Many villagers in the village should have also learned the news that there were tigers on the mountain, and they were talking and discussing on the big haystack not far from the foot of the mountain.

When she got home, the sun had already set on the top of the West Mountain, and seeing that it was about to set in a short time, Shen Shuang was still a little worried, and she couldn't help but worry about her father and those villagers.

Because Shen Musheng was called from the field to go up the mountain to save people, the Shen family also planted peanuts, and the old man Shen and the Wan family had also returned, and the family was talking about it.

Wan Shi was walking around in the yard complaining about his old man, "They all said that you should stop Mu Sheng and don't let him go, it's a tiger that can eat people, have you forgotten that the son of the old man Qian in the village was eaten by a tiger more than ten years ago, and the old man Qian dragged half a leg to live for a lifetime?" ”

Old man Shen smoked a cigarette in a sullen voice, "It's all the villagers who go to help, how can you stop it?" Almost twenty men are all strong men in the village, and there is the village chief here, so there should be nothing wrong, don't think nonsense. ”

Xu, who was scooping water on the side, couldn't help but panic when he heard this, but he still comforted his mother-in-law, "Mother, Musheng will be fine, you, don't think about it." ”

Wan was angry that her old man and son didn't listen to her, and when Xu Shi opened her mouth, she seemed to catch her and scolded her vigorously, "Say that you are a thing with a bad conscience, that's your man, in case he wants to have a three-long and two-short one, do you want to be a widow?" said that you are a pig's brain, and I don't know what is the use of stopping him, so hurry up and go to cook. ”

Xu was scolded so much that he drooped his head, and he could only go into the house to wipe his tears.

When Shen Shuang and the three of them entered the courtyard gate, they found that everyone in the courtyard was strangely quiet, only the sound of Xiao Wan's chopping pigweed under the eaves, Shen Zhuzi was also weaving chicken coops, and Shen Old Man smoked dry tobacco in a muffled voice, and then she was caught and scolded by Wan's who was pacing back and forth, and scolded her a little inexplicably.

"Why didn't you come back at this hour, why didn't you die outside? Picking some wild vegetables and leading the two little ones to hang out for a day and be lazy, if the people of the old Shen family are like you, it is estimated that they will all have to go to the town to beg for food. ”

Xiaoshan subconsciously hid behind Shen Shuang, and the stone was also scolded for a while, Shen Shuang pretended not to hear, and naturally did not talk back to her, and after listening to her scolding, he let the stone and Xiaoshan carry things to the kitchen.

In the kitchen, Xu was boiling water to cook, but his face was obviously a little worried.

Shen Shuang couldn't take care of the things in the back basket, "Mother, what's going on?" When I came back, I ran into my father, was it someone from the village who was in distress on the mountain? ”

Xu thought that she met Shen Musheng on the road, so she didn't think much about it, and said with a sigh, "It's Liu Lihu from the west of the village, and today he and his son went hunting on the north peak of Xishan, saying that they met a roe deer a few days ago and planned to sell it for money." Who knew they were so unlucky to run into a tiger. His son was clever and knew that there was no way for the father and son to escape from the tiger's mouth, so he quietly ran down the mountain to call the villagers to rescue him after his father climbed the tree and hid, and he didn't know what happened to your father and them. ”

The Xu family was absent-minded, and Shen Shuang was naturally worried about this matter in his heart.

"Mother, it should be fine, don't worry too much, more than 20 people will definitely be able to kill the tiger, maybe the tiger will turn around and leave when he sees no one."

Xu Shi reluctantly pulled out a smile and nodded, Shen Shuang hurriedly asked Xiaoshan to bring his small back basket over, "Mother, look, we caught a lot of small fish and shrimp in the creek, and we will stew them tonight and wait for my father to come back and eat." ”

Xu Shi knew that there were often some small fish and shrimp in the creek, but it was still not easy to catch, and when she saw this basket full of fish and shrimp, her attention shifted a lot, "Cheng, I'll wash it up in a while, and you will stew it." ”

Shen Shuang nodded, turned around and carried the big back basket back to her room, and then found a broken clay pot with some water and put it on the broken table next to it, and inserted the peach blossoms picked from the peach forest, which was regarded as decorating her room.

She found an empty basket to hold the peach gum she picked back, Xu Shi went into the house to get something and just saw the basket full of peach gum and felt very strange, and hurriedly walked over to pick it up and looked at it, feeling a little familiar, but couldn't remember what it was, "Xiaoshuang, what is this?" ”

Shen Shuang wiped his sweat, "Mother, this is the resin of the peach tree, also called peach gum." ”

Xu suddenly realized, "I just said why is it so familiar, it turned out to be peach tree resin, what are you picking up this thing for?" ”

"Mother, this peach gum is a very good thing for the body, and I will buy some brown sugar to boil for you and your father to eat."

Xu was obviously surprised, "What? Can this thing still be eaten? ”

"Of course, the nutritional value is very high."

Xu always felt that her daughter was very powerful, and she really didn't understand what she said, "What is the nutritional value?" ”

Shen Shuang found himself jumping out of some modern words again, and hurriedly spoke, "In short, food that is good for the body." ”

Xu Shi was not interested, he always felt that this resin was useless, and it must not be delicious, "But this can't be used as food, right?" ”

"It's okay to eat once in a while."

