Chapter 163: The Eve of the Hunt
"Brother Mancang!" Gu Qingzhu looked back and said in surprise.
Everyone stood up to greet him, Gu Qingshan stretched out his fist and pounded his bulging and strong chest, and asked with a smile, "Have you eaten?" Make you a bowl of noodles? ”
"No, I'm hungry, come to a bowl of three fresh noodles, I haven't come for some days, smelling this fragrance, the gluttonous worms in my stomach are starting to make a fuss." Liang Mancang pulled out the bench and sat down.
Gu Daya stood in the crowd, her eyes staring at him for a moment, and the back of her ears unconsciously warmed up, listening to them say this, she turned around and plunged into the kitchen.
"What has Brother Mancang been busy with lately, I didn't see you last time I came." Gu Qingzhu poured him a bowl of tea.
Liang Mancang poured half a bowl in one go, wiped the water stains from the corners of his mouth and said: "Twenty years ago, Ningjiang City came to the garrison lord, he is a person from the capital, and he is not familiar with this place, but he happens to be an old acquaintance with the county lord, and it can be regarded as a fortunate thing to meet an old acquaintance in another country, so the lord has often been recruited into the capital to talk recently, so I don't have time to come out."
However, now, it's okay, the former garrison went out to inspect the construction of water conservancy in winter, and the eighteen counties walked down one by one, at least to the month of La, the county lord sympathized with me today for many days without rest, and gave me five days off at a time, no, I delivered the errand early in the morning, and I came immediately, but coincidentally, I met you guys too. ”
"Mancang, are you looking back at the family this time?" Gu Qingshi squeezed over and asked.
"What's wrong with the village?" Liang Mancang raised his head, his thick eyebrows twisted slightly, and his gaze turned to Gu Qingzhu's face.
Gu Qingzhu blinked his smart eyes and said: "There is nothing big in the village, it is that the wild boars in the mountains have come down and ruined the vegetable garden, and the big guy can't deal with it for a while." ”
"What should I do, this is not easy to do, when I go back to the yamen residence to clean up, I will go back with you, by the way, call Brother Xiao in Cuiping Town, and they will come to a hunt tomorrow to ensure that everyone has both hatred and meat to eat!" Liang Mancang smiled heartily.
"Then we'll go back and help!" Gu Qingshan glanced at Fang Kui, who said yes again and again.
Liang Mancang nodded and said: "Well, the more people there are, the wild animals on the mountain are fat and fat, let's hunt more, pickle a little bit of each, and keep it for the New Year." ”
As she was talking, the eldest girl brought a bowl full of three fresh noodles on a tray, and said as she walked: "Let's let let, the noodles are here!" ”
When she arrived, she put down the tray and brought the noodle bowl that was almost overflowing with soup to Liang Mancang's table, because the bowl was too hot, she quickly withdrew her hand and pinched her ear.
Liang Mancang smoked chopsticks to mix noodles, and immediately someone saw the soft-boiled eggs and large pieces of braised meat hidden under the noodles, and couldn't help but coax: "Big girl is eccentric, the material is so sufficient, which is the three fresh noodles." ”
Gu Daya blushed and defended: "You guys ate at the right time, and they also added double dishes, Brother Mancang came late, this is all all kinds of leftovers to make up a bowl!" ”
"Oh, so that's it?" Hearing her words, the young man winked his eyebrows and laughed even more.
Gu Qingzhu came to the rescue: "Okay, okay, when Brother Mancang eats, we'll go back, what else do you have to buy, you have to hurry." ”
When everyone heard this, they thought about whether to buy more salt, this season has not yet reached the coldest time, if you want to marinate meat not badly, you have to add more salt, besides, after a while it is time to pickle pickles, salt is always indispensable.
One person wanted to buy, and the others were also moved, they rarely came to Nancang County, and for a while they remembered to buy sugar and other things, so they went out together, Gu Qingzhu didn't have anything to buy, only asked Gu Qingshui to help her buy ten catties of salt.
Gu Qingshan and Fang Kui were anxious, and without waiting for Liang Mancang to finish eating, they gathered around him to discuss the matter of hunting, and the girls didn't understand this, so they sat down not far away and whispered.
"Qingzhu, I really want to go home." Gu Daya sat next to Gu Qingzhu and pouted.
Zheng Zhaodi, who was sitting on the other side, stretched out her hand over Gu Qingzhu, poked her forehead, and laughed in a low voice: "Why are you going home, you obviously want to follow Brother Mancang!" ”
Gu Daya replied unconvinced: "How can I look like you, I look at my brother every day, when I can't see it, besides, you don't want to go back to the village to see the excitement!" ”
"You ......" Zhao Di was unblocked by her mouth, her face was red, and she didn't know how to answer for a while.
"We do the noodle business, we still rely on the care of the old customers, if we close the business for no reason, resulting in them not being able to eat, I am afraid that we will lose customers, this will be cold, the business is not good, you don't go back." Gu Qingzhu was in the center and patted their arms left and right.
"Recently, the third master has not come, if he is in charge, I can handle it for a day." Zhao Di put away her joke and sighed. Nine peaches
Gu Qingzhu was a little surprised and said, "He hasn't been here for a long time?" ”
"yes, I haven't been here since I left with you last time." Gu Daya nodded.
"Oh." Gu Qingzhu answered in a low voice.
Mu Jincheng has never had a long nature, he was like this when he was in the weaving workshop, he was happy for a while, no matter how windy or rainy he came every day, if he was not interested, he would not show up once for ten days and a half months, Gu Qingzhu only thought that he had made the previous mistake again, and he didn't take it seriously, anyway, he, the owner, couldn't count on anything else except for the rental money.
