Chapter Twenty-Eight: Bamboo Rats
"While it's still summer, starting tomorrow, we will start to raise the soil embryo and fence off the backyard first, as for the front yard, we can take our time, but the land in the front yard cannot be wasted.
The second family, tomorrow you will hoe in the front yard, reclaim a vegetable field out, take advantage of the summer, plant some vegetables, in addition to the seeds brought by your own family, you go to the Liu family next door to borrow some cabbage and radish and other vegetable seeds to plant, cabbage and radish these two vegetables are cold-resistant, you can have a variety of points, you can give us winter to eat.
Tomorrow, the old family, I still have the second child, adobe, eldest sister, you lead the second sister up the mountain, see how the situation is on the mountain? If you have something, you can take it home, if you don't have it, don't worry, you little ones, just help at home, cook and do laundry. Huang Li's arrangement one by one instructed everyone.
In the past few days, everyone in the Huang family has been busy building houses during the day and cultivating and sowing dry fields at night.
After Huang Li finished his order, after each of them washed up, he fell asleep on the kang.
Early in the morning of the second day, when the sky was cloudy, Huang Yiyun and the second sister packed up the hoe and firewood knife, carried the bamboo basket and put the rope and kettle in it, and prepared everything to set off.
It's time to go up the mountain.
"Don't go too far into the mountains, be careful and be safe." Before leaving, Huang Liu said uneasily.
"Don't worry, we know."
Qingshan Village is built by the mountains and rivers, and the end of the village is under the foot of the mountain.
Huang Yiyun saw that the mountain was very big.
The trees inside are tall, green and verdant, covering the sky and the sun, and the climate is warm and suitable, which is very suitable for the growth of animals and plants.
Birds and finches flew around in the woods, chirping and chasing each other.
Huang Yiyun, who had just entered the mountain, saw a piece of old wild vegetables, no one picked them, and they were already old and couldn't eat them, it seems that the villagers in Qingshan Village have surplus food at home, and they will definitely eat wild vegetables, but they don't often eat them, just use them to eat from time to time, and add a wild vegetable to the table, otherwise how can they waste these good foods in vain?
The mountain was full of thorns, many of which were so small that they had been trampled on.
Huang Yiyun and the second sister specially picked the kind of thorny and overgrown places to walk, these places are unwalked, and there are many things that can be picked.
The two sisters walked and stopped, but picked a lot of wild vegetables.
"Look, eldest sister, there's a piece of bamboo there?" The second sister pointed to a place not far from the two of them and said towards Huang Yiyun.
"It's really a bamboo forest, let's go and have a look." After the two sisters of the Huang family first entered the bamboo forest, they saw that there was a lot of place in this bamboo forest, and Fang Yuan was afraid that it was more than ten zhang in size.
And there are a lot of cut bamboos in the bamboo forest, and only the bottom part of the bamboo is on the ground.
And there are also a lot of new and tender bamboos Zhang Cheng, it seems that this year's spring bamboo shoots have grown into bamboo after they have not had time to eat.
"Eldest sister, look, there's a hole here, could it be that another rabbit made a hole and made a nest in it." After the second sister found a hole in the ground, she was a little surprised and said to Huang Yiyun.
"Probably not, it's supposed to be a bamboo rat, look for it again, is there a hole in the ground."
In the end, eight holes the size of sea bowls were found.
Seven of the eight holes were sealed, and the remaining one was around the perimeter, and the two sisters dug four holes, and if anything was forced out, it would fall into the hole of their sisters.
After that, the two sisters found a mountain spring not far from the bamboo forest.
Huang Yiyun planned to pour water into the hole and force out the contents of the hole.
"Sister, it's really bamboo rats, they fell into the hole we dug? What a big bamboo rat. After the water was almost filled, Huang Yiyun asked the second sister to stay next to the unsealed hole, and after seeing that he and the eldest sister had dug a bamboo rat in the thin hole, the second sister said excitedly.
Seeing four thin holes, he threw himself into a net of five bamboo rats.
The small bamboo rats also have two or three catties, and the larger ones have four or five catties.
The two sisters, Huang Yiyun, pressed the head of the bamboo rat with a hoe, then carried the tail up, tied it up, and put it in a burlap bag.
After cleaning up the bamboo rats, the two sisters continued to walk up the mountain for a distance.
The more I went up the mountain, there were a lot of wild vegetables in it, not to mention the tall trees, and there were many wild fruit trees?
There are fruit trees such as persimmons, loquats, pears, peaches, and chestnuts, and they are quite abundant.
Occasionally, you can see rabbits running by, and pheasants clucking in the woods.
Only the sound of it is heard, but it is not seen.
After Huang Yiyun saw that the time was almost the same, he also had a general understanding of the back mountain, so he led his second sister home.
"Grandma, look, my eldest sister and I went into the mountain today, did we find anything good?" After the second sister went home, the food in the hall had already been set up, and she was waiting for Sister Huang Yiyun to come home for dinner.
After the second sister entered the house, she hurriedly said to Huang Li.
"Oh, what did you find?" Huang Li also asked with interest.
"Look." The second sister handed the burlap bag containing the bamboo rat to Huang Li and let Huang Li take a look at himself.
"This is a bamboo rat, such a big one, there are five of them, it's heavy!" Huang Liu, who was sitting on Huang Li's side, said with some surprise on his face after seeing the bamboo rat in the burlap bag.