At this time, by the window, Xiao Wan's eyes, who heard the conversation between Xu's mother and daughter, rolled his eyes, and then bent over and tiptoed away, naturally starting to fight ghosts in his mind.

When Xiao Wanshi passed by the window, he started with the sentence that peach gum is a good thing, and he also heard Shen Shuang say that he wanted to boil it for her mother, but he didn't hear anything else, so she didn't know what peach gum was, but she still remembered that Shen Shuang carried a basket of things when she entered the house.

Xiao Wan bent over and sneakily left and walked to the backyard, she wondered if Shen Shuang must have found something good, and she also found that Shen Shuang's luck these days is very good, not only fishing the river clam from the creek to eat, but also catching fish in the stream, picking up pheasants in the mountains, and catching loaches in the fields, all of which made her feel very greedy.

But she didn't catch anything because of the damn Chaotian pepper, and she felt angry when she thought about it, Xiao Wanshi suddenly remembered that her son followed Shen Shuang out to pick wild vegetables today, and hurriedly walked from the backyard to the front yard, but she saw her youngest son and Xiaoshan playing, and they were hooked shoulders, and when she saw her brows, she furrowed fiercely and said, "Stone, come here, my mother has something to ask you." ”

Stone is playing with Xiaoshan to lose stones, the two brothers have become good friends after a day of getting along, he especially wants to play with the little wolf cub, but the little wolf cub was hidden by Shen Shuang as soon as he arrived home, he was not discouraged, so he played with Xiaoshan, and also learned the new method of throwing stones taught by Shen Shuang to Xiaoshan, the two of them were having fun, and when they heard Xiao Wan's call, Shi stood up, "Xiaoshan, you play first, my mother called me, you wait for me for a while." ”

Xiao Wan glanced at his son who ran over with some disgust, pulled his arm to the side and patted his palm angrily, and then lowered his voice and said, "What's the matter with you stupid boy, how can you play with that little mute?" What my mother said to you is not in a deaf ear? ”

Shi scratched his head and frowned, "Mother, Xiaoshan is my younger brother, he is not a little mute." ”

"Why isn't Xiaoshan a little mute? Can he speak? And what kind of brother are you talking about? Your mother and I only gave birth to you, your brother and your sister, you can't show your brains, why are you screaming? You're a pig's brain, as your grandma says. ”

As he spoke, Xiao Wanshi also stretched out his hand and poked the stone's head with a look of hatred for iron and steel.

Shi turned his head and retorted unhappily, "I'm not a pig's brain, I don't believe what my milk said, she said before that she would take Sister Xiaoshuang's silver to raise me to be white and fat, but she didn't even want to give me pastries, and even left chicken legs for my sister-in-law to eat." ”

Shi sometimes doesn't look very smart, but he is still very transparent in some things related to food, and he directly retorted Xiao Wan's choked, "Who told you not to run in front of your milk to be courteous, you don't help your milk work, how can she give you food, in short, you are not allowed to play with him anymore, now go and sweep the yard for me." ”

The stone is not so easy to send, he stiffened his neck, "I don't go, why doesn't my sister have to wash clothes or sweep the floor to feed the pigs?" I'm going to pick wild vegetables with Sister Xiaoshuang today, you let Sister help you. ”

Sister Xiaoshuang? Xiao Wanshi was so angry when she heard that her son seemed to be about to rebel, but she didn't forget her business, "Cheng Cheng Cheng, you don't need to sweep it." I have something to ask you, where did you go with that fat pig today? ”

"What fat pig? Mother, didn't you say that you are not allowed to call Sister Xiaoshuang like this? The stone scratched his head again, so angry that Xiao Wan slapped him on the back of the head, "Ask, why do you ask everything, tell me where she took you, and what is so heavy in her back basket." ”

The stone's eyes rolled, he remembered that he couldn't tell the story of him going to the North Peak Mountain to catch small fish and shrimp, otherwise he would definitely be beaten by his mother, "Let's go to the creek to fish and go to the north slope to dig wild vegetables and pick fruits." ”

"Where else did you go? What's up? ”

The stone looked impatient, not honest at all, "I didn't pick anything, mother, go feed the pigs, I still have to play with stones." ”

Xiao Wanshi naturally didn't expect her son to have so many eyes, although she wondered but didn't think much about it, she thought for a while and secretly ran to Shen Shuang's house to see what was hidden, but she was afraid of being regarded as a thief, and she almost chopped her fingers together to feed the chickens when she chopped up and down wild vegetables in her heart to feed the chickens.

Today's old Shen family's dinner staple is a pot of soup cooked by Xu's brown rice porridge with more rice and less rice, in addition, Xu's mother-in-law picked back by Shen Shuang was blanched to remove the bitterness after being washed by the roots, Xu's picked a zucchini grazing from the vegetable garden, and shredded with salt, pickled and pickled, then added some semolina to make a paste and dragged with low heat.

It was the first time Shen Shuang had seen such a fresh thing, and although it looked a little dark, it still smelled quite fragrant; The gray cabbage picked back is made into brine vegetable soup, which is very clear soup and little water; And the shepherd's cabbage was taken by her mother and cut into strips of dried beans, and naturally some sauce prepared by Shen Shuang herself was added.

In addition to these things, the most eye-catching is the small fish and shrimp in the back basket, which are marinated in the pot directly after being salted for a period of time, and stewed with ginger, pepper and potatoes, and the fragrance is very strong.