's two faces squeezed to the door and asked.

"The sauerkraut bamboo shoots made by my sister are delicious." Qingying straightened her small waist in the stove and said proudly.

"Have you two eaten? What is all this about? Heads and faces covered with dirt. Gu Qingzhu turned to look at the two of them.

"Sister Qingzhu, we haven't gone home yet, we are looking for sand, and now we have dug a basket for the little turtle." Tie Dan raised his sleeve and wiped his snot.

"It's only the size of a palm, why is it used so much." Gu Qingzhu walked out and took a look, a basket full of sand, and there was a rag in it, she couldn't cry or laugh for a while, she patted the ashes on the two leather monkeys, fetched water for them to wash their hands and faces, "You guys eat here." ”

The two boys were already hungry for bamboo shoots, and they wished that Gu Qingzhu would say this, so the two looked at each other and nodded busily.

There were two and a half big boys on the dinner table, and they devoured it, not only eating half a pot of sauerkraut bamboo shoots, but also eating up the nest head and meat buns, and even the porridge in the pot was scraped clean.

The three little ones were busy tinkering with the little turtle's sand nest when they were full, Gu Qingzhu was not worried about the bamboo shoots, and went to the bamboo garden again, Gu Qingsong wanted to follow, but she was left at home to warm the book.

This wild bamboo forest has been deserted originally, Gu Qingzhu's mother Wang loves bamboo, and it took many years to take care of it, until another five years passed in Gu Qingzhu's hands, and it was not until it became what it is today.

Not far from here is the ancestral tomb mountain of the Gu family people, where generations of ancestors are buried, because of fear, the people in the village will not come over if they have nothing to do, so when the family was separated, the second room did not fight with Gu Shi at all, and Gu Qingzhu was able to keep his mother's favorite things.

The bamboo garden in the afternoon is very quiet, because the branches and leaves are lush and verdant, although the sun outside is good, but rarely a large piece of light can shine in, so walking in the meantime, stepping on the broken branches and dead leaves, only to feel cold all over the body.

When Gu Qingzhu is depressed, he is always willing to walk like this in the bamboo forest, as if his parents were still around, and he was still the carefree girl, smiling and holding his mother's hand to pick unknown wildflowers, or holding his cheeks to watch his father carve various hairpins for his mother, Shangyuan Festival, Qixi Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, almost all good days, his father will send hairpins, and he will avoid others to quietly help his mother wear them, and the yellowed bamboo tube is full of their affection.

Gu Qingzhu thought of this, touched the bamboo hairpin on her head, she had the same black and shiny hair as her mother, she was already in time, although no one made a ceremony for her, but she could tie her hair by herself, in order to be able to wear her mother's hairpin.

The earthen house, the fence wall, and the loquat tree in the yard are still the same as before, and she is convinced that her mother has never gone far, and must be guarding their siblings in the dark, silently accompanying them through ups and downs, and growing up day by day.