The winter is sunny and warm, the sun is shining, this period is the most suitable for repairing the house, repaired, and waiting until the moon is windy and snowy, and the next year is thundering and raining in the spring, in order to live in peace.

At present, most of the houses in Linshui Village are mud rammed walls and thatched roofs, and there are several families who have not repaired their roofs for many years, and they are all leaking, and they plan to remove the old roofs, replace the rotten purlins and reinforce them and pave them with new thatch, which is a big project for each family, and it needs to rely on the collective to complete.

The production team happened to be idle and had no work, so they organized members, the men went into the forest deep in the mountains to carry wood, and the women cut the thatch suitable for building the roof on the periphery of the mountain.

However, when it is the turn of which family to carry the wood and cut the thatch, the host has to take care of the meal, manage three meals, breakfast, lunch and dinner, usually eat casually in the morning and noon, just be full, dinner will be a little meaty, meat, fish or something, if you have chickens at home, you will generally slaughter two chickens to entertain.

Meng Tao and the educated youths responded to the call of the production team and participated in the mutual aid group, but she didn't want to cut the thatch, she had to follow the men to carry wood deep in the mountains.

Bao Shunfeng began to disagree, Meng Tao was soft and hard, and a few educated youths helped to say that they would take care of each other, Bao Shunfeng also knew that Meng Tao had been in good health recently, and she had a little strength to pick up the burden and run loudly, and it was no problem to go into the mountains to carry a piece of wood, so she went, but warned her and the educated youths to follow the big guys honestly, and they must not step in the place where the road is not opened:

"The deep mountains and old forests are full of ditches and ditches, covered with wild vines and weeds, densely growing taller than people, not clear at all, there is only one road to the old forest, usually nothing no one will enter the deep mountains, only at this time, you need to cut wood to build a house, please the older generation to identify the road, in order to enter, there were young children who were reckless to break by themselves, but fell off the cliff, looking for ten days and half a month to find, people let the beasts gnaw only the bones...... This is no joke! ”

Meng Tao nodded again and again, she had already understood this with the aunts and aunts in the team, and she also had eyes to see, the old forest in the deep mountains was green and unsightly, she really didn't have the courage to get in, she was afraid of falling off the cliff and losing her life, and she was afraid that she would get lost and be captured by the savages - this is what the aunts and aunts said, and said that they didn't deliberately intimidate her, in addition to black bears and wolves, wild boars and monkeys in the mountains, there are really wild people, tall and strong more terrible than black bears, and a girl was lost in the village in the old society, and she was captured by the savages to be a daughter-in-law, I also gave birth to a child, and the child was hairy all over!

The aunts said the same as they saw with their own eyes, but it did sound a little scary.

So although Meng Tao often goes up the mountain, he just chops firewood and picks up some wild fruits in the mountains.

This time taking advantage of the opportunity to carry the wood, Meng Tao wanted to see this deep mountain old forest, there are five families in the team who need to renovate the house, so the wood must last at least five or six days, the team of people and horses go back and forth once a day, and then the mountain road will be flattened no matter how many weeds there are, if it feels that the danger is not great, she can go in a few more times throughout the winter, maybe what can be gained.

On the first day, the Lin family in the east of the village carried wood, the Lin family cooked corn paste, steamed miscellaneous grains to make breakfast and lunch, and the wood would definitely not come back at noon, so they brought two nests plus half a radish and two pickles for each person for lunch.

A group of more than 40 people went up to the village behind the Daqing Mountain, walked halfway up the mountain and divided it into two parts, more than 20 people continued to walk to the high place, to go into the deep mountains to carry wood, and 20 women scattered in the middle of the mountain to find suitable yellow thatch to build a house, each person cut three loads, and picked down the mountain.

Carrying wood gradually into the deep forest, Meng Tao walked in the middle of the team, she wore old clothes, carried a kettle, tied a rope around her waist, and hung a firewood knife on the rope, this is the basic equipment for going up the mountain, everyone is dressed the same, but some people do not bring water, not every household has a wild kettle, and those who are thirsty without water can only endure it, there is a spring on the mountain, you have to meet it, and sometimes you can't drink it too far.

The first to open the road were two fifty or sixty-year-old members, who had gone up the mountain early in the morning, so now there was a way into the deep mountains and old forests.

Meng Tao was secretly surprised as she walked: fortunately, she was not stupid and bold to go into the deep forest alone, the terrain under this vegetation is really too dangerous, full of cliffs and deep streams, and some sections of the road can be described as terrifying, the unilateral road on the cliff is only one meter wide at most, and you have to be very careful to go through, and you don't dare to look down at all; Do you dare to walk along the branches of a thousand-year-old tree through the bottomless ravine? Fortunately, Meng Tao has been exercising on the space stone platform for so long and has overcome her fear of heights, otherwise she would really not dare to go over.

Looking back at a few male intellectuals, their faces turned pale with fright, and Qian Liang still grabbed the corner of the clothes of a descendant brother in the village, Meng Tao couldn't help laughing.

They look like this, and they will come back with wood in a while, and these dangerous sections will definitely not be able to pass, so they have to ask the people of the village to help carry them.

When we finally arrived in the forest, the terrain was much better, there were slopes and flat land, and because the trees were tall and dense, the rotten leaf layer was thick, the weeds under the bottom did not grow high, and there were very flat, fluffy lawns in sparse places, and the lawn was scattered with clumps of dwarf bushes, natural scenery, Meng Tao imagined that if it was spring, it would be more beautiful to dot a few bushes of wildflowers, if it wasn't for overcoming thorns and thorns, I thought this was a park.

The men began to cut down trees, Meng Tao wanted to go around alone, but Bao Shunfeng shouted that she was not allowed to run around, saying that there were wild beasts in this mountain forest, and they had gone down the mountain to hurt people and animals, and spoiled the food in the fields.

Bao Shunfeng pointed to the low bushes not far away, and said, "If you want to pee and go over there to hide, shout, no one will look at you!" ”

Meng Tao: "......"

What kind of strange captain is this, I'm really convinced.

Several young people next to him all laughed, and someone asked, "Uncle Bao, then do we also have to shout 'I'm going to pee, don't come here'?" ”

Bao Shunfeng had a serious face: "You have to shout!" Anyway, if there's a girl here, you all have to avoid it for me, otherwise I'm a hooligan! ”

Xu Guoliang said mischievously: "This is called alarming, and if you don't shout, you will pee indiscriminately, fine!" ”

Everyone burst into laughter, Meng Tao stared dryly, and he didn't know what his blushing had become, in short, it was really embarrassing for a woman to mix into a man's pile, it was she who didn't think about it and was hasty.

Bao Shunfeng was afraid that Meng Tao would be disobedient, so he designated a few young offspring to do a group with her, and after watching her, Meng Tao stopped thinking about going far away, only walking around in this forest, but she also found a lot of medicinal herbs, Meng Taohua recognized in her memory, there are two or three things Meng Tao herself knows, wild Tianqi and two-sided needles, banlan root, I used to go to the botanical garden to see it up close.