Now, in the bright moonlight, Ming Cheng just saw Sangou shaking his head when he was drunk, and felt very much like the sheep who had eaten chili peppers by mistake, so uncomfortable that he shook his head and rubbed his mouth or something, and couldn't help laughing.

"What are you laughing at? Isn't it... Are you laughing at me for being drunk? ”

"No, I didn't laugh at you drunk, hehe"

"I'm telling you... Lao Tzu is not drunk yet... Lao Tzu is far away from getting drunk...", said the three dogs, pointing to the sky with their fingers.

"Okay, you're not drunk, you're quite able to drink", Mingcheng didn't want to argue with Sangou, and spoke according to his meaning.

Suddenly, Sangou grabbed Mingcheng's arm, which frightened Mingcheng and thought something had happened.

"Look, the place where we lay is not the place where we fought with wolves back then," Sangou said in surprise.

Hearing Sangou say this, Mingcheng sat up, turned his head and looked around, and found that this was really here.

That was a few years ago, Mingcheng and Sangou were still studying in a private school in the village, and they were eleven or twelve years old, and they went to chop firewood with the children in the village.

The family has to burn firewood for cooking every day, in order to keep the fuel at home, everyone goes to the mountains to walk four or five miles, where there are high mountains all around, there are few people, there is more firewood, and then go deeper or climb higher, you can also cut good miscellaneous trees, the kind of miscellaneous trees that Sangou Mingcheng was beaten were picked there.

Of course, you can't cut down trees all over the mountain, and cutting down trees that are not your own is considered theft, and people are in a hurry with you. Even if it's a child, it's not good.

Children steal some melons, fruits and sweet potatoes to eat, and adults scold a few words, but they can't steal money, cutting down other people's trees, it's no different from stealing other people's money, and they will be hung up and beaten by the adults in the family.

During these dog days, it is hot, and everyone is reluctant to go out to work when the sun is at its most poisonous, especially to do heavy work, which will kill people. So I got up before dawn, washed and eaten, and then took a firewood knife and carried a bamboo pole tied with a rope to tie firewood.

This bamboo pole is used to pick firewood, so the two ends are sharpened, and the middle of the bundle of firewood is inserted into the upper part, and the other pointed end is also inserted into the bundle of firewood, and you can carry it home.

When these three dogs were eleven or twelve years old, their younger brothers and sisters were only six or seven years old, and they couldn't take them to chop wood, so they made an appointment with Mingcheng Mingyue to chop firewood together, after all, before the dawn broke, the sky was still a little dark, and a few people in a group could be brave and take care of each other.

After the three of them walked on the main road, they slowly merged into the large army, the team of chopping wood gathered more and more, there were dozens of people at most times, adults and children had, everyone talked and laughed all the way, the air in the mountains was very good in the early morning, so it was very easy and comfortable to walk.

When they arrived in the mountains, everyone acted separately in small groups, and there were too many people to pick firewood in one place, so they dispersed their actions.

Sangou and Mingcheng Mingyue have been together, the three of them have not separated, they went to the mountains, chose a slightly flat mountain, put down the rope and bamboo pole, took the firewood knife, and went into the bushes to find a person-high bush and miscellaneous wood to chop.

After walking four or five miles, it was already dawn when we reached the mountain, but there was still some fog halfway up the mountain, and the knee-high weeds were still hanging with dewdrops, and in a short time both trousers were wet.

Fortunately, the sun came out early in the morning of dog days, and after a while, as soon as the sun broke, the fog disappeared and the dew disappeared; Like an alarm clock, as soon as the sun arrived, the mountain woke up, and various sounds in the mountains and forests began to sound.

All kinds of unknown bird calls, pleasant, noisy, long, short, tactful, and transliterating, resounded throughout the valley. There are also many kinds of insect sounds, so it's not lively.

There is a kind of insect that chirps all the time, never stopping, as if it does not breathe, and can scream all day in one breath, and the noise makes the ears numb.

Three dogs they pick all the way and cut all the way, cut about the same time, return to pick up the cut firewood one by one, collect together, separate two piles, respectively with rope to tie, the rope is generally hemp rope or brown rope, one end is tied with a firewood (generally made of tea seed branches, used to assist in fixing the rope).

After each bundle of firewood is bundled, it is necessary to use tree vines to tie the head and tail of the bundle slightly, and tidy up the neat points, so as not to carry the branches and branches of the bundle on the mountain road, and hang them on the trees and firewood and grass on the side of the road, so that it is very difficult to walk.

The three of them cleaned up, inserted the firewood knife into the firewood bundle, and carried the firewood down the mountain, it was easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, and it was even more difficult to carry things down the mountain.

In order to avoid always picking on the shoulders on one side, from time to time to change the shoulders of the bamboo pole left and right, if you walk on the road with a cliff on one side of the cliff, you must change the bamboo pole on the shoulder of the cliff side, so that even if the firewood bundle touches the cliff and falls under the cliff, it will not bring people down together.

Mingyue is a girl, although she doesn't pick much, but she will soon run out of physical strength, when she carries the burden down the mountain, she needs to work one foot, support the whole body plus the weight of a load of firewood, and bend the weight-bearing foot slightly, so that the other foot can reach the next step or position, and then replace it with another foot.

After a while, Mingyue's feet began to tremble, she couldn't take a step, and she was left behind, Sangou and Mingcheng hoped that Mingyue would be faster, and she would rest on the edge of the deep pool below, so that she could drink some mountain spring water, wash her face, and even take off her clothes to soak for a while.

Of course, Sangou and Mingcheng went into the water, Mingyue was no longer willing to take off her clothes and take a shower outdoors, after all, she was a girl, and she was about to grow up.

The clear mountain spring water from the valleys converges on this pool, and the shallow shore water is crystal clear, and you can see small fish wandering among the fluttering aquatic plants, and if you calm a little, you can even get close to the transparent shrimp.

The small fish is too flexible, don't want to catch it without tools, but these clumsy shrimp are easier to catch, and the children who rest here often take off their shoes, pull up their trousers, and catch shrimp on the shallow shore, and there is no bag to take home after catching this shrimp, that is, to play with it, and then release it.

However, someone actually took it to eat it raw, Sangou couldn't accept it at first, and later, at the instigation of his companions, he still grabbed a pinch of the shrimp head, put it in his mouth, closed his eyes, and bit it down.

Feeling the teeth clicking and biting through the soft shell of the shrimp, the legs of the shrimp scratched in the mouth, the three dogs had goosebumps all over their bodies, and their hands and feet were numb.

When I came back to my senses, I only felt that there was a little salty and fishy smell in my mouth, and I was very uncomfortable to get used to it.