5: Stinged

A few years passed peacefully. Granny Lin watched Shen Gui grow up day by day in the small cabin at the foot of Taibai Mountain, and the grandparents and grandchildren occasionally quarreled over some issues in the story. Shen Gui, who has always been rude and submissive in his words, often refutes Granny Lin with very strange arguments. Of course, later Shen Gui also gained some life experience, so he didn't discuss anything with Granny Lin within an hour before the meal.

In addition to some family chores, Granny Lin will also help some neighbors who come to seek medical treatment. There are high-ranking families who live in Fushan County; There are also some Orion peasant women in the surrounding villages and towns. Whether rich or poor; Regardless of the age of the patient; Even regardless of the severity of her illness, she only sees four people a day. Every day before dawn, Shen Gui, who had already been running around the mountains, returned with Qi Yan, who often looked dirty, and the three brothers carried small benches and sat in the fence courtyard in front of the cabin. Three little boys often make noises that the big roosters who live in the yard don't get enough sleep. Why so early? It turned out that every time the sky was bright, some people began to line up outside the hospital. The earliest and most diligent people who come are usually the subordinates sent by the high-ranking families, these subordinates who can go out to help the master run errands, and eat this meal all by a pair of eyes that recognize people and things. As soon as the news of Granny Lin's residence here spread, the mouths of the three little brothers were bribed by people who came to seek medical advice. made Qi Yan return to eat at home and wanted four dried and four fresh four candied fruits to appetize, and the Qi brothers were miserable.

is at the time of growing his body, and there is no shortage of mouths, and the brother is not running as fast as before. Around the hut were a few wild dogs that often came to beg for food, and they were half-cooked with the family's domestic animals and poultry. The three children started with a small puppy and a little puppy while petting and feeding. Later, Leng slapped him and fled, and then scattered and fled. Now whenever those wild dogs see these three little bastards, their necks will consciously twist and dodge. One day, Qi Da Niu twisted a person's ear with one hand, and pulled Qi Yanqi back to apologize to Granny Lin: "Big shaman, I'm sorry for you, did these two little cubs fight with Young Master Sun?" When I came home today, I saw that my face was still wounded, and my pants were torn. Didn't hurt Young Master Sun, right? I'm here with these two of you and Young Master Sun to ask for your guilt. Granny Lin smiled and went back to the house, and after a while, she also twisted Shen Gui's ears and dragged him out: "What kind of fight, look at this young master of our family, isn't he the same as your two brothers?" In the past, when they were chased after bullying wild dogs, they went up the tree to hide in three or two steps, and the angry dogs circled back and forth under the tree. Now everyone is fat like a little piglet, and if the body sinks, will it make the wild dogs vent their evil anger? It must have been halfway up the tree and slid down, causing the dog to bite his pants. ”

It was spring when this happened, and the two brothers of the Qi family were idle at home. So he invited the great shaman and brought the three children into the mountain. After entering the mountain, in addition to explaining to them the identification of various plant fungi, they were also taught to distinguish animal feces and trace footprints. The little brothers of the Qi Da Niu family, as long as they don't touch books, learn everything very quickly, not to mention that this is the nature of the blood. It didn't take long for the bow and arrow, the net, the cover, the track, the concealment, and the cover, all of which were learned. And Shen Gui's comprehension ability itself has surpassed that of the two brothers of the Qi family, coupled with some inherent advantages, combining practical experience and theoretical knowledge, learning is even more leaps and bounds. Qi Da Niu and Qi Erniu brothers were not very surprised by Shen Gui's learning ability. In the words of Er Niu: "You are the young master of the shaman family, and you have been infused with spirit since you were born in the next life." "I originally planned to teach for three years, but I didn't expect Shen Gui to make the Qi family brothers unteachable in less than two years. This year, Shen Gui was eight years old, and the two little brothers of the Qi family were six and a half years old. It is said that on the day when the three little heroes were discharged, half of the animals at the foot of Taibai Mountain and even in the entire Fushan County were sick.

"First of all, your iron pot is a little thicker, so that the fire is not strong enough, and the oil is naturally not hot enough. If the oil is not hot enough, the fried vegetables will have the bottom oil spilled on the plate. After saying this, a pair of chopsticks knocked twice on the yellow primer that remained at the bottom of the plate. Knife work is the foundation, not to mention, this traditional Lu cuisine is explosive, mastering the heat is the key, it must be fried urgently. One second earlier and one second later, it is not a dish, and it is impossible to mention whether it is right or wrong. After speaking, he pushed a dish with only three chopsticks to the table. Poured redo. Xiao Shen Gui, who had just turned eight, sat on the chair of the master opposite the stove with his head and feet on the ground, and after saying these two sentences, he reached out and picked up the bowl next to him and drank half of the Shifeng Longjing, rinsed his mouth and spit it into the swill bucket next to him.