Liang Mancang ate noodles, rode back to the yamen to pack up his things, Gu Qingshan and Fang Kui picked up a few autumn clothes that they didn't wear, and explained a few words about the noodle shop to the eldest girl and Zhao Di, and left with the villagers who came back one after another.
In the evening, Gu Qingzhu was cooking, and Zheng Jialu, who was helping in Cuiping Town, brought a message, saying that Liang Mancang was left by Xiao Geng and the five to drink, and they would come back together early tomorrow morning.
Zhao Di has been out for most of this year, either as a silk reeler or in the pasta business, Zheng Jialu can't stay at home alone, and would rather work as a helper in ten miles and eight townships, not only to eat, but also to earn money, and to be happy every day, so he has no food at home, and he can't even raise mice.
If you come back to live for a few days occasionally and forget to buy food, most of them eat at Gu Qingzhu's house, and today is no exception.
"Uncle Zheng, Brother Mancang Ming'er is back hunting, you have nothing to do to help." At the dinner table, Gu Qingzhu brought a bowl of thick japonica rice porridge to him.
Zheng Jialu sighed: "Hey, Gu Jiaao hasn't hunted for many years, I think back then, I and your father, as well as Mancang's father, and the village chief, a few of them, every year when it comes to the light snow season, we have to carry out a big round-up, wild boars, roe deer, muntjac, badgers, there are always a few, as for the hare and pheasant, needless to say, the family can always divide more than ten or twenty catties of meat, which is like now, a wild boar is coming, and you have to call someone outside to help." ”
Gu Qingzhu handed him the freshly cooked white flour cakes, and said softly: "Isn't it too long, besides, Brother Qingshan was so seriously injured in fighting wolves last year, no one dares to take any more risks!" ”
Zheng Jialu bit the crunchy cake and muttered: "It's really unforgiving, at that time, a mouthful of steel teeth, big stick bones can be bitten, and there are only a dozen or so left, and you have to chew a cake for a long time." ”
Gu Qingzhu, who was busy on the pot, looked back and smiled: "Tomorrow morning, I will steam steamed buns, and then burn a pot of hot and sour paste, and Uncle Zheng is still the hero who ate more than a dozen in one go!" ”
"What is a hero?" Qingying raised her head and asked curiously.
"Haha, the hero doesn't mention the courage of the year, but now that he is old, he has a weak heart and can't eat it, but the sour and hot paste you burn, which is very similar to what your mother makes, and every time you eat it, it ......" Suddenly, Zheng Jialu blocked his throat with a mouthful of bread, choking so much that tears almost fell out.
What's wrong with him today, he is really confused, and he talks about the old past in front of the two children.
Gu Qingzhu put the last cake in the pot in small foil, brought it to the table, and said indifferently: "Uncle Zheng, I'm fine, Qingying is not young, she should know about her father's mother." ”
Zheng Jialu looked at Gu Qingzhu, touched Qingying's hair again, and said slowly: "Your sister's cooking skills are all taught by your mother, she really makes a good dish, even a bowl of wild vegetable soup is fresher than others, and she can make a lot of strange food, such as fish, which is rarely eaten by people in the mountains, but she can make more than a dozen ways to eat, each of which is so hungry that the mouth is watering, we always joked at that time, saying that she hid the recipe of the Yaochi Immortal Banquet." ”
In the dim light, Zheng Jialu was immersed in the past, and chattered to Qingying that Gu Qingzhu was immersed in eating, and the heat of the porridge smoked her eyelashes with droplets.
Early in the morning of the second day, as soon as Gu Qingzhu's steamed steamed buns came out of the cage, the five brothers Liang Mancang and Xiao Geng arrived on horseback.
After they had breakfast hot, they gathered the villagers in the courtyard of Liang Mancang's house to discuss the hunting.
The younger generation is all gearing up, extremely excited, their blood is naturally rushing with the wildness and boldness of the mountain people, the unknown danger stimulates their strong desire to conquer, and most of the middle-aged people are thinking about the livelihood of the family, after all, if the hunt is enough prey, each family can get some, so that not only can save a sheep, sell more money, but also live a fat year with meat to eat.
In this way, it didn't take much effort, as soon as it passed ten, ten passed on hundred, many people came to Liang Mancang's courtyard, almost every family had strong labor, and even Gu Shigui stood outside the crowd and looked around.
Hunting is a major event in the village, and there will not be too many people at this time, besides, even if Gu Shigui doesn't do anything, according to the unreasonable temper of the Wu family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, they will definitely make a fuss, so everyone will follow him.
"If you have a dog at home, you will let them run out of the mountains, startle the prey in the forest, and encircle them in this col, the six of us are responsible for impacting and shooting, Qingshan Fangkui, you take the young people in the village, and follow closely in groups of twos and twos.
Uncle Zheng, Uncle Gen, Uncle Fang, you have experience, and you are old hunters, please take measures around, in case you encounter bloodthirsty beasts on the periphery and hurt people, delay the time for the time being, and wait for us to arrive in a roundabout.
Uncle Fu, you are the village chief, standing on the top of the slope, looking into the distance, and striking the gong in time if there is a situation. Liang Mancang drew a simple diagram on the ground and used small stones to tell the villagers what to do.
Zheng Jialu listened to his words, glanced at Gu Shifu, and nodded silently, this kid's five-year military career has not been in vain, and he looks a bit of a formation.
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