"Okay, okay, Young Master Sun, what you taught me is that I'll do it all over again now." After the young cook finished speaking, he angrily picked up the dishes that were beaten back from the table and poured them into the swill bucket, and was about to re-prepare the ingredients, only to hear a loud shout from outside the door: "You little cub, as soon as you get on the stove, you will spoil the food, saying that no one can play with you, and you can't do anything serious, so get up and open me here." After speaking, a thin and tall middle-aged man walked in from the backyard, put the cigarette pouch in his hand on the table, and stood still with his arms raised. The little apprentice hurriedly came from the stove to help the master put on a white cloth apron. The man turned his head and said to Shen Gui, "Young Master Sun, wait a minute, it'll be fine right away." Shen Guiyi jumped down from the chair and shook his arm: "Then I'll help you start." With that, he turned the little cook's knife and walked to the birch cutting board. The little cook just wanted to speak, but the master glared, and then closed his mouth and stood aside with an aggrieved face. "The gourd head is cut into pieces, the pork loin is changed to a flower knife, the pork liver is to be willow leaves, and the most important thing is that the thickness and weight of each part should be equal, so that the ingredients can be heated evenly after the pot, and you can also talk about mastering the heat." Shen Gui put a small wooden stool under his feet, and talked to the little cook while cutting it. The chef next to him stared at the oil pot without saying a word, and suddenly quickly copied it from the oil pot with his hand: "Cutting the ingredients." "Immediately after that, the oil is cut off, and the thickening is done in one go." Do you see it clearly? Do you remember? The chef put the three pieces on the table behind him and sat down on the chair on the other side. He picked up his tea bowl and took a sip of water. He pushed the chopsticks handed over by Shen Gui and said, "As soon as the smoke passes through your nose, you won't have much appetite." I didn't expect that in just such a few days, the work in your hands has already been completed, and this little cub will have half of you, and I will have a successor. Shen Gui chewed the dishes on the plate slowly with a bowl of rice, and didn't say anything. At noon today, a group of officials with a Beijing accent came to the county, although they were dressed as civilians, but each of them also had twenty or thirty years of hard work, which could not be faked. The chef looked at Shen Gui while pushing the tea leaves with the lid of the bowl, "Go back and talk to the second old lady, if you can, hide." Shen Gui got up after eating and looked at the bottom of the plate. I saw that there was only some remaining marinade on the plate, and there was no oil left, so I stretched out my thumb to the chef and said, "Good kung fu." With that, he clasped his fists and turned around and walked towards the back door. In the future, don't stretch out your hand in front of outsiders, you have such a noble body, doing this can be looked down upon. "The chef went out with a cigarette pouch to deliver it." . Shen Gui didn't reply, he threw down two words with a smile and pushed the door out. What a good piece of material," Chef looked back at his apprentice. "I've been teaching you for eight years, and I'm not as good as an eight-year-old." The little apprentice brushed the dishes again and again and listened to the master's scolding, tears dripping in the basin, crying quietly. "You've been on the stove for the past few days, and if you're stupid, give me more practice. Take the plate you just fried back to the pot and send it to the officials and men in cloth clothes at the table outside the door. After saying that, he slapped himself a few times and went out through the back door.

Shen Gui didn't go far from the Dongtai Building at the entrance of Sitong Street, so he leaned against the four guignes hanging outside the door and smashed his mouth. In just a short time, two children came from the end of the street. Qi Yan walked in front with a handful of peanuts in his hand, tossing them with his mouth as he walked, eating and playing at the same time; Qi Hui behind him was holding a meat bun in his left and right hands, his mouth was full of oil, and he trotted closely behind his brother, and did not forget to lick the oil soup that flowed to his hand. "Brother Shen, Brother Shen, Sun Erniang's buns are getting better and better." Qi Hui, who was standing in front of Shen Gui with an oily face, said to Shen Gui seriously. Shen Gui didn't speak, sighed, took out a cloth towel from his sleeve and wiped it vigorously against Qi Hui's face, Xiao Qi Hui didn't struggle, and continued to eat steamed buns seriously. "Young Master Sun, that group of people started on the way to your house in Shantongtong, but then they didn't know what was going on, and they walked halfway and headed towards Xishankou." Shen Gui pulled Qi Hui's fingers out of his mouth, and then patted them on both sides of his own legs: "Look at your brother, not only is he very capable, but he is also clean after eating. "Young Master Sun, I haven't eaten yet." Xiao Qi Yan peeled peanuts with an indifferent face: "I also wanted to eat at Sun Erniang's just now, but when I saw that team of people was about to leave the city, I followed first and asked the third child to wait for you here." Shen Gui sighed: "Then where did you get this peanut?" "Oh, this, I passed by the city gate just now, and I met the old man Sun who had just finished frying the mountain fruit and picked it on his back, and grabbed a handful when he made a mistake, and there were originally candied chestnuts." After speaking, the little hand pointed at his younger brother: "I originally peeled it off and planned to eat it together, but he snatched it for me and threw it into the rice porridge to drink" Shen Gui looked at Qi Yan who was full of grievances and said, "You two don't have any good things." ”

The three brothers played and walked along the path leading to the west pass of Taibai Mountain. Qi Yan went up the tree and broke a branch full of leaves, like a broom, and pinned it to Qi Hui's waist scarf. Although it is not heavy, the branches and leaves are very dense, and poor Xiao Qihui is walking on the mountain road while lifting his pants, so he naturally walks at the rear. Shen Gui held a branch in his mouth and said to himself: "It would be great if I could have a bag of southern Yunnan cigarettes." "My father is about the East Leaves, Young Master Sun wants me to get a bag before going out tomorrow, let's taste it together." Shen Gui replied nonchalantly: "We are not yet ten years old, how can we steal." "Big brother and second brother, my pants are going to open." Qi Hui, who had been falling behind, grinned and was about to cry. "This is in the mountains and there is no sandy land, why do you let him suffer this crime?" Shen Gui ran back and took the branch off Qi Hui's waist scarf, and then took out the square scarf just now to wipe his tears. It's just that Qi Hui cried even more when he heard the smell of oil on it: "Big brother, I'm hungry again." Shen Gui turned his head and glared at Qi Yan: "Don't always bully Qi Hui, it's better if the eldest brother can hurt the younger brother." Qi Yan glanced at him: "Young Master Sun, what you said is not right, I am just his second brother." ”

Three short figures quickly shuttled through the woods, and the seemingly swaying route from side to side did not leave a trace of human walking. The three of them have been noisy and have been moving rapidly in one direction, and even Qi Hui is closely following the two brothers, but the grievances in their hearts and the tears on their faces still can't be stopped. He ran and cried, his voice stretching through the dense forest for an unknown amount of time. Suddenly, Qi Yan, who was walking in the front, hugged a tree trunk in mid-air with both hands, and sent his waist diagonally upward, and his whole body turned half a circle and stood on the branch with his back against the main trunk, like a bobcat arching his body and clinging to it. Shen Gui also immediately swung to another tree on his north side, this branch was two bodies taller than Qi Yan, Shen Gui looked at it carefully for a while, and immediately turned around when he found that there was no abnormality. I saw Qi Hui leaning against a boulder and looking south. After waiting for a few breaths, Qi Hui, whose face was full of tears and his eyes were red, turned his head to look at the eldest brother and continued to cry silently, and the salty tears quietly flowed into Xiao Qihui's heart.

After confirming their safety, Shen Gui and Qi Hui slowly stuck to Qi Yan's side. They lay in a line on the grass and looked west. Only three pairs of small black eyes were revealed. It's like three stray dogs lying on their stomachs in the grass. Qi Yan's gaze led to a small wooden house, standing there alone. This wooden house was exactly the same as Shen Gui's home, except that the courtyard outside was already full of people, and this group of officials in cloth clothes was turning back and forth. Shen Gui hurriedly made a gesture of waving back, and the three of them were about to retreat together, only to see Qi Hui suddenly clench his fist again, and then use his chin to lead the gaze of the two elder brothers to the outer wall of the room. The three of them looked intently and saw several unknown patterns on the wall. Shen Gui secretly remembered it in his heart, looked left and right again, and slowly retreated. The three brothers retreated as quickly as they had come. As soon as he walked to the official road, he turned around and ran in the direction of Shen Gui's home to the south. Qi Hui, who walked at the end, didn't know where to pull down a handful of branches, and cleaned up the footprints of the three of them as he ran.